Paul D

@initialspd.bsky.social

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Music | Culture | Writing Fifth Drawer Down - https://reubenp77.substack.com/ Work in charity/voluntary sector - also charity Chair Live near Stockport

Front cover of the album Orbus Terrarum by The Orb
crop from a letters page from Jackie magazine in June 1976
Screenshot from an email from digital distributor Routenote advising artists that Meta wants to use music to develop AI and you can opt out by replying to the email.
Front cover of a book called New Women in Rock
image shows a poster for a photography exhibition called 'Memories of Brinksway Community' which takes place at the pop up in Merseyway, Stockport. Open until March 29th
Sleeve for the album Immunity by Clairo
Email header showing a headline for a news article. The headline says 'Meet the AI goth helping Manchester's far right'
Art School Girlfriend - Lean in album cover
An image of Rod, Jane and Roger (famously from the TV show Rainbow) leaning on a bed with a rainbow headrest
A screenshot of my Pinterest dashboard which has suggested images based on my interests - these are Francoise Hardy, Uschi Obermaier, and David Sylvian/Japan. Also some AI image of a girl sliding down a rainbow for some reason
School communication about children not dressing up for World Book Day but instead will be decorating potatoes.
Front cover of the Francoise Hardy debut album unbelievably not featuring one of the many amazing images of her but some anonymous woman, likely AI walking with an umbrella
An image of a limited collection of mainstream record releases in a chain book store
cover of Erasure singles compilation, Pop 20
Face to Face by The Kinks album cover
Image of a Premier League table based on some odd metric of expected points rather than actual points
poster for Handmade at the Hat Works event which takes place in Stockport on 15 November
Image of instructions for a multi purpose hair trimmer which has a quote about living, laughing, forgiving....etc
Image depicting the first 3 albums by Wire. Pink Flag, Chairs Missing and 154
Screenshot from the live feed about the Starmer - Trump press conference. It says: Starmer invites Trump to call questions now. He calls Beverley Turner from GB News. She asks about free speech, and whether the UK is a Christian country.
Image of a box of pale ale cans from Northern Monk which are flavoured Jam Roly Poly with the Aunt Bessie brand
Image of the front sleeve of the new vinyl compilation of 60s French group Les Roche Martin
Website screenshot from an online shop. Text says 'similar artists to Francoise Hardy' and then it lists Lee Scratch Perry and Adam & the Ants
Image of rucksack hanging on a shop shelf. The bag has images of Elvis that look nothing like him
Album cover for CMAT - Euro-Country
Black and white image of Marc Bolan indicating T.Rex will be the pick for the music challenge.
Image of an EP by Les Roche Martin featuring Violaine and Veronique Sanson.
Image of the back cover of Depeche Mode LP Speak and Spell. The European version includes Dreaming of Me after Puppets and has removed the song 'I sometimes wish I was dead'
Image of NME compilation CD from 1999
#NewMusicChallenge
Lenny Kravitz drinking from a mug, topless revealing rather a fine body
Twiggy with a cup of tea
Lana Del Rey drinking a coffee
Black and white image of Kirsty MacColl
Sylvie Vartan drinking coffee
Image of Cary Grant sipping tea
Image of Paul Simonon from The Clash in a cafe or diner
Image of Lillian Gish with a cup of tea
Sophia Loren in a New York cafe with a cup of tea
Image of Hugh Grant in a cafe with a cup of tea
Image of Francoise Hardy with a cup of tea
Image of Cathee Dahmen with a cup of tea