lindsaywesker
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My name's Lindsay Wesker. I live in the best city in the world, London, England. I'm a writer of fiction, non-fiction, plays, scripts, songs, and I'm also a radio broadcaster on the best radio station in the world, www.mi-soul.com (playing every kind of black music from the last 50 years right up to current day!) I've worked in the music and music media industries since 1981. I love images that inspire, make me smile or make me think.
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Good morning! I hope you slept well and feel rested? Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day.
In the evening, we went for dinner with one of our favourite couples, and we took the beautiful Miss Di Greeneyez with us. We went back to our favourite Indian restaurant and enjoyed a tasty feast. Wednesday night: the place was packed, full of Indian people! “What cost of living crisis?” my mate said. “Indians must be good with money!” I said. They wanted to know what my two-hour special is this weekend. No one will know until 1.00 p.m. on Saturday.
At the end of the evening, I asked him if I could take a selfie. “You can,” he said, “as long as you don’t publish it!” I didn’t push the point. “I’ve been off social media for four years,” he said, “and I love it!”
Could you come off social media? I know I couldn’t! My students actually hold their phones in their hands most of time and can’t go more than a minute without looking at it. FOMO is a deadly disease! What are they missing out on? Family. Work. Money. Social life. Gossip. A few encouraging words from that person they fancy. For Gen-Z, their world is in their phone. For the rest of us, life is much more interesting.
Finally making some bloody progress! These are messages on my phone: “You’re walking more than you usually do by this point.” “This year’s daily step count is similar to last year’s.” This ‘Steps’ feature on my ‘Health’ app is working! True, I ate a whole pile of delicious food last night but I will be walking again today!
See, my thing is: there is no point in me going on any kind of diet. I work very hard and I need fuel. I need food. I like food. Food makes me happy. So, I am going to eat food but I’m going to keep it moving! People go on diets and then sit around dreaming about food. Sod that! If you go on one of them diets (which always cost a fortune), you need to get out and do something; either walk, or run or dance or, if your luck’s in, get jiggy!
Have a throbbing and thrusting Thursday (with hopefully a few thrills through your thoroughfare?) I love you all.
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Good morning! I hope you slept well and feel rested? Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day. Happy Hump Day!
Yesterday at college was brilliant! Really enjoyable classes and the building is full of very cool people. My beautiful friend Tia De Gannes-McGregor says that my status reminds her of ‘Run’s House’. Remember Rev. Run sitting in the bath writing messages to his flock? Man, we loved that show!
And my beautiful friend Michelle Motley asked if she could have a selfie with me. She says her family used to listen to Kiss FM and were a bit shocked when she said she was working with Lindsay Wesker. Michelle asked, “Do you do selfies?” I showed her all the pics on my phone. I said to her, “I am The Selfie King!” We talked about photos and I told her that my mum took thousands of photos when we were growing up, and she’s hung emotional collages all over the house in Hove. Beautiful memories of special people. This is why I take selfies.
I’ll be working from home today but my plan is to find time for a walk. As we know, April has not been warm but I need to get out there and work those glutes! This evening, we have dinner with some of our favourite people. We haven’t had dinner with them for years (literally, years), so we are really looking forward to breaking bread with them! I shall try not to eat too much but I can’t make any promises. One of our party will NOT want a selfie but, if you don’t ask, you don’t get!
It was definitely sad to hear about two black music industry deaths in the past few days. MC Duke (younger brother of one of my besties) was one of the first UK hip hop artists and signed to my cousin Simon Harris’s excellent Music Of Life label. He paved the way for many. Also sad to lose top DJ, Roger Johnson, the first DMC World Mixing Champion (1985). Geezer had skills!
Have a wonderful and well-endowed Wednesday. I love you all. Yes, a crazy, bald man loves and cares about you.
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Good morning! I hope you slept well and feel rested? Currently sitting in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day.
So sorry if you didn’t see yesterday’s status. It was very controversial and included some very strong language, so it might have skipped you? Needless to say, it was all killer no filler.
I am using that expression more and more. I’m not sure where it originates from. I first became aware it through the Canadian rock band Sum 41, whose debut album was called ‘All Killer No Filler’.
I firmly believe that’s why the music industry collapsed, because there were too many albums that were mostly filler with just a few killer tracks. I’m sure you’ve got a large number of albums with just one or two decent tracks.
Why would an act release an album like that? Record company pressure. possibly? You can imagine them barking from the A&R office, “Just record anything! We need to release the album!”
Of course, the general public grew sick of paying £10.99 or £11.99 for an album with just one or two decent tracks on it. Which is why, when illegal file-sharing came about, people were lapping it up! People were like, “I don’t need to buy music anymore! Let me go to Limewire and download the one good track from the album!”
The majors had the chance to sit down with Napster in 2000 but they walked away from the table. So, now we’re stuck with streaming! Music consumption in which a small minority of artists make decent money. Yeah, great!
