Barry Phillips
@barryhphillips.bsky.social
Author of 'In Search of Tito's Punks' (published by Intellect in the UK, Chicago University Press in the USA, and Rockmark in Croatia - Croatian translation), old punk and ex-muso, hermit and cyclist, now based in glorious Speyside, north east Scotland.
Pinned
Just one of the many great reviews for 'In Search of Tito's Punks' - the legendary Simon Harvey.
#booksky
#booksky
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You know you've arrived when you are a crossword clue. And not *any* crossword clue but a *picture* clue. 👌
As stumbled on by the mother of a good friend in Zagreb. Imagine being faced with this at your coffee break. ☕ 😱
Trnsltn: 'The faces under baseball caps '.
Clue: 'Musician and producer'.
As stumbled on by the mother of a good friend in Zagreb. Imagine being faced with this at your coffee break. ☕ 😱
Trnsltn: 'The faces under baseball caps '.
Clue: 'Musician and producer'.
June 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
You know you've arrived when you are a crossword clue. And not *any* crossword clue but a *picture* clue. 👌
As stumbled on by the mother of a good friend in Zagreb. Imagine being faced with this at your coffee break. ☕ 😱
Trnsltn: 'The faces under baseball caps '.
Clue: 'Musician and producer'.
As stumbled on by the mother of a good friend in Zagreb. Imagine being faced with this at your coffee break. ☕ 😱
Trnsltn: 'The faces under baseball caps '.
Clue: 'Musician and producer'.
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Jeffrey Lewis: The Even More Freewheelin’ - album review louderthanwar.com/jeffrey-lewi... The Definitive, ‘Career-Best’ Jeffrey Lewis album – a work of jaw-dropping beauty and utter lyrical genius. America’s Greatest Living Songwriter at his best.
Jeffrey Lewis: The Even More Freewheelin’ - album review
With this album, Jeffery Lewis has reached the point where he has assumed the mantle of The Second Poet Laureate of New York City
louderthanwar.com
May 7, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Jeffrey Lewis: The Even More Freewheelin’ - album review louderthanwar.com/jeffrey-lewi... The Definitive, ‘Career-Best’ Jeffrey Lewis album – a work of jaw-dropping beauty and utter lyrical genius. America’s Greatest Living Songwriter at his best.
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FUN FACT: Since 2019, Nigel Farage's Reform has taken more than £2.3 MILLION from oil and gas interests - making up an astonishing 92% of the party's donations.
Reform are NOT for ordinary people.
They're in the pockets of the big oil lobby.
Reform are NOT for ordinary people.
They're in the pockets of the big oil lobby.
May 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
FUN FACT: Since 2019, Nigel Farage's Reform has taken more than £2.3 MILLION from oil and gas interests - making up an astonishing 92% of the party's donations.
Reform are NOT for ordinary people.
They're in the pockets of the big oil lobby.
Reform are NOT for ordinary people.
They're in the pockets of the big oil lobby.
Craigmin Bridge, Burn of Letterfourie built c1773.
May 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Craigmin Bridge, Burn of Letterfourie built c1773.
Beautiful cloud over Morven on The Highlands this morning.
Whilst all around on the southern coast of the Moray Firth was showery. Lovely.
Whilst all around on the southern coast of the Moray Firth was showery. Lovely.
April 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Beautiful cloud over Morven on The Highlands this morning.
Whilst all around on the southern coast of the Moray Firth was showery. Lovely.
Whilst all around on the southern coast of the Moray Firth was showery. Lovely.
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April 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Biggest insider trading market manipulation scheme in history.
They aren't even bothering to hide it.
They aren't even bothering to hide it.
April 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Biggest insider trading market manipulation scheme in history.
They aren't even bothering to hide it.
They aren't even bothering to hide it.
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Happy birthday to Fred Smith, original bassist for Blondie, and far more famously, bassist for Television when Richard Hell left the band, born on this day in 1948 in New York City.
