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stephen morris

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1 year

Happy Birthday Gillian!! Sorry the icing went a bit runny xx

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stephen morris

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3 years

Many happy returns!!🥂👍 Gillian. Have a very happy Birthday 🎂 😘 Love you lots. Don’t worry I haven’t baked a cake xx

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stephen morris

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3 years

Ian-Altrincham 1979

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4 years

Don’t forget....to wear a mask

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

3 years

So farewell then 2020. You weren’t really much of a year were you? Just when it seemed you couldn’t get any worse -you did.Tbh I’m glad to see the back of you. Here’s hoping for better things ( normal would be nice) for everyone in 2021 All the very best. Happy new year🥂

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

2 years

When we were young. Another of Gillian’s instamatic snaps from Bowdon Vale May 79. Don’t remember where those congas came from.

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

3 years

64 times around the sun, who’d have thought it? Not me. Thank you so much for your birthday wishes. I’ve had a fantastic day venting my spleen on the drums and doing a halloween Morticia impression.Don’t ask!!

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

3 years

Happy Birthday Ian-Another of Gillian (or Julie) Gilbert’s snaps from Bowdon vale

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

2 years

It’s that time again when -for reasons no one remembers -me and Gillian take coal and bread into the night. Adios then 2021 -your 12 months are done, you did your best but it’s time to move on. Wishing you all the very best for 2022 cheers 🥂happy new year

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 months

It’s that time again A wet and windy welcome to 2024 Happy new year one and all!!! Cheers and all the very best Here’s hoping for better things in the year ahead

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

1 year

Carrying synthetic coal -(a recent innovation) and a more traditional barn cake we venture into the drizzle once more to welcome in 2023. Wishing everyone everywhere a very happy new year 🤞 all the very best!!

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Wow that went quick hope you all enjoyed it take care of yourselves wherever you are! This too will pass xxx

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Shocked and devastated to hear of the passing of Denise Johnson. An absolutely beautiful lady. Rest In Peace Denise x

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

6 years

Age 61 work nearly done, almost finished!!!! Thanks everyone for all the tweets ,cards and birthday wishes. I shall now have a big drink and a lie down

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

When the CD version was released Peter added individual cards so that any of us could be on the front, very democratic, Let the owner decide. A few years ago CDs started appearing with Bernard’s snap on the front. I would spend many an hour at various record shops correcting this

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Blue Monday!! Ok if you insist What can I say about this that hasn’t already been said? A song that isn’t really a song more a machine that makes you dance. We really REALLY hit our stride on this one

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stephen morris

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4 years

Hooky’s bass riff on Age Of Consent is fantastic. The drums are recycled from an old song-see if you can guess which one. Clue it was one of ours.

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

3 years

Me and Rob taking care of business

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

And we’re off Age of Consent, A great place to start. Every song we’d ever done was a search for the elusive Fast dancy number. We definitely found it with this one!!! One of those songs that you knew was going to be great from the word go. #timstwitterlisteningparty

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Extract from Gillian’s Blue Monday programming scroll. It stretched the entire length of the Brit row snooker table #timstwitterlisteningparties

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

T minus 5 days and counting. #TimsTwitterListeningParty @bluedotfestival

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

And so we say farewell to the decade that I like to think of as the one with no name. Maybe it was just trying to be mysterious. Unlike the Twenties now that’s a nice snappy name . What could possibly go wrong? Here’s to 2020! Happy new year and all the very best

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

7 years

Well those 60 years went quicker than I expected.Thanks for all the Tweets,Cards,Pressies and specially the extra hour in bed

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Thank you so much for all the tweets and Birthday wishes on what I like to think of as my third Twenty First. I’m particularly pleased with my pop up rave cheers 🥂

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

New Order Synthesiser Sanctuary-Much like that Joe Exotic geezer I like to care for wild and dangerous synthesisers so the young can pet them and worry that I might be insane. #timstwitterlisteningparty

