Josh Simons knocking on your door, swivel-eyed, demanding 'are you now or have you ever ̶b̶e̶e̶n̶ lived with a left-wing member of the Labour Party?'

See also anyone suddenly suggesting that government contracts with Palantir and OpenAI should be cancelled solely because Mandelson may have lobbied for them. There have been moral and ideological reasons to oppose the integration of those companies into our public services this whole time

Talking Bee Gees, Lennon, Weezer and more with Ryan Jarman

Did this last year, gonna do it again now. Here are the four best albums I listened to for the first time in 2025

Watching some Abel Ferrara

in zohran’s jon stewart interview he says he’s been using the ed koch quote in interviews "if you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. if you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist." and some kid shouted at him “12 out of 12 baby! take me away!”

Excellent salve to Ronay’s piece last week. ‘You want concerted international action against Israel for its crimes in Gaza and elsewhere? Good luck with that when you can’t even get a few violent far-right football fans turned away at Birmingham Airport.’

It would appear that the Tristero cartel have sabotaged my Shadow Ticket pre-order. My paranoia is off the charts right now

a shocking - and actually quite terrifying - open dereliction of this government's responsibility to its own citizens

Bonnie Blue, absolutely run-of-the-mill pornstar name, but could also absolutely be a rousing Scots whaling song in the Roud folk song index

Happy Sunday 🍻

Finished Gravity’s Rainbow today. Seeing One Battle After Another tonight. Haven’t yet read Vineland. I’ve planned this all wrong

Geese really bring out the YouTube-comment “the kids are alright!” boomer in me. Getting Killed is a blast

Yaxley Lennon is funded by US billionaire Robert Shillman who also backs James O’Keefe, Katie Hopkins, Laura Loomer and other far right figures. The apparent grassroots racist renaissance is astroturfed observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

London folk! Glue book fair at the ICA is on til 7pm tomorrow and well worth popping along to get, among other things, Bleet’s latest zine which features a short story by me

'The ‘Free Angela’ sticker within this prohibitively expensive set, nestled amongst trading-card style Lennon collectables, epitomises something peculiar about the 21st C: the packaging up, sanitising, and selling of the past.' #JohnLennon & the Gutting of 60s #Counterculture buff.ly/4bHhp7I

An excellent Black Sky Thinking on why a new £££ box set devoted to John Lennon & Yoko Ono's years of "activism" is further evidence that the legacy of both the 60s and rapacious 80s are now forever intertwined #fuckinghippies thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Wrote about boxset tyranny, the (very) long 1980s, and the heroes and villains of the 60s/70s counterculture for the Quietus!

Lijadu Sisters, Bonzo Dog Band, The Watersons und so weiter on this month’s radio hour noodsradio.com/shows/viridi...

Rylan’s cancellation couldn’t have been more badly timed

Have written about the (very) Strange World of Van Morrison for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/interviews/s...

Consuming every last morsel of Eze content today

Sally Rooney: “I would happily publish this statement in a UK newspaper–but that would now be illegal. The present UK Gov has willingly stripped its own citizens of basic rights & freedoms, including the right to express & read dissenting opinions, in order to protect its relationship with Israel.”

The final sentence in the Letterboxd description for 2001 Wings biopic Wingspan is more Partridge than Partridge himself

I admire Mo Salah's restraint. "Farewell". Really? Suleiman al-Obeid was killed by the IDF as he was queuing for food in Gaza. Say it, you cowards.

Sonny Sharrock, Van Dyke Parks, Hoagy Carmichael and more on my latest hour of radio noodsradio.com/shows/viridi...

I've passed (woohoo!) my final project on the RCA writing course :) profile here: 2025.rca.ac.uk/school-of-ar...

To think, the much more exciting and high octane Hundred format starts tomorrow

One-armed Chris Woakes it’s time to be a hero

What words remain for a government that goes to court to insist it be allowed to continue selling weapons to a state committing genocide, then sends a letter of complaint when those weapons are used?

Another day lost to test cricket, god bless

Latest Noods Radio show in the archive now, featuring S.E. Rogie, Bill Frisell, Solomon Ilori, and bookended by a couple of Brian Wilson tributes noodsradio.com/shows/viridi...

Lyra Pramuk (@lyra-lyra.bsky.social) makes music designed to both confound and connect. Her experiential new album Hymnal is part of a wider ambition to shape a less consumerist musical future away from the algorithms, as she tells @desolationbro.bsky.social.

Beautiful Vision and Inarticulate Speech of the Heart. Van was about the only artist from the 60s/70s who had an exceptional and faultless run of 80s albums and it’s because he made the big 80s sound work for him. Anyone who doesn’t get 80s Van doesn’t get Van at all I fear

Spoke to the brilliant @lyra-lyra.bsky.social about her mind-melting new album Hymnal www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/int...

Saw a bloke on the underground yesterday with a BBC 6 Music tattoo. Which one of you was it?

New Van Morrison album is sounding absolutely glorious and has some quintessential Van song titles: Back To Writing Love Songs, Colourblind, Haven’t Lost My Sense Of Wonder

No musician has extracted the beauty from their pain in quite as magnificent a way as Brian did. The most human artist of his lifetime, and I’m very grateful he let us in. RIP Brian.

Seeing Todd Rundgren at the Palladium in October, dreams do come true

Latest Viridian Vault show is in the archive and features a song for the new Pope, some listener correspondence, and an XTC deep cut noodsradio.com/shows/viridi...

This season, Spurs lost as many Premier League games (22) as Swindon did in 1993-94, but we were focussing on the Wiltshire Premier Shield from January onwards.

Those who object to music events shutting off parks are branded nimbys. But this time, I’m on their side | Moya Lothian-McLean

Many of Stereolab’s signature moves are on display on Instant Holograms on Metal Film, but these arrangement choices never feel gratuitous.

Wrote about the new Stereolab for @thelineofbestfit.com (it’s great) www.thelineofbestfit.com/albums/stere...

The podcast that kept me sane (debatable) in lockdown is back!

This better be for real!