Andy Aldridge
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Andy Aldridge
@grange85.co.uk
I listen to music, I walk, I ride my pushbike, I watch films and telly. A Londoner in the North East. I also have a head full of wishes...
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If you could all keep still while I … oh …

#addBirder #pigeonsky #birds #NEBirder #LeazesPark
February 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I was helping out on a tour of the wonderful Tyne Theatre and Opera House this morning ~ this is my favourite view. I'm not the sort of person who's ever likely to be on a stage, so I can pretend (although … I'm at the back, in the chorus line!)

www.tynetheatreandoperahouse.uk/theatre-tours/
February 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
… and here's a picture of my granny liking being beside the seaside in the 1930s
January 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The Marx Brothers first film arrives in Newcastle in February 1930
"Their comedy is of such an eccentric 'quick-fire' type that when they appeared before English audiences their new note of burlesque humour was almost irresistible"
January 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
We've had so much food in the house, we've only just got around to eating the Christmas pud! Here with some homemade custard

#Christmas #ChristmasPudding
January 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
#LetsDoIt25 unranked

Day 1 / song 1
Deanna Durbin - It’s Raining Sunbeams (from the 1937 film One Hundred Men and a Girl)

Day 1 / song 2
Allan Jones - The Donkey Serenade (from the 1937 film The Firefly)

An explanation, and links to the songs can be found here:

www.grange85.co.uk/swirling/202...
January 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
If you see this, post a concert picture you took this year

Raven @ Trillians, Newcastle
15th February

… rather than all the usual indie nonsense I go and see ~ bring in the North East has had me being sixteen again!

#raven #heavymetal #nwobhm
December 31, 2024 at 8:39 PM
A bit of goalmouth action at the scrappy Whitley Bay vs West Allotment Celtic boxing day match. It ended with a 96th minute equaliser for West Allotment and earned them a deserved point

#nonleaguefootball #whitleybayfc #westallotmentceltic #northernleague
December 27, 2024 at 12:21 PM
Dancing merrily in the new old fashioned way

#melandkim #kimwilde #melsmith #nowplaying #happychristmas
December 25, 2024 at 10:43 AM
Just dug out my CD of 69 Love Songs ~ and listening to it (as I'm inclined to do) with David's wonderful "69 Love Songs Information" wiki which had gone AWOL but luckily still exists in the Wayback Machine

#NowPlaying #TheMagneticFields #69LoveSongs

web.archive.org/web/20160531...
December 13, 2024 at 4:54 PM
December 11, 2024 at 6:04 PM
My #AdventCalendar sketch for our art group day 11 is a copy of #RonaldSearle from the titles of the fab 1970 Scrooge film musical

#sketch #scrooge #ILikeLife
December 11, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Not many years have gone by in the last 35 that I haven't seen Galaxie 500, or an ex-member of Galaxie 500, on a stage, but 2024 has been one of those years ... although I did have an ex-member of Galaxie 500 come and visit me at work this year :)

#deanwareham #brittaphillips #thenationalarchives
December 11, 2024 at 12:30 PM
I always wondered how much Kurt Ralske liked her... she never held back with this slap in the (Snub) Special One video - and he does look bemused/pissed off a bit afterwards!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn6a...
December 9, 2024 at 3:31 PM
I know, I know, but ffs stop making things less useful than they already are - Instagram was always crap for finding things but from 13th December it'll be worse ...
November 16, 2024 at 12:06 AM
I was lucky enough to go up the tower of the Newcastle Civic Centre and see the view and watch the carillon being played.
November 10, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Tonight, the Tygers of Pan Tang are playing their first hometown gig in years. In this blog post I promised I'd be here when they did... so I am

Things I Knew about the North East #01 - The Tygers of Pan Tang and Whitley Bay

www.grange85.co.uk/swirling/202...
November 9, 2024 at 7:59 PM
A fantastic evening with Mercury Rev in Newcastle. I think it's the first time I've seen them in a stand-up venue for a few years and rock sounds best standing up!
November 5, 2024 at 12:46 AM
#nowplaying today's #UnCoolTwo50 pick and and very content with the choice

#lush #madlove #trudykockenlocker
November 3, 2024 at 10:46 AM
The Northern Lights were in my eyes... last night in Whitley Bay
October 11, 2024 at 7:56 AM
Sadly he died at just 34 in a car crash in Liverpool - here's his grave in a cemetery in Chsiwick
October 10, 2024 at 10:51 AM
Here's Bonar Colleano with Earl Cameron in the fantastic Pool of London (1951)
October 10, 2024 at 10:49 AM
#UnCoolTwo50

Day 8: Pale Saints - Barging Into The Presence of God EP (1989)

... particularly "The Sight of You"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiSK...
October 8, 2024 at 8:44 AM
"The most sensational and impressive picture that has yet been seen in Newcastle"
... and probably since!!
September 23, 2024 at 2:58 PM
In the first week of October 1927 - Metropolis at The Queen's Hall, Newcastle
"An ultra-modern film spectacle!"
... still!

#film #silentfilm #metropolis #fritzlang #theavonharbou
September 23, 2024 at 2:44 PM