My first gig of '26. Damon & Naomi at Café Oto, night 1, a positive antidote to the horrible news cycle at the moment. Laetitia Sadier's solo set was great; trombone! interpretative dance! After D&N's lovely set Laetitia and surprise guest Mark Webber from Pulp joined them for 3 Galaxie 500 tunes.

if you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it

plenty of album anniversaries this week, but I didn't notice that Scott 4 turned 56 yesterday. Originally released under his real name Scott Engel, it didn't chart and was hard to get until the CD reissues in the early 90s #nowplaying

Nyt connections compiler likes Alex Chilton and co

Came back on here to read about the appalling treatment of Karen Attiah, and I realised I've missed bluesky over the last few months. Will aim to engage more

Great to see LA's Monde UFO at the Shacklewell Arms. Their euphoria at playing the first date of their tour added to the effects of jet lag made for an exciting, haphazard set. Their jazzy, bossanova tinged psychedelic tunes suited the red glow. Pink Shabab played some serious bass in support.

#musicchallenge #musicplaces this delightfully strange piece of music popped up on shuffle; Fat Lady of Limbourg - Brian Eno, hard to believe it's over 50 years old now youtu.be/CRnaYJcTd5c

For #musicchallenge #musicplaces, as it's May 4th, I went for a fictional Star Wars planet. I Told Her On Alderaan by Neon Neon, the collaboration between Gruff Rhys and Boom Bip (and in this clip Cate Le Bon on bass) youtu.be/fqhi-0oAv_8

For #musicchallenge another #musicplaces. Pompeii by Sleater-Kinney from All Hands on the Bad One - released 25 years ago today youtu.be/MzMBPGheknU?...

For #musicchallenge May I’ve opted for #musicplaces. Could have picked places I’ve been, places I want to go. Couldn’t decide in time so I picked the last song I played with a place name in it. Monsters of Sunderland by Sea Power youtu.be/1yE0goo9Eig Fortunately it’s a banging tune with a great vid

An uncanny coincidence. It was after midnight and I was on the last train, listening yet again to the Tubs great new album Cotton Crown, the cover art of which shows a mother breastfeeding a baby. The mother is the late music writer and musician Charlotte Grieg and her son is Owen from the band.

Spotted last night supporting The Tubs, Expiry, the new band fronted by Louis Forster, formerly of the Goon Sax. I last saw him accompanying his Dad Robert Forster a couple of years ago

A joy to witness the fresh line-up of The Tubs last night in a full-to-bursting Oslo in Hackney. They played most of their excellent 2 albums and added Lana McArdle for a couple of tunes too.

So there is a tour! (Just about) #mbv

I remember Andy Peebles most of all from his My Top 12 interview programmes which, through his guests, let me hear CAN, Velvet Underground (both on Siouxsie's show), Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman, Peter Hammill for the first time. No-one really played those people in the mid-late 80s

I've listened to The End of the Middle loads since Friday. I wouldn't say it's sad, it is quite emotional though. Nice interview here. #richarddawson daily.bandcamp.com/lists/richar...

St Pancras Old Church provided the ideal surroundings to experience a powerful set from the Welsh language goth/ psych-folk trio Tristwch Y Fenywod. Modified dual zither plus bass and electronic drums equals power trio from now on, ok?

Early days but here goes... In Love Again - Ex-Vöid You Are The Morning - jasmine.4.t You and I are Earth - Anna B Savage Never Exhale - Ditz The Bad Fire - Mogwai

RIP Marianne Faithfull. Revisiting this gem of an album from 2018, Negative Capability, most of it made in collaboration with Warren Ellis youtu.be/ndseNmYb4s0?...

#AtoZAlbumCoverObjects Day 26 Zoo Hey Panda - High Llamas one of my favourite albums of last year Sisters Friends https://buff.ly/3KYAR5B Hey Panda https://buff.ly/3KYARm7

I do love a fake Songkick post - at least I imagine this is fake, or else it's a very high profile return for the 90s Irish rockers!

