I love long walks on the beach with my girlfriend, until the LSD wears off and I realise that I’m just dragging a stolen mannequin around the Lidl carpark.
400 arrests.
But none of them are ‘Tommy Robinson’, Nigel Farage, Katy Hopkins, Richard Tice, Oakeshott, Grimes, Fox etc.
I want these Putin supported, fascist traitors to be dealt with. When is this government going to act and tackle the ringleaders?
#UKRiots
#FarageRiots
In red - people who agree with Nigel Farage.
In green - people who disagree with Nigel Farage.
This is who we really are. A picture of our country being taken back.
#FarageRiots
#UKRiots2024
Christine McVie was the most consistent part of Fleetwood Mac. Never wavering in her talent, her songwriting, with that beautiful voice. I cannot begin to explain how important she was to the group but more importantly to music itself. RIP Songbird
The irony of these morons complaining about Muslims “stealing our jobs”, whilst rioting during daytime television hours on a weekday is lost on some.
Half of these idiots have never worked in their lives.
#UKRiots
#FarageRiots
It might lack the fury of Husker Du, but Copper Blue is a rock juggernaut, with the powerful riffs, blistering fretwork and incisive lyrics Mould is known for.
@RichardS7370
#5albums92
@mercer_felicity
Hey Flick - just out of interest, what have you done to earn your £45k today? Just asking for the 2.1 million people in the UK that have used a food bank in the previous 12 months. (or the people that Action Man thinks can’t manage a family budget)
@JohnnyMercerUK
And where do you stand on Charlotte Owen, aged only 29 and with previous experience only as a !’special adviser’ being given a life peerage and the ability to inform our legislative process? And all without any electoral mandate. Are you still willing to join the debate?
Last weekend thousands paraded through Brighton’s streets and the only things shops were adorned with were rainbows
Today it’s shutters and boards
Shops, pubs, health centres & businesses closing due to the far right threat.
You’re not welcome her
#FarageRiots
#UKRiots
@mercer_felicity
@carolvorders
@supertanskiii
@MarinaPurkiss
Man Alive Flick, you really don’t get it do you? Perhaps if you and Action Man actually lived in your constituency you’d have a better idea of what life is like for ordinary people. Please stop - you’re embarrassing yourself and your husband’s constituents.
The debut album of the punk music icons altered the direction of rock music from grandeur and excess to simple and raw bursts of energy.
@RichardS7370
#5albums76
@OcheBalboa1
@GaryLineker
I think it reflects that Gary frequently tweets about politics (something which you frequently object to) whilst Boris only tweets about football when there is an opportunity to raise his profile by positive association.
I find it hilarious that *some* Americans consider that calling a man "Tampon Tim" somehow demeans him, rather than making him look impressive as a man who supports women...
For a man that is barely off social media, it’s incredibly telling that the hate-mongering grifter that is
@Nigel_Farage
has remained silent on the
#UKRiots
- as with Brexit, he has caused insufferable damage and then just walked away.
Marcus Rashford, Martin Lewis, Feargal Sharkey, Jack Monroe, Gordon Brown. All doing more of the kind of stuff governments are for than our actual government who seems to be more keen on partying, wars on woke and lining their mates pockets.
@JohnnyMercerUK
Far better than you? That’s a pretty low bar Action Man. I’d love to see a break down of her constituency work to justify her £45k salary
This is strong stuff, stirring and savage in equal measure, that it’s inconceivable to imagine they were, basically, a bunch of kids. Even if I can’t be young forever, I can hold on to that feeling every time I hear this album.
@RichardS7370
#5albums83
@mercer_felicity
To follow that thread, Flick, in that case, why have the ‘lifesavers’ of the NHS faced a real term pay cut since 2015, whilst you’ve received a 250% pay rise, Asking as plebs like me don’t understand politics.
Picking the finest R.E.M. album is like picking one’s favorite child. But this track-by-track melodic goldmine, Automatic for the People is surely the one that would get the inheritance.
@RichardS7370
#5albums92
Gigantic pop hooks delivered with muscular rock chops set the template for the grunge movement that would follow and ensured that Doolittle still sounds every bit as good in 2022 as it did in 1989.
