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The Vinyl Constituency
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Player of #vinylrecords, watcher of old #films and #television, reader of #books, taker of #photographs, drinker of #coffee, builder of #Lego, walker of #beaches, and lover of the niche, arcane curios of yesteryear. Can be recycled at a large supermarket.
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The Vinyl Constituency @vinylconstituency.bsky.social · Apr 22
Welcome to those who have opted to keep an eye on my rambles. THANKS! 👋🏻 🙌🏻 😀

I’m Mark. The Vinyl Constituency is about my love of music on vinyl, and much more. I share what I’m buying, playing, watching, and reading.

#vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #musicsky #books #film #television #coffee
The photo shows photo one of four of The Room Of Many Things. From the entrance to the room there is to the right Kallax cube units, on top of which sits a record player, amp, and old big HMV speakers. To the centre and right there are two chairs (a large wing chair and an Ikea Poang chair), behind which is bespoke shelves full of DVDs and blu rays. On tops of the shelves are old toys. Photo two of four is taken from the centre of The Room of Many Things and faces a tall thin window with mid-brown curtains. In front of the window is several Ikea Kallax units on top of which is a record player (a Project Debut Carbon in black with an Ortofon Blue 2mm stylus). To the left and right are large vintage HMV wooden speakers. There is a patterned footstool in front of the units. To the left and right of the record player, there are separate red drawer units, on top of each there is a smaller speaker and a lamp. Photo three of four of The Room of Many things is taken from the centre of the room and faces the right hand side of the room. There are bespoke shelving units in cubicle format from the floor to two feet from the high ceiling. The cubicles are five high and nine wide at the highest and widest point and they sit on a wooden plinth. The ceiling slopes upwards. The cubicles, which are in an oak finish, are full of records. The fourth of foor photos of The Room Of Many Things is taken from the centre of the room towards the back and left aide of the room. Bespoke shelving in an oak finish goes completely around the walls, and the shelves are full of books, DVDs, blu rays, old VHS videos, and small toys. There is a circa two-foot gap between the top of the shelves and the high ceiling, on which sits many old toys, figures, Lego and handheld games. In from of the shelves there is a patterned wing-back chair and a plain Ikea Poang chair, in between which there is a small table.
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Meg has squirted liquid sh*te all over the rug we recently bought to replace the last rug Meg destroyed with liquid sh*te.

I’ve been on my hands and knees spooning sh*te into a bag, then furiously scrubbing the rug, all whilst trying not to vomit.

(Note: “scrubbing the rug” is NOT a euphemism.)
A light coloured rug covered in scrub marks.
January 25, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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#Nowplaying ‘Fairytale’ by Donovan.

#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollector #vinylsky #musicsky #nowspinning #folkmusic
January 25, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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It’s always wonderful to see others appreciating this phenomenal album - possibly one of the all time greatest pop albums.

Yes, this is a hill upon which I am prepared to die.
paulwonvinyl.bsky.social Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social · Dec 25
Like an album passing through my room ☺️

Thrilled this morning to open a half-speed remaster of one of my favourite LPs, a record which sounds, if not like Christmas, more like winter ⛄️

I wish you a happy and peaceful Christmas Day.
January 25, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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Oh FFS, can I not just have Sunday without Pertwee’s leg falling off? Is that too much to ask? 🤷🏻‍♂️
January 25, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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My side of the couch in my corner of our cosy wee snug is looking VERY appealing on this chilly Saturday evening. ♥️
Photo of a light coloured couch sitting against a dark wallpapered wall with an original quad poster of the 1975 Peter Weir film ‘Picnic At Hanging Rock’ framed in a gold coloured wood. Next to The couch there are free standing shelves with various books, photos, ornaments, candles, lamps, etc.
January 24, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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Some solid purchases yesterday, including titles from Sister Irene O'Connor, Jane Weaver, @theleaflibrary.bsky.social, and @shapeslikepeople.bsky.social.

I’ve said it already - I think 2026 is shaping up to be a phenomenal year for new music AND reissues. 🙌🏻😀

#vinylrecords #vinylsky #musicsky
Photo showing the cover for the reissue of ‘Fire of God’s Love’ by Sister Irene O’Connor. The photo also includes the black vinyl record and a couple of inserts on green paper. Photo of the cover to Jane Weaver’s ‘The Fallen by Watch Bird’ (expanded edition), which also shows the two records, one cream and one green. A photo of the cover for The Leaf Library’s upcoming album release ‘After the Rain, Strange Seeds’, and the solid yellow vinyl. Photo of the cover of the upcoming album by Shapes Like People, ‘Under the Rainbow’ and the accompanying black vinyl.
January 24, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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Good morning, #WeekendSingles people!

Today I’m keeping it strictly #electronic and totally @castlesinspace.bsky.social, with some of the label’s fantastic 7” output.

#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcollector #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky #nowplaying #nowspinning #synthpop #45rpm #7inchsingles
A photo of 8 7” singles laid out in two rows of four.
January 24, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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Today I watched the 1980 Cold War thriller ‘Raise the Titanic’.

Taking just $7m on a budget of $35m, it sunk every bit as spectacularly as its namesake.

