Andy Lewis
@andylewis.bsky.social
Music producer, bass player, DJ. Soho Radio presenter. Weller band alumnus. Helped invent Britpop.
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I first heard this on a demo cassette of songs from what would become The Great Escape. I thought it was the best thing I’d heard in ages, and suggested they released it as a standalone single instead of putting it on the album. That didn’t happen but it made a great single all the same
November 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I first heard this on a demo cassette of songs from what would become The Great Escape. I thought it was the best thing I’d heard in ages, and suggested they released it as a standalone single instead of putting it on the album. That didn’t happen but it made a great single all the same
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NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
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The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
emptycity.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
This is an interesting one. I was 12. The Jam were about to split up. One of my mates at school, a massive Jam fan, came in one morning absolutely raving about this record. He was dead right to be raving about it. I bet Weller was as well. It's a sound that The Style Council would be aiming for.
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
This is an interesting one. I was 12. The Jam were about to split up. One of my mates at school, a massive Jam fan, came in one morning absolutely raving about this record. He was dead right to be raving about it. I bet Weller was as well. It's a sound that The Style Council would be aiming for.
In the alternate 1982 where The Jam didn't split, this was the Christmas number one.
Mind you, in that alternate 1982 the Royal Navy lost HMS Hermes to an air attack by Skyhawks from ARA Veinticinco de Mayo, so you win some but you lose some.
Mind you, in that alternate 1982 the Royal Navy lost HMS Hermes to an air attack by Skyhawks from ARA Veinticinco de Mayo, so you win some but you lose some.
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
In the alternate 1982 where The Jam didn't split, this was the Christmas number one.
Mind you, in that alternate 1982 the Royal Navy lost HMS Hermes to an air attack by Skyhawks from ARA Veinticinco de Mayo, so you win some but you lose some.
Mind you, in that alternate 1982 the Royal Navy lost HMS Hermes to an air attack by Skyhawks from ARA Veinticinco de Mayo, so you win some but you lose some.
Privilege is a remarkable film with an incredible soundtrack and you have to see it. Steven Shorter's record producer ("a self-styled anarchist") is one of my personal inspirations, as anyone who's seen me rattling equipment racks in search of a unique percussion sound will testify.
More from the late, great Peter Watkins, 1967's Privilege is a startling mockumentry about a fictional pop singer called Steven Shorter, played by Paul Jones; the single I've Been A Bad Bad Boy reached the top 5. Insights into The Beatles, The Stones and Bowie 4/5
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November 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Privilege is a remarkable film with an incredible soundtrack and you have to see it. Steven Shorter's record producer ("a self-styled anarchist") is one of my personal inspirations, as anyone who's seen me rattling equipment racks in search of a unique percussion sound will testify.
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I persistently plug these because they take time to do, both for me and the guests, so do share and tell people about it if you like it. The aim is to make a quality long read each week. Thanks. #FirstLastAnything
NEW! #FirstLastAnything Ep 32: We are back each Sunday, till Christmas, and my guest today - versatile and fascinating music writer and musician Joanna Wyld (@joannawyld.bsky.social) - talks about bellringing, Queen, liner notes, Molly Drake and much more. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/09/f...
FLA 32: Joanna Wyld (09/11/2025)
Of all the guests I’ve had on First Last Anything so far, Kent-born Joanna Wyld might have worn the most musical hats. Writer, musician, composer, librettist, teacher and administrator, she’s playe…
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November 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I persistently plug these because they take time to do, both for me and the guests, so do share and tell people about it if you like it. The aim is to make a quality long read each week. Thanks. #FirstLastAnything
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My textcast - where you read it, but there's also an accompanying playlist - is BACK. Some remarkable choices from @joannawyld.bsky.social that were new to me. Please share with anyone you think might be interested. Thank you. #FirstLastAnything
NEW! #FirstLastAnything Ep 32: We are back each Sunday, till Christmas, and my guest today - versatile and fascinating music writer and musician Joanna Wyld (@joannawyld.bsky.social) - talks about bellringing, Queen, liner notes, Molly Drake and much more. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/09/f...
