#NP This CD was given away with @uncutmagazine.bsky.social 17 years ago this month It's still a regular listen here, good memories of seeing Fleet Foxes, Midlake, John Grant, Beach House & Laura Viers live when @bellaunion.bsky.social was my go to label 🎶 #musicsky #albumalmanac #weekendsingles

#NP The Cure - Seventeen Seconds 46 years old in 2026, my favourite album by The Cure still sounds wonderful 🎶 Even on my least favourite day of the year, with hail currently bouncing off the pavement!! #musicsky #albumalmanac #weekendsingles #vinylsky

#NP Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man - Out of Season 🎶 Sitting high in my top five albums of the last 25 years! Quiet acoustic sounds fill the space around Gibbons incredible vocals as the sound shifts from folk to jazz with added fuzzy electronics. Simply sublime! #musicsky #albumalmanac #vinylsky

Jean Seberg & Picasso (1959) #photography #blackandwhite

We are reeling from the news that a friend of over 45 years has recently taken his own life 😔 These words from David Berman seem to resonate just now... 'Friends are warmer than gold when you're old and keeping them is harder than you might suppose' Travel well my friend 🙏

Thursday mood

#NP "Suburban Light" features the early singles from The Clientele originally released on the Pointy, Elefant, Fierce Panda, Johnny Kane & Motorway labels along with additional tracks from the period (1997-2001) As an entry point to this wonderful band, it's perfect 🎶 🍂 🍁 #musicsky #albumalmanac

Françoise Hardy just before her concert at Olympia in Paris October 29, 1965

Françoise Hardy, aged 19 years old, in the UK to promote four new records, her first in English, London, Thursday 9th January 1964. 📷 Blandford

Evening sky 20.56

#NP Chris Bell - I Am The Cosmos Such a wonderful album that deserves a quality pressing from the likes of Acoustic Sounds or Rhino High Fidelity This blue vinyl pressing from Omnivore Recordings is probably the best I've heard, certainly an upgrade on the 4MWB effort!! #musicsky #albumalmanac

Sunday lunchtime with one of my favourite boxsets 🎶🎸 Neil Young - Archives Vol. II

If you see this, post a concert photo you took

#NP Picked up some nice Big Star records this week 🎶🌟 #weekendsingles #musicsky #vinylsky

#last4albums 🎶

I think I must be getting over sentimental as I get older, but that new McCartney song is so poignant 🎶 #musicsky

#NP Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels 2026 Rough Trade 50th Anniversary release on "Pearly Northern Lights" vinyl. A classic album 🎶🖤 #musicsky #albumalmanac @punkandnewwave.bsky.social

Marianne Faithfull by Gered Mankowitz 1964 🖤

Remembering a true great of the game ⚽🇳🇱🙏 Johan Cruyff 25.4.1947 - 24.3.2016 #Cruyff #football #Ajax #Barcelona #totaalvoetbal #Holland

#NP #5debutalbums1519 Purple Mountains - ST The final music from David Berman, a wonderful collection of heartbreak, grief and bitterness from the master wordsmith 🎶💜 It's guaranteed a place in my top five... #musicsky #albumalmanac @richards7370.bsky.social

Lovely afternoon walk around Lackford Lakes nature reserve, fresh air and beautiful birdsong 🌞

#NP Saturday evening and the horse has left the stable 🎶🍷 🎸 🐎 #musicsky #albumalmanac #vinylsky #weekendsingles

Marianne Faithfull #Caturday

#NP Saving the best for last! There was the Bunnymen & the Teardrops, but there was also the Wild Swans! Potentially the greatest band of the 80's until they imploded. This double A side single is absolutely magnificent, that voice, that ambition, my favourite single 🎶 🦢 #musicsky #weekendsingles

#NP The Go-Betweens - Bachelor Kisses This should have been a massive hit, it's one of the finest songs of the 80's 🎶🇦🇺 But you won't see this amongst the dross on BBC Fours #totp repeats, more's the pity 😔 #musicsky #weekendsingles

#NP Aztec Camera - Mattress of Wire The second single from teenage genius singer songwriter Roddy Frame. When this, the follow up to the brilliant debut "Just Like Gold", was released in August '81 Roddy was only seventeen 🎶 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #musicsky #weekendsingles

#NP The 1998 debut 7" from The Clientele On the independent Pointy label, a gorgeous double A side - What Goes Up / Five Day Morning Everyone needs some Clientele in their record collection! 🎶 🍂 🍁 #musicsky #weekendsingles