#AtoZAlbumCoverObjects Day 25 Yacht Not too much to choose from, but I was listening to this earlier and I reckon that's a yacht on the cover. From late last year, one of my favourite Fennesz records for a while. Mosaic - Fennesz Love and the Framed Insects https://buff.ly/40pt1tc

#AtoZAlbumCoverObjects Day 24 Xmas This War Child charity comp from 2000 always gets played every festive season XFM'S It's a Cool, Cool Christmas Christmas Eve - Teenage Fanclub https://buff.ly/40x07r0 Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland - Grandaddy https://buff.ly/40KO62z

#AtoZAlbumCoverObjects Day 23 Water Quite a few to choose from, but I enjoyed revisiting this one Personal Record - Eleanor Friedberger When I Knew https://buff.ly/3PMnxnj Stare at the Sun https://buff.ly/3PMU7ph

#AtoZAlbumCoverObjects Day 22 Vegetable Excellent Italian Greyhound - Shellac This pic is mostly fruit (and obviously a lovely dog), but there are some peppers in there! The End of Radio https://buff.ly/3PKoCMs Steady As She Goes https://buff.ly/3E240N3

#AtoZAlbumCoverObjects Day 21 Uniform I only have one and it's reasonably hard to find (not on streaming afaik) Caught in a Trap and I Can't Walk Out... - Mark Eitzel Queen of No One https://buff.ly/4aolTlg Are You The Trash https://buff.ly/4h5qPOO

#AtoZAlbumCoverObjects Day 20 Truck (or car) Autogeddon - Julian Cope Possibly the most anti-car album I could think of! Autogeddon Blues https://buff.ly/3PIz736

#AtoZAlbumCoverObjects Day 19 Sports don't think I have another album with a golf pic on the cover, anyway, this is a fave from 1997 Sultans of Sentiment - the Van Pelt Nanzen Kills A Cat https://buff.ly/4h1nboS Yamato (Where People Really Die) https://buff.ly/3PI0Gtm

#AtoZAlbumCoverObjects Day 18 Road I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One - Yo La Tengo Autumn Sweater https://buff.ly/40jMkUS Deeper into Movies https://buff.ly/40ABKKr

#chopsfives Top 5 Motorbike songs 1. Ghost Rider - Suicide 2. Speeding Motorcycle - Daniel Johnston/ Yo La Tengo 3. M bike - PJ Harvey 4. The Living End - Jesus and Mary Chain 5. Freewheel Burning - Judas Priest 🤘

Yet another festival not happening this year, doubly disappointing as it would have been 60 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#AtoZAlbumCoverObjects Day 17 Queen/ Royalty/ Crown I reckon I can fit this one in here, that's a crown of flowers, right? Ys- Joanna Newsom Emily https://buff.ly/40c2Juc

#AtoZAlbumCoverObjects Day 16 Picture/ Framed Photo or Art Here Come the Warm Jets - Eno Needles in the Camel's Eye https://buff.ly/4heD6A0 On Some Faraway Beach https://buff.ly/40BqltC

#AtoZAlbumCoverObjects Day 15 Outer Space Transcendental Youth - the Mountain Goats Cry for Judas https://buff.ly/3DYnu5l

#AtoZAlbumCoverObjects Day 14 Numbers I tried to find one with less obvious numbers on the cover, i.e not in the title of the record, and I ended up revisiting this one from 1996 Fever In Fever Out - Luscious Jackson Naked Eye https://buff.ly/40tPnuT Water Your Garden https://buff.ly/40v5xE9

#AtoZAlbumCoverObjects Day 13 Money Barafundle - Gorky's Zygotic Mynci If you look really closely you can see a dollar bill in the top left corner Patio Song https://buff.ly/3WbSTaL Sometimes the Father is the Son https://buff.ly/3E4mf4o

