Kevin Mottram

Decided to join the ELO app as an insurance policy should the fascist porn app blow itself up. For new readers, welcome! For old chums, it’s the usual old bollocks…

Chigley (27th October 1969). It's a red letter day in Chigley as the Mayor unveils the Cresswell Biscuit Factory fountain.

One of our lads has gone down with malaria.

Back of the net! 😀 Wordle 1,956 2/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Grade 1 listed, St. Mary's Church at Astbury, Cheshire estimate a £1 million may be required to repair & restore the church. 👇 BBC News - 'We need £1m to save St Mary's Church Astbury from falling down' - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Captain Beefheart ~ Who Do You Think You're Fooling & Diddy Wah Diddy (from Dick Clark's American Bandstand, 1966) #NowPlaying #CaptainBeefheart #MusicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTuZ...

Me and the regular group who like my posts

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Interrupting my train of thought, lines of longitude and latitude Define and refine my altitude

ITV’s back on the telly Everybody’s awfy happy Because they’ve got fuck all better to do with their time Than watch a stupid fucking programme! (Stuart Adamson improvising a verse of “TV Stars” when the Skids played Northampton a few days after ITV came back on the air)

“And colossally that is the sound of my trousers on fire!” 40 years, blimey. Dear old Murray, bless him

Simply one of the greatest cover versions ever recorded

Am loving the "No, everything is still awful or soon will be" replies here, the day after two right wing authoritarians lose decisively...take the win guys. Feel happy and optimistic for one day at least. Plenty of opportunities to be miserable!

I was having conversations with journalists just a few months ago about whether democracy was doomed. Look at this year: Orban defeated. Vukic defeated. Bolsonaro Jr defeated. Trump heading to likely defeat in midterms. That’s the beauty of democracy. Voters can respond. Don’t count it out yet.

That feeling you get when you open Wordle and realise that you forgot to play yesterday, thus bringing your promising 50+ streak to an end

The Undertones mural, Derry (2023) Image: Karl Porter, UV Arts / Derry Journal

Time for Jimmy's Sunday training session! This is an Andrew Robinson picture, via FB.

25 October 1961 The first edition of satirical magazine Private Eye was published. It became well-known for its criticism and lampooning of public figures and for its in-depth investigative journalism. #History #HistoryMatters

[1968] Colour Me Pop - Music series designed to celebrate the new introduction of colour to British television. Here, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band perform I'm The Urban Spaceman.

Morning!

Everton, Liverpool, 1973, photo by Mike Abrahams.

Goodnight Bluesky. Don’t forget to put your cocks back

What a great cover! The cast of 1977’s Live Stiffs Tour: Wreckless Eric, Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, Larry Wallis & Ian Dury. Some sat in on each other’s sets, with Dury, say, drumming for WE. For some, it was a very competitive business, with most accounts giving the crown to Dury & his Blockheads.

Full house! (Parkstone, Poole) @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirds.bsky.social #UKbirding

1976 ⏩ 2026 Today marks 50 years since James Hunt became a Formula One World Champion! 🧡 | #F1 #McLaren

Stoke City 0 Bristol City 0 #SCFC #UTMP

Random scan #4. 1976. Ladbroke Grove dude Mick Farren in a hurry. "Out of my way punk. The Titanic sails at dawn."

THE HEART OF ENGLAND (1954)

Sgt. Pepper‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band On The Run

This is excellent!

Liz Truss was always crackers (I worked with her for six months in 2012). But she wasn't completely delusional. It's quite sad really. A lot of Tory MPs who backed her knowing she wasn't remotely equipped should be deeply ashamed.

No, I'd have been stumped too.....the moustaches confused me. It's Blue Oyster Cult. Minus the umlaut. Stars of the new Jon Savage curation, "1976 : Something Was Going To Happen" Don't Fear The Reaper still works for me. And Christopher Walken. Now on the MB Record Show. buff.ly/E5ZUNTR

As today is the anniversary of the day the world was created (in 4004 BC) I thought it was only fitting that The Creation make an appearance on the MBRS. Well, one of their records, anyway. For All That I Am ? Brilliant. Although I couldn't get a photo with purple flashes. buff.ly/E5ZUNTR

OTD 50 years ago: Having signed a permanent deal during the week, Hallelujah John Tudor marks the occasion with the only goal of a dull encounter with Derby. Now that the uncertainty about his future is behind him, surely the goals will start to flow?* *They didn’t #SCFC #UTMP

This chapel, featured in a 1964 Ladybird book, is now Bridport Arts Centre. But who can focus on anything but that fetching little Morris Traveller? Artist: Robert Ayton

Tonight, it will be exactly fifty years since the most effortlessly beautiful fictional friendship of my TV childhood suddenly ended. I loved them SO MUCH.

It’s been proven by science that BBC1 Saturday evening light entertainment peaked on this very day exactly 50 years ago today

John and Paul in Perthshire, October 20th 1964 - Scottish Tour The #Beatles 📷 Robert Whitaker

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Rock and roller Manfred Mann rocking the cape and rolling the Moulton Happy #BicycleBirthday, Manfred! October 21, 1940

Wednesday

116 children didn’t come home from school that day. Never forget. Aberfan

Manfred Mann's use of the Mellotron was groundbreaking on this record, one of the earliest big pop hits that used it. Like another famous Tron Flute led track, it got to number two. Unlike the Beatles, stymied by Humperdinck, it lost out on the top spot place to Good Vibrations, which is fair enough

Was reminiscing via DM about an old BBC mate and I suddenly grew fond for the days when the BBC would fly me to Paris just to interview Nick Kent for a doc. Sorry to be 'we had the best of it' guy but it becomes more and more apparent every day that we bloody did. Education, freelancing, the lot.

31/3/1973. "Alvin Stardust" appears on "Lift Off With Ayesha" singing "My Coo Ca Choo". Peter Shelley, who wrote & produced the song, was "Alvin". Shelley realised that it wasn't working, & advertised for a new "Alvin". Step forward 60s crooner Shane Fenton, AKA Bernard Jewry

"Everything You'd Rather Not Have Known About Eno," Chrissie Hynde interviews Brian for the NME, 2 Feb 1974

Oh my DAYS