I’m doing Frome FM’s Live Vinyl Hour at 6pm. You have been warned. @fromefm.bsky.social 96.6FM in the Frome area or online at www.frome.fm

As a race we are doomed.

Folk session at #Frome #CheeseAndGrain tonight. First night out of the festive period.

Good turnout on the #FromeCTC Christmas mince pie run this morning. The early morning pint isn’t mine: someone’s discard from the night before.

There really is a Wetherspoons pubs edition of Top Trumps.

Does anyone else have 480km left to cycle before New Year in order to hit their yearly distance target? Or more?

Daughter is nineteen today. She has a five hour criminology exam and then she’s going to Cardiff to see Madness. Sounds exhausting.

Looking through some pictures of when I used to be in a band. Fifteen years on the necklace has gone and I’ve lost a couple stone but I still have the same hairstyle.

Started the day by dropping my wife’s phone and breaking the screen. Let’s see where it goes from here.

I look fairly chipper considering I am permanently unable to smile on demand.

My ten minutes of fame were fairly early on in my life.

At 6pm on Saturday 13 December on FromeFM i will be playing Carmina Burana by Ray Mazarek. As Ray was keyboardist for The Doors fir the rest of the time i will play some tracks from Strange Days, Doors 2nd album. Listen on 96.6FM around Frome or online at frome.fm @fromefm.bsky.social

Thanks @juliancrawley.bsky.social on @fromefm.bsky.social for playing "No1 Wheel" on his show last night. Available on Mixcloud below. Some fantastic instrumental gear from about 30-45 mins in. Meanwhile "No1 Wheel" is available at ojnojn.bandcamp.com

It’s that time of year again when I can’t play any records by rock artists with names beginning with the letters M, N, O or P.

My last @fromefm.bsky.social radio show of 2025. Big thanks to @ravesfromthegrave.bsky.social for sponsoring the show for another year. Go buy a record from them! www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/321-...

The South of Bucks Winter Warmer’ @audaxuk.bsky.social today. Wouldn’t rush to do this one again: too much traffic and too many angry drivers. Reminded me of some of the reasons why I moved to Somerset.

Staying at my sister’s so I’m closer to the start of the 200k @audaxuk.bsky.social ride that I’m cycling tomorrow. Currently the weather outside is appalling. Still; preparation is going well.

Cobbled another one together. @fromefm.bsky.social @ravesfromthegrave.bsky.social www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/320-...

The building on the cover of #PhisicalGraffiti, photographed by my sister Ellie when she was in New York a few months ago.

Chilly start this morning. #FromeCTC.

Yeah. We shop at #Lidl.

Thinking of opening next week’s radio show with the opening track. Trouble is it requires a prerequisite of two to three pints and a glass of wine to fully appreciate it.

Does anyone else regularly get accused of being a music snob by their partner?

My @fromefm.bsky.social show from last night. Beefheart, Zappa, Geesin… everything you need to soundtrack your Friday work day. Show sponsored by @ravesfromthegrave.bsky.social www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/319-...

Hi here at Sinners Music records We will also be giving away our yearly Seven Deadly Sinners album volume 3 on the 1st December it will only be available on Bandcamp and this year includes, The Stray Field, Ranzee, Tony Imperatrice, Ramshackle, The Azimuth Tilt + sinnersmusicuk.bandcamp.com

#MikArtistik at the #TreeHouse #Frome.

This week’s @fromefm.bsky.social show features Frome’s own street band, the Frome Street Bandits. They’re playing at the Frome Christmas light switch on tonight: even though it’s only November. www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/318-...

In other news, in an attempt to combat persistent shoulder pain I have moved by bicycle saddle rearward by 2.5mm. Now in a state of abject turmoil trying to decide if overall it’s better or worse. You non-cyclists just don’t know how lucky you are.

This record is utterly brilliant but I can only describe listening to it as something akin to doing half a dozen rounds against Mike Tyson… or whoever the modern day equivalent boxer is.

www.youtube.com/shorts/KQxHQ... you won’t find this album on Spotify

Once again it’s that time of the week when I implore you to listen to my latest @fromefm.bsky.social community radio show, sponsored by @ravesfromthegrave.bsky.social www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/317-...

Cycling rabble.

This is me in 1984 at Romford skatepark in Essex. We travelled there from Chesham to see BMX freestyle inventor Bob Haro who was over from the US. There were rain showers all day so the concrete was very slippery.

I may never sleep again but it will be worth it.

Checking out the #Longleat #FestivalOfLight on last night’s #ProntoBikes night ride. We were soon moved on…

More rebellious capers from @fromefm.bsky.social www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/316-...

Tom Rickey asked me to bring along some of my fave records for his @fromefm.bsky.social show Mixed Bag last week - so I did! Ha ha, that’ll learn him 😁 … www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/15-m...

ᴛʀᴀɴsᴍɪssɪᴏɴ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ᴍᴏᴛʜᴇʀ: The Dark Train will depart UFO Central [Warminster Community Radio] y Radio MINERVA en Sudamérica at 2200 GMT/1900 ART on Moonday evening. ᴏᴠᴇʀ ᴀɴᴅ ᴏᴜᴛ… 👽🍄👽

Mr Pickwick’s Cymraeg Cyrch 210km @audaxuk.bsky.social today, organiser : Black Sheep Audax. Tewkesbury to Talybont on Usk. 2200m elevation. 3 rain showers. Good checkpoints. Elapsed time 10hrs 35. Off road section at Symonds Yat was fun on the way out but a bone rattling ballsache on the return.

Meanwhile, if you’re not in a pub in #Tewkesbury, you could always give this a listen: www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/315-...

#AnitaCrawley and I are in Tewkesbury for the weekend. She’s doing the park run in the morning and I’m cycling to the Brecon Beacons and back. Currently undergoing fitness preparation in Wetherspoons.

Tonight’s @fromefm.bsky.social Rebellious Jukebox show is live from the FromeFM studio and is going out right now!

Don't miss Dramakarma's world premiere of the radio play, The Last Matron on Wednesday 29th October from 8-10pm on Frome.fm & 96.6FM A play about the Keyford asylum based on real events and discovered diaries

I am a failed drain unblocker.

Better… although if Hendrix had not gone before…

Hadn’t played this for thirty years or more. It’s better than I remember… a bit. A budget release: they could have at least bothered to get the picture the right way round.

Last night’s @fromefm.bsky.social Rebellious Jukebox show. I interview Somerset based musician Tim Hill. If you like Sun Ra… www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/314-...

Twenty-three!

Interview with Somerset based musician Tim Hill on my @fromefm.bsky.social Rebellious Jukebox show at 8.00pm tonight. brazenhead1.bandcamp.com/album/somers...