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

9 hours to go.Really looking forward to tonight Power Corruption and Lies Twitter party #timstwitterlisteningparty see you all later

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

5 years

Happy new year one and all. All the the best.See you in 2019

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

6 years

It’s a dream come true.Finally got my MA in drumfaffery from Yeovil college

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

The Other Two In a Fellini kind of mood Day off in Taranto June 1982

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

3 years

Merry Xmas one and all from Dexter the Christmas cat. Now for a festive drink cheers 🍻

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Factory Xmas awards? For blue Monday sales

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

YOUR SILENT FACE We’ve always loved Kraftwerk. YSF’s working title was “the Kraftwerk one” (KW1) we were trying to do something like the intro of Europe Endless.That kind of sparkly sound. Bernard worked really hard getting the synth parts just right

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Your Silent Face soon evolved into something beautiful and majestic- we were afraid we might getting too serious, a problem easily solved by the “why don’t you Piss Off” line. You’d never catch Kraftwerk swearing #timstwitterlisteningparty

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

5 years

Many thanks for all the Birthday wishes. It’s been a brilliant day. The highlight of which was definitely this recently unearthed portrait of one of my Elizabethan ancestors. Quite a striking likeness I’m sure you’ll agree,the eyes really do follow you around the room

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Blue Monday- Originally an attempt to do an automated encore . Until Bernard started singing on it and Hooky did the signature spaghetti western bass. Rob would rave about this track although I don’t think the rest of us could quite see why. It was really hard work to write!

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Everyone having fun? Where’s the bar?

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

LEAVE ME ALONE I really like the way that PCL is bracketed by the two most guitary songs Age of Consent and this one. This song is a personal favourite of mine I’ve got to say

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

That really did fly by!!,I hope you enjoyed it Thanks Tim #TimsTwitterListeningParty are fantastic aren’t they?

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

You can tell it’s nearly Christmas when you start worrying if Advocaat does actually go off? What are the first symptoms of Snowball poisoning? Is Baileys a better bet? It is Dairy free after all Merry Xmas one and all

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

I like what @simonday24 says about Blue Monday in his book Comedy and Error “An indescribable mix of robotic joy and human sadness that came from the future and took over the planet” Kind of sums it up

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Thank you everyone and especially Tim for coming up with such a great idea #TimsTwitterListeningParty

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Gillian relaxing at Cheetham Hill rehearsal room. It looks quite nice inside? Perfect Kiss video shoot March 1985

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

2 years

Happy Birthday Gilllian!! Once again in the interests of health and safety I have avoided doing any actual baking. Lovely bit of icing though @cakesmelmakes

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Ok everyone let’s turn on the DMX Start the Drum machine for blue fuckn Monday 5 4 3 2 1 Go,,,,,,,,,

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Minus 4....

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Me at the emulator I wonder what’s in that bottle? My bet would be Pernod

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

A fun night at the Rose Hill hotel in Kilkenny 83 photo by Dec Hickey

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Age Of Consent -An uplifting happy/ sad song- like all the best ones are. An easy one to record this- No sequencers or Drum machines to break down. probably the most recently finished when we began recording which made it fresh and exciting #timstwitterlisteningparty

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

2 years

A very youthful Dexter getting in the festive spirit. Merry Xmas one and all

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

As used on Ultraviolence. Best drum synth ever-got a lot of abuse as you can probably tell. Ultraviolence Live could get ferocious at times

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

The new drum machine. The mighty Oberheim DMX Funky but not particularly stable like most great drummers #timstwitterlisteningparty

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

After we left the studio Bernard claimed Blue Monday would be impossible to play live. But we did AND we cut it down for our “singing live playing live” Top of the Pop debut...”great tv” was how Tony Wilson described it?? #timstwitterlisteningparties

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

1,2,3 4 on a snare drum-Always a good way to start an album What a great intro!! The Melodica melody is brilliant, reminds me a bit of groovin’ with Mister Bloe NO MESSING ABOUT ON THIS ONE-It is a fantastic rousing anti-war song #timstwitterlisteningparty

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

2 years

Thank you for all the Happy Birthday tweets. I had a lovely day and enjoyed this delicious and oddly life like cake. But best of all,thanks to the marvel of the end of summer time,tonight, I get an extra hours slumber !

