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The new Stella Donnelly record is rather lovely

All the folding, cutting and sewing completed. Full set of current 'zines ready for pop-up shop at Porteur in Hove tomorrow.

Dug out the re-issue of Adorable's debut as I spotted that Pete Fij is playing the Albert in a couple of weeks.

The next issue of my In The April Sun zine is v. v. nearly done. I think it's gonna run to 56 pages this time, and 51 pages are finished, bar a gargantuan proof-read. As a teaser, here is one page of the six-page review of @glasgoespop.bsky.social

Lovely couple of hours at the Bella Union record shop launch party with Simon Raymonde playing records and live sets from LuxJury and Family Stereo.

Two new zines back from the printers :-) Vuelta a Los Picos - notes and photos from the time Jorge and I went and cycled around the Picos in northern Spain. Edgeland - medium format photo zine with vintage map and some words I've written about the cliffs between here and Newhaven on the reverse.

Fantastic gog with Telecom & Search Results. Dapper sixties harmonies with hints of Byrds & Kinks, maybe a smidge of Sonic Boom with Telecom. Gloriously tuneful slightly off kilter post punk art rock from Search Results, so enjoyable that we bought the record on the way out. Top stuff.

Listeners! It's Hallowe'en, we're free, we've come home! We're so bold, let us in at your window or wherever you get your podcasts. 🌬️🎃🧟 @iammilliam.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @drlauravarnam.bsky.social @andrewmale.bsky.social

Back in East Side Print today for the next two Churches of Sussex zines: Steyning & Thakeham. Will cut, fold, bind & sew over the next week so ready for the Makers' Market at Porteur in Hove on Sat 8 Nov.

Martin Stephenson & the Daintees 40th anniversary of debut album Boat to Bolivia. Equal amounts of stories & songs as to be expected. Lovely to hear the old songs with Gary Dunn on guitar again. First saw them in 1988 at Sadlers Well Theatre with The Lilac Time supporting.

Getting my ear in for Martin Stephenson & The Daintees' 40th anniversary Boat to Bolivia gig later

Liking the new Tortoise album.

In a couple of weeks I'll be at Porteur in Hove with a selection of 'zines & prints including two new ones: Edgeland about the cliffs between Brighton & Newhaven, and Vuelta a Los Picos, word and photos from cycling around the Picos de Europa mountain range in northern Spain a few years ago.

nice light out on the downs today. however bike is now covered in sheep shit.

Oh hello, next year's Tour de France route goes near mum & dad's house two days in a row including Bastille Day. Time to start organising next year's summer hols...

This morning's soundtrack: Modern Nature, Gruff Rhys, The Cords, Pete Astor, James Yorkston & friends.

Went to watch James Holden and Waclav Zimpel but they were sat on the stage and I was at the back so I watched some lights and them via phones being held up.

Here's Nina and me on yesterday's Later... with Jools Holland x youtu.be/LziNPxRwfOk?...

40 years ago, Sussex Professor the late Sir Harry Kroto FRS made one of the most important scientific discoveries of the 20th century: C60, or Buckminsterfullerene. The breakthrough won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with his legacy living on across the world and at Sussex.

Very Small Publishers

A few shots from another roll of medium format Portra 400 run through the Holga for the "Edgeland" zine.

Typographer and publisher Robin Kinross, whose critical standards are always high, and rightly so, writes about the design and production of Fitzcarraldo's books.

The Loft were really bloody good tonight. The latest album tracks sounding fantastic. On a train back to Brighton listening to the "tape" of the last time I saw them at the Moth Club.

New Fast Automatic Daffodils and The Real People. Gone full 1991.

London bound on an unfeasibly miserable damp grey day to see The Loft

'A glorious celebration of curiosity and nature.' Jenny Uglow's A Year with Gilbert White is reviewed in The Observer by Philip Hoare: observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Hey; my zine is coming together! Lots of interviews & reviews. However, specific shoutout: if anyone would like to write something original let me know! Too much of my own writing in this issue. Will happily look at submissions about your band, other music, art, books, clothes, films, travel. Shout!

LISTEN TO THIS. The chaps from The Giddy Carousel Of Pop (the Smash Hits-based podcast) have done a 40th anniversary special episode on Don't Stand Me Down, featuring actual Dexys members Helen O'Hara and Kevin 'Billy' Adams, Smash Hits legend Chris Heath, and little old me (a mere fan at the time).

Went to see Yasujiro Ozu's "Tokyo Kids" (as it's been translated into French) with live musical accompaniment this afternoon and a very splendid thing it was.

On a train to Stansted, the last time I did this, almost a decade ago I was heading into Essex for a long bike ride #audax themanfromicon.net/2016/07/04/k...

morning spin to the end of the Undercliff and back again over the tops.

love an autumn cycle commute

watching this, probably for the first time since watching it round a mate from school's house when it first came out on VHS. it's bloody brilliant. youtube.com/watch?v=SXvE...

I can thoroughly recommend this. It’s not bloopy at all, but extremely laid back indie/alternative. I love the way it sounds like every instrument is trying to hide behind the other instruments. music.apple.com/gb/album/the...

Finished listening to the audiobook of this today. Brilliantly funny and compassionate and scathing and poignant. And the swearing is immaculate.

There's a new 'zine in progress about riding below and above the cliffs between Brighton and Newhaven. Words slowly being bashed into some sort of shape and another roll of 120 film shot.

Quite right

from the archives: themanfromicon.net/2025/01/10/t...

...and the day is instantly less grey & miserable

Cuckmere Haven from the top deck of the bus to Eastbourne yesterday

attempting to counter the dank* gloom outside with some pop youtube.com/watch?v=Q9Gh...

Word of the Day is ‘snerdle’ (19th century): to stay warm and still beneath the covers for as long as humanly possible.

Fun night at Hope & Ruin, indie power-pop @fortitudevalley.bsky.social + plus splendid support Two White Cranes & the fantastic but really bloody loud Self Torque (had to go stand at the back that isn't *that* far from the front at the Hope. Fortunately plastic pint glass of ear plugs on the bar)

#nowplaying @warringtonruncorn.com can't wait to hear this stuff live in Brighton next week, plus @jo-johnson.bsky.social supporting. going to make a change from a couple of months of full on jangly indie-pop gig attendance :-)

I’ve chosen Richey Edwards as my subject for the BBC Radio 4 series Great Lives. My guest is Simon Price and the programme is presented by Matthew Parris. Programme is broadcast at 3pm on Easter Monday 21 April www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

just listened to the latest Word In Your Ear so will now be listening to Talking Heads all afternoon

Happy publication day @peteralanross.bsky.social Upon A White Horse is a celebration of landscape and people - and all that is beautiful, strange and old. Out now: linktr.ee/UponAWhiteHorse