Declan McCarthy

Earlier this month I was very honoured to give a presentation on 'Purple Rain' at the wonderful #EroticCity40 symposium organised by the amazing @polishedsolid! It's now available to watch on YouTube if anyone wants to check out my talk! youtu.be/j5rt0CuFtXU?si…

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Popping back into this hell hole with lightning speed just to note that the opening line of this ("Squeeze my cherry baby, so the juice can run down my leg"), has its roots in Robert Johnson's 'Traveling Riverside Blues'.

So, I think I'm done here. I no longer wish to use a platform operated by a man who bolstered and supported the re-election of a right-wing, fascist, wannabe dictator. If anyone wants me, I'll be on Instagram (dbpmccarthy). Take care.

this is what yall voted for btw

I really hope I'm wrong, but I have such a sinking feeling about this whole thing. Still early days though...

Oh man. What a titan of contemporary music. No doubt there'll be a lot of focus on his work with Michael Jackson, but even if he'd never even worked with MJ, he'd still have one of the most illustrious careers in the history of popular music. Hell of a legacy. R.I.P.

Made the most of hmv's 40% off Criterion Collection sale this weekend to quell the growing existential dread I feel about Tuesday...

@sms130official Which makes the entire situation terrifying.

@dbpmccarthy Right. Yet, this is the same talk and nonsense that some people are really pushing for. The choice for some people were already made back at like 2016 and 2020, which is crazy that we're still having conversations regarding it all.

How is this even legal?

@iamslickrick_ Which is why I'm fully on board with Biden's "garbage" comment 😂 At this point if they're still in the Trump train after all this, they've made their choice...

@iamslickrick_ Someone asked me recently if I thought anything could happen in the next few days to turn the tide substantially. But he's already done about sixty things over the last ten years that would have killed anyone else's career stone dead, so there really is no bottom to this. Mad.

@iamslickrick_ I just can't with these people...

One of the most appropriate album covers I've ever seen, because this album will take your fucking head off. Holy hell.

This is fence-sitting cowardice. washingtonpost.com/style/media/20…

NEW REVIEW Really enjoying @ChuckProphet's new album featuring @QIENSAVE, Wake The Dead, and wrote up some thoughts about it for @nowthenmag! Link below for those who are interested.

This is actually quite surprising considering how lukewarm the critical and financial reception for Kingdom was. Not that I'm complaining. I'll take all the Apes films I can get.

@gavinlenaghan It does seem to be in pretty good condition thankfully! Charity shops can be so hit and miss these days with vinyl, but every so often something falls through the cracks.

@dbpmccarthy Result! Especially if the record's in great condition. Still need to pick up Pandemonium myself

Thrilled to have stumbled across a copy of this in a St. Lukes yesterday for £4.50!! Only the second copy I've ever seen in the wild round here over the years. They had a run of the mill McCartney album priced up at £19, so I'm not entirely sure they knew what they had here.

@sms130official Very jealous! I scored a sealed copy of What Time Is It last year, but The Time vinyl just generally seems to be in short supply around here unfortunately...

@dbpmccarthy Nice! I still have copy sealed.😎

And my The Time LP collection is now complete!