I’ve arrived

London show Eileen Gogan Nov 21 with help from #Microdisney #Undertones pals @eileengogan.bsky.social wegottickets.com/event/674058

With my dear pal Martin Sapsed recently in Ealing. Martin shot the cover of Brian single ‘Boyfriend (outside Ealing Town Hall ) in 1991 and also in 2024 , new sleeve shots of Western Avenue for label @needlemythology 2025 re-Issue of Brian album Understood. #Ealing

#TheGoBetweens box set re-issue Vo1

this is on BBC4 tonight at 10:30pm and quite brilliant

I’ve put all my radio docs on one page (R.E.M, The Blue Nile, The Go-Betweens, The Trashcan Sinatras) and some Brian stuff.

Sheena Easton “I’m not being shoved in people’s faces anymore, which means I can lead a very normal life 99 percent of the time.” @BobMehr www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/a...

For those interested.. Another blemmer of a podcast by the consistently brilliant @learnandsing.bsky.social with @kensweeney.bsky.social on this classic Irish debut! open.spotify.com/episode/0aBF...

Me and ‘El Presidente’ (well nearly) Bob Geldof and Pete Briquette Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) event to celebrate the 50th anniversary #TheBoomtownRats first-ever gig, in Bolton Street Technical College on 31 October 1975. #DoTheRat

The Swedish Band features Peter Moren of Peter, Bjorn & John fame. His new band Sun Years are also class. ✌️

Sugar announce reunion and share first music in 31 years faroutmagazine.co.uk/sugar-announ...

re Robert Forster @NCH_Music tomorrow night writes “We have some albums, CDs and books for sale - but no card reading machine for electronic payments at the Dublin show. can only take cash. Apologies for this. Sorry for the inconvenience. “ Robert

Everyone loves Robert Forster’s new guitarist.

Lindy Morrison via Go-Betweens Appreciation Society.

Many thanks to @ericvespe.bsky.social and @brezwrites.bsky.social for having me on The Kingcast to talk about my book Screaming and Conjuring, amongst many other matters @1984prods.bsky.social

‘Hello. Hello’ the best episode of #KeysToMyLife on @RTEOne tonight at 8:30pm. Saw a preview. Laughter. Tears. Tomorrow people will talk of nothing else. @tomhappens.bsky.social @rteone.rte.ie

@spindizzyrecords.bsky.social Dublin back in stock @needlemythology.bsky.social

Biopic on The Replacements variety.com/2025/film/ne... - #TheReplacements

Great listen on life,music,finding your voice and her own two fine albums from ‘queen of Irish indie’ @eileengogan.bsky.social with @learnandsing #TheRevenants @TheWouldBes #Microdisney @learnandsing.bsky.social

Coloured vinyl @lnfg.bsky.social

About to dive into some eel pie and mash with actor Phil Daniels (Quadrophenia) @TheLarkDublin #ParkLife #WeAreTheMods #Quadrophenia

After Understand. I recorded a second Brian album in 1999. There was no vinyl and it’s never been re issued but I love the songs. Here’s a playlist #SetantaRecords open.spotify.com/playlist/1RC...

Essential reading and ‘just what I needed’ Bill Janovitz from Buffalo Tom’s new book about The Cars www.rollingstone.com/music/music-... @billjanovitz.bsky.social

last night I stumbled across a 2015 live cover of "Handle With Care" by the Traveling Willburys. It's so good I have to share. Brandon Flowers, Britt Daniel, Dhani Harrison (George Harrison's son), Wayne Coyne & "Weird Al” Yankovic www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP1k...

Honoured to have Glenn Donaldson of The Reds, Pinks & Purples sing the praises of our latest Needle Mythology release, Understood by Brian on his excellent Substack page. Thank you Glenn!

I humbly offer that this is the kind of thing that rather than constantly torquing outrage, THIS is what social media is for: linking up different things that have been in orbit in your life without connection, finding more meaning as a result, and sharing them for other people to find and enjoy.

