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Stephen (pronounced Steven, not Stefan)
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The last great single of the 1980s.
December 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Winchester charity shop adding a new film into the 'is this a Christmas movie?'debate.
November 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
• David Bowie
• McAlmont & Butler
• Ennio Morricone
• Kris Kristofferson
• Saint Etienne
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.

• Sparks
• They Might Be Giants
• The Surfrajettes
• Chris de Burgh
• Engelbert Humperdinck
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
Ultravox
BB King
Jethro Tull
Whitesnake
OMD
November 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"You'll be visited by three spirits."

The three spirits:
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Farewell Udo Kier.
Always mesmerising.
My favourite appearance of his: as the unhinged wedding planner in 'Melancholia'
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Just because we let them smelly fools ride us like horses, don't mean we gotta let 'em brand us like horses. Maybe we ain't nothin' but whores, but we, by God, we ain't horses, Charlie Brown.
We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky, Charlie Brown.
The awful thing about life is this: everybody has their reasons, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Listening again to Telekon, an album I've played regularly since first buying it in 1983.
For a collection of songs mostly about isolation and paranoia, it really does have some of the loveliest sounding music.
#GaryNuman
November 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Or as we sang at school: "I was sitting in the corner when my cock fell off."

Different times..

#totp
November 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Utter nuisance
#totp
November 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Phil Lynott: every mum's favourite
#totp
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Strong case for George Michael being the key popstar of the 90s
#totp
November 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Outside: still a seismic moment.
Brilliantly unapologetic.
It genuinely just looks you straight in the eye and says "What?"
#totp
November 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Thunderbirds of a Feather
#TWOSHOWSINONE
Death In Paradise Postponed #TWOSHOWSINONE
DOCTOR WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE
#TWOSHOWSINONE
November 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
What fictional character/villain traumatised you as a child?
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Tipping my hat to the subtitles author on The New Avengers blu-ray.
November 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This week's present to myself.
#TheNewAvengers - the proper ones, of course.
November 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Thing 2: Electric Boogaloo
He doesn't know if it will end up happening but they're working on it now
November 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Darts without Den Hegarty

Like Marillion without Fish

#totp
November 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Almost supernaturally awful
#totp
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Reposted by Stephen (pronounced Steven, not Stefan)
Millennium knows without the You Only Live Twice sample*, it's nothing. #totp

*Bittersweet Symphony all over again.
November 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Norman Wisdom, now with added cocaine
#totp
November 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Like looking at five options for the blandest Doctor Who reboot possible.
#totp
November 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Hearing a Nathan Barley type explain why these dancers are "ironic, except they're not, except they are"
#totp
November 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM