Do you need verification just to check chats now or have I just been messaged by a porn bot? 😅

Wehey another music channel video! Today, I'm talking why I stopped my indie radio podcast way back. Sure, none of y'all ever heard of it but you still might be kind enough to check out the channel youtu.be/wpzLwbFXbjA?...

Job application officially sent for local vinyl pressing plant. Wish me luck.

I don't really watch things on tiktok but even just from the videos that pop up when you first load the app, I find myself hiding so much content. The 'I found this content' button needs a 'maddening' option that hides all from that creator forever

I don't know I'm getting sales, a lot of content made, I'm working on music maybe once a month rather than once every 2 years, it's been a while without driving incident so I think I'm just at my base level of regular anxiety now for that. Sometimes it feels like I might actually turn a corner.

Taking submissions for Untidy Radio - an online station that will feature no monetisation or adverts. Music should be in MP3 format. I am also accepting soundbites if you have them, promoting new releases or projects and podcasts/clips. forms.gle/ETNnGyeyKVkg...

Went into town to buy a case for my new phone (since the one I ordered on Amazon was falsely advertised) and Borderlands 4. 4 phone shops, no case. 3 game shops, eventually found it for £5 more 🥲

Had a dream last night that I thought of a good, introspective debut album title. I absolutely don't need more album title ideas but let's see how long I spend this evening trying to remember it. I mean it was a dream idea so for all I know it was 'milk bread' or something

Not one of my usual office dogs... not even my usual office in fact but a more than welcome afternoon of work nonetheless

On my youtube channel, I plan to answer a few questions that no one is asking. Firstly, what am I planning to do next? No one wants to know and I have all the answers! youtu.be/Exy2DyG2JFw?...

I've not contacted a lot of shows by any means but over the last few weeks I've been sending out tracks to some online radio sites I've used before and haven't had a reply from any of them 😅 surely they can't all have gone under while I haven't been sending stuff out

I dunno, Microsoft Rewards... I've definitely known it to do all three 🤔

Another birthday down. One where I actually thought of something to do for once so that's good. Still too many birthdays having passed with no musical output but ho hum at least we have stuff in the pipeline this time

Well I fell off with the music channel videos. In fact, it's taken me a month to remember to put this one out and it's another football shirt video... done now though #manchestercity #mancity #footballshirts #soccershirts #soccerjerseys #footballjerseys youtu.be/5qp6mji7xQQ

Ten years ago yesterday, some of my mates including my producer and collaborator L.A. Trewick, released the self-titled Nene demo. I keep telling him he should revisit it but I don't think he's convinced. neneband.bandcamp.com/album/nene-d...

Aw no, have I not uploaded for a while? It's almost as if no one in my town can actually get played on it 🤨

Had a dream last night that I logged on to a social to see someone sharing one of my Tiger Driver albums, lauding it as a brilliant piece of ambient demo work. *Sigh* A man can dream though...

Darren Wilde has been so kind as to feature Coming Home on Nova Radio North East this evening! I forgot to share before the show went on, my bad I'm out of practise, but you can still check out the replay of the show however here: ondemand.novaradio.co.uk/od/DarrenWil...

I met with my producer to discuss what direction to go in after 'Never Coming Back'. We're sticking with the rock vein the track is in, since none of that stuff has had a chance to play out yet. The EP we were looking to do after 'Coming Home' back in late 2022 also fits it, so it makes sense.

If I thought a couple months were bad, imagine how I would've felt if I knew the album wouldn't be finished 5 years later 🫣 You can listen to what exists here tho on.soundcloud.com/nDYDhqBLq6mC... #ambience #ambientmusic #electronica #noisemusic

You know edgey, hard headed metal fans have to critique Phil Labonte and All That Remains for having emotions but I just noticed the line 'I don't love me enough to let you go' and I have a lot of historic relate in that

Dang I forgot to ever share my fourth single on here... and how were the others five months ago? 🤯 this is 'Coming Home', the first of my ambient tracks to be turned into a full track #indiemusic #indiemusicians #synthpop #electropop #electronicmusic youtu.be/ImcYE-EVTbY?...

(My producer/collaborator has received my next track concept and is gonna look to start demo recordings tomorrow)

Another lovely day dogsitting with synthesizers. Cosy, rainy one today

Midnight secret: I previewed the chorus riff of a new song today but you'll have to watch it on tiktok because bluesky wont let me upload it 🫣 #indiemusic #indiemusicians #indierock #newmusic vm.tiktok.com/ZNdfAB1uM/

Started writing a plan for a video where I 'answer the question no one is asking: where is my music?'. After listing the reasons for my music being held back and seeing the length this video plan has now gotten to, I'm now just bummed out.

