If you're attending @walesgoespop.bsky.social this coming weekend you might like to ease yourself in with my radio show from last night - 14 songs from 14 of the bands playing - a gwledd o fwyd of indie-pop delights. Featuring The Cords, Heavenly & much more x www.mixcloud.com/jonathanship...

My favourite guys! Great piece on The Blue Aeroplanes via @indiepophalloffame.bsky.social

If you're attending @walesgoespop.bsky.social this coming weekend you might like to ease yourself in with my radio show from last night - 14 songs from 14 of the bands playing - a gwledd o fwyd of indie-pop delights. Featuring The Cords, Heavenly & much more x www.mixcloud.com/jonathanship...

We went to Pooh Corner with the kids today & Laurie was worried that when we found Winnie The Pooh’s house he might not be in. Laurie is nearly 6 & he knows it’s a story, but he was still worried. It’s not hard finding Pooh’s house - it’s just over the Pooh Sticks Bridge.

Finishing up #freshingredients tonight - my WALES GOES POP special - with a track from soft-slime punks The Slugs, from their ace A Song For Every Feeling LP. Thanks very much for listening, and tell me if you'll be at the festival!!!

This song is timely in three compellingly miniature ways. It's timely 'cos it's on my radio show right now (on untidyradio.com), because Helen Love is playing Wales Goes Pop in a week, and because, well, because it's called Easter Song. rachellove.bandcamp.com/track/easter...

The two records my wife loved most last year were by Allo Darlin' & Sassyhiya. Allo Darlin' aren't playing Wales Goes Pop but Sassyhiya are, so here is their lovely lovely 'Take You Somewhere', on #FreshIngredients now (untidyradio.com to listen!)

Currently playing this on Fresh Ingredients - 'Starry Eyes' by Radhika. Keep listening for a nice featured contribution from friend-of-music and Assistant accomplice Rob Morgan (@durutti74.bsky.social) in the next link.

I seem to play a lot of last tracks on this radio show! Here’s the last track on Tulpa’s recent (excellent) Monster Of The Week LP - once more via @skepwax.bsky.social #freshingredients

What you say and what you mean Are very different things, indeed What I'd give to hear you say "It's love, okay" Currently playing this marvel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=04RY...

Would love to see a Bramwell/Autocamper double header.

‘Problems’ by Bramwell is up next on Fresh Ingredients. Only heard 'em for the first time this week and they seem really great. Their Bandcamp profile reads “Musik for anorak pop mods, odds and sods”. Playing at @walesgoespop.bsky.social on Friday 3rd April! Can't wait.

Suck a well-articulated disclosure in the first line of this beauty from Lande Hekt: “I gravitate towards things that bring me down / I always have - at least I know that now / Never forward, I thought all I had was the past / I used to think each birthday would be my last”. Briliant song!

Currently playing on untidymusic.com: 'The Life We Led' by the brilliant @swanseasound.bsky.social. Will be time to start thinking about Xmas again soon I suppose. swanseasound.bandcamp.com/track/the-li...

Let's have a song by the mightee The Cords; 'When You Said Goodbye' is the lovely final song from their debut: the moment when the LP takes a long breath after an avalanche of fizz. The Cords are playing just before Heavenly & Even As We Speak - wot a location on the bill. #FreshIngredients

Tinkinswood, a “slightly cracked megalithic cereal-bar of unfeasible antiquity”, via Julian Cope. It’s just outside Cardiff and we’ll be investigating at a quiet moment of some sort at @walesgoespop.bsky.social next weekend.

Time for another of my sporadic Julian Cope inspired rambles on #Freshingredients in a minute... #ramblewarning

I really hope @smoxham.bsky.social plays this one at Wales Goes Pop next week as I am such a fan. Everything he has done in recent years has been amazing, mind. 'Ancient Time' is from his Winter Sun LP from late last year. "Ancient times can read my mind"....

More inter-song relationships: there's a nice line on the Lovely Basement LP: "Big fleas have little fleas on their backs to bite ‘em / And little fleas have smaller fleas and so ad infinitum". This track from @would-be-goods.bsky.social opens with "If you sleep with dogs then you get fleas".

Talking of faves, my 12 favourite songs of 2025 proceed in sequence on Lowlands by @thelovelybasement.bsky.social. In this song Barabbas meets Judas for a drink. Grievances aired, stories traded, they toast their part in the tale you thought you had straight. What a lovely opening one-two.

I love a song that changes singer mid-stream!

I've put my favourite current song up first on #FreshIngredients tonight: the new single by British Birds is amazing - a sly & clever take down of moral certainty & public moralising. Very very excited about seeing this lot next Friday at @walesgoespop.bsky.social. Next up: The Lovely Basement.

