Goodbye to our cat Alfie, who left us last night far too soon and suddenly.

Many thanks to @trustthedoc.bsky.social for the lovely write-up! The Electric She EP (including The Need To Be Amazingly Vainglorious, plus extended version on Bandcamp) is out now. Read all about it at mabno.co.uk/kjkmusic/ele... demerararecords.com/trust-the-doc/

From the Electric She EP, out now on Bandcamp (with bonus tracks), everywhere else as and when this week (with sod all bonus tracks). Listen to The Need to be Amazingly Vainglorious by Kerry JK on #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/kzXbQpwtUCR0...

My new four track EP is now up on Bandcamp, other streaming platforms to follow this week. The BC version has extras (full extended version of TNTBAVG and instrumental versions of all the above), everywhere else gets the standard four tracks. kerryjk.bandcamp.com/album/electr...

Mine would have been from a box of 7" singles my parents had from the 60s. The three I remember were Adam Faith - What Do You Want, Rolling Stones - All Over Now and Tommy Bruce & the Bruisers - Ain't Misbehavin'.

Garbage's Shirley Manson on the terrible new reality facing up and coming bands, which turns out to be my standard experience of touring over the years. Source: Chart-topping band can't afford to tour anymore due to 'thievery of the record industry' | Metro News metro.co.uk/2025/09/22/c...

After way too long (over 3 years!) I finally have new music almost ready for release. The album Ballyhoodunnit will be done next year, heralded soon with a 5 track EP. Here's the draft artwork for the EP - still working on the concept, but I seem to have developed a taste for punny titles.

Though often trotted out as an overused vintage pop culture trope, how many double acts with improbably complementary surnames (Thing and Related Thing) were there actually? I can only think of four: Cannon & Ball Little & Large Hinge &Bracket (Mr) Flotsam and (Mr) Jetsam Who have I missed?

RIP to a giant. Always uplifting, always cool as F, no-one ever owned an instrument like he did the vibes. Poo Poo La La means we love you, Roy. youtu.be/HctjU8ixz6s?...

5 things I've learned over time. What are yours? --- 1 - Dreams & ambitions are different things. 2 - Make your mistakes early. 3 - The best revenge is to do it anyway. 4 - If art can't be problematic, it can't be art. 5 - Put your demons where you can see them (see 4).

Having downloaded my archive from the House that Elon Wrecked I've been going through the media folder finding random stuff I'd posted completely out of context. Apparently at some point this was called for.

5PM 14Dec TTDRadio #ExileFM @platronic.bsky.social @kiffie8.bsky.social @somehappything.bsky.social @skinnyboytunes.bsky.social @musicofsound.bsky.social @marblestars.bsky.social @thejojomanband.bsky.social #CallMeD #alienalarms @the18thmusician.bsky.social @john-serrano.bsky.social #fractured

5PM Sat30Nov #TrustTheDocRadio #ExileFM ft @thegreatleslie.bsky.social @rogerburkemusic.bsky.social #LoveGhost x #Skold #KEG #Bradford #TheHarpoonist @the18thmusician.bsky.social @michelleward.bsky.social #ProjectBlackbird @john-serrano #VickramBhamra #madilhardis @petedx11.bsky.social. exilefm.com

Damn, they're on to my illicit ladder and lampshade distribution ring.

Post you from a different era 🤓🤘🏽

The first Fresh On The Net ‘Eclectic Interviews’ are here. Lots more to come. @platinummind.bsky.social freshonthenet.co.uk/2024/11/ecle...

I've not released much music lately - basically busy with real life and learning to be a fitness/aqua trainer. Lots of WIP, will finish something eventually. For now, here's an aerobics-orientated remix of the song that got me on national radio. distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

In response to OpenAI’s recent ‘A Student’s Guide to Writing with ChatGPT’, Arthur Perret (maître de conferénces, Jean Moulin Lyon 3) writes a line-by-line rebuttal — A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT www.arthurperret.fr/blog/2024-11...

It is finished! #ifyouknowyouknow

This album is indeed boss.

if you're lgbt, if you're black or hispanic or muslim, if you're a woman, if you're part of any sort of marginalized group it's the most unfair thing that you have to keep fighting but I beg you please be brave please be safe please try to survive

Well, America has spoken. It took 241 years, but absolute power finds a way back eventually.

When I was tasked with getting a cohort of BA pop music students to practice, I organised all this into something called MoPToP, breaking practice into a cycle of Mental, Physical, Technical and Performative stages. It works with non-music pursuits too. mabno.wordpress.com/2019/05/02/m...

Writin' time! Do you need conflict ideas? The duck's got you covered.

