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John Bull@garius.bsky.social |
In 1994 the Pet Shop Boys were invited to perform 'Go West' at the Brit Awards.
They agreed and brought with them 3 separate choirs of miners. Some of those miners had marched with the gay and lesbian members of LGSM in the 1980s. It is one of the great, near-lost music moments
vimeo.com/293437684
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bjb
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They’re the best.
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Chris Brennan
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📌
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OhFatTony
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Great video
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Telibarb
@telibarb.bsky.social
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That has given me goosebumps.
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NYERinWESTCHESTER
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I came out in London in 1986 and the London Lesbian and Gay Center was so well run and an incredible resource for someone terrified of what it meant to be gay in a world that hated us. 1/2
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Jupiter (they/elle)
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@vinosmax.bsky.social
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Thank you! My heart is bursting.
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️
@napaaqtuk.bsky.social
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Oh my gosh, I loved the Pet Shop Boys when I was growing up and had no idea about this song, the meaning of this event. Thank you for sharing this!
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🌷Skippy The Bush Kangaroo🌷
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Thank you for posting this. 🥲
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Scott
@cocktailsandink.bsky.social
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That's a great performance, thank you for sharing.
(same to you @derekdesanges.bsky.social )
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Jamie Gillespie
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I was suddenly 11 again. Sitting on my parents couch.
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Stan Wonn
@stanwonn.bsky.social
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I really enjoyed both the video and the back story. Thanks for posting this!
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juff
@juffowup.bsky.social
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Probably the opposite mood you're trying to invoke but I thought about this song a lot earlier this week when I learned from a cryptic crossword (The Guardian probably?) that apparently "go west" is an idiom in the UK meaning "to die" and I listened to it three times and man it's just haunting now.
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Tiah Marie Beautement
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I loved this song in high school. Think I was the only one in my tiny town that owned the CD. I had no idea this had happened. Then again, small town Oregon, with little access to dial up internet...how would we know about events like this?
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Dáire Lawlor
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One of the most poignant moments of solidarity in our collective working class history was the miners and LGBTQ folk joining forces. We have so much power united
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Mark Finch
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Wow. Thanks
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Jesper Fohlin
@fohlin.bsky.social
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Great story! Thx
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Jaseroque
@jaseroque.bsky.social
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Update: I found a slightly better version of the video! Alas, it's on Facebook, so now I need to figure out how to download it off there, because that's not a particularly useful place for it to be, but nevertheless: www.facebook.com/share/v/r5mP...
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Jennifer Winch
@jlwinch1.bsky.social
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📌
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Lothenon
@lothenon.bsky.social
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Beautifull story and now I'm listening to Pachelbel's Canon
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Ostfee 🧚♀️
@lurch.bsky.social
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I remember that!
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kcarruthers
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This is fantastisk
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Simon
@thedenature.bsky.social
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Also fun that the video was apparently posted by a Russian speaker, given the Russophile vibe of the official video.
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Patrick Smith
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That time immediately before everything started being recorded and kept feels especially fragile, perhaps only because it's the last time things could be lost.
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Den of Scholes
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It never fails to bring the tears out. Men whose lives the Tories had destroyed, from villages and small towns that had their decline managed by cabinet consensus, standing tall, proud and defiant. And the conductor is having the time of his life!
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Caitríona Shanahan
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I had forgotten just what a banger this song was, and how utterly brilliant Pet Shop Boys were. Also how dark the 80s were. Never forgotten what an absolute c@@t Margaret Thatcher was.
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STEMLORD
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Thank you. This has made my day. Im sorry your article is gone but what a story. Along with anything to do with LGSM, it’s amazing and wonderful true
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Barry Parr
@barryparr.bsky.social
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Thank you! This is so moving.
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Andie Hallihan
@hooli.bsky.social
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Fabulous performance. And an even stronger backstory to it all.
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Upbeat Former Prof
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thank you for sharing. I'm sorry your piece is no longer available! it sounds powerful, wish i could read it. saw them last year when they opened for New Order. a few minutes in, seeing the crowd, i was overwhelmed w/ emotion remembering what PSB means for some of our friends. i just melted down 😭❤️
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Fabulous Abomination
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I love this!
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AK Faulkner 🏳️⚧️🖊️📚
@poopraven.bsky.social
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Someone needs to send Geowayne this thread 😊
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Ann G
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You might be interested in the Durham Miners gala, held on the second Saturday each July. The miners haven't forgotten LGSM. LGBTQ+ groups and banners still take part each year
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Emma Thane of Cawdor
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This film is also a reminder of the links between the miners strike and the LGBTQ+ community. I live in Blaenavon, the home of the Big Pit Mining Museum and they had a special showing of the film a while ago.
m.imdb.com/title/tt3169...
