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Category: UK

November 10, 2025

Music Monday – “Sing us a song/A song to keep us warm/There’s such a chill/Such a chill.”

Oasis is having a massively successful reunion tour and from the complete opposite end of the Britpop spectrum, Radiohead has also just begun their own reunion tour with

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September 29, 2025

Music Monday – “Take me to the place where you go/Where nobody knows/If it’s night or day/Please don’t put your life in the hands/Of a rock ‘n’ roll band/Who’ll throw it all away.”

“(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?” was released thirty years ago this week and after years of acrimony, Oasis is in the middle of a massive reunion tour with

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September 1, 2025

Music Monday – “We live in the shadows and we/Had the chance and threw it away/And it’s never going to be the same/’Cause the years are falling by like the rain/It’s never gonna be the same”

Well, after a couple months of minimal posting (hey, summer off like when I was a kid? Awesome!) and I’ve had some thoughts about how/if I want to

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June 9, 2025

Music Monday – “When we woke up that morning we had no way of knowing/That in a matter of hours we’d change the way we were going/Where would I be now, where would I be now if we’d never met?/Would I be singing this song to someone else instead?”

“Something Changed” – Pulp

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May 26, 2025

Music Monday – “We don’t get fooled again/Don’t get fooled again, no, no/Yeah/Meet the new boss/Same as the old boss

“Won’t Get Fooled Again” – The Who

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May 12, 2025

Music Monday – “Until Sally, I was never happy/I needed so much more/Rain clouds, oh, they used to chase me/Down they would pour/Join my tears/Allay my fears”

“Sally Cinnamon” – Stone Roses

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April 14, 2025

Music Monday – “Not a shaman, or a showman, ashamed I was selling the rights/I took a breather, and decided not to ruin my life/I was conforming to a cosmic design I was playing to type/Until I walked back to the gard?n of earthly delights”

“Spike Island” – Pulp

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January 10, 2025

Friday Fun Link – “Better Man” Trailer

A very unique take on the musician biopic featuring a massive star from the UK that Shea and I both really like (I was in England in 1995

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December 2, 2024

Music Monday – “Your soul can’t be saved for all the sins you’ve ignored/And the devil is well aware he is adored/Never forget the excess of a man/Because the grabbing hands always grab what they can.”

“BLOODMONEY” – Poppy (h/t to DR on FB)

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October 21, 2024

Music Monday – Organize your safe tribal war/Hurt, maim, kill and enslave the ghetto/Each day living out a lie/Life sold cheaply forever, ever, ever.”

“Motorcycle Emptiness” – Manic Street Preachers

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