I hardly ever check Amazon reviews. I'd *never* checked Audible. But I did tonight. A Dutch man gave me 5/5 but wrote 'Passion overflowing...pompous, droning sentences with the baritone bass voice of the writer spanning an eternity of drone.. resonance and futurism… loved every minute of it!' 😂

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One from the archives. Alex Cox interview (Vice, 2015) www.vice.com/en/article/a...

Kerbdog deserved so much more. I simply don't understand why they - and, also, Baby Chaos - weren't absolutely massive and yet i.e the Foo Fighters were? It's bizarre. Great bands, in that world, at that time. The one's that got away, for sure...

#nowplaying Motörhead ‘Bastards’ (1993) Absolute killer album. This was Lemmy’s favourite Motörhead record of all. Shame it was released when they were at their least popular because it’s a total rock n’ roll *beast* of an LP.

Cherry Hinton Pits, Cambridge A strange, slightly alien landscape.

Hereditary. Not sure why but there’s something oddly ‘tainted’ about it. Watched it on a tiny screen on a flight to New York and it stayed with me for the entire trip, in a really unpleasant way. Brilliant film though.

I have never/will never use any kind of transcription service. Listening back and transcribing by hand lets you form the bones of a piece in your head- and really listen - without the pressure on the day of steering/thinking three steps ahead. Important part of the process, imo.

Looks like the results of a Belorussian faceswap app from 2014

Ozzy Osbourne once had a cat called ‘STAFFORDSHIRE’. It doesn’t get more Tap than that, does it? Not even CERN could create anything more Tap than that.

The endless hours I spend charging our EV around East Anglia starting to feel slightly less irritating….

YES New Slift coming soon.... slift.bandcamp.com/album/fantas...

Has anyone else noticed the whole backstory to Threads is a US invasion of Iran?

On this month episode me and my special guest Ryan Rebalkin (Directors Chair Network) tackle Peckinpah's most famous film and the one that solidified him as "Bloody" Sam. It is,of course, "The Wild Bunch" open.spotify.com/show/5XEwQd8...

As an ex-Yugoslav I can say that the theory that the State was behind ex-Yu rock'n'roll is not at all crazy.

The book content on Bluesky is worth the admission price alone.

The wonderful magical author David Keenan @reversediorama.bsky.social photographed in Islington North London. David’s latest book Boyhood is going to be published by @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social @leebrackstone.bsky.social on the 9th April this year. Interview with @joemuggs.bsky.social on the way

Consider this: coming on Friday ay 7.30pm to the Cambridge Leper Chapel to hear some stories by and about the lesser known horror writer, Frederick Cowles (1900 - 1947). Including a story set in the Leper Chapel itself... tickets here cowlescambridge.eventbrite.co.uk

'Inspired by Crass and Discharge as much as they were by Slayer and Black Sabbath, Bolt Thrower were pivotal in bridging the gap between hardcore punk and thrash metal in the late 80s...' The Strange World Of #BoltThrower - #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/6Vu1ht3

Maiden at West Ham last year surrounded by mad Italians and Brazilians who’d flown in specifically. It was my eldest 17th birthday and he’s as much of a Maiden obsessive as me. Truly electric atmosphere.

Brendan Glesson is 71. Colin Farrell, newly sober, on first meeting Gleeson: ‘He said ‘willya have a drink?’ & opened his hotel fridge ‘I’ve still or sparkling’. In that moment, I fell in love with him as he had gone out & bought them. I thought ‘that’s a fella who’ll look after you’

Not horror or sci-fi, but one of my favorite movies. 45 years ago today, The Long Good Friday (1981) was released in theaters in the UK., the U.S. release was a year later. Bob Hoskins gives an acting master class in the last scene without saying a word. Pierce Brosnan’s film debut. #HandmadeFilms

Ultimate- *ultimate* - Partridge final boss quote from Richard Keys in the Telegraph today. @luketurner.bsky.social @matcolegate.bsky.social @william-doyle.co.uk

He hears you laughter from the kitchen: "I'm glad it's funny working here. I'm glad that we're all having a nice time in my kitchen. But I wonder when are we going to stop having that 'nice time' and you start showing me the excellence that I'm paying you for. What do you think?"

Every year the same. Clocks go back/forward - *time itself manipulated*- ‘for farmer’. And every year the farmer next door asleep. Luxuriating in slumber! Basking in idleness; stewing in nod. His fields fallow; livestock unattended; his fine machines rusting. RISE, MAN! Sew, gather, *make hay*

m.youtube.com/watch?v=nxYl... Feel like @harrysword.bsky.social will enjoy this one, for some reason

Marcus Wareing is sheer SBS. Waiting - only his camouflaged eyes showing - in a malarial Amazonian swamp to garrotte a rogue ambassador; short shorts; hold breath for 15 minutes; able to slow heart rate down at will; silent; little backpack with a deliberately wrong map and a bottle of J&B; *silent*

i LOVE them. I love the story about them accidentally knicking a riff from the Cosmic Psychos, then giving Knighty a writing credit because they're decent people, and then said riff wasmsampled by The Prodigy, so Knighty a chunk of change right out of nowhere.

Yes because *checks notes* 2020 really was a famously happy time of great prosperity and all round sanity…

I think this is absolutely fair enough (and I say that as someone with three kids). Up to the landlord. Loads of pubs are very ‘family’ focused- not all need to be. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Thou shalt not dance to James Brown Thou shalt not cast ones gaze upon Picassos Le Rève Thou must press stop before the last song on Rubber Soul Thou must not revell in the comedic beauty of the lobster scene in Annie Hall

More news: see the DJ everyone's talking about (Tia Cousins, not me), Belfast's hotly-tipped Deeply Armed, Chris Rotter's new excursion Dolphin, one of the country's finest writers (David Keenan and his Manifesto of Bliss) and some bloke called Tim Murray thesocial.seetickets.com/event/this-i...

Oh absolutely. That’s the reason I melted all my Miles Davis records and threw my Burroughs and Lovecraft into the sea while flogging myself in penance. Only ever read books by *nice* people- and people with the correct politics! This is in no way a childlike philosophy of ludicrous philistinism.

Amazing thread.

Happy birthday Elton John

L7 are such a killer band. Never understood the grunge/alternative tag they got saddled with, though. They were almost as Motörhead as Motörhead!

Just ‘done a wash’ with all tissues in the pockets like a fucking idiot from 1989

"I was always into SAturday Night Fever/John Travolta" Big Early Stuff vibes from this early stuff ad #earlystuff

Yay, Marshall Allen. Yay Terry Riley. Nearly two centuries of dedicated musicianship and groovy hat wearing between them.

Perfection. Masters of the form making pristine, deep as you like D&B that last 11 minutes. It used to happen. It’s happening again. Lovely. youtu.be/Iu-WG5N4uTU?...

One might point out that Bluesky is going to shit with all the lib-leftist agonism etc but otoh it makes it a bit more interesting. When I first joined it was a rather dull echo-chamber, all the refugees from X in kumbaya unity. Good to see some heated debate.

Waffles for lunch, & some beer. And a small mountain of butter! Fine menu selection from Georg Flegel, d. OTD 1638.

Strong ‘battle of Stalingrad’ energy from A.Kiedis here. Gutting a horse to keep warm etc eaten his shoes; Pervitin running low.

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J.G. Ballard interview from Friends 17, 30 October 1970. Just that last paragraph alone is so ridiculously prescient of our current state of being...