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01 (01) Self Esteem - The Deep Blue Okay (01) (06) (1 weeks) 02 (04) Getdown Services - Dog Dribble (02) (05) 03 (06) Car Seat Headrest - CCF (I'm Gonna Stay With You) (03) (05) 04 (02) Sleep Token - Damocles (02) (06) 05 (03) Deep Thrills - Truth Before Dare (01) (10) (5 weeks) 06 (10) WU LYF - A New Life Is Coming (06) (06) 07 (05) Turnstile - Never Enough (03) (08) 08 (09) Demise of Love - Be a Man (08) (07) 09 (07) Tom Misch - Old Man (02) (09) 10 (15) Cut Copy - A Decade Long Sunset (10) (04) 11 (12) Oslo Twins - I Wake Up Slowly (11) (05) 12 (08) Goddess feat. Ex:Re - Shadows (03) (10) 13 (19) Smerz - Feisty (13) (04) 14 (11) Debby Friday - 1/17 (07) (09) 15 (21) Car Seat Headrest - The Catastrophe (Good Luck With That, Mate) (15) (03) 16 (14) Little Simz - Free (11) (07) 17 (17) Real Lies - Down and Out (Where e-Girls Dare) (17) (06) 18 (23) Turnstile - Seein' Stars (19) (04) 19 (30) Slow Crush - Thirst (19) (02) 20 (13) Blossoms - The Honeymoon (04) (08) 21 (16) Chalk - Pool Scene (01) (15) (2 weeks) 22 (26) Another Sky - Running (22) (03) 23 (28) Lucy Rose - Pink (23) (03) 24 (**) For Those I Love - Of The Sorrows (24) (01) 25 (27) Joon Gloom - Jinx! (25) (02) 26 (18) Matt Berninger - Bonnet of Pins (08) (08) 27 (36) Wolf Alice - Bloom Baby Bloom (27) (02) 28 (33) These New Puritans - A Season In Hell (28) (02) 29 (**) White Lies - Nothing On Me (29) (01) 30 (25) Django Django feat. Man Power - Home (25) (05) 31 (22) HVOB - Void (15) (07) 32 (42) Man/Woman/Chainsaw - MadDog (32) (01) 33 (20) Blankenberge - Escape (03) (11) 34 (48) Model/Actriz - Vespers (34) (01) 35 (24) Pan Amsterdam feat. Leron Thomas - Confines (19) (06) 36 (31) Lorde - What Was That (31) (04) 37 (**) GANS - It's Just Life (37) (01) 38 (32) Tune-Yards - Limelight (20) (08) 39 (29) Doves - Lean Into The Wind (18) (07) 40 (35) Mark Pritchard feat. Thom Yorke - This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice (12) (10)

01 (01) Self Esteem - The Deep Blue Okay (01) (05) (2 weeks) 02 (06) Sleep Token - Damocles (02) (05) 03 (02) Deep Thrills - Truth Before Dare (01) (09) (5 weeks) 04 (11) Getdown Services - Dog Dribble (04) (04) 05 (03) Turnstile - Never Enough (03) (07) 06 (08) Car Seat Headrest - CCF (I'm Gonna Stay With You) (06) (04) 07 (04) Tom Misch - Old Man (02) (08) 08 (05) Goddess feat. Ex:Re - Shadows (03) (09) 09 (10) Demise of Love - Be a Man (09) (06) 10 (17) WU LYF - A New Life Is Coming (10) (05) 11 (07) Debby Friday - 1/17 (07) (08) 12 (16) Oslo Twins - I Wake Up Slowly (12) (04) 13 (09) Blossoms - The Honeymoon (04) (07) 14 (13) Little Simz - Free (11) (06) 15 (21) Cut Copy - A Decade Long Sunset (15) (03) 16 (12) Chalk - Pool Scene (01) (14) (2 weeks) 17 (19) Real Lies - Down and Out (Where e-Girls Dare) (17) (05) 18 (14) Matt Berninger - Bonnet of Pins (08) (07) 19 (23) Smerz - Feisty (19) (03) 20 (15) Blankenberge - Escape (03) (10) 21 (27) Car Seat Headrest - The Catastrophe (Good Luck With That, Mate) (21) (02) 22 (18) HVOB - Void (15) (06) 23 (24) Turnstile - Seein' Stars (23) (03) 24 (22) Pan Amsterdam feat. Leron Thomas - Confines (19) (05) 25 (26) Django Django feat. Man Power - Home (25) (04) 26 (30) Another Sky - Running (26) (02) 27 (**) Joon Gloom - Jinx! (27) (01) 28 (36) Lucy Rose - Pink (28) (02) 29 (20) Doves - Lean Into The Wind (18) (06) 30 (**) Slow Crush - Thirst (30) (01) 31 (31) Lorde - What Was That (31) (03) 32 (29) Tune-Yards - Limelight (20) (07) 33 (41) These New Puritans - A Season In Hell (33) (01) 34 (25) bdrmm - Snares (03) (11) 35 (28) Mark Pritchard feat. Thom Yorke - This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice (12) (09) 36 (**) Wolf Alice - Bloom Baby Bloom (36) (01) 37 (33) Rizzle Kicks feat. Maverick Sabre - Pleasure & Pain (10) (14) 38 (34) FKA Twigs - Striptease (01) (16) (4 weeks) 39 (32) God Colony & Roy - Loss Is Not Infinite (02) (13) 40 (35) Orbital feat. Tilda Swinton - Deepest (14) (08)