It’s not just music acts and comedians that go on tour, British evolutionary biologist, zoologist and author of ‘The God Delusion’ Richard Dawkins is about to go on a UK tour. It’s so good to see that people want to have a civilised discussion with a wise man. People are seeking answers and they deserve to hear some cold, hard facts.
Got an invitation to a wedding in May of 2025. It’s going to be beautiful, I’m sure, but it’s not happening in the UK. Guess where it’s taking place? Those that know me will be able to guess. When The Trouble told me, I just laughed!
Have a tremendous and tumultuous Tuesday. I love you all.
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Good morning! I hope you slept well and feel rested? Currently sitting in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day.
Welcome to the working week although, for those of you working in the NHS, welcome to just another day.
Last week, I saw two viral videos of violent racists verbally attacking women. How come they don’t verbally abuse big strong men? Hmm, I wonder why? There was one guy in Romford telling these Muslim women to “go home”. We should find out what football team he supports and suspend all the non-English players and players of colour and see how his team does!
And, talking of worthless morons, didn’t I see some big man walking down the street trying to hold back two big dogs? He must have thought he was a big man owning two such powerful dogs. However, he wasn’t man enough to clean up after his dog took a huge dump on the pavement. We’ve got THREE schools on Crownhill Road, so all the families will have to walk around that pile tomorrow morning! (Though somebody is bound to step in it!)
And, talking of pitiful human beings, have you seen the stupid little twerps trolling Declan Rice, saying his girlfriend is “fat” and “ugly” and he could find a better WAG. Imagine someone saying that to YOU about your missus! The language would be a bit colourful, right? Imagine if someone were to say I could do better than The Trouble? I’d laugh my tits off!
On Sunday, I finally did something significant on TikTok. My last video peaked at just over 500 but yesterday’s video went through 5000 views. To be honest, most of the people who stopped on my video only stopped for a few seconds. When they saw an ugly old man, they immediately scrolled on. If I’d been a pretty chick with shapely boobs, they would have watched my video. In fact, they would have hung on my every word. Maybe AI can help me?
Many thanks to everyone that listened to the radio show. Thank you for all your kind words (throughout the four-hour show!) If you missed it, the shows are up on Mixcloud. Next week: a two-hour theme special before we start on The Letter U.
Have a marvellous and momentous Monday. I love you all.
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'The A-Z Of Mi-Soul Music' starts at 1.00 p.m. The Letter T (Pt. 8 + Pt. 9: four-hour spectacular!) http://mi-soul.com online + on DAB Plus across London & Brighton. Big-up Mi-Soul Radio + big-up the amazing Terry Jones (absolutely killing it on Mi-Soul right now!)
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Good morning! I hope you slept well and feel rested? Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day. Welcome to the weekend!
Wow! Here we are again: Friday! Where did that week go? No, seriously, where did that week go?
At Coachella 2024, recording artist (and Elon Musk’s ex) Grimes did a DJ set that will go down in the annals of DJ history. All through my timeline, there were detailed explanations over what went wrong and what she did wrong. One DJ who has played Coachella before said it’s a tough gig and, at 110 degrees, laptops overheat and he’s glad he brought a spare with him. Other DJs were less forgiving and said, if she were a real DJ, she would have handled the situation better. Other people said, celebs are taking work away from real DJs, so they have no sympathy for her. Seems like she pressed the ‘sync’ button and, if you’ve got two tracks at two different speeds, that will cause you some problems! She makes good music, as it goes! If she’d done a simple, unplugged set of her own material, she could have avoided this bad press. She’s actually currently dating an Italian DJ!
The FA and the Premier League have announced that they are scrapping replays from the first round proper of the FA Cup because some players earning £300,000 a week can’t play two games a week. What with the crap point deductions, football is NOT having a good season!
VERY happy that I’m now doing TWO brilliant gigs on Sunday, May 5th: The White Lion all-dayer down on Streatham High Road, then up to Cinnabar in Stevenage Old Town for ‘Let The Music Play’. Dirty Stop-Outs at it again!
Hope you can join me tomorrow for ‘The A-Z Of Mi-Soul Music’. The Letter T (Pt. 8). Still MORE top quality Ts to play you. No executive producer this week, just me playing with myself.
Have a fabulous & funky Friday! I love you all. You’re probably thinking, “You don’t even know me!” but, if people can hate for no reason, why can’t I love?
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Good morning! I hope you slept well and feel rested? Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day.
As predicted, my work hours yesterday were 7.00 am – 9.00 pm, with a walk and lunch in the middle. I really got a lot done. A very productive day!
At one point, I paused for a few moments to check Twitter and saw a post from one of my favourite feeds, Fesshole. A page on which people anonymously confess to things I would NEVER put out in public. One of the common themes is actually, “I’m in a high-powered job, I don’t do a stroke of work and I get paid a fortune.” I see versions of this confession quite often. Here’s an actual example, “64, about to retire from well paid job. Everyone says I deserve it after working so hard for so long. I really haven't.” Clearly, there are quite a few people in ‘cushy’ jobs, just blagging their way through their day! Nice work, if you can get it!
