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@TheWolfhounds

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English Primitive reinventor, Moonshake originator & programmer, Wolfhounds ranter, Swell Maps supply guitarist, nature writer. #MDANT

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@TheWolfhounds
David Lance Callahan
1 month
My new LP, 'Down to the Marshes', is out today. Use the link to hear every song unencumbered by ads or interruptions unlike other streaming services. If you like it, buy a version, or I'll have to live on free shoes, glasses and Taylor Swift tickets!
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David Lance Callahan
3 years
As you now need a driving license or passport to do it, people who can't afford cars or foreign holidays won't be able to vote. In fact, voting is now almost a solely middle-class pursuit. Well done Labour.
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David Lance Callahan
2 years
Someone should tell Carrie Symonds that Rupert Murdoch is now single.
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5 years
@mattushka @Peston Making coronavirus roughly as dangerous as the Tory government!
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1 year
@AllyFogg Universal Credit insists you have a smart phone or computer to look for a job but you shouldn't be able to afford one on benefits, apparently...
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David Lance Callahan
1 year
Thinking of booking Wire, The Slits and X-Ray Spex for my 60th next year – anyone got their mobiles?
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1 year
I'm in the opposite camp. As my audience, you can talk, heckle, hell, even fight, if you want to. It's down to my strength as a performer and artist to make sure you don't. There will be no teacher's handouts at my shows.
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Lucy May Walker
1 year
After my many interviews with various news outlets about gig etiquette, I’ve decided to print these off for my upcoming solo tour. I’ve not seen this done before (& I’m sad it’s come to this) but I’m hoping it will encourage people to behave. Thoughts?
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David Lance Callahan
2 years
@ta_mills No, it *was* a total fabrication. And you have questions to answer as to why you're pointing a finger at "the left", whoever they might be, rather than the journalists who repeat unfounded accusations and why you can't understand why people might be angry at the government.
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David Lance Callahan
2 years
I can't be the only person in the world who thought that was actually Tom Waits in the right-hand photo on Rain Dogs ...
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2 years
Two shots of 'Lilly and the Rose' by Anders Petersen taking at Cafe Lehmitz in Hamburg in 1970. The one on the right was later used by Tom Waits for the cover of 'Rain Dogs,' in 1985.
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David Lance Callahan
3 months
I had the honour of playing with The Chills a few times and meeting and hanging out with Martin on occasion. Pink Frost is one of the best recordings from any era, but I love the wide-eyed wonder of this bedroom psych gem. In memoriam:
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David Lance Callahan
2 years
The Greens outclassing Labour in every department at the moment. Time they got Farage-level media attention - and for good not evil.
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2 years
This from @ZackPolanski is as clear and forthright as you’ll get from a politician about today’s shambles of a #MiniBudget . He’s a genuine communicator and seemingly brilliantly principled guy - we need to hear more from him.
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David Lance Callahan
2 years
When it comes to Roger Waters and Dave Gilmour, I'll always be a Syd man.
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David Lance Callahan
3 years
@ChrisHa60144811 More than enough Labour peers abstained that could have stopped it in the Lords.
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David Lance Callahan
7 years
@mrjamesob Thast's because, at its root, 'political correctness' is basic equality, politeness and respect, rather than entitlement and a superiority complex.
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David Lance Callahan
9 months
Normally I post the MC5 Tartar Field footage to spread love and knowledge of some of the greatest rock'n'roll footage. Today it's a very bad reason. RIP Wayne Kramer, great at showing off and being humble ...
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David Lance Callahan
1 year
Soon there will be no post-punk band without their own book, which suits me just fine ...
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10 months
Great bill (although we were dreadful as I was pissed out of my head) ...
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David Lance Callahan
5 months
Proper Essex girl.
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"I think he's a total snake". @ClareHymer spoke to the people of Clacton-on-Sea about Nigel Farage.
