if you’re wondering what TV & radio would look like without the bbc if the right had its way, picture the state of our privatised rivers & seas, but instead it’s raw sewage pumped into your telly & speakers

Possibly shoddier?

A great set from Fire Blanket yesterday at CYCM. @fcunitedmcr.bsky.social @theoddies.bsky.social youtu.be/yfzf2jzekoI

Next up is Severe Girls on the 15th at CYCM.

Egg Fest. Pink Room. Yobs, Hyperdog, Prison Affair. @yes_mcr #sourgrapes #eggfest

Egg Fest. Basement. Piss Rules, Dead Stilettos, Couchgagzzz. @yes_mcr #sourgrapes #eggfest

Finally got to see Ye Nuns last Saturday. Have had the LP on Tuff Enuff Records for years, but they were elusive live. Set list (presumably amended from their @upset-the-rhythm.bsky.social show) was kindly donated by @gigticket.bsky.social

The next issue of my In The April Sun zine is v. v. nearly done. I think it's gonna run to 56 pages this time, and 51 pages are finished, bar a gargantuan proof-read. As a teaser, here is one page of the six-page review of @glasgoespop.bsky.social

Give Fire Blanket a blast before they play CYCM at the weekend. New single, Live Laugh Love is pay what you can on Bandcamp. fire-blanket.bandcamp.com/album/live-l...

@skepwax.bsky.social Please share with Sassyhiya.

www.rspca.org.uk/getinvolved/... Fed up with this annual shithousery? I am.

I'm selling some of my record collection to pay bills as times are tough. Please take a look or consider reposting, thanks chaps x

Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind, in charge of running an entire county, is currently giving a speech railing against "unqualified" politicians being put in charge of Government departments

Leave this cesspit @fcunitedmcr.bsky.social

JT Soar Fest Day Two. A bit skinny on the pics. Buffet Lunch and 100 Flowers. Both all-tmers for me. Not least because 100 Flowers did (the obvious) two Urinals songs as a phantom encore.

Probably in the queue to get into the airport.

In a pub in Nottingham and the conversation I've just tuned into is an American woman giving advice on how to best exploit chickens. Domestically, not commercially

Day One of JT Soar Fest. Jenn & Ye Nuns, Ye Nuns and booty.

Day One at JT Soar Fest. Big Break, Grazia, Stuart Pearce. 2 of 3.

Day One at JT Soar Fest. Rota, amendments, TV Crime, Jeuce. 1/2.

"My Grandma would want me to fight them." I have loved Lynda Barry cartoons for 40 years. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

You can pick up Signed ltd Vinyl / CD’s of ‘Emily’s Song’ / ‘It’s in the Papers’ in person, exclusively at Vinyl Revival, Hilton St, Mcr & @waxandbeans.bsky.social Bury (where @ventrellestheband.bsky.social play a SOLD OUT stripped back set tommorrow) or order from our online shop lnk.to/ventrelles

Bernard Manning.

"The Permissive Age".

Post a perfect LP from 1989. It was either this or Houserockin' by The Gories. Killdozer - 12 Point Buck.

Looking good. Thanks.

Thanks to the wonderful Ventrelles for playing Malcolmses on Saturday. Check their new single Emily's Song. youtu.be/Ka4eul9rt50

Big thanks to playwright and poet, Rory Aaron, who stepped up at short notice to read his poems for us at Malcolmses on Saturday. youtu.be/2b7fn7VINGg

To celebrate the release of ‘Emily’s Song’ @ventrelles.bsky.social play a stripped back set @waxandbeans.bsky.social on Sunday 2nd Nov at 3pm, tickets, admission is free, but you can reserve you place here www.waxandbeans.co.uk/collections/...

Share the last movie you watched.

Just been reminded of this universe-breaking TV moment from 1987 (or maybe '88). Saturday morning UK kids show Get Fresh, hosted by Gaz Top and Charlotte Hindle, with guests Cliff Richard, Shakin' Stevens, Alvin Stardust, and the Zelig of comics, Mr Alan Moore. Plus the dog from Eastenders.

Shame about Dave Ball. Cracking open the first two Soft Cell records this afternoon.

If you're still reading... So, doors at one. Mystery spoken word guest star at 13.55. Ventrelles at 14.15. Stage dismantled so we can go and watch the game and that little kid can access the bogs round about 14.45.

We’ll have the usual mix of stodge and liquid on Saturday. Rose is cooking pies; cheese or tater hash. Stu is cooking peas; mushy. Lynette is cooking muffins; flavour TBC. And there will be some ale going on. Forget your season ticket, it’s a cup game....

FC United x Bamber Bridge – FA Trophy. So, normally we’d be saying this long shot punt at the FA Trophy is our long shot punt at glory. But it’s not, is it? We’re doing the du, we’re bop bam a looma a bop bam booing in the league. And if we can stick some goals in, the world is our Oyster Card....

Krispy Mach Dirty

@jslovechild.bsky.social Here's one for you. I follow this fantastic retro fashion blog: lizeggleston.com/2025/10/21/a... and today they've put up a bunch of photos from 1970. It's presumably a retro steam engine station, but any ideas where?

Nice that you got to work with yr mam.

Playing early doors at @fcunitedmcr.bsky.social @theoddies.bsky.social this Saturday. New single is a 21st Century classic.

Daft question but raised due to @astroHQ Is the left speaker as you look at it? Or is it stage left? Stereo Phase Test suggests the latter, but they could just be taking the astro piss.

Join me and wee Paddy stage right in the SMRE.

I really miss the beautiful mess that was Indietracks.

“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

the US government has arrived on bluesky

Be safe out there today

LONDON! TODAY! 3PM! The last show of our UK tour!

Prepping for tomorrow

London! Our last UK show for this tour is tomorrow, Saturday 18 October at 3pm at Dash The Henge! Come wish us bon voyage & dig a FREE afternoon session of The Perennial Sound!