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RoutineBitesHard

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Bought a copy at the Publishing Scotland book fair thing at the weekend. Looking forward to diving in! 🙏

David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 1d

@intocreative.bsky.social publish my book AND OTHER STORIES.

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November 26, 2025 at 7:26 AM

RoutineBitesHard

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To have played in one great band may be regarded as good fortune. To have played in two looks like genius.

RIP Mani ✊xx

Tim Burgess @tim-burgess.bsky.social · 6d

I shared this photo a week or so ago on Mani’s birthday
- It never failed to bring a smile to my face - and that was exactly the same for the man himself.

One of the absolute best in every way - such a beautiful friend

Love you Mani x x
Never to be forgotten

November 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM

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Jude Rogers

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(And here's the Transatlantic Sessions performance I mention, which includes a young Rufus Wainwright, his mother and aunt, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and Emmylou Harris.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Bo...

Wild Mountain Thyme - Dick Gaughan | Transatlantic Sessions | TG4

YouTube video by TradTG4

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November 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM

RoutineBitesHard

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Simultaneously the gentlest and fiercest voice in folk music. A sad and eye-opening story but good to know DG is still around 🙏

Jude Rogers @juderogers.bsky.social · 7d

Richard Hawley calls his music “a league away from most things in any genre". Rufus Wainwright says he was “so lucky” to work with him at an impressionable age. One of Billy Bragg's most famous covers came about because of him. But have you heard of Dick Gaughan?

November 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM

RoutineBitesHard

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The no-frills German punk version – all done and dusted in less than 90 seconds

Love Will Tear Us Apart #60

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Category: Boy Division

The no-frills German punk version. How long does it take to play LWTUA? Up to now, I think the winner is Jada Facer from a couple of weeks ago at 2.30, although props also to Amythyst Kiah , Evelyn...

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November 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM

RoutineBitesHard

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The electronic loop-pedal version recorded in a ceramics shop in Amsterdam by a violinist and international frisbee-player from Vancouver… and one of the very best.

Love Will Tear Us Apart #74

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Category: Hannah Epperson

Yet another version that’s over a minute old before the vocal starts. In fact it’s a good thirty seconds, while the looped pizzicato percussion is set up, before it’s in any way recognisable as...

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October 29, 2025 at 8:10 AM

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Vikki Reilly

@bookyvikki.bsky.social

Can we just appreciate the majesty and the hilarity of these screams altogether! Magic.

Jillian Reilly @jillianreilly.bsky.social · Sep 29

This is great. I'm pretty sure I said every scream John does into a solo at the time. Which has reminded me of this video. Disturbing or magic? You decide!
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Beatles Medley of Screams

YouTube video by XKE

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September 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM

RoutineBitesHard

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The Italian medieval rock version

Love Will Tear Us Apart #35

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Category: Aysar Capys

By the time this post appears I will be on a train heading for Milan so I thought the time was right for the first Italian version of LWTUA (yes, there will be others). I can’t remember the first...

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September 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM

RoutineBitesHard

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The eighties synth-pop version from Dortmund.

Love Will Tear Us Apart #79

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Love Will Tear Us Apart (Remastered)

YouTube video by Invisible Limits - Topic

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September 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM

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Andy Miller

@iammilliam.bsky.social

Ruin a song by adding the word ‘literally’ to the title. I’ll start.

Love will literally tear us apart.

September 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM

RoutineBitesHard

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The Californian straight-edge version

Love Will Tear Us Apart #80

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Category: Unbroken

The Southern Californian straight edge DIY metalcore version. This early 90s hardcore group from San Diego* chose the name Unbroken to reflect their commitment to the straight edge philosophy:...

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September 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM

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The LA scream scene version

Love Will Tear Us Apart #73

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Category: Human Drama

The LA Scream scene version. Pretty much the slowest version to date, and, in keeping with the group’s name, one of the more dramatic. It starts languidly, with strummed acoustic guitar and the...

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September 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM

RoutineBitesHard

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The made version… includes the story of how I inadvertently went to Bruce Reynolds’ wake.

Love Will Tear Us Apart #47

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Category: Alabama 3

The made version. I inadvertently went to the wake of Bruce Reynolds, the Great Train Robber. True story. I’d been invited to a book launch in an upstairs room of the King’s Head pub in Hoxton,...

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August 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM

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The Canadian waltz version (no.2) – from the Time Traveler’s Wife movie

Love Will Tear Us Apart #65

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Love Will Tear Us Apart - Broken Social Scene.wmv

YouTube video by Kimberly A Presnail

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July 31, 2025 at 4:50 PM

RoutineBitesHard

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The Canadian waltz version (no.1)

Love Will Tear Us Apart #35

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Hawksley Workman - Love Will Tear Us Apart

YouTube video by klootmanchester

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July 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM

RoutineBitesHard

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Track listing for the lost Fall album revealed.

Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social · Jul 19

Can you be arrested for an anagram? How to hide Palestine Action, useful for placards at demos

no elite captains
I alone, pittances
a polite instance
penalties action
set national epic
a spleen citation
inpatient solace
antiseptic alone
a social penitent
pain at elections
Atlantic peonies

July 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM

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The Argentinian husband-and-wife singalong rock version.

Strange choice of song to perform with your spouse but hey ho.

Love Will Tear Us Apart #88

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Cienfuegos - Love will tear us apart

YouTube video by Cienfuegos

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July 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM

RoutineBitesHard

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The 11-minute indie-prog version from Philadelphia

Love Will Tear Us Apart #90

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Brothers Past - 11-2-2012 - Charity Starts At Home - Love Will Tear Us Apart - Shut Up

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July 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM

RoutineBitesHard

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This whipped-up controversy means we’re now denied seeing on iPlayer the lovely moment when Bobby Dylan gave his daughter a sweaty hug on stage, and she made that look universal to girls & young women across the planet when confronted with their dads, whom they love dearly, being completely gross.

June 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM

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eops

@eops.bsky.social

3 lovely things from the world of a very smalltime DJ.

So the second week of the month is usually the quietest, so \i packed a more chilled set than usual. There was of course lots of Brian Wilson and Sly Stone in the bag. A guy came in and heard me play 'Lets go away..' & 'You caught me smiling'>

June 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM

RoutineBitesHard

@lwtua100.bsky.social

The most beautiful two and a half minutes from a body of work not short of beautiful moments. RIP 🙏🙏

Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · Jun 11

When I think of Brian Wilson I think how wonderful it was that he had the chance to come back from limbo with the 2002 Pet Sounds shows and then finally finish Smile. After a pretty hellish three decades, he got to see how loved he was. Those shows were celestial.
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'Til I Die (Remastered 2009)

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June 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM

RoutineBitesHard

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Pottajennka…. The Finnish polka-infused folk-dance version

Love Will Tear Us Apart #94

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Category: Eläkeläiset

The jenkka version. Jenkka is a slow, polka-infused Finnish folk dance. Potta , meanwhile, means ‘potty’, and if Google Translate is to be believed, the title is a play on words since...

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May 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM

RoutineBitesHard

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Wenn liebe uns zerreisst… the German cabaret version. By a man who looks like Alan Rickman starring in a Barry Manilow biopic.

Love Will Tear Us Apart #40

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