This arrived today & it’s absolutely lovely - issue 2 of @brensweeney.bsky.social’s Here’s Where You Belong fanzine is visually delightful, thoughtful, beautifully curated & packed with great writing & features! Radhika! Gerry Love! Really brilliant stuff & such a snip at £5. I insist you get one.

Shall we have a few photos of William S. Burroughs?

This week's Fresh Ingredients features songs from @slowcountry.bsky.social, Cornershop, @cypressmine.bsky.social, The Wolfhounds, @europeansunmusic.bsky.social, Connexion Man, @francarlyon.bandcamp.com, Lord Fayrebank & lots more! Might be a music only show depending how much time I have to sort it

We’re off to our book club tonight, and discussing Cannery Row. I am so excited to talk about my favourite book.

If anyone downloads this and wants to hear more about the record, here are my album notes: open.substack.com/pub/intheapr...

Just in case anyone fancies adding an Assistant LP to their Bandcamp. l3cq-3c9h cvj7-chgv cfgx-w529 ew2s-h3wz 8hme-eslg 7cqu-jc7h xsrx-kwpv 5p74-xgqs xstq-btdh b4e2-jw7h sjwc-k438 pbhq-gmdn u8sa-h5cl lz4b-jrse 4ypw-ysh3 eu94-7las blt4-5m3d wszj-bgdh sj26-w7x5 sbxt-c5jr assistant.bandcamp.com/yum

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My new zine has Kurt Ralske on film, art, music and Ultra Vivid Scene. Gerry Love,ex TFC, on his record collection / new album. The Gabys on the process behind their music.Radhika talks about her new album. Superhuman on growing up in 80’s. Caledonia Soul book. Pre order at brensweeney.bigcartel.com

This arrived today & it’s absolutely lovely - issue 2 of @brensweeney.bsky.social’s Here’s Where You Belong fanzine is visually delightful, thoughtful, beautifully curated & packed with great writing & features! Radhika! Gerry Love! Really brilliant stuff & such a snip at £5. I insist you get one.

I thought I was relatively inured to the general grossness of advertising, but podcasts really tip me over - newscasters/journalists earnestly pleading in their own voices on behalf of tech & nutrition start ups. You absolute shameless charlatans & scammers. I don’t care that it pays for the show.

Yesterday's indie pop radio show is now archived for your pleasure: lots of great songs this week.... www.mixcloud.com/jonathanship...

Undeserved praise! Take heed!

Yesterday's indie pop radio show is now archived for your pleasure: lots of great songs this week.... www.mixcloud.com/jonathanship...

Bluesky was quiet tonight but hopefully one or two people listened to tonight's show!! If you did, hope you enjoyed! If you didn't the show will be up on Mixcloud tomorrow!!! The song seeing us out tonight is this Kinksy corker from @dunbartunes.bsky.social. I'll be back next week! x x

Two more songs left on Fresh Ingredients tonight; this is 'Anyway' by The Artpress; a bit of German retro-pop which bewilderingly turned up on a compilation called 'The Sound of Leamington Spa: German Edition'.

Currently playing on my radio show, this is the new one by @autoleisureland.bsky.social and it sounds absolutely glorious: one of the best-arranged tracks I've heard in a while: #FreshIngredients

Currently playing this and if you don't know it, it's such a great - dare I say it - indie pop classic.

That was another record from Indonesia which I know nothing about, but I do really like the fizzy volume here! It's DORMICE with 'Big Joke', and from their bandcamp they link out to the text below! (The EP is the debut release on a new label: Sunday Snacks) sundaysnacks.bandcamp.com/album/big-joke

Currently playing 'Candle Wick Without the Wax' by Vemberlain on #FreshIngredients: a magnificent, profound, jangly hymn to endurance: vemberlain.bandcamp.com/album/your-m...

One of my favourite songs of the decade now: 'Well Rested' by Kero Kero Bonito, which is a kind of gloriously overblown eco-mystical survival hymn: part climate-age prayer, part cult sermon, part rave-prog manifesto. And I thank the group for their stubborn, much needed poptimism. And SO earwormy.

Up now on my indie pop radio show (currently broadcasting on untidyradio.com) - a John Cale cover from the magnificent House Of All - who I saw live last week. They knocked my head off. Here’s a pic of Martin Bramah.

Next up on #freshingredients, the wonderful 'Tonight',the new single by @redcavalry.bsky.social - in which the groop knit together, as is their speciality, the twin-twines of ardent emotional declaration and the kind of misty imagery you'd find emerging from a blackening forest at dusk.

Next: I clicked on this pretty much at random; think I was following the hashtag "melbourne" on a stroll through Bandcamp; & wasn't sure what I thought at first. It's kind of outsider indie, I suppose; but as is so often the way, the lyrics pulled me in. A slow, mournful, graceful giving of thanks.

Time to do a bit of a wander. Indie music from Indonesia is often brimming with energy and melody, but even by those high standards this new song by Kaché (or possibly Kumiscacing?) is really quite outstanding, I think. It's called oCD, from his new single 'Caché'. Wish I could tell you more!!