Sad songs from 1992 Via RTE Culture #NeedleMythology #SetantaRecords www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

“A Perfect Re-issue” @glenndonaldson (The Reds, Pinks and Purples) reviews Understood on his Substack. He’s the first reviewer in 33 years to notice the Boy reference on the sleeve Thank You @needlemythology.bsky.social #theredspinksandpurples glenndonaldson.substack.com/p/failure-of...

There are hardly any radio stations left that look like the radio stations you imagine in your brain, with actual turntables and moody lighting, but Soho Radio is one of them. And I'll be using them EXTENSIVELY between 6pm and 8pm. Join me, why don't you?!

#ITV70 At 7:15pm on this very date seventy years ago, ITV was launched. The first show was presented by Stephen Mulhern.

NEW post: "The East River Pipe sound – a dreamy synth wash in the background, a gentle jangle of guitar, simple yet cinematic sounding beat - and the lost souls and troubled characters that inhabit his songs" @rusky.bsky.social picks his #EastRiverPipe 10 www.toppermost.co.uk/east-river-p...

As it’s #JohnnyMathisnight on BBC2 American Music Club ‘Johnny Mathis Feet. Sang Mark Eitzel “And with a wave of his jewel-encrusted hand across the glittering Las Vegas scene, he said, you gotta learn how to disappear in silk and amphetamine.” youtu.be/P0XauclfgI0?...

Supporting the Jam, sausages with the Bay City Rollers and defying skinheads: post-punk girl group Dolly Mixture look back www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Waves......and then goodbye” …R.I.P Stephen Luscombe of synth act Blancmange. I always loved this song #epic #Waves #Blancmange youtu.be/Cvb8m8Trh8c?...

‘Hollywood has everything to do with the terrible state of the world’: Charlie Kaufman on AI, Eternal Sunshine and toothache www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Listen back to my chat with @petepaphides.bsky.social @sohoradio this week about @needlemythology.bsky.social re-issue of Brian Understood & talking about my radio docs on #REM #TheBlueNile #TrashcanSinatras #TheGoBetweens sohoradio.com/show/pete-pa...

Thank you @fiachnaobraonain.bsky.social

Over in London @petepaphides.bsky.social show @sohoradio We’re on at 6pm. Listen live via sohoradio.com/how-to-listen/ we’re chatting about about @needlemythology.bsky.social re-issue Brian album Understand & Planes EP Great music from #TheBlueNile #REM #TrashcanSinatras #TheGoBetweens

Radio interview of the year www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

“Saipan more strongly resembles the film they made before that Good Vibrations, a film about the extraordinary resilience of the Irish people and how the Belfast punk scene of the late ’70s played its part in the peace process”

I put together a playlist of music I was listening to in the 90’s, living on Avalon Road, Ealing and writing the Brian album Understand @needlemythology.bsky.social @petepaphides.bsky.social #SetantaRecords #NeedleMythology open.spotify.com/playlist/6MP...

What Morrissey’s Sale Offer of The Smiths Means for the Band’s Legacy rollingstonephilippines.com/music/rock/m...

tristesunset.com/2025/09/03/l... #LightningInATwlightHour @elefantrecords1.bsky.social

Thanks to staff Tower Records Dublin for making Brian Understood 'Album of The Week' - available on CD and Vinyl @needlemythology.bsky.social @towerrecordsdublin.bsky.social #NeedleMythology

Much loved journalist George Byrne always great plugging my band. He’s still doing it. A decade after he left us. Declan Lynch #SundayIndependent Radio review of @tomhappens @NewstalkFM show where we spoke about new #BrianUnderstood re-issue on @needlemythology @petepaphides

In 1992 I was living in London, alone and very unhappy. Not sure how I missed this album about being alone in London and very unhappy but I did and now @needlemythology.bsky.social have re-released it and I know it’s my album of the year even though it’s more than 30 years old.

Happy Brian Day, to all those that celebrate. "It's a sad thing, and it's a beautiful thing." #understood @needlemythology.bsky.social @kensweeney.bsky.social

Beautiful album💐

CD & Vinyl now in @towerrecordsdublin.bsky.social “Album of the Week: Lost 90s Irish Indie Classic!” @needlemythology.bsky.social With lovely write up towerrecords.ie/album-of-the...