A snowed in bonus is that I now have a house kit !! A good looking, full size electronic kit 😮 … didn’t even know that was a thing & I am very happy with her 🖤 Dusting off the cobwebs for the Gales tour in Feb 🕸️

BACK IN BUSINESS!!! For the first time in 3+years us Nightingales are on tour in February AND we have a new member, Natalie, who is really bloody great! A few of these gigs are on the home straight now so best get on it 🎟️ www.thenightingales.org.uk/live

Magic weekend at Rockaway Beach Festival! Didn’t really take photos of any of the bands - oop! Was a mixed bag for me but a couple of real stormers such as PIL / Blackgold / Moonlandingz & Gans I danced A LOT at the silent disco 🪩 Great to see so many familiar faces too ✌️

Hello Bognor @rockawaybeach.bsky.social

Soundtrack to my Boxing Day

Wow. I must have been on the nice list this year!! SPOT ON picks from my mysterious and most wonderful #vinylsanta I am so grateful and rather overwhelmed to be honest 🥲 thank you, absolutely perfecto !!! Can’t wait to play them 🎄 😭 @vinylsanta.bsky.social

Christmas Eve - the night where Vinyl Secret Santa’s gather to gift strangers records … opening begins at 7PM 🎁 I have been admiring this ritual from afar for years, so very pleased to be part of it this year #vinylsanta @vinylsanta.bsky.social

Main reason I joined BlueSky was to FINALLY be part of #vinylsanta after a few years being too late to enter. See you tomorrow kool kids 🤶🏻

Good solstice to you. I’m off to DJ at my local and the out of office is firmly ON

The 157 Show Top 25 Songs Of 2025 Number 7 The Nightingales- The New Emperor’s New Clothes @flisskitson.bsky.social www.mixcloud.com/Darren157/th..

We’ve announced a UK & Ireland tour so you & yer mate will wanna be there : www.thenightingales.org.uk/live

I’ll be DJing at Birmingham’s Rock&Roll Brewhouse Solstice afternoon this Sunday - top line up and very few tickets left www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Bir...

Well now I’m feeling festive !

*SUPPORT ANNOUNCED* Very happy to have the great Thomas Truax & sax god Terry Edwards join us at selected shows in February A nice amount of tickets sold already on these, thank you ! www.thenightingales.org.uk/live

RIP Pam Hogg 💛🪽 She was the real deal . . . what an inspiration ! !

Just announced : HOUSE Of ALL Spring U.K. Tour 2026. All booked by me 🙃🎩 On sale Friday at 10AM linktr.ee/thefallconti...

Everything you’d want and more … The Saints last night in Bristol 🤩

AWRIGH ! ! All links are now live for our 2026 Ireland dates and the Feb UK tour. London, Brum & Hebden are in particular off to a very fine start indeed, ain’t that grand. Go get ‘em www.thenightingales.org.uk/live

Ex-The Fall supergruppe HOUSE Of ALL head out on their tour of the M62 tonight, starting with the Brudenell in Leeds. All booked by me 🙃🎩 linktr.ee/thefallconti... #fallfriday

🇮🇪 NEW SHOWS 🇮🇪 Very pleased to announce Nightingales will return to Ireland in May 2026 and we’re bringing our good mate Ted Chippington with us for these three dates. Tickets go on sale tomorrow Friday Nov 14th at 10AM … you know what to do! thenightingales.org.uk/live

Wow. That was incredibly special. Playing Le Guess Who festival was a real bucket list for me ❤️

Off playing drums with Pram! Tonight Antwerp @ Djingel Djangel & Le Guess Who festival in Utrecht on Friday - 18.30 in Pandora. If you know anyone out there go tell ‘em 🤩🥁

Nightingales Feb 2026 tour now on sale 💙 www.thenightingales.org.uk/live

PRAM tonight at The Tin bringing very much the right level of jazzy wonk

Nightingales Feb 2026 tour now on sale 💙 www.thenightingales.org.uk/live

Roll up! Roll up! Tickets for the Nightingales first headline tour in 3+ years are now on sale. Go get em tiger! www.thenightingales.org.uk/live

Got a spare ticket for #Pram in Coventry tonight, if anyone fancies a freebie? #TheTin #Deliaphonic @flisskitson.bsky.social

ANNOUNCING : The Nightingales U.K. Tour Feb 2026. I’ve selected some of our favourite spots to play our first headline dates in 3+ years! Come show us lot some love eh? We’ve missed you. Tickets will go on sale Friday 10AM 🥁⚡️ www.thenightingales.org.uk/live

IMMERSION (Colin Newman & Malka Spigel) kick off their U.K. dates today in Leeds celebrating a brilliant new record. All booked by me 🙃🎩 not many tickets for London left www.bandsintown.com/a/15532793-i...

