A little Sunday night push. Linocut prints inspired by nature, wildlife, folklore and the Aberdeenshire countryside. Prices start at £15. A few of these are down to the last couple of copies. Treat yourself to something nice, before it disappears. #folklore #nature www.cutfromtheland.co.uk/products

An absolutely glorious post ⬇️

In a pub in Huntingdon with my dad and the man at the next table is explaining that he’s a bassist & will play with anyone EXCEPT Paul Heaton because he couldn’t play “that sort of music”. I admit to being slightly confused.

Mounted our home-made street library at the end of our path! Stop by, Brighton dwellers!

A brief glimpse of the LIVE DEBUT of “What’s New On The Beat Scene”! (video courtesy of @scottmarks.bsky.social )

Every now and again Pete sends me a song title and tells me to write a song. Found this in the archive, with the corresponding song (dates from 2022). on.soundcloud.com/raO4RDesgk93...

A single built as a collision of words from your formative influences is a gorgeous concept, and wondering how each of us would assemble our own is a lovely thought to sit with.

Listening to the Perennial single (which is a collision of words and phrases associated with their formative influences) I got to wondering how each of us would construct a vivid collage fashioned after our own loyalties. It’s quite a nice challenge.

Art project day here - new mini street library for our road here in Brighton.

Taking this down in a but if anyone would like a shot of oblique indie pop from our next LP, this is here. The song is finished but the lyric is a sketch deliberately unfinished: I could never find a place for the explanatory line, so we unmoored it and let it drift off.

What will the forthcoming Assistant LP sound like? A sample on.soundcloud.com/HReFHnvHEdlJ...

Some of my absolute favorite writing I’ve ever read on our band is in this thread. The wonderful @assistant.bandcamp.com brilliantly captures what we’re doing on “What’s New On The Beat Scene” and absolutely nails Perennial as an art project!

A few posts in celebration of @perennialtheband.bsky.social’s ace new single…. am really digging ‘What’s New On The Beat Scene’, a rollickin’ burst of ampy 60s-inspired collage-rock which precedes their new LP, Modernism.

For clarity, I think I meant “problem” in more of a creative sense than I made clear. I think it IS a problem in a kind of logic puzzle sense - it shifts the game you’re playing slightly and constructively. I’m not at all blocked in terms of writing (although nor am I prolific!)

How much of a problem is it if you think you have probably already written your best song?

We are raising stick insects now and it’s all anyone can talk about. They’re called Ivy The Terrible, Sticky and Twiggy Smalls. They have brains in their legs. They eat their own skin! My wife is besotted. She can’t help with bedtime because she’s dabbing them with a moistened paintbrush?

This compilation is totally delightful: an exploration of “The Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde”.

This might be the last episode of my radio show for a litte while, but will do my best to do another this week!

45 mins of pop songs that felt like the right things to be playing on the weekend after David Hockney's death. I thought about you a lot, David. These songs say something to me about looking, about reinvention, and in particular about observing something before it disappears.

45 mins of pop songs that felt like the right things to be playing on the weekend after David Hockney's death. I thought about you a lot, David. These songs say something to me about looking, about reinvention, and in particular about observing something before it disappears.

Very happy to get new Autocamper and Tenniscoats releases through the post today! Got the latter on right now and it’s absolutely fantastic.

Fresh Ingredients is now live on untidyradio.com. I uploaded the wrong intro, so anyone who wants to hear a half-coherent version of my opening ramble about David Hockney - who I liked a lot - can listen here: soundcloud.com/assistantbri...

Join me on untidyradio.com for a rambly tribute to Hockney at 7pm...

On our way back from a swim in the river and I have nipped into m&s for a bottle of milk - so somehow I have bought a “purple crunch medley”, a pineapple and a big box of cherry liqueurs.

Who do you love? (As best I remember it) Dsus2 Cmaj7 Em7 C6/9 Fmaj7 Em D7sus4 D7

“…and bats overhead…” We started a session with an arrhythmic loop made from bat echolocation.

