Ian Webster

Leaving here soon… tried to find some of you, semi-successfully on the new BlueSky place which seems not as toxic & isn’t owned by a nut job (I hope! 😆)

@BloodRecs @jamesblake FFS….

FINAL FEW! @jamesblake 'Trying Times' - UK only blood-records.co.uk/products/james…

Praise be they’ve managed to not repeat last year’ s Mariella Frostrup car crash

@BloodRecs 😂😂😂

MBF

@h_poonaan @mrsrowden22 @sainsburys I’ll come round! We’ll invent a new cocktail!

@IanEWebster @mrsrowden22 @sainsburys At least your gin will last the week, we’re getting a bottle of Bollinger! 😅

@sainsburys I can’t update my order it keeps logging me out the app and website. I need to finalise by 11pm. What’s going on?

@BloodRecs @jamesblake Never had that before… dropped my sale during Apple Pay process, when I tried to redo it told me it was sold out 🤬

NEW DROP! Trying Times, the new album from @jamesblake comes to ‘snail swirl’ clear, gold and white LP, limited to 750 and hand-numbered to order: blood-records.co.uk/products/james…

@Albumism Vinyl & 1&1 Cassette (remember them!) & CD

Cassette, CD, vinyl record, digital or all of the above—which formats of this album have been part of your collection over the years? Explore our tribute here: album.ink/TheB52s1979

@PrEPpaPig Follow me please

Belly out + Cock ring on + Hole stretched. = Happy Piggy 🐷 🐻

@BloodRecs Or

Some sexy songs coming up

@BloodRecs ?

@GrantMcPheeFilm @ScotsPostPunk Was sitting next to Sylvia Reed on the first night in centre stalls, big sunglasses on through while show… ) £18 what a total bargain 😂

@ScotsPostPunk I used to have a decent bootleg of both dates but have lost them. And a t-shirt (despite not being there)

When The Velvet Underground came to Edinburgh in 1993. grantmcphee.substack.com/p/the-velvet-u…

@roisinmurphy @proudbiwoman @Brig_333 @daniellismore 1972 Bowie lyric : keep digging the hole Róisín, keep digging 🙄

@proudbiwoman @Brig_333 @daniellismore No one even used the term “queer” unless it was to hurt someone who was gay. There were some brilliant drag queens but they never said they were actual women. Oh and the parties were fun then. 🙄

New Suicide Data Shows Disproportionate Risk for LGBTQ+ Children in England Newly released data highlights a significant disparity in child suicide deaths affecting LGBTQ+ young people in England and raises questions about how policy decisions impact child safety and wellbeing. Figures obtained by QueerAF through a Freedom of Information request to the National Child Mortality Database show that between April 2019 and March 2025, 647 children in England died by suicide. Of those children, 107 were identified as LGBTQ+ and 46 were identified as transgender. This means approximately 16.5 percent of the children who died by suicide during that period were LGBTQ+ and approximately 7.1 percent were transgender. These proportions are significantly higher than estimates of LGBTQ+ representation in the general child population, indicating a disproportionate impact. Preventable deaths campaigner Lucy Brisbane said that every preventable death of a child is unacceptable and that understanding contributing factors is essential to reducing risk. She stated that protecting all children, including trans children, requires removing political considerations from policymaking and focusing on evidence-based prevention. Research and clinical reporting consistently link elevated suicide risk among LGBTQ+ children to external factors rather than identity itself. These factors include bullying in school environments, family rejection, social isolation, exposure to stigma and hostility in public discourse, and coercive practices such as conversion therapy. The data does not suggest inevitability. Instead, it identifies conditions that can be changed. Evidence shows that safer school environments, supportive families, access to appropriate healthcare, and policies grounded in established research are associated with improved mental health outcomes for LGBTQ+ young people. Gay, lesbian, and transgender adults were once children. The outcomes reflected in this data arise from experiences during childhood and adolescence rather than from identity alone. Early environments play a critical role in shaping long-term wellbeing. The policy question raised by this data is direct. Should systems prioritise support, acceptance, and safety for children as they are, or should they maintain conditions that evidence shows increase the risk of harm and death. Any comments on this? @roisinmurphy @jk_rowling thepinknews.com/2026/02/02/tra…

@dyerAndie @ohgleybradderz Ps. Andie, I was in the pitch same day as you & remember think £20 was quite steep 😂

@ohgleybradderz That's actually obscene. We had it good in the old days, you even got a "free" paper ticket as a souvenir which nowadays is at least a £10 add-on.

This is two tickets to see Harry Styles in Wembley, not even close to the stage either may I add. Concert tickets should NOT cost this much, absolutely disgusting!

@dyerAndie @ohgleybradderz It’s just indefensible, regardless what you think of the individual act. £800 is a nice mini break in Europe for 2 for 3 days…. The only way it’ll stop is if people stop paying

How magnificent it is to finally acknowledge the fact of how complex you are. It’s not always pretty. It’s the beauty. It’s the madness. BEAUTIFUL MADNESS OUT NOW!

@BloodRecs No chance of an #Agnes pressing?

Opening the vault tomorrow evening

@nme1980s I wonder who bought up IPC?

@IanEWebster I’ve no idea. 🤷‍♂️ Not sure who owns the rights down the years.

Mari Wilson, ‘as a consumer’. Pic by Bryn Jones. New Musical Express, 29 May 1982. @MissBeehive

@BloodRecs Happy Christmas Craig ♥️🎅🤶🎄

Dearest Family, Happy Christmas! I hope you're all having the absolute best day! This year has been a trip, a strange fever dream I'll never forget and I owe it all to you. 2026 is going to be even wilder and it starts with a triple drop for Discmus and then a massive one dropping on the stroke of midnight on NYE! Love, Craig.

@creepingbentorg Is there a better album opener than ‘Five Years’?

I know it’s unfashionable in some Bowie circles, but, I listened to Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars LP earlier, and, it’s magic totally transported me back to teenage life in Glassford. The David Bowie Songbook is where I learned to play guitar. Vive le Ziggy!