Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time on Hannah Arendt, the brilliant refugee social-scientist who invented the phrase "the banality of evil" is great radio although i make the mistake of putting it on last thing at night and it inevitably soothes me to sleep www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

How is this almost 40 years old now? A down home A 1 classic www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSxG...

My free Spotify account just gone crazy. I use it to play friends music (on silent mostly) to get their streams up but it's started replacing my choices with some random Hip Hop and Rap playlists and I can't seem to stop these 'Recommendations'. Anyone else come across that and managed to fix it?

Today is the 50th Anniversary of the release of Patti Smith's Horses LP - absolute classic 👌 youtu.be/U-ZJGfA0UxY?...

'Lessons of Love' by Lucky Star Band - a beautiful cover of a song from the album The Family Grave play Songs About Love. Taken from The Family Grave covers EP - out 21st Nov! but available to download now from Bandcamp luckystarband22.bandcamp.com/album/the-fa... soundcloud.com/thefamilygra...

You want a six and a half minute song of life and the living of it? yes? Here's 'The Children' by @thefamilygrave.bsky.social from their album 'Old Songs for Kids' "I'd like to find a way to make you smile I'd like to try to keep you here for a while..." thefamilygrave.bandcamp.com/album/old-so...

a re-release with half the tracks on the original but all the better for it. A good introduction to the wonderful Thunderegg @thundereggrules.bsky.social thunderegg.bandcamp.com/album/univer...

Get 10% off all orders of The Family Grave albums on vinyl from now thru to 24th November at elasticStage - just enter the code SPINMAS atthe checkout. elasticstage.com/thefamilygra... Cary says YES!

The first two songs on our new album 'Old Songs For kids' have hit 1000 streams now, which is the level at which Spotify starts thinking about paying out. If you want to help an artist, consider going to Bandcamp to pay to download their album there x thefamilygrave.bandcamp.com/album/old-so...

Borrowed the Mudlow Gretsch guitar today to add a few licks to some new songs

"If it were a national economy, cybercrime would be the third largest in the world. By 2027 scams are expected to cost the world $27 trillion a year; roughly a third of the planet..." Fascinating frightening article on the global world of fraud via @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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It's Sunday and you could be listening to the new album by The Family Grave on vinyl via ElasticStage @thefamilygrave.bsky.social elasticstage.com/thefamilygra...

DEVO documentary on Netflix is probably one of the best portraits of modern America I've seen. I like Devo's music about as much as I like The Ramones which is not very much at all but their creativity and social commentary and sense of wide-eyed fun is just brilliant. De-evolution. Recommended.

I once played a gig with a couple of other acts and no-one showed up. No audience. Zero. Nada. The three acts just played their sets to each other (they were both great). I recorded my set on my mobile phone and released it as one half of a live album on my Bandcamp where it's still available 😊

Our song 'Get Together' failed to make the BBC FreshOnTheNet playlist this week. You can judge for yourself whether that was a good decision by giving it a listen here😆 on.soundcloud.com/A8cOzr2FE1EQ... Taken from our new album 'Old Songs for Kids'.

Frank couldn't believe how good the new The Family Grave LP sounds elasticstage.com/thefamilygra...

Frank couldn't believe how good the new The Family Grave LP sounds elasticstage.com/thefamilygra...

I've just put another track from 'Old Songs for Kids' up on #Soundcloud. 'Get Together' is a political song with a personal message. Or maybe a personal song with a political message 🤔 You'll have to work it out on.soundcloud.com/STogh8E9kF7I... Hear the full album on thefamilygrave.bandcamp.com

This afternoon listening to a gorgeous double album of Little Willie John classics www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmVa...

Some fabulous James Taylor style organ-led busking outside the Dorset Arms pub this afternoon

EXCITING NEWS! Our new album 'Old Songs for Kids' is available on Vinyl and CD now, via ElasticStage. It comes with a beautiful lyric inner sleeve too and looks and sounds fantastic! thefamilygrave.bandcamp.com/album/old-so...

Can a man live on chocolate, coffee and nuts alone? #askingforafriend

I love this. Brilliant song and a great performance that manages to stay just the right side of comedy and makes me smile 💓 youtu.be/bnVXIUyshng?...

"Right from the start you can tell this album has a lot of personality embedded in its veins" thefamilygrave.bandcamp.com/album/old-so...

