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  #PlayTime #JukeboxFridayNight A couple from the Banshees I heard Paul McCartney talking about Helter Skelter on the podcast he did that went along with his songs book. He said that in much of the world nobody knew what a 'Helter Skelter' is....so just in case that's still the case, it's a great big slide Siouxsie and the Banshees - Helter Skelter https://youtu.be/TOn_uAuuIBQ?is=3VJK32RH_pIM93E6 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Playground Twist https://youtu.be/kyZ0-FtNvf4?is=5o...

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  #PianoMusic #JukeboxFridayNight Nick Cave - Into my arms I was first aware of Nick Cave as the manic, king-goth singer of the Birthday Party, and I used to see him occasionally at gigs and stuff, looking very moody and stern. I saw him a few years back in Bournemouth. It was his 60th, and the audience spontaneously sang Happy Birthday to him. It was a sweet moment https://youtu.be/LnHoqHscTKE?is=fQCYGZcmTvLFImJS

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  #jukeboxFridayNight #AWiderWorld The Burundi Drummers at WOMAD 1982 This is the rhythm that Adam and the Ants "borrowed". I was in the smallish crowd here, and it was awesome in all the senses of that word. I've not yet spotted myself in the video https://youtu.be/8eOFYWPxe7s?is=lY1hzpvtbUVOaRih

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  #jukeboxFridayNight #AWiderWorld A chum burnt this to a CD for me years and years ago, and I love it Umeko Ando - Upopo Sanke I've never known much about it, but the Bandcamp writeup tells me: "Upopo Sanke" means "Let's sing a song" in the Ainu language. Umeko Ando (1932-2004) was one of the best-known artists of the Ainu, an indigenous, long-oppressed community in northern Japan. She sings their traditional songs with Oki Kano on the tonkori harp, who also record...

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  #Dirty #JukeboxFridayNight Jimmy Pursey saying "Hello, mum" was a memorable Top of the Pops moment for me - my equivalent of seeing Bowie do Starman or something Angels with Dirty Faces - Sham 69 https://youtu.be/Ika8Pv8sz_o?is=rDraw2VYTdAAyK0P

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  #PersonalPlaylist #JukeboxFridayNight Personal, because I'm her dad Bethany Eve - Emerald City https://youtu.be/h8ufV2OY3Zg?is=QryKli9BsGjgOzjM

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  #History #JukeboxFridayNight The Ghost of Cable Street - The Men They Couldn't Hang My understanding is that the history is possibly not entirely accurate, but the spirit it right The band's name is also kind of historical (warning - it's a bit grim), too - https://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/southwest/series1/john-babbacombe-lee.shtml https://youtu.be/Vv9iZ6Aj8oM?si=oDgYLtWD-GGNSKRv

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  #History #JukeboxFridayNight Human League - Seconds I was listening to a History Hit episode on the same subject half an hour ago https://youtu.be/CY_eoAWIklk?si=swugolS2FgjuR90Y

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  #History #JukeboxFridayNight This is a version of Sinead O'Connor's song, with an extra verse,and fittingly for todays theme a hand painted sign about the English and their history Famine - Kate Nash "The truth is...there never really was one" https://youtu.be/_Vvj3shK0rk?is=h-wyCSxsefAV_Y4q

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  #Royalty #JukeboxFridayNight Elvis' backing singers from the 1960s singing over a track by Elvis' remixer from the 2010s I love it. Spankox & The Holladay Sisters - With The King https://youtu.be/mk9Ezt-zFNQ?is=CtHyCJ09Zz-FTms0

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  #BeLikeDolly #JukeboxFridayNight Finally from me, I had this on a very cheap and cheerful Dolly compilation. Many years later I was very pleased that one of my favourite bands covered the same song Dolly Parton - Muleskinner Blues https://youtu.be/orfuTrKsYyM?is=Qm4EWYoJJHjorBpt The Cramps - Muleskinner Blues https://youtu.be/HGl0N6oa5Qw?is=N7t3FL1dqjqjZrVb

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  #BeLikeDolly #JukeboxFridayNight This doesn't have any connection with Dolly but it is very like Dolly, and I love it. A female-centric version of the The Highwayman, featuring Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby, Maren Morris, and Amanda Shires "I was a healer I was gifted as a girl I laid hands upon the world Someone saw me sleeping naked in the noon sun I heard "witchcraft" in the whispers and I knew my time had come The bastards hung me at the Salem gallows hill But I am livin...