Thank your lucky stars, the stellar shine again. Following a fairly fallow 2024/25 - due to grim illness and its gruff treatment - the glorious Gales are now readying themselves to rock n roll afresh next February. Tickets go on sale Fri Oct 31st at 10AM www.thenightingales.org.uk/live

ANNOUNCING : The Nightingales U.K. Tour Feb 2026. I’ve selected some of our favourite spots to play our first headline dates in 3+ years! Come show us lot some love eh? We’ve missed you. Tickets will go on sale Friday 10AM 🥁⚡️ www.thenightingales.org.uk/live

Very excited to be drumming with Pram for three special shows coming up - a one off U.K. headline date for Halloween in Coventry, a show in Belgium and my favourite festival in Utrecht! Maybe see some of you out there 🥁🔮🪰 linktr.ee/pram-gigs

And... then there were five. Welcome aboard sublime Brummie super talent Natalie Mason. As BBC6music probably said “This sparkling cherry on the icing of pop music’s tastiest cake sees John Cale finally relegated to #2 in the official ‘Best Viola Player In Rock’ chart” Brilliance now beams brighter

Very excited to be drumming with Pram for three special shows coming up - a one off U.K. headline date for Halloween in Coventry, a show in Belgium and my favourite festival in Utrecht! Maybe see some of you out there 🥁🔮🪰 linktr.ee/pram-gigs

Death And Vanilla’s U.K. tour of their live score for the iconic 1968 TV Film ‘Whistle And I’ll Come To You’ kicks off this week! All booked by me & presented by @weirdwalk.bsky.social Only 8 tickets left in Bristol, 6 tickets for Barrow & the rest flying deathandvanilla.lnk.to/whistleIN

Date with my favourite ex … The Ex !! (& Stew in a Nightingales tee 😎)

Yikes!!! 🎈

Jolie Holland kicks off her UK & Ireland tour this week - all booked by me 🙃💥 !! Some lovely intimate seated shows here too, with not many tickets left linktr.ee/jolieholland

Restocked : www.nightingales.bigcartel.com

It’s Halloween, everyone’s entitled to one good scare … PRAM play a one off U.K. headline date at The Tin, Coventry on 31.10 w/ support from ‘Jude Ress is Madrigirl’ 🦇 Tickets : www.ticketweb.uk/event/deliap...

Had a lot of fun DJing @supersonicfest.bsky.social … feeling incredibly inspired from the whole weekend. Highlights : Zu, Witch Club Satan (WOW), Jackie-O Motherfucker, Water Damage, The Bug

Happy release day @prolapseband.bsky.social - first album in 26 years & it’s a MIGHTY return 💥💥💥 It has been a joy to work with them on booking some special U.K. tour dates to celebrate the new record … can’t wait to hear it live !! Linktr.ee/prolapse

My friend went to Krankenhaus this weekend and came back raving about seeing the film King Rocker. I designed this last year but did nothing with it. That’s fine, but I wanted to put it out there again to show my appreciation for having Vindaloo records in my early teens. Bostin’.

I’m stepping out from behind the drums and on to the decks at Birmingham’s @supersonicfest.bsky.social this weekend. This year I’m on the roof spinning a selection filled with eerie atmospheres and haunted psychedelia. A MIGHTY line up & it’s here, in Brum! Last tickets supersonicfestival.com

Playing Krankenhaus Festival this weekend with The Nightingales … Sunday @ 6.25PM 📸 Gavs gig photos

Jackie-O Motherfucker coming to U.K./Ireland this week & performing at @endoftheroadfestival.com + @supersonicfest.bsky.social Booked by me & Sparrow @babayagashut.bsky.social 🙃🎩 🎟️ jackieom.lnk.to/UKIETour

Drummed it all out 🥁❤️

STAGE SHIRTS ASSEMBLE! The Nightingales are playing two festivals this weekend. Tonight is Preston Pop Fest & Sunday Rebellion Festivall. Hope to see some familiar faces out there 👋🤘🥁

Dusted off the suit 🤍NIGHTINGALES ARE OUT OUT THIS WEEKEND !! Friday at Preston Popfest & Sunday at Rebellion Festival. Anyone there ?? Day tickets for Preston here : www.thenightingales.org.uk/live