I’ve just picked up a copy of the most metal early music cd of all time:

In honor of the death of the great D. Boon here’s the Minutemen documentary www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5IW...

Thanks to Jason Steel for hipping me to the fact that me and MG made @byroncoley.bsky.social's Size Matters end-of-year list in the latest @thewiremagazine.bsky.social. I really need to get some copies of the @vhfrecords.bsky.social LP version across this way for 2026...

Thurs 4th Dec: BRIXTON Spanners SW9 7EX, 7.30pm Heading down to my old old SW9 stamping ground tonight for Fenland Drone Workshop's Winter Celebration, feat. @peteum.bsky.social, Luke Cowan, Satan Club, FDW, DJ Tissue, Lantern Man and free snax. Very ltd tix, door only aka get down early.

20th Nov: NORWICH Toby Hay / C Joynes Toby and I are heading up to The Holloway tomorrow night, doors 7pm: thehollowaynorwich.com/events/opN4F... Also, just fyi, the gig on Fri 21st Nov at Norfolk Wildlife Trust in Cley has just been cancelled.

20th-21st Nov: NORFOLK Toby Hay / C Joynes Toby Hay and I are heading out for a pair of shows in Norfolk next week. Details in the thread below:

21st-22nd Nov: NORFOLK Toby Hay / C Joynes Two shows with Toby Hay in a couple of weeks' time: Thurs 21st Nov: The Holloway, Norwich NR2 4PE thehollowaynorwich.com/events/opN4F... Fri 22nd Nov: Norfolk Wildlife Trust, Cley-next-the-Sea NR25 7SA www.norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk/events/2025-...

Fri 7th-Sun 9th Nov: CAMBRIDGE CD&GXX Tomorrow night I will be opening up this weekend of festivities at the NCI, Holland St with my own self-designated 20th Anniversary gig. See you there:

Current mood

7th-9th Nov 2025: Cambridge Crushing Death & Grief 20th Anniversary Weekender Fourth line from the top y'all:

CD&GXX Rattle is an exploration into subtle rhythmic fluctuations, tonal space, and minimal melodics. Their setup of two singing drummers seems unlikely, but Rattle use the limitations of their arrangement to create pieces of textural percussion and threading sublime melodies through the gaps.

Great to get out and play a couple of shows with Sir Richard Bishop over the weekend. Thanks to all at the Smokehouse and Chats Palace for looking after us. Here's a neat bit of footage from my set in Ipswich, and many thanks to Stuart for uploading it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy_k...

Ipswich: free ticket to Sir Richard Bishop tonight to anyone who messages me... I'm unable to attend and hate for it to go to waste! (Yes I recognise that the venn diagram of 'wants to see richard bishop', 'can go tonight', 'follows my bluesky' and 'near ipswich' is miniscule...)

10th-11th October: SIR RICHARD BISHOP / C JOYNES Heading out for a couple of shows with legendary knight of the realm Sir Richard Bishop, starting tomorrow in Ipswich and moving on to London on Sat. Details in the thread below, tix still available for both:

Following last month's blink-and-you-missed-it Bandcamp sell-off, it looks like @normanrecords.com and @vhfrecords.bsky.social got a thing sorted out to meet the UK's Joynes'n'Gangloff requirements:

oh fuck farewell Danny Thompson: one of the greatest

Fri 26th Sept: IPSWICH Stick In The Wheel / C Joynes St Stephens Church, IP1 1DP Opening up for @stickinthewheel.bsky.social in Ipswich this Friday c/o @btcipswich.bsky.social. Tix still available here: www.brightenthecorners.co.uk/events/stick...

1/9 **Autumn Shows 2025** I've got a decent number of interesting gigs coming up over the next few weeks in my default professional capacity as Local Support. It all starts with Stick In The Wheel this Friday 26th Sept in Ipswich. Details and links below:

Class act hits the road:

Sat 11th Oct: LONDON Sir Richard Bishop / C Joynes Supporting stone-cold legend SRB at Chats Palace E9 c/o stone-cold legends @upset-the-rhythm.bsky.social

Apologies for FB link but here's Ilan Volkov speaking out against the Israeli government at the end of his Proms performance with the Scottish Symphony Orchestra, he's been ploughing a lonely, pitiless furrow opposing the war inside Israel for the last two years. www.facebook.com/share/v/1LqX...

Reluctant to use the word 'banger' but sometimes, just sometimes, it's the only best fit:

**NEW RELEASE** 'Tom Winter, Tom Spring' LP C Joynes & Mike Gangloff cjoynes.bandcamp.com/album/tom-wi... Just as a heads-up, only a very limited number of LPs available today. Further physical copies are available direct from VHF's own Bandcamp but, you know, the tariffs...

