Williamson’s Tunnels and the heritage centre were obviously a massive part/influence for our Flux series of Doctor Who. Would be amazing if the Who community shared this appeal widely and/or were able to help before this looming deadline. See below and please RT!

I am launching my new 6 album psych compilation 'Mr Norris Changes Brains' (Eskimo Records) at Rough Trade, Denmark St, on June 10th. I will be in conversation with David Keenan, and we'll both be signing things. There will be DJing. 5.30 - 7pm. It's FREE! Free tickets here - dice.fm/partner/roug...

Mighty grateful that the book’s gone down well. If reading the book has made you want to see me point at Sheffield buildings, join me on Sunday 15th June at 2pm for a free walking tour organised by @labiblioteka.bsky.social Only 9 spots left! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ labiblioteka.co/event/a-walk...

I may have watched every episode of PEE-WEE'S PLAYHOUSE, but I only noticed today that that J.R. "Bob" Dobbs appears in the opening sequence.

Playing I Like Trains - #Kompromat It’s probably 5 years old but just as excoriating and blissfully bleak now as it was then. #ILikeTrains #BandsWhoShouldBeMassive #HowDoYouSleepAtNight #TheTruthIs

My most listened-to Eno is his wondrous collaboration with John Cale in 1990. A tense recording not borne out by the results. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2015/09/19/w...

The bliss of going rogue. A wonderful interview with Patrick McCabe in the @irishtimes.com on the publication of GOLDENGROVE by @unboundsocials.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

I'm very pleased and not a little relieved that this fine book is published today by @unboundsocials.bsky.social . It's GOLDENGROVE the fourteenth novel by the great Patrick McCabe. uk.bookshop.org/a/2773/97818...

It's hard to be bored when your on All Fours – Miranda July's tender, irreverent, sexy literary explosion of a novel is out today in paperback! Shortlisted for the @womensprize.bsky.social for fiction, it's a book you need to experience. Join the #AllFoursGroupChat uk.bookshop.org/p/books/all-...

Thanks to @harkaway.bsky.social for pointing this one out. As he points out this is obsession with continual growth and the desire to be everything is pretty mad. The boss sounds like a complete tool. www.wired.com/story/airbnb...

I heard the Ben Jamin song in Jon Sa Trinxa's first mix of 2025 soundcloud.com/jon-sa-trinx...

One for the weekend. This art fair in Peckham looks brilliant www.peckham24.com/a-bigger-boo...

Our track of the day is Ben Jamin's Balearic take on Lay Lady Lay soundcloud.com/ben_jamin_ed...

If you read one thing today make it this piece of classic reporting from the New Yorker www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

Our Book of the Week is @harpercollins.bsky.social Uncommon Ground by @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social exploring what the countryside means to different sets of people from farmers to naturists, gamekeepers to activists.

🎧 PODCAST 🎧 Zarina Muhammad & Gabrielle de la Puente – aka @thewhitepube.bsky.social – discuss the bizarre world of contemporary art and their book POOR ARTISTS with Olivia Sudjic Listen here: lrb.me/x23

Still the best #debut lp for me, dear #vinylcommunity. 2006's Passover, by The Black Angels on @lightintheattic.bsky.social. They said everything there was to say with this album and I never considered it necessary to listen to any other of their work since. #nowspinning #vinylsky

Happy 97th birthday to Tom Lehrer, who confirmed his status as a Great Man a few years ago by releasing all his work into the public domain. tomlehrersongs.com

John Higgs has now turned his eye to #DoctorWho. In this fabulous extract from Exterminate/Regenerate, he considers #BenWheatley's snow globe and the Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis... The Story Of Doctor Who by #JohnHiggs buff.ly/JvfRUcH

Longplayer is a musical installation that will play for a millennia. Jem Finer speaks about how the differences between this challenge to our sense of human time is, perhaps unexpectedly, closely related to his work in The Pogues #JemFiner on #ThePogues and his 1000-year Longplayer buff.ly/UU2bx03

FILM PITCH: NOW DO THE SAME WITH POLYPHONIC SPREE, YOU COWARD!

