Well, now. There’s a thing.

RIP David Hockney

For fridge-door-storage-related reasons, I have accidentally invented dill pickle-flavoured salad cream, and I do *not* have a problem with it.

New release! With songs by @ronsexsmith.bsky.social, Joy Division (that one) and elbow (not that one!) - available at all good streaming outlets.

Spearmint have a single out today called “1986” which might prompt twinges of nostalgia in people over the age of 50, or might not. I produced it and played bass, innit. Album imminent! youtu.be/r8OQowTmBik?...

Gig alert! Chaps Choir present ‘Songs to Fuel Your Heart’ at Grand Junction W2 Thursday 2nd July 8pm Let us sing you into the summer at this incredible venue in West London. Tickets available from www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Lon...

I’d forgotten this, again. That tent was *really* rammed.

Your actual Rilo Kiley, there.

Don’t head to Kentish Town often these days, but it’s refreshing to see that the £7 falafel wraps from E.Mono still absolutely *slap*.

Was so, so impressed by Backrooms, knowing v little going in. The found footagey/liminal spacesy/dreams-corridors-dream stuff was much more interesting than the vague attempt to introduce an explanation, but it’s still horror that’s much more about vibes than exposition; fantastic ending, too.

Backrooms (2026)

"It is literally so boring for me, a gorgeous genius, to keep having to yap on about how horribly I am treated because of my body" is such a banging quote www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wrote for the FT on lost music venues, the subject of a new exhibition at the V&A: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Completely blown away by Aldous Harding at Barbican tonight. For various reasons, I’ve failed to see her up until this point, and it was every bit as life-improvingly good as I’d hoped.

It’s a stupidly high bar but I believe this to be Craig Brown’s finest work

Tonight’s gig: THREE top acts, and AIR CONDITIONING.

I reviewed the new Boards Of Canada LP for @mojomagazine.bsky.social and embraced the profound dystopian unease therein. www.mojo4music.com/articles/new...

Spoiled rotten.

This feels… actionable?

“Who is realistically going to make the leap from non-reader straight into a lengthy tome about the people and activities relating to the longest-running case at Chancery (number 12)”

Probably going to melt, lads.

Ok, I’ll bite. Stereolab (same) Rush (same) Motörhead Soundgarden The Moody Blues Sparklehorse Big Star Kate & Anna McGarrigle Shellac (many, many times) (still hurts) Beastie Boys

Camus, it turns out, really CAN do

Just finished Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. It’s not very original to observe this, but holy cow, it’s a masterpiece. It’s at once a very serious book about war and PTSD/trauma, and extremely funny, compassionate, and joyful. What an omission that it wasn’t in the Guardian best novels list

Every Reform UK Councillor that has gone, with reasons. This is superb:

It is Super Furry Animals day. That is all.

Just so we’re clear, is this a franchise reboot of a spoof series that was largely spoofing a film that was a pastiche in the first place?

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap

That was vintage #Eurovision

Says he’s Italian, but I’m getting more of a Grecian (2000) vibe #Eurovision

Oh no, it’s a living statue. #Eurovision

Big 90s rap-rock energy here #Eurovision

Yup, still love this. Eurovision Will Eat Itself.

Now that is more like it. #Eurovision

What, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck? #Eurovision

3/3 absolute cobblers so far, but Belgium seems promising. #Eurovision

Bit pitchy. #Eurovision

Drowning my Streeting resignation sorrows

Fiasco, Porto. May never leave, tbqhwy.

Good to see @andrewmale.bsky.social being on-point about the handling of old BBC material online and reflecting the Written Archives access campaign in his latest column for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social . The BBC gives with one hand, and takes with the other...

Came to Porto. Quite Good so far, IMHO.

Even by my standards, arriving at the airport more than three hours early for the (short-haul) flight has to be some sort of record.

SUCH a drama queen. Happy Ewa-day to all who celebrate.

evangelicals have finally created. the golden calf. from the classic bible story “don’t create a golden calf”

hey, an extremely Reform-y ward just elected this guy

Ok this is amazing