Alan O'Hare
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Dad. Communications Manager. Songwriter- 5th LP imminent & back catalogue linked below. Writer. Scouser. Evertonian. Here for music, football, politics etc.
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🗓️ Friday October 11th
📍
@ProhibitionLive
1️⃣2️⃣th annual ‘with strings’ show
🎻 Featuring a string quartet joining me for songs, old & new
➕ special guest Shadow Captain
🎟️ Last few choc ices
#NewMusicFriday
#LiverpoolMusic
#LiverpoolGigs
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🐐 On some days, the greatest song ever written…
🎶 Brilliant Disguise
🎸
@springsteen
✝️ God have mercy on the man who doubts what he’s sure of…
🎙 Live vocal on the video
#ThrowbackThursday
👇
🎥
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#NewProfilePic
I think I’m gonna’ like it here - one month into a new job working inside a Liverpool institution. Something magic about walking into a big auld theatre every day. I’m the new Communications Manager
@LiverpoolEmpire
- just in time for our 100th birthday in 2025
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Cliffy Marshall there, 4th from the left. Me Dad grew up with Cliff & stayed close until his death last year. Cliffy ran the 147 on Picton Rd & let me play snooker way past kids’ hours. He was a gent & I miss laughing out loud in their merciless company 🖤💙
#BlackHistoryMonth
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One for
#ThrowbackThursday
Who remembers this? Picked up at
@OxfamAllerton
recently and devoured in a sitting or two 📖
#EmotionalGeography
#Liverpool
#Scouse
#BookTwitter
#Toxteth
#Liverpool8
#Books
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Dear Bruce
@springsteen
, I've just listened to
#TunnelOfLove
three times in a row as I sat writing at the kitchen table. It's untouchable. You, sir, are a bastard. But the best kind.
#Springsteen
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One of the best books about
@springsteen
I’ve read
Alongside the criminally underrated ‘Tunnel Of Love’,
#Nebraska
remains the perfect anomaly in his catalogue
🗣️ He was singing for himself -
@StevieVanZandt
A great read, shedding new light on the making of a masterpiece.
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Sitting here with a coffee and being quietly devastated by
@conoroberst
’s
#Ruminations
- how have I missed this? The ‘Nebraska’ typeface &
@SimoneFelice
sleeve notes should have tipped me off... what a start to the week
#NowPlaying
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📚
#ThrowbackThursday
Talk of
#Liverpool
novels made me think of this lockdown find again. I found an old copy in Oxfam, then went on a deep dive to find the follow-up and discovered there were four parts to Rocky’s story. Who knew? Read all about it 👇
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Seeing shouts re. ‘celebrating staying up’ from people who should know better. It’s football. It’s blood. It’s instinct. It’s emotion. It’s sheer fucking relief from those fighting for change in a house they built.
It’s also fuck all to do with you if you’re not a Blue
#UTFT
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📔
#OnThisDay
It was 40 years ago today,
@springsteen
recorded the songs that would become
#Nebraska
onto this 4-track machine.
It remains one of recorded music’s greatest anomaly’s & a set of songs that helped shape the rest of his career.
My Father’s House for me. You?
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Happy birthday
@NevilleSouthall
My hero when I was a kid… and an inspiration to this day.
From in search of perfection to nobody wins unless everybody wins.
Thanks, Nev’ 💙 🧤 🏴
#UTFT
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“
@U2
: 'LITTLE BOOK OF A BIG YEAR' - Bono's 'A To Z of 2014'
http://t.co/mQ40ktR4VM”
love lots of this, in particular
@NoelGallagher
line :-)
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Really hope
#PhilHayes
is found safe. Keep sharing everyone. I’m RT this to keep it going - a long interview I did with Phil for
@liverpool_etc
about 18 months ago. His hope shines through, there’s not many in our community who don’t owe him something 👇
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Me Dad turned up today with some old photos he’s found. Gotta’ be mid to late 90s looking at me teenage barnet and Randolph’s 👀
#UTFT
#EFC
Merry Christmas all 💙
Alex Young (RIP),
@NevilleSouthall
, Howard Kendall (RIP),
@reid6peter
📍 Liverpool Adelphi?
