Liam McNulty

#nowspinning The Real Thing by Faith No More #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky

#nowspinning Manassas by Stephen Stills #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky

Great panel tonight on @simonreynolds.bsky.social 's Still in a Dream, joined by @kittyempire.bsky.social and @danielavery.bsky.social in Walthamstow Trades Hall

#nowspinning Electr-O-Pura by Yo La Tengo #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky

#nowspinning Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky

#nowspinning On the Beach by Neil Young #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky

#nowspinning Life's Too Good by the Sugarcubes #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky

#nowspinning The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - S/T #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky

9 Sept

#nowspinning one of my favourite albums of all time. I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One by Yo La Tengo #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky

7 Sept

#nowspinning This Nation's Saving Grace by the Fall #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky

4 Sept

#nowspinning Easter Everywhere by 13th Floor Elevators #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky

lmcnulty.substack.comYo La Tengo, Astral Weeks and the rise of mechanical timeWe could slip away

2 Sept

Autumn is upon us. For me, that means a ritual of Yo La Tengo and Astral Weeks, and thinking about how our conception of time has changed. Do you have any autumn rituals?

1 Sept

#nowspinning Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky

27 Aug

You know you've got the right networks when two people send you @jemgilbert.bsky.social and David Wilkinson on The Fall in a 12-hour period

25 Aug

#nowspinning I, Jonathan by Jonathan Richman #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky

lmcnulty.substack.comWhen my son knocked Karl Kautsky off the bookselfIt sent me down a rabbit-hole of early twentieth century US socialist publishing

19 Aug

When my son knocked a small hardback book off my bookshelf, it sent me into a reverie about Hampstead, early twentieth century socialist publishing, James Connolly and the days immediately before London was placed in Tier-3 lockdown. #booksky #skystorians lmcnulty.substack.com/p/when-my-so...

19 Aug

Found in an antique shop in Swanage. Not a "bargain" for a 70s reissue but unexpected nonetheless! #easylistening #vinylsky #musicsky #vinyl #vinylcommunity

16 Aug

Can't wait to pack all the books I won't have a chance to read on holiday

lmcnulty.substack.com100 million songs and nothing but catsOr How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Tolerate the Algorithm

13 Aug

Music has always been, for me, a major driver of nostalgia, and looking back through playlists produces involuntary memories over the past 6 years of life, but mostly the pandemic years: lmcnulty.substack.com/p/100-millio... #musicsky

lmcnulty.substack.comDancing about architecture? Music books you should read right now.There’s an oft-quoted maxim that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture”, usually attributed to musician and actor Martin Mull.

10 Aug

There’s an oft-quoted maxim that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture”. I don't agree. Here some books I've loved about music over the past few years lmcnulty.substack.com/p/dancing-ab... #musicsky #booksky

7 Aug

#nowspinning Fifth Dimension by the Byrds #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky

lmcnulty.substack.comSimon Reynolds & William Morris, or algorithmic capital, music and communism.I was very struck by music critic Simon Reynolds’s latest book Still in a Dream, whose contents page is a veritable index of ‘bands I like’ - from the Cocteau Twins, through Felt and the Smiths and C8...

5 Aug

I loved Simon Reynolds's latest book 'Still in a Dream' and it set me off thinking about the Cocteau Twins, Romanticism, William Morris and how to resist AI and algorithmic capital. Or something. lmcnulty.substack.com/p/simon-reyn... #booksky #musicsky

4 Aug

#nowspinning Repercussion by the dB's #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky

31 July

#nowspinning Brighten the Corners by Pavement #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky

lmcnulty.substack.comA forgotten by-electionGeorge Lansbury, women's suffrage and the 1912 Bow and Bromley by-election

You've heard the one about Nigel Farage fighting the bin. How about George Lansbury resigning his seat in November 1912 to fight in support of women's suffrage? lmcnulty.substack.com/p/a-forgotte... #history #skystorians

#nowspinning Chairs Missing by Wire #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky

lmcnulty.substack.comLiam's Substack | SubstackHistorian and writer, author of 'James Connolly: Socialist, Nationalist and Internationalist' (Merlin Press, 2022) - trade union rep and music obsessive. Click to read Liam's Substack, by Liam McNulty...

Decided to set up a substack to capture various bits and pieces I've been thinking about. Expect to find posts about modern-day events tenuously interpreted through the lens of late-Victorian British socialism, record and book reviews and excerpts from my research. #booksky #musicsky #skystorians

lmcnulty.substack.comGary Stevenson, Henry George and taxes on landNews that former City trader turned Youtube economics influencer and wealth tax advocate Gary Stevenson is taking a break from the online world got me thinking about how mainstream opinion reacts to c...

Already up is a short piece on Gary Stevenson and the reaction to Henry George in the 1880s lmcnulty.substack.com/p/gary-steve...

#nowspinning Hot Rats by Frank Zappa #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky

27 July

#nowspinning Headquarters by the Monkees #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky

26 July

#nowspinning the 1986 S/T debut by Edinburgh noisy indie pop band Shop Assistants (Since the 90s CD release the album has been known as 'Will Anything Happen') #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky

26 July

Despite 'Will Anything Happen' apparently not really being the title, it was printed on the labels of the second pressings in 1986 but not the first. My copy has this on the label. Makes perfect sense...

17 July

#nowspinning Tim by the Replacements #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky

17 July

#nowspinning Souvlaki by Slowdive #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky

youtube.comFelt - Primitive Painters [Official Video]YouTube video by Cherry Red Records

8 July

Saw Belle and Sebastian in the Royal Albert Hall in April but was equally starstruck to learn that Lawrence was in the audicence youtube.com/watch?v=K5Xg...

6 July

A brief history of electronic music set to a circuit diagram of a theramin #musicsky

6 July

The latest book by @simonreynolds.bsky.social arrived today. Excited to get started! #musicsky #booksky

30 June

Bit of a gear shift now... #nowspinning Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky

30 June

#nowspinning So Tough by Saint Etienne (1st pressing) #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky

18 June

#nowspinning VU by the Velvet Underground (1985) #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky

12 June

#nowspinning His Band and the Street Choir by Van Morrison #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky