Mike Kirkup

Associate lecturer in media & film studies/popular culture @ Newcastle Uni. Piano & rhythm guitar. Dylan/Beatles/Kinks/Byrds/Doors. Labour. Seahouses resident.

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@rcuffy 'This isn't TV, and he's not William Shatner..'

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One of those days in England... a Sunday stroll along the River Aln...

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I'm not a fan of clichés - I tend to avoid them like the plague - but spring has sprung in Seahouses...

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@Noirchick1 Aaaaargh, difficult. But I'll go for Double Indemnity, just for the Stanwyk ankle bracelet and the whole '80 mph' dialogue at the beginning...😎

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@Noirchick1 Maybe the most underrated classic Hollywood era was Errol Flynn. Think of The Adventures of Robin Hood, Dawn Patrol, the 'you can take glory with you' scene in They Died with Their Boots On....

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@LikeOldTat A Beatle story I hadn't heard before... v interesting 🎶🎶🎹

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@amy_oakden @BBCTees I'm doing a trek through my Beatles mono box set (as you do when the nights start to draw in), and I've reached the White Album, so it's headphones on, glass of rioja & press play...` Flew in from Miami Beach, BOAC...' etc.

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@LikeOldTat Yes, we saw John Laverick in the pub about 5 years ago, along with a couple of other teachers. Didn't know Ben was in the village. The camp was 47 years ago....YIKES!

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The last stop on my summer Doors album trip...headphones + sun make it even better. Let it roll...

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@Noirchick1 5 with a bit of 8...

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@LikeOldTat @JohnDensmore Yup. Track one, side one, album one.... Your mam n Dads front room, Whickham, April 1976.' Break on through to the other side...' 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

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@LikeOldTat Yup. And being a proper old git, moaning about the loud acts at Glastonbury. Best so far... ALANIS and CMAT. Stroppy lasses eh? 🎶🎤

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@LikeOldTat Impressive. Andys hands are too big for that, though.

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@MichelleDewbs @cfdownes_ @schneiderhome @GBNEWS Actually, I may have promoted Lee Anderson up a social class (!) but I'd like to think my argument still stands! And Farage made a fatal error championing Andrew Tate as a role model for young men. Imagine a whole generation of men with that accent....

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@MichelleDewbs @cfdownes_ @schneiderhome @GBNEWS I disagree with you on nearly everything on your show (that's free speech I suppose!), but your point about male egos was spot on. Five very well off, middle-class, business-focused men trying to fight for their own space isn't very healthy.

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@CatWorkers Binks has already joined...swotting up for his Hitchcock lecture next week.

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@LikeOldTat Nearly...