Lew Grade later said: "It would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic.”

John Barry’s #soundtrack is however GREAT.

#nowwatching
January 23, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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Four photos from the 1977 TV movie ‘The Incredible Hulk’, which, by complete and total coincidence, all feature Susan Sullivan, with the added bonus of Bill Bixby in three of them. 🙂
January 23, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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I’m looking after these two wee woolly weirdos this morning while Lin has a gallivant around the shops of Glasgow.

We’re thinking about watching ‘Raise the Titanic’, but recognise that we’re all going to die one day and this is frivolous sh*t. 🤷🏻‍♂️
January 23, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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Oh FFS, it’s not TACO. Okay?

It’s market manipulation.

MARKET. MANIPULATION.

IN. SIDER. DEA. LING.

Say it with me. One, two, three …

“It’s not TACO, it’s market manipulation - insider dealing.”

Waken up.
January 22, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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No more mee-mos from Erica Davidson, governor of Wentworth Detention Centre.

‘Prisoner: Cell Block H’ star Patsy King dies aged 95.

www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...
January 22, 2026 at 8:54 AM
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Much needed calm in The Room
of Many Things this evening.

Sandy Denny’s gorgeous 1971 album ‘The North Star Grassman And The Ravens’ is #nowplaying.

#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcollector #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky #nowspinning #folkrock
January 21, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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My bloody wonderful mum looking bloody wonderful and altogether delighted to be visiting Number 1 Son, bless her. ♥️👏😀
Black and white photo of mum (70s) - dark trousers, light jumper, necklace, big smile, medium sized rectangular glasses and shoulder length medium coloured hair.
January 21, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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I had to deploy the #DoctoWho Season 18 house scarf today.

I will not be judged.
January 20, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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I’ve added some new #books to the shelves! 📚

#Titanic and those who lived through the events of the 14th and 15th of April 1912 is the subject matter. 🚢

Books on this can be very hit and miss, so fingers crossed that these are decent.

#TheTitanic #Booksky #Books #NonFiction #Maritime #Disaster
January 19, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?
Photo of David Banner, from the 70s/80s American TV adaptation of ‘The Incredible Hulk’ morphing into the Hulk.
January 18, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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‘Hartbeat’ also had one of the greatest ever Dynasty-esque publicity/continuity photos.
BBC1 Continuity photo for the children’s television art show ‘Hartbeat’. Pictured left to right: Gabrielle Bradshaw, Margot Wilson, Tony Hart, Liza Brown, and Joanna Kirk. Publicity photo for American soap opera ‘Dynasty’. Left to right: Linda Evans, Pamela Bellwood, Heather Locklear, Pamela Sue Martin, and Joan Collins. Below them is John Forsythe.
January 18, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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Share a television show that raised you:
The cast of late seventies early 80s BBC science-fiction drama Blake’s 7. Left to right: David Jackson as Olag Gan, Jan Chappell as Cally, Gareth Thomas as Roj Blake, Michael Keating as Vila Restal, Paul Darrow as Kerr Avon, and Sally Knyvette as Jenna Stannis.
January 18, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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My dad is down for the football this evening and is getting leathered into a halftime steak pie, mash, and beans courtesy of my good wife.

The dinner is considerably better than the football.
January 18, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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The biggest issue with vile, hate-filled bullies is less the havoc and distress they cause and more the pain and perseverance required to get rid of them.

This is the point at which a line needs to be drawn.

The sh*t sandwich is cut and we all need to bite.

F*ck his tariffs.

F*ck him.
January 17, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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Three rapid from Ghost Box here at The Vinyl Constituency this morning.

I hope all you #weekendsingles folk are having a great day! ♥️😀

#vinylrecords #vinylcollector #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky #nowplaying #nowspinning #45rpm #7inchsingles
7-inch single cover for ‘Painting Box’, by Beautify Junkyards With Belbury Poly. 7-inch single cover for ‘In Another Room’ by Paul Weller. 7-inch single cover for ‘La Isla Bonita’ by Large Plants.
January 17, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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I’m having a bit of a #folkfriday while sorting through LPs that are going to be moved on, including this back-up copy of Magna Carta’s 1970 album ‘Seasons’, which is #nowplaying.

#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcollector #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky #nowspinning
January 16, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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🚨🔔 *RECOMMENDATION*

I am all over this - released on @wiaiwya.bsky.social by @panchoballard.bsky.social in April.

If production library music is your thing, you should get in quick. 🙌🏻👇🏻
Proof of purchase!
January 16, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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I’ve rediscovered this book in the depths of the basement - ‘The Riddle of the Titanic’ by Robin Gardiner & Dan Van Der Vat.

It belonged to my dad and the cover frightened me when I was a kid.

I’m semi-obsessed with the #Titanic but never read it because it leans into conspiracy theories.
Front cover of book showing an art representation of the Titanic from sea level in front of the ship looking up. To the right of the ship, there is the ghost of another Titanic, and, to the right of that, a bird flies in the daylight sky and an iceberg can be seen in the background. Back cover of the book giving very brief history and asking key questions about the sinking. The questions are cynical and suggestive that something else might have been at play on the night of the sinking.
January 16, 2026 at 10:46 AM