I'm on holiday until the 24th, realistically semis will close too soon to enter this one.

I'd never listened to anything by them because one look at them would indicate it'd be something I'd turn off after a minute, but as that review indicates, that isn't really the case. Caramel is great, I absolutely LOVE Damocles but wow listening to a whole album of this was one hell of a drag. Utterly, utterly boring. Absolutely don't see the fuss and the popularity if this is what Sleep Token is.

01 (01) Deep Thrills - Truth Before Dare (01) (06) (4 weeks) 02 (08) Tom Misch - Old Man (02) (05) 03 (04) Goddess feat. Ex:Re - Shadows (03) (06) 04 (06) Blossoms - The Honeymoon (04) (04) 05 (02) Chalk - Pool Scene (01) (11) (2 weeks) 06 (03) Blankenberge - Escape (03) (07) 07 (09) Turnstile - Never Enough (06) (04) 08 (14) Matt Berninger - Bonnet of Pins (08) (04) 09 (11) Debby Friday - 1/17 (09) (05) 10 (24) Self Esteem - The Deep Blue Okay (10) (02) 11 (05) bdrmm - Snares (03) (08) 12 (19) Little Simz - Free (12) (03) 13 (07) God Colony & Roy - Loss Is Not Infinite (02) (10) 14 (12) Mark Pritchard feat. Thom Yorke - This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice (12) (06) 15 (21) Demise of Love - Be a Man (15) (03) 16 (25) HVOB - Void (16) (03) 17 (38) Sleep Token - Damocles (17) (02) 18 (16) Orbital feat. Tilda Swinton - Deepest (14) (05) 19 (10) Model/Actriz - Cinderella (04) (09) 20 (23) Tune-Yards - Limelight (20) (04) 21 (13) Avalon Emerson - Don't Be Seen With Me (04) (10) 22 (15) FKA Twigs - Striptease (01) (13) (4 weeks) 23 (29) Doves - Lean Into The Wind (23) (03) 24 (32) Pan Amsterdam feat. Leron Thomas - Confines (24) (02) 25 (45) Car Seat Headrest - CCF (I'm Gonna Stay With You) (25) (01) 26 (17) Pale Blue Eyes - Half Light (17) (05) 27 (34) Real Lies - Down and Out (Where e-Girls Dare) (27) (02) 28 (18) The Wombats - Can't Say No (02) (12) 29 (20) HAAi - Can't Stand To Lose (03) (11) 30 (**) Getdown Services - Dog Dribble (30) (01) 31 (41) Oslo Twins - I Wake Up Slowly (31) (01) 32 (30) Rizzle Kicks feat. Maverick Sabre - Pleasure & Pain (10) (11) 33 (22) clipping. - Code (16) (07) 34 (28) Real Lies feat. Jessica Barden - Finding Money (26) (05) 35 (**) WU LYF - A New Life Is Coming (35) (01) 36 (26) bdrmm - Lake Disappointment (07) (10) 37 (**) Django Django - Home (37) (01) 38 (27) jamesjamesjames feat. Spring Breaker - Ibiza Is Waiting For Me (11) (09) 39 (35) Panda Bear - Ends Meet (23) (08) 40 (31) VLURE - Better Days (20) (06)

The Newark one is interesting, lots of Reform Bot replies saying illness yet never stated anywhere official, just for personal reasons and wants to continue his career. Still, another election for officers to spend their time organising, another 6-8,000 poll cards and postal votes to be printed and posted, venues to be booked and poll clerks, presiding officers, verifiers/counters etc. to pay for a week after being run. The exact type of public sector waste they campaigned on to say they'd stop and be different to.

