Brummie Road

Account no longer in use; follow Ian Richards at @HellfireBecky. Brummie Road still available to buy in Kindle & paperback:

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Read summat bostin on yer bonk holiday. Brummie Road out for #Kindle and in
#paperback: http://t.co/aLzJdjzDW7

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"Black by day and red by night..."

Hill Top Foundry, Wednesbury, 1949 #BlackCountryDay

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@DamCou Cypress Geoffrey Hill
Snoop Donne

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@Halalcoholism I can only presume his prejudices were informed by that influential early spell at Dynamo Khazad-Dum.

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@Halalcoholism I fondly recall hearing a South African on the BBC a few years ago talking about the necessity of fighting ISIS. Bless him, he really didn't get why the host was in fits of giggles every time he declared "We must devote all of our attention to farting arses!"

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@DamCou I've also spent this week listening to the first album by Television Personalities, which - despite sounding like it was recorded in an attic with a mic wrapped in cotton-wool - has some corkers; "La Grande Illusion" being my favourite.

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@DamCou I think "Best Friend" by The Beat is one of the most underrated earworms of that whole era. And there's a certain quirky brilliance to "Miss Gradenko" by The Police, about a love affair between two Soviet apparatchiks.

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@Halalcoholism It is, of course, a well-known fact that the first action of the newly-founded CIA was to pay Mary Wollstonecraft 150 years of wage arrears.

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@rickburin @twlldun I 100% agree about The Pogues, but it also saddens me that Kirsty MacColl's back catalogue isn't better known. "See That Girl", "Terry", "He's On The Beach"; wonderful pop songs, all but forgotten.

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@DamCou Yeah, I guessed from the context of the tweet; was just messing about. I was born a music pedant and will die a music pedant (most likely beaten to death with a stack of my own first-edition vinyls).

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@DamCou *Polite cough* You mean JOHN FOGERTY'S "Proud Mary"? See, some of us whippersnappers go straight to the source!

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@David_Tossell Cheers David, glad you enjoyed it!

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@paultuxworth Cheers Paul, really appreciated.

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@jeremyduns Not a cover, but it astonished me how much Adam & The Ants ripped off Rolf Harris for Prince Charming: https://t.co/gZzF4xYwcA

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@twlldun I'll let you off the fact that it's blatantly HMHB, on the basis that their best stuff is all post-1990.

P.S. It is HMHB, though.

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Zolly gets the ball 25 yards out. Boom. Sunderland vs WBA, 24th November 2012. https://t.co/QkwsKg0rK4

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When celebrating with the people who pay your wages wasn't a "bookable offence"; Super Bob vs Stoke, 1992. https://t.co/fnv8eQWpRY

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It's a ballet class at the Hawthorns as Big Cyrille makes his WBA league debut vs Middlesbrough, 3rd September 1977.

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@HillDuanne @WBA @BornToBeaBaggie @MemorabiliaMall Great work! The picture's from summer 1981.

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Have to say, this new Hawthorns makeover looks an absolute treat #WBA #ThemWereTheDays