Roast lamb with mint sauce is the most revolting of all of the British Sunday food traditions. Lamb in a Middle-East style can be an absolute delight.* *Fuck off with any 'The British conquered the world but don't know how to use spices' bullshit. Yes, I'm looking at you, Randy from Baltimore.

I'm really enjoying listening to this Kevin Rowland autobiography narrated by KR himself. This chapter is particularly fascinating with Kevin talking in massive detail about the specifics of a certain 'new-mod' look in Harrow in 1970. I could listen to him talk about clothes & haircuts for hours!

It's been a terrible weekend for flat earthers, conservative nationalists and Spurs fans.

Vance is the kiss of death.

Actually, I'm copyrighting this & getting a coach driver's license. It'll be like a cross between Magical Mystery Tour & Carry On Abroad without the sexism. Just think how much vinyl you could get into one of those under the coach luggage compartments.

Our son has just returned home after completing a 50km trek. He is completely unfazed, just a bit hungry. Not sure that I've walked 50km in the whole of 2026.

I popped back to @popclassics.bsky.social yesterday & picked up this UK 1st pressing of A Beard Of Stars. I have all the Tyrannosaurus Rex LPs on those 1972 TOOFAHs, but I really want them all on Regal Zonophone. This is a bit tatty & crackly, but it'll do me for now. G+/G+. Such a great album.

It's 1970. You have a field & a stage. You only have £4500* to pay for the entertainment. Who are having & why? Please show your workings in the margins. *Where there is a price range (eg, Third Ear Band £125-£150, we're using the higher price).

#NowPlaying Thank you to everyone to told me that I should buy this album, it is superb. It's a lovely clean UK 1st pressing, but blimey they cut LPs thinly in the mid-80s, didn't they? It's roughly the same depth as a slice of Parma ham.

Sorry I haven't responded to anyone today, been really busy and full of cold. Anyway, here's a picture of one of our cats. His name is Cromarty and he is a very good boy.

I remember seeing an agent's list of prices to get a band to play a gig. You know, Led Zeppelin £1000, Incredible String Band £100 sort of thing. Does anybody remember where I could find this? We're probably talking Twitter, 5 years ago?

Jesus fucking Christ.

#NowPlaying I've never seen a copy of this that wasn't completely fucked. Now I have a lovely VG+/VG+ with the insert.

#NowPlaying My God, it is easy to forget how utterly brilliant this groop were in the early 90s.

Another successful trip to @popclassics.bsky.social this afternoon. I am particularly pleased with the UK first pressing of Hawkwind's In Search of Space; the cover isn't ripped & the log is still included. Could've spent more, but managed to restrain myself (and Alice was with me).

Hugely delighted that we have booked our family holiday in Devon. I have a car. We don't need an aeroplane. Also, climate change is real and I will still be massively grumpy in the August heat.

If that cunt bombs scenes like these, we're all fucked, aren't we?

#NowPlaying I just discovered that this album was released when I was 3 days old, so I was laying in an ICU in St David's Hospital in Cardiff. This is such an exciting album. That squelch, man.

I've been a bit busy today and haven't really been across the news all that much. On a scale of one to the Bay of Pigs, where are we this evening?

Joey Barton remanded until September!

Barry Wom - Southampton 2005

open.spotify.com/playlist/5Or... Incredibly alarmed that this lockdown playlist is now 6 years old. New music was such a comfort in those dark days.

I would definitely watch this.

#NowPlaying Missing my mum, bit Bank holiday pissed, lots of family shit going down. Anyway, this is album is fantastic & I'll hear no arguments from anyone. Brighton Rock is one of the gayest hard rock songs of all time and I'm totally here for it.

I really don't enjoy going to gigs anymore. It's so expensive & I am very uncomfortable in large crowds. Anyway, my wife @alsalv.bsky.social has a big birthday this summer so we are going to see The Beta Band, Super Furry Animals, Belle & Sebastian & St. Etienne this summer. My god, we're so old!

🎵 Ooh, ginger It's just a shot a day It's just a shot a day 🎵

#NowPlaying A 1976 Japanese album that sounds eerily similar to the first two Kate Bush albums (but released earlier, obviously). Featuring Little Feat on half of the tracks, this is an absolutely cracking record & another fantastic reissue by @wewantsounds.bsky.social

Wishing a very Happy Birthday to Brian Cosgrove, co-founder, with Mark Hall, of Cosgrove Hall Films. Cosgrove Hall shaped so many of my happiest childhood memories, from Jamie to Chorlton and all mice, ducks, badgers, moles and toads in between.

Radio 210, 1984. They played a song that was one of the best things I had ever heard, but didn't say who it was. The very next day, Saturday Superstore did a piece about swans & played the same track. Yelled to my mum to come & identify it. It was Ride A White Swan by T.Rex. Still my favourite band.

Second song from DREAM ME A DREAM out on 17th…

#NowPlaying I often forget just how great this compilation is. Sandy is rightly remembered for her incredible voice, but she should also be celebrated for being such an accomplished guitarist, pianist & songwriter.

On this day 35 years ago, I passed my driving test. No theory test in those days, just 20 minutes stuck in rush hour traffic, a quick three-point turn, an emergency stop & then 5 questions. 17-years-old and free to drive half a ton of metal about, mental.

youtu.be/04PKv2Rg35I?... Happy Easter 🐰 🐣

here's the archive of the most recent kranky nts radio program.

Please Lord, don't let him die on Easter Sunday. Let him die on a dull Tuesday covered in his own filth whilst seeing golf related visions of his late wife.

This is why we are so poor.

#NowPlaying One of my favourite French albums. Slow, sexy, sophisticated funk. So good that I accidentally bought it twice (one sleeve contained no nudity).

So you can still buy a brand new Raleigh Chopper in the year of our lord 2026, but it will set you back £999! What the heck?

I don’t think BlueSky is dying but I do think it‘s stagnant because there are only so many unpleasant terminally online politically hyper-engaged left of center aging millennials with personality disorders and a history of underachievement to draw from. We’re pretty much all here already.

Woken at 4.30 by my daughter reporting that both mine and my son's bikes had been stolen by two men in balaclavas using boltcutters and crowbars. I called the police, but they were only really interested in whether or not I have a Ring doorbell. I do not have a Ring doorbell. Or a bike. FFS.

guys, bluesky is dying. if we don't start getting more likes, a greedy developer will bulldoze the site to put up a parking garage. the only thing that can save it is for a ragtag crew of misfits to put on one last big concert at the community center.

youtu.be/p4oijAM_dc0?... Been daydreaming about doing The Rutles on Mastermind again. Had the Archaeology album on in the car (it's a patchy affair) and this came on. I swear that this pisses on that Chemical Brothers/Noel Gallagher song from the greatest of heights.

#NowPlaying You can't beat a bit of psychedelic jazz. Such a shame that his performance wasn't included in the Monterey Pop movie, it was probably just as cool & trippy as Country Joe & The Fish.

I have to work today. And tomorrow. I am full of cocodamol and reek of Deep Heat because of sciatica. Enjoy your chocolate eggs.

This is great.

#NowPlaying Show me an album that can break your heart more than this one x

The whole album is perfect but “TIWSL” from 6.50 onwards is up there amongst the most heart-thumpingly joyous music I’ve ever heard.

When Smokey sings, I hear violence.

I wasn't aware that it was Autism Awareness Day. The Tice creature gave a speech to his brain dead nazi followers recently in which he described children wearing ear defenders in class as 'ridiculous'. Forget the temu flags, forget his pig ignorant girlfriend, this is what makes me hate him the most