Now playing: Directions in music by Miles Davis.

Now playing: Alan Sparhawk With Trampled By Turtles. alansparhawk.bandcamp.com/album/with-t...

Now playing: John Francis Flynn's Look Over The Wall, See The Sky.

On repeat here today: Stick In The Wheel's A Thousand Pokes. stickinthewheel.bandcamp.com/album/a-thou...

Well now. Stick In The Wheel were an absolute riot in Dublin's Bello Bar tonight. And Cormorant Tree-Oh played a mesmerising set beforehand (with some deft theremin work!). Yet another top @enthusiasticeunuch.bsky.social show, he has us spoiled. Time now to enjoy the merch table booty.

Squeezing in one more from Stick In The Wheel on the way into town. My last number 9 bus in to see a gig: it's getting the axe on Sunday. ☹️ stickinthewheel.bandcamp.com/album/a-thou...

Back to Stick In The Wheel. stickinthewheel.bandcamp.com/album/hold-f...

Now playing: Richard Dawson. richardmichaeldawson.bandcamp.com/album/the-ru...

Cover art for the upcoming Tonight's the Night 50th is ... atrocious?

Watching DVDs is less convenient than Netflix, but my DVD player didn't send me emails several times a day about shows that I will never watch in the entire history of time.

Bruce knows what's happening.

Good times at the library. I now have a Sonny Rollins biography that will probably take me until Christmas to read.

On the headphones now: more Stick In The Wheel. stickinthewheel.bandcamp.com/album/tonebe...

Now playing: Follow Them True by Stick In The Wheel. Playing in Dublin town tonight! stickinthewheel.bandcamp.com/album/follow...

Book #14 of 2025: "The Wrath To Come (Gone With The Wind and the Lies America Tells)" by Sarah Churchwell.

Now playing: Perverted By Language. #FallFriday

Now playing: Room To Live. #FallFriday

Now playing: Swervedriver.

Now playing: Don Cherry's Where Is Brooklyn?

On the telly tonight: the latest episode of Slow Horses, followed by a bit of Two Doors Down.

Now playing: Stick In The Wheel. stickinthewheel.bandcamp.com/album/a-thou...

Now playing: Sunn 0)))'s Pyroclasts. sunn.bandcamp.com/album/pyrocl...

Now playing: Whirling Hall of Knives. "Twelve years since the first volume, and five and a half since the second, The Last Sound and Magnetize (aka Nwyvre) have failed to contain a new strain of Lab Emissions..." fortevilfruit.bandcamp.com/album/whok-l...

Now playing: Hearing the Water before Seeing the Falls by Andrew Wasylyk. andrewwasylyk.bandcamp.com/album/hearin...

Now playing: more Swans. swans.bandcamp.com/album/my-fat...

An exciting delivery here this morning: Three new releases from @fortevilfruit.bsky.social! Music by Clara Lai / Barbara Togander, Whirling Hall of Knives and Fergus Kelly. fortevilfruit.bandcamp.com/album/i fortevilfruit.bandcamp.com/album/whok-l... fortevilfruit.bandcamp.com/album/echolo...

Now playing: The Seer by Swans. swans.bandcamp.com/album/the-seer

Breakfast soundtrack this morning: ANOHNI and the Johnsons. anohni.bandcamp.com/album/my-bac...

On the headphones now: Jenny Hval. jennyhval.bandcamp.com/album/the-lo...

Now playing: Grand Prix.

Now playing: Thirteen.

Now playing: Bandwagonesque.

Time for a bit o' the Fannies.

Next up: Tristwch Y Fenywod. tristwchyfenywod.bandcamp.com/album/tristw...

Now playing: Adwaith. adwaithmusic.bandcamp.com/album/solas

Playlist by Alan Sparhawk @lowtheband.bsky.social just published on NTS. The tracks sit well beside each other, yes there is affinity between Abyssinians and Joy Division... www.nts.live/shows/guests...

The Anois, Os Ard New Irish Music round-up is back ☁️ Harps and bodhráns reimagined as ambient instruments, surrealist avant-folk, fairy forts, some Prefab Sprout-style sweetness, uilleann pipes, motorik psych, Pavement covers and a tribute to Manchán Magan anoisosard.substack.com/p/new-irish-...

Now playing: Bring Me The Head of Kyle Bobby Dunn. kylebobbydunn.bandcamp.com/album/bring-...

I've long felt that the generosity of Cosey Fanni Tutti's work is overshadowed by the 'transgressive' reputation of TG, and that her art / porn actions and music have been rather siloed. It was a pleasure to try and put that straight in this profile for The Observer observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

Now playing: Jane Weaver's The Amber Light. I believe a new album is on the way?

Tonight's telly: finished up series one of Dreaming Whilst Black. Excellent.

New Sunn 0))) on the way, but here's an old one. From December 2015, to be precise. sunn.bandcamp.com/album/kannon

New Sunn O))) EP on Sub Pop - 3 tracks, 30 minutes... sunn.bandcamp.com/album/eterni...

Now playing: ØXN.

Now playing: Kelly Lee Owens. kellyleeowens.bandcamp.com/album/kelly-...

Now playing: more Beth Gibbons. Lives Outgrown.

Now playing: Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man's Out of Season.

Now playing: Autechre's Chiastic Slide. autechre.bandcamp.com/album/chiast...

The Skelligs was also given as a location by the Irish state to Disney at no cost, out of their belief that some nebulous 'good will' was more useful than a big bag of American cash. Disney was very quick to agree.

Now playing: East of the River Nile.