Simon Smith
@simonsmith.bsky.social
Journalist. Ex-Trinity Mirror, Manchester Evening News, etc. ‘I don’t know the sort of people who know the date’
MDANT in Madrid. Pop music mainly.
MDANT in Madrid. Pop music mainly.
Every time we’re promised ‘the secret to buying our house, with no mortgage, at the age of 26’ it somehow involves rich parents. Every. Single. Time.
November 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Every time we’re promised ‘the secret to buying our house, with no mortgage, at the age of 26’ it somehow involves rich parents. Every. Single. Time.
The Rubber Soul cover. 👌
November 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The Rubber Soul cover. 👌
The first of many great books you introduced me too. My top three from the early years are A Month In The Country, Lolly Willowes and the Ransome-itch-scratching Riddle Of The Sands.
Also, my Virago shelf now overfloweth.
Happy birthday, and thank you.
Also, my Virago shelf now overfloweth.
Happy birthday, and thank you.
November 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
The first of many great books you introduced me too. My top three from the early years are A Month In The Country, Lolly Willowes and the Ransome-itch-scratching Riddle Of The Sands.
Also, my Virago shelf now overfloweth.
Happy birthday, and thank you.
Also, my Virago shelf now overfloweth.
Happy birthday, and thank you.
Watching Anthology on Disney and again swooning over George’s 65/66 hair. Oh, and the music too.
November 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Watching Anthology on Disney and again swooning over George’s 65/66 hair. Oh, and the music too.
Ah, will do so next time. :)
November 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Ah, will do so next time. :)
Have I got this right? Unless you’re on the Cool List, you can only do HMs (at this stage) for the poll you use your extra bonuses on?
November 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Have I got this right? Unless you’re on the Cool List, you can only do HMs (at this stage) for the poll you use your extra bonuses on?
She’s absolutely spot-on though, isn’t she? They are expelling people when they haven’t yet voted on the rules.
November 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
She’s absolutely spot-on though, isn’t she? They are expelling people when they haven’t yet voted on the rules.
I don’t understand why they are expelling people when they haven’t decided the rules yet. What am I missing?
November 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I don’t understand why they are expelling people when they haven’t decided the rules yet. What am I missing?
The first minute of Second Coming tricks you into thinking it IS that album.
November 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The first minute of Second Coming tricks you into thinking it IS that album.
Same with people who get angry about the lyrics to Do They Know It’s Christmas. The ‘snow in Africa’ police.
November 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Same with people who get angry about the lyrics to Do They Know It’s Christmas. The ‘snow in Africa’ police.
Willing to take a large bet right now that nobody involved with this will - despite the outrage on here - ever face justice in an American court. Happy to be proved wrong.
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Willing to take a large bet right now that nobody involved with this will - despite the outrage on here - ever face justice in an American court. Happy to be proved wrong.
And so much better than the ‘version’.
November 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM
And so much better than the ‘version’.
That is… bloody amazing.
November 29, 2025 at 12:26 AM
That is… bloody amazing.
I always think this gets unfairly written out of the Weatherall/Loaded narrative…
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That Petrol Emotion - Abandon - Weatherall & Farley Remix
YouTube video by DUCKKARMA
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November 28, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I always think this gets unfairly written out of the Weatherall/Loaded narrative…
youtu.be/HhEIGfqPqU0?...
youtu.be/HhEIGfqPqU0?...
Ooh, that’s new to me too. It’s VERY Weatherall, isn’t it. Skanking. Echo-y dubby.
November 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ooh, that’s new to me too. It’s VERY Weatherall, isn’t it. Skanking. Echo-y dubby.
It all makes sense now.
November 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It all makes sense now.
Probably the quickest way to do degrees of separation between Don Cherry and Pete Waterman.
November 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Probably the quickest way to do degrees of separation between Don Cherry and Pete Waterman.
Right, and then PWL got involved. I like that some of that Scritti-esque ‘shimmy’ sound (you know what I mean!) survived into Buffalo Stance.
November 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Right, and then PWL got involved. I like that some of that Scritti-esque ‘shimmy’ sound (you know what I mean!) survived into Buffalo Stance.
The cats must have been the same population as in Scotland, surely? My in-depth research (one Google search) suggests land crossings not long before that time.
November 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The cats must have been the same population as in Scotland, surely? My in-depth research (one Google search) suggests land crossings not long before that time.
Ah… so it’s Stock Aitken Waterman! Any idea how Wild Bunch came to do the remix?
November 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Ah… so it’s Stock Aitken Waterman! Any idea how Wild Bunch came to do the remix?
That original song sounds VERY Scritti Politti.
November 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
That original song sounds VERY Scritti Politti.
Guess I should try Blue Prince then.
November 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Guess I should try Blue Prince then.
Great, great ‘game’. Well worth doing three or four times.
November 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Great, great ‘game’. Well worth doing three or four times.