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Real Gone
@realgonerocks.bsky.social
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Music reviews site, est. 2009. Home of the Singles Bar. Social media feed might also include ramblings about old telly and film. Possible swears. Genuine ally.

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Monday.
Outside of the Rovers, Deirdre is seen buried under a pile of timber, following a lorry crash. Oh, Traaac-eh!
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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It'd already been a hell of a week before my baby cat fractured her knee 😢

#Cats
A very small black and white cat in a cage. She has a shaved back leg and is wearing a cone.
November 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Real Gone is 16 years old today!
Blue sparkly badge. Says 16 Today!
November 16, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Woken up to a string of likes and reposts from the #JazzStalker. How tedious.
Screengrab shows "The Ted Ray Fan Club" with smarmy targeted harassment. Report and block! @tedrayfan.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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@ozymandias999.bsky.social I've woken up to a string of likes and reposts.

More targeted harassment.
Screengrab of "The Ted Ray Fan Club" -- jazz stalker Spencer Evans with more targeted harassment.
November 16, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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THE LIBYANS! HOW DID THEY FIND ME?! #FilmSky
Dr Emmett Brown, seen pictured with his van, which has DR. E. BROWN ENTERPRISES emblazoned on the side in block text. Smaller text reads "24 HR. SCIENTIFIC SERVICES"
November 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Tuesday.

Amanda Barrie has seen your posts.
A screengrab from Strangers, S1E7. Amanda Barrie is playing an old woman, seen here looking very disappointed. She's with Julie Shipley, an actress who seemingly vanished at the end of the 80s.
November 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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"What's that? New things at Real Gone? New punk from Our Souls, another Singles Bar, new videos from debdepan, Premier Jester *and* The New Flesh? A review of the new Hard To Explain...and a bunch of things queued for next week? I'll tell Mr. Bennett."

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Tony Hart on the phone. He looks like a man from the 70s, even though this was probably 1985.
November 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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1981: Björn and Aggy are divorced; Benny and Frida are getting one.

And yet, they still look like they're having more fun than Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal.

#MusicSky
The four members of ABBA are together, but looking a bit...scowly. Frida looks especially disappointed, sort of like a mum who's told you repeatedly not to leave skidmarks, but you're still doing it and blaming your dad.
November 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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My boy Merlin is enjoying the Bake Off! #GBBO
Merlin The Cat sitting right in front of the telly. He's just finished bashing Paul Hollywood's face with his paw and is wondering if Jasmine deserves the same treatment.
October 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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If you see this, quote with a vampire that isn't Dracula

#HorrorSky
The girl from Humanist Vampire... seen drinking blood through a straw
October 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday #FilmSky

L-R: A semi-recent, rather violent horror; a film Mary Millington biographer Simon Sheridan claimed might be the worst bit of "British Sauce" ever; an overlooked Disney; something the Beeb calls a documentary - it was a Roxy "Gogglebox" with C-Listers.
Posters for Ready or Not (2019), starring Samira Weaving, Emmanuelle In Soho - a piece of tat by David "Sunday Sport" Sullivan that has nothing to do with the famous Euro Softcore film series, and Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music: A Musical History - a cheap piece of telly that acts as an excuse to wheel out TOTP and OGWT clips while Sadie Frost talks shite.
October 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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No, that's from a much later episode when Tony gets glasses!
Neil Morrissey as Tony from MBB, sporting some very unfashionable glasses.
October 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Especially wonky ones.
Nicholas Courtney as The Brigadier in a Jon Pertwee era Doctor Who, sporting a slightly wonky stick-on moustache.
October 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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The legendary Corrie stamp from the Royal Mail. A heavily permed Deirdre Barlow looks at Ken with an angry face. Ken looks mildly concerned. The text shares the legandary "Ken! Do something!"
October 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Would you buy expensive vintage equipment from a man who mistakenly uploads selfies?
October 5, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Merlin The Cat is enjoying Altered Images on #TOTP!
Merlin The Cat is sitting in front of the telly.
October 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Advance warning: In a little over an hour, this will open the 1981 episode of #TOTP.
Legs & Co, pictured in the middle of doing the dance to The Birdie Song.
October 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Woke up to see this, which is lovely.

#MusicSky
A press quote from a recent review at Real Gone which says, "...it's Lael's vocal that really shines. Capturing a late night air, though never dropping into an cheesy easy listening tone, she mixes soul and jazz influences to share a massive cry. In some ways [Do What You Want, Be Who You Are] sounds more like something penned for a female jazz artist than for Hall & Oates themselves.
September 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Your reminder that this is the same Eoghan Lyng who's used Bluesky to post Divine videos as a transphobic attack on a former colleague, criticised other people's writing as poor quality, and called Real Gone "absolute horseshit". #Hypocrisy
September 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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See it. Say it. Soldeed.
Graham Crowden camping it up a treat in the Doctor Who story Horns of Nimon. He's raising his hands, gospel style.
September 19, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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A classic Viz gag. I always liked this one, too.
Cartoon of two rotund old ladies chatting on the street. One is holding hands with a pixie-like figure in a pointy hat. The other lady is saying "So long as you've got your elf, that's the main thing."
September 19, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Spencer has turned up in my spam bin again, the tedious old bastard.

For the benefit of everyone he's slagging off "privately":

@biggytee.bsky.social @auntiecandy.bsky.social @jenbren.bsky.social @nportnell.bsky.social
Good evening Real Gone, I hope you're well, my good friend. I see you're choosing to recycle very weak jokes at my expense by That JRT Fella. Can you not think of anything original of your own? This is a most unusual stance, old buddy, for someone who's on record as saying he didn't want to spend any more time with a "bored old pensioner." Our newest chum, Nick Portnell, has been telling his followers I was sacked from the BBC for doing something awful, and may have spent some time in prison. Really, Nicky? It's a good job I'm not into suing for defamation. No, I was given early ill health retirement with full honours for chronic back pain, old bean. I've noticed ole Nicky is trying to cosy up to Jen Bren, the man hater. You're wasting your time here, Nicky. Please restrict your activities to your good friends, Jim and Jack. You've reported me again? Rather like the schoolboy swat, eh? I'm sorry you've had to scale back your activities for personal reasons, Real Gone, but I'm delighted the Thursday Singles Bar will be continuing. It'll give Candy The Perpetual Benefits Claimant something to do while waiting for the next cash handout. Until the next time... Lots of love, Spencer xxx
September 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Sally Harrison, from Confessions of a Pop Performer, looking a bit saucy with short brown hair and a glint in her eye. She's working in a record shop and standing in front of a far less saucy poster of Bad Company - the most period specific piece of set dressing since Barry Evans wandered past Elton's Rock of The Westies in Adventures of a Taxi Driver.
September 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Eoghan is STILL irked that a website that FIRED him for being difficult is having a creative spell. Also, we celebrate music daily & we run our own site, so don't have to pitch to people like @spectrumculture.bsky.social.

Please go away, Eoghan. You've been badmouthing us and others for 4 YEARS.
September 14, 2025 at 6:26 AM