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

3 years

Whatever next? It turns out the new book wasn’t as delayed as anticipated. That’s the first time that’s happened!!

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

On Leave Me Alone I thought the way I turned the beat around was very clever at the time-it’s pretty good today come to that. For these last few days....... It really is the perfect way to end the album #timstwitterlisteningparties

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

6 years

Ok 2017 get your coat and leave don’t make a mess on the way out.Happy 2018 everyone let’s make it better

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Gillian at the Tokyo video edit May 85 #TimsTwitterListeningParty

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 months

Cheers

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Just in case you missed it. Record Play Pause is now available in paperback and audiobook. The latter, as well as featuring me doing a pretty poor Matt Berry impression, also features some actual music.A kind of literary soundtrack if you will. Hope you like it.

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

God low life like seemed a bit short,

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Too long for the album Blue Monday was ALWAYS going to be the single. Too long for a single too come to think Title inspired by Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions We wouldn’t consider editing it down. They did in Poland though apparently #timstwitterlisteningparties

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

There are at least 2 versions of Vanishing Point, but there’s also an unreleased version with completely different lyrics and vocal line- maybe that’s one for the box set? #TimsTwitterlisteningparty

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Outside the rehearsal room in Cheetham hill (where much of Low Life was written) looked like this-doesn’t look exactly inviting does it? We shot the Perfect Kiss Video there too #timstwitterlisteningparty

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Hooky in the studio Tokyo 85

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

The album’s title is taken from the blurb on the back of an Orwell book-Hooky was reading 1984,there is a tale on the net that it comes from a visit to a German art gallery. But it’s not true In 1982 I don’t think any of us apart from Gillian spent much time in art Galleries.

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

3 years

Tomorrow me and @gillian_gilbert will be having another go at the DJing lark. We’re on from 5.30 -7.30 @HOME_mcr playing a haphazard selection of tunes to the best of our abilities. We’ve been practicing too,It’s outside, the weather looks nice, what could go wrong? See you there

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

5 years

I think there maybe health and safety issues with the new dishwasher

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Hooky’s bass melodies on Elegia are majestic- I eventually ended up sticking some drums on it at the end along with backwards cymbals-always fun!! Listening to Elegia Reminds me of the sun coming up outside the studio, #timstwitterlisteningparty

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Touring was tough in the 80s Trevi Fountain Hi-Jinx Roma June 1982 La Dolce Vita.We had so much fun on that Italian tour!Probably why it took us so long to go back

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

More Wires!!!!The new Emulator 2 was a very emotional keyboard. some days it would get moody and refuse to work at all. The fix was to wallop it hard with an iron bar, frustrated owners would ring me up and ask where exactly the blow should be aimed to make their e2 behave.

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

3 years

Don’t forget -tonight’s the night for Music Complete @LlSTENlNG_PARTY 8pm Uk time featuring @PhilCmusic @tommychap01 and of course @gillian_gilbert see you later

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

586 had been around since the start of 82, we originally did it on the old set up of Clef master rhythm Drum box, Powertran sequencer and the Pro-one synth like the video 586 and Peel session versions. The old drum machine was a modded version of this

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Round and Round was entirely put together in the studio. Upbeat was an ace early little sequencer program for the Mac. All of the electronic rhythm parts and synth bass on Technique were written on it. #TimsTwitterlisteningparty It looked a little bit like this

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

On YSF the Bernard’s Melodica get another outing. it was along with BM a song we had to figure out how to play live. As soon as we got to Australia straight after leaving Brit row. Here are Bernard and Gillian at the Hac in 82 #timstwitterlisteningparty

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

The Village is the one song on PCL that seems to reference the cover with the flowers though that was complete coincidence. The first song we wrote with more than one sequenced bass line in it. #timstwitterlisteningparty

