So as promised @philk282.bsky.social here’s my 25 albums from 2000/20025. Usual suspects, and I’ve probably missed some favs out. #musicsky #skymusic

#WeekendSingles Thin Yoghurts.

Santa knows me too well. 🖤

#RIP John Robertson, thanks for the memories. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 youtu.be/YveA4xqfA9w?...

Merry Christmas everyone, cheers…. 🎅 🎄🎅🎄

#Nowplaying DjRUM - Under Tangled Silence. Goes really well with prepping veg for hours. 😄 open.spotify.com/album/1bMzS9...

Guess I’d better go and get some Xmas pressies. 🎅

Remembering Joe Strummer, who left us this day 22/12/02. 🖤

#RIP Chris Rea. I had him in my headlights once, after a Mogwai gig in Newcastle in 2006. #randomstories

My mam watching the cheetahs on Kingdom, “I had a coat like that, until someone cut it up” Me…. 😳

#WeekendSingles Have a great day folks….

Remembering Tracy Pew. 🖤 Born #otd 19/12/57 📷 Peter Anderson.

#adventsingles 🎅

That was quick service. 👍

Albums I’ve enjoyed in 2025.

F*ck my HAT! Geese nailing Marquee Moon. 😱💥 Emily Green nailing Lloyd’s guitar parts… astounding. Woah. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLrz...

#adventsingles 🐇

Simple Minds. #SimpleMindsTop30 Doubling up from the same single. youtu.be/EKq-NCvBzuo?... youtu.be/t6v9PsvtcUo?...

Mark Stewart and the Maffia - Jerusalem. 🖤 #adventsingles youtu.be/dZa-OAF0unk?...

Sleepy Saturday afternoon vibes Tacoma Radar. 🖤 youtu.be/fzlMxXlPsGI?...

Simple Minds - Life In A Day. #SimpleMindsTop30 youtu.be/EV1Qmi6-QJ0?...

Wah! featuring a wonderful rendition of Johnny Thunders, You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory. 🖤 #adventsingles

Simple Minds - Sons and Fascination. 🖤 #SimpleMindsTop30 youtu.be/FTM9hAa_zis?...

History in the making, as I walk out of the first ever football match in my life, before the full time whistle. Utter clart, from Carlisle United.

The Wild Swans - Revolutionary Spirit. 🖤 #adventsingles

A wee bit late, but here’s Simple Minds - Sweat In Bullet. #SimpleMindsTop30 youtu.be/v5_aIdTk1HM?...

EOY lists, gigs of the year 2025. 1. The Liminanas - Slay, Glasgow 2. Mogwai - QMU, Glasgow 3. Peter Bruntnell - West Walls Brewery, Carlisle 4. Peter Perrett - King Tuts, Glasgow 5. Edwyn Collins - Boiler Shop, Newcastle 6. The Sexual Objects - The Glad Cafe, Glasgow

Heaven 17 - Play To Win. #adventsingles

Simple Minds - Thirty Frames A Second. 🖤 #SimpleMindsTop30 youtu.be/tbZSXSICdFE?...

Rip Rig & Panic - Bob Hope Takes Risks. #adventsingles youtu.be/bN-nki0AHOU?...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard Mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR or Marvel.

An #adventsingles released 46 years ago today 7/12/79. The Clash - London Calling 🖤

Simple Minds - This Fear Of God. 🖤 #SimpleMindsTop30 youtu.be/hdFbVklPTjE?...

Double hit. #SimpleMindsTop30 #adventsingles youtu.be/azieTT0rz3M?...

#adventsingles No 4 & 5 seeing as I was away in Glasgow last night. The Teardrop Explodes - You Disappear From View. Maximum Joy - Why Can’t We Live Together.

Friday vibes…..

The Liminanas + Scorpio Leisure, last night at Slay, Glasgow. Magnifique… 🖤 Always good to see @carolinebinnie.bsky.social and Trevor, & @manicpopthrlls.bsky.social

Echo and the Bunnymen - Rescue. 🖤 🐰 #adventsingles No 3.

Simple Minds - Chelsea Girl. Norbreck Castle Hotel, Blackpool, Friday 19th July 1979, and my second time seeing Simple Minds. Two days later I was walking round Royal Lytham & St Annes, watching Seve Ballesteros win his first British Golf Open. ⛳️ #SimpleMindsTop30 youtu.be/Fpp_j6NJhVs?...

Double hit. #adventsingles #12inchTuesday Prefab Sprout - Lions In My Own Garden (exit someone)

So off we went to see Simple Minds, play Pleasantly Disturbed. April 1979 I think, audience 20. My future friends (didn’t know them at the time) playing on Charlie’s guitar backstage. #SimpleMindsTop30 youtu.be/jIMpl9GEWGY?...

Happy Birthday to Viv Albertine. 💥💥💥💥 youtu.be/I7tW0ABpqi0?...

Let’s get the disco started. 🕺 #adventsingles

In no particular order….. #SimpleMindsTop30 #MusicChallenge Simple Minds - Factory. 🖤 youtu.be/c4hny2MEW_s?...

Peter Perrett - PROUD TO BE SELF-HATING (irony and provocation) youtu.be/IJPnncBGw-s?...

The Undertones - It’s Going To Happen. #NewWaveNovember #MusicChallenge No 30, and the last one. youtu.be/aQtaqgW6MXg?...

Devo - Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin’) 🖤 #NewWaveNovember #MusicChallenge No 29. youtu.be/fwNgeAULUa0?...

Decided to pick a venue, I’m going to next Thursday. The Vapors - Turning Japanese. #NewWaveNovember #MusicChallenge No 28. youtu.be/W8eB5TZ1Hb8?...

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Radio Stars - Nervous Wreck #NewWaveNovember #MusicChallenge No 27. youtu.be/gEcb5QZ-ibk?...