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Pete Paphides

@petepaphides.bsky.social

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It may look to the untrained eye, I'm sitting on my arse all day.
https://www.patreon.com/c/NeedleMythology

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@petepaphides.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 5:33 PM

No. I inflict enough of this nonsense on people as it is.

@petepaphides.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 5:00 PM

If anyone is having trouble narrowing down their selections to nine albums, Liam Gallagher has five spaces going spare in his one.

@petepaphides.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 3:09 PM

Thanks so much Jim. It was happening upon your original Mojo review a few weeks ago that prompted me to seek it out!

@petepaphides.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 2:31 PM

Will You Find Me by Ida – the 2LP edition or the 4LP one? Any steers?

@petepaphides.bsky.socialSep 26, 2026, 8:53 AM

Good morning all. Inspired by an exceptionally lovely message from @passing4human.bsky.social, I've revisited and (slightly) updated this piece which is ostensibly about Pure by The Lightning Seeds but, as is my wont, ends up about being about a lot more besides. www.patreon.com/NeedleMythol...

@petepaphides.bsky.socialSep 26, 2026, 8:48 AM

I think that, by going to all this trouble to get in touch, you've underscored your own point about love and connectivity. Waking up to your message has put a spring in my step and set me up for the day. It's also prompted me to update the piece and upload it onto my site. Thank you so much Fran. x

@themarinersband.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 5:26 PMReposted by @petepaphides.bsky.social

We’re huge fans of Honeybus and all the associated solo albums and unreleased gems The call and response backing vocals on She Sold Blackpool Rock are a genuinely genius bit of songwriting (Then she told me that she knew) (How they make the letters go right through) Off to put Story on now

@petepaphides.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 2:57 PM

It was originally a press biography but the band were so happy with it that they asked if they could use it as part of the album artwork. So I made a few tweaks and this was the result. The best bit of all this was Glenn telling me how much he'd loved reading Broken Greek! The stuff of dreams!

@petepaphides.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 2:49 PM

Thank you so much Paul. I'm guessing this is the CD? Because none of this is on the vinyl. How lovely to finally see it!

@petepaphides.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 2:33 PM

Marvellous! But do you know what's weird? My copy doesn't seem to have my sleevenotes on it! Any chance of a photo?

@petepaphides.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 1:54 PM

So much to love about Honeybus: how Pete Dello was so instantly unimpressed by pop stardom; how the rest of the band rose to the challenge of making an amazing album without him; and, best of all imho, the imperishably strange magic of their shoulda-been smash She Sold Blackpool Rock.

@petepaphides.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 8:48 AM

Well of course it's not a real criticism, more an expedient by which to point at the scope of Cathi's achievement. Hats off to you for publishing it! x

@petepaphides.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 8:17 AM

I think I might be entering my Autumn Of Goth and it's all Cathi Unsworth's fault. www.patreon.com/NeedleMythol...

@petepaphides.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 5:42 PM

Let's hear it for Bernard Jewry/Shane Fenton/Alvin Stardust – serial opportunist, pop supersub and not your typical renaissance man. www.patreon.com/NeedleMythol...

@professorunwin.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 12:51 PMReposted by @petepaphides.bsky.social

Timeline is once agail an infinile streab of crossly-postit and screen-grabby of hateymost and offensy dross from digifold cesspits. Deep folly! More unfalollowit, and considerapers of deletage of this final social media presence.

@petepaphides.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 7:44 AM

Thanks! Well, you wouldn't have been short of record shops in Brum. When did you get there?

@petepaphides.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 7:43 AM

We overlapped! Did we ever meet? Have I asked you this before? If so, apologies!

@situcker.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 7:38 AMReposted by @petepaphides.bsky.social

As a fellow Lampeter alumni I really enjoyed this. Sadly Hag passed away a couple of years ago and the shop no longer exists but whilst it did it was glorious. It also came with a worker called Bob who was brilliantly critical of music taste and who sold me my first album by The Fall (who he loved)

@petepaphides.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 7:34 AM

Scenes from a West Wales market town in 1989 and why, at this time of year, you'll always find me listening to The Notorious Byrd Brothers. www.patreon.com/NeedleMythol...

@petepaphides.bsky.socialSep 19, 2026, 9:18 PM

Ach! Autocorrect!

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