A headline reading “Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables”
Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.
King for a day S.F.T.D @cerysmatthews.bsky.social
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John Cale by Paul Morrissey, 1966
Happy 84th to John Cale 🧁 #BOTD
The Velvet Underground - Venus In Furs acoustic demo with Cale on vocals youtu.be/oDHTwvopOdQ?...
Perhaps distract yourself with a different....err...nope, not going there....
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Dang! Hadn't heard about Hammond Jr - oft overlooked in the history of US Blues!
Tonight we pay tribute to Mike Vernon of Blue Horizon - Otis Spahn, Peter Green, Chicken Shack etc.. we also mark the passing of John Hammond Jr. cue Mike Bloomfield and Dr John and more besides #music #blues @bbcradio2 now … well in one minute
Damn! Get well, Jello.
We said 'Goodbye" to Joe at the weekend, Cerys... @cerysmatthews.bsky.social
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"[His] group’s work augmented the era’s usual guitar distortions and drug references with arcane melodies, left-field lyrics, and influences that also drew from ragtime, old-time folk, and the avant-garde."
Country Joe McDonald, Whose Antiwar Song Became an Anthem, Dies at 84 (gift link):
When humanity finally dies out, the wind will still occasionally gently whisper the music of Nick Drake over fields and mountains.
Have woken up a little blue today @cerysmatthews.bsky.social - this fits the mood - your S.F.T.D
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So long and thanks for all the Fish.
Country Joe McDonald, lead singer of Country Joe and the Fish, dies at 80 www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
![Sister Rosetta Tharpe & The Lucky Millinder Orchestra • “Shout Sister Shout • 1941 [RITY Archive]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q6uycf47ozju7tocnrb5zzmh/bafkreibm3skfipiczy7y3vhbbouy4x33xe5kxkamw7f76lqo5okzy4mrnm)
It’s #InternationalWomensDay so I’ll be adding to this thread of women who inspired and innovated in rock’n’roll throughout, and where to start but with the great Sister Rosetta Tharpe, spiritual grandmother of all rock’n’roll guitarists?
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#musicsky #nowplaying #nowspinning
A bit bleak out there today...
Stilt chicken
Definitely inspiration for, directly or otherwise @cerysmatthews.bsky.social
Hah, was on the SFTD list for another day... @cerysmatthews.bsky.social
Morning , coming to you live with some remarkable recordings - all live on @bbc6music including not to be missed session from Jesca hoop and composing talk with Camilla George .
Where are you at today? Would love to hear news xx
Ieshia Evans and riot police during a protest against police brutality at the Baton Rouge police department in Louisiana on 9 July 2016. Photograph: Jonathan Bachman
Woman sits in front of riot police blocking the road to protect protesters during an anti-government march on 24 April 2015 in Seoul, South Korea. Photograph: Chung Sung-Jun
Young girl faces down a riot policeman during a protest marking the country’s 1973 military coup in Santiago, Chile on 11 September 2016. Photograph: Carlos Vera
Saffiyah Khan calmly staring down an EDL demonstrator in Birmingham. Unsure of photo credit
#InternationalWomensDay
Christ Lou, that's how you broke the last one - do you ever learn?!
#Goals
From what I can make out your eyes are fine but they have concerns about your third leg?
Morning Cerys @cerysmatthews.bsky.social An I.W.D S.F.T.D ♀️👑🙌
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81 years old today: Micky Dolenz #TheMonkees
Pics;
Bob Willoughby
Henry Diltz
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Stop literally everything.
Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time.
fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...
Links below to what we filmed at Jesus College,Oxford,Nat.Lib. of Wales,Shakepeare’s Globe+looked 4Welsh/Brythonic words still used in Eng+Scot,but also found bowl haircuts+a Northern English Welsh speaking recluse in the woods.(Merlin) www.s4c.cymru/clic/program...
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