Can’t pretend to know what is going on behind the scenes but it doesn’t seem to be a happy camp. Whether you are for/against RA keeping his job, comments like these rarely end up positive for a manager. His tenure has been a disaster but he hasn’t been helped much either. Rinse & repeat I guess.

Anticipated albums 2026… I’m sure many will be added over the next few months: Ailbhe Reddy Dry Cleaning Paper Kites Whitelands Bill Callahan Nothing Ladytron IST IST Boxer Rebellion Lana Del Rey Tori Amos War on Drugs Rumoured: The Cure Massive Attack Peter Gabriel Bob Dylan Phoebe Bridgers

Show us the last four albums you listened to ⬇️ #last4albums ‘Not quite ready to go back to work tomorrow’ edition.

#NowPlaying #NP 💿 Hail to the Thief 🎤 Radiohead I’ve a funny relationship with this. Feel like it needed an editor…I definitely skip more tracks on this than their other albums. Could live without Young Blood, Myxomatosis & Punchup. On the other hand, The Gloaming is one I have come to love.

#5DebutAlbums9094 Early research indicates my 5 will come from this lot. 2 are definites…with the remaining 7 to slug it out with many others I have undoubtedly forgotten about…

What was the last movie you watched in 2025? #FilmSky

Halfway through the decade! What are your favourite films each year so far? 2020: First Cow 2021: Petite Maman 2022: Top Gun: Maverick 2023: Past Lives 2024: Radical 2025: One Battle After Another

Show us the last four albums you listened to #last4albums New Year’s Eve edition. Health and happiness to you all in 2026.

25 best albums of the last 25 years (A-Z, one album per artist) (1-8) Air Formation | Near Miss Alvvays | Antisocialites Beach Fossils | Bunny Beach House | 7 Andy Bell | Flicker Bon Iver | S/T The Boxer Rebellion | Union The Coral | Butterfly House

#last4albums #MusicSky ‘Throughly enjoying the Christmas holiday now that Christmas Day is over’ edition😊

#NowPlaying #NP 💿 What A Pleasure 🎤 Beach Fossils Obviously the band would go to hit new & genuinely wonderful heights with Bunny. This isn’t near that in terms of quality but there are fine moments on this. It’s an interesting & diverting listen for a band with a few gears to go through yet.

#NowPlaying #NP 💿 Light Verse 🎤 Iron & Wine A lovely surprise Christmas gift this morning. The history books say it was 7yrs between Beast Epic & this. The intervening years included 2 EPs, 1 Archive Series release, Calexico collab, 1 reissue of his breakthrough album, two live albums & a doc🤷‍♂️

A very nice book and record haul this morning. My family know me well☺️

#MusicSky #bestof2025 1. Bon Iver | Sable, Fable Alongside Sufjan Stevens, Justin Vernon is, personally, the most consequential artist this century. I certainly didn’t expect a soul-pop album, but he delivered another masterpiece. Glorious stuff. Has been my AOTY since the needle first dropped.

#NowPlaying #NP 💿 Love In Mind 🎤 Mt Misery Joining @agarr45.bsky.social in spinning the wonderful @mtmiseryband.bsky.social tonight. No finer way to spend Christmas Eve. Have a very happy Christmas folks😊🙌 and best wishes to you all. @prefectrecords.bsky.social

On ham duty for tomorrow and Mrs M has asked that I abandon my usual recipe this year and cook it in Coca Cola, because “it is supposed to be amazing”. Not on board with this at all. Can’t be right. Reminds me of an ex-girlfriend’s mum in my 20s who cooked chicken in milk🤢 We’ll know tomorrow…

#MusicSky #bestof2025 2. Massage | Coaster Now one of my favourite bands of the past 10 years. While not quite hitting the heights of the sublime Still Life, a fair few songs are as good as anything they have ever done. Picks: Daffy Duck; We’re Existential.

#MusicSky #bestof2025 3. The Beths | Straight Line Was A Lie They don’t put a foot wrong do they? Picks: Mother Pray for Me; Take.

#NowPlaying #NP 💿 One Nation Under a Groove 🎤 Funkadelic Sure, while we’re at it, why not…

#NowPlaying #NP 💿 Maggot Brain 🎤 Funkadelic Probably as un-Christmassy as it is possible to get🤷‍♂️ This bleak masterpiece is bookended by two all timers here, where Eddie Hazel arguably out-Hendrixes Hendrix.

#MusicSky #bestof2025 4. Midlake | A Bridge To Far A triumph from start to finish for Midlake Mark 2. Potentially right up there with Van Occupanther. Just gets better with each listen. Picks: The Ghouls; Valley of Roseless Thorns

Show us the last four albums you listened to #last4albums Sunday evening edition.

#MusicSky #bestof2025 5. Pulp | More Classic Pulp & that is always a welcome thing indeed. Possibly my favourite Pulp so far, although there may be recency bias at work. Picks: Farmer’s Market; Background Noise.

A truly delightful concoction. My first coffee & oatmeal stout definitely won’t be my last. Thanks Rascals of Dublin…

#MusicSky #bestof2025 6. Maria Somerville | Luster MS has called this a “subconscious expression of a deep longing for home”. It’s an exquisite mix of shoegaze, post-punk and ambient electronic music. Picks: Projections; Stonefly.

