Ian Richards

Writer, Black Country man. Author of Brummie Road and The Weathermaid's Mate - . Supporter of WBA and Worcs CCC.

[Ian Richards @HellfireBecky]

My first foray into AI music creation: an affectionate pastiche of 1980s ska and Two-Tone, for fans of The Specials, The Beat, The Selecter, Madness and Bad Manners.

The M6ers - The M6ers

https://t.co/7UZOKJDuDe

[Ian Richards @HellfireBecky]

@DamCou New from Disney: when eleven islanders are introduced to football by a drunk American coach exiled to Cape Verde after he caused Diana Ross to miss her penalty in '94, it sends them on a journey to the biggest stage of all, only to learn that the real World Cup is in our hearts.

[Ian Richards @HellfireBecky]

@michaeldweiss I guess the smartphone should have given it away, but at first glance I really thought that image was from about 1986. Ленин жил, Ленин жив, Ленин будет жить. As damning a curse as ever dogged a nation.

[Ian Richards @HellfireBecky]

@DavidDPaxton Bit of a tweak and it's not so bad.

[Ian Richards @HellfireBecky]

@Halalcoholism Already know The Church and Hoodoo Gurus, but Ratcat are new to me, so I'll give that a listen.

I knew Jimmy Barnes from Working Class Man (100% the greatest Springsteen song that Springsteen never wrote), but didn't realise he'd started in Cold Chisel, so will explore them too.

[Ian Richards @HellfireBecky]

@GrenadaLoyalist @residentadviser "We are King George's loyal soldiers, not Roosevelt's little black boys! We are British subjects and this is the mother country, and you the Yankee foreigner ain't beating us [back] one inch."

- Baron Baker, Jamaican in RAF, when US GIs tried to segregate a Gloucester pub (1944)

[Ian Richards @HellfireBecky]

@DamCou If I now end up having nightmares about Putin as General von Klinkerhoffen, I am absolutely coming after you with a priceless-artwork-stuffed knockwurst.

[Ian Richards @HellfireBecky]

@DamCou Protest vote for the Dickens-referencing, Springsteen-worshipping, architecture-dancing Gaslight Anthem.

https://t.co/TQiAwmZiQ2

[Ian Richards @HellfireBecky]

@ippvch Тільки людина, яка бачила найгірші жахи, скоєні проти людської раси, справді знає, що життя і свобода священні, і що її сусід – її брат.

Ми, британці, тепер ваші сусіди.

Ми, британці, назавжди ваші брати.

Ian, the Black Country, UK

[Correct my amateur Ukrainian if necessary!]

[Ian Richards @HellfireBecky]

@GSpellchecker Bob Marley's songwriting really did go downhill towards the end.

[Ian Richards @HellfireBecky]

@btharris93 Ed there, hunched over his atlas with a felt-tip, his tongue curling out the side of his mouth as he painstakingly changes Gdansk to Danzig, Tel Aviv to Jaffa, Tokyo to Edo, Livorno to Leghorn, Jakarta to Batavia, Toronto to York, Charleroi to Charnoy, Regina to Pile Of Bones...

[Ian Richards @HellfireBecky]

@Halalcoholism CHAPMAN: Men of the city, our recent stonings have been most inadequate. With what does one typically stone a miscreant?

CLEESE: Lettuces!

IDLE: Trumpets!

CHAPMAN: No. Let us try again. If the Lord commands you to STONE a man, what noun is implied? St...?

CLEESE: Stalactites?

[Ian Richards @HellfireBecky]

@Halalcoholism I do love the specificity of "stone him to death with stones," with a telltale air of exasperation in those last two words suggesting previous Pythonesque failed attempts.

[Ian Richards @HellfireBecky]

And now a second album for The M6ers, incorporating a broader range of Caribbean and African styles into the trademark ska sound.

https://t.co/k26CNwhduZ

[Ian Richards @HellfireBecky]

My first foray into AI music creation: an affectionate pastiche of 1980s ska and Two-Tone, for fans of The Specials, The Beat, The Selecter, Madness and Bad Manners.

The M6ers - The M6ers

https://t.co/7UZOKJDuDe

[Ian Richards @HellfireBecky]

@WorcsCCC And well worth the wait(e)!

[Ian Richards @HellfireBecky]

@WorcsCCCWomen That was a magnificent final over from Jess, shame it narrowly missed out on being a hat-trick. Astonishing swerve on the ball, and a richly deserved five-fer!

[Ian Richards @HellfireBecky]

@WorcsCCC Matty Waite at the crease like

[Ian Richards @HellfireBecky]

@DamCou

[Ian Richards @HellfireBecky]

@DamCou With due apologies to Spinal Tap; this summer, Diesel, Statham, Johnson, Tucci and Strong relive their glory years as... Cherry Dynamite

[Ian Richards @HellfireBecky]

@DamCou Grok has been very helpful on this matter, though I now kinda wish it hadn't.