Justin Lewis

@whenisbirths.bsky.social

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Author/editor/'cultural historian'/carer, S Wales, probably autistic:
NEW BOOK!: Into the Groove, OUT NOW.
Textcast archive: https://firstlastanything.co.uk/about/ (back on 9 Nov)
Email: whenisbirths@yahoo.com
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Justin Lewis is a Professor of Communication and Creative Industries at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. He is the Director of Clwstwr, an Arts and Humanities Research Council and Welsh Government funded Research & Development innovation centre for the Screen and News sectors and Media Cymru, a £50 million, 23 partner consortium, funded by UK Research and Innovation, Cardiff Capital Region and Welsh Government, designed to boost inclusive and sustainable media sector innovation in Wales. He is also Chief Field Editor for Frontiers in Communication, a global Open Access publisher. .. more

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · Oct 3

OUT NOW, my month-by-month guide to 1980s pop, from ABC to XTC, and from Madonna to Neneh. #IntoTheGroove, published by @eandtbooks.bsky.social.

Cover of
INTO THE GROOVE: THE 1980s:
THE ULTIMATE DECADE IN MUSIC HISTORY
by Justin Lewis (me)

'An epic compendium of stories and trivia from the 80s music scene'

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 6h

‘Recycling By’

Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 6h

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 6h

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 6h

TV Times is the new Spangles or indeed eggs, if you remember those.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 6h

Absolutely amazing TV Times still exists.

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Extreme Rice @extremerice.bsky.social · 7h

The Arena documentary about the Ford Cortina is just starting on BBC4 #WeirdCarBS

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 7h

Sorry to pay wasted attention to someone who's rather too keen to beg for it.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 7h

Exactly what happened with the 'misleading editing of the Queen' nearly 20 years ago. Again, it was an independent production (RDF in that particular case).

Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 7h

One strange thing about the BBC/Trump row is that the programme in question was actually made by an independent production company. Yes, the BBC producers and Panorama’s editor should have checked everything before it was broadcast. But…
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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 7h

I suspect if you can't even wash your hands after using the toilet, you're unlikely to EVER wash your hands. (When the pandemic kicked in and we were told to make sure we did this as often as possible, I wondered what HAD people been doing before.)

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 7h

A couple of nice reviews on Amazon for books of mine, one in particular involving a cat, which frankly will always spark my interest.

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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 7h

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 8h

'DO HOTLEGS'?

Halo @eatmyhalo.bsky.social · 8h

“Has he shit himself?”

Rod Stewart standing in front of an orchestra, legs wide apart, with an ‘oof’ expression on his face

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 8h

And so many of them have had such expensive educations too.

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Halo @eatmyhalo.bsky.social · 8h

“Has he shit himself?”

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 9h

I will say the radio still has plenty of gold.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 9h

I wish that the people who ran it realised what's valuable are the programmes themselves.

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Fred Connelly @brendonconnelly.bsky.social · 9h

It doesn't have to be this way. Even if it is trending downwards (and I'm not sure whether I agree it is or not, overall) it can't trend upwards if it doesn't survive, and it's certainly too valuable and worthwhile to slaughter, disregard or take for granted.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 9h

In the past, I've been quick to make lists of things the BBC does that make it 'the best of Britain' and all that. But that list is getting shorter, with every year that passes.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 9h

This is not specifically the fault of presenters and producers and programme makers. This lies higher up.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 9h

And he's also absolutely right about how timid it's become in many areas *outside of news*.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 9h

My god, that Goodall piece is scathing and then some.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 10h

I've had people tell me they used to go to these, and I've been so envious.

Andy @alreadytaken74.bsky.social · 13h

Good God, someone's just uploaded to YouTube a nearly 2-hour long video of one of the original Vic Reeves Big Night Out live shows at the Albany Empire from 1989. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKPU...

Vic Reeves Big Night Out - 30 April 1989

YouTube video by Peter Brooke Turner

www.youtube.com

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 10h

I think you should set it to music and sing it. People love that on public transport.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 10h

'I SPOKE TO SOMEONE JUST THE OTHER DAY I FORGET WHO IT WAS'

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 10h

'As long as you're reading something, that's what matters.'
Actually, let me stop you there.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 10h

And also books occasionally - yes, look impressed - though coincidentally they're always ones about how to make somehow yet more money.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 14h

Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years

cinesthetic. @ @TheCinesthetic - 6h
Edge of Tomorrow (2014) was sunk by confusing marketing and a forgettable title, yet it turned out to be one of the smartest and most entertaining sci-fi films of the last decade. Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt at their absolute best.
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Man on Fire (2004) sits at 38% on Rotten Tomatoes, proof that critics don't always see the vision. Tony Scott turned vengeance into poetry, and Denzel Washington gave one of his most quietly devastating performances.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 11h

The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.

New piece from me.

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

The truth about impartiality at the BBC

And the hysteria of the current "crisis"

open.substack.com

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you, Betty!

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 12h

Love it. Thank you both

That Jonathan Harvey piece... OMG ❤️

(Not allowed to listen to 4 Last Songs if Mr S is in the house. Too beautiful to be actually played out loud)

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