Wasn’t really expecting Still in a Dream to be primarily about @simonreynolds.bsky.social . Took me a bit of getting used to but I think it works. It is strange to read the current thoughts of the writer who led you to so much life changing music on the writing that first brought you to that music.

Emel Memiş, a highly respected feminist economist at Ankara University, has been arrested along with 105 other Turkish activists on terrorism-related charges ahead of a forthcoming NATO summit in Turkey. I stand with Emil. Show that you do as well. www.straitstimes.com/world/europe...

Keith Ridgway - Dooneen

Time to end the contract with Palantir “From my investigations, it looks like the UK sovereign solution [using their own data systems] in places like Greater Manchester are producing better results with faster systems and happier medics” @martinwrigley.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/9348...

Ghanian poster for FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF (1986)

Learning to make laksa.

c.org/JGxvMV2MPq Please sign this petition to save Philosophy and our wonderful colleagues under threat at the University of Dundee.

Absolutely blown away by this new Dewa Alit album. Hypnotic, gripping, immersive. Piano gamelan. dewaalit.bandcamp.com/album/baur-b...

My favourite piano album of all time. ottoatotland.bandcamp.com/album/pin

Free ticket going for this tonight @cafeotodalston.bsky.social , drop me a DM if you're interested. TONY OXLEY: THE ANGULAR APRON ← Cafe OTO share.google/7SxoPg2HyvR8...

I’ve run out of 18ths of November until the 5th of November.

Finally got round to playing Inferno at home. Sounds fantastic.

There’s a movement to rename the Williamsburg Bridge the Sonny Rollins Bridge, because that’s where he famously practiced in the 1950s, resulting in the title of one of his best albums. I doubt it will happen, but a plaque or statue on the bridge would be cool.

So good. echospace313.bandcamp.com/album/echosp...

Delighted to be delivering Trinity College Dublin’s Annual Lecture in French History and Political Ideas 2026 on Wednesday 20th May at 4pm in the Máirtín Uí Chadhain Theatre, Arts Building, TCD. Please do come along if you’re around! ☀️

All the dismissals of the Guardian book list aside, I’d be delighted if my son was doing any of these at school. He’s in S2 and they’ve not done one novel all year.

I want to see a Guardian style list of the greatest 100 drone records (but not done by the Guardian, obviously).

The great Wadada Leo Smith and I are giving a free concert at Harvard this Thursday. Come through if you can -- music.fas.harvard.edu/event/artsth...

The UK government has cancelled Kanye West’s permission to enter the country amid controversy over his planned headline appearances at London festival Wireless this summer over the rapper's previous comments about Jewish people and Hitler buff.ly/50WrjZW

So excited to be welcoming Joanne! Feel free to join us online or in person

Exciting ScotLit opportunity for someone!

None. Not even one.

I don't think I've seen a statement like this before: Why Warner University Stands Against Student Use of AI warner.edu/why-warner-u...

THREE lectureships available in the Music Department @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kingsmusic.bsky.social — see advertisements in the thread below.

Bought this on tape and I don’t think it left my Walkman for the whole of my 20th year.

Second excellent (and very different) new Brendon Moeller drop of the month. brendonmoellerechologistbeatpharmacy.bandcamp.com/album/soft-c...

Listened to the Flipper album today for the first time (I think) since I was a teenager. It’s every bit as good now as it was then.

Finally some sense. Maybe the government needs to hold a seminar to remind themselves what it means to be a free, tolerant, society. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This is so good.

More seriously good stuff from Wah Wah Wino.

I once left Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot on a train and have never replaced and thus finished it. I had to return Omensetter’s Luck to the library because I was leaving the country. Never got a copy, so never finished it. This is the year of mopping up dropped classics.

There’s something very BC/R&S about Hard Wax descriptions. Utterly minimal but utterly precise.

First discovery of February. Engulfing, mesmerising drones and voices. Beautiful. morctapes.bandcamp.com/album/unfurl...

If you’re interested in attending, register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/en-joui-yo...

Join us on Thursday to discuss Lacan and Laruelle with Jeremy Smith. lacaninscotland.com?p=2185

Catching up on a few things and, wow, Wino-E is every bit as good as those folks over @boomkat.com said it was.

Eventually watched Christopher Andrews’ Bring Them Down and my big take away is that Paul Ready, who plays Kevin in Motherland, is a phenomenally good actor. I’m struggling to reconcile those two roles to the same body.

“On a sunny afternoon in Vienna, Emma Eckstein went to see a doctor. You won’t have heard of her.” Erm, unless you’re familiar with psychoanalysis, in which case you probably have. www.summerhallarts.co.uk/event/jackal...

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen: Autechre Bill Orcutt Portishead Peter Brötzmann The Necks

Curious parking in Edinburgh

Why does this read like cream cakes don't actually exist?

Hugely excited to welcome Jeremy Smith to @LacanInScotland next Thursday to talk about Laruelle and Lacan. The event is free and open to all. Please join us. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/en-joui-yo...

So Research Gate allows me to request someone’s article but, when they send it to me, it won’t let me say thanks because they don’t follow me.

Does anyone know of a comprehensive, chronological King Tubby discography? @harrysword.bsky.social @funkentechno.bsky.social @boomkat.com

Saturday feeling.

Share what you consider to be a goddess tier album…

Actual album of the year.

That Terry Riley album is out of this world.