I have packed this weeks In Strict Tempo with the hottest takes and the best tunes. Geese? Never 'eard of 'em. www.instricttempo.com/p/in-strict-...

Hi, I was just wondering if you’d had any feedback from Spotify or anything as I noticed we didn’t get any editorial on our latest release?

The news that Wrexham won’t be promoted this season has been the cause of forty-seven redundancies at The Athletic

Question for historians. Spotify is rightly criticised for paying meagre royalties to artists and for its affiliations with the ‘defence’ industry. During the 1980s, did people boycott Thorn EMI, or refuse to buy e.g. Farmers Boys or Kate Bush records for the same reasons?

Underworld - Pearls Girl Underworld - Born Slippy LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark Spiritualized - Ladies & Gentlemen… Spiritualized - Come Together Primal Scream - Loaded Pulp - I Spy Karl O’Connor & Annie Hogan - Temporary Thing Utah Saints - Something Good

Only an organisation as shite and bent as the EFL could appoint a B*ro fan to ref Cambridge’s promotion decider on Saturday

the best music biopic is 24 Hour Party People, yes it counts, probably

I don't want to hear a word from airlines about a Jet Fuel shortage after they wasted tonnes of the stuff flying empty planes about during Covid to keep their landing slots at airports.

An absolutely packed edition of In Strict Tempo this week, with more music than ever before. Read & subscribe (for free) here: www.instricttempo.com/p/in-strict-...

I didn't think it could be possible for me to care less about a World Cup than I did about the last one in wherever-the-fuck-it-was, but this year's edition holds absolutely zero interest for me

When your energy bills are so high that even the utter waste of money that is AI companies are pulling out of opening here what hope have the rest of us got?

An annual message from The Wire Publishing an independent music magazine is tougher than ever. We need your continuing support www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

first 'two months off' weather of the year today www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsE9...

Hi @iansollom.bsky.social have you driven round St Neots lately? (You might also want to fact check the bit about council tax rises seeing as HDC raised theirs by the maximum permitted amount this year)

I see "Britain's most embarrassing football club™" continue to find new ways in which to embarrass themselves further

Remember if you got any NCP Car Park Gift Vouchers for Christmas to use them up before it's too late! www.theguardian.com/business/202...

In surprise news to absolutely no-one…

First In Strict Tempo 'Ceremony' mix of the year - a tribute to Reading's legendary Kraked night from a former resident DJ. Strap in for this one! www.instricttempo.com/p/in-strict-...

Vatican Shadow’s gonna have so many new song titles after today

Sorry but it sounds like she probably deserved this

one format endures even though streaming continues to face it's reckoning... how do we use the lessons from vinyl in a digital world? www.instricttempo.com/p/in-strict-...

Frank Carter looks like he’s been paralysed in an Amazon warehouse accident in Reading and won a ‘make a wish’ to have a day with the Sex Pistols here.

“OK, people are scared of crypto. So we need our new platform to be associated with a rock-solid, dependable institution which will absolutely not fall to bits at the last minute. Got any ideas?”

It's been a year since I wrote this, a tribute to someone that shaped so much of my listening habits, and continues to do so to this day www.instricttempo.com/p/sabres-swo...

it seems like every week there's a whole load of great new music being released, truly we are living in blessed times. here's my take on this weeks: www.instricttempo.com/p/in-strict-...

This week's In Strict Tempo is probably the strongest one I've done, music-wise. Listen & enjoy! www.instricttempo.com/p/in-strict-...

Once again, anyone stupid enough to drive through seven 'No Entry' signs into a pit full of sand should have their driving licence taken off them for life, and their hands and feet chopped off to ensure they never get behind the wheel again

The Athletic have written a second-by-second breakdown of Wrexham's 3-2 win against QPR as if it was the 1999 Champions League Final 😂

throwback to 1995 when men's mental health started

Photobucket really laying it on thick with the emails playing on the emotions of me no longer having access to my old photos and cherished memories not knowing the account is solely photos of old Ford Escort parts I sold on forums in the early 00’s

Seems there was an extra slide in Brooklyn Beckhams stories the press didn’t report

In this week's In Strict Tempo, those Spotify hot-takes just won't go away... www.instricttempo.com/p/in-strict-...

The problem is this was the exact narrative used by everyone to plug this book: "Spotify is bad" without really giving any alternatives or answers. www.instricttempo.com/p/in-strict-...

My music industry/reviews/hot-takes newsletter on Substack has somehow reached 100 editions. More to come in 2026, free as always! www.instricttempo.com/p/in-strict-...

pulling the choke out on a car before starting it

Upset annoying acquaintances by commenting "AI slop" under pictures they share of their children.

Had a piss next to Noel Fielding, drunkenly called him “preacherman” after a character he famously didn’t play

Not many things in life will have you pumping your fist in the air, but watching little Tommy Robinson’s (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s) face and bravado drop when he gets called out for his racism and hypocrisy by boxer Ty Mitchell is one of them. This is glorious. 🔥

I'm sorry, but 'yer da shouts at hotels' is the best sticker ever made

Boomkat Chart time is when the music industry breaks up for Xmas

The last In Strict Tempo from me this year, and what a year of great music it's been. Here's my reflections and a bakers dozen favourite releases from the year! www.instricttempo.com/p/in-strict-...

people are ~ seriously ~ paying £80 + for a record store day reissue of faithless - insomnia?!? www.discogs.com/release/3578...

Why I didn't share my Spotify Wrapped this year - and a load of great new (and old) music. www.instricttempo.com/p/in-strict-...

Spectrum Spools appreciation thread www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpeB...

Perhaps the most personal In Strict Tempo I've written yet, about why I didn't go to the MBV shows this week www.instricttempo.com/p/in-strict-...

A “You’ve Got Mail” remake set on Bandcamp Friday where Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks are rival noise artists who accidentally buy each others’s tape because they both released under a new alias.

A true pioneer indeed So check my NTS mix on his work! www.nts.live/shows/in-foc...

Re-Up for the Tuesday crew - it was a really jam-packed In Strict Tempo this week... check it out if you need something to listen to www.instricttempo.com/p/in-strict-...

Spectrum Spools appreciation thread www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpeB...

Loads of really great music in this weeks In Strict Tempo, and why you need to spend £1400 on a controller if you want to be a DJ... Sandwell District, Jon E Cash, Low End Activist, Ghost Dubs, The Bug & much more www.instricttempo.com/p/in-strict-...