It's Bipolar Explorer co-founder, Summer Serafin's birthday. In her honor, we've released a new video - for "Hold My Soul" from our 12th album, MEMORIES OF THE SKY. Watch it on the BPX YouTube channel. Link below: youtu.be/DKHSwr1f-6Q?...

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London people! I’m playing at Aces & Eights one week today. It’s a lovely venue, that does lovely pizza, and the whole lineup is lovely* too: 20:00 Emilia Slade 20:45 Katie MF 21:30 Non Canon All done by 22:30 £10 advance, more on the the door wegottickets.com/event/673125/

Hadn't realised they'd scrapped the £1k limit, though does explain the explosion in carbon bikes around Epping Forest of a weekend. It was ridiculous the way that bikes became priced to fit different tax bands, though I'd never have got the steel roadbike that's been my ride for 15yrs without it.

Pet Shop Boys finishing their greatest hits setlist with this was an absolute high point of the many times I've seen them.

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Never gets boring when the little notifications pops up to say someone has bought an album. Today it’s a copy of Friendship Is Deep by @goldenshoulders.bsky.social. Tomorrow? I dunno. Surprise me. unspunheroes.ampwall.com // unspunheroes.bandcamp.com

I don't have any insights at all, but my only prediction about the future of AI is that there's a teenage kid out there who by 2030 will develop something groundbreaking that kills at least one of the big 7 tech companies. If I was picking one I'd guess Meta currently looks the most fragile.

The Daniel Craig Bond films were boring because there was too much plot. The way to write yourself out of a Dead Bond Hole is with less plot, not with worrying about more plot.

Currently halfway through this. Really is an incredible memoir. Saw him doing a talk a few weeks ago and had never thought about Faith No More as Billy, Mike and Roddy's art project, or that they only became considered a metal band because Jim Martin was mates with Metallica who took them on tour.

'A remarkable record; a ten-out-of-ten, five-star masterpiece.' Many Happy Returns to #GZA's Liquid Swords, which turns 30 today! buff.ly/WOjn6gR

Turns out me and my Dad and the new mayor of NYC own shares in the same Spanish football team.

Bob is not a fan of the unpredictable bangs.

🔔🔔🔔 #VinylSanta applications for 2025 are now live. Please see rules, regulations and directions below. 🎅

Very strong "South African golf club that doesn't recognise the end of apartheid" vibes.

Said this long before I moved to be a regular on this line, but TfL should run every train that starts in a county that borders Greater London. This would be a start, but with regional devolution I'd be looking at how to get this running with a proper revenue split to fund better public transport.

An oddball painting I’ve been doing in a state of total uncertainty

Boring political opinion but having a really simple, positive message that you stick too and a believable person fronting the message is almost as important as the message itself. It's not about populism, or even left or right, it's just about being good at your job.

Arsenal have got a FIFTEEN YEAR OLD, Max Dowman, on. He is the first ever person to play in the Champions League about whom you can say definitively he was never in a Woolworth's.

As much as I love @nhm-london.bsky.social doing a festive jumper for dogs this year our experience from last Christmas suggests that Bob isn't massively keen on knitwear.

I hope the fires of hell have been properly stoked this morning.

Be interested to see the demographics on this. In the early 90s at my secondary young black lads with a grade zero/one fades would be sent home until their hair grew back while the young white lads were getting grade zero/one skinheads and undercuts and nothing happening.

Best one yet, I fancy: 3 November 1954: The death of Henri Matisse. The birth of Adam Ant.

ANNOUNCEMENT! The Big Green Books Advent Calendar! Choose from 4, 6 or 12 books. Your chance to unwrap a new surprise book every few days in the run up to Christmas. The books will be chosen based on what you enjoy reading. More info HERE www.biggreenbookshop.com/simon-likes-... PLEASE SHARE

Okay lush ppl! I turn 30 this month (I know, I'm far too cute) and wanted to do something mad for a good cause... I volunteer for this charity as a youth worker and would love to raise some £ for them so I am doing A BUNGEE JUMP ON MY BDAY! Please share or chip in: www.justgiving.com/page/oscar-r...

This is how I'm going to look every time someone dislikes one of my posts

It’s been 5 yrs since the coup in Myanmar and the military junta’s reign of terror continues - 7,427 people have been murdered and another 22,587 have been wrongfully imprisoned. Just this month, the junta bombed a Festival of Lights in Sagaing, killing 20, incl children 💔 #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

Is The Unutterable the best Fall album of the 21st century? Is it the best Fall LP full stop? Is it simply one of the best damn albums ever recorded? It's reissued today and Fergal Kinney looks beyond Pete Tong, ketamine and pumpkin soup to reveal its brilliance. thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween... #halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster

Delightful read on surfing in Liberia!

If he's having his titles dropped then I might drop "my Dad went to Buckingham Palace to pick up Fergie and Andy's spare wedding cake and brought it back to ours" from my spurious celebrity connection anecdotes.

A reminder that you don't need to understand everything you see

Not actively avoiding the news in America, there just seems little point passing comment. But every day there's something somehow more appalling than the day before and it never makes the news over here. It's one thing for the main US media to be complicit but everywhere else is letting it slide too

10 YEARS! We released our debut album Daylight Versions 10 years ago today. To mark the occasion, the album (plus all the associated releases) is pay what you want on Bandcamp: theleaflibrary.bandcamp.com/album/daylig... Thanks to @wiaiwya.bsky.social for everything.

For a track that seems like it was everywhere at the time this kinda feels a little lost to history rather than remembered as a collaboration that's every bit as good as you'd hope it would be.

Having lived by Bramall Lane and the Emirates, and spent many hours walking through Bishops Park to Craven Cottage, there's just something a bit bleak about out of town stadiums in the middle of giant car parks.

Radio show from the weekend is up for listening back. Was recorded in the middle of a storm and it's a bit of a mood. www.mixcloud.com/lwstd-fm/202...

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story. Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done. You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story! 🧵 1/9

I've never read all of this - this is really exciting news.

Bristol folk! My album launch show at Exchange Basement is one month today. 🎟️ still available from www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/exc... Cheaper option available for anyone who needs it.

Bookbanks is a wonderful new charity giving books to people at food banks. A simple, brilliant idea that everyone in the book world should get behind: open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/b...

Pics from the new @generalwitch.bsky.social zine (actual physical copy) with my work in it

This is how you do wash trading. All these companies are investing in each other paying each other bits of the same trillion dollars in order to make it look like they’re so close to AGI so investors will keep giving them money to lose. This is also known as a Junkie’s promise.

Marketing Experts: "Brand recognition alone isn't enough to turn a product launch into immediate dominant market share" Amazon: "Hold my New Coke"

Marketing Experts: "Brand recognition alone isn't enough to turn a product launch into immediate dominant market share" Amazon: "Hold my New Coke"

Cracking thread/recommendations for iplayer films UK folk can watch.

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

This is a totally unhinged piece of pop. Absolutely massive.

The international hit version of West End Girls by #PetShopBoys was released 40 years ago today, Mon 28 Oct 1985. It launched their chart career, going to #1 in the UK and USA. My new book, #IntoTheGroove, the history of 1980s pop, has plenty on its origin and background, and it’s OUT NOW.