Lazer Guided

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Occasional music hackery. Probably a Stasi informant. Previously @lazerguidedblog on whatever the hell Twitter is now Lives in Glasgow, works in London, hides in Dublin.

Dude in a Scotland shirt.
Graffiti including the phrase Live Dublin Die Young
Photo of a weird scruffy dude looking at a Harry Kernoff painting of a Dublin literary bar.
Jill Bryson of Strawberry Switchblade in the early 80's
Rose of Neveda postcard at the cinema
Hello Magazine cover - William & Kate, Secrets of their Love Story
Photo of a pint in the beer garden and a book of Northern Irish history
Fred Dibnah
The Tufty Club badge.
Some Howard's Way photo nonsense.
Photo of the Egyptian Halls looking grimmer than ever.
The new Prolapse album
Bring Her Back tickets at the GFT
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keith, which has a cover featuring Delours Price looking like a young Eddie Howe.
An Xmal Deutschland box set. Le swoon.
King Creosote, acoustic guitar, on stage with visuals
Luton Airport departures board. With flights into the next morning
Norman Blake from Teenage Fanclub. And a hairy guy
Photo of the new Jetsteam Pony LP. And a pint of fine lager
A street in Glasgow called Goosedubbs
The new Tarwater LP. And a pint.
First the Núñez/Carroll dynamic. This comparison is purely visual. Both are tall and have slick dark ponytails in the “Croydon facelift” style. The music press used to do this a lot, grouping bands together on the basis of hairstyles. Núñez-as-Carroll is like listing both Spandau Ballet and Soft Cell as New Romantics in the early 1980s. Both had quiffy, feathery haircuts. But watching an early Spandau Ballet performance is like being jostled by angry handsome plumbers shouting Marvin Gaye songs. Whereas listening to Marc Almond is like perching on a stool in a basement bar while a skinny, unsettling man sings Jacques Brel-style torch ballads dressed only in a metal codpiece and nipple clamps. Both good. Both with good hair. But contrasting vibes.
Introspection by Pet Shop Boys
The new American Baroque LP, on the turntable
Tickets for The Girl with the Needle, two pints and a large merlot
Tickets for Nosferatu at the GFT
Ted Heath in a suite and tie on a skateboard
28 Weeks Later on the TV screen
Me reading Protect and Survive, the UK government's useless advice on surviving a nuclear bomb
Screenshot of former Tory MP David Mellor being interviewed on camera in what looks to be some Hapsburg-era knocking shop
A photo of Dickensland by Lee Jackson
A photo of The Proof of my Innocence by Jonathan Coe
John Francis Flynn and band at Glasgow Oran Mor
Me in the Museum of Literature Ireland, looking pensive
Gig posters from the Pastels (with Morrissey boxsets below)
Photo of Swinger Club in Kreutzburg
A big crate of mushy peas
Add N to (X) vinyl, now playing.
Turntable and a Lloyd Cole boxset
BBC News headline: Czech village priest sorry for smashing pumpkins.