'There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness & yapping out of orders, & self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty...is to stop it' (EM Forster, 1934). 🔶️

A mere five days until this one. I won’t quote the hype - you can find it yourself - but the world at large is finally catching on to a Grade A songwriter and DIY lifer. Now only 5 tix remaining so don’t snooze:

Twenty years of Crushing Death & Grief; twenty years of C Joynes. Coincidence? You decide...

**TONIGHT: CAMBRIDGE** Alan Sparhawk / C Joynes The Junction About to start getting myself together for tonight's show at The Junction, opening up for Alan Sparhawk. Tix still available, as far as I know: www.junction.co.uk/events/alan-...

1/4 **CANADA TOUR JULY 2025** C Joynes & Mike Gangloff Finally back home after the run of shows across Ontario and Quebec. A bit late in the day for a tour diary, but here's a picture of the 20-storey LC mural gazing benignly over downtown Montreal:

AT is a wonderful label.

First responses in on ‘Tom Winter, Tom Spring’ c/o @magnetmagazine.bsky.social

1/11 **CANADA TOUR JULY 2025** C Joynes & Mike Gangloff Final call for this run across Ontario and Quebec, starting in Toronto in a couple of days' time with the launch gig for our 'Tom Winter, Tom Spring' LP, released on @vhfrecords.bsky.social on 11th July. All show details in the thread below:

1/11 **CANADA TOUR JULY 2025** C Joynes & Mike Gangloff CJ & MG heading to Canada in ten days for a 10-date tour across Ontario and Quebec, to coincide with the upcoming release of the LP version of 'Tom Winter, Tom Spring' on VHF Records. All *updated* show details in the thread below...

Heavyweight:

Sat 28th June: Sounds from the North Sea, Norwich Heading up to The Holloway tomorrow for this day-long event featuring @peteum.bsky.social Luke Cowan, Satan Club, Fenland Drone Workshop, Simon Nunn and yrs truly. Music, film and other stuff from 3pm-11pm... thehollowaynorwich.com/events/fqq8u...

July 2025 tour. Poster by @fasterthanagallopinghorse @lancashireandsomerset David Hand

It does me good to know that Steve Albini owned a copy of ‘Jammy Smears’: www.stevealbiniscloset.com/sales-archiv...

Pre-orders now up for the LP version of ‘Tom Winter, Tom Spring’, coming soon via @vhfrecords.bsky.social

C Joynes/Mike Gangloff - July 2025 Canadian Tour! So envious. July 11 Toronto, July 12 Peterborough, July 13 Wolfe Island, July 14 Ottawa, July 15 Montreal, July 16 St Hyacinthe, July 17 Quebec City, July 18 Baie St Paul, July 20 St Gabriel De Brandon.

1/11 **CANADA TOUR JULY 2025** C Joynes & Mike Gangloff CJ & MG heading to Canada next month for a 10-date tour across Ontario and Quebec, to coincide with the upcoming release of the LP version of 'Tom Winter, Tom Spring' on VHF Records. All details in the thread below...

Just a lil' repost for this show coming up in a few days' time:

3(!) boss new gigs unveiled today. 29th July - THE HORSE LOOM @ NCI Centre 23rd Sep - BEAUTIFY JUNKYARDS @ NCI Centre 5th Oct - TASHI DORJI @ The Blue Moon Essential nights of melcancholy hardcore-infused folkishness, languid and hazy giallo chamber pop, and no-holds-barrred guitar experiments.

DB is a prince among men: funny, kind, intelligent, enthusiastic, and generous to a fault; a scholar, an activist, an autodidact and a political thinker. In all honesty, he is one of the most decent and inspiring people I know. Do yourself a kindness and show him a bit of love today:

Tues 10th June: NORWICH Eric Chenaux / C Joynes The Holloway NR2 4PE Heading up to Norwich to open up for Eric Chenaux at The Holloway. His uniquely chewy take on chanson & jazz-balladry is one of my favourite things in contemporary music. thehollowaynorwich.com/events/VuVK6...

TOMORROW: Thurs 15th May Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders / C Joynes The Smokehouse, Ipswich IP1 3NU Heading across to provide pre-dose prep for JA & THLs at the aptly-named Smokehouse. Highgrade Philly astral-projection jams + gnomic fenland guitar squirrelling c/o @btcipswich.bsky.social

Thurs 15th May: IPSWICH Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders / C Joynes The Smokehouse IP1 3NU Heading across to provide pre-dose prep for JA & THLs at the aptly-named Smokehouse this week. Highgrade Philly astral-projection jams + gnomic fenland guitar squirrelling c/o @btcipswich.bsky.social

Seeing late-period Pere Ubu perform in Cambridge a few years ago was a revelation. So long David Thomas:

One week from ACTUAL NOW thee trippin’ lordz of the balls-out acid noise universe hit Mitchams Corner c/o your friendly neighbourhood Crushing Death & Grief. Grip them tix @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social:

Hey CB people - last call for this beauty kicking off in two or three hours' time. Sun's out, guns out: