Merry Christmas everyone

Lego owl!

Finally got round to finishing Lower Decks. What a glorious and brilliant love letter to Star Trek. While ST: Picard thought that all we wanted was to see the TNG crew on the bridge of the D again, Lower Decks actually cared enough to give us T’Pol and Tripp in a long happy marriage and 1/2

Lego squirrel!

Lego fox!

Finally completed the Lego DS9 B got me for last Xmas! A thing of beauty

“I believe virtually everything I read, and I think that is what makes me more of a selective human than someone who doesn't believe anything.” My favourite visual gag is the cover for Intravenous De Milo.

Today on @outsideleft.bsky.social I’m writing about Swallow’s Blow and the remix album Blowback, lost masterpieces of Shoegaze and post-rock outsideleft.com/main.php?sto...

Saturday morning vibes: Darkthrone’s A Blaze In The Northern Sky, on glorious vinyl!

The CFP for #CRSF2026 is now live on our blog crsfhome.home.blog! The theme for this year's conference is Systems and Entanglement 🪢 We're so excited to see everyone's abstracts and proposals!

Tape-ify Wrapped

Ageing goth listens to Mellon Collie in the rain

Today in Jonathan Aesthetics #SmashingPumpkins #BronteSisters #NicolaGriffith #MyBloodyValentine #SubPop

Fern Gully is a mess but my god does Tim Curry go hard as Hexxus, particularly this song www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVzY...

Today on @outsideleft.bsky.social I’m interviewing indiepop legends the Would-be-goods about their brilliant new album and their storied career! outsideleft.com/main.php?sto...

Sunday morning vibes: Spain’s glorious The Blue Moods Of Spain on vinyl!

Today on @thefantasyhive.bsky.social I’m intervening the wonderful Lauren Du Plessis about her incredible debut novel Tender @influxpress.bsky.social fantasy-hive.co.uk/2025/11/inte...

Today on @thefantasyhive.bsky.social I’m reviewing the brilliant botanical body horror Tender by Lauren Du Plessis @influxpress.bsky.social fantasy-hive.co.uk/2025/11/tend...

Also visited the MBV merch pop up and managed to get three of the four new badges - just need the Loveless one for the complete set!

New favourite shirt

MBV were absolutely magical last night. Delighted that I got to share this gig with me dad

Today on @outsideleft.bsky.social I’m reviewing the archival release of the year - a glorious boxset of live Hüsker Dü recordings from the band at the peak of their powers outsideleft.com/main.php?sto...

Sometimes you have a dumb idea and just go with it.

Today on @outsideleft.bsky.social I’m interviewing Christian Frederickson and Rachel Grimes of Rachel’s, on the reissue of the band’s classic debut album Handwriting! outsideleft.com/main.php?sto...

Today on @outsideleft.bsky.social I’m interviewing Josh Haden, mastermind behind Spain, on the reissue of Spain’s classic debut album The Blue Moods of Spain! outsideleft.com/main.php?sto...

Gertie and I have just signed to Creation Records and released a classic debut album. Might bankrupt the label later recording an impenetrable masterpiece idk

Thrilled to be interviewing Shoegaze heroes @swirlies11.bsky.social today on @outsideleft.bsky.social outsideleft.com/main.php?sto...

Spain were absolutely magical last night

Today in Jonathan Aesthetics #DianaWynneJones #theBrontesisters #Spain #Carcass #4AD

Followed by the Wolfgang Press’ Sweat Box EP!

Saturday morning vibes - The Cranberries’ MTV Unplugged recording, just issued on vinyl!

My review copy of the Cranberries MTV Unplugged arrived!

I’ve chosen my top pics of the month over at @thefantasyhive.bsky.social alongside my colleagues, by which I mean I’ve made an absolute menace of myself as usual fantasy-hive.co.uk/2025/10/top-...

Obligatory post-gig band T pic

The Swirlies were transcendent last night! So glad I got to see them live and meet my hero Damon Tutunjian!

Super excited to be seeing American shoegaze legends Swirlies this evening in Manchester!

Awww yeah now I get to reread an old favourite

Shoegaze legends Chapterhouse will perform their classic 1991 debut album ‘Whirlpool’ in full at Islington Assembly Hall in London on April 29, 2026 – exactly 35 years to the day since it was released...

Today on @outsideleft.bsky.social I have the pleasure of interviewing one of my all-time musical and artistic heroes, the brilliant @diamandagalas.com outsideleft.com/main.php?sto...

Today on @thefantasyhive.bsky.social I’m reviewing @scumbelievable.bsky.social ‘s brilliant new novel of body horror and transgressive cinema, Black Flame fantasy-hive.co.uk/2025/10/blac...

100% true

Delighted to announce that I have a short story published in the University of Liverpool School of the Arts Literary Magazine! It’s called ‘Unknown Winged Things’ and you can read it here joom.ag/Oh2d/p63

Today on @thefantasyhive.bsky.social we’re celebrating spooky season! fantasy-hive.co.uk/2025/10/spoo...

Today in Jonathan Aesthetics #UrsulaLeGuin #Possession #Rachel’s #Spain #4AD

Obligatory post-gig tshirt selfie!

Sleeper were absolutely brilliant last night!

Liverpool and Manchester friends! If you like Shoegaze, or even just great guitar music, you owe it to yourself to check out the Swirlies later this month in Manchester! They’re playing at Gorilla on the 28th, it’s their first UK tour in foreeeeeever, and trust me you’re gonna want to be there!

Today on @outsideleft.bsky.social I’m writing about Spain’s The Blue Moods of Spain, one of the most beautiful and melancholy albums of the 90s outsideleft.com/main.php?sto...

Metal bands have much to teach other genres about badges