Tired and stressed out; time to unwind with some Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Was having a conversation with a friend last night about insane journeys which made me think about *that* taxi ride @kennywenny.bsky.social

Penultimate night in Egypt vibes

Fivefold Daily Puzzle #4 (Nov 14, 2025) solved in 3:05 with 0 hints! fivefold.ca

Fivefold Daily Puzzle #3 (Nov 13, 2025) solved in 12:22 with 0 hints! fivefold.ca

Where's your title gone? Where's your title gone? Last night I heard your brother Singing this song Ooo-oooh Noncey noncey Creep creep www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

Gotta love plane delays; my stupid o'clock arrival in Brizzle is now going to be stupid o'clock +1

Charging my implant is still uncomfortable, but a warm Moroccan evening with lashings of G&T helps!

Utopia Must Fall - genuinely the best game I've played on any platform all year; it's got that "just one more try" feel absolutely nailed. @pixeljamgames.bsky.social

/me answers phone call: "I've seen your profile on LinkedIn, please add my number to WhatsApp so I can contact you about it" *click* Guessing this is some new kind of bizarre scam. Shame the call came from a private number...

Burninating a parrot - as you do... #imogen #remake

Current status

This is hell, having an awful time

Five caipirinha's down - what could possibly go wrong?

Farewell blighty, see you in a week; right you lot, I'm trusting you not to burn the place down while I'm gone

Holiday starts at the airport. It's the law

Garden office is go!

Why have we normalised young children being 'entertained' on public transport with tablets / phones blasting nursery rhymes at full volume?

I feel like an eight year old that's tired and needs to go to sleep, but wants to stay awake because "grown ups" are fighting

Shameless plug alert! Thought Control, the Pink Floyd tribute that I'm honoured to provide vocals for, are playing at Komedia in Bath on 25th May - komediabath.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/... No click tracks or pre-recording backing tracks; everything is played live

S'not fair - weather like this just screams for BBQ and beer, but I've got to play this evening; Hobgoblin and complicated bass riffs don't mix very well!

Smells like Appletiser Tastes like Appletiser Looks like waste from the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant

Happy beverage time all

Watched Star Trek: Section 31 because I was bored, and surely the IMDB rating of 3.8 had to be a mistake, right? Right? Fuck me, that was awful. It made The Final Frontier look like Citizen Cane in comparison.

Love it when a new @techmoan.bsky.social video about a device that had completely passed me by drops - it's the perfect antidote to a day of painting and DIY. Really glad to hear Mat's voice is recovering after being ill. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjaW...

Rest in peace old faithful, at least you died at a rehearsal and not during a gig...

Just watched "Common People" from the new series of Black Mirror - damn, that was dark

Some great pictures courtesy of Paul Appleby from the Thought Control gig at the Cheltenham Playhouse last Saturday

Sometimes, I miss the days when displays just, y'know, displayed things....

My home for the next 12 hours....

Still one one of the greatest sight gags in TV history...

Started playing "Thank Goodness You're Here!" this evening - had to stop for a while because my laughter was disturbing the wife. Daft, surreal, and packed with visual gags - loving it so far

At the gig tonight a punter has just called me a cross between JJ Burnell, Lemmy and Dave Grohl I'm going to take that as a win

Noooooo.....

I love "In Rainbows", but contrary to the established groupthink, I rank "House of Cards" as one of the best tracks on the album. And the "From The Basement" version is just sublime.

Orange Seventy-nine Forty-two Twenty-four Forty-five Sixty-ten Six Seven Fifty-six Sixty-five Orange Forty-four Fifty-three Forty-four Seventeen Thirteen Twenty-three

Keyboard end stage reached (for now); Keychron K10 Max, Gateron Pro 3.0 Silver switches with Hacker Mint keycaps.

Not long until we get the show back on the road for our first dates in 2025...

Still massively proud of my Floyd tribute band - this was recorded at a practice session a couple of years ago. Really glad to say that Dogs is back in our set this year.

A drunken conversation at a pub quiz got me to watch the whole of "Monkey Dust" again (if you've not seen it, it's bleak!); the theme tune is "That's Not Really Funny" by Eels which got me listening to this fine album again Moral: getting drunk at pub quizzes is a good thing...

The first album I ever bought with my own money, from when I was 12. My taste changed quite dramatically over the next couple of years, but I still have a soft spot for this one

Have had to return the Keychron K10 Pro I purchased a couple of weeks ago - a real shame as it was really nice to type on apart from the space bar, which had an unacceptable level of wobble and sounded absolutely awful

In another reality there would be a whole album of Aphex Twin tracks that Philip Glass orchestrated - unfortunately we live in this one, but his version of Icct Hedral is just sublime

Well, thank fuck this day is over; found out that a very old friend (and drummer for a previous band I was in for many years) took his own life on Wednesday. A glass was raised in your honour dude.

Currently listening to this; it's by no means Jarre's best work, but it is a late career highlight after some very middling (and downright awful) albums. Highlight for me is "Watching You" with 3D from Massive Attack.

This is the album that turned me into a Steven Wilson obsessive - to my mind, one of the greatest albums of the 2010s, if not this century (so far). Complex, accessible, harrowing and stunningly beautiful in equal measure. Everyone should listen to it at least once. #StevenWilson #HandCannotErase

This is definitely a 'for hardcore fans only' album, but it's a fascinating journey through the evolution of 'Balance (Music For the Eye)' to it becoming 'The Seduction of Claude Debussy' #artofnoise #imageofagroup

Goodnight all

Beer hit hard this evening. Been a while since I've been this drunk

I'm several pints in to a great night so far - if I'm posting bollocks later, please ignore me!