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

A highlight of the recording of Perfect Kiss (long version) for me was the recording of the Cowbell. Me and Bernard ended up a Cowbell duel in the Brit Row Recreation room-best appreciated on the twelve inch.-MORE COWBELL - #timstwitterlisteningparty

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

The album’s only completely synth-less track Hooky’s ace bass riff and Bernard and Gillian doing what they used to call trading licks on the guitar. I think it’s a really emotional song. Live these changes could happen randomly most of the time #timstwitterlisteningparties

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

8 years

Thank you Tokyo

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

A souvenir of Strawberry number 1 Movement track sheet for Senses. Martin used torn off bits of this for joint rolling supplies

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Technique US tour dates and the tour program Peter Saville did for it. It eventually turned up on the last night #TimsTwitterListeningParty

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

ECSTACY I really can’t say where the title came from, let’s just sat we were ahead of our time in many respects and move on. It was for a brief time known as only the lonely. #timstwitterlisteningparties

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Hacienda 1982

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

ULTRAVIOLENCE We had the title for this one before we even had the idea for the song. We had a cassette of the Clockwork Orange soundtrack. That got played a lot on the way to gigs.A big influence of some of sounds on PCL #timstwitterlisteningparty

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

2 years

Hello Boston

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

When we first wrote Face up in early 1984 we thought it was the best thing ever. We insisted on closing many gigs with it particularly in Germany where nobody had heard it before and wanted something more familiar instead. There were complaints. #timstwitterlisteningparty

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

3 years

At last my own limited edition t shirt-it’s a dream come true!😊

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3 years

Take look at the new collaboration between @weare1of100 and @stephenpdmorris , and sign up to have the chance to buy one of these 100 t-shirts or a tote bag >>

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

3 days to go #TimsTwitterListeningParty 6pm Sunday @bluedotfestival

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

3 years

And with that the record is over. Merry Christmas everyone #timstwitterlisteningparty

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

The drums always sounded great in the live room at Jam-I’d just bought a new snare drum at the time -a Ludwig Black Beauty - I just liked the name, I’m still using it today Another trivia fact-Sunrise is Gillian’s all time favourite New Order song . #timstwitterlisteningparty

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

8 hours to go,6pm today #TimsTwitterListeningParty @bluedotfestival see you later

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

8 years

Having a flamtastic birthday with the Tr59.

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

“I’m one of the few people who live what’s called the Low-Life” the virtually inaudible quote at the start of this time of night is from Jeffrey Bernard-Journalist and regular at many of Soho’s seedier pubs. That’s where the album’s title came from #timstwitterlisteningparty

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

3 years

Only two days to go. @edgarwright fantastic doc #TheSparksBrothers gets it’s Uk release 29/7/21. If you’ve never heard of Sparks- go and see this you won’t regret it. Tickets for a special screening with satellite Q/A with Ron and Russell from Sparks from

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Athens 19th September 1982 featured a spirited version of Age Of Consent For me playing this song live is always a bit of an endurance test . I just start playing as fast as I can and don’t stop,It usually works

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

4 years

Recording 586 We re-did everything on the new gear with the DMX drum machine and the Emulator sampler. The emulator does the choir sounds and I did my best to translate whatever I’d been doing live into the DMX . Fancy tape editing by Mike Johnson. #timstwitterlisteningparty

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stephen morris

@stephenpdmorris

3 years

I always thought Nothing But A Fool was a Lee Hazelwood kind of song -the title is very Lee H. Dawn Zee and Denise Johnson (whose sudden death this year was a terrible shock and a tragedy) sing beautifully on this- Great Lyrics from Bernard #timstwitterlisteningparty

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stephen morris

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4 years

Peter Saville’s concept for the sleeve of Low Life was to de-mystify the band. This he thought could be best achieved by sticking our photos and the band’s name on the front To give the record buying public a clue as to whose record they were buying. #timstwitterlisteningparty

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