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  #BeLikeDolly #JukeboxFridayNight I saw the Sisters in the early '80s, and was a bit surprised when they played this Jolene - Sisters of Mercy https://youtu.be/xvcDUy_Rd90?is=6gMknvkxf5GX8GKE

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  #Waiting #JukeboxFridayNight Waiting for a Miracle - Leonard Cohen https://youtu.be/LXvG0SMP7tw?is=3oYOKoFJsJaSW5vQ

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  #Waiting #JukeboxFridayNight This is from 1984 (the year not the book), when everything shut on Sundays, and you were possibly a bit hungover, the telly was rubbish, and the internet hadn't been invented yet. The only redeeming feature was that the BBC showed one or two episodes of Sgt. Bilko late on Sunday evening. Countdown to Bilko - Serious Drinking https://youtu.be/xUzfhSqr1DE?is=SPFL7qxN0ccSrYbu

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  #MarketsAndFairs #JukeboxFridayNight One of my favourite songs. It being on the 23rd of June, the day before the fair When Ireland's sons and daughters and friends assembled there The young, the old, the brave, and the bold came their duty to fulfil At the parish church near Clooney, a mile from Spancil Hill Spancil Hill - Christy Moore and Shane McGowan https://youtu.be/nytqJ8aiohM?is=qMoWCAlrsJ_Q78sw

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  #CloseToOurHearts #JukeboxFridayNight Reggae version of the Titanic theme. My heart will go on - Pam Hall https://youtu.be/0AgDwtRYxts?is=XU_KXuHlxKlkUP9j

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  #PowerPlay #JukeboxFridayNight People have the power - Patti Smith https://youtu.be/pPR-HyGj2d0?is=Un7y3bFzU0Dh_2zf

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  My Crucial Track for 27 April 2026 - “The Broad Majestic Shannon” by Liam Clancy Post a song written or co-written by one of your favorite songwriters. “The Broad Majestic Shannon” by Liam Clancy Shane MacGowan, sung by Liam Clancy It’s the sort of song people criticise as being nostalgic and sentimental, but I think ‘nostalgic and sentimental ' is a big part of being human. “The Broad Majestic Shannon” by ... https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2026/04/27/my-crucial-track-for-april.h...

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  This is Barbara Hepworth’s ‘Crucifixion’ in the cloisters of Salisbury Cathedral My dad was a welder. He did a bit of a fix-up on it. Bless him.

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  I also went to see my old pals Christopher the Giant and Hobnob in Salisbury Museum "The Salisbury Museum is outstanding and I urge you to go there at once’. Bill Bryson, in ‘Notes from a Small Island'"

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  I took this last night. It doesn’t really work as a photo, but it’s one of my favourite views of Salisbury Cathedral. It’s across two lots of water meadows - so it’s as far again away as Constables painting It’s from close to this bit on Google Maps. Be careful of the tree roots. https://maps.app.goo.gl/ARbuKKUsmN4TbJns8

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  "May those who love us love us. And those that don’t love us, May God turn their hearts. And if He doesn’t turn their hearts, May he turn their ankles, So we’ll know them by their limping." An Irish blessing, from iausa - Irish Sayings, Proverbs, and Prayers for St. Patrick’s Day https://www.usairish.org/new-page-2

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  I did a manual import of my twitter archive into matt penny tweets archive on micro.blog, and a bit of editing. It took a while…but having done all of that now I think I want to merge it in with my main micro.blog. I’m an idiot. https://mattypenny-tweets.micro.blog/

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  #DogsCatsAndOtherPets #JukeboxFridayNight Two that have cats being dogs or vice versa The Cramps - Can your pussy do the dog? https://youtu.be/_-u-qsaEuAk?si=voUmzSi-Q9QuDLOk Norma Tanega - Walking my cat named dog https://youtu.be/SPZVrmJ2HH8?si=f5nzLSlpgb0iyyw3 A bit of trivia - Norma Tanega lived with Dusty Springfield. I'd like to have heard Dusty doing 'Walking my cat named dog'

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  Retirement project number 472 - decide which is my favourite Beatles LP.: https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2026/05/07/retirement-project-number-decide-which.html

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  Of course I disapprove….but I can’t help finding this funny Some kids are bypassing age-verification checks with a fake mustache | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/06/some-kids-are-bypassing-age-verification-checks-with-a-fake-mustache/?_bhlid=c97b43901531e76fae075bf58afa9976474dd695

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  I played football for the first time in a few weeks last night, and today I am feeling my age Pic by Francisco Goya, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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  #UseYourHead #JukeboxFridayNight A reggae cover of the Cypress Hill song. I first heard this at a festival called Standon Calling. It was the day before someone close to me was having an operation. All good now, but I remember thinking that I was going a little insane with worry. Insane in the membrane - Prince Fatty https://youtu.be/-ecv7qROCT8?si=QAsYrkKlBcbIxwog

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  #UseYourHead #JukeboxFridayNight I've not heard anyone say 'Use your loaf' for years. It means use your head / brain a bit. I'm guessing it rhyming slang - loaf of bread rhyming with head? Use your loaf - The Nightingales https://youtu.be/rJRLbRZbYNA?feature=shared