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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/ (new eps on Sundays)
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 · 3d
Whether you're enjoying #StrangerThings or #TOTP repeats, how about investing in a book that tells you in some detail, month by month, what the 1980s in pop music were like.

Into the Groove by me, Justin Lewis. OUT NOW.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/into...
Into the Groove: The 1980s: The Ultimate Decade in Music History
The 1980s: The Ultimate Decade in Music History
uk.bookshop.org

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Richard Lane @richplane.bsky.social · 2d
For the six or seven people from #York on here, I'm playing a lunchtime concert Friday Feb 6th as part of Esk, 12:30 at the Unitarian Chapel. It's a fundraisier for the York Energy Advice free service for vulnerable York residents. All the details at yorkcommunityenergy.org.uk/event/luncht...
Lunchtime Concert & Energy Cafe – York Community Energy
yorkcommunityenergy.org.uk

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2d
And to your friend as well.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
I delete a lot of things before pressing send and I regret not doing that just then. Sorry.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
I don’t know what to do with social media sometimes and some of it is my own fault.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
I do apologise. Sorry I subtweeted. I will delete as well.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
Yeah, I doubt they were living in a Labour seat.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
If anything, given what he was subjected to every Sunday, he kept a lid on it much more than most would have done.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
Can I also stress: I would not be remotely offended if this has happened or will happen to any of my books. You can’t keep everything, our homes aren’t big enough.
whenisbirths.bsky.social Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
Internally apologising to some perfectly great writers, I’m sure but look, you had my money at full price, I don’t begrudge it, someone else can now read it for the fraction of the rrp. #bookcull

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
There’s a lot of really shoulds and quite a lot of ‘want to reread that one day’. But when.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
It is a hard quiz, sorry about that. But I’m delighted you enjoyed it. Thank you Kayla!

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
The most difficult thing, oh here we go: not only books given as presents by people who are gone, but books *belonging* to people who are gone.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
Some things I am never going to get round to. There it is.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
My target is 100 books. If it’s more, so be it.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
Internally apologising to some perfectly great writers, I’m sure but look, you had my money at full price, I don’t begrudge it, someone else can now read it for the fraction of the rrp. #bookcull

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
There are exceptions but really not many.
andrewhickey.500songs.com Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 3d
If I could make documentary filmmakers understand one thing it is that no rock musician has anything interesting to say about any band they weren't in.

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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 3d
If I could make documentary filmmakers understand one thing it is that no rock musician has anything interesting to say about any band they weren't in.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
Do I send them to the charity shop or to that Economist columist for his bookless shelves?

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
It’s the first since, I think, 2020. It used to be every six months but it’s got to that point. Also I want to buy more books and I can’t.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
It was nearly Dempsey and Makepeace.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
Either I’m having a book cull or we’re having Starsky & Hutch round for elevenses.
Stack of cardboard boxes. And that’s it.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
That sounds like a fraction of the 2m sales. Gives me the absolute creeps.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
The concept of ‘smart glasses’ - do they have any special *benefits* or is it just ‘yay we found a way to film people without their knowledge’? #TheseFuckers

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
Ah, and also the Beatles contract with EMI expired in January '76, so at that point (though this would change of course later) the label were free to do whatever they liked with the back catalogue. Hence: Beatles Ballads compilations and god help us Movie Medley.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
EMI reissued all 22 singles at the same time, but - and I think this was the key thing - they all had picture sleeves.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
Ah it appears Pan's People must be dancing and reading at the same time.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
Yeah, I'm not sitting through the 1976 ones again. I've done it once. Screw that.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
Wet Wet Wet, rather like Spandau Ballet, started off in one place, and ended up somewhere a lot less interesting.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
I LOVE Give It Up.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
Curiously, don't remember this PE track nearly as well as a lot of them. #totp

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d
Sometimes his ears were right, and sometimes...