I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Go Bruce youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

“From station to station, back to Düsseldorf City. Meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie. Trans-Europe Express” youtu.be/PHiN26vn2ec?...

The other two, plus tea cup

‘There is a distinction between AI safety, which is hypothetical, and AI harm, which is happening now. For one thing, much of the data on which AI models have been trained is stolen – including, as it happens, from me.’ John Lanchester on the AI bubble. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A day of listening to XTV #xtc

Bowie - The Final Act. Cheap stock footage, recycling a small batch of still photographs, low quality rendering of original Bowie videos like someone filmed YouTube on a phone. Over reliance on Earl Slick and Mike Garson and having them comment on records they didn’t play on. (1/2)

My quartet of self-published books. That's four in six years, two memoirs two novels. And I have two more (possibly three) planned. I'm 71. As you can see I'm not about to go gently.... Available for podcasts and festival marquee yacking.

The word is that I’ve a 'movie' out shortly. It's true. My 2022 theatre show The Beatles / Evolver:62 was filmed, and selections from that + new material shot in Liverpool and London comprise a feature that'll be streaming from Feb 2026. More details to follow, sample here vimeo.com/1023543808?f...

Boxing Day is the best of the holidays - time to reset with European cities and Kraftwerk soundtrack

Consigned to bed with heavy duty man flu and forced to read Paul Hanley’s Have a Bleedin’ Guess and listen to Hex Enduction Hour

Sky sports narrative about Man United = manager must adapt formation to align with our pundits, Mainoo is now prime Roy Keane. Never ending bullshit

Went to the opening of the Xmas tree festival at St John’s Knaresborough last night. I’m not religious but was hugely impressed by the displays from organisations who help people in need and those who are often forgotten by this nasty world we live in #stjohns #knaresborough #xmastreefestival

Sold a copy of Unsung Unsaid y/day. Nothing remarkable in that but it now means there hasn't been a single month in the 2 years since publication where I've failed to sell a copy. Why not buy one for Xmas for that meta-fiction fan in your life? 800+ people already have. x

International break + train cancellations + that man in the White House + all the shitty brexity little Englander crap + the cold rain = argh - but look what’s this? In our hour of need they return once again to help us youtu.be/UpCwdkGby6E?... #thebeatles

And now, live from Orkney for #StandingStoneSunday, the Stenness 360.

Queuing for Bob Dylan at Leeds. Hard Rain, Shelter from The storm etc… Loved the gig. No phones made a huge difference. Staring at that small figure on stage and remembering everything he’s done said and written you do feel In the presence of greatness

Robyn Hitchcock, Manchester last night. Great set @robynhitchcock.bsky.social

A sonic tonic - brand new song from William Doyle, released as part of Tough Love 20th anniversary comp. This is tremendous ❤️ @william-doyle.co.uk toughloverecords.bandcamp.com/track/willia...

This new song by @william-doyle.co.uk won’t allow me to stop listening to it youtu.be/jGCCKAR2FF0?...

Parcels #Berlin #Parcels

Here at the Western World - Steely Dan

Proof that a beautiful melody can sell a greeting card lyric youtu.be/2gxHcNtzFrU?...

Beautiful track from Frank Ocean with a outro that Brian Wilson would have been happy with youtu.be/BME88lS6aVY?...

We loved having Chris Simpson, founder member of the band Magna Carta, and Graham Chalmers, the journalist working on Magna Carta's biography, at our #MagnaCarta1225 view this morning! Chris, on the right, posed beautifully next to Magna Carta's Seasons album cover in its display case.

While at Uni in Liverpool I lived in a flat on Penny Lane (reputed to be where member of The Bunnymen and Might Wah!) lived in the early 80s. There was a solicitors there called ‘Strange & Strange’ always wondered if the ‘very strange’ refrain was a reference to this? youtu.be/S-rB0pHI9fU?...

Sea Power appreciation thread @seapowerband.bsky.social

A great record - Michael Jackson solo composition which contains all the weird paranoia and pent up feeling of Billie Jean a couple of years earlier youtu.be/Zg5AIaduI1E?...

On and on you go dum bee doo dah on and on you go dum bee do. Brian Wilson RIP you absolutely magnificent genius #brianwilson

See the glory of

Only 6 copies sold last month. The first time I've dipped into single figures since publication. Six! How am I supposed to make a proper author's living on 6? Perhaps I should crowdfund the next - oh wait.

The gorgeously strange songs of the young Paddy McAloon ‘just like Joyce, love has no single voice’ Glass Slipper youtu.be/43basNFd72o?... #prefabsprout #paddymcaloon

Klaus Schulze - Synphara youtu.be/ddc9lUeaPzw?...

This is an excellent breakdown of all of Trump’s current money making schemes youtu.be/000yxkGXSVM?...

John Saich - Everything Unsaid. Really good new ep music.apple.com/gb/album/eve...

‘You can walk a mile in my shoes but you can’t dance a step in my feet’ youtu.be/DKzWz1KigtY?... #funkadelic #georgeclinton

Self assembly Funky UFO in the post

Kamasi Washington -Project House Leeds

Sad news about Dave Allen, original and superb bass player with Gang of Four. I’m grateful to have seen the first line up when they reformed and seeing them having a drink in The Fenton, Leeds where they first played in the late 70s. youtu.be/K8JDRQIo83U?...

It’s a Bryan Ferry Sunday morning

Today is the 4th birthday of my album Great Spans of Muddy Time (or 'Spans' to the heads) It is, I reckon, my favourite of mine so far williamdoyle.bandcamp.com/album/great-...

Like a fool I watched that Jim Morrison is alive documentary on Apple. It should be called ‘a nostalgic look at how we used to invent conspiracy theories’ Anyway The Doors debut album is pretty good - first listen in 30 years.

Time to deploy Malcolm to Washington youtu.be/MLIP0ZtoiO4?...

@fieldmusicmusic.bsky.social re: the new Field Musicast I now have an image of South Shields families getting it together in the country in the style of Traffic