Yep listening to my 15 shortlist again now. Own fault obvs but no reminder is... annoying

01 (01) Deep Thrills - Truth Before Dare (01) (05) (3 weeks) 02 (02) Chalk - Pool Scene (01) (10) (2 weeks) 03 (05) Blankenberge - Escape (03) (06) 04 (07) Goddess feat. Ex:Re - Shadows (04) (05) 05 (03) bdrmm - Snares (03) (07) 06 (09) Blossoms - The Honeymoon (06) (03) 07 (04) God Colony & Roy - Loss Is Not Infinite (02) (09) 08 (11) Tom Misch - Old Man (08) (04) 09 (19) Turnstile - Never Enough (09) (03) 10 (06) Model/Actriz - Cinderella (04) (08) 11 (18) Debby Friday - 1/17 (11) (04) 12 (15) Mark Pritchard feat. Thom Yorke - This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice (12) (05) 13 (08) Avalon Emerson - Don't Be Seen With Me (04) (09) 14 (23) Matt Berninger - Bonnet of Pins (14) (03) 15 (10) FKA Twigs - Striptease (01) (12) (4 weeks) 16 (14) Orbital feat. Tilda Swinton - Deepest (14) (04) 17 (24) Pale Blue Eyes - Half Light (17) (04) 18 (12) The Wombats - Can't Say No (02) (11) 19 (27) Little Simz - Free (19) (02) 20 (13) HAAi - Can't Stand To Lose (03) (10) 21 (31) Demise of Love - Be a Man (21) (02) 22 (16) clipping. - Code (16) (06) 23 (30) Tune-Yards - Limelight (23) (03) 24 (**) Self Esteem - The Deep Blue Okay (24) (01) 25 (36) HVOB - Void (25) (02) 26 (17) bdrmm - Lake Disappointment (07) (09) 27 (20) jamesjamesjames feat. Spring Breaker - Ibiza Is Waiting For Me (11) (08) 28 (26) Real Lies feat. Jessica Barden - Finding Money (26) (04) 29 (38) Doves - Lean Into The Wind (29) (02) 30 (34) Rizzle Kicks feat. Maverick Sabre - Pleasure & Pain (10) (10) 31 (22) VLURE - Better Days (20) (05) 32 (41) Pan Amsterdam feat. Leron Thomas - Confines (32) (01) 33 (21) Sally Shapiro - The Other Days (15) (06) 34 (48) Real Lies - Down and Out (Where e-Girls Dare) (34) (01) 35 (32) Panda Bear - Ends Meet (23) (07) 36 (25) Antony Szmierek - Take Me There (23) (06) 37 (28) Demise of Love - Strange Little Consequence (27) (07) 38 (**) Sleep Token - Damocles (38) (01) 39 (35) Slow Crush - Cherry (05) (12) 40 (39) Samia - Lizard (16) (09)

From the early results, looks like Nottinghamshire will be Reform with a majority, if not very close. Destroying the Ashfield Independents on the three seats declared there.

Ferrari's special Miami livery has to be one of the worst of all time, looks like two completely different cars have been welded together. I wouldn't be against Leclerc and Hamilton taking each other out at turn 1 so I don't have to see it.

