Friends at Leicester Indiepop festival saw this lot last night which gives me an excuse to share one of their many glorious tunes. Yeah Yeah Noh - Another Side To Mrs Quill youtu.be/VzbXbTwEYIo?...

Cronenburg’s ’Crimes Of The Future’ is tonight’s viewing youtu.be/ARg2dMV0CBk?...

‘Though she be but little she is fierce’ Superb depth of flavour in this Tempest bourbon aged coffee stout 🤩

Volunteered at Parkrun this morning. Big shout out to the bloke in his 60s running in a New Model Army T-shirt. Proper styling

It’s a poor photo I know but this man’s horse head shirt with tasselled arms is an absolute beauty. A guitarist from Junk Drawer, excellent Belfast band, live at Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh tonight

Soon to be reissued I think, so you won’t have to fork out a bomb for this beauty. Bim Sherman - Ghetto Dub youtu.be/lFqg2T1EcTE?...

Spot on

40 years on this still sounds great. The Nightingales ‘In The Good Old Country Way’ is a sound favourite youtu.be/0ajK7mrwa34?...

"No Madam, he's not.." "Look I'm not judging, but we just don't have anything in your or especially your husband's size"

10,578 Reform voters is 10,578 too many

Delighted to announce we’re the Official Beer Partner™ of laughing at that little shit Matt Goodwin.

Just got paid. Another month of my champagne lifestyle on a lemonade budget…

Anxious dog at the vet. Just here for vaccinations. She wants treats and to get the fuck out

Facebook reminds me it was a decade ago that I first saw Fat White Family play live. A riotous night in Glasgow that left me battered, drenched and giddy as a kid can be. Lias Saoudi naked is a sight I never chose to see. Perhaps the greatest live band since Sonic Youth in their prime.

Of the many pleasures that getting older brings, learning the names of your pals’ hitherto unknown illnesses is a real bonus: Dupuytrens disease Raynaud syndrome Peyronie’s disease It must be a thrill as a physician to give your name to such annoying conditions

To celebrate Shrektember 1st, let me tell you about the first time I saw Shrek and was briefly barred from the Odeon Bristol. Cast your mind back to Summer 2001, it was warm and a group of us had gathered in a local park. Cans were chugged, roll ups rolled, life was good. 1/

Mike Delanian of Gallon Drunk died one year ago. That band were exceptional live and this cover has stuck with me many years youtu.be/cU3K6iTU9BA?...

3rd book of the year finished, took ages due to a month of birthday drinks which only finished today… Very much enjoyed this excellent Zen storytelling. No idea what the quantum mechanics business is about but the relationships of island British Columbia and a teenager’s Tokyo are superbly painted.

A Tuesday tree

A Tuesday tree

“Not Bored of Canada” - a two hour compilation of 27 tracks that owe a debt to Boards of Canada theletter.co.uk/not-bored-of...

Have had a big weekend gathered with family with plenty tales of bizarre and sad stories spanning Suffolk to Sweden to Canada to Tasmania. This fella’s 23 kids with 2 wives sticks in the memory, not least thanks to his surname 😳 www.wikitree.com/wiki/Badcock...

Sunday evening pints

So, in Worcestershire, just a mile or 2 from my current location, there is a village named Bricklehampton whose claim to fame is…longest place name in English that doesn’t repeat any letters. 14 unique letters - can you believe it! *I am so bored here

Hurrah - it’s World Pangolin Day!

British Rail Class 37 hauling the sleeper train captured at Auch with Beinn Dorain in view – Fort William line. (1980s) Pic: Dennis Hardley

The joy of English motorway service stations

The people who are selling this flat are probably the loveliest people. Or fucking insane. You choose espc.com/property/13-...

Friday

The always excellent Man/Woman/Chainsaw at Edinburgh’s Cabaret Voltaire tonight

At a gig. Just got charged £6.66 for a pint of Guinness 🤷🏽‍♂️

Some pals are putting on this Slime City and The Citrines gig in Embra soon. Should be ace

It’s defo a Fudge Tunnel kind of day youtu.be/-FD8Yi4-oaw?...

Look I know there's a lot of *waves hand* going on right now, but it's come to my attention that William "Worst Poet Ever" McGonagall composed in 1899 an elegy to "The Ancient Town of Leith" in his own, inimitable style. So if you care to gather round, I shall now retell it for the whole class 🧵🗣️🪑

Mark Regev on the radio again. I fucking despise him

Woke to an email inviting me to ‘make the most of the tax year’ but there was no invitation to spend the next 6 weeks in the Galápagos Islands so what was the point of that 🤷🏽‍♂️

This is superb - The Shits ‘Joyless Satisfaction’ - intense relentless nihilism youtu.be/rTyReswn500?...

Time for pud

A non-hazy IPA🤔 what’s going on here?

People should buy this beer for the artwork alone but the name and the flavour are good reasons too

All scones to be made with lard. (National Trust cafe staff disobeying this will do community service in an abattoir)

Tuesday. A beautiful day needs a beautiful soundtrack by a beautiful man. 6 years since Weatherall passed youtu.be/mR7uMAbEITs

From Paris to Berlin And every disco I get in My heart is pumping for love

Loud ‘post-rock’ Mexican outfit Sunset Images come to Glasgow in April Top notch noise merchants youtu.be/HT-xCpYvWv0

On gays and indie and Kitchens of Distinction youtu.be/xmWGh7UBhgw

Tonight’s listening pleasure - Ora Cogan Country tinged psych folk (😳) Playing Edinburgh next month oracogan.bandcamp.com/album/bury-m...

Just saw someone refer to a microwave oven as a ‘tucker fucker’. Yes, they were Australian

Been reading about Norwich’s swan pits. Good name for a band I reckon.