Sheet music for John Stump’s apparently unplayable “Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz.” Watch it being played here youtu.be/sCgT94A7WgI

Ten video #games to know me (in no specific order!): 1. No-one Lives Forever (1&2) 2. Xain D'Sleena 3. Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion 4. Street Fighter 2 (in a seafront arcade) 5. WWF Wrestlefest 6.Toobin' 7. PangYa 8. Chocks Away 9. Half-Life (entire series & spinoffs) 10. Fallout 3 (+New Vegas)

freshonthenet.co.uk/2024/06/batc... The FOTN listening post is packed full of great tunes come and vote on your favourite track! #newmusic

#LetsGetAcquainted #MusicChallenge Day 22: A song you like from the 80's Beggar & Co. - Mule (Chant no. 2) A banger, but missing from their Spotify discography. Apparently it was a bit of a shock when Wham's horn section moved to this subject matter. youtu.be/3X1HYtLtR_w?...

#LetsGetAcquainted #MusicChallenge Day 21: A song you would sing on LIP SYNC BATTLE. Exotic Adrian Street and the Pile Drivers - Imagine What I Could Do To You (I've thought of something already) youtu.be/8lPxjZ3V17A?...

A few years back I wrote a series of novels under an alias basically to learn from mistakes and see what I could actually do. They are what they are, but built the world I'm now trying to write into something I can put my name to...

Sadly missed. ♥️

#letsgetacquainted #musicchallenge Day 16 - mixtape French chill rockers Les Manteez are a hidden gem. I wanted to post Awkward As A Cow, but as it's not on their YouTube channel, thjs do nicely instead. youtu.be/Ox7wvPdlneE?...

Deep dive this channel. That is all.

My 14 favourite tracks from our inbox this week that didn't make it onto our Listening Post at Fresh On The Net. Some real gems in here: soundcloud.com/tomrobinson/...

A highlight of a recent trip to Edinburgh was the discovery of this wonderful venue filled with friendly music lovers hosting weekly recitals for free. Tonight it's piano duets from the Rose-Pastor duo, details in the events page. Wish I could be there. www.edinburghsocietyofmusicians.co.uk

#letsgetaquainted #musicchallenge #letsgetacquainted #musicchallenge Late to the party for Day 15 (covers) but this is clearly a job for Laibach, the masters at satirizing songs with context. Here's Across the Universe given Tomorrow Belongs To Me energy. youtu.be/OTQcJx7xqAc?...

🎵As I was walking on the beach one fine and sunny day I came upon a strange old box a-floatin' in the bay I fished it out and opened it up, and much to my surprise There was a great big CYBERTRUCK right before my eyes!🎵

Reading through my notebook pages and finding incomprehensible drivel I can't remember the meaning of <=> reading my old social media posts.

I'll be reviewing for the last time on Sunday/Monday for #FOTN before I slip out the back door and into a newly found freedom at the end of the month. Please drop by and pick your favourite 5 from this brilliant bunch of tracks, if you can 🎧 freshonthenet.co.uk/2024/04/batc...

Music and Business go together like Religion and Politics: 1: one party provides access to mass communication, income and influence, in exchange for cultural legitimacy and other kinds of influence brought by the other party....(1/3)

ARTISTS! BANDS! MUSIC FANS! Can you lend us your ears & expertise one last time this year to help some deserving artists find a wider audience? Please drop by our Listening Post & tell us your favourite tunes at freshonthenet.co.uk/batch513. Big love & warm thanks if you’re able to help x

Today's Wondering: If a person has a surname identifying a particular vocation (Baker, Shepherd, Mason etc.) does it prevent them from pursuing that calling? As in, oh look, John Actor's applying to RADA. Good luck with that, tryhard.

List 5 famous people you've met, but one is a lie. Cleo Laine Kendo Nagasaki Kenny Baker Toyah Wilcox Wayne Dobson

FOTN moderator & music ninja Poppy Bristow reviews our readers faves last w/e: A LESSER VERSION AMELIA COBURN ANDY SKELLAM CLEO SIMONE ELOI HIERONIMO MINIMUMS PAGLIUCA-MENA & JORGE PARDO SLO CHEETAH THE ILFORDS freshonthenet.co.uk/faves508 Photo is of Amelia Coburn, my guest in Sunderland Sun 26 Nov

Composer, DJ & FOTN moderator Dr Neil March @trustthedoc.bsky.social reviews our readers' faves at freshonthenet.co.uk/faves507 feat BLEDIG BLOOM DE WILDE EMMA GATRILL GERAINT RHYS JOCK JOE BEL NOÉ SOLANGE OWEN DUFF SKINNYBOY TUNES UNITY & ZEE ROCK Photo: Bledig. Graphic by @steveharris.bsky.social

I created some Halloween themed QR codes. A sinister little selection of 12 horror movie monsters. Recognise them all? Warning: Using your device to read the codes may lead to a poltergeist haunting...

Gorgeous moonrise last night. Taken over the fields by Sywell, Northamptonshire.