#AtoZAlbumCoverObjects Day 12 Lamp/ artificial light Strange Geometry - the Clientele a band who do like lights on their albums covers, tbh Since K Got Over Me https://buff.ly/4fWSiAC Spirit https://buff.ly/4fVLa7H

#AtoZAlbumCoverObjects Day 11 Kitchen Tales from Turnpike House - Saint Etienne I've circled the kitchen in the pic! Sun in My Morning https://buff.ly/3PvcpLG Teenage Winter https://buff.ly/3CcKuNh

#AtoZAlbumCoverObjects Day 10 Jewelry Madonna - ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead an alt-rock classic from the turn of the millennium the Hindu goddess on the cover is wearing plenty of jewelry Mistakes and Regrets https://buff.ly/4fUbCi1 Marc David Chapman https://buff.ly/3PtLmQL

#AtoZAlbumCoverObjects Day 9 Ice Cream/ dessert Milk Man - Deerhoof My favourite album that has at least a hint of dessert in the cover art- I had to take a pic of front and back cover to show it though! Title track https://buff.ly/3PwsX5G

Gig going has begun for 2025 with the now traditional Winter Sprinter at the Lexington. A great triple to kick it off, solo synth pop from The Ballet, gentle acoustic tunes from Trust Fund (welcome back!) and Modern Nature headlined with a ton of new material

#AtoZAlbumCoverObjects Day 8 Hat Desire - Bob Dylan Released 49 years ago this week, I gave this a listen yesterday and I still love it. Really good hat too. Hurricane https://buff.ly/40kEhrX One More Cup of Coffee https://buff.ly/4204PQA

#AtoZAlbumCoverObjects Day 7: Guitar Danger in the Past - Robert Forster his first solo LP and my favourite of his, recorded in Berlin with 3 Bad Seeds - Mick Harvey, Hugo Race, Thomas Wydler. The pic of Robert with guitar is based on a James Joyce book cover. title track https://buff.ly/4h0SOi2

#AtoZAlbumCoverObjects Day 6 Flowers ok so it's a floral pattern on a curtain, but it's still flowers Curtains - Tindersticks Another Night In https://buff.ly/3W3hE8U Bathtime https://buff.ly/3W7zAPX

#AtoZAlbumCoverObjects Day 5: Eagle The Great White Sea Eagle - James Yorkston and Nina Persson A slightly overlooked but lovely album from a couple of years ago, a collaboration between James Yorkston and Cardigans singer Nina. The Harmony https://buff.ly/4fOOCRo

#AtoZAlbumCoverObjects Day 4: Drink Look over the Wall, See the Sky - John Francis Flynn Irish folk tunes bent into new, weird shapes. Is that absinthe in the glass?? Mole in the Ground https://buff.ly/3DQfTWg

#AtoZAlbumCoverObjects Day 3 Cigar/ Cigarette Garbageheads on Endless Stun - East River Pipe Perhaps ERP's least well known album (from 2003 I think) but that's definitely a cigar on the cover! Where Does All The Money Go? https://buff.ly/3DGzmZw

#AtoZAlbumCoverObjects Day 2 Buidling Quiet the Room - Skullcrusher When the music sounds totally different to the artist's name, this is a dreamy ambient folk album from 2023 Whatever Fits Together https://buff.ly/4gOWIuw

#AtoZAlbumCoverObjects #MusicChallenge Day 1, Aircraft United Kingdom - American Music Club A bleak start to the new year alright Kathleen youtu.be/f7BX7OQQcuM?...

Only getting round to my lists today! Gigs of 2024 1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (O2 London) 2. PJ Harvey (Gunnersbury Park) 3. Margaret Glaspy (Portland Arms Cambridge) 4. Ex-Easter Island Head (in the round Cambridge) 5. Vashti Bunyan, (also in the round, Roundhouse) #chopsfives #gigsof24