One is never more than 30 seconds away from a footballer, spitting in HD.

New CD from Dan Haywood. I don't often bandy the word Genius about except, maybe, when I'm talking about Vic Godard. I'm going to bandy it about in the case of Dan Haywood, though. danhaywood.bandcamp.com/album/ten-si...

Me new rekkid. Album number four- or number nine depending how you look at it. Now with added Harvey Lord.

Voila! @bandcamp.com danhaywood.bandcamp.com/album/ten-si...

www.subvert.fm/dan-haywood the new long format-- Dan Haywood & Harvey Lord: Ten Signs. @subvert.fm fo digital, @bandcamp.com fo CD

danhaywood.bandcamp.com/track/may-wa... as it's June I can now reveal that May was the Month. CD digi pre-order shizzle .XD.

I hope to get to this show in Lancaster next week, Two favourites playing, Alex from Trembling Bells and Dan Haywood. Not sure how Alex is presenting, but I read that Dan's putting together something resembling a full band show. Should be ace!

A set apiece from Dan Haywood (left) and Alex 'Rex' Neilson at legendary Todmorden's legendary Golden Lion tonite. Doors 8PM .

A Eurasian Curlew in breeding habitat in Bowland this morning. I'm playing clutch of nest-ballads for Yorkshire @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social and their 'Ground Nest Fest' on April 19th, at Settle's beautiful Victoria Hall.

This just in: Sun agrees to release infinity million barrels of sunshine every morning

ChatGPT is Trump’s biggest donor and is used by ICE. If you don’t like Trump or ICE, you should quit ChatGPT.

Flippin' Ek.

Thanks to Mark Ray and @louderthanwar.bsky.social for this cracking review: "a great collection of electronica, creating a mood music soundtrack to drift away into the past with on a susurrus of sounds." Synthetic Villains: Smoker’s Children - Album Review louderthanwar.com/synthetic-vi...

Wheel of Black Darters

I hope these officers are commended for their bravery for disarming this deadly terrorist, who was armed with a cardboard sign which had lethal sharp edges. A proud moment for our boys in blue. Take that, peaceniks! What a fucking crock of shit Britain has become.

hare styling for @ckweatherill.bsky.social in Dumfries and Galloway last week:

Tin-shed troglodyte, probed by morning sun last week. I feel some wren-guilt for making it drop the cranefly you can see beneath it.

Parasite becomes aggressive. Sure all the musicians looking at our £0.0003 Spotify payouts for our work are delighted this is what our fans’ money went towards instead, and the fans equally pleased. Artists are always very in favour of war, traditionally.

Oh look! A Red Squirrel stalks Dumfries and Galloway, last week.

The 23.45 Scotrail service from Edinburgh to Glasgow

A handful of shows just announced: June 19th The Water Rats LONDON W/ Chris Eckman @eckman.chris July 26th TBA August 21st The Carlton Club MANCHESTER W/Bridget St. John August 30th Bishop’s House SHEFFIELD W/Peter Astor MORE TBA All Tix via www.emmatricca.com

A Firecrest considers its next move in the high Pyrenees

I am similarly amused and delighted to read of an adipocere and a ureterocele both musing on sauna music composers. One of my recordings contains the word varicocele.. A world first in sauna folk rock music.

Never have I seen more microchintz than in Pau, France. Or bigger glasses, with lenses up to a metre in circumference. #megalunettes #megagafas #microchintz

So…about AI’s energy use… “…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”

A spring dragonfly suns itself this week... and an al fresco song about May: danhaywood.bandcamp.com/track/a-flor...

A Skylark nest, on a saltmarsh near me, yesterday. Poets have written odes to Skylarks. Symphonists like Ralph Vaughan Williams have big hits with them. Nowadays friends ask me 'what's that bird that sounds like a dial up modem?'.

NoContextWhimbrels

danhaywood.bandcamp.com/track/made-f... Merry May Day to all. Here's an outdoor outtake of one of my better May songs. Richard (@syntheticvillains.bsky.social) and me on gtr, Paddy Steer on dbl bass. Andrew Raven (@ravraven.bsky.social) on mandolin, Jeff Barnes on heathery kit. May contain nuts.

I'll be one of the acts playing the @msf.org benefit in Lancaster, UK, tonight. Will look a bit like this. Pic Ben Bush.

Michael Hurley! What a wild and beautiful fella. Here's a BlueSky aside about his take on blue skies... one bright morning in North Yorkshire he confided in me that he preferred partially cloudy skies, and that crystal clear skies made him feel uneasy. I'd always felt the same.

Special relationship: an American Wigeon / Eurasian Wigeon hybrid, playing it cool.

With so much milk at the marketplace / why should i keep a cow?