Richie Brown
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Richie Brown
@richiebrown.co.uk
Web monkey / children’s writer. Likes 80s comics, 90s indie, rave, athletics and Sunderland FC. Here to get away from antisocial media. Currently writing a 5000 entry singles club. Used to run This is not a Song about pre-Britpop indie, 1989-1994.
Worse still is that it usually gets attributed to John Lennon. Apparently some gimp from The Times misreported it as being from him and it just stuck. Guess John wasn’t around to argue.
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Phwoar, just read them all. How long do you think they got? Four minutes? Five?
December 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Gremlins 2 thinks it’s better than Gremlins
December 15, 2025 at 6:31 AM
This! Had to stack things on top of each other many times, just cos some mouldy bloke (usually a bloke) decided on how much space I was allowed.
December 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Death by a thousand cuts. We’re up to about 900 :(
December 14, 2025 at 4:56 AM
It’s replaced the Greg Lake original for me. Can’t remember which Buxton TV show it was originally on, but I think Gaz added it to all his platforms about 10 years ago. Quite right, as it’s fantastic, and all the Moogery from Adam gives it a great sci-fi bombast that somehow just works.
December 14, 2025 at 4:44 AM
It’s the alpha geeks who said to the beta geeks, “How do we turn this great piece of specific functionality into a one size fits nobody but very lucrative off the shelf product that cannot be customised except by us?” that fucked it all.
December 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It’s the disappearing, leaping boy that’s puzzling me.
December 10, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Can only stomach Old Red Eyes is Back
December 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
“I was whistling on a Tuesday, jester.”
“You bastard!”
December 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
“Don’t touch that ravioli, it’s garbage!” “Ravioli, please.”
December 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
A few responders from Uxbridge I see.
December 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Thanks. One or two of the later ones sounded a bit ersatz Blessed, but I guess he’s just older :)
December 6, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Was it Brian latterly or someone doing an impression of him though?
December 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Which proves the Boo Radleys are NOT Britpop
December 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM