Above us only sky? Nature's lightshows (l-R Harald Viggo Moltke, Photo of the Milky Way by John Campbell, Lightning by MK Ciurlionis & San Martin De Tours, Belchite)

#MusicSky #NowListening #ASilverMtZion He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms Gorgeous, elegiac punch to the heart transmitted direct from the turn of the century. Still as potent as ever all these years later 😎😉👍🖤

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

#MusicSky #NowListening #Molasses A Slow Messe Double beast from 2003 - one of the greatest of the GY!BE offshoots & a masterclass in sprawling, fever-chilled gloom & melancholy beauty. 😎👍😉🖤

#WeatherSongs Day 18 Bob Mould - Black Sheets Of Rain "...The clouds hanging over Choking the life out of me The motto seems to be "We work in order to be free"..." youtu.be/lM8vCMJIsuo?...

Just finished the extraordinary Keshed by @stuhennigan.bsky.social An incredible book. That's a very high bar been set early for my book of the year. Unflinchingly honest, powerful, visceral. It deserves all the plaudits and more. I really can't recommend it enough.

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You can #GetKeshed with me at Huddersfield LitFest in May if ya fancy. Also doing York LitFest in March with the amazing Naomi Booth if anyone fancies that. Busy busy busy. Full list of events on my SubStack,see my profile for a link. www.huddlitfest.org.uk/event/keshed/

The Port Sulphur Group will be in concert at the Glad Cafe, Glasgow, on Friday 3rd April. The event is in association with Monorail Music, information and tickets from this link: monorailmusic.com/product/cree...

Augustus Pablo • Rockers All Stars • Delroy Wilson A2- Do The Right (Rockers International, 2023) #AugustusPablo #DelroyWilson #RockersAllStars #HughMundell #LindonCorbettDavis #AlbertMalawi #NoelSowellBailey #FazalPrendergast #SydneyLeftHandGuissine #dub #reggae #vinyl #LeroyHorsemouthWallace

Brussels April,3rd

Adrian Sherwood shaking the foundations of the Barbican last night. Bass by the legendary Doug Wimbish. Visuals by Peter Harris

Witch Country: a magic lantern slide of the wonderfully named 'Catlow Bottoms' Pendle in Lancashire. 1910.

#BookSky these are great. Isabelle knows the score 🙏

Happy 74th birthday to Bruce Ruffin. In the late 60s, Bruce sang with both The Techniques and The Shades. Here he is with The Shades on their great cover version of The Temptations Lonely Man Am I, on a rare blank label 7".. youtu.be/VRo1qWsS31o?... #reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky

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#MusicSky #NowListening #Shady World What David Baker did in '94 after leaving Mercury Rev & it's a wee lost gem of an album. Mischievous, expansive, weird, melodic, exploding with ideas & well worth yer ears 👍😎😉🖤

Jonny (Norman Blake and Euros Childs) will be in concert this Friday 20th Feb at the Strathaven Hotel (BMX Bandits will be performing an opening set). There are only 10 tickets remaining, if you fancy coming along tickets are available at this link: wegottickets.com/event/685253

We will be in conversation with Neil Cooper at Beacon Book Festival this Sunday 22nd Feb at 3pm, discussing our involvement in independent music in Scotland through the post-punk/C86 period plus 30 years of running our Creeping Bent label. Tickets: beacon.umbraco.prcht.co.uk/spektrix-roo...

Myself and my oldest mate @stephenhanley6.bsky.social are ‘floor clearing’ at Cuckoo in Prestwich on Good Friday! LETS TWIST AGAIN! 💥 www.skiddle.com/e/42086251

#WeatherSongs Day 17 The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds youtu.be/KNfjpmvbQG0?...

Scars: Horrorshow ‘Alex my boy, just step this way Down the corridor, third on the left We’re gonna show you some films, OK?’ ‘OK droogs, let’s go’ youtu.be/0jfqrWhjVf0?... @paulresearch.bsky.social @scoorieboy.bsky.social @garycrowleyonair.bsky.social @punkandnewwave.bsky.social

The old-time mento lyric 'mind how you wheel and turn me, lick mi belly pon the tambourine' has turned up in many ska and reggae tunes. It appears here in the great harmony singing on this Wailing Souls 12"... youtu.be/bbs3MGQ47eY?... #reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky #mento

#MusicSky #NowListening #Swans Live Rope 2024 live monster... Like baring your body & soul to a supernova, having them rent to atoms & cosmic radiation & reassembled with a terrible & beautiful & excoriating sonic love. Vast, universal, goddamn primal & genuinely fucking mind blowing 👍😎😉🖤

#OwlishMonday Not so much bats in the belfry but owls on the architecture of the beautiful Santa Maria de Santes Creus a Cistercian Monastery in Catalonia, Spain. The building has stood on the site since the 11th century & is now open to visitors.

Do I know anyone in Carlisle / Cumbria on Bluesky? An evening celebrating the landscapes of Northern England 👇 Next week at @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social I'll be performing with Wainwright archivist Chris Butterfield, who'll be doing an immersive talk on A.W. himself. tullie.org.uk/events/johnn...

Still tix left for this is anyone wants to come #GetKeshed with me and Terri on Thursday in the intimate surroundings of @serenitybookshop.bsky.social. Gonna be a banger, as it always is when Terri's in the house 💥💪 www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/sto...

#MusicSky #ReggaeSky #NowListening #HughMundell Time & Place Stellar 1980 roots set from the man with the golden pipes who was taken far too soon. Backed by a colossal cast of players stirring up the warm storm, this is crucial, vital vibration for the soul 😎👍😉🖤

Ceramic art by Pakistani-born British ceramist Halima Cassell #WomensArt

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#WeatherSongs Day 16 Morphine - You Look Like Rain youtu.be/zl4Qc8DOR3M?...

A message of hope from Jimmie Reid in 1972 that’s very much for now youtu.be/b72Rm3NV-_Y?...

Most of you won't have heard of New Zealand band King Loser, but for a glorious while, I was one of their 15 or so drummers. Here's me in a clip from the recent documentary. King Loser forever🖤 I am missing my lost loved ones today, one of them is Celia Mancini.

I’m enjoying this Junk Drawer LP. Puts me in mind of Ought and Cola. The track Loughgall Circus has a great Fat White Family feel junkdrawerbelfast.bandcamp.com/album/days-o...

'Storm light' by UK contemporary printmaker Mikki Bowers #WomensArt

This 'dreader than dread' 7" from Cornell Campbell championing King Tubby's sound system is based on 'Over & Over', a 1958 B side by Bobby Day which the Dave Clark Five covered and had a US No. 1 with in 1965... youtu.be/P929zuKdmEo?... #reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky #kingtubby

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#WeatherSongs Day 15 Siouxsie & The Banshees - 92° "...Drink the water with jagged glass Eat the cactus with bleeding mouth..." youtu.be/gvNvcCQs-Fk?...

Happy Heavenly #Valentinesday birthday to NY Doll, Sylvain Sylvain - so good he named himself twice - born on this day in 1951. Pictured here with Mr. Johnny Thunders. 💔 If Johnny was the spirit of the band, Syl was the heart.

#MusicSky #NowListening #AlanVega Collision Drive His 2nd solo set finally sees the light again with some proper love. More mischievous psycho mutant rockabilly streaking headlong to Viet Vet - Frankie Teardrop's twisted brother & a troubled, churning, slow burn nightmare drone all its own. 😎👍😉🖤

Why are Scottish schools still using Twitter when the site was used to create deepfake sexual images of children? Why is the Scottish government permitting this? Why are councils permitting this? Why are teachers permitting this? If you care about the safety of children get off that site right now.

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North East pals, I'm doing a gig @drakebookshop.bsky.social on 1st June so come say hi, it's always a good do when I team up with them.

👀 TV FACE in LUTON 👀 New gig alert... at the end of March TV FACE are on the royal road to 'L ... Sat 28 March: The Castle in LUTON Sun 29 March: The Dublin Castle in LONDON Word to up Vandalism Begins at Home for inviting us to Luton, check out their superb podcast now!

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"Sub Zero is possibly the most minimal, desolate, and deviant dub record yet released on Martin’s PRESSURE label. Dub as an addictive painkiller, that sounds both sacred and ocean deep." kevinrichardmartin.bandcamp.com/album/sub-ze...

#WeatherSongs Day 14 Massive Attack - Weather Storm youtu.be/lTGjFpjOIP8?...

#WeatherSongs Day 13 NMA - The Weather "...& the rivers flow a little deeper & the floodwaters rise a little further & the hillsides they grow drier & the fires catch a little faster & you and I we just get harder & the spaces between us wider..." youtu.be/ARRqWEXI7ck?...

Visionary Swiss artist Peter Birkhauser (1911-1976) is lesser known amongst contemporary surrealists. His work ranges from menace to beauty & are snapshots of his dreamlife. Suffering depression, he entered therapy, a journey that is also witnessed in his art which won praise from Jung.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘦 - 𝘕𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 - 1960! Don't let critical thinking become a thing of the past! Ditch the plagiarizing, environment killing, brain rotting chat-bots!