What an absolute fucking pleasure x

You've just heard Closing the Circle by Nervio Cosmico You are now hearing Sewee Sewee by Mountain Man Next up - nonsense and Secret Santa from me and Rob! MORE REALISTIC GOALS w/ me & @spennyt.bsky.social – pre-festive chat and music reformradio.co.uk

You've just heard Dorian Tapestry by Droning Cats with NRV (on @seeblueaudio.bsky.social) You are now hearing Drowning by Numbers Pt. VI by Teresa Winter Next up - we never left by @necrosferatul.bsky.social MORE REALISTIC GOALS w/ me & @spennyt.bsky.social – reformradio.co.uk

This new Sone Institute is stunning. Go get it soneinstitute.bandcamp.com/track/a-diff...

You've just heard Something to Begin With by Teresa Riemann (on @fortevilfruit.bsky.social) You are now hearing piano n mess by Home Secretary Next up - hands by Claire Rousay and More Eaze MORE REALISTIC GOALS w/ me & @spennyt.bsky.social – pre-festive chat and music reformradio.co.uk

You've just heard Bushes and Briars by Burd Ellen You are now hearing A Different Kind of Loneliness by Sone Institute Next up - How Can I Love by Daudi Matsiko (feat. Ríoghnach Connolly) @pefkin.bsky.social @spennyt.bsky.social MORE REALISTIC GOALS via reformradio.co.uk

Welcome to MORE REALISTIC GOALS! Kicking off tonight with 'Live improvisation on drum kit, hammered dulcimer+op-xy, and strudel' by Sarah Heneghan, Zebedee Budworth and Alex McLean From Compassion through algorithms volume III on @algorave.com reformradio.co.uk @spennyt.bsky.social

RIP Martin Parr

Have become obsessed with the new Novelty Island.

MORE REALISTIC GOALS returns today at 6 - me and @spennyt.bsky.social are live! Feat. @necrosferatul.bsky.social @salfordelectronics.bsky.social @fortevilfruit.bsky.social @algorave.social.toplap.org.ap.brid.gy and a lot from people not on here, which is a bit of a PR error. Ah well.

Re-ee-wind, when the crowd say go to a news agents and buy a copy of the best music magazine around. The EOY edition is always the best, this one is a smasher.

When in a rut I open Nairn's London at any page and quaff his incredible prose like whole creme eggs. He dances about architecture like others write about music, his words always reveal something. Unfortunately that thing is often the leaden realisation that I'll never write anything as good. Still.

Listen again to the latest More Realistic Goals, and read @spennyt.bsky.social's mini reviews medium.com/more-realist...

LIFE HACK: If you run out of tomatoes for your sandwich, simply run it under a tap for 30-40 seconds

Ruth Rendlesham

Screenshots from vinted where the seller has uploaded the wrong image from their phone #3 Vinyl (New with tags)

This was loads of fun - might do it again @spennyt.bsky.social

If we could we would play @nadspiro.bsky.social every show Hang on we can, we are in charge! That last track was Insectoid Saloon Now is Infinity Times Infinity Space by Fisty Kendal, on @thirdkindrecords.bsky.social Next up - Khesh by Rojin Sharafi #MOREREALISTICGOALS @spennyt.bsky.social

You have just heard (hopefully) another one on @strategictaper.bsky.social - Magic Power by Budokan Boys And this one now is Melting Your Problems in2 Choc by Robert Ridley-Shackleton Next up - Tiger’s Dream (feat. Tiger Cohen-Towell) by Daudi Matsiko #MOREREALISTICGOALS @spennyt.bsky.social

Just played a lovely one from @thenightmonitor.bsky.social called On The Track of Discovery (title track from the album), and now this is a new one from a genius that is Sone Institute called Forgiveness. Watch out, we are gonna talk now. #MOREREALISTICGOALS w/ me and @spennyt.bsky.social

That was Labour by Preston Field Audio, and now this is THE bLACK ALBUMEN, on @btlabel.bsky.social Next up, some pretty fantastic @necrosferatul.bsky.social (this one is called Drowned Thrones, Triumphant Waters) #MOREREALISTICGOALS with me and @spennyt.bsky.social - slowly getting the hang of it

You've just heard Calliopia by Jodie Lowther, and now this is This Absorbed by something's happening, a new one on @strategictaper.bsky.social #MOREREALISTICGOALS with me and @spennyt.bsky.social - proper.

AND. WE. ARE. GO. Delighted to be back - kicking off with a new one of Russian library from the very wonderful Dolly Dolly and Fogroom #MOREREALISTICGOALS with me & @spennyt.bsky.social

I've had me haircut, put on some Lynx Voodoo and cracked a can of Tizer - we are live. We have Gino D'Acampo on his favourite ways to spend an Autumn afternoon and an interesting piece about which coffee pod machine you should buy at John Lewis Bon voyage!

Suited. Booted. Back on Reform Radio. 6pm. Sunday. Rob is married now. No crisps. Maybe songs by @woodfordhalse.bsky.social, @strategictaper.bsky.social, @wormholeworld.bsky.social, @thirdkindrecords.bsky.social, @necrosferatul.bsky.social, @thetrifler.bsky.social & more who aren't on Blue Sky.

Ancient Times issue 2 is on pre-order now! Filled to the brim with stones, explorations in Avebury, poetry, alchemical revelations on Bodmin Moor and walks into Wintery landscapes. stoneclub.bigcartel.com/product/anci...

Beryl Vertue signalling

Dérives and Mortimer

Against The Grain: What’s wrong with hauntology? In The Wire 501, @robinjames.bsky.social argues that the influential cultural theory of hauntology does not account for developments in Black creative practices and music of the late 20th and early 21st centuries www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/c...

While I’m in a motorway services somewhere between Manchester and Southampton you could be listening to MORE REALISTIC GOALS on Reform Radio - it’s on now.

MOR Noire

Aqua's "Barbie Girl" is a bizarro mutation of Real McCoy's "Another Night" - both feature gravel-voiced rapguys, both blast out of deepest Mitteleuropa Discoland, both completely bang. Similar to how "Land of Make Believe" is Bucks Fizz opening an alternate reality wormhole to MJ's "Thriller".

Life gets in the way. So we bring an interlude of sorts - a show to soundtrack the roof car park at The Trafford Centre. I just made that up, its not true. The Trafford Centre bit. But you can listen to this Sunday at 6 on Reform Radio. reformradio.co.uk

Tonight at 6 x

A lot of wankers in this KR team aren't there. Fair play, best team of the year, but massive wanker energy.

Shitshow

Drink your Victory Gin and shut the fuck up

When a band makes a complex, multi-sectioned pop song, it ends up being their "Bohemian Rhapsody". SFA only really make Bohemian Rhapsodies: "Receptacle For The Respectable", "Arnofio/Glo In The Dark" and this colossal bastard -

Mood x

This is ace

Unlimited Editions: Collapsing Drums To accompany his report on Collapsing Drums in The Wire 500, Spenser Tomson explores a playlist of releases from the pandemic-born label www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

Attended a really, really, really, really, REALLY beautiful wedding on the weekend.

Happy Saturday x

Released something dark yesterday

OMG Adult World, Chesterfield

Everyone is cursing under their breath I'm a passenger, I feel close to death Hopeless situation, I have no doubt Stop the madness