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@RaheemKassam @tonymacaroni @realDonaldTrump The guy who writes for Breitbart doesn't share stuff with morons 🤔
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@LozzaFox Have you tried Grindr?
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Chickpea has turned 19. She’s deaf, has fits and I have to give her a bath every couple of weeks because she doesn’t really wash herself anymore. She waits for me in my studio and sleeps on my lap all day. I love her.
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@epkaufm Globalization was a death trap invented by endogamous bankers with severe mental illnesses.
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@TheSun You can go and sincerely fuck yourselves
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Its already Brexit in Australia.
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Day four of Covid and I've completely lost my sense of taste. Listening to the Killers.
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This is going to take some beating
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I keep on seeing people tweeting how bad the food was on BR in the 70s. Lads, the food was bad everywhere in the 70s. It was the 70s.
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@DanaNawzar He cut somebody's head off because of a drawing.
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Martin Carr
6 years
Giant Steps came out 25 years ago today and is now entitled to the National Living Wage.
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Happy Birthday, Giant Steps
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4 years
I was diagnosed with adhd last week, ending a lifetime search for the what the hell is wrong with me. More news as it sinks in.
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7 years
You're so vague / I bet you think you're something or other.
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7 years
Kim Deal is better than no deal.
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4 years
Get some
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Tim Burgess
4 years
Yeah! Giant Steps is getting the #TimsTwitterListeningParty treatment - @martin_carr will take us on a track by track journey around The Boo Radleys’ seminal album Date tbc Stand by for more info
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“Why aren’t we better prepared for the hot weather?” is a weird question to ask a country that can’t even feed and house its own population.
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@Wollygogg @Ladbrokes It's 07876hahaha.
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Martin Carr
7 years
Sgt Brexit's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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@CNN Trump - Hey guys, can I eat this child? GOP - Do we still get our tax cuts? Trump - Sure, why not? GOP - Knock yourself out
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Martin Carr
8 years
Grammar Nazi
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Nigel Farage MP
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Delighted that the government will now allow new grammar schools. I've been campaigning 20 years for this.
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I enjoy telling my children stories from my life but I wish they didn’t all end with ’And that, kids, is why we have no money’.
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@mrjamesob Hey! This sieve has holes in it.
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Martin Carr
8 years
Hello! Last year I descended into depression and anxiety and went a bit loopy. I'm on meds now and back at it. Music and jokes to follow.
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3 years
Sailor - Dad, can I blow up the flamingo in the garden? Me - Not right now, love. Sailor -
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@jeremycorbyn *Puts baby in lion's mouth* "The real fight starts now. Over the next 2 yrs Labour will use every opportuni oh it's eaten it"
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6 years
Scott 3 is one of my favourite albums. RIP, Scott Walker ❤️
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Martin Carr
4 years
@TheMichaelMoran @wyvernandstar I haven’t seen my son since he started hanging out with a county line crunchy nut cornflake gang. I will never forgive myself for giving him weetabix that one time.
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Martin Carr
4 years
Thats a trip, eh? Thanks for playing. I love you all.
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7 years
My daughter drew a picture of Johnny Depp visiting a sweet shop.
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Martin Carr
4 years
When you walk on stage and see twelve people in the audience, including the promoter and his family, the support band and the bar staff.
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Martin Carr
4 years
Sarah Kendzior's excellent book, Hiding In Plain Sight, lays bare Trump's corruption and risk to national security. Recommended.
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Sarah Kendzior
6 years
My interview on #AMJoy : "Trump is grooming Jared and Ivanka for a dynastic kleptocracy. This is what you see in autocracies and in mafia states. It's a way to keep corruption going and keep that money flowing. This is a massive national security risk."
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Aphex Fin
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Martin Carr
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This was one of the main sounds on the record. My sister got it for Christmas in the mid 80s
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Martin Carr
3 years
It's weird reading and listening to some of these recent Boo Radleys interviews. I've always had a problem recognising my existence but to be absent from my own story? The Commissar Vanishes.
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Martin Carr
3 years
Crawling towards London in a fucked van. Biggest gig of my life tonight. Much love and respect for the Charlatans. Cant wait to get onstage with my amazing band 7pm - Go! Team DJ set 7:45 - Martin Carr & What Future 8:15 - Go! Team DJ set 8:45 - The Charlatans @Tim_Burgess
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Martin Carr
6 years
I’m fifty today. Waiting for call from South Bank Show.
