My pal, Finger Flickin' Good Derek Air's tome, Land of the Giants, is out in July; an exploration of the Subbuteo Official subculture & the battle to keep their ailing game alive. Foreword from Undertones' bass-slapping legend, Michael Bradley Michael Bradley 👇

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Cycling the new Greenway along the Foyle I stopped to sketch Foyle bridge

#norniron

🥰💫xxx Earthstrong Best Wishes to @originalrudeboy1 #nevillestaple #FromTheSpecials #funboythree
Love ya bubs xx

@sugarystaple

Mallie Memoir..Eyewitness To War And Peace …I’ll have to watch my Ps & Qs next Monday night in the city which gave us Hume, McCann, McCafferty, Durkan, and McGuinness.
⁦Little Acorns Bookstore⁩ Gary Elliott-Middleton ⁦Michael Bradley⁩ ⁦Colum Eastwood⁩ ⁦Mark Durkan⁩

Amazed to see this on pre-order at Amazon. A piece of great news, just when I needed it the most. Thanks Pitch Publishing 📚 Sports Books, you have lifted my spirits.

Land of the Giants: A Journey Through the World of Table Football amzn.eu/d/dZSPSZ5

I'm very excited to have been added to this bill celebrating the 50th anniversary of the notorious Eno/Cale/Nico/Ayres live LP recorded on June 1st, 1974. I'm performing a song or two solo, alongside emma tricca & Darren Hayman, so in good company ...

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My favourite format is the 7” single, so many bands that put it all into 2 and half minutes and did not get to make an album.
All these singles are coming up for sale this Thursday & Friday Wessex Auction Rooms .
Catalogue to browse and bid available here: tinyurl.com/rsapfbeb
Jim

This is tough to do but I'm going to go for it. Two weeks ago I was diagnosed with bowel cancer. Now all my tests have been completed it appears that the cancer hasn't spread. I'll still need surgery and follow-up treatment but it looks like a fight I can win.

This is the bag of blood my (then) 5 yr old son got in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit last year

Last week, I got the chance to pay a pint of blood back into the bank 💪🩸

If you can spare it, blood is one of the best gifts you will ever give ❤️

Lend an arm if you can ❤️

From THE SPECIALS Neville Staple #FromTheSpecials Sugary Staple Amy Winehouse #BacktoBlack film premiere

Thanks for the invite Lee and Anne 🥰

#TonyJamieson

To everyone in the Subbuteo community. The next time someone tells you Subbuteo isn't cool just post this as your reply.

Lenny Kaye hosting a fun-packed celebration of his iconic Nuggets compilation at the 100 Club last night with a band that included Dave Tregunna, Jim Jones and Rat Scabies plus loads of special guests

You've been a great guest.

Director Michael Powell gives direction to David Niven and Marius on the staircase to heaven sequence on the set of A Matter Of Life And Death 1946.

BBC 2 1pm today.

I was glad Dana won. She was from Creggan. (Also claimed by Rossville Flats)

Lee Dorsey - Working in a Coal Mine

Sauntering out of a cupboard and straight into it. The great Lee Dorsey appearing on Jools Holland’s 1985 special, Walking to New Orleans.

Lee also sorted Jools out with the convertible that he used for the trip.

Michael Bradley 😂I tried that with this Joe Meek kit Michael - it didn’t go too well…

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well..... having recently listened to the audiobook of England's Dreaming.... I may find that request impossible to refuse..... I loved the almost deadpan reading of it.
John's a fan of ED too.

'In the stir for breathing air.... '
John Sinclair, 82, Dies; Counterculture Activist Who Led a ‘Guitar Army’ nytimes.com/2024/04/04/us/…