01 (01) Deep Thrills - Truth Before Dare (01) (04) (2 weeks) 02 (02) Chalk - Pool Scene (01) (09) (2 weeks) 03 (07) bdrmm - Snares (03) (06) 04 (03) God Colony & Roy - Loss Is Not Infinite (02) (08) 05 (08) Blankenberge - Escape (05) (05) 06 (04) Model/Actriz - Cinderella (04) (07) 07 (12) Goddess feat. Ex:Re - Shadows (07) (04) 08 (05) Avalon Emerson - Don't Be Seen With Me (04) (08) 09 (22) Blossoms - The Honeymoon (09) (02) 10 (06) FKA Twigs - Striptease (01) (11) (4 weeks) 11 (14) Tom Misch - Old Man (11) (03) 12 (09) The Wombats - Can't Say No (02) (10) 13 (10) HAAi - Can't Stand To Lose (03) (09) 14 (18) Orbital feat. Tilda Swinton - Deepest (14) (03) 15 (16) Mark Pritchard feat. Thom Yorke - This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice (15) (04) 16 (19) clipping. - Code (16) (05) 17 (11) bdrmm - Lake Disappointment (07) (08) 18 (24) Debby Friday - 1/17 (18) (03) 19 (29) Turnstile - Never Enough (19) (02) 20 (13) jamesjamesjames feat. Spring Breaker - Ibiza Is Waiting For Me (11) (07) 21 (15) Sally Shapiro - The Other Days (15) (05) 22 (20) VLURE - Better Days (20) (04) 23 (36) Matt Berninger - Bonnet of Pins (23) (02) 24 (31) Pale Blue Eyes - Half Light (24) (03) 25 (23) Antony Szmierek - Take Me There (23) (05) 26 (33) Real Lies feat. Jessica Barden - Finding Money (26) (03) 27 (41) Little Simz - Free (27) (01) 28 (27) Demise of Love - Strange Little Consequence (27) (06) 29 (17) Little Simz feat. Obongjayar - Flood (12) (07) 30 (34) Tune-Yards - Limelight (30) (02) 31 (**) Demise of Love - Be a Man (31) (01) 32 (28) Panda Bear - Ends Meet (23) (06) 33 (21) Everything Is Recorded feat. Sampha & Florence + The Machine - Never Felt Better (11) (08) 34 (30) Rizzle Kicks feat. Maverick Sabre - Pleasure & Pain (10) (09) 35 (25) Slow Crush - Cherry (05) (11) 36 (**) HVOB - Void (36) (01) 37 (26) The Horrors - Ariel (20) (06) 38 (**) Doves - Lean Into The Wind (38) (01) 39 (37) Samia - Lizard (16) (08) 40 (32) Vundabar - Spades (05) (13)

It would appear that I was in the wrong semi! Can't complain too much as it was essentially a 4th choice entry. Nice that the 3 I attempted to send are all through 😂 And only lost 2 and 4 pointers so not too bad. 7-5 were all nice discoveries so good they're all through.

Mine are in. I had sent them yesterday but on a previous thread so hopefully Josh just hadn't realised as i hadnt made it obvious, re sent anyway.

01 (05) Deep Thrills - Truth Before Dare (01) (03) (1 week) 02 (01) Chalk - Pool Scene (01) (08) (2 weeks) 03 (02) God Colony & Roy - Loss Is Not Infinite (02) (07) 04 (06) Model/Actriz - Cinderella (04) (06) 05 (04) Avalon Emerson - Don't Be Seen With Me (04) (07) 06 (03) FKA Twigs - Striptease (01) (10) (4 weeks) 07 (10) bdrmm - Snares (07) (05) 08 (14) Blankenberge - Escape (08) (04) 09 (07) The Wombats - Can't Say No (02) (09) 10 (09) HAAi - Can't Stand To Lose (03) (87) 11 (08) bdrmm - Lake Disappointment (07) (07) 12 (18) Goddess feat. Ex:Re - Shadows (12) (03) 13 (11) jamesjamesjames feat. Spring Breaker - Ibiza Is Waiting For Me (11) (06) 14 (29) Tom Misch - Old Man (14) (02) 15 (16) Sally Shapiro - The Other Days (15) (04) 16 (22) Mark Pritchard feat. Thom Yorke - This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice (16) (03) 17 (12) Little Simz feat. Obongjayar - Flood (12) (06) 18 (26) Orbital feat. Tilda Swinton - Deepest (18) (02) 19 (21) clipping. - Code (19) (04) 20 (25) VLURE - Better Days (20) (03) 21 (13) Everything Is Recorded feat. Sampha & Florence + The Machine - Never Felt Better (11) (07) 22 (44) Blossoms - The Honeymoon (22) (01) 23 (27) Antony Szmierek - Take Me There (23) (04) 24 (32) Debby Friday - 1/17 (24) (02) 25 (15) Slow Crush - Cherry (05) (10) 26 (20) The Horrors - Ariel (20) (05) 27 (30) Demise of Love - Strange Little Consequence (27) (05) 28 (24) Panda Bear - Ends Meet (23) (05) 29 (**) Turnstile - Never Enough (29) (01) 30 (17) Rizzle Kicks feat. Maverick Sabre - Pleasure & Pain (10) (08) 31 (37) Pale Blue Eyes - Half Light (31) (02) 32 (19) Vundabar - Spades (05) (12) 33 (35) Real Lies feat. Jessica Barden - Finding Money (33) (02) 34 (42) Tune-Yards - Limelight (34) (01) 35 (23) Palace - Greyhound (03) (11) 36 (**) Matt Berninger - Bonnet of Pins (36) (01) 37 (31) Samia - Lizard (16) (07) 38 (33) Say Lou Lou - Defenseless (01) (15) (3 weeks) 39 (28) Sleigh Bells - Wanna Start A Band? (02) (13) 40 (34) Blankenberge - Together (04) (14)

It feels like Nottinghamshire will go into No Overall Control this time, with the talk being the most likely leadership outcome is Reform (as the largest party) leading a coalition with the tories. I thought for a while that no party would come close to a majority but it's only recently the realisation that Reform will likely be the largest party, rather than have simply having a significant amount (10-12) of councillors in opposition. It's an interesting place with such a wide variety of demographics and voters. In General Elections the patten has been of safe tory seats now being comfortable Labour (Rushcliffe was Ken Clarke's seat fgs) and vice versa with tories sweeping the northern working class towns with more deprivation (Ashfield, Mansfield, Bassetlaw) with huge majorities. It felt like moves back to Labour last year were reluctant. Council-wise, Conservatives have a wafer thin majority and aren't popular anywhere, will keep 10-15 seats in some old rural safe seats across the county, don't see them getting to 20. Labour start on the back foot as they've completely messed up bankrupting Nottingham City Council, and people now have less trust with the national parties current local government Reform act of creating unitary authorities, and the places most likely to vote Labour (West Bridgford, Gedling, Broxtowe) border the city and do not want to join the city council. I don't see them improving much (if at all) on their 14 current seats. The big question is what happens in Ashfield. For the last couple of elections, the Ashfield Independents have dominated, winning 10/10 seats in 2021. Led by the somewhat controversial Jason Zadrozny, they hoover up support from all over the place, but are fundamentally tories where in a place where tories couldn't ever actually win. Ordinarily I'd expect there to be no (or at least very little) change but Asfield is of course the seat of Lee Anderson, who continues to be popular amongst the population who vote for him, so Reform could possibly make significant inroads there. So, what of Reform? Outside of Ashfield they polled at 15-25% of the vote consistently in the other consistuencies at the GE last year, a bit of the national swelling of that vote coming their way and they'll comfortably hit the number of seats Labour and Conservatives do. I think 5-7 in both Mansfield and Bassetlaw, 1-2 in each of Gedling, Broxtowe and Newark & Sherwood. Ashfield? Well as we'd say round here, it could be owt. What will they do in charge of a council? Well there's only so much anyone can do with a county council, given how few services they're actually responsible and how much of it is statutory within social care. Locally, so much has been outsourced to joint venture type deals too. They've said money was wasted on the new HQ, council tax bills are too high and want to lower them, there will be the standard DOGE style audit to remove pointless jobs and waste (hi Equality Officer), the roads are terrible and brought back in house, and Nigel Farage was at an event last week with Anderson stating too many work from home and Reform will get everyone back into the office. I've worked at the organisation since 2012, for at least 70% of the time I've been here there's been active searching for ways to save money and cut waste, so I'm not sure how successful that cam be. As for office working, it really was quite a progressive organisation (for the public sector at least) in terms of flexibility, staff were enabled to work from home and office space reduced long before Covid and home working became common. They won't get staff back to the office en masse without paying significant amounts to improve offices and increase capacity, not that there's anywhere to park, which somewhat goes against their slashing costs and bills mantra. Theleaflet I got from them talked about infrequent bin collections, not a county council service so nothing they can actually do, but from experience it would appear that looking incompetent and taking voters for idiots is quite common amongst all parties in 2 tier areas.