@RichardS7370
#5albums89
@mercer_felicity
Part of the problem Flick is that people don’t see any evidence of your £45k tax payers funded salary, Monday - Friday either. Just your endless trolling of
@carolvorders
A great leap forward from their funereal debut album, Power, Corruption & Lies cemented New Order's place as the most exciting dance-rock hybrid in music.
@RichardS7370
#5albums83
Fascists are never welcome in the People’s Republic of Brighton. We are the most accepting and tolerant city in the UK. Hate will never win in our town. Fuck the EDL, fuck
@TRobinsonNewEra
, fuck
@Cobratate
, fuck
@Nigel_Farage
and fuck any racist Neanderthal that riots.
@mercer_felicity
@carolvorders
Still working hard to earn your £45k Flick. Tax payers are getting real value for money for the comedy element if nothing else.
The Lexicon of Love stands as a landmark album in British pop. The synthetic Eighties' drum-thwaks and Chic-esque bass lines sound better now than ever. This album replenishes mind, body and soul.
@RichardS7370
#5albums82
@mercer_felicity
@carolvorders
Hi Flick: are these tweets being sent as part of your job as Action Man’s PA or in a personal capacity. Just to confirm, does your tax payer funded £45k post come with a job description and was it externally advertised?
Genuinely appalled that I’m saying this but Priti Patel is completely right here. Fair play to her for saying this despite being in the Tory leadership race too where it is commonly a race to the bottom to appeal to their awful membership.
Before their pursuit of world domination turned them rubbish, Simple Minds were capable of transcendent beauty. New Gold Dream stands shining and singular in their canon as comfortably among the greatest pop albums of all .
@RichardS7370
#5albums82
What is there to say about one of the most iconic albums ever produced? As far as punk in the UK goes, this is an essential document.
@RichardS7370
#5albums77
I'm seeing so many snarky comments about Prince Harry, and not nearly as many about Prince Andrew.
It seems that writing a book about your family is a far worse offence than paying a sex trafficking victim £12m, who claims never to have met.
#Coronation
#AbolishTheMonachy
It really is time to dispense with a self-serving family who enjoys the privilege of office yet, even in hard times for people, thinks nothing of squandering money on themselves in pomp and glory while telling the nation to work for free! Ghastly.
#AbolishTheMonarchy
#NotMyKing
U2 weren’t a global phenomenon yet. They were simply that Irish band who finally figured out where they were going. For me, War was U2 at the beginning of their best.
@RichardS7370
#5albums83
Rage Against the Machine proved that rap and metal could fuse into something simultaneously intelligent, creative and downright furious.
@RichardS7370
#5albums92
Sharon Van Etten has always known how to wreck hearts — she’s one of the past decade’s most unflinchingly intense songwriters. But she really hits home on Remind Me Tomorrow, her fifth and finest album.
@RichardS7370
#5albums19
First time in a long time I have woken up and felt any pride in being British. Wonderful to see communities coming together in defiance of hate and racism. There are so many good people in this country.
#FarageRiots
#FarRightFail
Funeral is like nothing you've heard before, and altogether familiar. Funeral comforts and cares, marches and dares, and towers over us with its anthemic choruses and orchestral arrangements.
#5albums04
@RichardS7370
And to think, when the Cocteau Twins released their debut album, the band were dismissed in some quarters as a mere Siouxsie & The Banshees clone. How wrong we all were.
@RichardS7370
#5albums83
Listening to Pschocandy occasionally feels like standing in the corridor of a rehearsal studio listening to two bands practising at once, as sublimely catchy melodies and slabs of nihilist white noise wilfully battle each other for supremacy.
@RichardS7370
#5albums85
Heaven or Las Vegas is arguably the best example of Cocteau Twins working with and warping what it means to love, to weep, to create. It is as chill as it is exotic and exciting, meditative and extroverted. A bottle of exquisite stuff, indeed.
#5albums90
@RichardS7370
The best Smiths record. Each track is a gem, flowing in a gratifying, pleasurable listening experience. Both Morrissey and Marr have stated is probably their favorite album in the entire Smiths catalog. I have to concur.
