Guessing I'm not too late for #weekendsingles as it's a bank holiday weekend 🍷 🌞 It feels like the Mediterranean outside today and we've just booked a holiday on The Côte d'Azur for next year, so naturally I am spinning some beautiful Françoise 7's 🎶🇫🇷 🌊 #musicsky

52 years! 🎶 #BowieForever #Bowie "It's safe in the city To love in a doorway To wrangle some screams from the dawn..." #musicsky #albumalmanac #vinylsky

Ten acts you've seen, female lead singer edition: Lana Del Rey Tamara Lindeman (The Weather Station) Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins) Gillian Welch and David Rawlings Kate Bush Kate Stables (This Is The Kit) Cassandra Jenkins Weyes Blood Beth Orton Taylor Swift #musicsky #musicchallenge

A long weekend ahead, it's warm and athe coast beckons... But this evening it's wine and this beautiful album 🎶 🎷 #NP Floating Points Pharaoh Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra #musicsky #albumalmanac #vinylsky

Good evening Richard and everyone 🎶🍷 My #5DebutAlbums9599 1. Michael Head and the Strands - The Magical World of The Strands 2. Air - Moon Safari 3. Mark Hollis - ST 4. Mojave 3 - Ask Me Tomorrow 5. Movietone - ST

Introduce yourself with ten bands/artists you've seen live: Lana Del Rey David Bowie David Sylvian Magazine Gillian Welch & David Rawlings Air The Clientele Cassandra Jenkins Bill Ryder-Jones Cocteau Twins #musicsky

Marianne Faithfull 1965 by Gered Mankowitz

OUT TODAY ‘In Another World: The Four Seasons of Talk Talk’ by @graemethomson.bsky.social ‘⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Fascinating and stirring’ Classic Pop ‘⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Forensic detail’ @mojomagazine.bsky.social ‘Genuinely illuminating’ @thewiremagazine.bsky.social tr.ee/bglwPAlMQS

Earlier today @johnniejohnstone.bsky.social asked for five songs to convince a newcomer of the genius of Howard Devoto... You could always just give them this to listen to. Absolute classic 🎶💥 Magazine - Real Life #musicsky #albumalmanac #vinylsky @punkandnewwave.bsky.social

Definitive Gaze Shot by Both Sides Parade Permafrost You Never Knew Me

What a night!! The Lemon Twigs were magnificent this evening at The Waterfront, even better live than on record 🎶🎶🎶 And.... We've done it! The Arsenal are PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS ... 🏆🔴⚪ #musicsky #livemusic #arsenal youtu.be/-OtdOrux8Vk?...

This evenings entertainment 🎶🎶 The Lemon Twigs at the Waterfront, Norwich

#NP Along with Moon Safari & Michael Head & the Strands record, this album was on constant rotation around the millennium & remains a favourite! The wistful melancholy, the unhurried sound, elements of film noir & Trish Keenans cool detached vocals, it's some debut 🎶 🖤 #musicsky #albumalmanac

Good morning. Françoise et Sylvie 📸 Jean-Marie Périer

After destroying her cat nip carrot, Mabel is now getting to grips with its replacement 😻😸 #Caturday#CatsOfBlueSky #cats

#NP Saturday evening with this gem 🎶 🍷 🇨🇦 Harmonium - Les Cinq Saisons Lovely pastoral folk/prog from Quebec. For lovers of mellatrons, flutes and lush vocal harmonies. #musicsky #albumalmanac #vinylsky

Jane Birkin © Tony Frank

Name ten bands/musicians you've obsessed over at some point :🎶 The Clientele David Bowie Françoise Hardy David Sylvian Mark Hollis Beth Gibbons Air John Cale Magazine Judee Sill

Today 🎶⚡🖤 You're Not Alone (there was a shop in the Lightroom 😬) #BowieForever #DavidBowie #musicsky #weekendsingles

Today 🎶⚡🖤 You're Not Alone #BowieForever #DavidBowie #musicsky #weekendsingles

I'm not one for telling folk what to do, but.... if you love David Bowie you MUST go to the Lightroom in King's Cross and see "You're Not Alone" It is SPECTACULAR, an emotional roller-coaster, a wonderful experience! Tears were shed 🎶🎶🌟 ✨⚡ #DavidBowie #BowieForever ⚡

On a train heading to the capital 🚉 David Bowie - You're Not Alone at the Lightroom, lunch at Dishoom and a little record shopping! My kind of day 🎶

Jour treizième #FiveAlive Where do you start... 🎶🇫🇷 Je Ne Sais Pas Ce Que Veux Parlez-moi de lui La Question Viens Première recontre

#ArtistFave15 The Clientele 1. Saturday I remember first hearing this song back in 1999 & thinking this band are special. 26 years later they remain every bit as special! "And in your arms, I watched the stars ascend And sweep a loneliness away for a while..." youtu.be/EB2KG52VyOc?...

I cannot stress this strongly enough: Support your local theatre, café, bookstore, bakery, and library. We breathe life into these places when we support them. They need us, and more importantly, we need them.