📸Lynn Goldsmith
#punks #punk #punkrock #fredsmith #television #history #punkrockhistory #otd
📸Lynn Goldsmith
#punks #punk #punkrock #fredsmith #television #history #punkrockhistory #otd
April 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Happy birthday to Fred Smith, original bassist for Blondie, and far more famously, bassist for Television when Richard Hell left the band, born on this day in 1948 in New York City.
📸Lynn Goldsmith
#punks #punk #punkrock #fredsmith #television #history #punkrockhistory #otd
📸Lynn Goldsmith
#punks #punk #punkrock #fredsmith #television #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Starmer "likes and respects" Trump.
March 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Starmer "likes and respects" Trump.
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Bob Mortimer could recite the phone book and make it funny. He loves the band Orange Juice after watching them at university in a sparsely-attended gig. That was 45 years ago, but he has been an aficionado of Edwyn Collins ever since! www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-time...
Up, up And Away... New book just latest chapter in storied career of Orange Juice fan Bob Mortimer
He is one of Britain's most instantly-recognisable comedians; a man who combines an anarchic sense of daftness with the ability to concoct the most
www.pressandjournal.co.uk
March 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Bob Mortimer could recite the phone book and make it funny. He loves the band Orange Juice after watching them at university in a sparsely-attended gig. That was 45 years ago, but he has been an aficionado of Edwyn Collins ever since! www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-time...
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In memory David Paul Greenfield, English keyboardist, singer and songwriter for the punk rock band The Stranglers
29 March 1949 – 3 May 2020
The Stranglers - No More Heroes • TopPop
#punk #punks #punkrock #stranglers #history #punkrockhistory #otd
29 March 1949 – 3 May 2020
The Stranglers - No More Heroes • TopPop
#punk #punks #punkrock #stranglers #history #punkrockhistory #otd
March 29, 2025 at 5:25 AM
In memory David Paul Greenfield, English keyboardist, singer and songwriter for the punk rock band The Stranglers
29 March 1949 – 3 May 2020
The Stranglers - No More Heroes • TopPop
#punk #punks #punkrock #stranglers #history #punkrockhistory #otd
29 March 1949 – 3 May 2020
The Stranglers - No More Heroes • TopPop
#punk #punks #punkrock #stranglers #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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47 years ago today
Another Music in a Different Kitchen is the first studio album by the English punk rock band Buzzcocks, released on this day in 1978 includes the single "I Don't Mind".
#punk #punks #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #buzzcocks #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Another Music in a Different Kitchen is the first studio album by the English punk rock band Buzzcocks, released on this day in 1978 includes the single "I Don't Mind".
#punk #punks #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #buzzcocks #history #punkrockhistory #otd
March 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM
47 years ago today
Another Music in a Different Kitchen is the first studio album by the English punk rock band Buzzcocks, released on this day in 1978 includes the single "I Don't Mind".
#punk #punks #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #buzzcocks #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Another Music in a Different Kitchen is the first studio album by the English punk rock band Buzzcocks, released on this day in 1978 includes the single "I Don't Mind".
#punk #punks #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #buzzcocks #history #punkrockhistory #otd
The Croatian translation appears to have been nominated for a Book of the Year award.
I look forward to spending several hours attempting to translate this wonderful looking article.
[If only I'd listened when they said "Don't be a typical Brit, learn languages." 😏]
I look forward to spending several hours attempting to translate this wonderful looking article.
[If only I'd listened when they said "Don't be a typical Brit, learn languages." 😏]
March 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The Croatian translation appears to have been nominated for a Book of the Year award.
I look forward to spending several hours attempting to translate this wonderful looking article.
[If only I'd listened when they said "Don't be a typical Brit, learn languages." 😏]
I look forward to spending several hours attempting to translate this wonderful looking article.
[If only I'd listened when they said "Don't be a typical Brit, learn languages." 😏]
Europe makes good on promise for massive increase in defence capability.
Read it and weep Putin.
[I loved living in NL, it's obvious why]
www.facebook.com/reel/5004321...
Read it and weep Putin.
[I loved living in NL, it's obvious why]
www.facebook.com/reel/5004321...
