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New Video: Diary - Keep Comin' Up

  I used to really like The Streets. Mike Skinner felt like a breath of fresh air when he first surfaced with his sample robbery and hook burglary on Original Pirate Material. There's a track on that album called 'Let's Push Things Forward' with a chorus that resonated at the time and still continues to all these years later: You say that everything sounds the same, then you go buy them. There's no excuses my friend. Let's push things forward. Of course, here the implication is that coming out of your musical comfort zone and learning from the past will push things in a different direction; in June 2026 it seems suitable advice in other walks of life. Keir Starmer has resigned and is likely to be replaced as Prime Minister by the newly elected M.P for Makerfield Andy Burnham - an overgrown indie kid and massive Evertonian - HARD RELATE. Yet more political instability as Nigel Farage pulls that Gollum face and cackles under his rock.  As I write England have jus...

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