#5albums87
@RichardS7370
As a huge Primal Scream fan this is tough to accept, but the statement by Martin Duffy’s son is jaw-dropping. On the face of it, Bobby Gillespie and Andrew Innes have behaved abominably to a someone who was, in everyone’s else’s eyes but theirs, a core band member.
#PrimalScream
Listening to Turn on the Bright Lights isn’t really “listening.” As soon as the riff of “Untitled” creeps in, the listener is plunging into the band’s hypersensitive Lower East Side world.
@RichardS7370
#5albums02
2 British kids meet at college and form a band. They graduate, spend a year on the dole, recruit a couple of friends to play bass and drums and play their first gig in August 1988. Just over a year and a half later the Sundays release their masterpiece
#5albums90
@RichardS7370
One of the top ten albums of the 60's. I like to think of it as the English 'Pet Sounds' it's just as timeless and beautifully produced.
#5albums68
@RichardS7370
Rather than retread the golden luminosity of The Soft Bulletin, the Flaming Lips once again confounded expectations with this ambitious paean to defeating adversity and living for the moment.
@RichardS7370
#5albums02
Teenage Fanclub went all-killer-no-filler for fifth album ‘Grand Prix’, a record that glows with gorgeous melodies from the subdued first single ‘Mellow Doubt’ to evergreen swooning anthem ‘Sparky’s Dream’.
@RichardS7370
#5albums95
Over six tracks and 36 minutes, Kraftwerk thoroughly and succinctly explore the impact of technology upon humanity. It's their defining theme and one which makes the group arguably the most important in the canon of popular music.
#5albums78
@RichardS7370
@mercer_felicity
With a combined salary of £150 for being a professional victim and a Twitter troll, it’s no wonder he’s looking so self-satisfied. Give it 15 months, and I’d wager that Action Man won’t be looking so smug.
Justine Frischmann’s band might have attracted a few sly remarks about their purely coincidental similarities to swathes of the Wire back catalogue, but their debut album was so tight, punchy and exquisitely formed that we all let it pass.
@RichardS7370
#5albums95
‘Speaking In Tongues’ is where Talking Heads decided to fully embrace the technology and arrangements of the 1980's while maintaining there quirky indie influences comfortably in their pockets.
@RichardS7370
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Wayne Coyne pens unabashed mash notes to his bandmates, sympathizes with fatigued superheroes, chases lightning bugs around a shameless hook, and dreams up a beautiful metaphysic that keeps the album sounding as fresh and wide-eyed as Pet Sounds
@RichardS7370
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@RichardS7370
Fuck - is it that time already? Bloody hell. Better get voting then…
1) LCD Soundsystem
2) Illinois
3) Alligator
4) Demon Days
5) Leaders of the Free World
#5albums05
Grievous Angel is an extraordinary entry in the limited Gram Parsons catalog; a true milestone of Americana - or, more aptly, cosmic American music.
@RichardS7370
#5albums74
It's a colossal work of art; a post-punk pillar; an ingenious sonic landscape; a blinding existential vision of songwriting. Closer was upon its release - and remains so now - one of the truly masterful records.
#5albums80
@RichardS7370
@Jones4PilkyPark
Citizens denied the right to stay in or seek health care from a nation they’ve lived in and contributed towards all of their lives. That ladies and gentleman is the Conservative Party”
#ToryRenaissance
#Windrush
Fontaines DC’s debut album arrived in the thick of a post-punk revival that birthed a rich seam of furious, socially conscious guitar music.
@RichardS7370
#5albums19
@mercer_felicity
Hey Flick - just out of interest, what do you do to justify your £45k salary? Was it advertised externally so that people who weren’t intimate with
@JohnnyMercerUK
could apply? Or like the Covid PPE contracts, does it just represent nepotism and privilege?
Nick Drake wasn’t with us for long, but Five Leaves Left shows the beginning of a short career filled with music that is astoundingly gorgeous.
@RichardS7370
#5albums69
Mash the big pedal on the right and set the controls for the heart of the sun. Play it loud, shiny and chrome. It has its title for a fucking reason: it needs to be played LOUD.
@RichardS7370
#5albums02