#NowPlaying #NP 💿 Stains on Silence 🎤 Girls Names Their final album isn’t an easy listen: it is dense & intense, full of tension but undoubtedly pays off repeated listens. Nevertheless, it has dawned on me halfway through that I’m depressing myself on the day work finished for 2 weeks.

#NowPlaying #NP 💿 Up To Our Hips 🎤 The Charlatans Recorded when the odds were stacked against them, it was probably a miracle UTOH got made at all. A fairly pivotal album for them and considered by the band to be “back to basics” I believe. The expanded issue has some lovely stuff on it.

#MusicSky #bestof2025 7. Highspire | Crushed A superb comeback. It’s big, vibrant & full of memorable hooks. Picks: She Talks in Maybes; Nautilus.

#NowPlaying #NP 💿 7 🎤 Beach House For so long Depression Cherry was my favourite BH album but over time it has been overtaken by Bloom & this. 7 probably shades it…quite a few of these songs would seem to be among their very best. Victoria & Alex called it a "rebirth and rejuvenation”.

#MusicSky #bestof2025 8. Constant Follower | The Smile You Send Out Returns To You My favourite folk album of 2025. A gorgeous collection of songs with the added bonus that it is one of the few my family can tolerate. Pick: All Is Well.

Show us the last four albums you listened to #last4albums Recovering from food poisoning edition.

#NowPlaying #NP 💿 Snowdrops & Hot Air Balloons 🎤 The Proctors The sort of band Sarah Records would have snapped up in the 90s.This is a cracking album by 1 of the best jangle acts around. The Proctors are a band that are easy to miss but hard to forget.Deserving of a bigger audience for sure.

#MusicSky #bestof2025 9. Blankenberge | Decisions While not quite hitting the heights of the magisterial Everything, this is still a frequently dazzling album. Modern masters. A pity about those vinyl prices though… Picks. Together; Waiting For The Sun.

#NowPlaying #NP 💿 Opaque 🎤 Mo Dotti They wear their influences proudly - My Bloody Valentine in particular - & call to my mind the likes of Lush & Slowdive…this album is a real treat from start to finish. Haven’t listened to it much in 2025 but I’ve been enjoying it immensely recently.

#MusicSky #bestof2025 10. Autocamper | What Do You Do All Day? The kind of melodic, charming indie-pop that is my musical comfort blanket. Delightful stuff. @safesuburban.bsky.social has been releasing some great stuff & this might be the best of the lot. Picks: Red Flowers; Street View.

Morning! ☕️ One more week to go before the holidays begin here. 🌲 In case you missed it, our new single ‘Under the Rainbow’, came out on Friday! shapeslikepeople.bandcamp.com/track/under-... #musicsky #janglepop #indiepop #dreampop

#MusicSky #bestof2025 11. Hotline TNT | Raspberry Moon This feels like another step up for the band. In a year where they made waves for pulling their music from Spotify, Hotline delivered possibly their best to date. Will’s vocals have never sounded better. Picks: Was I Wrong; Lawnmower.

#NowPlaying #NP 💿 Blame The Young 🎤 October Drift After 3 cracking albums, such a shame to see 1 of the best live acts I’ve seen call it a day. A genuinely exciting band & performed like their lives depended on it. Had the chance to meet them after they played Belfast & seemed like top blokes.

#MusicSky #bestof2025 12. These New Puritans | Crooked Wing This is defiantly not an album to dip in & out of. It’s a suite of songs both fragile in their beauty & stunning in intensity. Crooked Wing is very impressive. Pick: I’m Already Here.

Show us the last four albums you listened to #last4albums Saturday edition.

#NowPlaying #NP 💿 Arms Around A Vision 🎤 Girls Names 10 years old & surely one of the best albums to emerge from my little country. Want to thank @vgbpw1.bsky.social for reminding me to dig it out again.

#MusicSky #bestof2025 13. New Candys | The Uncanny Extravaganza One of my favourite discoveries of the last year or two. TUE is a superb marriage of electronics & psychedelia. Picks: You’ll Never Know Yourself; Cagehead.

#MusicSky #bestof2025 14. Just Mustard | We Were Just Here It’s noisy again for sure, but with a little more light perhaps. Look forward to seeing them support The Cure. Picks: We Were Just Here; Dandelion.

#MusicSky #bestof2025 Bubblers (16-25)

#MusicSky #bestof2025 15. Little Oso | How Lucky To Be Somebody This little gem filled an Alvvays shaped hole in my listening this year. Full of great hooks, I t’s a nicely compact collection of songs & well worth a gander. Picks: Blues & Yellows; Stardust.

Not a bad looking festival indeed. Prizes go to the first person to spot the artist my youngest children have been listening to😂

My top gigs of 2025 October Drift Mogwai Bear’s Den Whitelands Bob Dylan Fragile Animals Worst gig? Brian Jonestown Massacre

#NowPlaying #NP 💿 Kid A 🎤 Radiohead 25 years since I was utterly appalled by what my favourite band just released. 22 years since a mate showed me I was an idiot, and that my favourite band unsurprisingly knew what they were doing. A masterpiece. As everyone already knows😊

#NowPlaying #NP 💿 s/t 🎤 Wine Pride It’s been a while, but this is a cracking little album. Reminiscent of bands like DIIV, Beach Fossils & shades of early Bdrmm, so fans of that lot should find much to enjoy. Also lovingly called ‘anxious rock performed by day dreamers’.

Show us the last four albums you listened to #last4albums “When do the Christmas holidays start?”edition.