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-...

the best BEB release? www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoAu...

Forgot to mention it here over the weekend (but spammed it on my Instagram pretty hard, so if you follow me there, sorry) but @ldldn.bsky.social invited me to play a few tunes on his NTS show on Saturday night. It's now available to listen to online www.nts.live/shows/spaceb...

some nice stuff in this weeks In Strict Tempo, tunes for a rainy Friday www.instricttempo.com/p/in-strict-...

"your honour, I accept I murdered my parents in cold blood, but only did so after they told me they paid a TikTok influencer to choose my name for them" "Case dismissed"

Shout out to whatever's left of the Cambridge Evening News, managing to interview United defender Kell Watts and his wife without realising who he is

for when you've got NTS at 8 but detective work at 10

I can assure you there are

Forgot to add any Bandcamp/Buy links to this weeks In Strict Tempo, but that just means you'll have to dig a little deeper for this weeks good tunes. I also speak to @throttleclark.bsky.social about his new album Steep Stims www.instricttempo.com/p/in-strict-...

almost posted a thought about Mamdani then remembered this tweet

This New Yorker documentary about the 1988 UK government ban on broadcasting the voices of Sinn Féin and I.R.A. leaders is pretty good but they show *that clip from The Day Today with no explanation and no indicator that it is satire. www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...

Call Super is really in his 15peter20 era

For those who might have fallen victim to Beckham revisionism, lets be clear: he deserves his knighthood even less than he deserved any of his england caps post-2001 (ie. not at all)

i have failed No Glut November, where I attempt to go the whole month without listening to Ramadanman classic Glut - better luck next year

A self-indulgent second birthday edition of In Strict Tempo this week, but still plenty o' good music to get yer ears around www.instricttempo.com/p/in-strict-...

Said it before, but any club pulling out of a cup competition should lose all their previous honours in that competition

the only good halloween song www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlkE...

Congratulations to The Athletic for being the first people to write about the state of away dressing rooms without mentioning the OG Master of the Dark Arts: John Beck www.nytimes.com/athletic/675...