Michael Mulligan
@motorcitymick.bsky.social
"Pop history boffin" - The Arts Desk, July 2021.
Works in music, works in books, writes books about music. Living the dream.
Works in music, works in books, writes books about music. Living the dream.
Hello to any Johns who featured in my 2025 Bluesky posts. Hopefully, we discussed happy music.
December 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Hello to any Johns who featured in my 2025 Bluesky posts. Hopefully, we discussed happy music.
I think we should all dress a little bit more like Chicory Tip. #LifeGoals
November 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I think we should all dress a little bit more like Chicory Tip. #LifeGoals
This was the point where Simple Minds and I parted company, the "everything louder than everything else" production, more bombastic than anthemic sound left me cold. See also Eurythmics post 'Here Comes The Rain Again'.
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
This was the point where Simple Minds and I parted company, the "everything louder than everything else" production, more bombastic than anthemic sound left me cold. See also Eurythmics post 'Here Comes The Rain Again'.
If we meet up later remind me to tell you that 'When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman' was written by Even Stevens. His real name was Bruce Stevens, but, come on, fair play to the man...
November 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
If we meet up later remind me to tell you that 'When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman' was written by Even Stevens. His real name was Bruce Stevens, but, come on, fair play to the man...
Earlier this year I bought 'Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear?', a beautifully written, funny, warm book from @levparikian.bsky.social Some 50 years after I first listened to 'Supper's Ready' by Genesis (don't judge me), this book revealed the origins of Gabble Ratchet. Never too old to learn...
I write about birds. AGAIN.
This week: What’s In A Name?
Features such gems as Flammulated Treehunter, Jet Manakin and Striated Pardalote. open.substack.com/pub/levparik...
This week: What’s In A Name?
Features such gems as Flammulated Treehunter, Jet Manakin and Striated Pardalote. open.substack.com/pub/levparik...
The Year of A Hundred Birds, Week Gosh Is It November Already?
What’s In A Name?
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November 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Earlier this year I bought 'Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear?', a beautifully written, funny, warm book from @levparikian.bsky.social Some 50 years after I first listened to 'Supper's Ready' by Genesis (don't judge me), this book revealed the origins of Gabble Ratchet. Never too old to learn...
Calling @agnes-guano.bsky.social - did the '80s milk marketing campaign 'Gotta Lotta Bottle' ever get the 7-inch single treatment, like 'Luton Airport' or 'Don't Be A Dummy'?
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Calling @agnes-guano.bsky.social - did the '80s milk marketing campaign 'Gotta Lotta Bottle' ever get the 7-inch single treatment, like 'Luton Airport' or 'Don't Be A Dummy'?
On finding that your toilet roll or kitchen roll is finished, everyone raises the empty cardboard tube to their eye and pretends to be Nelson / Raleigh / other nautical types, right?
October 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM
On finding that your toilet roll or kitchen roll is finished, everyone raises the empty cardboard tube to their eye and pretends to be Nelson / Raleigh / other nautical types, right?
Earlier this year I was lucky enough to oversee a reissue of the the wonderful 'Off Centre' by the John Cameron Quartet. I sent copies to John, and to Danny Thompson, who said he was "chuffed". A lovely man and an extraordinary career. Everyone should be a bit more Danny.
September 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Earlier this year I was lucky enough to oversee a reissue of the the wonderful 'Off Centre' by the John Cameron Quartet. I sent copies to John, and to Danny Thompson, who said he was "chuffed". A lovely man and an extraordinary career. Everyone should be a bit more Danny.
Happy Brian Day, to all those that celebrate. "It's a sad thing, and it's a beautiful thing." #understood @needlemythology.bsky.social @kensweeney.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Happy Brian Day, to all those that celebrate. "It's a sad thing, and it's a beautiful thing." #understood @needlemythology.bsky.social @kensweeney.bsky.social
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Here’s my review for @arcanadotfm.bsky.social of just released ‘Splonge! An Introduction To Tubby Hayes’. 10 tracks recorded for Fontana between 1961-69 and compiled by @themumper.bsky.social for Decca Records. We owe them a debt of gratitude. @motorcitymick.bsky.social arcana.fm/2025/04/13/t...
On Record – Splonge! An Introduction To Tubby Hayes (Decca / Fontana Jazz)
Reviewed by John Earls A vinyl-only release, with the following tracklisting: Side ATubbsvilleYou For MeLady ‘E’ – Tubby Hayes & The All StarsAngel Eyes – Tubby Hayes Qu…
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April 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Here’s my review for @arcanadotfm.bsky.social of just released ‘Splonge! An Introduction To Tubby Hayes’. 10 tracks recorded for Fontana between 1961-69 and compiled by @themumper.bsky.social for Decca Records. We owe them a debt of gratitude. @motorcitymick.bsky.social arcana.fm/2025/04/13/t...