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Martin Carr
1 year
#GiantSteps by #thebooradleys turns 30 this week, and I'm celebrating by clearing out my attic. I've a huge bundle of recordings, original merch and memorabilia that I would love to see go to a more loving home, get your bids in...
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Martin Carr
3 years
Steve Lamacq is playing Loveless in full and I still don't know how they did it. A record made on the moon.
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Martin Carr
4 years
@montie I wonder if Johnson knew about Clair Fox's IRA sympathies when he elevated her to the Lords? Everyone else in the country did #pmqs
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Martin Carr
3 years
HINT HINT @disneyplus
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1992 - I’m listening to Pavement, King Tubby, Tim Buckley, The Flaming Lips and The Beach Boys on the first floor of a house on Dartmouth Park Rd, not far from Kentish Town, with two rooms and a shared toilet/shower on the landing. #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Martin Carr
6 years
@Femi_Sorry Same. My voting slip said ‘Would you like to hand over the future of this country to the Conservative Party?’ No thanks.
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Martin Carr
4 years
Sailor - I have to go to school dressed as my hero today. Me - Oh yeah? Sailor - I’m going in as you. Me - Oh. Really? Blimey. Thanks. Sailor -
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Martin Carr
4 years
one step forward / goose steps back
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Martin Carr
7 years
Thanks for getting stabbed in the head for us, Wayne - but no pay raise, yeah?
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The Telegraph
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Police officer who fought London Bridge terrorists says he felt like a cowboy as he took on 'wolfpack'
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@EmmaKennedy Champagne racist.
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Martin Carr
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I started buying records from Probe in the mid 80s in my school uniform. In 1988, I handed our first demo to Geoff which he listened to in the cupboard behind the counter while I waited. “I like the noise but the singing is too nice”. RIP ❤️
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Martin Carr
3 years
Steve Strange was never my agent but he was my friend. He came looking for me when I was lost and I will always be grateful. We had some wild times together, he was funny, quite mad and always a joy to be around. I was looking forward to seeing him again later this year. R.I.P.
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Martin Carr
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Barney And Me - called it Barney and me because the intro was ripped off Electronic. I think I started this on Belvidere Field in Wallasey while I was out walking one frosty morning near my parents house. Cellos and flutes. Old man song, I was 24.
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Martin Carr
2 years
Happy 80th Birthday, Paul. I love you.
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Martin Carr
7 years
Plugged this in today for the first time in 24 years. #shoegaze
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Martin Carr
4 years
I have no qualifications, skills or expertise so I'm going to retrain as a Government PPE contractor.
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Martin Carr
3 years
So sad. I’ve never enjoyed a tour as much as this one. I’ve felt alive onstage for the first time. Thanks to Tim and the band for having us and thank you to the majestic What Future @RHLHmusic @MattJFrederick @gazgoldstar @Tim_Burgess ❤️
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Tim Burgess
3 years
💔
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Martin Carr
8 years
This referendum has to be one of the worst political acts by a Prime Minister in my lifetime, conducted in the most reprehensible manner.
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Martin Carr
2 years
It was ACE playing with @thecharlatans on their UK tour. We had such a great time and were treated so well by the band and crew (and gig-goers!). I didn't think I'd get to do things like that again, so lucky. Thank you @Tim_Burgess photo by the always fantastic @TrustFox
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Martin Carr
7 years
Still tickets left for this. It's my first UK tour in over ten years and I will be playing songs from Boo Radleys/bravecaptain/Martiun Carr releases. I'll be making noises on guitars, bass, synths and various other noise robots. COME.
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Martin Carr
7 years
Sun, Mail, Hopkins, you.
@TRobinsonNewEra
Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧
7 years
Yes, let's discuss how he was radicalised. What could have drove him to it
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Martin Carr
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1. Good morning. Three hundred years ago I wrote songs and music for a tv film set in 1990 called Snodgrass, scripted by David Quantick. Based on an Ian R McLeod short story about John Lennon if he'd left the Beatles in 1962.
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Martin Carr
4 years
I played the album yesterday for the first time in twenty years (I think). It's ok, better than I thought it would be.
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Martin Carr
3 years
Love Janice Long RIP
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Martin Carr
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I’ve started dog walking for Cardiff Dogs Home. Today Mary and I took Betty for a stroll up the Ely Trail. She was a bit nervous at first but she turned out to be great company and she loves cocktail sausages! Love her 🐶❤️
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Martin Carr
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This venue is so big it has its own fog. Possibly the biggest place I’ve ever played. So lucky. Thank you @thecharlatans @Tim_Burgess
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Martin Carr
7 years
RIP-AH
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Martin Carr
3 years
Paul? Paul! PAUL! PAULPAULPAULPAUL! What? I put acid in your tea.