Somehow I've made 18 episodes of my Fresh Ingredients radio show for UntidyRadio.com! On air in 7 mins & tonight I'm playing tracks from groops playing at @walesgoespop.bsky.social next week. The indiepop weekender is a lovely thing, & it's Cardiff's turn. First thing you'll hear is my jingle.

Tomorrow at 7pm on Untidy Radio - an hour of @walesgoespop.bsky.social, a dip into The Modern Antiquarian & a short contribution from @durutti74.bsky.social! & such a great set of songs from @skepwax.bsky.social, @smoxham.bsky.social, @would-be-goods.bsky.social & @thelovelybasement.bsky.social.

Most surprising bit of TV dialogue in a while on last week’s Gardener’s World.

This Sunday at 7 on untidyradio.com it's time for the 18th episode of FRESH INGREDIENTS & - of course - it's a @walesgoespop.bsky.social special edition! Music from Bramwell, Radhika, Heavenly, The Cords, British Birds, The Lovely Basement, Swansea Sound, The Slugs, Stuart Moxham &, inevitably,more!

Tomorrow's show... The Velvet Underground, The Colourfield, thenormans1.bandcamp.com, jdemar.bandcamp.com, @shapeslikepeople.bsky.social, @boycalledcrow.bsky.social and lots more. Come over to the seaside.

Another great episode of #FreshIngredients by Jonathan @assistant.bandcamp.com with songs by @seaofdays.bsky.social , @shapeslikepeople.bsky.social , #MozartEstate , #JonathanRichman and so much more www.mixcloud.com/jonathanship...

An astonishingly brilliant single, this.

Listen to some great radio with The Bluebells and Dot Dash and much more ...

Stick this on while you tidy up / read your book. Some amazing songs, very pleased with this episode.

My wife has gone to see a talk by David Szalay and I am writing a record review for my fanzine and drinking a very cold glass of coca cola and I have no complaints at this point - what a nice evening. Also there is no greater pleasure than listening to a good record over and over and over.

Me at 17!

Most surprising bit of TV dialogue in a while on last week’s Gardener’s World.

Here’s our last single Flowers, with its video that oscillates between 2005 and 2025 youtu.be/ozF4WQh6nAQ?...

Yesterday's episode of my radio show, FRESH INGREDIENTS, is now on Mixcloud, indie-pop fans. Includes some wonderful songs from @seaofdays.bsky.social, @cypressmine.bsky.social, @shapeslikepeople.bsky.social, Special Friend and Jonathan Richman. A good show I think

Yesterday's episode of my radio show, FRESH INGREDIENTS, is now on Mixcloud, indie-pop fans. Includes some wonderful songs from @seaofdays.bsky.social, @cypressmine.bsky.social, @shapeslikepeople.bsky.social, Special Friend and Jonathan Richman. A good show I think

Countryside art from rural Scotland. Limited edition linocut prints. #printmaking #rural #artsky www.cutfromtheland.co.uk/products

My favourite jazz record of all time

Now playing on https://untidyradio.com Lately by Shapes Like People.

Don't touch that dial you skinny rats! Great radio by @judekerr.com follows on untidyradio.com in just a couple of minutes!

Thanks so much for listening to #freshingredients tonight, thou weekend-weary but jangly beauties. Closing up shop with a song from the wonderful; imminent new LP by @shapeslikepeople.bsky.social Out on April 17 and there’s a bandcamp listening party on April 9. See you there!

Currently playing the brilliant Jens Lekman with 'Two Little Pigs - and the next track is for two indefatigable music-enthusiasts - @wallytbm.bsky.social and @purepop4nowpeople.bsky.social, both of whom I know love Greg Williams. This is his new single: gregwilliams.bandcamp.com/album/every-...

Fans of The Kinks will surely love this song - next up on F R E S H I N G R E D I E N T S

I think I am now so fully tuned in to Lawrence’s work with Mozart Estate that I no longer see think about Felt when I listen, which means I am all in. This is from his most recent LP, and it’s so lovely. Melodic perfection. (Now playing on #freshingredients on untidyradio.com)

Just played a track from this wonderful LP of small-pipes compositions and arrangements by the Scottish composer Brìghde Chaimbeul. First bagpipes on the show I think. brighdechaimbeul.bandcamp.com/album/sunwise

Oh look, I don’t actually need to tweet all the songs on my radio show!! ⬇️ This is correct!

The next song is up is the new single by Cork's brilliant and returned @cypressmine.bsky.social - it's called 'Hellavaman'. Their new LP comes after a 38 year gap since their brilliant debut! And it's so good. (currently playing on #freshingredients)

Is there anything worse than buying an LP flagged as the "demos version" & landing 12 songs that sound exactly like the finished album? I'm looking at you Andy Partridge. No such issues with Mark Fry's demos version of Not On The Radar; this markedly different take on the title track is a treat

Instant purchase after that one track.