Happy 75th Birthday to Chris Frantz – drummer and co-founder of both the Talking Heads and the Tom Tom Club, born on May 8, 1951, in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, USA.
📸 Tom Hill
#punkrock #postpunk #newwave #chrisfrantz #talkingheads #tomtomclub #punkrockhistory #otd
Conposer of the the Duck Tales theme tune as he’s playing it to Disney execs for the firs time
Happy birthday to Dave Edmunds
In other news!
We have added @bmxbanditsduglas.bsky.social to Manchester Popfest 2026!
Limited edition Risographs hitting your best love “dive bars” now 🫶🏼
Tickets here: www.seetickets.com/tour/manches... ✨
Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy.
Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.
🚨 WATCH: Labour MP Charlotte Nichols reveals she was raped as an MP as she opposes the jury trial reforms
"I waited 1,088 days to go to court. We've been told [by the Government] that if we have concerns about this Bill, it's because we've not been raped"
Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?
Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
#StandaloneSingles - no order
Day 18 - The Normal - Warm Leatherette
Another one-off, this one from Mute man Daniel Miller. An electronic music classic, brilliantly covered by Grace Jones in 1980.
Possibly about being turned on by car crashes, but definitely odd.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5QE...
This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something
Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used
www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...
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Ian Fraser complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation that Telegraph.co.uk breached Clause 1 (Accuracy) of the Editors’ Code of Practice in an article headlined “We earn £345k, but soa...