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Martin Carr
7 years
Album release today. It’s what my anti-depressants were made for.
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It's happening again!!!
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Martin Carr
8 years
I can hear the Stereophonics soundchecking from within the supposed sanctity of my own home. Who can I sue?
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Martin Carr
4 years
I find it hard to sit still and focus so during the day, when I’m not drinking with the alcoholic couple upstairs or lying on the big bed in the back room bathed in the shifting sunlit patterns from the trees outside.. #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Martin Carr
8 years
"Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it" I said wisely as I sat drinking in the park all day with no sun cream on 🚑
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Martin Carr
1 year
I met Kari in Chicago and became internet buddies before she moved here permanently. First thing we did was visit Abbey Road. She was the loudest and sweariest person I have ever known. She died last week and now the world is a quieter, but less fun, place. RIP Buttmunch X
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Martin Carr
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I first saw The House of Love supporting the Mighty Lemon Drops at Liverpool Poly in 1987. Loved the wide open space of the first album and looking forward to playing with them here ⬇️
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Martin Carr
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RIP Don Everly. RIP the Everly Brothers, my first gig. I love you ❤️❤️
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Martin Carr
7 years
After my guitar smashed in Liverpool my beautiful friend Mr @petewylie lent me his Gibson 335 for the rest of the tour. TA WAH X
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Martin Carr
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Arrived at school gates. Eight year old still has telly control in his hand 🙄
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Martin Carr
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BARGAIN
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The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps #vinyl @martin_carr @SiceBooRadleys
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Martin Carr
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I am no longer a member of the band Spandau Ballet & will not be performing with the band in the future.
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Oh no. Mike Nesmith RIP. Different Drum forever ❤️
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Martin Carr
6 years
Sure, let’s ban one of the three days of the year I’m allowed to start drinking at breakfast.
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Good Morning Britain
6 years
Is it time to ban father’s day? With a rise in single parent, blended and same sex families, is it time to get more inclusive and appreciate parents all year round?
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4 years
My son just asked me what the best guitar sound ever is. Don’t they teach them anything at school?
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Ooh I just found this
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Martin Carr
2 years
I've been listening to Ram for three hours. I was going to listen to a load of his stuff today but, fuck me, this is all I need ❤️
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Martin Carr
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Publishers! I’ve finally finished the book I’ve been working on for years, ‘How To Negotiate’. If you publish it I’ll give you ten percent ok ninety.
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Martin Carr
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2008 - what are you most looking forward to doing with your baby son when he’s older Me : Standing in the dark and rain watching him play football in the dark and rain. 2020 (Standing in the dark and rain watching son playing football in the dark and rain) Me - Fuck this.
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Martin Carr
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The last time I saw this guitar was 2009 (had it since '97). I thought it had gone forever but it was at Music Box the whole time. Guitar Dan has fixed whatever needed fixing and it now sounds like a harpsichord ❤️🙌👊
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Martin Carr
3 years
Reading 91 was the first festival I ever went to. I spent almost the whole time in the backstage bit drinking bottles of white wine with speed in it and telling everyone I was in a band. #reading
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Martin Carr
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My first flat was on the ground floor of 58 Huskisson Street in Liverpool. A long road, watched over by tall Georgian houses. I had a very large (and cold) room with a kitchenette and a double bed. Beryl Williams was my landlady and she was lovely, always up for a chat. RIP ❤️
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Martin Carr
7 years
Dolphin on a stretcher I know I know It’s serious
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Martin Carr
4 years
My first major work was about Ray Clemence, written circa 1979. Red and green should not be seen Except upon a fool But that does not count Ray Clemence Who plays for Liverpool. #RIPRayClemence
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‘Nothing’s Gonna Keep You Here’. Exhibition featuring NB related artists opens tonight 6pm at the Oakland Gallery on Victoria Road. GET SOME #newbrighton
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Martin Carr
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@davies42g @Kevin_Maguire @bbclaurak I'm lifelong labour, voted Corbyn. I find her fair and informed. She wouldn't get all this shit if she was a man.
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Martin Carr
7 years
She is such tremendous fun on the Twitter Dot Com.
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Martin Carr
7 years
RIP Starman.
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Martin Carr
7 years
The skins of the poor.
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Julia Hartley-Brewer
7 years
Can't wait to see what Philip May wears on the #OneShow tonight... soooo exciting!
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Rodney King - Oh here I go, inventing dance music.
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