#MusicSky #NowListening Skullflower - Strange Keys To Untune Gods' Firmament Abrasive, pure feedback/drone behemoth & Metal Machine Music's twisted gigantic cousin... Absolute headcleaner & vital sonic scourer 😎👍🖤

Random acts of senseless beauty #278

Happy 76th birthday to Stevie Wonder. There have been several reggae versions of Stevie's 1966 hit A Place In The Sun. David Isaacs recorded it first for Lee Perry but my favourite is this beautiful Slim Smith version... youtu.be/jFolW0iE8wg?... #reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky

#MusicSky #DubSky #NowListening Dub Trees - Celtic Vedic Dub medicine 🖤

#MusicSky #NowListening #Skullflower Kino III: Xanan Raw drone & noise... Tripping the dark fantastic... 🖤

Phone appointment with registrar & back home now for a week. Dazed. Sitting on the couch with a brew & staring at the stereo. Need some tunes. Right now 🖤👍😎

#nowplaying Blood Incantation- Absolute Elsewhere. SF themed progressive DM with ambient/krautrock overtones. one of the most important records in heavy music of the past decade. They’ve got a doc about it - All Gates Open- coming out soon. BC link: bloodincantation.bandcamp.com/album/absolu...

Random acts of senseless beauty #277

Random acts of senseless beauty #276

Thank you everyone 🖤🙏 Proper community of good souls one & all. Big love to every last one of you 🖤

Mum passed on Saturday evening. She was with folk who loved her & in her own home which is how she wanted it. Relieved she didn't have to go through that any longer. Now up at her house making calls & appointments... the bureaucracy of death... It's all very, very strange... 🖤

Random acts of senseless beauty #275

Further into the absence...

Back up to the jaws of absence...

New stuff alert! My music for the former Ravenscraig Steelworks site should be heard at the end of the month, on site as part of a multi art performance... Im not too sure about the exact shape of things but if you are a fellow Lanarkite or are nearby you can grab a ticket below heres a snippet

Thank you everyone for the love & care - you have no idea how much it's appreciated 🙏🖤 Cousin now staying with mum for two days to let me get some sleep. Absolutely shattered. Back up on Monday.

Random acts of senseless beauty #274

End of life care for mum now. Carers, nurses, all in place. Not much sleep though. Onwards we go 🖤

The Congos: Ark of the Covenant youtu.be/gO-VUT1zxOk?... @punkandnewwave.bsky.social @creepingbent.bsky.social @ndb66.bsky.social @dubcadet.bsky.social

The Wailing Souls are legends, and 'Fire De A Muss Muss Tail' is a perfect example why. This 1976 Makossa version was actually recorded at Tuff Gong before the famous Channel One cut. It’s smooth and rootsy. Back then, they even used aliases like Little Roys to not get confused with The Wailers!

LW Politician: let slightly raise taxes on the incredibly rich to invest in public services. Media: woke idiot will ruin us all! RW politician: lets burn public services to the ground to pay for a tax cut for people so rich they won’t notice it. Media: this man speaks for us all, he the chosen one

Into the jaws again...

Spent chunks of the day on the phone again... Home From Hospital Coordinator was horrified by the way the ward discharged mum & said they should've arranged for her to get several visits a day from district nurses to give meds & catheter care. Which they didn't. Fixed now, finally 👍

Karen Scrase, contemporary stained glass artist from Bristol UK #WomensArt

#MusicSky #NowListening Machinefabriek - Vloed In whatever sleep I manage to get these days my dreams sound like this... 🖤

This is an observation made by Ursula K. Le Guin. “There comes a moment around the age of twenty when you must choose, for the rest of your life, either to be like everyone else, or to transform your differences into virtues.” | Magnificent observations about life.

#MusicSky #DubSky #NowListening Llyn Y Cwn Megaliths In Dub Magnetic, utterly spellbinding dub sister to his "Megaliths" album from '24... "...the echo beneath the surface, the unheard rhythm that has always been there." Magnificent 🖤👍😎🙏

Slept the sleep of the unconscious for 10 hours flat. Feel like I've got some weird adrenaline hangover, but definitely better for the kip. Cousin Kim said mum's doing ok & the carers are holding up their end so that's a mighty relief...

If we take the stones as having become lithic transmitters of the past, we should not be surprised to find our own attempts at signal-catching sited so close to them. We have always been in the business of broadcasting and receiving messages. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

The Scallop, 2003, by Maggi Hambling "I hear those voices that will not be drowned" #WomensArt

Random acts of senseless beauty #273

Wow. This poem made me gasp. Read it. 💜

Statements of presence: I was here. And we were. On Derbyshire rock.

I’m in the print edition of the Observer today, talking Boyhood, writing, sex, violence and the redemptive power of the word. @theobserveruk.bsky.social @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

#MusicSky #NowListening #Sistrenatus Division One 2007 dark ambient industrial noise & ritual headcleaner for recent days. Loosens the right planks & screws with mighty clatter & vibration. Medicinal pressure drop 😎👍🖤

Meds/carers mess got fixed after more calls this morning. Cousin arrived & gave her the biggest goddamn hug I could muster. Priceless. She's a warrior woman & mighty soul & exactly the kinda heart needed - if only the world was run by folk like her 🖤

Even in the midst... Random acts of senseless beauty #272

Couple hrs sleep last night. 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 Wired to the moon, but not in a good way... still chasing up & trying to sort out the carers/meds situation. Cousin coming from Fife later on today to take over & let me go home & sleep for a day. Assuming we get this current crisis levelled out...

Colossal fuck up. Mum sent home with a mountain of meds & no MARS sheet so the carers can't give her them. Had to call the neighbour who's a nurse to help me sort them out for the night & the morning....

Fucking hell. Had a bunch of calls about an hour ago saying she's now getting discharged today cause they've sorted the care out. Was about to get on the train home. Head's absolutely cooked. FFS 🤬😵‍💫🤬😵‍💫🤬😵‍💫🤬😵‍💫

Mum was supposed to be discharged from hospital & going home today. Bed was delivered fine yesterday, all was ok, but got a call from the coordinator & the carers have screwed up the care package so discharge is delayed... Monday? Tuesday? Dunno yet... Ffs. 🙄

and breathe... 💚

Good news and sad news from Down Under remind me of the time we played hide n seek with a roo. Live long, live well, love all creatures.

The Queen of #May, 1900, (detail) by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh of the Glasgow School, who pushed the boundaries of Art Nouveau #WomensArt #May1st #FridayFeeling

The Fall - Bremen Nacht By tonsillitis size train station Hof Could only in one way fail to impress, This on drinks door I did lay, I had been one day possessed On Bremen nacht... youtu.be/g7P9MPx2nME?... #FallFriday

This is the album you need on #bandcampfriday trust me.

Happy International Workers’ Day youtu.be/HSBwzpTdgZI?...

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