604K views · 20K reactions | The Dutch Bicycle Orchestra | By Global Arts and Culture Community | Facebook
The Dutch Bicycle Orchestra
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March 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Europe makes good on promise for massive increase in defence capability.
Read it and weep Putin.
[I loved living in NL, it's obvious why]
www.facebook.com/reel/5004321...
Read it and weep Putin.
[I loved living in NL, it's obvious why]
www.facebook.com/reel/5004321...
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Brian James RIP
Sorry to hear of the passing of the genius guitar player who formed The Damned and created punk rock. louderthanwar.com/brian-james-... via @louderthanwar
Sorry to hear of the passing of the genius guitar player who formed The Damned and created punk rock. louderthanwar.com/brian-james-... via @louderthanwar
Brian James RIP
Brian James RIP
louderthanwar.com
March 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Brian James RIP
Sorry to hear of the passing of the genius guitar player who formed The Damned and created punk rock. louderthanwar.com/brian-james-... via @louderthanwar
Sorry to hear of the passing of the genius guitar player who formed The Damned and created punk rock. louderthanwar.com/brian-james-... via @louderthanwar
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45 years ago today
'Nobody's Heroes', the second album by the band Stiff Little Fingers, released on this day in 1980.
Notes: The cover images show the US version
#punk #punks #punkrock #stifflittlefingers #history #punkrockhistory #otd
'Nobody's Heroes', the second album by the band Stiff Little Fingers, released on this day in 1980.
Notes: The cover images show the US version
#punk #punks #punkrock #stifflittlefingers #history #punkrockhistory #otd
March 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
45 years ago today
'Nobody's Heroes', the second album by the band Stiff Little Fingers, released on this day in 1980.
Notes: The cover images show the US version
#punk #punks #punkrock #stifflittlefingers #history #punkrockhistory #otd
'Nobody's Heroes', the second album by the band Stiff Little Fingers, released on this day in 1980.
Notes: The cover images show the US version
#punk #punks #punkrock #stifflittlefingers #history #punkrockhistory #otd
"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind . . . "
Than again, I can be as petty and vengeful as the worst of you.
Than again, I can be as petty and vengeful as the worst of you.
Things are a shitshow right now, so please take a moment to enjoy this recent photo of the destitute outcast Rudy Guiliani on a scooter in Walmart shopping for hair dye.
You’re welcome. 🙃
Photo ~ TMZ
You’re welcome. 🙃
Photo ~ TMZ
March 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind . . . "
Than again, I can be as petty and vengeful as the worst of you.
Than again, I can be as petty and vengeful as the worst of you.
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In vast areas of the US, the sentiments expressed in this wonderful letter from a British man about why it's a privilege to pay tax to enable the National Health Service to run would see him probably certified as insane and labelled a "socialist".
March 6, 2025 at 6:39 AM
In vast areas of the US, the sentiments expressed in this wonderful letter from a British man about why it's a privilege to pay tax to enable the National Health Service to run would see him probably certified as insane and labelled a "socialist".
Private equity firms are diverting billions from a Great Depression-era mortgage program — and making huge profits.
www.levernews.com/the-looting-...
www.levernews.com/the-looting-...
The Looting Of America’s Affordable Housing Fund
Private equity firms are diverting billions from a Great Depression-era mortgage program — and making huge profits.
www.levernews.com
March 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Private equity firms are diverting billions from a Great Depression-era mortgage program — and making huge profits.
www.levernews.com/the-looting-...
www.levernews.com/the-looting-...
It might just be a coincidence but when I shared this again recently on Facebook, nobody seems to have seen it 🤔
Still makes me laugh though.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zCD...
Still makes me laugh though.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zCD...
"INTERROGATING ZUCKERBERG" — A Bad Lip Reading
YouTube video by Bad Lip Reading
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February 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It might just be a coincidence but when I shared this again recently on Facebook, nobody seems to have seen it 🤔
Still makes me laugh though.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zCD...
Still makes me laugh though.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zCD...
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Remembering the time when we first discovered we could listen to records using a plastic £5 note
February 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Remembering the time when we first discovered we could listen to records using a plastic £5 note