#ArtistFave15 The Clientele 2. The Queen of Seville 🎶 "The Queen of Seville She sends me roses It's gonna be a lonely, lonely day" Perfect in every way! youtu.be/IL10A3Lhhqw?...

#NP Julee Cruise Floating Into The Night 🎶 #musicsky #albumalmanac #vinylsky

#ArtistFave15 The Clientele 3. The Age of Miracles 🎶 "Now the year is turning and the eeriness comes To the boughs of the elms To the faces I love Headlights move on tree-lined roads Nativity plays The dance of our days The dance of our days The dance of our days" youtu.be/HUHB-bVUD4s?...

#NP The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle 2 x CD mono and stereo albums plus six extra tracks 🎶 A bargain from the local market, just £4! #musicsky #albumalmanac #vinylsky

#ArtistFave15 The Clientele 4. Losing Haringey The gorgeous guitars circle softly around the spoken word vocal. It's The Clientele being The Clientele, perfect 🎶🎶 youtu.be/P3GOVzy6Tzs?...

#5debutalbums9599 Two more under consideration for my top five. The excellent self titled debuts from Bristol band Movietone and from Melbourne, Australia, Hydroplane 🎶🎶 #musicsky #albumalmanac #vinylsky

#ArtistFave15 The Clientele 5. Falling Asleep After a seven year gap, the Clientele made a very welcome return with the wonderful "Music For The Age of Miracles" album. Two tracks feature in my top five. This video was taken by myself at The Scala, London - 15/3/2018 youtu.be/aOBuVvA-tI4?...

#NP Seeing out the weekend with a little magic from the Chairman of the Board. It doesn't get much better... 🎶🎶 Frank Sinatra - in the wee small hours #musicsky #albumalmanac #vinylsky #weekendsingles

#ArtistFave15 The Clientele 6. Monday's Rain "Monday Monday Monday, oh Monday's Rain My friends say I'm wasting all my time But tonight I'll watch the world Sunday evenings cars and girls and Monday's mine" youtu.be/LdWxMPoH7bc?...

Mainstream TV really is awful 📺 So we couldn't resist the opportunity to rewatch The Killing (Forbrydelsen) when it reappeared on Prime recently. After binging all 20 episodes of the brilliant series one, tonight it's time to start series two 🍷 #ScandiNoir #NordicNoir at its very best.

Sylvie Vartan and Françoise Hardy 🎶 🇫🇷 📸 Jean-Marie Périer

Morning gang! #weekendsingles I've been going down a dream pop rabbit hole lately, especially bands like Movietone, Hydroplane, The Cat's Miaow & a top new recommendation from @monorailmusic.bsky.social Who Cares? If atmospheric, ethereal dream pop is your thing give them a listen 🎶🎶 #musicsky

#NP A 2nd grail found this week Hydroplane made some wonderful music between 1996 & 2003 before reforming last year 🎶 🇦🇺 This @worldofechomusic.bsky.social 2023 comp gathers together some of their finest songs Hydroplane - Selected Songs 1997-2003 #musicsky #albumalmanac #weekendsingles #vinylsky

#ArtistFave15 The Clientele 7. Through the Roses More from the wonderful "I Am Not There Anymore" album 🎶 youtu.be/_L7YvAGfw5M?...

#NP It's been a busy few weeks work wise, never dreamt I'd work weekends again!! 😂 💷 But all done now & picking up two grails this week has lifted the mood 🎶🎶 1️⃣ Virginia Astley - From Gardens Where We Feel Secure Simply sublime! #musicsky #albumalmanac #weekendsingles #vinylsky

#ArtistFave15 The Clientele 8. Lacewings An early gem 🎶🍂🍁💎 youtu.be/jTK_odS0x44?...

#ArtistFave15 The Clientele From their debut album "The Violet Hour" 9. The House Always Wins youtu.be/0OvILK487K0?...

Françoise Hardy at a Montreal Expos game at Jarry Park in their first season, May 4, 1969

#ArtistFave15 The Clientele Gorgeous autumnal sounds! 10. Bonfires on the Heath 🎶🍂🍁🍂 Fabulous live performance on KEXP from 2018 🔽 youtu.be/InPT1vm6cTs?...

Judee Sill album cover shoot, 1971. Henry Diltz.

#NP #5debutalbums9599 This period is more about quality than quantity and it doesn't get much better than this! Air - Moon Safari 🎶🇫🇷 Seeing them perform the album live in '24 and '25 has been a highlight of the last couple of years! @richards7370.bsky.social #musicsky #albumalmanac #vinylsky

#ArtistFave15 The Clientele 11. Chalk Flowers From their most recent album, the magnificent "I Am Not There Anymore" 🎶🍂 youtu.be/30kxocZsG78?...

“Cocteau Twins may have proved hugely influential – the entire subgenre of dream-pop exists in their shadow – but 40 years on, no one else has ever really sounded like this” Read The Guardian’s ranking of the 20 greatest Cocteau Twins songs below cocteautwins.ffm.to/guardian

#NP #5debutalbums9599 Another definite for my top five, this wonderful debut from Mojave 3. Mojave 3 - Ask Me Tomorrow 🎶 #musicsky #albumalmanac #weekendsingles #vinylsky