FLA 32: Joanna Wyld (09/11/2025)
Of all the guests I’ve had on First Last Anything so far, Kent-born Joanna Wyld might have worn the most musical hats. Writer, musician, composer, librettist, teacher and administrator, she’s playe…
firstlastanything.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
My textcast - where you read it, but there's also an accompanying playlist - is BACK. Some remarkable choices from @joannawyld.bsky.social that were new to me. Please share with anyone you think might be interested. Thank you. #FirstLastAnything
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It's a shame how low Nizlopi have fallen over the last 20 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Arrest as earthmover stolen and driven across Wolverhampton
West Midlands Police says a 41-year-old man remains in custody.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It's a shame how low Nizlopi have fallen over the last 20 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
In an ideal world, the next Director General of the BBC would scrap the BBC's dedicated News channel, replace all of BBC News's political correspondents, and commission a load of new scripted drama and comedy along with a set of brand new music-orientated shows.-
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
In an ideal world, the next Director General of the BBC would scrap the BBC's dedicated News channel, replace all of BBC News's political correspondents, and commission a load of new scripted drama and comedy along with a set of brand new music-orientated shows.-
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As every Remembrance Sunday, a thought for my grandfather, lieutenant Henri Auclair, a Verdun veteran who fought in the trenches throughout all of WWI, died in 1999, aged 103, and taught us about the insanity of war and the necessity to embrace the European ideal.
November 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
As every Remembrance Sunday, a thought for my grandfather, lieutenant Henri Auclair, a Verdun veteran who fought in the trenches throughout all of WWI, died in 1999, aged 103, and taught us about the insanity of war and the necessity to embrace the European ideal.
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‘She policed herself so unforgivingly in the voice of the adults from earliest childhood’ 💔
30 million dead, The Somme, painting created by Mary Bishop 1976 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where she was compelled to live.
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
November 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
‘She policed herself so unforgivingly in the voice of the adults from earliest childhood’ 💔
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"If every ex-soldier would tell his own children the truth, the whole truth, about war, the war-spirit would be stamped out for ever"
— Ernest Mander, general secretary NUX
@alwynturner.bsky.social on radicalism and remembrance after the Great War👇
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— Ernest Mander, general secretary NUX
@alwynturner.bsky.social on radicalism and remembrance after the Great War👇
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‘The most degrading and bestial business in the world’
Remembrance hasn’t always been a pageant of national unity. ALWYN TURNER reveals how the British state once feared its veterans.
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November 9, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"If every ex-soldier would tell his own children the truth, the whole truth, about war, the war-spirit would be stamped out for ever"
— Ernest Mander, general secretary NUX
@alwynturner.bsky.social on radicalism and remembrance after the Great War👇
thelionandunicorn.wordpress.com/2015/11/08/t...
— Ernest Mander, general secretary NUX
@alwynturner.bsky.social on radicalism and remembrance after the Great War👇
thelionandunicorn.wordpress.com/2015/11/08/t...
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"Clumps of crimson poppies, thrusting out from the lips of craters, straggling in drifts between the hummocks, undaunted by the desolation, heedless of human fury and stupidity..."
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‘A wreath of poppies’
ALWYN TURNER on the early days of the British Legion’s Poppy.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
"Clumps of crimson poppies, thrusting out from the lips of craters, straggling in drifts between the hummocks, undaunted by the desolation, heedless of human fury and stupidity..."
thelionandunicorn.com/2016/11/07/a...
thelionandunicorn.com/2016/11/07/a...
Couldn't help it. Sorry
November 9, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Couldn't help it. Sorry
70s Rockabilly DJs were early "turntablists", mixing old rock'n'roll records together often with extended rhythmic scratching. If you've ever wondered why there's the sound of a record being scratched at the end of the middle eight, this is why.
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
70s Rockabilly DJs were early "turntablists", mixing old rock'n'roll records together often with extended rhythmic scratching. If you've ever wondered why there's the sound of a record being scratched at the end of the middle eight, this is why.