I went out for my walk just before it turned grey and began spitting. Good timing! My step count is not going up quickly enough. The Health app on my iPhone is laughing at me! Got two PCNs last month, with another major fine (for going 24 in a 20) to come. I only drive if I absolutely HAVE to! I hate cars, I hate driving, and the roads in London hate drivers!
On Tuesday, I went into campus and there was a new security guard on reception. She looked Indian, about mid-fifties. She’d never seen me before and was waiting for me to show her my ID. “Are you a student?” she asked. I got up close to her desk, so she could see me clearly. “I’m 64!” I said to her. “Do I look like a student?” Secretly, I was very flattered. Maybe it’s because I dress like a student? She muttered something under her breath. I showed her my ID and went through.
Got down to some writing yesterday. 51,000 words and counting! One of the most important things I did was re-arrange the structure. Now, it has a much more logical flow. Editing and re-editing is part of writing.
Have a throbbing and thrusting Thursday (with hopefully a few thrills through your thoroughfare?) I love you all.
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This is why I refuse to waste my energy thinking about racist people all day. Those folks have something wrong with them. And it’s not my problem. That’s for them to deal with. I’ll be over here doing something with my life. 🗣️ Toni Morrison
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Sex Ed. helps stop all the rumors, lies and assumptions kids have about sex.
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In the early 80's for three months out of the year I would close Focal Point Gallery pack up my family and travel in a pickup truck and camper converted into a darkroom and travel to rural Mexico to do portraits for the people. I used large formate 8x10 and 4x5 film so I could contact print on printing out paper. I would tone them in selenium which was much cheaper than gold chloride. This is one of them.
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Good morning! I hope you slept well and feel rested? Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day. Happy Hump Day!
While The Trouble was out at a funeral, I had the front room and the telly to myself. Gave me a chance to watch one of my favourite movies, ‘Pretty In Pink’. Molly Ringwald does a great job but Jon Cryer steals the show, of course! Wow, 1986! I was at A&M Records at the time and they released the soundtrack, so we got to see a preview of the movie! You know I love rom-coms and this movie made me go all gooey, all lovey-dovey. In fact, halfway through the film, I wanted to tell everyone that I loved them! Yes, I know! Mad as a box of frogs!
The lessons were brilliant yesterday and I was brilliant too, if I say so myself. We were talking about all the innovations that have happened in the last three decades. The internet reached ordinary homes in 1991. What did we ever do without it? Of course, the innovations have been life-changing but is life better? Or was the quality of life better before 1991? That’s a good pub conversation!
Wednesday weather says no rain, so I will be going out for a walk! Got the day to myself, which means I will work ridiculously long hours! Will definitely stop for lunch with The Trouble. Otherwise, I’ve got lots to do: more writing, lesson prep, show prep, and I might even do some spring cleaning! After all, it is spring!
The big story in the music industry over the last few weeks has been Universal Music Group’s decision to remove all their music from TikTok, as they say TikTok are not paying their artists enough. Not the brightest decision I felt, as TikTok is the No. 1 new music discovery platform right now and provides labels with the ability to have (free) viral hits. Anyway, last week, Taylor Swift asked for her music to be put back on TikTok and, as she’s Taylor Swift, they had to comply. Taylor’s not worried about streaming revenue and neither should UMG!
Have a wonderful and well-endowed Wednesday. I love you all. Yes, a crazy, bald man loves and cares about you.
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Good morning! I hope you slept well and feel rested? Currently sitting in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day.
We’re pretty used to clichéd memes! Some of these ‘inspirational’, ‘motivational’ or pseudo-philosophical messages roll round time and time again. You know the ones I mean! But one meme kinda stopped me in my tracks yesterday. It said, “Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can only be forgiven not forgotten.” That’s a killer, innit? There are some words that have been said to me that I will NEVER forget!
I had to turn down work yesterday. I haven’t seen the hostess for almost 20 years but I was still her first-choice DJ, which felt good. Glad I made such a big impression. I hate turning down work but we got an invitation to a party months ago, same date as the gig, I was grateful for the invite, we accepted the invite and we will be going to that party!
On Sunday night, unbelievably, I got the chance to write. 50,000 words and counting. A major part of finishing a project – whatever it is – is time management. And being awake, of course, that helps!
I was able to write because The Trouble was quite happy in the front room watching programmes about English people renovating property and running businesses in Spain and France. She loves these shows. They combine three of her favourite subjects: business, architecture and building. Interestingly, the Spanish and French people are very tolerant of these English immigrants. She sits there are says, “If I win the lottery …” I wonder? Where would I like to spend my final days?
You know what word obsesses me? Superiority. It’s amazing that some people think they are superior to me. They are up there and I am down here. They have superior blood, superior skin, superior genes, superior taste, superior culture. Like a gift from the gods, they are superior in every way. And these people have a strange sense of entitlement, don’t they? As in, the law is important and applies to everyone … except them!
Have a tremendous and tumultuous Tuesday. I love you all.
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