Doing A Thing next Sun (the wisdom of which TBC) wegottickets.com/event/683908/

Only a couple of months after the man himself appeared, here I am on Word In Your Ear talking to David Hepworth and Mark Ellen about the book and all things Peter Hammill and VdGG! (Apologies if it looks like I'm particularly fascinated by my keyboard throughout!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GIv...

YEAH YEAH ALRIGHT MUSH DONT BANG ON

YEAH YEAH ALRIGHT MUSH DONT BANG ON

“a thing of yogurt”

Really enjoyed reviewing this

Really enjoyed reviewing this

Loved this ep on The Broons podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

Sad to report that The Cat was right: is not a very good book at all.

*edged* (h/t @louisebrown.bsky.social)

Amadeus is a Christmas movie

Leaving some snacks out for the ghosts…

Leaving some snacks out for the ghosts…

Dear Hearts can you help us get up to 2,000 subscribers? Spread the word, gift a sub, let your insanely rich mate who owns a private island that he could do with taking out 20 subscriptions... It's what will secure our future for the following year. Bless up.

“This time they’ve had their jabs…”

Halls *decked*

Potentially nice / definitely interesting charity shop find…

Bill Callahan / Joanna Newsom triptych

Am going through a heavy Third Album Phase & wonder why Lou didn’t get Doug to sing I’m Set Free. Would’ve been as good a fit as Candy Says. (Am still glad he didn’t, mind.) youtu.be/B_uWjT9bMJ4

@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social was it you who was trying to remember a Bellow passage about the Lake/darkness/A.N. Other Thing? (And is this it?)

This is probably the most banging reissues etc. chart we’ve published so far… but what is number one and was there even room for us to make one up this time? All this & more… ln1k in 🧵

Old notes for Uptight, May 20—

Quick summary with a few hours left of Bandcamp Friday! Buy IN THE APRIL SUN, buy THE ZINE IN BETWEEN and buy LOWLANDS! Oh and buy Mirror Skies by @goodbyeacademy.bsky.social and the Neuclouds LP from @shopfiresmusic.bsky.social! And the new @lovejoy-official.bsky.social! And and and and

Old notes for Uptight, May 20—

New VU book forthcoming w/ a bunch of cool unseen pics of the band at the Boston Tea Party, 1967-69. [email protected]

Sunday at 7pm, untidyradio.com

Great to see that it looks like they’re going back to the original cover art…

My copy of Murdoch’s The Bell had an earlier life as a library copy labelled “reading group pack” I bought it in a charity shop and benefit from someone’s analysis scribbled in pencil in it. Lovely.

Cameron Winter at the Roundhouse was one of the best gigs I’ve seen in YEARS (maybe even best since Mark Eitzel @ Bush Hall in 2017). Just fantastic.

Ordering American Music Club’s Everclear demos on Discogs only for their ex-manager to knock on my door to hand deliver the cd an hour later (“I noticed I’d be passing your flat…”)

I endorse the below (with extreme prejudice)

Busy day of Twickets surveillance ahead, trying to outdraw other hapless saps for Cameron Winter tickets… (sigh)

Turns out I love this youtu.be/57rrac0EfkI

Mornin.

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Always knew this day would come…

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I’m doing a thing / having a midlife crisis… wegottickets.com/event/683908/

Ace ep on Lou Reed n John Cale’s Songs for Drella podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

Same vibes…

Ace ep on Lou Reed n John Cale’s Songs for Drella podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

Same vibes…

Cannot over stress how much I HATED this adaptation…

Tres gut second-hand haul…

Woke in the early hours to a R4 adaptation of The Good Soldier in which Dowell seemed to *murder* Leonora. But hopefully it was just a horrible horrible nightmare…

From this Sunday at 7pm onwards I'll be hosting a regular show on @untidyradio.bsky.social. I'll be playing indie pop & adjacent stuff & am, as always, here to help if you have jangly stuff to share. The first show features The Felt Tips, Hazelene, The Lovely Basement, Armstrong, R.M.F.C & others x

So long, then, Guermantes Way and your interminable SALONS…

Not a bad little inscription found inside second-hand copy of Brain Biochemistry by H.S. Bachelard: "LRM 15/12/76 Not a bad little year" bookdedications.co.uk/brain-bioche...

Idea for horror movie trilogy: The Monkey’s Paw - including two prequels detailing the first 6 wishes.