I played a track by Camberwell Group last week - 'Summit' from their lovely debut EP, Playing Music. This week we're jumping on to track 5 for the closing 'Driftglass'. This is really lovely stuff -- for fans of Steve Reich, Michael Nyman, Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Currently playing on #FreshIngredients - this old beauty; 'Engineering' by The Furious Apples www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gem...

The instrumentation on this brilliant David Lance Callahan track (currently on untidyradio.com) is just gobsmacking isn't it. Would love something like this on an Assistant track. So good. Gliding from this into a song by @andrewrumsey.bsky.social in a sec: 'Chapeau' from his Blank Arcades LP.

Welcome to Fresh Ingredients, now live on untidyradio.com: this week: songs that range from classic indie-pop to utopian house & pastoral folk - starting with a song by @davidlancecallahan.bsky.social.... "The spirit world is a well tended garden or more accurately a public space in the open air"

f r e s h i n g r e d i e n t s is on untidyradio.com now

On in an hour! x

The utter joy of a house party and a band that are utterly right for the moment. Kero Kero Bonito 💚 youtu.be/aU4fOLGOk-E?...

There's another chance to hear THE PERIPHERY today at 5pm on @noiseboxradio.com, and stay tuned for @traceybinnie.bsky.social with Ready Player One straight after at 6pm

Mid-May & my wife and I haven't watched a single film or proper TV show this year, so we watched Queer (Luca Guadagnino, 2024) & On The Road (Walter Salles, 2012) over the last 2 nights. V interesting watching back to back; Queer I thought was totally magnificent & so impressed by Daniel Craig.

In 5 minutes on untidyradio.com Making a Musician with host @sometimesanderson.bsky.social Making of a Musician is a place for Musicians to talk about the Music they love and that made them musicians.

A new discovery: grabbed this unusual LP by a Melbourne-based songwriter the other day & found it oddly bewitching. Niranjan Casinader has recorded 9 albums since 2021 & they're slow & lyrical, capturing a blend of maturity & innocence that is quite singular. Playing this song on the radio tomoz

A new discovery: grabbed this unusual LP by a Melbourne-based songwriter the other day & found it oddly bewitching. Niranjan Casinader has recorded 9 albums since 2021 & they're slow & lyrical, capturing a blend of maturity & innocence that is quite singular. Playing this song on the radio tomoz

Head up to #RedPlanet🎶📡📻 @wsum.bsky.social + Tomorrow SUN MAY10 + NoonCT 10aPT🇺🇸 6p🇬🇧 1900🇩🇪 + Tunein 91.7fm Madison wsum.org + 2hrs #indienouvelle ft~ @brosaleigh.bsky.social @fire-toolz.bsky.social @boardsofcanada.bsky.social Welcome Strawberry @hackedepicciotto.bsky.social @abovemoi.bsky.social &&&

A video for Assistant’s 2025 single ‘Before And After You’ - filmed in the South of France a few years earlier while making a short film called ‘Fin d'été’. youtu.be/EzpJWc1sz9E?...

The first two mins of tomorrow’s Fresh Ingredients (with a bit of music from @davidlancecallahan.bsky.social & some video of my garden)

Delighted that we're going featured on Fresh Ingredients with Jonathan who is the poet Laureate of indie music. So #MusicSky put in your diaries to discover some of the most interesting & unique music around

Listen in to this wonderful show, friends!

The first two mins of tomorrow’s Fresh Ingredients (with a bit of music from @davidlancecallahan.bsky.social & some video of my garden)

This week's Fresh Ingredients radio: Sunday, 7pm untidyradio.com & it includes beauties from @davidlancecallahan.bsky.social, Vemberlain, The Holiday Makers, @andrewrumsey.bsky.social, Camberwell Group, @redcavalry.bsky.social, The House Of All, Kero Kero Bonito @dunbartunes.bsky.social + more x x x

Just bought this! Essential zine!!

Had lots of fun re-arranging Raking Leaves tonight so that I can play it over a midi loop - drums from my yamaha an200 and bass from my yamaha qy10. (I don't really know what I'm doing).

If you couldn't listen last night, episode 22 of my radio show, Fresh Ingredients, is here: this week we have the usual introverted & wordy indie pop, but also clarifying beams of light cast by alternatively tropical/pastoral despatches of folk, tropicalia & strings www.mixcloud.com/jonathanship...

The perfect pop song - my platonic ideal: youtu.be/V4DeA9oxeGM?...

If you couldn't listen last night, episode 22 of my radio show, Fresh Ingredients, is here: this week we have the usual introverted & wordy indie pop, but also clarifying beams of light cast by alternatively tropical/pastoral despatches of folk, tropicalia & strings www.mixcloud.com/jonathanship...

Last track tonight was Rob & Ellen, with a track from their brilliant In On It EP, which has just been releaed on the excellent Take A Turn records. Great stuff!!

Currently playing (sorry for the Bluesky interruptions tonight!), ‘Yours Hopefully’ by The Almanacs - from just one of three essential comps they’ve just released!!! Check them out!