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🗯 “Woking is where
#Weller
was born, but his heart has always been in the city: cities like Liverpool, London and anywhere else working class tribes gather to sing, shout and sup…
🎸
@paulwellerHQ
📍
@EventimOlympia
📸 & ✍️
@Urbanistatweet
>
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Picked up in a cool little vintage shop in the north east today - familiar to any one?
@bobdylanpodcast
@bobdylancenter
@isitrollingpod
@BobDylanNews
@barberville
#BobDylan
#Dylan
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@christine_mcvie
thanks for the songs, Christine. Those beautiful, beautiful songs. See you everywhere x
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If she was a he, this beautiful face would be staring out at you from the covers of the music monthlies twice a year. A genius. We'll never forget you, Kirsty. 21 years ago today and still no justice...
#KirstyMacColl
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🎉
@NevilleSouthall
birthday? Go ‘ed then, I’ll start…
1. Coventry (a) 1988
2. Tip over from
@officialbarnesy
3. Varadi ‘round the post
… all the best, Neville! And thanks for everything.
🐐 🏴 💙
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🗓️
#OnThisDay
in 2015 we lost
#HowardKendall
Thanks for the best childhood a boy could wish for, Boss
🏆🏆🏆🏆
Whatever it is Evertonians cling to, Howard’s legacy makes it easier for us to do so
#EFC
#Everton
#UTFT
📸 the game before we won the league in 1987 💙
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@CalDC1878
my cousin. Scouser. Boss Blue. A lot calmer now. And a kid, btw. Up the fucking Toffees 💙
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Loved being a tourist in my own city today. It’s easy to fall into the trap of believing town is Liverpool. It’s not. But I needed to see us at our best - and showing family from Edinburgh ‘round was just the fillip I needed.
Fuck the fash’; nobody wins unless everybody wins 💙
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There you go, Frank. You now know what you knew anyway from last season’s shambles, you can’t trust one player you picked tonight… so why pick them? No wonder we haven’t won a bean since 95, I’ll never get how intelligent people fall for the myth of resting players in the cup.
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Big Liverpool gigs coming up
@O2AcademyLpool
for the two inspirational gentlemen on my right, there.
@IanProwse
big Crimbo’ bash this Saturday.
@castofficial
’s annual lash through the hits + more next Friday Dec 16th
I’ll see you for a light ale at either if you’re game 🍻
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Boss night standing side of stage to help
@IanProwse
and co. lift up the hearts of a sold-out Music Room inside
@liverpoolphil
👏
Like a fine wine…
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@lucianaberger
@UKLabour
The Times. You’re happy to let millionaires dictate the narrative, then? Come and knock on some doors in L15 and tell us all about it, the kettle’s been on for over a month now.
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@GeneralEFC
he’ll always be welcome
Show me someone who hasn’t made a mistake
Sharpy earned his stripes and earned the right to a second chance
Up the fucking Toffees
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For the Falco save, the Varadi tip ‘round the post, Coventry away 88 (best goalkeeping I’ve seen), the search for perfection, the 95 cup win, the sit off, ‘I love my wife’ & the ongoing highlighting of football hypocrisy & Tory bastards, happy birthday
@NevilleSouthall
#WalesNo1
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“Before
@thebeatles
is something to be.”
@billybragg
’s excellent
#RootsRadicalsRockers
is a book “… where history comes to life and light is shone in dusty corners and long-forgotten boxes of treasure.”
#BookReview
for
#ThrowbackThursday
📚👇
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I’m off to the auld county later to receive communion from The Boss
Every time I’ve seen
@springsteen
in Ireland, the level goes up
I wrote this for the ace
@springsteen_ire
book a few years back
And the dogs on Main St howl ‘cause they understand
#SpringsteenTour2023
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Been listening to this all day and it remains brilliant. I picked it up
@FindhornFound
a few years back.
@MickPuck
, the slow ‘Don’t Bang The Drum’ & ‘That Was The River’ with Tom Verlaine... any memories? And ‘Billy Sparks’, little glimpse of the future, too. Great listen 🎶
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Breaks my bleedin’ heart this picture of
@thezanzibarliv
Teenage dreams ain’t so hard to beat anymore ☹️
Buildings, eh. I’ll be thinking about the one and only Tony Butler today
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“Welcome back The Wild Swans.”
