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I change trains at Manningtree occasionally. Very good little pub on the platform at the station, improbably enough. Probably also £8 a pint these days mind 😬

You're not my real dad, you can't tell me what to do

This is so shit it's brilliant

As I phrased it over on that there Bluesky, my listening stats will be completely skewed by the 110-hour playlist of post-rock/instrumental stuff I put on whenever I need to concentrate, so there's no point in looking at the bare numbers to figure out what I was into. But here are some songs I liked this year, at least: and, obviously, Where parent albums/EPs exist, they were usually pretty decent too. As for the article, I do think the Spotification of music consumption has damaged my approach to new music discovery somewhat, it's inevitable that it would. On the other hand, it does make me more likely to listen to things from a wider range of times and places than I might do otherwise, and that's not necessarily a bad thing - I've discovered and rediscovered all kinds of goodies that way. Swings and roundabouts, I suppose.

That usually depended on whether we got out of the office early enough for jumbo caipiroska happy hour at Sausalitos. All bets off after that.

Excellent - as someone who lived in Mainz for a while, I think we can build a local rivalry on those tenuous foundations. Welcome.

Getting it to actually fit properly would be too much effort (so to speak).

We do not want any UN-BRITISH INFLUENCES in this story about looking after a Russian exile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan's_World_Cup_Song "Boardman stated that if the song made it to no. 1 in the UK charts, he would donate half of the profits to charity."

Well, for a while, anyway.

Let that come up in the interview, please. "And do you have any questions for us, Mr. Wykiki?" "Well....."

Bit too much hair to be Toontastic.

Fucking hell, I would never have remembered that you had Beardsley (however briefly)

"If I survived the 1980s, I can survive Liquid Death" for the gays

I see Dubai is having a normal one again

"But what did they sit in????"

CT remains confused as to why wise men say "only fools Russian"

Might impress the Saudis though