It’s a quasi-philosophical question, but if you can only see something by pointing your phone at it, is it really there? Pokémon Borealis.

Basically, if it was being written about in Melody Maker or NME between 1985 and 1989, it's got a very strong chance of making the playlist.

Brighton! @SpellboundClub Late Eighties Special TONIGHT! Komedia Brighton 9pm-3am £7 (cash only)

Pixies/Happy Mondays/Mary Chain/Dinosaur Jr/Wedding Present/Carter USM/Beasties/Mudhoney/Faith No More/Sisters/PWEI/Sonic Youth/R.E.M./Cult/NIN/Primitives...

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Here’s an aspect of Welsh history I knew nothing about. Thousands of priceless artworks were hidden in a slate mine in Blaenau Ffestiniog during WW2 to protect them from Nazi bombs. #fallenmadonnawiththebigboobies

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Yep, we're the 80s night that has lasted 50% longer than the actual 80s.

This week is Komedia Brighton's 30th Anniversary, and @SpellboundClub's Late Eighties Special on Saturday is part of the celebrations! We're proud to be Komedia's longest-running club night: 15 years now (half the time Komedia has existed).

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RIP Steve Albini. Loved the new asshole he tore with Big Black; an overwhelming thing of ugly, amoral beauty. Rapeman sucked as a name. He'd later agree, describing it as 'edgelord shit'.
I really admire the man, the decent, if still abrasive man he turned into. A real loss.

Steve Albini was a giant. Big Black great, but production (he never called it that) exceptional: Pixies, Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Manics... Nobody made drums sound so ARID. (Also, owned up to his younger self sometimes being a jerk, which is ultra-cool.) R.I.P.
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The dynamic between defecting MPs and their new parliamentary colleagues must be… interesting. And *especially* between defecting MPs and their new local party, who chose their own candidate at the last election, and fought hard to defeat the person who now represents them.

This pearl-clutching Far Right nutter absolutely losing her shit about Bambie Thug is the gift that keeps on giving. Her replies-to-replies are priceless. #evil #demonic

It won't surprise anyone that I'm ALL about the Manson/Xtina vibes of Ireland's Bambie Thug @bambiethug.

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#eurovision2024 #doomsdayblue #bambiethug #crownthewitch

.Simon Price﮷ - Celebrating 35 Years of The Cure's Disintegration on BBC 6 Music.
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Dreadlocks guy at the music festival from Night Coppers who'd taken 'bare ket' and told the arresting officer to 'suck my dick backwards' is Brighton's answer to Australia's Democracy Manifest/succulent Chinese meal guy. If you know, you know. Someone needs to clip it and share.

'Guess mine is not the first heart broken
My eyes are not the first to cry
I'm not the first to know
There's just no getting over you
I know I'm just a fool who's willing
To sit around and wait for you
But baby, can't you see there's nothing else for me to do?'

Brighton! @LateNiteMinicab FM at @BSpiegeltentTONIGHT! (Bank Holiday Sunday, 11pm-2am)

Cabbies Alexis Petridis, @johnnobuggedout & Simon Price﮷ play the slow jams, love songs, tearjerkers and power ballads that make you weepy in the back seat.

Tickets bit.ly/MinicabMay5

The KLF weren't the only copyright-theft pranksters in the late 80s. There was also Culturcide Culturcide, Houston punks who shouted stupid/funny lyrics over the top of existing pop hits on the album Tacky Souvenirs Of Pre-Revolutionary America (1986) youtube.com/watch?v=V_OsMf…

For Leicester City fans, from E Maresca. youtu.be/BvKlzNcZ7Bw?si…

Got a strong feeling this is going to become the bane of my life for the foreseeable.