So, to recap: a major publisher is releasing a nature writing book with (inaccurate) AI-created ‘woodcut’ artwork - that’s where we’re at? And even sadder is that it’s a big author - so they have the budget, but are still choosing not to give it to an illustrator. It’s just all so disappointing.

1986. Leigh Bowery in his council flat in Farrell House, a high rise block in Ronald Street, Stepney, London📸Derek Ridgers

I played this on a recent episode of my radio show @wfmu.bsky.social STREAM ▶️ wfmu.org/playlists/sh... bsky.app/profile/bewi...

They started it...

People of Bath and surrounding areas! I am doing a book talk (marking the one year anniversary of the release of Strange Things Are Happening) in Bath this Friday, at Roseberry Road Studios. I'll also be DJ'ing and The Egg are playing live. Come on down! Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/roseb...

Our pals over at Communion One are back in the building in April with another great lineup of their favourite new acts at the moment. Always a great chance to see some really excellent stuff for only a tenner. Tickets & more info: www.thesocial.com/events/april-communion-2/

Stewart, Rod - drag name 'Phyllis' #IndexoftheWeek @indexers.bsky.social

On www.rcommendr.com this week - birdnest cams, conversation as the new primary unit of culture, a 15 min film about teen influencers and the story of a magazine writer paid half a million busks for just three articles a year.

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

PREORDER: 'With Trampled by Turtles' by Alan Sparhawk Low’s Alan Sparhawk returns with a quick time follow up to his 2024 solo LP, this time working with the backing of Americana group Trampled By Turtles. @lowtheband.bsky.social @subpop.bsky.social www.normanrecords.com/records/2083...

Dexys frontman Kevin Rowland announces his memoir 'Forgive Me Father'

I love @chucktingle.bsky.social, highly rec this podcast ep! Thanks for sharing your thoughts on art! open.spotify.com/episode/3S6V...

"The next day he told me: 'Forget those other bands. Go meet the Dandy Warhols. Together we’re going to change the record business for ever and you can film us.' Within 10 minutes of meeting Dandy Warhols singer Courtney Taylor-Taylor, he told me: 'I sneeze and hits come out.'"

Sister Midnight is an absolutely hoot. Go and see it in the cinema this week. A gorgeous, mad ride. 🍿

Interview with Emma Warren, author of brilliant @faberbooks.bsky.social Dance Your Way Home now live www.rcommendr.com/emma-warren-...

Loved the Common Ground exhibition, curated by Ben Edge. Wilson art gallery, Cheltenham. Folklore-right to roam-history-landscapes. Ancient and modern. Ace.

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Thank you to the kind folk at @rcommendr.bsky.social for their unexpected but most welcome endorsement of my podcast. Can't quite believe I'm mentioned in the same article as Dorothy Baker.

Faber is reissuing The Lowlife by Alexander Baron, 8.5.25 a BANGER a young colleague snapped up our early copy (for which many thanks) I note, not unrelatedly, that this edition has a (discreet) health warning about some of the (1963...) language The older edition didn't. But this seems right

David Gentleman is 95 today.

Say what you will about #DavidLynch. I will find the time for these twelve pages @thewiremagazine.bsky.social was so kind to make a free read for all of us: reader.exacteditions.com/issues/11685...

One of the artworks Saya mentions in her interview is Shōrin-zu byōbu (松林図 屏風), or Pine Trees Screen by Hasegawa Tōhaku (長谷川 等伯) painted in the 16th century. The six panels depicts pine trees in the mist - they are said to be the first paintings of this size to depict only trees as subject matter.

An interview with the artist Sayako Sugawara has just gone up www.rcommendr.com/sayako-sugaw...

ORACLE SOUND VOLUME 4 - available to pre order this Bandcamp Friday! www.richardnorris.bandcamp.com For 20% discount, add the code 'fridayonmymind' - this weekend only!

In our interview with Elijah Minelli he talks about how he is currently listening to the street musician and outsider artist. Amazing little 8 moin film about her here www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrEc...

When people think about the 60s all the attention goes to the music – all the other stuff about different ways of living - being kind to the planet and people - gets overlooked. An archive of the other stuff as catalogued in the Whole Earth Review is now online wholeearth.info. It is amazing.