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Dr Caz 🔶🇪🇺
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Love it. As a huge PSB fan, I had no idea this happened, so thanks for sharing. I wasn’t in the uk in 1994, so have a reasonable excuse.
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Jill S
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I was just thinking about the movie Pride that tells that story!
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Sarah ⚧ ✡︎
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Ipsita Chatterjea (she/her)
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@mathitak.bsky.social , Salim, given what I recall of his fondness for the Pet Shop Boys, needs to see/hear this, can you send it on?
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Newtphoenix 🏴🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Well that's me crying for the next hour.
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Zach Lipton
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@leavittalone.bsky.social it's not quite Bread and Roses from Pride, but this thread is relevant to your interests
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Peter Harrigan
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📌
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ekmpls
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Amazing. Thank you so much for sharing!
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Antonia B
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That was just incredible. Thank you for posting it and for providing context John. It touched me deeply. 💜
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notgordonallport
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oh dang now I’m getting teary
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midgie
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aahhh that was glorious, ty 🩷
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the entity formerly known as landsnark...
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skeeter, i wept for joy.
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Valarie Smith
@valarie.bsky.social
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This was beautiful. Thank you.
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Pete Birkinshaw
@binaryape.bsky.social
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This ended up as a page on Metafilter, the first time I've seen that happen for a Bluesky post.
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Caroline O'Meara
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Someone (you?) uploaded a better version to in the last 12 hours and thank you or them.
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DoctorAtlantis.bsky.social
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I have such intense memories of listening to VERY as I biked around in Bahrain. I was never a dancer but PSB sure took me on some runs and rides.
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Tracey Eva #GTTO 🇪🇺 💚🦜🌿🌻🌍🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️♠️☮️
@traceva.bsky.social
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I remember this
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@misskayrenee.bsky.social
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I miss this kind of activism so much. 🥺
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Bob Blaskiewicz
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Eipc.
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Kent Parkstreet, Laird of Doofus
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Brilliant.
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Socyclist 🚴
@socyclist.bsky.social
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I have such deep gratitude for Pet Shop Boys. Aside from loving their music at a young age, they were my conduit into accepting people for who they were without judgement. Even in a homophobic rightwing family, I could anchor to what they represented. Acceptance.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fFe...
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LurkyMcLurk
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A band that always delivered during award shows and completely reinvented songs for each tour. One of the best pop acts ever
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David
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So awesome. Pet shop boys were part of my growing up.
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Ant
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Thanks for posting that. As someone else has said, it's a reminder of one of those moments of solidarity between two disparate groups who were both being oppressed by the ruling class that gives me a glimmer of hope.
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Frankman
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❤😢
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psdbny (she/her)
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jaw drop union strong fucking everything amazing🍉🫡
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James Barham
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I remember that performance, it seemed revolutionary at the time.
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Dave Awl
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📌
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Ange 🍞🌹🏳️🌈 🇳🇿
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📌
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Kristina of ⭐️⭐️
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Thank you so much for posting this. Crying… seeing them in concert in 2022 was so damn amazing.
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@frothywalrus.bsky.social
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I took the best version you found, ran it through some video up-scaling software and posted the results to YouTube, I also added your anecdote. It is so sweet.
youtu.be/UhiDBExK1wI
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Birliban
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📌
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ElevenZ
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I'm verklempt. Thank you.
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Shana | SolveForBetter
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John Bull
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Other members of the colliery choirs said that they didn't know who the Pet Shop Boys were when they performed, but after they had relatives and friends (and remember these guys were from small-town Wales and England) come out to them, and say seeing them on that stage meant the trusted them.
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Canberra by Bike / Paris Lord 巴黎
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Thanks for this video, and your context. I hope someone who has digitised a copy of your magazine article finds it. 💜✊
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anitamargarita
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Amazing!
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Andy Bowen
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The song also had a life as a ⚽️ chant. There was an old Dwadspin story that I found on a message board.
www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index....
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Toby
@dandrobium.bsky.social
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The Pet Shop Boys were the first concert I went to, in 1991. I was on a semester abroad in Germany, took the train to Ulm or wherever and barely made it back to school for classes to start the next morning. Still a cherished memory.
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Eileen Wilson
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Spine tingling stuff. Thank you for sharing 😊
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Kardomah
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📌
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John Grindrod
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Lovely bit of research there. I always thought it was really fascinating how they made a cheery song about gay solidarity from another era into an AIDS memorial for a lost generation too
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ASMEH
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@mandreas.bsky.social kände att du kanske skulle uppskatta detta minne.
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Laura Clawson
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This is beautiful, thank you. After my parents saw “Pride” when it came out, they told me how in the 80s they went to a fundraiser where they heard about LGSM — but they weren’t at the time sure how real it was & how much it was a fundraising hook for people like them.
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