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Séamus Reilly
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Spotify playlists, occasional photos, and luke warm takes.
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A chronological, as complete as Spotify allows, Quarrymen to Threetles, Beatles playlist.
open.spotify.com/playlist/6Wp...
a splendid time is guaranteed for all
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Scott Walker in 5 Easy Pieces in playlist form.
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scott walker in 5 easy pieces
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February 6, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Harvest Festival box set in playlist form
open.spotify.com/playlist/1zI...
harvest festival
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February 6, 2026 at 7:44 PM
An alternate/expanded/more Neil Young version of the 1991 CSN box set
open.spotify.com/playlist/4uv...
CSNY
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February 6, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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Saw Jimmie Dale Gilmore tonight, in a church that hosts rock shows. Was supposed to be with Dave Alvin, but Dave is sick, so Jimmie enlisted The West Texas Exiles, which includes Jimmie’s son Collin.
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February 6, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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More announcements like this please.
Several people in the train carriage I am on agreeing loudly with the conductor's announcement that 'noone sitting near you wants to hear the YouTube tutorial you are watching, so wear earphones please'
a man is sitting on a couch smoking a cigarette and drinking a glass of wine .
Alt: a man is sitting on a couch genuflecting with the caption amen to that
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February 6, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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An expanded approximation of the main 4 discs in the 1993 Beach Boys 30th anniversary box set
open.spotify.com/playlist/5pY...
good vibrations: 30 years of the beach boys
open.spotify.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Post an image you can hear
February 5, 2026 at 10:47 PM
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This is a bit of a quietly momentous post for me. If you saw my recent posts on here you will know my family and I have been going through a very challenging time. But I know that humour will be my way through it and so I’ve decided to post my nonsense again.
February 5, 2026 at 3:47 PM
An expanded approximation of the main 4 discs in the 1993 Beach Boys 30th anniversary box set
open.spotify.com/playlist/5pY...
good vibrations: 30 years of the beach boys
open.spotify.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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Jeffrey Archer informed me that I could not possibly be correct when I told him that his new book was not the number one bestselling title in the bookshop I was working in.
One of my academic colleagues looks a bit like Bob Mortimer. One time near our labs I saw him walking towards me and I warmly said Hey Kevin. It was Bob Mortimer.

Please share your very low impact celebrity encounters here.
Fun low level anecdote: I once sat near Peter Mandelson in a theatre but I had a name blank and said rather too loudly ‘ooh look it’s Michael Portillo!’

He was visibly unamused.
February 5, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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February 5, 2026 at 6:11 AM
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Well this is quite a strange and beautiful thing - a film made in 1967 to accompany the song Penny Lane - not, it seems, as an official thing, but an independent production.

It is absolutely fascinating to see this - especially for spotting Liverpool locations. www.bfi.org.uk/inside-the-a...
February 4, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Floodplain
February 4, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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Rock's most significant moment? And it's not the Beatles? What! Well, they do feature in it. Here it is...
grantmcphee.substack.com/p/rocks-most...
Rock's Most Significant (and strangest) Event?
Rock’s most significant event?
grantmcphee.substack.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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See also this fantastic adaptation
February 2, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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Caledonia Psychedelica: A little Substack on the Waldman Brothers who changed Scotland's nightlife forever - and created London's hippest underground club, Middle Earth.
grantmcphee.substack.com/p/caledonia-...
Caledonia Psychedelica : How One of London's Premiere Underground Clubs of the 1960s Was Run From Edinburgh.
Caledonia Psychedelica: How One of London’s Premier Underground Clubs of the 1960s Was Run from Edinburgh — and How Its Owners Changed Scotland’s Nightlife Forever
grantmcphee.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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"There are too many black musicians in jazz bands" is comfortably the most delusional thing I have ever read
He sent an 1,170-word email to the entire department, starting with, 'Some white musicians deliberately have black musicians in their band to help them get gigs rather than thinking who is musically suitable' and ending with 'If there is systematic bias in Britain... it is against white people.'
February 2, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Share a TV show you love with 3 seasons or less
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February 2, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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Robert Wyatt turned 81 last week. A tribute I wrote in 2001: dadadrummer.substack.com/p/epiphanies
Epiphanies
Robert Wyatt
dadadrummer.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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Ok, let’s do this🙄

We’ll start with an explainer covering:

🕒What is a 15-minute city
🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford
👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from

And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article

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February 1, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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FIRST CLASS bit of archaeology here. Brilliant work.
In April 1976, in a café at Cambridge railway station, Douglas Adams bought some biscuits. We know this because he told the story so many times that it somehow opened up a wormhole in the space-time continuum, travelling both forwards and backwards and, intriguingly, sideways in time. (1/some...)
January 31, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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On iPlayer for 29 days
A Matter of Life and Death: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0002fc4 via @bbciplayer
January 31, 2026 at 7:24 PM
On iPlayer for 29 days
A Matter of Life and Death: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0002fc4 via @bbciplayer
January 31, 2026 at 7:24 PM