It's kinda fun seeing Europeans treating American cities like their party towns for once instead of the other way around.

The figures for Mid and East Antrim council area, in which Ballymena sits, show a net total of fewer than 5,000 international migrants have settled there this century! Any talk of immigration as a pressure point, or "unfettered", is a complete misnomer. Egregious herrenvolk bollocks!

The reluctance among media outlets to specify that these pogroms are the work of far-right loyalist thugs is particularly weird, given that they sign their work! The LVF spray tags on the houses of the people they burn out, whether Catholics, migrants or refugees. They've done this for decades!

Do Not Adjust Your TV Set/Phone/Laptop/Tablet/Monitor.

Very sad news out of Brighton, The Great Escape due to kick off there tomorrow too. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

New York Times confirms Israel using dogs to rape open.substack.com/pub/owenjone...

As the sole distributor of my own music on my own record label (with no Spotify)I'm pretty proud that this single has enough legs to play out @steve_lamacq show last night. Can only imagine the amount of music he's sent for his prime time show @bbc6music.bsky.social Thanks @stevelamacq.bsky.social

But now he has a new track out and you should all be listening.... swimmersjackson.bandcamp.com/track/every-...

I remember during Covid, coming across this great song. I hadn't heard of @swimmersjackson.bsky.social - but I just assumed he was famous and I was out of touch.... youtu.be/-yBcLnNNzA0?...

Gotta love a UK polling station.

Live sync to 'Every Time I...'

Live sync to 'Every Time I...'

Sold Out show in Crystal Palace last night. What a cracking little room. Single officially launched. 🚀 #Hopscotch #EveryTimeI

It's out! "Every Time I ..." Let me know who it reminds you of and please share it with somebody you think might like it. Single launch Fri 10th April - Hopscotch Taproom, Crystal Palace

As he releases the first single from his third album, we asked, what is @swimmersjackson.bsky.social into right now - music, gigs, pubs, film, books and more. Lots of recommendations here tpoe.substack.com/p/what-im-in...

Listen to @swimmersjackson.bsky.social new single Every Time I, which is out today "It's about my love/hate relationship with London and how cities or places aren't actually capable of loving (or hating) you back." swimmersjackson.bandcamp.com/track/every-...

New tunage from @swimmersjackson.bsky.social . Buy it on a platform that doesn't bomb children. swimmersjackson.bandcamp.com/track/every-...

This is fantastic. Like, really excellent. Nice job. As for who it reminds me of, I can't say for sure but it definitely does bring to mind some of those excellent US bands from 10-15 years back - Cayucas, Throw me the Statue, etc. I convinced myself that I even hear a bit of Sparhawk in your vocal!

It's out! "Every Time I ..." Let me know who it reminds you of and please share it with somebody you think might like it. Single launch Fri 10th April - Hopscotch Taproom, Crystal Palace

My new tune comes out this Friday. It's called "Every Time I..." and was written in the immediate aftermath of Mimi Parker's after reading some @lowtheband.bsky.social Alan Sparhawk tributes which got me in the gut. I brought that idea to my band and we sprinkled it with 60s magic. Hope you enjoy!

“It’s clear that Israeli forces are repeating the same pattern in Lebanon as they did in Gaza…” ~ Bachir Ayoub, (Oxfam) Xander Elliards The National ☕️🥐

I'm playing gigs over 20 years and I've still no idea how to even ask people to come along. But if you're in London on April 10th you won't be turned away from Crystal Palace's best new little live venue- Hopscotch. First single from new album launch. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swimmers-j...

I'm playing gigs over 20 years and I've still no idea how to even ask people to come along. But if you're in London on April 10th you won't be turned away from Crystal Palace's best new little live venue- Hopscotch. First single from new album launch. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swimmers-j...

Album 3 is written, recorded, mixed and mastered. Seems only right to release the first single. A launch in Crystal Palace's best live music venue, Hopscotch. An intimate show. Buy 4 to guarantee your own table or single entry. Ltd early birds are under a tenner www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swimmers-j...

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

If I work the 6am to 2pm shift on a Mon/Tues/Wed I get the most guilt free 3 hours to myself in the afternoon where Val is in nursery and Gill is in work. I love not knowing what to do with myself because doing nothing when you have a one year old is fucking epic.

Really great to get back playing live with the band again last night. Next one is in the cellar bar of Hopscotch on April 10th. Limited tickets available soon.

Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it. The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it

Packing for Egypt listening to The Bangles 'Walk Like An Egyptian' on repeat while dancing around the room with the good wife. Too on the nose? Gerrup outta dat! It's perfect. 🇪🇬

My Funny Vailintíns 🌹

Christ why did I very show my mother how voice notes work? I text, she talks. It's twice the guilt too 'cos half my pals would give anything to hear their mam say "OKAYYYYYY" even once more, as opposed to me stopping everything I'm doing 25 times a day to hear it.

Pop fact. The girl who sings "Gimme Gimme" in the worst Weezer song of all time (Beverly Hills) , is married to the current bassist in Maroon 5. That was released with an even worse video yet the side project of the late Greg Brown (Cake) with Rivers Cuomo and Matt Sharp remains unheard.

Do people discuss new Irish music anywhere on BlueSky?

Who the fuck is gonna tell Keif what to think now? #McSweeney

The final album mixes are back. The week where you can unapologetically listen to your own music and dare I say, enjoy it..before releasing it to the world and never hearing it again. Live rehearsal in The Sparrowhawk I Crystal Palace on Saturday 28th February. Free Entry!

Video killed the radio star until radio started to visualise podcasts, killing what made all 3 formats special in one foul swoop. ©️

I've had two days off work in a row with my boy in nursery. Genuinely didn't know what to do with myself for those hours. Day 1: List need to Vol I of the Neil Young Archives (1967 - 1976) for 7 hours 52 minutes. Day 2: Watched every single Weezer music video. Fantastic!

Pointed at a dog and said "BIG DOG" while smiling before remembering I'd just dropped my son off at nursery.

Two upcoming full band London gigs. Both in Crystal Palace. Slight date change for the second one. Sat 28th Feb: The Sparrowhawk FREE Fri 10th April: Hopscotch Bar £10 Come along, help us dust the rust off ahead of Album 3 #LondonGigs #CrystalPalace

Two upcoming full band London gigs. Both in Crystal Palace Sat 28th Feb: The Sparrowhawk FREE Fri 20th March: Hopscotch £10 Come along, help us dust the rust off. #LondonGigs #CrystalPalace

No Women, No Palestinians and No Muslims on this “Gaza Board of Peace,” deciding the fate of Palestinian Gazans. Exploitative Western Colonialism still going strong in the 21st Century. Blair, Kushner and Rubio among names on Gaza 'Board of Peace' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This song was playlisted by TXFM (formerly PhantomFM) just as I left Ireland and the band kind of spread our wings away from the joyful slog of being in an independent band. The video by Eoin Heaney is so good and I think the track holds up really well 10 years later www.youtube.com/watch?v=znRv...

2016 was the year of Brexit and Trump, so I'm not so sure what we're supposed to be so misty eyed about. A decade since we lost the fucking plot?

The UK has declined a new Elbit Systems contract, leading Palestine Action prisoners to end the hunger strike that had three of them on the brink of death. The Tesco worker suspended for refusing to handle Israeli goods has been reinstated and will no longer have to handle them. We can and will win

YES! @bandcamp.com YES!

The mixes are slowly coming in for album 3 and so too is every good speaker of every description I have, out in the house. 4 tracks back so far, easily the most exciting part of the process. JG is a genius. #Album3

Young V&A - The Children's Museum. Free Entry ❤️ #London

The government sits and watches as Heba dies. It's heartbreaking, horrible, almost impossible to compute. Didn't people vote in the hope (however forlorn) of ending the Tories' psychopathic mode of government? Yet on it goes, under Keir Starmer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.