‘Release The Bats’🦇

‘Speedway’, given his recent provocations seemed especially poignant
“All of the rumours
Keeping me grounded
I never said, I never said that they were
Completely unfounded”
But for now, my heart is full.
Thanks to fellow, loafing oaf, Margarita for the marvellous pics📸

And tonight, like any other night, he swoons and seduces and I am, as always, overcome. The voice is strong, the quiff less so but this love is real…/2

I was 10 and living in Leeds when Duncan signed, he seemed like he came from the future…🛸

Oh yes, a very righteous chairman of the bored, indeed!🤩

I thought this was some weird naturist convention and then I dared myself to look closer👀⚽️

I purchased the letter from some “rain-coated lover’ some time near the end of that last century, working in a record shop in Edinburgh - he was selling shoeboxes full of old tickets, badges and this…

Back between those dusty pages it flees!

Just turned 18, (Steve) Morrissey rallies the high-heeled hordes from his Stretford bedroom, you can hear those typewriter keys clacking still.

Any clues as to who the anonymous Peter is?…

And for those of us in Scotland…

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A lovely night with The Creepers - we got signed to InTape after this and quickly went about bankrupting them. Highlight was meeting up with The Creepers young roadie extraordinaire Wee Davis and giving him a lift up the road - friends for life @marcrileydj.bsky.social

…probably couldn’t get our visas through on time…🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Margarita kept a diary, she may have a wee scribbled note!📝

…The charabanc ride home brightened by a priceless copy of the Leither magazine pressed upon me by its Boswellian editor! Good times…
Band 📸 nicked from The Cords

Stumbling into the Easter holidays, I thought I’d had my fill of excitable teenagers but the always effervescent Cords were a sparky tonic bringing the Pilrig glitterati out on a chilly spring evening…