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)
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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 · 4d

Merry Christmas, Blueskyers xx

December 1967 events:
Judd Apatow / Axis: Bold as Love / 'The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde' /
BBC2 in full colour / Joshua Bell / Billion Dollar Brain / 'black hole' / Carla Bruni / 'Comme d'Habitude' / Diabolically Yours / Do Not Adjust Your Set / Doctor Dolittle / Carry On Follow That Camel / Jamie Foxx / The Graduate / Guess Who's Coming to Dinner / Hyundai / Half a Sixpence (film) / John Wesley Harding / Harold Holt disappears / First heart transplant operation / 'I Wish It Would Rain' / In Cold Blood (film) / I'll Never Forget What'sisname / Just a Minute / 'La-La Means I Love You' / Bert Lahr RIP / Magical Mystery Tour (TV) / Katherine McCormick RIP / Mr Fantasy / Miranda Otto / Rodger Penzabene RIP / Playtime / Otis Redding RIP / 'Simon Says' / Smashing Time / 'Some Velvet Morning' / Son of Godzilla / Songs of Leonard Cohen / 'Tighten Up' / 'Tin Soldier' / Their Satanic Majesties Request / Scott Walker's 'Jackie' / Weekend (film) / Paul Whiteman RIP / The Who Sell Out / Wild Honey / The Youth International Party
MERRY CHRISTMAS
(C) WWT JSL MMXXI

December 1971 events:
$ / The Boyfriend / A Clockwork Orange (film) / Marie Collier RIP / The Concert for Bangladesh / The Devil Has Seven Faces / Diamonds are Forever / Dido / Dirty Harry / Pete Duel RIP / ELO Debut LP / Family Life (film) / 'Floy Joy' / Gumshoe / Corey Haim / 'Happy Xmas (War is Over)' / Harold and Maude / The Hospital / Hot Rocks 1964-1971 / Hunky Dory / Islands / 'Jungle Fever' / Jared Leto / Mars 3 lands on Mars / Ricky Martin / Minnie and Moskowitz / Emily Mortimer / 'Mother of Mine' / Ms magazine / Nicholas and Alexandra / 'Oklahoma Sunday Morning' / Deobia Oparei / Andrew Preview / Reflections in a Mud Puddle / Sometimes a Great Notion / 'Stay With Me' / Max Steiner RIP / UAR independence / Ten Man Mop, or Mr Reservoir Butler Rides Again / Straight Up / Wild Life / 'You Want It, You Got It'
(C) WWT JSL MMXXI

December 1973 events:
1990 / Band on the Run / 'Boogie Down' / CBGB / Bobby Darin RIP / The Exorcist / The Goodies and the Beanstalk / The Gulag Archipelago / Hell Up in Harlem / Holiday on the Buses / I Got a Name / 'Jessica' / 'Joy (Part 1)' / The Last Detail / Livin' for You / Magnum Force / Matching Tie & Handkerchief / 'Merry Xmas Everybody' / My Name is Nobody / Papillon / The Payback / La Planete Sauvage / Radio Clyde / 'Seasons in the Sun' / Sabbath Bloody Sabbath / Serpico / Short Stories / Sleeper / 'Step into Christmas' / The Sting / Superstars / Tales from Topographic Oceans / 'Teenage Lament '74' / ' Tiger Feet' / The Wicker Man / 'W.O.L.D.'
(c) WWT JSL MMXIX

December 1989 events:
'20 Seconds to Comply ' / Always / Samuel Beckett RIP / Lennox Berkeley RIP / 'Black Velvet' / 'Blew' / Born on the Fourth of July / Carrott's Commercial Breakdown / City of Angels / 'Dear Jessie' / Dekalog / The Delinquents / 'Dextrous' / Driving Miss Daisy / 'Getting Away With It' / Stella Gibbons RIP / Girls Will Be Girls / Glory / 'Got to Have Your Love' / The Great & Secret Show / 'Hot Lemonade' / 'The Magic Number/Buddy' / Meet the Feebles / National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation / Ninety / 'Roam' / Roger and Me / She Devil / The Simpsons / Taylor Swift / Tango & Cash / Lee Van Cleef RIP / The Wars of the Roses
(C) WWT JSL MMXIX

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you Lisa, I hope he loves it!

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 1h

The first hearing, it’s astonishing, because you wonder if it will ever end. It helped that it was in a particularly strong episode too. Her songs are so much more than that one.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2h

IOYN already running away with this which may be why it got to #1.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2h

A few yeses already!

