Congrats to @joinerslive.bsky.social officially Southampton's favourite building, well deserved.

Reminds me of David Owen's Temple of Love cover.

Tonight at 7.30 UK! Listening party… if you have 20 mins to spare come and absorb yourself in the history of St Ann’s Allotments with a drone folk soundtrack . benmcelroy.bandcamp.com/merch/allotm...

Can't you come up with something better than that? Oh I think I'd be more angry If your answers weren't so daft! Oh you know I could But do you really think I would? When you go up to

Runaway nanotech. Swarmata. Remains of an MHE: a Monopathic Hegemonising Event. Sometimes known as a hegswarm. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS SMATTER.

BBC Radio 3 Late Junction Now Playing Fela Kuti International Thief Thief (I.T.T.)

GOP close to exhausting epithet stockpile.

small dog met a mushroom

Enjoy a little snippet of Tashi Dorji / eric arn duo, live on 17 Oct, 2025 @ Central Garden, Vienna. www.youtube.com/shorts/7M_XMhVTAU8 video by Lisa Wallerstein #improvisedmusic #guitarduo #TashiDorji #ericarn

Muriel Grey had a great run of shows sitting in for John Peel this week in 1985, the first time I heard Vic Goddard & Subway Sect's Don't Split It, from which I haven't yet fully recovered - youtu.be/XpEtv3o1XzM?...

BBC Radio 3 Night Tracks Now Playing A Winged Victory for the Sullen & A Winged Victory for the Sullen Atomos IX

Together Alliance

Together Alliance

Coolest woman in a movie?

Among my favourite tracks of the year, for me Bill has encapsulated many nuances of the 90s good stuff whilst unerringly looking forward. Title is beautifully autological. Reminds me when Roy Montgomery casually released Electric Turbulence in 2024, yeah ok, that's how it's done. bit.ly/40FG5LK

This is a fantastic distillation of sound.

Cyril Tawney's sleeve notes for Sally Free and Easy - mainlynorfolk.info/cyril.tawney...

Favourite Sallys that sent a sailor to his burying ground - Davy Graham Trees Flying Saucer Attack Cathy/Hardy/Farrell/Young Bert Jansch

Fond memories of Madame Cholet

It's comforting discovering that woodwind players are the radicals in an orchestra, and the flautists are away with the faeries.

BBC Radio 3 In Tune Now Playing Ralph Vaughan Williams, Hallé & Sir Mark Elder Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

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A rare transcendental gig experience on Tuesday night: harmonium, bowed hammer dulcimer, bowed double bass & Lisa O'Neill on nylon strung guitar. For a brief period everything slowed & elevated. What a sound.

And if that isn't enough of a draw, it's a seated auditorium.

Due to circumstances etc... I have a spare ticket for Lisa O'Neill tonight at the Lighthouse in Poole. Free to a good home.

It's good, but it isn't a dying boiler playing Brötzmann

Share an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

RIP Ralph. Time to give this a listen. youtu.be/Fi16V8v_J4Y?...

Post an image you can hear

The last track, Blues For The Great Refreshing Earth Bodhisattva, is particularly stunning. Fans of France will enjoy.

“Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm..." Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus Few other works have so readily captured its quotidian wonder.

Sunday Roundup. 10 Bands/Artists I listened to this week. - Jim Ghedi - Marta Del Grandi - Philip Glass - Brigitte Fontaine - Mary Jane Leach - Water Damage - Jesse Blake Rundle - Leroi Conroy - guguo - Ben McElroy

My wife has filed her tax return, which we will celebrate in the traditional manner by watching the first episode of Black Books.

Re-reading the original liner notes to Joanna Brouke's Hearing Music. Mood enhancing. I had to take out the first three minutes of Healing Music because all I did was touch F# major (two below C) on the piano and I would just listen and I’d listen and I’d listen... numerogroup.com/blogs/storie...

BBC Radio 3 Night Tracks Now Playing Trad., Ronn McFarlane, Carolyn Surrick & Jackie Moran She Moved Through the Fair - John Barleycorn

What's your sign?

This is a charming Popol Vuh reminiscence, with what sounds like an Optigan playing a role.

All enslaved to the fascist

Post a picture of the venue where you saw your first concert and name the band or artist. Killing Joke supported by Ellery Bop, Southampton Guildhall Feb 1985. The mosh pit broke the floor & I was hearing impaired for three days.

Juni Habel has announced new album Evergreen In Your Mind, with eponymous teaser track now available. The follow up to 2023's entrancing Carvings LP. junihabel.bandcamp.com/album/evergr...

My list of favourite guitarists is coming together at a leisurely pace... Meanwhile here's a video of Joe Pass & Oscar Peterson... youtu.be/EpmVVIRXhzw?...

Some of my favourite albums from 2025 -

Favourite gig in a strong year was Ryley Walker at the Joiners (with the excellent Sam Grassie supporting). Superb performances.

Hearing that the markets are moving for the Guardian's #1 AOTY and the smart money is going on Bongripper's Live at Soulcrusher. youtu.be/nbAItzzemgI?...

Name the last song you’ve heard Going through my favourite albums of the year, one of the reasons I love this is that it reminds me of Mammoth-era Pelican. youtu.be/nbAItzzemgI?...

Oh Dave...

On this day in 1983, on John Peel's show, I first heard the record that blew my 15 year old mind and changed my listening habits overnight. The first song Gina Birch wrote, and it's still stunning. The Raincoats - No One's Little Girl youtu.be/I6Gcia4ouKs?...