New (?) website with lots of interesting details on The Smiths' studio recordings. www.kissmyshades.co.uk

For over 25 years, the good folks at LiveNirvana.com have been saving #Nirvana and Kurt tapes and videos for posterity. New for Xmas 2025 is a previously unheard gig from Hawaii in 1992. youtu.be/njynKVWIlDY?... If you have any tapes or video, drop me a line!

Basically a fiver per LP for this 6 disc of top tier 60s freakbeat and psych. amzn.to/4pVdhtu #affiliatelink

Pop music still getting released on 7" is a smashing thing. #maisiepeters

Watching Cher doing Believe in 1998 and learning that I'm older now than she was at the time. 😕 #totp

Word on the street is that Morrissey has got a new label. In return he's OK-ed some future Smiths releases, starting with a live album for Record Store Day.

Nirvana in Nottingham - December 1991. Nottsvana: The Story of Nirvana and Kurt Cobain in Nottingham - Nottingham Culture share.google/0CDK7irZvKza...

Ten years today since The Jam got back together.

Probably in my Top 5 of UK punk albums, and one of the few I'd spring for a deluxe version.

It was a bit shout-y in Carlisle last night with @benefitstheband.bsky.social

I can't stop watching the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 goals. 😭

Pretty wild that we're getting an archive release from Huggy Bear in 2026. Copies (with a tape) from @monorailmusic.bsky.social

Hans Christian Andersen! Lars Ulrich! Lars Von Trier! Brigitte Nielsen! Scarlett Johansson! Your boys took one hell of a beating! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Charity shop haul.

In a Sainsbury's local and they wanted £3.50 for a bag of Doritos. Give me a moment while I look for my "We used to be a real country" meme.

"But he knows not what it means..." 😕

Seeing this for sale in Sainsbury's was a bit like the time Texas Chainsaw Massacre hit the racks in Woolworths. Well, maybe not quite. But you get the idea.

Solid first taster. #thedamned youtu.be/oH301U6BuyU?...

Once a suspected player in one of Britain's most tragic and senseless crimes. Now a harmless Halloween mascot for a soft drink. How things change.

Some kind of new album coming from The Damned in January. Possibly the long-rumoured covers project.

This just sounds like some kind of undercover sex thing. Tree lads.

If this was the Reading/Leeds line-up, folks would be querying the lack of female artists.

This year's Winter work pal. Proper shouter.

Big 'tape you might have seen at a petrol station in 1994' vibes from CMAT there. Presumably some kind of grand artistic statement because otherwise it's a bit Microsoft Paint.

A few remarkable images from the 2026 Cliff Richard calendar. Guessing the 3rd is a nod to the garbage compactor scene in Star Wars.

Is it short? Yes. Is it pop? Yes. Is it pop but with a bucket of distortion on top? Yes. That's all I want.

Me: 1500 words deep into another "Is the vinyl boom finally over?" thinkpiece.

Aside from local coverage when the gigs take place, the #Oasis mania has faded a bit. The static setlists, the unchanging support acts - there's nothing for the media to write about. Audiences know exactly what they're getting. 1/2

Now playing: Don't Let Me Down by The Farm #topical

Can't remember the last time a song completely stopped me in my tracks. Absolutely stunning musically and lyrically. #cmat youtu.be/_SVNTv44C4g?...

Only England team I will ever support.

Nigel Farage on 4 June: “Tell me a single government target that ever gets met? “I’m bored with government targets – we are going to half this, double that." NF on 21 July: promises to " cut crime in half. "

It was in July 2025 that I realized that Soft Cell was a play on the term 'hard sell'.

From April 1884 to December 1886, Thomas Stevens rode a penny farthing around the world. Thomas Stevens (cyclist) - Wikipedia share.google/bkv8AsJmH0Qa...

A young friend just saw Pixies and noted that "all the old people were at the front." 😃

Pretty green.

Some subcultures persist, but it's essentially cosplay. The kids forming Northern Soul clubs or putting on corpse paint and spikes are the musical version of a Civil War re-enactment society.

You: If we're re-branding WH Smiths, let's freshen things up and get shoppers excited about the brand again. Your team:

It's #JuleeCruise month over @twinpeaksblog.bsky.social so here's a - really beat up - promo VHS for Industrial Symphony No.1 The retail version of this David Lynch project is harder to find these days and I don't suppose many of these are still around.

Saw a billboard for a tribute act based on a famous - I had to Google them - YouTube children's entertainer. That's a genius move. 💰💰💰

Three times lately I've seen acts drop the definitive for a name and think it's an acceptable move: Damned, Automatic and Vines. With just a modicum of thought you could have used Damned Vines, Automatic Vines and Damned Automatic. Kids! No gumption!

Weird graphic design choice for the Rough Trade "sale".

Sorry to hear about the passing of Conflict's Colin Jerwood. Great animal advocates and a proper thorn in the side of the establishment for a time. colinjerwood.muchloved.com?fbclid=IwQ0x...

Darts is the new rock 'n roll.

They are not to be trusted.

Here's the problem I have: if your mate suddenly confessed to collecting not just N*zi memorabilia but also items from other Axis theatres of war, you'd think he was suss. No matter how he conducted himself the rest of the time, it's suss. #NoStatues

Foley directed the 'Pine Weasel' episode of #TwinPeaks The show was at its most soapy at this point but still has some great moments. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

Promo CD and tape in a Barbie-style box. More tat for the archive. Still in its original mailer. 88p postage. #BritPop

Just another normal day in showbiz.