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Well hello

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New name to the blog but not a new person, just updating my online security and anonymity.

From the poster who previously sounded a bit like kneel dye sun.

Wilco klaxon

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Wilco. Schmilco.

New album coming Sept. 9 on dBpm records. Twelve new songs and a vibe that Jeff Tweedy calls “joyously negative.”

Whoop, whoop!

ATM – Jukebox Jury

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Next week there will be a new arrival at Dyson Towers, a 1962 Ami Continental 2 jukebox. It’s part dream, part record storage solution, part investment, what I is to fill it with quintessential jukebox records. My love of the jukes started at college in 1979 so there will be plenty of Elvis Costello and Squeeze hits from around that time, but I’ve 100 slots to fit so the question is – what should I scour discogs for? It doesn’t have to be a big hit or hip cool, just songs that sound great through a jukebox.

Towel Day

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It’s 14 years today since we lost Douglas Adams, today has been declared Towel Day, thankfully today isn’t a Thursday, he never quite got the hang of Thursdays.

One of the very few writers who could make me laugh out loud, a truly funny man.

“He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.”

Fairport Convention

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If you read Chiz’s David Ford review you’ll see I have two tickets that need new owners for his gig at the Borderline this Saturday. I also need to re-house 2 tickets for the Fairports at the same venue the night before. They are fully house-trained and I’d appreciate a small adoption fee, no sensible (or even slightly silly) offer refused.

A minute’s applause

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There’s talk that at the Barnsley v Walsall match tomorrow there is going to be a minute’s applause for Konstandinos Erik Scurfield, a 25 year old Barnsley man who is reported as being the first Briton killed fighting ISIS alongside the Kurds.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31730844

Now I’m no fan of ISIS, but it seems that I’m a lone voice on the supporters forums by feeling a bit uncomfortable about all this. I appreciate the sentiments of him fighting for what he believes in (aren’t ISIS saying that also), but the whole idea doesn’t sit right with me – this is someone who made a choice to go and fight in someone else’s war, to kill people, when he was under no obligation to do so, and ended up paying the price for it. I’m sorry for his family but what good will applause at a football match actually do? It’s not as if his family are football fans, neither was he, he had no connection to the club at all other than it was his hometown club.

Am I wrong feeling this way, should I just STFU and stand and clap for the 25th minute? I’m seriously considering not going because of » Continue Reading.

Venus and Mars are alright tonight

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If you look west into the sky just after sunset, Venus is as bright as you like at the moment. If you have a pair of binoculars and you look towards it you’ll notice the pinprick of red light that is Mars very close to it. Look east and the brightest object in the Sky is Jupiter, the best views we’ll have of it for eight years or so as it is in direct opposition to the sun.

That’s all, no charge for this service.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=geVR-YI0Tvc