In "well, there's a first time for everything news", I actually felt a small tinge of pride on seeing my labours in a sponsored online advert. Now I just need envy, gluttony, greed, lust, sloth, and wrath to complete the set.
April 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
In "well, there's a first time for everything news", I actually felt a small tinge of pride on seeing my labours in a sponsored online advert. Now I just need envy, gluttony, greed, lust, sloth, and wrath to complete the set.
"Hello, Glastonbury! I hope you enjoyed Charli XCX. I'm Neil Young, this is the Chrome Hearts, and tonight we are going to play 'Arc'."
Glastonbury line-up just dropped (and no, it’s not the fake watermarked ome that did the rounds earlier this week).
March 6, 2025 at 9:54 AM
"Hello, Glastonbury! I hope you enjoyed Charli XCX. I'm Neil Young, this is the Chrome Hearts, and tonight we are going to play 'Arc'."
Huge congratulations to @peteselby.bsky.social Three of the many wonderful books that he made happen last year have made the Penderyn Music Book Prize 2025 Long List.
January 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Huge congratulations to @peteselby.bsky.social Three of the many wonderful books that he made happen last year have made the Penderyn Music Book Prize 2025 Long List.
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With thanks to Modculture
'From the man who brought us the documentary comes the Splonge! An Introduction to Tubby Hayes vinyl compilation, pitched as a starting point to the 1960s work of the revered British jazz man.
More details: www.modculture.co.uk/splonge-an-i...
'From the man who brought us the documentary comes the Splonge! An Introduction to Tubby Hayes vinyl compilation, pitched as a starting point to the 1960s work of the revered British jazz man.
More details: www.modculture.co.uk/splonge-an-i...
Splonge! An Introduction to Tubby Hayes vinyl compilation
From the man who brought us the documentary comes the Splonge! An Introduction to Tubby Hayes vinyl compilation. It’s a compilation is the work of filmmaker, author and fan Mark Baxter, and pulled tog...
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January 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM
With thanks to Modculture
'From the man who brought us the documentary comes the Splonge! An Introduction to Tubby Hayes vinyl compilation, pitched as a starting point to the 1960s work of the revered British jazz man.
More details: www.modculture.co.uk/splonge-an-i...
'From the man who brought us the documentary comes the Splonge! An Introduction to Tubby Hayes vinyl compilation, pitched as a starting point to the 1960s work of the revered British jazz man.
More details: www.modculture.co.uk/splonge-an-i...
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The accompanying 4 x CD 98 tracks boxset to our forthcoming 'Ready Steady Girls' book called 'There's No Stopping Us Now' is @RoughTradeRecs for £36.99
Follow this link - www.roughtrade.com/en-gb/produc...
Book & boxset as a bundle for £45 available over at - ourfavourite.shop/product/read...
Follow this link - www.roughtrade.com/en-gb/produc...
Book & boxset as a bundle for £45 available over at - ourfavourite.shop/product/read...
Various - There’s No Stopping Us Now: The Female Mods’ Forgotten Story - (CD) | Rough Trade
Discover There’s No Stopping Us Now: The Female Mods’ Forgotten Story by Various on Edsel. A celebration of inspirational female singers in British pop culture.
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January 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The accompanying 4 x CD 98 tracks boxset to our forthcoming 'Ready Steady Girls' book called 'There's No Stopping Us Now' is @RoughTradeRecs for £36.99
Follow this link - www.roughtrade.com/en-gb/produc...
Book & boxset as a bundle for £45 available over at - ourfavourite.shop/product/read...
Follow this link - www.roughtrade.com/en-gb/produc...
Book & boxset as a bundle for £45 available over at - ourfavourite.shop/product/read...
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In the 10 years since we released our film 'A Man in a Hurry' on the life & music of Tubby Hayes, we have been asked where to start in buying his records. Delighted then, to be asked to put together a compilation. amazon.co.uk/Splonge-Intr...
January 20, 2025 at 11:14 AM
In the 10 years since we released our film 'A Man in a Hurry' on the life & music of Tubby Hayes, we have been asked where to start in buying his records. Delighted then, to be asked to put together a compilation. amazon.co.uk/Splonge-Intr...
Left: 'Water On Glass', Kim Wilde, 1981. Photo: Gered Mankovitz.
Right: 'Water On Glass', Jack Frost, 2025. Photo: Michael Mulligan
Right: 'Water On Glass', Jack Frost, 2025. Photo: Michael Mulligan
January 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Left: 'Water On Glass', Kim Wilde, 1981. Photo: Gered Mankovitz.
Right: 'Water On Glass', Jack Frost, 2025. Photo: Michael Mulligan
Right: 'Water On Glass', Jack Frost, 2025. Photo: Michael Mulligan
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Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club
MEMBER EXCLUSIVE: 90 Years of Tubby
Saturday 18th January : 11am
To celebrate Tubby's milestone birthday, we're hosting a special panel discussion featuring award-winning saxophonist Simon Spillett Peter Long Spike Wells and me.
