Music, art, film, sustainable fashion, interiors & stuff, more sporadic than prolific. Washed-up former club promoter/DJ, now working in museums & galleries
I’ve been posting on here less and less for the past year or so, as being on Twitter feels increasingly like wading through far right sewage. You can find me on the other usual social media platforms https://t.co/aeq0bpvjIy
The original version of Agadoo ('Agadou Doudou') from 1970 with lyrics in French about meeting a pretty maiden in Tahiti, tasting her forbidden fruits, then getting thrown in jail and losing a ukulele!
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I’ve been to #Glastonbury twice; my most memorable time was probably 2008 when I DJ’d to a completely empty tent on the Saturday afternoon and later met ‘Spuggy’from Byker Grove (who was an absolute legend) somewhere near Shangri-La at around 3am
@edsyder actually I did see them round about then at a relatively small venue, but they weren’t the sort of stuff I was into at the time. They were part of a very different scene; not enough eyeliner, no ridiculous outfits and too many guitars for my liking. Plus they could play properly!
I was never that into them , but saw the Arctic Monkeys last night and they were amazing! Whilst everyone is getting nostalgic for the mid-00s Sheffield scene, here’s a playlist of Razor Stiletto classics, bangers & oddities that I put together a while ago https://t.co/0JaSnMLi6E
I’m only 1 episode into ‘Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone’ but it’s completely mind blowing & captures the bleakness of late 80s USSR;
From televised phone-ins with the KGB, scientists at Chernobyl using sellotape as PPE, Lada factories looted by gangsters, and terrible synth pop