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David Lance Callahan
6 years
@JohnRentoul An absolutely pointless differentiation. Rationing was a necessity due to extreme scarcity of resources. Recent 'austerity' was a combination of political choice and cynical opportunism on the part of the Tories. Either way, though, many people still suffered & were malnourished.
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David Lance Callahan
2 years
Well, no one cares much in the media here, but in the Italian magazine Blow Up, I appear to be Album of the Month!
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David Lance Callahan
6 years
@russellalbert @montie No, it really doesn't sound clever at all.
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David Lance Callahan
6 months
A massive doff of the hat to the now-late Steve Albini who was crucial to the sound of so many epochal albums (and made quite a few of his own) – of which this is one of the very best and most underrated ...
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David Lance Callahan
2 years
The 3 gigs by the Pop Group I saw in 1979 remain the most exciting performances I've ever seen. Footage of one at the Electric Ballroom is in the video. Goodbye Mark Stewart – you were a real inspiration in every aspect of your life.
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@TheWolfhounds
David Lance Callahan
3 years
Very sad to hear of the death last night of Pat Fish aka The Jazz Butcher. I last saw him at Preston Pop Fest when, despite recent illness, he was as lovely and acerbic as ever, though he didn't look too healthy, even then. RIP. Have a tune in his honour:
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@TheWolfhounds
David Lance Callahan
5 years
@RealDannyTommo @OwenJones84 I suspect that he is very surprised that someone pretending to be the landlord of the Lexington is contacting him directly rather than going to the police (who reportedly already have the CCTV footage), don't you?
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@TheWolfhounds
David Lance Callahan
2 years
My feelings on BritPop are the same as @berenyi_miki 's: "I know a ton of you had a blast, but I fucking hate Britpop and I’m glad the whole sorry shit-fest ended up imploding. I just wish it hadn’t done so much damage while it lasted."
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@TheWolfhounds
David Lance Callahan
2 months
The first night club I helped run = "A Different Kitchen" (Top 20 Dancefloor chart in NME, September 1986)
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David Lance Callahan
3 years
Very pleased to have this glowing review of my first-ever solo LP in the new issue of Mojo – a commentary that both appreciates and understands the record. "terrific ... uncanny ..." Hear it here, if you ain't already:
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David Lance Callahan
2 years
Very sad to hear of the death of Mike Bryson. Bog-Shed had some cracking tunes and were phenomenal live. He was a talented artist too. Let's celebrate the music.
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David Lance Callahan
2 years
Hours halved. No sessions. How about: if it ain't broke don't fix it. And if you've got to spin a terrible decision, at least run the text through Grammarly.
@BBC6Music
BBC Radio 6 Music
2 years
✨ Riley & Coe (Monday - Thursday, 10pm-12am) Two of our finest curators, Marc Riley and Gideon Coe will come together to play they music loves from every era and genre.
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David Lance Callahan
2 years
Can't get arrested over here in the music press, but I just got LP of the month for the third time in Italy. At this rate, I might have to learn the language ... "an inspiration totally free from constraints"
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David Lance Callahan
9 months
Oh, come on, it was only two days ago ...
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David Lance Callahan
6 years
@MichaelRosenYes Oh, come now. If the @Conservatives held themselves to the standards they expect others to meet, there'd be no party left.
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David Lance Callahan
2 years
Yesterday was 20 years to the day, when the youth of everyone who knew her ended.
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David Lance Callahan
6 years
@Curious_Chak @rosskempsell It's part of his appeal for those of us over 50, too!
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David Lance Callahan
7 years
At the height of Britpop, I guess Johnny Cigarettes just didn't get the underground ... though if this 0/10 review didn't make you want to buy this excellent LP, then nothing would!
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David Lance Callahan
6 years
@AndrewCastle63 @AngelaRayner Absolutely not! We need to bring this awful government down as soon as possible - that doesn't happen by uniting with them.
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David Lance Callahan
6 years
@TJBailey1978 @eddiemarsan Time for a politics "without values or opinions" 🤣
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David Lance Callahan
1 year
Is the idea that there are only 2 political parties and if you don't vote for one you're enabling the other the most successful propaganda gambit ever?
