This Hit This Month - What Outsideleft's readers read in April was a lot more than they did in any other month ever. Since records began. Except for that weird, anomalous 'poetry day' month and a couple of others...
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April: 159 new tracks from Birmingham & the wider region ft THE CLAUSE Citylightz VADER Lawrence Taylor Bellah Mae
Sonnyjim Ghetto Life tony_surgeon KIOKO Rosie Tee charlie bennett is in a strawberry field
& more. Shout if we've missed your music! open.spotify.com/playlist/02Vo0…

Money & Blood available here, too. 😀

In Outsideleft. Six Days of the great Birmingham writer Alan Beard continues with entry #3 in the ledger, Slightly...
Alan Beard Outsideleft #flashfiction
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Wonderful time at the Consortium Museum in Dijon enjoying yet more heartwarming hospitality. Filmed a few tracks with Sebastien Fait-Divers for forthcoming promo!

Day two of my pieces on Outside Left - Too Many Bags.

Outsideleft.com: Right Said Frank. Frank Turner has a new LP and Toon Traveller has listened to part of it and says a qualified 'hell yeah.' -
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Six Days of Alan Beard #2: Too Many Bags - Alan Beard, six days of short fiction this week in Outsideleft
Alan Beard #shortstories #flashfiction
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Six Days of Alan Beard #1: Wants To Get High - A new Alan Beard short story every day this week in Outsideleft. Wow!
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Alan Rider asks is redemption for Nancy Spungen finally in sight in Den Browne's insider Sid 'n' Nancy mythbusting book?
#sidandnancy #sidvicious #nancyspungen
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A rare sighting of Licensed Premises in the lovely Stalybridge library SALT · Independent trade publisher, est. 1999

Outsideleft Week in Music is all about Me and Thee - and... Michel Moers, Still House Plants, Guy Hamper Trio, Infinite River, Leæther Strip, Esther Rose, Rebecca Karpen,, Nas & DJ Premier, Brainstory, Applied Communication, Scott Robertson, Principe go.shr.lc/44foriA

A start-of-the-week reminder that Claire Walker and I are still open to submissions for our Craft of Care anthology, which aims to explore caregiving through works of creative nonfiction and poetry.

Full details of the project can be found here: caregivinganthology.wordpress.com/submission-gui…

Short Story Orgy #2: Charlie Hill adds to Outsideleft's Short Story Orgy Series. Genocide. It was nothing personal...
#shortstory #birminghamwriters #shortstory orgy
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It's Earth Day, so why not take a deep time Geopoetic trip through the Black Country with The Chain Coral Chorus
Buy the book w/ Playdead Press
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Tremendous. Ozzy Osbourne , how's this for you?

'The thing that shines through most is the almost revolutionary zeal and integrity that Mark clearly applies to everything he does.' Alan Rider reviews Dead Voices on Air's Mark Spybey biography for Outsideleft
Mark Spybey eMERGENCYheARTS Outsideleft
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#ThrowbackThursday : Get groovy and grab some popcorn seasoned with soul-stirring reflections on #JohnTravolta in #SaturdayNightFever and his influence in gender representation and sexuality. Curious? Read now! #LightsCameraReflection 🕺🪩

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'Tech, unlike people, can be improved.' Discuss. Getting ready to teach the final text on Literature in the Digital Age - Shamsie on racist tech, surveillance, cyber bullying, the self as unraveling narrative, friendship & family & remaining human in the digital age.

This outsideleft thing has been going on for a long time... You've Got Great Cans - kicking out the kitchen trash jams with simplehuman is from 2006. So not the latest story in Outsideleft
#vintagetrash #simplehuman @outsideleft #pickitup
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