Just a few songs for David Hockney on the show tomorrow: 7pm on untidyradio.com and songs from Mark Lanegan, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Bob Dylan, The Television Personalities, Nico Muhly, David J, Vinny Peculiar, Henry Carlyle, Keith Christmas and The Happy Somethings.

In 1946 all Swallow Prominent moths were hand painted by Ben Nicholson, the Modernist painter who loved brown paint. Barbara Hepworth never forgave him.

Reuniting recently played records and their sleeves

Thanks for sharing this @aishamcnamara.bsky.social! I think this might be one of our best songs

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.

Latest designs for Lovejoy by @incinerator_studios

One of my favourite LPs of the year has arrived and Laurie and Lydia are excited. Seeing Radhika on Sunday at the Betsey Trotwood, anyone else going?

Trying to work on Assistant stuff at the moment which means I find it hard to listen to other indie pop stuff!!

One for the Autumn! We’re finally playing in Brighton at Alphabet on Friday 27th November with the excellent Firestations! @spinoutnuggets.bsky.social Tickets here: www.meltingvinyl.co.uk/event/jetstr...

More Gary Snyder. Lope getting in on the action.

Sunday's beat poetry 'n standing stones 'n indie pop episode of my radio show is now online here: www.mixcloud.com/jonathanship... You can visit but you cannot stay 💚

We're catching up with the latest fab Fresh Ingredients radio show with Jonathan Shipley @assistant.bandcamp.com. You can too - on mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/jonathanship... It's always a really great show - highly recommended. 🙂😍😎

Last nights radio show is up on Mixcloud now if you wanna check out a bit of it. Lots of nice songs! www.mixcloud.com/jonathanship...

Probably not even the first time I’ve played this on the show, but let’s have ‘Marbles’ by Tindersticks again, shall we? Have spent many days since 1993 listening to this one. It has an ungenerous opening, doesn’t it? I suppose at least it acknowledges the meanness of the collective gaze.

Evening listening. Sonny Sharrock - Highlife. Perhaps not the hippest Sharrock-record. But who cares? I know I don't. The music may be packed in cheap start-1990s sound aesthetic, but the music is strong/direct and heartfelt and that's what matters to me. I love this album.

Last song tonight is by @andrewrumsey.bsky.social - a deeply lovely elegy for Andrew's friend, Jon Cannon, titled 'The Memorial Service Order of Friends'. I've ordered this book by Jon, which looks wonderful www.hachette.co.uk/titles/jon-c... Thanks for listening tonight 💚

So many lovely songs on this week's radio show (if I do say so myself) but I think this is I enjoyed queuing up and playing the most - a brilliant jailbreak ballad from our pals @thefamilygrave.bsky.social Well worth a listen (in the dark, headphones) thefamilygrave.bandcamp.com/track/the-pr...

You just heard a new one on Fresh Ingredients from @powerfulpierre.bsky.social - Mayfever from his new Harbour EP, Care For Me! Lovely as always! harbour1.bandcamp.com/album/care-f...

Just a few songs left on #FreshIngredients; if you're a regular listener you'll know this song - 'Peoplesay' from the brilliant Alistair James LP, The Unfinished Sea. The whole LP is great and is pay-what-you-want on Bandcamp: geddit

Currently playing the Fall's Peel Session version of Blindness, which is the best recorded version - but the definitive version is of course this: If it isn't the best Fall song ever (I concede it might just be top 5) then we can agree surely that it's by the far best song about David Blunkett ever

This new one from @jetstreampony.bsky.social is from the new Pets Sounds compilation on @skepwax.bsky.social, and my goodness it's a proper pop hit! And whole LP is predictably great. petssounds.bandcamp.com/album/pets-s...

Just played this totally wonderful track by Bart & Friends who, last week, I described as a new band - but no! This is actually from 2010. Oh well - then it has stood the test of time... #FreshIngredients is on untidyradio.com now 💚

Currently playing this beautiful beautiful song on #freshingredients! What a chorus! Pre-order the @lovejoy-official.bsky.social LP here: spinoutnuggets.bandcamp.com/album/under-...

A second bit of poetry tonight on #FreshIngredients - Gary Snyder reads a bit less of a dick than Kerouac et al to me now; the beat poet of the melancholy mountain wilderness.