Jules Gray
@julesgray.bsky.social
Singer. Strummer. Writer.
"I'm still briefly alive. Be kind, be real, or get out of my face."
"I'm still briefly alive. Be kind, be real, or get out of my face."
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Jules Gray
@julesgray.bsky.social
· Dec 1
Formal introduction (if'n you don't know by now)...
I'm Jules. I sing. I strum the guitar. I sometimes write things.
I also dig stand-up, space, art, animals, books, snooker and cycling.
I lost Gill, the yin to my yang, in 2019. This feed is dedicated to her.
Be kind, be real, or get out of my face.
I'm Jules. I sing. I strum the guitar. I sometimes write things.
I also dig stand-up, space, art, animals, books, snooker and cycling.
I lost Gill, the yin to my yang, in 2019. This feed is dedicated to her.
Be kind, be real, or get out of my face.
@heathensquirrel.bsky.social An enterprising gent has remixed Dennis's Sound of Free into stereo.
(If only his download link was complete and actually worked.)
youtu.be/UVXTBTOve_I
(If only his download link was complete and actually worked.)
youtu.be/UVXTBTOve_I
The Beach Boys - Sound Of Free (2025 Stereo Mix)
YouTube video by Anonymuse
youtu.be
February 18, 2026 at 1:00 PM
@heathensquirrel.bsky.social An enterprising gent has remixed Dennis's Sound of Free into stereo.
(If only his download link was complete and actually worked.)
youtu.be/UVXTBTOve_I
(If only his download link was complete and actually worked.)
youtu.be/UVXTBTOve_I
Reposted by Jules Gray
Believe it or not, there is actually a forgotten David Bowie single - 1971's Holy Holy, which failed to make the charts and then failed to make it on to any compilations or reissues until the Five Years box set. And you can hear more about it here...
timworthington.org/2020/11/17/a...
timworthington.org/2020/11/17/a...
Holy Holy
Join me and Arsalan Mohammad on Album To Album, the biggest and best David Bowie podcast, for a chat about Bowie’s little-heard ‘lost’ 1971 single, Holy Holy.
timworthington.org
February 17, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Believe it or not, there is actually a forgotten David Bowie single - 1971's Holy Holy, which failed to make the charts and then failed to make it on to any compilations or reissues until the Five Years box set. And you can hear more about it here...
timworthington.org/2020/11/17/a...
timworthington.org/2020/11/17/a...
Reposted by Jules Gray
February 17, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Reposted by Jules Gray
Here's a photo of the late Robert Duvall wearing cue cards on his body so that co-star Marlon Brando could see his lines during the filming of The Godfather.
February 16, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Here's a photo of the late Robert Duvall wearing cue cards on his body so that co-star Marlon Brando could see his lines during the filming of The Godfather.
Of course there's not such thing, but then again...
"Losing love is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees you're blown apart
Everybody feels the wind blow"
- Paul Simon, "Graceland"
"Losing love is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees you're blown apart
Everybody feels the wind blow"
- Paul Simon, "Graceland"
What’s the best song lyric in history?
February 17, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Of course there's not such thing, but then again...
"Losing love is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees you're blown apart
Everybody feels the wind blow"
- Paul Simon, "Graceland"
"Losing love is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees you're blown apart
Everybody feels the wind blow"
- Paul Simon, "Graceland"
Reposted by Jules Gray
"Imagine a road
So long looking backwards
You can't see where it really began
Imagine a load
So large and so smooth
That against it a man is an ant
Then you will see the end
You will see the end"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lViP...
So long looking backwards
You can't see where it really began
Imagine a load
So large and so smooth
That against it a man is an ant
Then you will see the end
You will see the end"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lViP...
Imagine A Man
YouTube video by The Who - Topic
www.youtube.com
February 16, 2026 at 11:00 PM
"Imagine a road
So long looking backwards
You can't see where it really began
Imagine a load
So large and so smooth
That against it a man is an ant
Then you will see the end
You will see the end"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lViP...
So long looking backwards
You can't see where it really began
Imagine a load
So large and so smooth
That against it a man is an ant
Then you will see the end
You will see the end"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lViP...
Reposted by Jules Gray
Aw. Truly one of the greats - never a false note, even in small or modest roles.
Robert Duvall, the legendary actor whose career has spanned over six decades, has died at 95, his wife announced
February 16, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Aw. Truly one of the greats - never a false note, even in small or modest roles.
Post an album that was important to you when you were 11.
February 16, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Post an album that was important to you when you were 11.
Reposted by Jules Gray
Rizla flap as a filter.
Can you think of examples where people use technologies differently from what the developers intended, whether unintentionally or as an act of resistance?
February 16, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Rizla flap as a filter.
here's how one of our trail displays arrived
February 15, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Reposted by Jules Gray
I know that everyone thinks that Reading is a shithole, but we've got the MERL and you haven't. 🐑🐞🚜
here's how one of our trail displays arrived
February 15, 2026 at 7:54 PM
I know that everyone thinks that Reading is a shithole, but we've got the MERL and you haven't. 🐑🐞🚜
Reposted by Jules Gray
Still want one TBH.