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Up above the streets and houses
Sunlight on its wings
Stomach full of ammunition
Eaten out of bins
Seagull flying through a rainbow
🌈
Sunlight on its wings
Stomach full of ammunition
Eaten out of bins
Seagull flying through a rainbow
🌈
November 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Up above the streets and houses
Sunlight on its wings
Stomach full of ammunition
Eaten out of bins
Seagull flying through a rainbow
🌈
Sunlight on its wings
Stomach full of ammunition
Eaten out of bins
Seagull flying through a rainbow
🌈
Coot jacuzzi in a canal lock. Never underestimate the capacity of all creatures great and small to muck about pointlessly.
November 8, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Coot jacuzzi in a canal lock. Never underestimate the capacity of all creatures great and small to muck about pointlessly.
A lesser know part of The Village’s infrastructure, the Pink Rover is deployed to confront minor acts of un-mutuality, as in this case- parking in the wrong zone
November 8, 2025 at 9:33 AM
A lesser know part of The Village’s infrastructure, the Pink Rover is deployed to confront minor acts of un-mutuality, as in this case- parking in the wrong zone
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We’re a bit excited about this … a limited edition collaboration vinyl 45 with Suit Yourself Music bring you a great new track by Scott Addison of Corduroy and Boys Wonder fame!
Follow the link to have a listen and grab a copy.
linktr.ee/hipshaker
Follow the link to have a listen and grab a copy.
linktr.ee/hipshaker
November 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
We’re a bit excited about this … a limited edition collaboration vinyl 45 with Suit Yourself Music bring you a great new track by Scott Addison of Corduroy and Boys Wonder fame!
Follow the link to have a listen and grab a copy.
linktr.ee/hipshaker
Follow the link to have a listen and grab a copy.
linktr.ee/hipshaker
Bored of the same old stuff in your life? Own a copy of this? Do yourself a favour, spin the flip side. It's an early glimpse into a darker, less swinging 60s. Fantastic arrangement too.
November 8, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Bored of the same old stuff in your life? Own a copy of this? Do yourself a favour, spin the flip side. It's an early glimpse into a darker, less swinging 60s. Fantastic arrangement too.
*joke*
A foreign power approached me and offered a load of money for some background information on Grant Shapps’s schooldays, but when it became clear I didn’t remember anything about him at all in spite of he and I being in the same sixth form tutor group, they soon lost interest
A foreign power approached me and offered a load of money for some background information on Grant Shapps’s schooldays, but when it became clear I didn’t remember anything about him at all in spite of he and I being in the same sixth form tutor group, they soon lost interest
British man Howard Phillips jailed after trying to spy for Russia
British man Howard Phillips jailed after trying to spy for Russia
Howard Phillips's ex-wife said he dreamt of being like James Bond and was infatuated with MI6.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
*joke*
A foreign power approached me and offered a load of money for some background information on Grant Shapps’s schooldays, but when it became clear I didn’t remember anything about him at all in spite of he and I being in the same sixth form tutor group, they soon lost interest
A foreign power approached me and offered a load of money for some background information on Grant Shapps’s schooldays, but when it became clear I didn’t remember anything about him at all in spite of he and I being in the same sixth form tutor group, they soon lost interest
You try finding a copy of this on 7", in particular the original 1969 UK issue on United Artists. It's got to be the rarest UA 7". I have never seen one for sale. Ever. Forget Jack Hammer's What Greater Love. Forget Spice doing What About The Music. I've got both of those. This one? No chance.
November 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
You try finding a copy of this on 7", in particular the original 1969 UK issue on United Artists. It's got to be the rarest UA 7". I have never seen one for sale. Ever. Forget Jack Hammer's What Greater Love. Forget Spice doing What About The Music. I've got both of those. This one? No chance.
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Farewell to the great Gilson Lavis, drummer for Squeeze (and so much more). Here's a fine example of exactly what he did:
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Squeeze - Another Nail In My Heart (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by SqueezeVEVO
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November 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Farewell to the great Gilson Lavis, drummer for Squeeze (and so much more). Here's a fine example of exactly what he did:
youtu.be/9bTWF7eirJw?...
youtu.be/9bTWF7eirJw?...