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Really enjoyed the Skin Imps Show at Telford's on Friday. Sometimes I can't believe I still get paid to play music with my friends. Music is a life hack (Pics at afternoon soundcheck). X

@FabrizioRomano He'll probably set them up in a 4-hee-hee formation

🚨 Michael Jackson will be Burnley’s interim manager until the end of the season, club statement confirms. Follows Scott Parker leaving with immediate effect.

@batcountry1980 We live 3 minutes from the Eleanor Rigby gravestone. It's cool. Anyone who says they don't appreciate the Beatles is either trying too hard to be cool or has PTSD from working in Matthew street :)

You’ve got to take your hat off to the Scousers, they know what they’ve got with The Beatles, and they honour them properly. I mean, their airport is named after John Lennon. Not a statue, though there is one of him there, but an international airport. That’s not a “this will get the tourists in” move. When you start naming airports after someone, you’re acknowledging they’re a legend. And you go to Liverpool and stay in the Hard Day’s Night Hotel, which is round the corner from the Beatles Quarter, which is full of Beatles pubs and shops. And the Cavern. And the Beatles museum, which isn’t even the only one. There’s a bigger and better one down at the docks. And there’s Beatles stuff scattered all over the city, reminding you this is the home of the Fab Four. It doesn’t feel like cashing in, more like a city that knows exactly what it gave the world, and isn’t shy about it. Great place, great people.

This Friday, 17th April, Telford's Warehouse. The Skin Imps return. We have been very busy, in distant lands fighting Skeletor and his forces of evil, but we return, triumphant to administer your treatment. Plenty to look forward to in the Skin Imps World. See you on Friday.

@GetMyGuitars An Artist Skyler. Cost £300, better than some of my Gibsons.

What’s the most “expensive sounding” cheap guitar you’ve ever played? 👀🎸

@batcountry1980 @Top10Nathan That was an excellent soundtrack. Roadhouse blues into Heroin into Carmina Burana. 14 year old me didn't know what hit him.

My introduction to this was The Doors movie. They are at a Warhol party and it plays. Heroin is in it, too. That was on the soundtrack which was the first Doors album I got. Went and bought the VU album after it. Also in that movie, there’s a wee line where Jim mentions Arthur Lee. I went and bought Forever Changes and Love’s debut because of that line. It was really impactful on me that movie in a lot of ways.

#365PerfectSongs 88/365 Every day in 2026, I'm playing and sharing a song that I think is perfect. No extra commentary. No notes. Just the song. Today's song is The Velvet Underground's 'Venus In Furs'. youtu.be/KR7Lv8XZtkk?si…

Liverpool ranked as the number 1 city to visit by the Telegraph for 2026. Photo by (Richard Storey ) 📸 1. Liverpool Visitor appeal: 9/10 The iconic Royal Liver Building provides panoramic views of our number 1 city Credit: Bardhok Ndoji/iStockphoto In certain lights – which can be a summer evening, a clear dawn, a wintry afternoon – the waterfront of Liverpool is magical. It’s partly the contrast with the shopping area, which is often hectic, but it’s also the sheer, irrefutable glory of the Three Graces and the handsome red dock architecture combined with sea breezes and a big sky. Liverpool has had major ups and downs, swinging from the “managed decline” imposed on it by Geoffrey Howe after the Toxteth riots to the pomp and pageantry of 2007-8 when the city was the UK’s last ever European Capital of Culture (hosting, among other things, the glamorous MTV Europe awards) and celebrated its 800th birthday. The Walker, Open Eye Gallery and Museum of Liverpool are always hosting exciting shows; the Tate, being refurbished till 2027, and the International Slavery and Maritime museums, closed till 2027, are sorely missed by Albert Dock visitors. The Liverpool ONE al-fresco mall-type development is not to everyone’s taste, but the big-name chains attract good numbers of shoppers. Boasting stellar Victorian heritage architecture and the UK’s two finest modern-era cathedrals, a still buzzing pub scene, improving gastronomy and a small but strong arts scene, Liverpool is a one-off. Its people are storytellers and, more importantly, stars in their own private novels. Via (Life in Liverpool)

Me and Robbie as young pups youtu.be/kUwYPzE68mQ?si…

When someone says “Musical Genius”, who’s the first artist that comes to mind?

@TheStrugglingS4 It's pod people HQ

LinkedIn is still such a weird place to me. I also feel like so many people are probably using chatGPT to write their posts for them, and that must be contributing to why all of the published paper posts look and feel the same. Empty.

Jai found this today. We (Me, Jai and Colin) started our first band together in 1996, around 30 years ago. We were called Pennyface back then. We later became The Hidden Persuders (with Thor Brown), then we were Templeton Peck, then The Skin Imps were born.

@batcountry1980 @deanriehm @SalvadorDafti @SurfThrash @sjgiardini Re-read the OP, sole woman's name being the title of the song. I.e.: "Sara" by Dylan. In which case, Lou has zero, so disregard the above list. As you were. :)

@batcountry1980 @deanriehm @SalvadorDafti @SurfThrash @sjgiardini Lou wrote a bunch: Cycle Annie Lady Godiva's Operation Sister Ray Candy Says Sweet Jane Stephanie Says Lisa Says Caroline Says I Caroline Says II Ride Sally Ride Sally Can't Dance Waltzing Matilda I Love You Suzanne Romeo had Juliette Dorita - The Spirit

Calling in the big guns: @batcountry1980 @SalvadorDafti @SurfThrash @sjgiardini What songs am I missing?

@TheCinesthetic Dead Man's Shoes (2004) - IMDb share.google/az7jqcc07anQ57…

What's the best film centered around vengeance you've watched?

@natemixing Cubase and LUNA

If you could combine multiple DAWs into one, Which ones you would choose?

@karlrgibson1 @FYMTommyGuru Calzaghe v Lacy was the best boxing display I ever saw. An interesting question, is dominating a peak of their powers good fighter more impressive than dominating a diminished all time great? I don't know the answer.

@FYMTommyGuru Lacey was a better demonstration. RJJ way past his best here.

The great Joe Calzaghe flowing against Roy Jones Jr. Nobody done it quite like Sir Joe 🐐

@BeatsByIQ1 @natemixing I suppose it's one way of introducing some analogue warmth :)

@bigcloudstroud @natemixing Lucky I didn't burn my place down when it dripped on the main surge protector and started smelling like burned wires.

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