In the parallel universe where Geri Halliwell is Leader of the Opposition, Liz Kendall's interesting new album of electronic dance pop, Brit Maxx, has just been released to critical acclaim.
This is an absolutely staggering story that ought to be getting more mainstream media attention (but won't, inevitably). Everything about FIFA and the World Cup, seems to be about funnelling money upwards into the pockets of people who don't need it and don't deserve it & away from people who do
If you're in the environs of the fair city of York on Saturday, I'm DJing at this incredibly good-natured and usually well attended northern soul-adjacent record hop. My good friend Jason has never lived down the unfortunate MLA* his club night spells out www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/there-was-...
He will probably turn out to be an amazing singer, like in The Wrong Boy by Willy Russell (a book that’s got a lot harder to read now Morrissey has become such a tool).
*MLA- Multi Letter Acronym. In this case There Was A Time is right up there with the Tunbridge Wells Action Team.
It's a little known fact that well into the 1980s the Royal Navy's frigates were all powered by clockwork motors that required regular winding. Buildings like this used to be all over the Empire. Very few remain. Here's a clockwork frigate in action in 1975 youtu.be/75r2bOB95h8?...
