Our new episode is out now wherever you get yr podcasts! This month @ineeddirection.bsky.social @killminus.bsky.social & @newpathstohelicon.bsky.social discuss our favourite songs of 2015 including ethereal pop, modern classical piano epics, unsettling hiphop & a new conspiracy theory about Iceland!

Photo editing with Atticus. #Photography #Edinburgh #Cats #CatsOfBluesky

Listening to the new Just Mustard album (streaming while waiting for the vinyl to arrive) and it is ***SO GOOD***. If you’ve not checked it out, do so immediately! #shoegaze #NewMusicFriday

Albert Ayler, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 1969. Elliot Landy, Kodak Infrared film.

Arsenal 4 Atletico Madrid 0

Tuesday night nudge. No interest in signed things as yet ☹️

GABRIEL SCORES!

A little trip to Alnwick on Saturday ended up in Barter Books. No books bought 🤷‍♂️ #Photography #Alnwick #Fujifilm

Yesterday I helped (mainly chauffeuring) my youngest set up a stall selling her artwork in an actual shop in the actual Trafford Centre, Manchester 🤩 It’s upstairs in Kenji for the next 2 weeks if anyone’s around there. Or scan the QR code that’s on the stall and that has links to her Etsy shop.

Lambent light on the Burger King sign #edinburgh #photography #shotoniphone

When you erase words, you erase worlds that were, and worlds to come. Readers resist #BannedBooksWeek #books #livres #censorship #FreedomOfExpression #Edinburgh #Edimbourg

Journalist or not, photography isn’t a hate crime freedom.press/issues/journ...

Happy #Caturday from Scout and Atticus. #Edinburgh #Cats #CatsOfBluesky #Photography

Lost then Found 💙

'[In the wake of Kurt Cobain's death] Sonic Youth found themselves in Memphis, Tennessee during the first half of 1995, reeling, grieving and asking themselves where they could go next. Washing Machine was the answer...' #SonicYouth's Washing Machine at 30 buff.ly/uItAir8

She's a 10 but Excel thinks she's October.

The Cure, Slowdive and MBV you say…

Rush hour on the Canal Grande. 📷 Fujifilm GFX50Sii #venice #venezia #photography #fujifilm #streetphotography

Pregnant women deserve so much better than Trump’s theatre of scaremongering and shame | Kate Womersley

Following his involvement in Tai Shani's The Spell or The Dream at Somerset House, Mo'min Swaitat of the Palestinian Sound Archive tells Rob Corsini about how the project is preserving #Palestine’s musical and cultural history Mo’min Swaitat interviewed buff.ly/oCN45Bl

First decent charity shop haul in absolutely ages, and just in time for #WeekendSingles. #Edinburgh #Vinyl #RecordCollector_

Venetian sunshine and shimmering water on Kodak Portra 400 film. 📷 Contax T2 #venice #filmphotography #photography #travelphotography #contax #kodak

Mavisbank House in Midlothian, the first Palladian villa in Scotland and now in ‘fixer-upper’ condition. 📷 Fujfilm X-T4 #photography #fujifilm #derelict #AbandonedBuilding #architecture #heritage

Nature photography in Midlothian. Apparently this is a Red Admiral. 📷 Fujifilm X-T4 #Fujifilm #NaturePhotography #Photography #Butterfly

Atticus and Scout making sure everything is hunky dory in the street. #Edinburgh #CatsOfBluesky #Cats #Photography

A heritage and design consortium has taken the keys to the A-listed studio of a designer who created fabrics for Dior and Chanel, ahead of a major restoration project

Posing in Venice 📷 Fujfilm GFX50Sii #venice #streetphotography #photography #fujifilm #seagull #wildlifephotography #veneziapersiempre

Hello. CasioTrix is an abandoned project from years back when I thought I'd do some solo music. Kind of thought of resurrecting it. Maybe. I don't know... Anyway, I just uploaded a long-lost track from 2017 I found on my PC. It's not very good, but who cares? casiotrix.bandcamp.com/track/neverg...

Who is up for a re-run of #SlowdiveTop15 as suggested by Peter below? Nearly three years since it was done on the other place and there’s been a new album since. A reminder of the final results from 2022 #MusicSky #Slowdive #Shoegaze

Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

Fulfilling my Football Italia fantasies this morning in #Venice #FootballItalia #Calcio @mundialmag.bsky.social @acjimbo.bsky.social

The gondolier lifestyle seems pretty sweet #venice #venezia #gondolier #photography #streetphotography

Thank for all the birthday wishes, pals! We’ll be pootling around Venice for a few more days, so expect *lots* of tourist pictures.

New on the blog: A guest post by Andy Wood on the recent @glasgoespop.bsky.social Festival manicpopthrills.wordpress.com/2025/08/28/l...

Happy Birthday to this one, enjoying her Venetian birthday cake breakfast 😍

Random iPhone photos from Venice today #venice #venezia #photography #shotoniphone

The cat, the warning #venice #venezia #cats #catsofbluesky #photography

Hotel views in Venice #venice #venezia #photography

Working the vaporetto in Venice #photography #fujifilm #venice #venezia #streetphotography #vaporetto

Riding the vaporetto in Venice #photography #fujifilm #streetphotgraphy #venice #venezia #vaporetto

A field of sunflowers + a vintage manual focus lens = instant shoegaze album covers. #photography #sunflower #fujifilm #naturephotography

Some more shots and words including a short chat with @everythingelseband.bsky.social now up at @resoundonline.bsky.social 😊 re-sound.co.uk/everything-e...

New on the blog: Alan Sparhawk live in Newcastle-upon-Tyne manicpopthrills.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/c...

CALAFRIORI SCORES!

A carpet’s eye view of Atticus dangling louchely off the table #Edinburgh #Cats #CatsOfBluesky #Photography

8️⃣ hours till the Premier League returns

More eloquent storytelling by photojournalist Steffi Keith from the hallways of New York City's immigration court. Only the latest heartbreak. A man takes off his wedding ring to give to his partner before he is detained by a federal agent. She ends up leaving without him.

Sarah, Palermo, August 2023 📷 Fujfilm X-T4 #Portrait #Photography #Italy #Palermo #StreetArt #Fujifilm

I love this song, and the album it’s from - absolutely perfect for the summer. youtu.be/yRkHDHaX_Mk?...