You can find Apple, Spotify and Bandcamp links to all our releases here the-family-grave.supertape.site/music

I can't be alone in thinking Mark Steel's "In Town" radio series is one of the greatest works of art in the English language (up there with Shakespeare) and a remarkable tribute to the British character and culture. New series coming, yes!! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Just deleted hundreds of old photos in Google and got 3.5GB of my storage back. Worth it!

I have just received the vinyl test pressing for 'Old Songs for Kids' and it sounds amazing, even better than the digital. Coming soon. thefamilygrave.bandcamp.com/album/old-so...

The Connections compiler today is obviously a Big Star fan 😁 (I didn't get it)

Thanks to Atom Heart Magazine for putting our Sweet Charity top of its New Discoveries list this week 😍🎵 www.atomheartmagazine.com/le-nuove-sco...

"Soulful, joyful and brimming with confidence." Some "danceable" songs incorporating elements of jazz and surf-rock. They liked AC DC a lot and think Valentine's Day has "potential". Thank you The Other Side Reviews - I'll take this as 3-stars! www.theothersidereviews.com/the-family-g...

Wonderful and thoughtful review of the new album 'Old Songs for Kids' on Buzzslayers blog 😍 Read it here www.buzzslayers.com/post/a-welco... and then listen on Bandcamp

Wonderful and thoughtful review of the new album 'Old Songs for Kids' on Buzzslayers blog 😍 Read it here www.buzzslayers.com/post/a-welco... and then listen on Bandcamp

Some breezy folk / pop rock from Brighton UK this monring thefamilygrave.bandcamp.com/track/sweet-...

Our new album is out! 'Old Songs for Kids' is the third album in the Happy Old Love Songs trilogy. Recorded at Church Road with Paul Pascoe and a full band. The album is only available via Bandcamp at present - link below (vinyl coming soon) thefamilygrave.bandcamp.com/album/old-so...

Arrived back in the UK and the first song in my ears was Get Back by The Beatles and then this one which seems appropriate youtu.be/4a3G-htx27E?... Listening to the Glyn Johns (Get Back)] mix and it's a very different album. Imho the released Spector version is better

The Mystic Muffin makes the world's best homemade apple cake. It's a cake baked with love 🥧 ❤️ While I was sat in the cafe drinking a coffee a guy came in off the street and asked for something to eat, clearly with no ability to pay. Elias the owner said "Chicken sandwich, ok?" 1/2

Today. Yes? Maybe? No? 👇🏻

So it's Bandcamp Friday soon and we have a new album at a special pre-release discount price until release day this coming weekend. Get it now thefamilygrave.bandcamp.com/album/old-so...

"Your over-sharing bores me" - graffiti with emotion

Good to see www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy... Firm linked to Baroness Michelle Mone must pay £122m after breaching Covid PPE contract, judge rules

"a meditation on kindness" This AI Review of our new song 'Sweet Charity' draws on an excellent piece in Honk Magazine (and the song's title) but why don't you make your own mind up? thefamilygrave.bandcamp.com/album/old-so... open.spotify.com/album/1qBSFx...

New album by @thefamilygrave.bsky.social is out in 4 days but you can hear the first two tracks and pre-order the whole thing at half price until release day from thefamilygrave.bandcamp.com/album/old-so...

This is a wonderful episode of Great Lives: comefian Stewart Lee on the free jazz guitarist Derek Bailey. You don't have to love free jazz to appreciate the intellectual sparring and creativity running through this conversation about a life. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I may be watching the worst movie ever made 😂

happy sunday. tune in to hear great tracks on 24/7 rotation zeno.fm/radio/featuredartists/ ft'ing @analogburn.bsky.social @fernandoferrelli.bsky.social @arpraxis.bsky.social @anabstractillusion.bsky.social @thefamilygrave.bsky.social @randieoneil.bsky.social @lastdaysofrome.bsky.social

Probably about half a million people beyond the pale out of an electorate of 20m+ - calmly engaging with and correcting misinformation and bigotry will keep them from swaying others

"What makes this terrific is how it balances intimacy and resonance. The Family Grave tell stories that follow you long after the final note fades, sounding timeless, like a song that might have been sung in pubs of Brighton decades ago" 😍 🎵 Lovely review from Honk 👇🏾 honkmagazine.com/the-family-g...

Flew into Lisbon today