Playing a few 7's this evening. This always hits the spot 🎶 💥 Gang of Four - Damaged Goods EP. Sadly the sticker is long gone, being stuck on a school folder in '78! #musicsky #weekendsingles

Friday Françoise 🎶 🇫🇷

Delighted to announce that In Another World: The Four Seasons of Talk Talk, is coming on May 21, 2026, published by the fabulous @newmodernbooks.bsky.social. There’s a lot of love in this one. Pre-orders: Resident: tinyurl.com/mrxrpsuh Rough Trade: tinyurl.com/28v3tda4 A: tinyurl.com/3sz3scf4

Bonsoir (Françoise Hardy)

#NP Big Star - Third (Test Pressing Edition, 2022) #musicsky #albumalmanac #vinylsky

#NP We thought we were the coolest kids in town in '77, with our John Foxx badges on our leather jackets & this LP under our arm! Nearly fifty years later & it still sounds incredible... Ultravox! -ha!-ha!-ha! (with free 7") #musicsky #albumalmanac #weekendsingles @punkandnewwave.bsky.social

My dear Mum & my beautiful daughter 10 years ago at Ellies prom. We miss Mum, but cherish the memories we hold, the laughter & the tears She taught me that cats are better than people 😸, it's better to be kind & not to waste time worrying about what you couldn't change A special person, my Mum x

#ArtistFave15 #musicchallenge Cocteau Twins from their Heaven or Las Vegas album onwards 🎶 🎶 1🌟. Pur #musicsky youtu.be/RPxRuT_mEvY?...

#NP Alabaster DePlume - A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole 🎶🎷 "lush & gentle instrumentals informed by ghostly ancient folk melodies... sweeping & beautiful string arrangements set against his trademark vibrato-infused tenor sax whispermoan..." One of 2025's finest albums! #musicsky #albumalmanac

#ArtistFave15 #musicchallenge Cocteau Twins from their Heaven or Las Vegas album onwards 🎶 🎶 2. Evangeline #musicsky youtu.be/yWi89zyss2E?...

Good morning! The sun's out, coffee's on and we've a lovely loaf! 🌞☕😻 #Caturday #Cats #CatsOfBlueSky

#NP Really good solo album from Rachel Goswell - Waves Are Universal 🎶 #musicsky #albumalmanac #vinylsky

#ArtistFave15 #musicchallenge Cocteau Twins from their Heaven or Las Vegas album onwards 🎶 🎶 3. Road, River and Rail #musicsky youtu.be/WkE39LsP9q0?...

Para la tarde.

#ArtistFave15 #musicchallenge Cocteau Twins from their Heaven or Las Vegas album onwards 🎶 🎶 4. Frou-Frou Foxes In Midsummer Fires #musicsky youtu.be/qgffvFM1J-Q?...

Re my previous post ⏬⏬ I should add that the saxophone of Alabaster DePlume on "Blue Thunder" & "Listen, the Snow is Falling" is absolutely beautiful. What a talent this guy is 🎶🎷 This really deserves a physical release 🙏

This ⏬ 🎶🙏 Laetitia Sadler singing Galaxie 500 classics with Damon & Naomi is the perfect start to any day! A pay what you wish bandcamp exclusive... And that trombone !! #musicsky #albumalmanac #weekendsingles #vinylsky

#ArtistFave15 #musicchallenge Cocteau Twins from their Heaven or Las Vegas album onwards 🎶 🎶 5. Half-Gifts (Twinlights EP version) #musicsky youtu.be/PC80uSAh3uY?...

#ArtistFave15 #musicchallenge Cocteau Twins from their Heaven or Las Vegas album onwards 🎶 🎶 6. Theft, and Wandering Around Lost #musicsky youtu.be/OkH8Q8BnKSQ?...

#FoundItInADrawer 2. The Wild Swans badges and envelope 🎶🦢 If you've never heard the Wild Swans give their "Incandescent" album a listen. They could and should have been massive! #musicsky #albumalmanac

#FoundItInADrawer I was clearing out a drawer earlier & found a couple of things that may be of interest? 1. Eastbourne Town FC Ultras stickers ⚽ #NonLeague #Football #musicsky #TG⚡ @punkandnewwave.bsky.social @scotspostpunk.bsky.social