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David Lance Callahan
9 months
In my capacity as the poor man's Proust, dizzy with nostalgic tastebud stimulation, I declare this the greatest biscuit of all time ...
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David Lance Callahan
4 years
@brokenbottleboy @bbcsml Having been invited onto ITV once to talk about conservation, I can say most visual media only invite you on if they think you'll support a prior-arranged agenda. Say anything different and you'll not be broadcast. Inviting the liked of Grimes on means they'll get what they want.
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David Lance Callahan
9 months
While I have no doubt that very good-looking young women in bikinis or lingerie, sometimes with ballgags and handcuffs, do indeed really like my music, the absence of them in my actual audiences is making me deeply suspicious ...
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David Lance Callahan
4 months
The cat's out of the bag: I've been curated. & the curator will be doing a preview of his new show too. Get early bird tickets before the kind of people who say "These days, if you say you're English, etc" all the time hear about it. Next stop the V&A!
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David Lance Callahan
6 months
I have a new album ready. ‘Down to the Marshes’ is a great leap forward for me. It's launched on Weds 14 Aug as part of the ‘Legends of Indie’ week at The Lexington, London. Very special guests are extremely likely. Limited early bird tix £11:
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@TheWolfhounds
David Lance Callahan
8 months
Who wrote the worst rhyme ever? I'm gonna go with Jim Morrison: "Andalusia with fields full of grain/I have to see ya again and again." "Mr Morrison, I'm sorry to tell you that you've failed your Hallmark Cards interview."
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David Lance Callahan
2 years
Oh man, Keith Levene just died. I wouldn't play guitar the way I do without him - and Moonshake were clearly in Metal Box's shadow. So grateful he existed. Gutted.
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David Lance Callahan
2 years
I appear to be in Dalston watching Stereolab ...
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David Lance Callahan
7 months
Met up with another former minor indie star while stomping around South Devon "in the rain" ...
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7 months
This year's birthday has been quiet an mostly involved Turkish food ... but my new age does have one distinct advantage. Oh, yes ...
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David Lance Callahan
2 months
On the same plane to Berlin as that nice Mr @jeremycorbyn - if he goes to @ArabStrapBand tonight or Swell Maps C21 tomorrow, he'll rise even higher in my estimation ...
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David Lance Callahan
2 years
Not bad for a fiver the lot in the charity shop, huh?
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2 years
My next solo show - with wall-to-wall Creation legends!
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2 years
Enjoyable profile of man of the moment, Mick Lynch. Of trivial note: "he was big on music ... he liked the Clash, the Three Johns, the Gang of Four."
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David Lance Callahan
8 months
I'll never not be associated with The Anti Midas Touch but even so, it's nice it's become some sort of minor classic that gets aired publicly. Better than dirty laundry! Thanks for playing it last night, @gidcoe @BBC6Music – and among such stellar company
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David Lance Callahan
6 years
@indyfan57 @SleightJoanna @rich_lancaster @Benjrobbo @hywelowen Bear in mind that for many people this isn't the point. They are prepared (or think they are) to suffer the consequences because they think that 'sovereignty' is worth it. I think it's taking us to some kind of dark age, but that would be Project Fear II, of course.
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@TheWolfhounds
David Lance Callahan
3 years
Letraset – unsung hero of post-punk
@memorialdevice
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The house we grew up in: Action transfers and Letraset.
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David Lance Callahan
1 year
The early 80s rosetta stone
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David Lance Callahan
2 years
I've seen the best gigs in my life in small venues, & played some too (despite having done major supports, festivals & Lollapalooza). A national small gig circuit should be valued for encouraging exciting music outside the mainstream, not just as the Hunger Games for major acts.
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“Independent venues are not ‘stepping stones’ – for many bands this is our Wembley” @Benefitstheband @IVW_UK @musicvenuetrust #SaveOurVenues
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David Lance Callahan
2 years
This morning's charity shop CD score ...
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2 years
"The clause about not being allowed to do paid work unless it is related to your main overseas job will penalise so many artists who have to do other jobs to pay the rent.” Basically: "if you ain't famous, you can't play."
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David Lance Callahan
2 years
@MrHarryCole @norock @TimesRadio Wasn't "fresh blow for the Tories" your constant request at the parties after conference ..?
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David Lance Callahan
8 years
. @wikileaks @BBCNews She didn't "attack" Trump, she asked him simple questions most journalists should ask. You lot have seriously lost it.
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5 years
@Warnzwifey @LiamGall1983 @toadmeister "Getting Brexit done" will really not see most people's lives getting back to normal.
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David Lance Callahan
2 years
Got my copy now. Available from all good book shops etc.
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David Lance Callahan
5 years
@sophie_yxx @JuneSim63 @crimson_leaf @lewis_goodall Not if it is loud enough to wake the whole street and appears – at least initially – to have been violent.
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David Lance Callahan
1 year
@gidcoe @BBC6Music Very sad to see one of the very last remaining idiosyncratic national shows curtailed like this. I'm sure you'll keep the quality high in the new arrangements but how shameful that they're reducing the hours so much.
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David Lance Callahan
2 months
Stuck in Kingsbury/Hendon earlier today for a 2-hour car service that took 6 hours, I had a lot of time to kill. Popped into a local South Indian cafe (Shiv Kitchen) and LOOK WHAT YOU GET FOR £6!!
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David Lance Callahan
7 months
Swell Maps C21 review: "None of the guitarists use many pedals. The bulk of their sound effects are achieved manually. They really are a fabulous live band being simultaneously tight & rough around the edges, which is not something that’s easy to achieve"
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David Lance Callahan
1 year
Happy for people to be nice at concerts but the idea behaviour is worse is far from true. I remember most of the 80s being full of fights, bottle throwing and spitting, plus continual sexist and homophobic abuse. This wasn't good, of course, but blessings should be counted.
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Simon Price﮷
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I wrote an Opinion piece for @Guardian @GuardianOpinion about Gig Etiquette. Why have people forgotten how to behave at gigs? And do we now need a code of conduct?
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David Lance Callahan
16 days
I am indeed guitarist and occasional vocalist for Swell Maps C21, Jowe Head's revived version. I try to do the old material justice and make any new material worthy of the name. It's been going down well with old fans and younger converts & 15-year-old me can't believe his luck!
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Martin Dowds, Glasgow
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@TheWolfhounds David, are you really the guitarist for Swell Maps?! Jane from Occupied Europe was a beautiful thing of wonder and mystery in my early teens……unknowable otherness, 2001’s black monolith made of sounds.
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David Lance Callahan
1 year
RIP Teresa Taylor, the Mo Tucker of the Butthole Surfers. ENjot her drumming on this, their first, and probably last, UK TV appearance ...
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David Lance Callahan
2 years
Obviously, I have work to do, but while I do it, I shall be gleefully reacquainting myself with the remastered work of one of the very finest bands of the 80s. All the best bands put their worst song on C86, you know.
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David Lance Callahan
5 years
@PaulEmbery That's because you wouldn't really have any grounds to ...
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David Lance Callahan
6 months
I was at this and can vouch for it being a great night! Blue Peter's Peter Purves and DJ Pete Murray were in the audience and my mate got his shirt signed...
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1979
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David Lance Callahan
7 months
Lou knows the score ...
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2 months
I mean, obviously, I prefer to think if the album as a MID-career high, but I'll take it.
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David Lance Callahan
2 months
Lovely review of my forthcoming LP in the new Record Collector by Johnnie Johnstone. I've never heard Ben Chasny or Reilly, so I guess I'll have to do that soon ...