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MEMBER EXCLUSIVE: 90 Years of Tubby
Saturday 18th January : 11am
To celebrate Tubby's milestone birthday, we're hosting a special panel discussion featuring award-winning saxophonist Simon Spillett Peter Long Spike Wells and me.
www.ronniescotts.co.uk/find-a-show/...
Member's Brunch - Tubby Hayes at 90 - Ronnie Scott's
January 2025 marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of legendary British jazz saxophonist Tubby Hayes.
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January 8, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club
MEMBER EXCLUSIVE: 90 Years of Tubby
Saturday 18th January : 11am
To celebrate Tubby's milestone birthday, we're hosting a special panel discussion featuring award-winning saxophonist Simon Spillett Peter Long Spike Wells and me.
www.ronniescotts.co.uk/find-a-show/...
MEMBER EXCLUSIVE: 90 Years of Tubby
Saturday 18th January : 11am
To celebrate Tubby's milestone birthday, we're hosting a special panel discussion featuring award-winning saxophonist Simon Spillett Peter Long Spike Wells and me.
www.ronniescotts.co.uk/find-a-show/...
The presents are unwrapped but the paper fun continues.
December 25, 2024 at 11:33 AM
The presents are unwrapped but the paper fun continues.
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Just before we down tools for the next few days...
Work continues on the new expanded edition of Ready Steady Girls with some great collaborations coming up...
Pre order info. here - ourfavourite.shop
Follow Countdown Books to be the first to hear news and special offers...
Work continues on the new expanded edition of Ready Steady Girls with some great collaborations coming up...
Pre order info. here - ourfavourite.shop
Follow Countdown Books to be the first to hear news and special offers...
December 23, 2024 at 9:37 AM
Just before we down tools for the next few days...
Work continues on the new expanded edition of Ready Steady Girls with some great collaborations coming up...
Pre order info. here - ourfavourite.shop
Follow Countdown Books to be the first to hear news and special offers...
Work continues on the new expanded edition of Ready Steady Girls with some great collaborations coming up...
Pre order info. here - ourfavourite.shop
Follow Countdown Books to be the first to hear news and special offers...
Three years ago I wrote the first book published by Nine Eight. In the last week I have discussed Christmas No. 1 singles with eight local radio stations, a national broadsheet, and turned down a TV appearance.
Truly, the gift that keeps on giving.
If only I had asked them all for a fee.
Truly, the gift that keeps on giving.
If only I had asked them all for a fee.
December 18, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Three years ago I wrote the first book published by Nine Eight. In the last week I have discussed Christmas No. 1 singles with eight local radio stations, a national broadsheet, and turned down a TV appearance.
Truly, the gift that keeps on giving.
If only I had asked them all for a fee.
Truly, the gift that keeps on giving.
If only I had asked them all for a fee.
I am as far from being an expert on Brian Auger as it's possible to get, but I love his recordings with Steampacket, Julie Driscoll, the Trinity, Oblivion Express, etc. and I want to see this film. Please share and contribute, if you can.
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Brian Auger: I Speak Music – Film
Make Music History in 2025 by Helping Fund the Documentary Film and Untold Story - 'Brian Auger: ‘I Speak Music''
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December 15, 2024 at 1:02 PM
I am as far from being an expert on Brian Auger as it's possible to get, but I love his recordings with Steampacket, Julie Driscoll, the Trinity, Oblivion Express, etc. and I want to see this film. Please share and contribute, if you can.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/brian-auge...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/brian-auge...
As Bobby Helms returns to the Top 10 once more with 'Jingle Bell Rock', spare a thought for the neglected B-Side, 'Captain Santa Claus (And His Reindeer Space Patrol)'.
December 11, 2024 at 11:45 AM
As Bobby Helms returns to the Top 10 once more with 'Jingle Bell Rock', spare a thought for the neglected B-Side, 'Captain Santa Claus (And His Reindeer Space Patrol)'.
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Ready Steady Girls – The Female Mods’ Forgotten Story
£20.00
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Please note: This is a pre order and will be shipped first week of February 2025 before general release.
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Ready Steady Girls - The Female Mods' Forgotten Story (pre order) - Our Favourite Shop
Ready Steady Girls - The Female Mods' Forgotten Story
From its nebulous beginnings in the latter part of the 50's the peacock male's rise into the conscious of the nation has been well documented. The...
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December 4, 2024 at 7:14 AM
Ready Steady Girls – The Female Mods’ Forgotten Story
£20.00
ourfavourite.shop/product/read...
Please note: This is a pre order and will be shipped first week of February 2025 before general release.
Order here -
ourfavourite.shop/product/read...