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2h

I like Too Much but it had a dreadful guitar solo in it. I agree Try was surprisingly strongish but most of the fans had gone by then.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2h

NKOTB was going to be my next question, funnily enough. What intrigues me is that all the singles charted high, though only one #1 (two with NK) but they’re almost all forgotten.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2h

I’m wondering if they were the ultimate fans-only band and I would be happy to be proved wrong.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2h

For several months it was an impossibility and then it just felt overwhelm. I just want to be vaguely engaged with the world again! Thanks.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2h

I’ve never thought of asking this before but: did anyone on my TL who did not consider themselves a Bros fan buy any Bros records, and if so, which one(s)?

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Matthew Rudd @matthewjrudd.bsky.social · 2h

Final #forgotten80s of 2025 from 9 tonight on Absolute 80s. It's a best of our feature The Edge Of Heaven, so loads of singles that peaked in the 80s from 41 down. And it's extended - we're on until midnight!

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2h

Surprising really that nobody’s done a medley called ‘Reasons to Hello Vogue the Fire’ and it’s a 20-minute list.

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Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social · 2h

With Bardot's passing, the only named individuals in Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire that are still alive are Matthew Corbett, Toyah and Nigel Pivaro.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3h

‘Thank you for your attention towards my anti-matter.’

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🎄 Merry MealyGarage @mealygarage.bsky.social · 3h

A hearty cheers to you if you listened to today's show. If you missed it or have a strange hankering to hear it again, it'll be available on Mixcloud imminently! www.mixcloud.com/NoiseboxRadio/

a cat is sitting on a person 's lap with its eyes closed and a thank you message .

Alt: a cat is sitting on a person 's lap with its eyes closed and a thank you message .

media.tenor.com

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Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 3h

On Cambridge Radio starting in a minute, my favourite music of 2025. You can listen on FM or DAB around Cambridge, or you can use this link anywhere in the world - consoles.radioplayer.cloud/8261297/inde...
(If you're seeing this a bit later, I will post a mixcloud version as the first comment)

Cambridge Radio - Radioplayer

Radioplayer web player

consoles.radioplayer.cloud

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3h

It has been very hard to concentrate at times in 2025.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3h

I really only have one resolution for next year and it’s just this: find time and room to read, see and listen to new stuff without getting too obsessive. Because this year… well, I basically missed it.

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Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com · 3h

Seven years since I watched one of the most important documentaries ever made. A masterpiece

Two screenshots from the Bros documentary 'After the Screaming Stops'. Matt and Luke Goss. Matt is speaking. The subtitle in the top screenshot reads 'He was a rectangle and I was a rectangle' and the subtitle in the bottom screenshot reads 'and we made a square, which therefore is a fortress.'

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3h

Spikey and Fitzmaurice may be the secret weapons in the early stuff, I feel.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3h

Just *thinking* of it now has set me off.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3h

Very much sold at the time as 'This is the greatest situation comedy in the world' and this was during Dick Van Dyke times which as we've established was the best in America, but a very different beast.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3h

I almost can't believe it.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3h

My DVDs aren't to hand. I don't think he ever bettered TPKT, it's been ages since I saw those, mind.

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Laura Cannell @lauracannellmusic.bsky.social · 4h

Happy Christmas Sunday!
Welcome to BRAWL RECORDS END OF YEAR SALE 25% OFF Everything
code: 'decembermagic25'
use it for anything in our shop brawlrecords.bandcamp.com
Valid until 31.12.25
Laura, Liz & Team Brawl
www.brawlrecords.co.uk

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 4h

Went down a Steptoe rabbit hole last night, and discovered that an excerpt was shown in America on Jack Paar's variety show on 24 April 1964. Paar was quite the Anglophile - I believe his was the first national TV show to feature The Beatles (3 Jan 1964).

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Dan Rebellato @danrebellato.bsky.social · 4h

My review of the theatre year 2025.

Theatre 2025 — Dan Rebellato

My thoughts on a year of theatregoing.

www.danrebellato.co.uk

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 4h

Though I now can't quite remember if it was from Phoenix Nights or the series of one-offs before that. I remember the C4 onscreen apology was priceless.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 4h

I will never understand why people would buy that kind of greetings card for someone they actually like.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 4h

Because it makes me laugh in a way that very few things do, and I would need cheering up in such circumstances.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 4h

FINALLY it is here. My eighth Desert Island Disc. I haven't decided on the other seven.

Robin Rimbaud - Scanner @scannerdot.com · 4h

An album that is guaranteed to clear the room and make you smile, finally out on CD 😀

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