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2000 Great Songs #1015: Read About Seymour. A quick 90-second riot of punk-ska quirkiness from early post-punk innovators Swell Maps; one of their more straightforward tracks, lovable despite (or because of?) its silly you-can-all-join-in simplicity. jitterywhiteguymusic.com/2025/07/my-top…

So, having read 6 of these, I’ve little hesitation in adding the other 5 to my summer reading.

The only shame is having to wait a year for this to start…..

Stewart Lee used to deliver the newspaper to Nikki & Epic's parents house on his paper round. Not a lot of people know that. SL+DB Stokey July 8 Glass Modern グラス・モダン Chris Coleman Phil Alexander the pastels David Keenan Heather Leigh Sonic Youth the pastels

In a reversal of roles, Stewart Lee takes delivery of the last but one copy of Epic Soundtracks’ “There’s A Light” LP (Glass Modern/Seventeen Records) from Dave “Paperboy” Barker. 🙂

Down the old South Bank this afternoon, Yoshitomo Nara exhibition at the Hayward Galley and a Stewart Lee matinee at the RFH Glass Modern グラス・モダン Chris Coleman David Keenan Phil Alexander Ben Edge the telescopes

Music will endure. Somewhere there's a kid who will hear Nick Drake for the first time today. It will change their life ♥️

In 10 days time on 2nd August we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1985 release of “Robespierre’s Velvet Basement” by Nikki Sudden & Dave Kusworth, aka The Jacobites. Here’s my first ever Substack post - planning a new post every day until August 2nd🤞 open.substack.com/pub/chrisseven…

Chris Coleman 40th! I still remember buying it from Virgin Records on Bull Street.

So far managing to deliver on my promise of a post a day until the 2nd August & the 40th anniversary of “Robespierre’s Velvet Basement” by the Jacobites, here’s my second Substack post. open.substack.com/pub/chrisseven… Expect drunken swearing Brummies. And previously unpublished magazine.

open.substack.com/pub/chrisseven… …in which I may hint that the first Jacobites tour in 1985 was as significant as the first ever r’n’r tour by Bill Haley The Comets in 1955, and the first ever UK r’n’r tour in 1965 by The Stones… #RobespierresVelvetBasement #NikkiSudden #DaveKusworth

open.substack.com/pub/chrisseven… The third chapter of what I’m mildly tempted to call “The Story Of Robespierre’s Velvet Basement” which, of course it isn’t - and couldn’t ever really be. Today we present previously unused 2018 reminiscences of RVB from Dave Kusworth. #Jacobites

How The West Midlands Came To Minnesota. The latest instalment of our tribute to 40 years of “Robespierre’s Velvet Basement” by The Jacobites which we celebrate on 2nd August. God-willing, 6 more to come. open.substack.com/pub/chrisseven… #NikkiSudden #DaveKusworth #TheReplacements

I posted this yesterday into what I forgot was the Sunday Night Dead Zone on X, so I’ll use Stephen (Lilac Time) Duffy’s kind comment on the Substack post as an excuse to run it again (….just as everyone turns up to work on a Monday morning). #TheJacobites #TheReplacements

Hope you’re still hanging on in there. The 5th instalment of our “Robespierre’s Velvet Basement” celebration. “We should be on the cover of the NME” - Nikki Sudden - to the NME!1985 National Music Press reaction. #Jacobites #DaveKusworth open.substack.com/pub/chrisseven…

open.substack.com/pub/chrisseven… With Dave, Nikki and Epic Soundtracks no longer with us, Marc Lemon is the “last man standing” of the musicians responsible for the album. He answered some questions for us in 2018 for the RSD 2019 re-release. He has some thoughts.

open.substack.com/pub/chrisseven… Managed to get the 7th Substack post out just before midnight. Honestly, if there’s one you could give a miss, this might be the one. (It’ll now likely get more views than it deserves - more than previous (better) posts!) #ReversePsychology

In case you missed last night’s midnight missive, here’s a repost of the latest “Robespierre’s Velvet Basement 40th Anniversary” link. One which, unless (like me) you’re a “completist” about these things, you can probably afford to pass on, truth be told. open.substack.com/pub/chrisseven…

Hopefully hitting that early evening social media sweet spot in alerting you to the 8th instalment of the “Robespierre’s Velvet Basement” 40th anniversary Substack celebration. open.substack.com/pub/chrisseven… In which Glass Modern’s David E Barker’s pivotal role in RVB is addressed.

Forget that early evening sweet spot nonsense, 9.00am is the best time to post something. I checked the data. Now I’m testing it out. Remembered to throw in some hashtags too. #NikkiSudden #DaveKusworth #EpicSoundtracks #TheJacobites #RobespierresVelvetBasement #GlassRecords