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David Lance Callahan
6 years
In 1989, this company tried to sue us over our song of the same name. Hello from the future, suckers [pic courtesy of Chris Trout]
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@TheWolfhounds
David Lance Callahan
1 year
So the Eva Luna reissue now exists. Obvs I'll let you know the release date soonish but in the meantime get a load of the OG sleeve reproductions, remastered blue vinyl and sumptuous booklet within:
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@TheWolfhounds
David Lance Callahan
2 years
@AllisonPearson Can’t understand why it’s so hard for the Conservatives to find a leader who didn't go to Eton or Oxford.
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David Lance Callahan
6 years
@ABC The ramblings of President Brainache continue ...
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David Lance Callahan
8 months
I'm playing guitar and singing again with Swell Maps C21 in London on Friday. The back cat will be plundered and played with the vim and vigour it deserves!
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David Lance Callahan
7 months
Moonshake and Th' Faith Healers on our first tour of the US (well, the East Coast anyway) plus our lovely American tour managers/drivers, whose names now elude me. If anyone can help my senile memory, I'd be grateful ... Photo via Mig Morland.
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David Lance Callahan
2 years
This is still the level of skill and dissonance to which all guitarists should aspire. There's a reason rock'n'roll and the avant garde loved Tom Verlaine ...
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David Lance Callahan
1 year
Looking forward to finally accepting that invitation to the Post-rock Hall of Fame once this is out, of course ...
@beggarsarchive
BEGGARS ARKIVE
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We are reissuing MOONSHAKE’s debut album Eva Luna on Oct 6! Re-mastered from analogue ½” tape on 2X blue LP. 19 trks=original LP, non-LP 3-song single “Secondhand Clothes", 2 bsides from “Beautiful Pigeon” single, 4 Peel sess trks, 8pg colour booklet!
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David Lance Callahan
4 years
I know the Internet is riddled with porn but I didn't expect a massive knob to be shoved right through my letterbox.
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David Lance Callahan
5 years
FREE STUFF! We've just made all our 21st century recordings and the Unseen Ripples reissue of all the Pink Label recordings – available for nothing as downloads. Fill up to your hard drives' content! Just click on 'pay what you like'. Retweet widely!
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David Lance Callahan
6 years
@johnharris1969 That Oxford St basement had mindblowing Latin and African sections.
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David Lance Callahan
1 year
He does know he's in the Conservative Party, right?
@Channel4News
Channel 4 News
1 year
“It horrified me.” Conservative London Assembly member Andrew Boff was kicked out of the party conference hall for heckling home secretary Suella Braverman during her speech. He tells @PGMcNamara why he spoke up.
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David Lance Callahan
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Another post-punk band gets the book treatment. Some of you'll know what a huge ATV fan I am, so I'm dead chuffed to be able to dip into this new arrival when I get the chance. I'd better make the chance soon, really ...
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David Lance Callahan
4 years
@MrHarryCole @TheSun Britain at its worst: The Sun hands out a scotch egg using a large-breasted woman for publicity. Britain at its best: Sikhs make 800 curries at their own expense and hand them out without any official publicity.
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David Lance Callahan
5 years
@davidschneider Millions of us already knew this - that’s why we voted Labour.
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David Lance Callahan
1 year
Your occasional reminder that my debut LP as part of Moonshake (1992) has now been reissued in a deluxe edition with all the B-sides and the sole John Peel session included. For all fans of good-quality, genuinely contrarian, forward-thinking music:
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David Lance Callahan
9 months
Fairly spot on, I would say ...
@LettersOfNote
Letters of Note
9 months
"Now is the time to get your shit together." Mark E. Smith responds to the @NME calling him a yuppie in 1986.
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An unpromising trip to Hersham yesterday produced the first decent chazza score of 2024. £16 the lot. No laced-up boots or corduroys, though ...
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David Lance Callahan
2 years
@MatthewStadlen Well, apart from when she tried to avoid paying tax, used the state poverty fund to heat the palace, used our money to defend her paedo son and didn't want to employ BAME people, you mean?
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David Lance Callahan
5 years
@tomhfh Liberty Truss sounds like something you might buy for a hernia.
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