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Andy Aldridge
@grange85.co.uk
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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
A group of pigeons launch themselves into a beautiful blue sky from the roof of a hut
February 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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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/
Looking from the back of the stage or towards the empty auditorium of The Tyne Theatre and Opera House in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
February 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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… and here's a picture of my granny liking being beside the seaside in the 1930s
Black and white photo of a young woman in her swimming costume with a towel around her, posing at the seaside
January 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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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"
Newspaper clipping publicising The Marx Brothers "The Cocoanuts" when it arrived to be screened at The Stoll Picture House in Newcastle in February of 1929
January 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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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
There dishes, the top one has two thirds of a Christmas pudding on it. The other two have the other third shared between them and are covered in custard
January 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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#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:

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An autographed photo of Deanna Durbin is propped into a photo frame. The frame holds a picture of Galaxie 500. To the left another frame has a postcard promoting a film called 'Never Be a Punching Bag For Nobody'
January 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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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
Heavy metal band on stage, bassist on the left and guitarist on the right are both throwing fantastic rock shapes. Behind the front is a banner that reads Trillians
December 31, 2024 at 8:39 PM
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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
Goalmouth action, the keeper in orange looks on while his defenders, in green, and the opposition, in blue/white stripes, do battle - there is no sign of an actual ball!?
December 27, 2024 at 12:21 PM
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Dancing merrily in the new old fashioned way

#melandkim #kimwilde #melsmith #nowplaying #happychristmas
The sleeve of the single of Mel & Kim's Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
December 25, 2024 at 10:43 AM
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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...
The CD car of The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs is open across my lap. The booklet is also visible
December 13, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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December 11, 2024 at 6:04 PM
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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
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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
Two stars and a nobody are posing outside a brutalist building, the star on the left is carrying a yellow bag. The stars have sunglasses on... like stars should! An umbrella on the left shows that the brutalist building is The National Archives in West London.
December 11, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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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!

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December 9, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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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 ...
Screen grab of dialog box that reads "Following hashtags won't be possible soon On December 13, hashtags you follow will no longer be visible in your feed and you won't be able to follow more of them." And an OK button
November 16, 2024 at 12:06 AM
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I was lucky enough to go up the tower of the Newcastle Civic Centre and see the view and watch the carillon being played.
Looking up at a copper green tower lantern, there are sculptures of horses around the edge Wide angle view of a cityscape taken from high. At the bottom of a circular, copper green roof, the sun is trying to break through some ominous looking clouds A man is posting a carillon, it has wooden paddles for keys, and wires rising up from the back of it
November 10, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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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

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November 9, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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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!
Mercury Rev, a seven piece band, in stage with dry ice around them, and bathed in red light Johnathan and Grasshopper on stage, both his guitars and are bathed in blue light
November 5, 2024 at 12:46 AM
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#nowplaying today's #UnCoolTwo50 pick and and very content with the choice

#lush #madlove #trudykockenlocker
Record playing, propped behind the deck is the album sleeve and sitting to the left is cat
November 3, 2024 at 10:46 AM
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The Northern Lights were in my eyes... last night in Whitley Bay
Seaside promenade at night. A number of people in the foreground are looking at the sky above the sea, which is filled with red and green light from the Aurora Borealis
October 11, 2024 at 7:56 AM
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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
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Here's Bonar Colleano with Earl Cameron in the fantastic Pool of London (1951)
October 10, 2024 at 10:49 AM
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#UnCoolTwo50

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

... particularly "The Sight of You"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiSK...
Record sleeve propped at the back of a record deck - the sleeve reads "pale saints" - on the deck the record is spinning.
October 8, 2024 at 8:44 AM
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"The most sensational and impressive picture that has yet been seen in Newcastle"
... and probably since!!
September 23, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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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