#ThrowbackThursday
> 2009
Who remembers ‘English Electric Lightning’ coming out? An interview of mine with the fab
@MrPaulSimpson1
popped up this week…
What a song (and coat) 🎶 🎧👇
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I finished
#reading
this, today. But I’ll be feeling the movements traced within for a while yet. If it’s an author’s job to make you care about their obsessions, then it says it all that I’ll be seeing these characters on the faces of people I meet. Recommended.
#BookTwitter
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👀 This interview, which I remember being much more in-depth on the website, was my favourite when working for Trinity Mirror’s Liverpool .com
I’m gonna’ guess 2008?
Happy birthday
@MrPaulSimpson1
, I’m happy you continue to make music & tell stories. Can’t wait for the book!
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Happy birthday
#HowardKendall
- hope the boss is enjoying a nice glass of something lovely wherever he is. I’ll be raising several to him tonight to say ‘thank you’ for the best childhood a boy could wish for
#EFC
#BlueFamily
💙
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Happy 75th to the Boss 💙
Hope you’ve just popped a cork wherever you are 🍾
Thanks for the best childhood a boy could wish for
#HowardKendall
Man City (H), 1987, days before winning the league. My Dad was gutted he wouldn’t open the Champagne as we still needed a point! 🏆
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New
@uncutmagazine
unearths a belter from 1983
@nme
- what a gig
@ben_watt
@Michael_Head_
double header. Let's do it again in
#Liverpool
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Picked this belter up in
@OxfamSmithdown
📚
Before my time, just (I was 3 when it came out), but the stories are so familiar through family tales etc. Dated in parts but a vital social primary source of
#Toxteth
and surrounding areas.
Emotional geography, indeed
#BookTwitter
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Happy birthday
@reid6peter
… still snarling an hour after the match! Probably desperate for a 🍺 here, Reidy… the next game we beat Norwich (a) to lift the ‘87 title 🏆
Ta for giving the Blues everything you had, Peter. Hope you have a great day 🎉
#Everton
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#NewProfilePic
👀 A view from Penny Lane bridge
💿 The front cover of the fourth Only Child album, ‘Straight Lines’
🗓 Released March 18 2022
🎧
📸 Rob Swerdlow
#NewMusicFriday
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“
@jeffyoungwriter
has been there and back to see how far it is 1000 times…”
Great to see
#GhostTown
coming to paperback & delighted to be quoted about it 🗯
I’ve written lots about its magic, but it continues to say even more to me…
#BookReview
👇
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I’ll say this for social media, your timelines let you know who made a genuine difference in the lives of those you love and respect
#ripterryhall
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@NothingvilleM
@timotierney
🎯 there’s a dimension where I’m still stood by the bar waiting in that gaff
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“We came by the river
We travelled over sea
Brought with us a civilisation
And settled down by the Mersey.”
Scouse? They don’t know the meaning of the word.
An immigrant song for
#LIVERPOOL
🎥
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I’ve turned my head away over the last few days, disappearing to Spiddal, Galway & the west of Ireland with
@WaterboysMusic
The 🎶 & 📕 comprising the
#RoomToRoam
reissue on
@ChrysalisRecs
are more than nostalgia, they’re still alive
🙏
@MickPuck
&
@stevewickham
🎸🎻🎷🪗
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@paulwellerHQ
JAM: … and a hundred lonely housewives clutch empty milk bottles to their ‘earts
TSC: The class war’s real and not mythologised
PW: … build a heaven on the ground, not something distant and unfound, but something real to me
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*** GIG ***
Sat August 31st
@DistrictLpool
- a tribute to the late Tony Butler. Us,
@ToffeeYaffle
,
@nickellis_music
,
@MaddieStenberg
+ more. Gonna’ sing me heart out for the fella’ who gave me my first gigs down Seel St all those years ago. Tickets 👇
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Off into town to see the greatest little rock ‘n soul band in all the land do their thing on the main stage of
@liverpoolphil
🎧 >
@IanProwse
& Amsterdam
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👀 The man in the middle is
@MatthewMozzer
, writer and supporter of
#Liverpool
bands. Gotta’ thank him for pulling us all together for this photo after Friday’s gig
@LEAFonBoldSt
I spoke to Matt for an
@ExploreLpool
interview, too:
📸
@MishMarshall68
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Thanks to
@ToffeeArt
for sorting me Dad with a nice
#Everton
mystery box for his 70th birthday 🎉
The perfect gift for Blues of all ages 💙
#EFC
#UTFT
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It’s just a month away.