February 15, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Still want one TBH.
Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.
February 14, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.
Reposted by Jules Gray
February 14, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Reposted by Jules Gray
Roses are woody perennial flowering plants
Violets are actually viola
And if you think I’m full of shit
Look ‘em up in a florilegium encyclopedia
#ValentinesDay #Valentine
Violets are actually viola
And if you think I’m full of shit
Look ‘em up in a florilegium encyclopedia
#ValentinesDay #Valentine
February 14, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Roses are woody perennial flowering plants
Violets are actually viola
And if you think I’m full of shit
Look ‘em up in a florilegium encyclopedia
#ValentinesDay #Valentine
Violets are actually viola
And if you think I’m full of shit
Look ‘em up in a florilegium encyclopedia
#ValentinesDay #Valentine
Today would have been Gill's birthday. This one's for her...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AwU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AwU...
Mark Knopfler - Haul Away (Lyrics) - Privateering (2012)
YouTube video by Young Pilgrim Music
www.youtube.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Today would have been Gill's birthday. This one's for her...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AwU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AwU...
Reposted by Jules Gray
I love Your Love Alone... quotes lines from songs by groups who changed style/had long careers - The Who, Stones, Pink Floyd, the Manics themselves - to say to Richey: you idiot, we could have/should have done this together. Much clearer in 2026 than it was in 2007. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb2K...
Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
YouTube video by Manic Street Preachers - Topic
www.youtube.com
February 14, 2026 at 9:03 AM
I love Your Love Alone... quotes lines from songs by groups who changed style/had long careers - The Who, Stones, Pink Floyd, the Manics themselves - to say to Richey: you idiot, we could have/should have done this together. Much clearer in 2026 than it was in 2007. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb2K...
Mick's had quite the morning...
Have to go to Bromsgrove on train. Woke up and was dropped off at station. Massive Q for tix and train due any mo. Used app. Something black and grey on the track caught my eye. It was moving. A crow was attacking a pigeon. The pigeon was prone and the crow was standing above, it black beak…
February 14, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Mick's had quite the morning...
It will always be irritating that this potentially great Dennis Wilson/Beach Boys song was never completed (unless you count the Taylor Hawkins interpretation) but hearing Carl Wilson scat sing over the sublime backing track is still a thing of beauty.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsAv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsAv...
The Beach Boys - Holy Man (2025 Mix Carl Wilson Vocal / Visualizer)
YouTube video by TheBeachBoysVEVO
www.youtube.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:35 PM
It will always be irritating that this potentially great Dennis Wilson/Beach Boys song was never completed (unless you count the Taylor Hawkins interpretation) but hearing Carl Wilson scat sing over the sublime backing track is still a thing of beauty.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsAv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsAv...
#5DebutAlbums0509
One of the most beautiful songs from this time period. I've always been a sucker for a waltz. The whole album's more than decent.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBDI...
One of the most beautiful songs from this time period. I've always been a sucker for a waltz. The whole album's more than decent.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBDI...
The Last of the Melting Snow
YouTube video by The Leisure Society - Topic
www.youtube.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:45 AM
#5DebutAlbums0509
One of the most beautiful songs from this time period. I've always been a sucker for a waltz. The whole album's more than decent.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBDI...
One of the most beautiful songs from this time period. I've always been a sucker for a waltz. The whole album's more than decent.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBDI...
Reposted by Jules Gray
#ArtistFave15
The Fall
#MusicChallenge
3—Paintwork
A lot of chance happenings went into making this the transcendent masterpiece it is, from a line a decorator said to Mark that becomes existential here to the famous taping over of the original master. Supreme serendipity.
#musicsky #nowplaying
The Fall
#MusicChallenge
3—Paintwork
A lot of chance happenings went into making this the transcendent masterpiece it is, from a line a decorator said to Mark that becomes existential here to the famous taping over of the original master. Supreme serendipity.
#musicsky #nowplaying
Paintwork (Remastered)
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
youtu.be
February 12, 2026 at 10:49 PM
#ArtistFave15
The Fall
#MusicChallenge
3—Paintwork
A lot of chance happenings went into making this the transcendent masterpiece it is, from a line a decorator said to Mark that becomes existential here to the famous taping over of the original master. Supreme serendipity.
#musicsky #nowplaying
The Fall
#MusicChallenge
3—Paintwork
A lot of chance happenings went into making this the transcendent masterpiece it is, from a line a decorator said to Mark that becomes existential here to the famous taping over of the original master. Supreme serendipity.
#musicsky #nowplaying
Reposted by Jules Gray
Ray Winstone sexting
Seriously though what the fuck are you wearing?
February 12, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Ray Winstone sexting
Writer, performer, and all-round good guy Noah Diamond begins an exploration of his Jewish identity in part 1 of Pintele...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuDs...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuDs...
Part 1: Straight Outta Anatevka
YouTube video by Noah Diamond
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Writer, performer, and all-round good guy Noah Diamond begins an exploration of his Jewish identity in part 1 of Pintele...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuDs...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuDs...