#chopsfives #gigs2025 1. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings - The London Palladium 2. Lana Del Rey - Wembley Stadium 3. Cassandra Jenkins - Colchester Arts Centre 4. Bill Ryder-Jones - Cambridge Junction 5. Air - Latitude Festival @chopstopfives.bsky.social

Wishing a happy, healthy and safe New Year to all you lovely people on here. Enjoy yourselves it's later than you think! ❤️

#NP A beautiful album to start NYE. If you love The Clientele you will love this! The second album from Clientele main man Alasdair MacLean & Lupe Núñez-Fernández of Pipas. A mix of English & Spanish pastoral folk, a tranquil album that evokes the ocean & sea breezes 🎶 #musicsky #albumalmanac

#NP Fleet Foxes - Shore This was very close to making my recent top 25 of the last 25 years list! A favourite lockdown album, their "Live On Boston Harbor" from 2024 is also highly recommended. It features a lovely performance of Judee Sill's The Kiss 🎶 #musicsky #albumalmanac

📸 Chat Noir sur un toit avec la Tour Eiffel dans le brouillard. Paris Cat.

Remembering Marianne Faithfull, born on this day in 1946 📸 Roger Kasparian

It's the Sunday between Christmas & New Year when all you want to do is drink coffee, eat cheese & biscuits & watch the darts 🎯 Mabel hasn't moved since midday either 🐈

A post from @nportnell.bsky.social last night sent me to work! Top 25 albums of the last 25 years. As the evening went on the list just kept growing, but here's my 25 in no order 🎶 Two points, I've only included one album per artist & I've probably missed out a number of albums I love.. #musicsky

Remembering Chris Bell 12/1/1951 - 27/12/1978 🎶💔 "Every night I tell myself I am the cosmos I am the wind But that don't get you back again... " #musicsky #vinylsky #bigstar

Afternoon #weekendsingles gang, a few more favourite finds Best Buys 2025 part 2🎶 Many Françoise EP's of which this was a favourite 🎶🇫🇷 First press of Harmonium's brilliant 'Les Cinq Saisons' with insert 🎶🇨🇦 Judee Sill for a tenner in a stock box at a record fair #musicsky #albumalmanac #vinylsky

Morning #weekendsingles gang hope you are all fighting fit after the festivities 🎄 Best Buys 2025 part 1 🎶 That wonderful Marianne Faithfull jukebox 7" EP with extras A pair of US first pressings of the debut albums from Bridget St John & Pearls Before Swine #musicsky #albumalmanac #vinylsky

#NP This lovely gift 🎄, the perfect Christmas comedown listen 🎶 Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert 50th Anniversary edition, original 2xLP with 8 page booklet and art print. Just sublime...

It's time for a few days break from the socials... Wishing you all a happy, healthy and peaceful Christmas. Take care of yourselves 🎄⛄❄️🎅🎶 #musicsky #weekendsingles

Twiggs.

#NP The Sunday before Christmas seems a perfect time to spin this seasonal classic 🎶🎄⛄🎅 #musicsky #albumalmanac

#NP Everything's Getting Older - Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat The Copper Top is one of those songs that hits hard every time, with it's beautiful piano & mournful trumpet as Moffat reflects on the passing of time "Birth, love and death The only reasons to get dressed up" youtu.be/ifY4v3maKZY?...

Vashti Bunyan and Vetiver 🎶 The Mercy Lounge, Nashville. 7th February 2007. Poster by Isle of Printing.

#EOYlist #5albums25 The Weather Station - Humanhood This will probably be my AOTY for 2025. The final track "Sewing" is definitely my song of the year! 🎶 @richards7370.bsky.social

#EOYlist #5albums25 This lovely album on the excellent @coleminerecords.bsky.social will be featuring in my top five 🎶 Okonski / Entrance Music @richards7370.bsky.social

#EOYlist Three standout box sets released in 2025 David Bowie - I Can't Give Everything Away (2002-2016) Marianne Faithfull - Cast Your Fate To The Wind Nick Drake - The Making of Five Leaves Left #musicsky #albumalmanac

Born on this day in 1948. Happy Birthday to Bill Nelson! Be Bop Deluxe frontman, Guitar Legend and National Treasure 🎶🎸 #musicsky @memorialdevice.bsky.social @punkandnewwave.bsky.social

Marianne Faithfull

Winter warnings! ❄️ ☃️ ⚠️

#EOYlist my favourite 2025 reissues 1. Frank Sinatra - in the wee small hours 2. Brigitte Fontaine est ... folle 3. Michael Head & the Strands - Magical World of The Strands 4. Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering 5. David Sylvian - Died In The Wool : Manafon Variations 6. The Clientele - The Violet Hour

Born on this day in 1946 The iconic Jane Birkin 💔🌟

#NP Andrew Wasylyk - Hearing The Water Before Seeing The Falls 🎶 The opening track, the sixteen minute "Dreamt In The Current Of Leafless Winter", features the gorgeous saxophone of Angus Fairbairn (aka Alabaster DePlume) & is sublime On the excellent @claypipemusic.bsky.social label 🎶 #musicsky

Françoise Hardy at the 1969 International Pop and Rock Festival on the Isle of Wight 🎶🇫🇷 📸 Jean-Louis Allen

The market square looking very seasonal 🎄

Starting my EOY lists with favourite gigs of 2025! In no particular order here's my top six... 1. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings 2. Lana Del Rey 3. Air 4. Bill Ryder-Jones 5. Cassandra Jenkins 6. Matt Berninger Others - Edwyn Collins, Father John Misty, The Waterboys, The Minus 5 🎶🎶 #musicsky

Matt Berninger was class last night. The setting for his "intimate trio" performance certainly bought out the best of the enigmatic National frontman A good song selection, plenty of chat & a few visits into the crowd made for a fine evening🎶 Matt Berninger - Light Years youtu.be/iyk12GDRL-Y?...

This evenings entertainment 🎶

Jean Seberg

John 🖤

#NP Geckøs - S/T I've been listening to this alot over the weekend🎶🎶 M. Ward, Howe Gelb & McKowski blend indie folk, Spanish influences & a touch of Irish mysticism on their debut album as Geckøs Quickly becoming one of my favourite new releases of 2025 #musicsky #albumalmanac #weekendsingles

Street scene in the South of France, 1960's 🇫🇷

More of Bill and Evelyn from last night! The beautiful "A Bad Wind Blows In My Heart pt3" 🎶🎶❤️ #musicsky youtu.be/Vv3z0vPjSls?...

Bill Ryder-Jones and Evelyn Halls were wonderful in Cambridge last night. Beautiful songs and Bill's unique humour made for a perfect evening🎶 This Can't Go On #musicsky youtu.be/Vfa3UV5oX0E?...

This evenings entertainment 🎶

With todays #albumalmanac theme being albums new to you in 2025, here's three wonderful compilations released in 2025 from the brilliant @acerecords.bsky.social with @rockingbob.bsky.social 🎶 These have introduced so much new music to me & are all very highly recommended #musicsky #weekendsingles

Françoise Hardy 🇫🇷 Carnaby Street, London 1968. 📸 John Pratt

Marianne Faithfull

"People say you mellow as you get older, and I really haven't." Happy 71st birthday to Viv Albertine, Born today 1st December 1954 #photography #ClassicRock #MusicSky #photography 📸 Carolina Ambida

Françoise Hardy © Jean-Marie Périer, 1960s

#NP I'll never be able to afford a good condition really early press so thought I'd give this a go All analog mastering from the original studio tapes, heavy gatefold tip on jacket, 4 page booklet, pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI Sounds really good to my ears, not sure about the series title though?

#NP Very likely the best compilation album ever? 🎶🎶🔵 #musicsky #albumalmanac

#SundayMood Mabel 🐈 #Cats #CatsOfBlueSky

#NP Frank Sinatra - in the wee small hours Stunning pressing of a true classic. Check out @andrewmale.bsky.social fabulous review in Mojo 🎶 For me the opening moments of the record & the anticipation of Franks voice remains one of the most spine tingling moments in music You need this! #musicsky

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen... Lana Del Rey Cassandra Jenkins Air Gillian Welch and David Rawlings Father John Misty (All in 2025).

Diana Rigg as Emma Peel in The Avengers. Cambers Sands, East Sussex 1967. 📸 Popperfoto

#NP As live albums go 💥💥💥💥💥 Magazine - Play @scotspostpunk.bsky.social @punkandnewwave.bsky.social #musicsky #albumalmanac