Three years of graft, heartbreak and optimism.
Music. It never lets you down.
Come join us at
@blackdeerfest
🎟
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Thanks to
@MGStephenson
for a night full of heart in Southport
@AtkinsonThe
- and thanks to
@GratefulFreddie
for asking me to play, I had a blast opening up to another full room
Remember how music used to make you feel? It still does 🎶
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When I see the photo of those entitled bastards, I see the faces of their enablers
👀 Labour scoundrels who turned away from socialism
👀 Media celebrities (not journalists) like O’Brien & Morgan
👀 Malignant blue tick bastards who lied about Corbyn
#ToryChristmasparty
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Fuck the boxing, this was the best knockout punch from a heavyweight today:
#maxinepeake
#Corbyn
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The mighty, mighty, mighty
@The_Proclaimers
have just torn the
@LiverpoolEmpire
apart with their soul singing and hearts flying. They remain the band of the working class. At least half a dozen absolute classics. Life-affirming music. 💚
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Seems apt this is on a carpet in our front room… 📖 Written by
@markhod70
,
#NooneRoundHereReadsTolstoy
is a cracking read. Part One is essential & contains some of the most insightful words on
#books
#writing
you’ll ever read. Not sure we needed part 2? Recommended
#BookTwitter
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📚 “
@jeffyoungwriter
has been there and back to see how far it is one thousand times…” 📚
The evocative, engaging and startlingly original
#GhostTown
has been named in the
#PorticoPrize
long list.
You won’t read a better book this year
#BookReview
👇
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Thanks for all the support so far for ‘Scouse’, made up 👍🏻
WATCH 🎥
PRE-ORDER ALBUM:
GIG TICKETS:
It’s taken from the forthcoming album ‘Emotional Geography’, which we launch
@liverpoolphil
Fri Feb 22 🎵
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Me and my girl are all over the playground that is North Wales like a rash.
Funny, the things the place is stirring in me.
The memory is a funny place, eh… it draws you into its happy places then surrounds you with sadness when it wants to.
Getting older, la.
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Thanks to everyone who packed out
@81renshaw
last night for the launch of
#Wintersong
- the sense of community in the room was really felt by all of us on-stage. We had a ball and it’s been lovely reading you did, too. Crowd & band as one - thank you all 😘
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‘… to pioneering broadcaster Janice Long’.
Put her name in the headline and stop chasing clicks on news such as this. She’s one of our own and deserves more than the game you’re playing here.
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As an old mate of mine always says, it’s funny where this guitar can take you... thanks to
@LoveWavertree
&
@AaronEllisLPL
for asking me to sing today for
#WavertreeWonderland
in the library on the High St. I can draw a straight line from this building to my childhood. Loved it.
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Small Farm, written by John Power
JP is massively underrated in the story of
#Liverpool
music.
@castofficial
are sound, but it’s in his solo work you’ll find his truth. I hope I’ve come close to finding the heaven on the ground John writes of here
🎧👇
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🗣 The heart of this record resides in the solitary darkness of songs such as the devastating ‘A Sweetness In You’…
- make the new
@jamesyorkston
@theninapersson
album your first 🎶 priority of 2023. They’re on tour, too…
My
@theskinnymag
review 👇
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I saw Bruce
@springsteen
in Dublin last night. It was… intense. And here’s why ✍️
⚠️ Don’t read if you’re avoiding setlists/spoilers
🧵
#springsteentour2023
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I used to think I was too much of a fan to make music. Then I got into
@ElvisCostello
... there’s no bigger music fan. Each month,
@uncutmagazine
do an ‘Album by Album’ feature with the great and good, this month EC has written his own! And it’s a must-read...
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You’ve seen the videos, now come and see us live and in colour as we launch our third album inside
@liverpoolphil
at The Music Room, Friday February 22nd 2019 🎸🎻
Tickets ▶️
Support comes from the fab
@vormawahmarc
and his band
Design:
@milkyonedesign
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Just before we hit the music room stage
@liverpoolphil
Friday. Thanks to all who came, cheered and clapped - and bought the new album; that full room was much appreciated 👊🏼 the smiling faces say it all, we had a blast.
#EmotionalGeography
is launched!
📸
@Vanessamurray95
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You’ll only know next Friday how special the
@IanProwse
lockdown gigs have been. A perfect example of how a community can come together under the spell of song. Music, we gotta’ fight for it.
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"The best band in the fucking world!"
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I’ve listened to
#AHardDaysNight
half a dozen times in the last 24 hours. When you’re in need of joy, it never fails. Thanks
@thebeatles
👍🏻
... I’m off to write a thesis on the way
@johnlennon
sings “mine” in ‘I Should Have Known Better’
#FAB
#Lennon
#Beatles
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LISTEN - brand new song and summational album closer ‘Thinking Of A Place’ is available to hear now ahead of Friday’s
#EmotionalGeography
album launch
@liverpoolphil
👇
📸
@brian_rob
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The fourth album is underway.
🎶 🎸 🎻 🎺 🥁 🎹 🎶
“We’re drawing straight lines.”
🎶 🎸 🎻 🎺 🥁 🎹 🎶
📸
@crosstownstudio
#NewMusicFriday
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🗯 There's gold, frank and mirth on each and every page as
@oasis
come of age in the end days of huge record sales, mainstream interest in music and mad for it fans…
#BookReview
#BookTwitter
✍️
@halfon
📚
@headlinepg
#Oasis
👇
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🗣 Great opportunities are being handed to us on a plate. If this keeps up, and we aren’t careful, there is a good chance we could turn into a gang of arrogant pricks…
Dry, droll & deffo’ the best book you’ll ever read on the
@Bunnymen
,
#Bunnyman
by
@Will_Fuzz
is a cracker 👌
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🎶 THANK YOU 🎶
What can I say? A song’s no good ‘til somebody hears it & I couldn’t be more grateful to a Music Room
@liverpoolphil
full of listeners last night 🙏 Salutations to our wonderful band for bringing these songs to life 🎸🎻 🎹 🥁
📸
@lpoolacoustic
@AJHigginson
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Popped up on memories this morning, playing
@thezanzibarliv
eight years ago. Doesn’t half bring on the melancholy knowing I’ll never stand on that stage again. Or be bollocked in the little office after 😞 Hopefully will get to stand on ANY stage again, soon...
#ThrowbackThursday
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New year gigs keep coming. Supporting ex-Seahorses singer and cracking songwriter
@ChrisHelme
at the ace
@NakedLunchCafe
on Smithdown Rd, Fri Feb 9th. Tickets here:
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"What does your daddy do?" "Plays football." "Who does he play for?" "
#Everton
." "Is he any good?" "Yes." "What's his name?" "
#AlexYoung
."
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“My Nan was married there, Grandad grew up there, I lived my young life in the shadow of that cross.”
📍
@StOswaldsPriLiv
🎨
@FGreenPictures
🎸
@JonLawtonMusic
🎧
#ThrowbackThursday
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New album out today ahead of tonight’s launch gig
@liverpoolphil
Music Room. See you there if you’re coming (some 🎟 still avail)
I thought long about which song to share today, but last night’s
@Everton
result dictates it’s track 5
👀🎧
#UTFT
#EFC
👇
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Thanks to all those who came to pay tribute to the late, great Tony Butler
@DistrictLpool
this weekend - lovely to see some old faces, hear some good music and raise a few quid. Many thanks to Colin Cheers & Tony’s family for the invite. God bless you mate 💙
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Love
@LarkinPoe
, first seen them support
@ElvisCostello
a few years ago. Tipped off by
@Chris__toast
👍🏻 can’t wait for June...
“This is the intersection of all cool kinds of music!”
Watch Rebecca and Megan of the startlingly original
@LarkinPoe
tell you why they’re so excited to be coming to
#BlackDeerFest
in June...
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Finished the trilogy 👇
... the last one a must-read on the importance of mixing pop and politics.
Three vital books from
@Detroit67Book
- great social history & brilliant writing about music 👍🏻
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Dear
@DailyMailUK
, our teachers did not train and work hard to join The Incredibles. Your front page is criminal and should be used as such in the future. Do us all a favour and fuck off you malignant bastards
#BurnItDown
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