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...

love that someone is completely thrown by the concept of singles

Every time I come back from one of these music conferences I always think about what happens to those companies that blast through a tonne of money advertising all over them, and a year or two later you never hear from them again. A couple years ago it was NFT firms, this year it’s AI…

Please Lord smite everyone at this wretched excuse for a “news” site

Will be in Amsterdam all week for ADE- shout if anyone fancies a beer/coffee

Where did we go so wrong that once respected local newspapers just end up peddling shit like this? A shop coming to Glasgow is of no consequence to anyone in or around Cambridge

In Strict Tempo is back, where this week I sell some of my records, and review a load of good new music, and that Bar Italia album that the Quietus just panned (great minds think alike, eh?) www.instricttempo.com/p/in-strict-...

And they say local news journalism is dead

Corsica Studios is closing. Whilst I don't really go clubbing any more, there was a time when I lived nearby when I'd be there pretty often. London's best nightclub? 100% in my eyes. www.instricttempo.com/p/in-strict-...

Why did I see someone at the Chelsea game tonight wearing a Cole Palmer/Donald Trump half & half scarf?

This week's In Strict Tempo is a short tribute to JD Twitch, plus a trove of new music reviews. open.substack.com/pub/instrict...

I don't think I've ever seen such a genuine, personal and truly emotional ourpouring as I have for JD Twitch these last couple of days - it turns out, music actually really fucking matters

A mix of artists who inspired me to start making noise from meeting them at gigs and hearing them play for Industrial Coast. Pale World, Iceman Junglist Kru, Mouth Wound, Bride, Quiet Husband. There is an unreleased track at the end of the mix from myself. It’s still the only place you can hear it.

🧵 This year I added a series of mixes to my In Strict Tempo Substack. They're a really nice addition to the newsletter, and a great mix of tunes and times. So far I've had mixes from myself, @balfnoise.bsky.social, Caspar Clark aka Volte-Face and @a-new-unity.bsky.social LISTEN ⬇️