Andrew Saxe Case.

Glass of brandy and a revolver? But I guess that would be the honourable thing to do...

Happy birthday, Gene! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpSz...

In the interests of transparency I shall be releasing all my texts to Peter 'Mandelson' Mandelson before Black Box Recorder's London Palladium show.

Went to Tate Britain for my annual pilgrimage to the Richard Dadds. Avoided the 'Turner versus Constable - the rivals'. What halfwit curators think up this nonsense. I can only look at one painting at a time. Galleries are stupid.

“No one is illegal on stolen land. F* ICE.” — Billie Eilish, during her GRAMMYs speech

Nice review in Uncut of the new, yes new! Swell Maps album. I played on a couple of tracks and even got to write a song!

*Sniffs, mutters* Pearls before swine. #onfiretoday

*High voice* 'Placebo are collaborating with the RSC and soundtracking Brecht' * Demarcates stage and phones Paul Mason*

thequietus.com/portal/ The Quietus @thequietus.com @luketurner.bsky.social have put up an old piece about yer Black Box Recorder for our return to light entertainment. Ta Quietus people.

I'm looking for my Mercury Music Prize runners up gong from (ahem) 1993. I intend to give it to Donald Trump, its rightfull owner.

Lists are for shoppers not rockers. But the following are all great live albums: Beatles Live At The Starr Club Dr Feelgood - Stupidity Kiss Alive Totales Turns - The Fall 1969 - Velvets And VU Live At Max's Kansas City - for Jim Carroll's interventions.

From Dylan to disco, Beyoncé to Bob Marley: the 30 best live albums ever – ranked! www.theguardian.com/culture/2026... Wholeheartedly agree with Jerry Lee at number 1. Unarguably the greatest live album ever, and the Killer is backed by Surrey's greatest rock n roll band: The Nashville Teens

Feb 2nd, my pal Nick (who plays keys with myself and Peter Buck) will be questioned by John Niven about his early exploits with those Crashland chaps. Go, I am.

I've just found out that simpering halfwit Robert 'Rob' Jenrick is 15 years younger than me! My staunch resolve to never vote for any of these pricks has been borne out.

LOW[E]: released on this day in 1977 youtu.be/JhZqsYkl1zI?... @davidbowiereal.bsky.social @garycrowleyonair.bsky.social @punkandnewwave.bsky.social @carolinebinnie.bsky.social @muzicgeezer.bsky.social @stevomusicman.bsky.social @ndb66.bsky.social @dubcadet.bsky.social

It's Rod Stewarts birthday. Well done Rod. Excellent. Rod's great; he makes fab records and then he makes crap records. He says cool things, then he says uncool things, yer big daftie Rod. It's all good though.

England will never win the Ashes in Oz, so I propose that Stokes and co should continue with 'Bazball' forever. If we can't beat the Aussies then at least we can annoy them with our disrespect for the holy game. (This is a very English take and is exactly why we will never win the Ashes in Oz).

www.brooklynvegan.com/15-albums-fr... Nice end of year stuff from @brooklynvegan.bsky.social. Is there gonna be another one? Hell yeah!

Off to Hatten Gardens for one last job.

Sorry to hear that Hofner guitars have gone out of business. I've had a few Hofner's over the years - and still have my '63 Commitee, that I used all over The Auteurs 'New Wave' Named because Bert Weedon was on the Commitee that helped design it!

This is my kind of fact.

@lukehaines.bsky.social and I are the Fanny and Alexander of North London as the Christmas Fallbaules are on the tree and the I Am Kurious Oranj diorama from @heykidsshop.bsky.social is assembled.

Currently sifting through piles of 'Select Magazine', 'Melody Maker' and 'NME' to see if I was misquoted. I shall sue them for 5 bil each, and i shall close the fuckers down. Ha!

18/1 on England winning the Ashes 3 2. I'm going in lads. Performing an occult invocation rite now!

Very sad to say that my old pal Phil Vinall has just died. I'll write more about Phil at somepoint - in the meantime here's a nice piece by Ian from Balloon. Rest in Noise Phil, dear friend.

Well done England for making it to day 4 of the Brisbane Test. This means they are twice as good as they were at Perth. Suberb.

crosstownconcerts.seetickets.com/event/black-... Blackbox Recorder tix go on sale tomorrow. 9am.

@lukehaines.bsky.social And the best one, in at no 50..... The Auteurs .

The text on this screen is like an unreleased Fall song. I'm enjoying reading it in Mark E Smith's voice. What can it all mean??

Yes we are! Tix on sale December 3rd.

Entirely normal Friday at heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com - everything 0% off!

lwtheatres.co.uk/whats-on/bla... Black Box Recorder are playing The London.Palladium next year. It's not nostalgia - it's revenge.

Big news coming tomorrow. Watch this space.

It would be even funnier if, one glorious day, their incessant, inane, witless, self-involved mooing was silenced by a grand piano falling out of an overflying cargo aircraft, but it's something.

Five ways for England to claw something back; Deport Zac Crawley Deport The Barmy Army Play Test Cricket Don't allow people called Olly near cricket bats. (The Ollying of English test cricket has had a lasting negative effect, not least on me). Grow mustaches pronto.

Another awful thing about this terrible *cricket* day. Is that I find myself agreeing with everything Michael Vaughan has said. A bleak realisation.

Frankly, I think the whole England team should be interred once they return.

I guess the positive of the stupid second batting innings by Stokes and co, is that we surely must be nearing the end of the 'Zac Crawley Experiment'. Surely...surely...

1978, Brisbane. Pre-Lindy Go-Betweens

Portishead! Really, I don't think i've ever heard anyone say a bad word about Portishead! Are we making stuff up again?

Today, I am playing at being John Aspinall. This afternoon I shall 'rewild' the living room with wolves.

Bleakly amusing that Black Box Recorders 100 million streaming royalties are going towards Sweden's investment in tech warfare in preperation of Putin maneouvres. That's showbiz kid!

Great piece in @thequietus.com today featuring a video of our mate Stewart Lee interviewing his mate @stephenhanley6.bsky.social about his memoir that Stew has just narrated for a soon to be released audiobook! The watch is less exhausting than this post! 💥 #thefall thequietus.com/news/watch-s...

I know the BBC are preoccupied, but I've recieved no reply re my complaint about how incompetent the Red Team were on Bargain Hunt (October 26th broadcast). And how they didn't even appear to be taking the game remotely seriously.

Re last post about ISB Likky. It's a grim Mail gutter piece. I'm glad she's alive, but she clearly doesn't want to be tracked down by tabloids, who's only agenda is mocking women who age.

Wow! Likky lives. In Sacremento of course. Home to Squeaky and Sandy and the SLA, and now Likky.

Guitar heads! Probably futile yet genuine question: Any views on Epiphone P90's vs Fender P90s? I await your silence people.

Considering franchising all my artistic output to Saudi Arabia or the UAE. Everyone else is and I don't want to miss out.