Andy Close
@andyc279.bsky.social
NHS admin dude. Former rock journo and serial failed rock star. Husband. Cat dad. Northerner. Socialist. Long suffering Hartlepool United fan. ‘Ow do.
Well, the deed is officially done. I swore after 2019-20 that I wouldn’t join a political party again but for the first time in way too long I actually feel a sense of hope again. (1/3)
November 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Well, the deed is officially done. I swore after 2019-20 that I wouldn’t join a political party again but for the first time in way too long I actually feel a sense of hope again. (1/3)
Note to any friends with journalistic ambitions over in Ulster - I think Belfast Live might be looking for a new online content creator as of this afternoon… 🤣
A bit of advice for journalists: At least *read* the quotes you’re cut and pasting into a story.
October 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Note to any friends with journalistic ambitions over in Ulster - I think Belfast Live might be looking for a new online content creator as of this afternoon… 🤣
Pretty sure most of those I’m in contact with on here know about this already but this new newsletter comes highly recommended.
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The Nerve
Fearless, independent journalism covering culture, politics and tech
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October 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Pretty sure most of those I’m in contact with on here know about this already but this new newsletter comes highly recommended.
www.thenerve.news?utm_source=s...
www.thenerve.news?utm_source=s...
I do feel slightly sad about this as Camden Brewdog was my regular drinking haunt back in the early London days (before the brand name became tainted) and I feel desperately sorry for the staff who’ve been well and truly shafted here. However… (1/2)
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www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/business/con...
Beloved UK bar chain to close 10 locations - with staff given just three days' notice
Fans and staff are reeling as the firm shutters key venues with minimal warning 🍺
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July 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I do feel slightly sad about this as Camden Brewdog was my regular drinking haunt back in the early London days (before the brand name became tainted) and I feel desperately sorry for the staff who’ve been well and truly shafted here. However… (1/2)
www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/business/con...
www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/business/con...
Johnny Vegas for Pope.
April 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Johnny Vegas for Pope.
So this week both one of my favourite bands (the Stranglers) and one of my favourite TV shows (The Last Leg) have left Dr Strangelove’s Amazing Den of Social Media Hate. Hopefully both of them’ll be over here soon.🤞
February 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
So this week both one of my favourite bands (the Stranglers) and one of my favourite TV shows (The Last Leg) have left Dr Strangelove’s Amazing Den of Social Media Hate. Hopefully both of them’ll be over here soon.🤞
For anyone who needs something to cheer them up today, may I present this frankly amazing quote from @robinince.bsky.social’s rather excellent “Bad Book Club”.
February 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
For anyone who needs something to cheer them up today, may I present this frankly amazing quote from @robinince.bsky.social’s rather excellent “Bad Book Club”.
Reposted by Andy Close
Starmer's own team are briefing that their man is a useless waste of space.
The truth is Starmer did literally everything the Labour Right wanted him to do.
That's why his government is a disaster.
New post 👇
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The truth is Starmer did literally everything the Labour Right wanted him to do.
That's why his government is a disaster.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/keir-starm...
February 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Starmer's own team are briefing that their man is a useless waste of space.
The truth is Starmer did literally everything the Labour Right wanted him to do.
That's why his government is a disaster.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/keir-starm...
The truth is Starmer did literally everything the Labour Right wanted him to do.
That's why his government is a disaster.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/keir-starm...
So until now I’ve been trying my best separate the art from artist with a now former favourite sci-fi author of mine but after reading an article with the full details of what an absolutely horrific piece of sh*t he is, I genuinely felt sick. Books deleted from Kindle. Genuinely heartbroken. 😢
January 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
So until now I’ve been trying my best separate the art from artist with a now former favourite sci-fi author of mine but after reading an article with the full details of what an absolutely horrific piece of sh*t he is, I genuinely felt sick. Books deleted from Kindle. Genuinely heartbroken. 😢
It’s here! Click below for the Nite Songs Top 10 albums of the year!
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Nite Songs Top 70 Albums of 2024 - Part 7 (The Top Ten!)
And so we come to the bit everybody's been waiting for - it's our Top 10 albums of the year. Did your favourite make it? Read on to find o...
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December 31, 2024 at 10:15 AM
It’s here! Click below for the Nite Songs Top 10 albums of the year!
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The Nite Songs album of the year countdown continues as we enter the Top 20…
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Nite Songs Top 70 Albums of 2024 - Part 6 (20-11)
We're very much in the upper echelons of the list now - the Top 10's coming tomorrow but let's go through those who just missed out on the...
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December 30, 2024 at 10:46 AM
The Nite Songs album of the year countdown continues as we enter the Top 20…
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Somehow we’re already at part 5 of the albums of the year countdown - this is going quick! Top 30 via the link below…
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Nite Songs Top 70 Albums of 2024 - Part 5 (30-21)
We're into the top half of this list now so let's get going and breach upon the Top 30... *** 30. CAROL HODGE - "EffortLess InSecurity...
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December 29, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Somehow we’re already at part 5 of the albums of the year countdown - this is going quick! Top 30 via the link below…
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The Nite Songs Album of the Year countdown has finally reached the Top 50…
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Nite Songs Top 70 Albums of 2024 - Part 3 (50-41)
So then, we've finally got to the place where this list SHOULD have started if I hadn't gone down about thirty different musical rabbit ho...
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December 27, 2024 at 12:26 PM
The Nite Songs Album of the Year countdown has finally reached the Top 50…
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Part 1 of the Nite Songs end of year best albums list is now live. Part 2 to follow later today…
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Nite Songs Top 70 Albums of 2024 - Part 1 (70-61)
Okay, let's get this show on the road then. First twenty coming today then ten a day from now until New Year. As with previous years, I've...
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December 26, 2024 at 9:11 AM
Part 1 of the Nite Songs end of year best albums list is now live. Part 2 to follow later today…
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Reposted by Andy Close
The Tories destroyed everything we had. Although some of this is more relevant in England & Wales.
November 28, 2024 at 9:08 AM
The Tories destroyed everything we had. Although some of this is more relevant in England & Wales.
Become ungovernable… 😸
November 27, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Become ungovernable… 😸
Jareth the Goblin King had pretty much given up in his later years…
November 27, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Jareth the Goblin King had pretty much given up in his later years…
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Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀
November 23, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀
It surely can’t be just a coincidence that ever since Oasis announced they were reforming, Man City have started playing like it’s the late ‘90s again… 🤔😂
November 23, 2024 at 8:30 PM
It surely can’t be just a coincidence that ever since Oasis announced they were reforming, Man City have started playing like it’s the late ‘90s again… 🤔😂
Oh why not? Ten bands to get to know me (in no particular order)
1. Terrorvision
2. Carter USM
3. The Wonder Stuff
4. The Wildhearts
5. The Senseless Things
6. Eureka Machines
7. Dogs D’Amour
8. Zombina & the Skeletones
9. The Damned
10. Therapy?
1. Terrorvision
2. Carter USM
3. The Wonder Stuff
4. The Wildhearts
5. The Senseless Things
6. Eureka Machines
7. Dogs D’Amour
8. Zombina & the Skeletones
9. The Damned
10. Therapy?
Love these lists, so, 10 bands to get to know me (in no particular order)...
1. The Mission
2. New Model Army
3. The Quireboys
4. Thin Lizzy
5. The Wildhearts
6. The Mysterines
7. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
8. All About Eve
9. Garbage
10. Cinderella
1. The Mission
2. New Model Army
3. The Quireboys
4. Thin Lizzy
5. The Wildhearts
6. The Mysterines
7. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
8. All About Eve
9. Garbage
10. Cinderella
10 bands to get to know me. No particular order
1. Bad Omens
2. All time low
3. My chemical romance
4. Beartooth
5. Neck Deep
6. The Warning
7. State Champs
8. Architects
9. Ice Nine Kills
10. Bring me the horizon
This was hard, I have so many faves!
1. Bad Omens
2. All time low
3. My chemical romance
4. Beartooth
5. Neck Deep
6. The Warning
7. State Champs
8. Architects
9. Ice Nine Kills
10. Bring me the horizon
This was hard, I have so many faves!
November 17, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Oh why not? Ten bands to get to know me (in no particular order)
1. Terrorvision
2. Carter USM
3. The Wonder Stuff
4. The Wildhearts
5. The Senseless Things
6. Eureka Machines
7. Dogs D’Amour
8. Zombina & the Skeletones
9. The Damned
10. Therapy?
1. Terrorvision
2. Carter USM
3. The Wonder Stuff
4. The Wildhearts
5. The Senseless Things
6. Eureka Machines
7. Dogs D’Amour
8. Zombina & the Skeletones
9. The Damned
10. Therapy?
Reposted by Andy Close
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
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November 17, 2024 at 10:18 AM
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
1/
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Currently deciding whether or not I’m gonna dig Nite Songs up from its resting place in the webzine graveyard for a few days over Christmas/New Year to do an albums of the year thingy. But if I do, these will probably feature in it…
November 17, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Currently deciding whether or not I’m gonna dig Nite Songs up from its resting place in the webzine graveyard for a few days over Christmas/New Year to do an albums of the year thingy. But if I do, these will probably feature in it…