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Shayne Tod Slaughter
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'Notebooks out, plagiarists!'

"A host of balding, bespectacled, slightly confused looking gentlemen milling about, peering vaguely at prices for exotic sounding ales that look more like Stock Exchange commodities tells me I'm in the right place"

#MD ANT
Bromley v Crewe tonight. 0-0, early doors. Lots of home pressure
January 27, 2026 at 8:00 PM
#FallFriday

Day off for the birthday of Mrs S!...except it's looking more than likely I'll have to go in to work 😕

"Why don't you tell me?
Next time you ring
Why don't you tell me
Next time you ring
Why don't you tell me?
All leave's cancelled again..."

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January 23, 2026 at 6:30 AM
#PavementThursday

"I knew he liked to talk about himself
But he wanted the whole world to know.
It made me sick inside
I just gotta hold back..."

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January 22, 2026 at 6:40 AM
#FallFriday

Off to the quacks this a.m. Don't you get worried...🙂

"And Doctor Boring says you are very ill
And your top-knot is in the region of your soul
I was in a vortex, I was heading for a fall
I'll tell you
Life just bounces so don't you get worried at all..."

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Life Just Bounces
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January 16, 2026 at 7:40 AM
#PavementThursday

'Tis the season for lots of colds & coughs!

"Maybe she is
Maybe she's not
Maybe we is
We's hack cough
Wheeze hack cough..."

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January 15, 2026 at 6:48 AM
#FallFriday

New position in new town makes for less than desirable driving experiences...🤨

Good toon, mind 👍

"Rear-view mirror - it's all behind you
A present gone mad
Tra tra la, follow, track that lava
Past, present gone mad
Passable..."

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Passable (A Past Gone Made) (Live)
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January 9, 2026 at 11:01 AM
#PavementThursday

Have been booking holidays! 🙂

"But I could trickle, I could flood
A voice coach taught me to sing
He couldn't teach me to love
All the above.

Easy-talking, border blocking
Transport is arranged..."

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Transport Is Arranged
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January 8, 2026 at 2:07 PM
#FallFriday

Prior to attending the recent Fallen Women gig, I was asked which song I'd sing. It would be this. Lots of lyrics 🙂

"The working class has been shafted
So what the fuck you sneering at?
Your prerogative in life it seems
Is living out an ad man's dream..."

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The Fall - Idiot Joy Showland
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January 2, 2026 at 6:12 AM
The Fallen Women pt the Second.

Every time I tell people that these evenings are really good fun, I get a def sideways look.

"Really, Shayne?! 🤔"

Really. Really, really! 🙂

I am most definitely up for next year, which will be my 5th. Hope they keep at it. Thanks everyone ❤️
December 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
A very good evening at @thelexingtonlondon.bsky.social tonight, viewing The Fallen Women (yet again! 🙂) so far. Have bumped into @darren157.bsky.social and @chopstopfives.bsky.social as, let's face it, expected! 😄

Great evening, more to come
December 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
#FallFriday

Getting a bit stir-crazy. Cemetery, pub, then grub beckons.

These lines in isolation work well with the current mood 🙂

"Drinkers from the Slaughterhouse
Weren't happy and went out
Noise resounds aloud
Noise resounds the lounge..."

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Rebellious Jukebox
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December 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Hmmm...interesting.

Mrs S just called me from the bedroom (no, not that interesting!) to 'deal with' a spider...whilst I am watching one of the many, many, 'Spiderman' films!

To save the spider from a death worse than fate, I saved the spider. Turns out he or she is unusual: a fake widow! 🙂
December 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
#PavementThursday

One to wake up those having a post Xmas lunch snooze.

"Did you remember in December
That I won't need you when I'm gone
And if I go there, I won't stay there
Because I'm sitting here too long
I've been sitting here too long
And I've been wasted..."

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December 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Cooking Wars, a battle of one idiot vs an evil empire of spuds, meat, veggie equivalents, and assorted greens, has commenced.

Last year's theme was cats, this year: bats.

Also, cider 👍🍺

Wish me luck 🤞
December 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
#PavementThursday

Courtesy Winter.

"It's late winter, let's sink the ship, Mix our blood, just the tip
A crip is sleeping on the basement stairs
Oh, I know he's there
Oh, I know he's there
We are underused
We are underused, yeah..."

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We Are Underused
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December 18, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Just going through the archives. One for @jslovechild.bsky.social to peruse.

Got to love the optimism that the 'Bank Holiday crowds...' would 'flock' through the turnstiles for the Cup clash with those cobbling giants, Northampton Town. Even Tommy Steele cheering the Lions on! 🙂
December 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
#FallFriday

Pre-Xmas meds received. Hopeful of using less than ness.

"And Pierce Brosnan how dare you prescribe
Sad grief and bed wet pills?
Good grief bed wet
Sad grief bed wet
Pills..."

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Dedication Not Medication, taken from Sub-Lingual Tablet (2015)
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December 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Scala soiree no3: Heartworms

Ms Orme enters the stage and begins with some silhouetted tai chi moves to heavy drum/bass/synth/guitar accompaniment. Loudest gig I've attended in a while. "Turn it up!" shouted a non-Shayne crowd wit. Good stuff, it has to be said 👍
December 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Scala evening pt the 2nd: The Jacques.

Good spoof intensive tuning of a purdy green Strat for about 10 mins before stagetime, only to drop it and play an even purdier white guitar with extra shiny buttons. Made me laugh, anyway 🙂
December 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Evening all. Back from The Scala.

1st up: Funhaus

Make a good racket but, if you're going to wear a lumberjack shirt & baggy cargo pants combo, don't keep proffering us your unsightly backside. Not a good look...😕
December 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
At The Scala tonight for Heartworms.

Looking at the cloakroom and wondering:

Does anyone actually wear a cloak to gigs nowadays and should I? 🤔

And if I were to do so, then people would point at me, all elegant and shit, and say:

"Look at that fucking idiot!"

And they'd be right...
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December 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
#FallFriday

Here comes your weekend. Me, I've got work to do! 🙂

"In Britain the scream of electric pumps in a renovated pub
Your stomach swells up before you get drunk
Don't call me, Peter, I can't go
Salem's just up the road
I've got work to do...#

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The Fall "New Puritan"
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December 5, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Just arranged final clipping of the year for next week, so Shayne looks marginally less hideous during Crimblemas 🙄

Hence:

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Pavement - Cut Your Hair (Official Video)
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December 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
#PavementThursday

Following on from yesterday's dental appointment...

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In The Mouth A Desert
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November 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Been listening to a lot of *Punktry & Western* recently. This would be a fair example.

"I can't sing it strong enough
'Cause that kind of strength I just don't have
If you watch the light change
Don't hold them hanging..."

*Dunno if this phrase exists

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Zürich Is Stained
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November 20, 2025 at 7:25 AM