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Stephen (pronounced Steven, not Stefan)
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25 years gone.
One of my favourites from Kirsty MacColl.

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Still Life
YouTube video by Kirsty MacColl - Topic
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December 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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25 years. Still feels so unfair.

This remains my favourite Kirsty Maccoll recording. She's got a rotten cold but her sheer joy pushes it through.

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Kirsty MacColl - My Affair (Live At Jazz Café)
YouTube video by PassionateFriend
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December 18, 2025 at 7:40 AM
December 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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I can't find the words.
December 15, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Enjoyed David Mackenzie's RELAY (2024), especially the procedural elements: non-cartoony action thriller of the type that used not to be anything special, but now feels rare; NYC & New Jersey locations. Riz Ahmed is great in Ryan-O'Neal-in-The-Driver mode, would like to see him in more like this.
December 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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🤖 NEW FEATURE: 100 years on from its production, Iain Hepburn takes a look back at the making of, reception to and rebuilding of this science-fiction epic.

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Building and rebuilding Metropolis - The Spoilist
Metropolis began production in 1925. We look back at a century of changing reception, edits and reassembly.
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December 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Marti Pellow
#totp
December 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Can you be happy and at the same time filled with melancholy?
I'd have been 18 at the time of this #totp and in my first months of A'levels and generally been a blissful idiot.
What a time.
December 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
"Perfect", if this wasn't played at the wedding reception was the marriage even legal?

#totp
December 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
December 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The only thing better than the single mix of Always on my Mind?

The version of Always on my Mind on Introspective
#totp

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Always on My Mind / In My House (2018 Remaster)
YouTube video by Pet Shop Boys - Topic
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December 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
As a mission statement, opening #totp with S'Express and then following it up with Pet Shop Boys is a pretty strong one.
December 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The Man Corr!
#totp
December 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
At the Bowie Centre at spy this addition to one of the man's Alexander McQueen designed outfits.
Further proof that Nottingham is the cradle of pop?
@chartmusictotp.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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The last great single of the 1980s.
December 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Winchester charity shop adding a new film into the 'is this a Christmas movie?'debate.
November 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
• David Bowie
• McAlmont & Butler
• Ennio Morricone
• Kris Kristofferson
• Saint Etienne
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.

• Sparks
• They Might Be Giants
• The Surfrajettes
• Chris de Burgh
• Engelbert Humperdinck
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
Ultravox
BB King
Jethro Tull
Whitesnake
OMD
November 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"You'll be visited by three spirits."

The three spirits:
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Farewell Udo Kier.
Always mesmerising.
My favourite appearance of his: as the unhinged wedding planner in 'Melancholia'
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Just because we let them smelly fools ride us like horses, don't mean we gotta let 'em brand us like horses. Maybe we ain't nothin' but whores, but we, by God, we ain't horses, Charlie Brown.
We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky, Charlie Brown.
The awful thing about life is this: everybody has their reasons, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Listening again to Telekon, an album I've played regularly since first buying it in 1983.
For a collection of songs mostly about isolation and paranoia, it really does have some of the loveliest sounding music.
#GaryNuman
November 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Or as we sang at school: "I was sitting in the corner when my cock fell off."

Different times..

#totp
November 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Utter nuisance
#totp
November 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM