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Guy Osborn
@guyosborn.bsky.social
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Co-Artistic Director at The Soho Poly, www.sohopoly.co.uk
Academic at the University of Westminster, https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/osborn-guy
Memorial Device Alternative National Treasure, the only gong that matters
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this will be great- buy!
katrinanavickas.bsky.social Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 22d
A reminder that my book on the history of protest is now published. It is superbly produced with a great cover. Buy it now from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
Contested Commons Formidably erudite, compellingly argued, and dryly humorous, Contested Commons will change the way you think about the politics of space, the "myth of the commons", and the history of England since the eighteenth century: MATTHEW KELLy, author of The Women Who Saved the English Countryside "Starting with Kennington Common, and ranging from Steeple Bumpstead to Sheffield, Stonehenge and Brixton, and with a cast that includes ramblers, ranters, revolutionaries and ravers, this is a superb, sweeping but fine-grained history. It's also a highly necessary, politically urgent reminder of what public space is - places for everyone, owned by everyone, accessible to everyone, whether carefully tended or wild - and what it isn't, the tradition of pseudo-public space that runs from Victorian parks to privatised malls.' OWEN HATHERLEY, author of A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
November 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Great Ben Edge exhibition at @FitzroviaChapel- on til 26/11
November 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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tim-burgess.bsky.social Tim Burgess @tim-burgess.bsky.social · 13d
I asked a while back about people collecting (and now missing) physical tickets and it got us thinking

After a couple of months of work we made something amazing (props to tech wizard Andrew and our Merch Market team)

Totally free, yours to use from Friday

*sound up*
November 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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1968, London
October 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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1974, Swindon. The Helium Kidz before they discovered XTC...
October 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Happy 45th birthday to one of the greatest albums of all time. Talking Heads released Remain in Light on this day in 1980
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October 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Wildly excited about seeing @edwyncollins.bsky.social not once but twice in next few days. A real hero of mine. Found a few of my old fanzines and a family heirloom with an Orange Juice flavour this morning
October 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Today is World Postcard Day. Yesterday at @thesohopoly.bsky.social we welcomed this with the first of our creative drop ins - photos to folllow. Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd was played in honour of the occasion sohopoly.co.uk/events/world...
October 1, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Released 40 years ago today, how it all came about could fill a book. Soon forgotten at the time by all but a few. Always grateful for the love still out there though, what a difference (a mere) four decades makes 😄
Cover of Don’t Stand Me Down by Dexys Midnight Runners
September 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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September 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Can't wait to hear this- even fished out my Planes EP
August 31, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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birmingham81.bsky.social Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · Aug 18
Happy birthday to Maxine Brown. Here she is performing Oh No Not My Baby live at the Bitter End in NYC in 1968 (with a young Bernie Worrell on piano). The full song and interview is at youtu.be/UtY1Jj9uppU
August 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Remembering David Crosby on his birthday. Now playing If Only I Could Remember My Name. #MusicIsLove
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August 14, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Happy birthday to the legendary Lawrence. Celebrate with this chronological playlist featuring almost all of his recordings with Felt, Denim, Go-Kart Mozart and Mozart Estate
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(Photo taken at last year's Wide Awake Festival)
August 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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TonyWilson (20 February 1950 – 10 August 2007)

MDANT 🙏
August 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Remembering Tony Wilson who died on this day in 2007
youtu.be/3cYNI8s_vo4
Mike Garry & Joe Duddell - St Anthony: An Ode to Anthony H Wilson
YouTube video by StAnthonyVEVO
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August 10, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Happy 45th birthday to David Bowie's Ashes To Ashes, released on this day in 1980
youtu.be/HyMm4rJemtI
August 1, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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#SundayShowcase With Birmingham currently celebrating its music heritage, why not delve into Pete Paphides’ Broken Greek - an account of growing up at a chip shop in Acocks Green and how music provides an emotional support. L 78.1 PAP #LibraryofBham @petepaphides.bsky.social
A book on top of a glass exhibition case. Front cover of the book is facing on – the cover shows a young boy sat on a chair looking towards the camera. Title of the book is Broken Greek which is written across the middle of the front cover. The author’s name - Pete Paphides is in the bottom left of the front cover. Behind the book is a bookcase with the phrase Birmingham Collection at the top of it.
July 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Sunday 28 Sept, I’m back in London at The Lexington at a benefit for the continually excellent Resonance FM, with the inestimable Jowe Head and his Infernal Trinity plus Luke Haines. Tix here:

www.thelexington.co.uk/event.php?id...

More to come soon, but that’ll do for now!
The Lexington is an award winning bar in Islington with Live Music venue, Bourbon, craft beers, DJs, Food and a nightclub! Open all day & most of the night.
www.thelexington.co.uk
July 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Wire: Outdoor Miner

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July 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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NEW @musicmaps.bsky.social @stuartmaconie.bsky.social on #TheBeatles

With A Little Help From Their Friends @harpernorth.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/episode/1tkB...
71 - The Beatles with Stuart Maconie (Liverpool)
Music Maps - The Rock n Roll Book Club Podcast · Episode
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July 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Very last copies of @catebrooksmusic.bsky.social Lofoten on Bandcamp claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/merch
July 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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@philjdavis.bsky.social @thesohopoly.bsky.social the motorbike has gone, but the L plate remains...
July 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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"Punk at the BBC" is on iPlayer for the next 29 days. Boasts The Clash, Jam, Adverts, Undertones, Ruts, Damned, Sex Pistols, Stranglers, Vibrators, X-Ray Spex, Siouxsie, Buzzcocks, Joy Division, PiL, Dr Feelgood, Ian Dury, Gen X, Magazine, Sham 69, Eddie & The Hot Rods
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Punk at the BBC
An archive celebration of BBC studio performances from the British bands that broke through courtesy of punk, with Dr Feelgood, Buzzcocks, Joy Division and many more.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Two out of three here have played at @uniwestminster.bsky.social, Iggy we are just around the corner from @bbcradio6musicbot.bsky.social
Mr Popp- come and visit at @thesohopoly.bsky.social I'll get @mikegarry.bsky.social along !
June 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM