This afternoon from 2pm, we're going to party like it's, um, 1980 in the heart of London, with all ticket proceeds going to Beauty Banks. What greater incentive to postpone the Christmas shopping?

Today, a few words about this frankly devastating performance by Lena Zavaroni. www.patreon.com/posts/lena-z...

I'm on a northbound groovy train* for tonight's launch for Paul McCartney's Wings – The Story Of a Band On The Run at Waterstones. I think my fellow panellist @quantick.bsky.social might be on the same train. *Peter Hooton from The Farm (not to be confused with Junior's Farm) is also on the panel

Four decades on, I think I find Ted Chippington's Pebble Mill At One performance funnier than ever. www.patreon.com/posts/well-i...

Sometimes those records have a bit of magic to them that is really hard to explain. Another example is A Deh Pon Dem by The Soulettes (Rita Marley plus some Wailers I think) made out of The Miracles’ Choosey Beggar. There’s a tone - not melancholy, not sweet - that I don’t think we have a word for.

I'm also here with @petepaphides.bsky.social and Peter Hooton: www.waterstones.com/events/water...

Nice write up! 👌 Respect also to Sonia Pottinger and Lyn Taitt & The Jets. They recorded some truly unique and beautiful rocksteady. The 7" has been reissued again. Still available here... www.dubvendor.co.uk/johnny--the-...

Two seemingly contradictory facts about Coming On The Scene by Johnny & The Attractions: 1. Everyone I know who's heard it absolutely loves it & original copies go for up to £850; 2. Almost nothing has ever been written about it. I've been thinking about why that is. www.patreon.com/posts/it-cou...

Evening! Yes! Johnny & The Attractions!

Look at all the pretty colours and the beautiful music straining inside them straining to be heard! Let's see how much of it I can release into this evening's Soho Radio show. 6-8pm live.

When I was 17, the guy who helped start Creation Records moved into the area. And apparently he wanted to meet me. www.patreon.com/posts/ive-to...

It’s a great album! Fine work by @petepaphides.bsky.social and @needlemythology.bsky.social.

I've been streaming this all week, it's utterly beautiful. The songs, the sound of the band, and those incredible harmonies... I've just ordered this must-have CD. Do your ears a favour and do the same by clicking here:- burningshed.com/the-lilac-ti...

It's never too late to become a Top 10 Independent Breaker.

@petepaphides.bsky.social Huge thanks for making this happen. We need @thelilactime.bsky.social’s beauty now more than ever.

Nigel Powell's bedroom, according to this old post www.reddit.com/r/progrockmu...

Much as I loved Jonathan Dean's Radiohead feature in yesterday's Sunday Times, the thing I keep coming back to is this photo of them as teenagers. The band posters are Iron Maiden, Marillion (from their 1983 tour programme) and fellow prog-rockers I.Q. I wonder whose bedroom this is?

“Guys, correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe I’m sensing a lack of trust here, and frankly, it hurts my feelings.”

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social This is a story: an act of self-harm and cultural vandalism by the BBC. cstonline.net/defending-th...

Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.

JUST IN: ‘Looking For A Day In The Night’ & ‘Live’ by The Lilac Time Folky jangle pop number from the Duffy brothers and co. on Pete Paphides’ Needle Mythology label alongside a Hereford-recorded live release. More of the latter are incoming. www.normanrecords.com/artist/11287...

The Lilac Time Looking For A Day In The Night (2025 reissue) and Live CD / vinyl preorders shipped, now in stock including exclusive blue vinyl: https://burningshed.com/store/needlemythology #TheLilacTime #LookingForADayInTheNight #IndieMusic #LiveAlbum #Music #MusicSky #VinylSky

Mark’s passion and precision is spot on. And so very vital. The WAC is a *stunning* resource. It must be allowed — empowered — to thrive. SHARE. cstonline.net/defending-th...

Just buy this everyone and make this shitty world better for a wee while .... ❤️🖤A masterpiece .

Just landed here today Pete. Great work as ever.

Today feels like the perfect day to tell the story about how Stephen Duffy came to the attention of Robbie Williams and how I tried to cheer him up by quoting a Sting lyric at him. www.patreon.com/posts/he-loo...

OUT TOMORROW! (although some shops have clearly received theirs early!)

As I said in the piece, it's kind of crazy that once upon a time, you could talk about indie music and it would be understood that you might mean records like this. www.patreon.com/posts/it-was...

Which I, in turn, heard via the ever-reliable ear of @andymack.bsky.social

The Ecstasy of Andrea Laszlo De Simone www.patreon.com/posts/ecstas...

My latest Soho Radio show is now available to stream. I've squeezed a dozen or so heavenly new tunes among older gems by Graham Collier Music, The Damned, Linval Thompson, The Clash, D'Angelo, Colorama and The Diamonettes. Listen: www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/pe...

Very much in my sweet spot, this. And perhaps yours too.

What a fantastic album too

Come join me in a once in a teatime trip to probably imaginable places with these items on Soho Radio. Live from 6pm.

I feel like it's a matter of when rather than if I have a nightmare in which I'm being chased off a cliff by Bear Grylls' water filter and Ben Shephard's six pack.

Sometimes I can't handle how longingly Luna gazes up at my opposable thumbs.

Heard Helen on the radio this morning talking about this and was immediately envious of the piece, the commission and the assignment. It doesn't disappoint.

A wonderful piece by one of my favourite writers about one of my favourite musicians ♥️

Great album, feels like fado, understated production is incredibly refreshing and allows the quality of the songs to shine. She’s building up a helluva catalogue.

Some reflections on Robert Forster's incredible Union Chapel show last night. www.patreon.com/posts/if-you...

I've said it before, but this new album truly underscores the point. If you only know Tanita Tikaram for *that* song, you really don't know what you've missed in the ensuing years. And LIAR is her best yet. Here's why. www.patreon.com/posts/return...

I'd love to know what every comedian who played the Riyadh Comedy Festival thinks of this piece by Jonathan Liew. It's an electrifying read. And really hard to think what any counter-justification from the participating comics would consist of. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Just put on the new John Myrtle LP thanks to a link in the excellent new songs round-up in @petepaphides.bsky.social’s newsletter. He speaks of “the genial, borderline gauche strain of anti-mystique he brings to bear on his music.” It’s lovely stuff. johnmyrtle.bandcamp.com/album/the-li...

Here's a digest of new releases that have been caressing my cranium + a link to my most recent radio show. Featuring, among others, the ever brilliant Michael J Sheehy, an absolute peach from Brit-jazz young'uns Oreglo & silksonic Indonesian soulsters Thee Marloes. www.patreon.com/posts/whats-...

This week I listened to The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails for the first time In 30 years and it's very ahead of its time. By which I mean a lot of it sounds like the music in The Traitors. I also feel like if I spend long enough looking, there's probably a NIN song about traitors and faithfuls.

Happy release day to @tanitatikaram.bsky.social whose new album LIAR is, to my ears, her most complete & satisfying record to date. The arrangements & performances are breathtakingly gorgeous. And Tanita's voice is as smokily, inimitably sensational as ever. Listen: open.spotify.com/album/4KwiHA...

I’m so glad I saw this, I’d completely missed this too. Thank you!

In other news, here's the sometime deputy Conservative Prime Minister Michael Heseltine finding the words that seem to be perpetually eluding the present Labour Prime Minister.

It feels kind of crazy and a bit depressing to me that Jamie Woon's first album in ten years – an album I just can't stop playing at the moment – has come out this week to almost no reviews, no fanfare, no nothing. So I tried to do something about it here. www.patreon.com/posts/on-3-1...

Do you like listening to a thing while doing another thing? If so, why don’t you do the latter whilst doing the former with me on Soho Radio from 6pm? I have John Myrtle in session (that’s him below) + magical melodies from Julian Cope, Oreglo, It’s Immaterial, Jamie Woon, Gene Vincent & much more.