Here it is, as promised, this week's video on my youtube channel #mancity #manchestercity #footballshirts #footballjerseys #soccershirts youtu.be/Ja-9bT-UQgI?...

If you're a fan of David Mitchell and you haven't seen his portrayal of Police Officer Panda in Peppa Pig then you've missed out I'm afraid

If Spotify wants to help the mental health of artists, how about paying them some fucking money?

Feels good to finally have a plan for regular releases for my music Youtube at least for the next few weeks... now if only I had a plan for regular working on my music 😪

One cool thing about having an interest in old death metal bands is not knowing which can't let it go and suddenly reform after 20-30 years... new Sororicide was not on my bingo card for this year for example. (Of course I also didn't realise their Deathless EP was from 2009 until now)

Actually remembered to release this video tonight as planned (still 6 months since editing and 10 months since buying). I found my sought after piece of physical media, a CD collection of Gothic Metal Band Crematory's first 10 albums. #cds #physicalmedia #albums #crematory youtu.be/_2rNLzZI8Wo

Believe in yourself the way my car believes it has 1500 miles worth of fuel in it

Gonna let you BlueSky folk in on a badly kept secret. I have most of an unreleased Tiger Driver album over on Soundcloud 👀 Music that can be referred to as 'ambience', 'electronica', 'rubbish' and 'a slow descent into pointlessness' soundcloud.com/tigerdriveru...

Gonna be another busy year for my music rankings (not that I finished posting last years) ... just under 20 albums* for consideration and less than half the year gone *With surely at least 1 thing I've forgotten

The shared my channel a few weeks ago because I was about to release a new video. After 4 weeks, I've remembered to do that. (Nearly a year since filming it). It's a new pedal day! #guitarpedals #indiemusicians #indiemusic #guitargear #musicgear #newpedalday www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXvt...

I'd just miraculous got my facebook back less than a week ago and now all of my Instagram accounts have been disabled 😅 You couldn't even make up how garbage meta is now

One thing I often neglect, though not as much as I do the actual music, is my music youtube channel. Perhaps my favourite video is the mail opening for my first magazine feature! Hopefully remember to upload some overdue content and film some new stuff soon youtu.be/ocSBSJRnWPY?...

Greedo when someone asks who took the first shot #starwars #itsawayssunnyinphiladelphia #alwayssunny vm.tiktok.com/ZNd6K5xuu/

I've never had any real negative criticism of my music and it's just as well because when I get negativity on other things it does bother me, as much as I kid myself 😅 (Doesn't change anything about how I act like, it just bothers me)

Dogsitting duty

Maybe a dashcam wasn't such a good idea for me. Every journey so far I've recorded stupidity. At least in the past I just had to let it go. A woman was just waving her arms and beeped me for going around a parked construction trailer which I started going around before she even joined the road.

Had a near miss earlier with someone else driving and thought, 'at least the closest I've been to being in an accident wasn't me driving... and of course it was an audi' and then I remembered I already have been in a minor accident and that was an Audi driver too

It's #bandcampfriday and I'm actually paying attention for once! So what are we saying, #musicsky, is someone gonna finally make my first bandcamp sale? 👀 #synthpop #electronicmusic #ambientmusic bendring.bandcamp.com

Had a play about with my midi controller on my newish laptop finally. Only time will tell if my lazy ass being able to play synths sat in bed again will increase my productivity. (My guess is no)

Alas, a new laptop wasn't somehow a miracle cure to my Arturia MiniLab knobs not working properly (after like 5 PCs of them not). Guess I'll just continue not using them 😮‍💨

Finally bothered to start a new Facebook after I was locked out of mine with no support almost 2 months ago. They've now locked me out of my new account and I have to verify that it's me, presumably because it looks like a copied account from the one they blocked me out of. Honestly astounding

Another list of mine from 2024. Bout time I got these finished. This time, it's artists I listened to for the first time this year who I enjoyed the most. #musicsky #musiclists #artistrecommendations #musictopten

Just updated my music promo rolodex for indie radio shows, magazines etc. Thought I'd share it in case it's any use to anyone docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A band I love, Bullets and Octane, recently released their second B-sides album in as many years. The last one was their best album in years. This one is better. Things are looking good for the actual album 😅