1977. Find "The Youth" confusing? Let British tabloid the "Daily Mirror" help😂

nagamatzu.bandcamp.com/album/1984 #goth #darkwave #nagamatzu #cassette #minidisc

1967. No pressure then Pete, Rog, John & Keith😂

I love Éliane Radigue’s music – it informs me, it expresses me – and so I’m very honoured indeed that @electronicsound.bsky.social magazine have published my essay on her music. She was a one-off, the like of which we shall see again. www.electronicsound.co.uk/features/wav...

Have you got 15 minutes this Wholly Sunday for your Lored & Savour? www.mixcloud.com/DJedByDrifti... #drifting #djedbydrifting #mixcloud #ivegottobedrifting #joemckechnie #djmixes

Love this video. We were always doing this sort of thing at my grammar school – let’s hear it for Hamond’s in Swaffham – back in the 1970s.

#5debutalbums7579 A joy to behold

News of Giovanni Dadomo's band The Snivelling Shits gigs with The Doctors Of Madness in Sounds 22nd, April 1978.

Now playing ‘Focus at the Rainbow’. Released in 1973 this album still astounds me in how four guys can go on stage at what, at the time, was probably their most important concert and play such a blisteringly incredible set.

Always a great read and nice to see a lengthy feature on Hannah Peel in the latest copy of Electronic Sound @electronicsound.bsky.social

The latest @electronicsound.bsky.social has delivered a wonderful treat for the weekend. A focus on @hannahpeel.bsky.social together with her latest collaboration with BEIBEI WANG. Even better there's a seven-inch featuring their work bundled with the mag too. What's not to love 🙏x

It’s the first weekend in UK shops for the new Electronic Sound, with sonic polymath HANNAH PEEL on the cover. You can also buy the mag with an orange vinyl seven-inch featuring two tracks Hannah recorded with percussionist Beibei Wang direct from us at electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine

Anyway, here’s an amusing bit of music writing I recently read for the first time. Phil Sutcliffe in Sounds (via Rock’s Backpages), 1980, on XTC. Andy Partridge has complained about too many “K” words in reviews of his band (“jerky”, etc.)…

Having my daily asteroid shower Thanks @electronicsound.bsky.social for being real stars and running the best mag out there 🫯

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW! We have the awesome HANNAH PEEL on the cover of the latest Electronic Sound and we’re bundling the mag with an orange vinyl seven-inch featuring two cracking tracks Hannah recorded with virtuoso percussionist BEIBEI WANG. Order now at electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine

If you missed me in my new weekly Monday lunchtime slot on Soho Radio, you can catch up here. For the latter part of the show, Matt Ashton from The Leaf Library gamely tackled a barrage of Smash Hits-style questions concerning bus seat location preferences & chance meetings with Ronnie O'Sullivan.

49 years ago today, The Damned played their first show at CBGB in New York City #PunkSky @ian-geordie-clark.bsky.social @georgiosmasman.bsky.social @ian-geordie-clark.bsky.social @indashadoz.bsky.social @scotspostpunk.bsky.social @punkandnewwave.bsky.social

Things you never knew existed but glad you clicked on play. Suzi Quatro covers The Normal’s ‘Warm Leatherette’ @punkandnewwave.bsky.social music.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ3R...

Spring blessings! Ack Ack! The Dark Train will blast off from UFO Central (Warminster Community Radio) y Radio MINERVA at 2200 BST//1800 ART on Moonday evening. Have a good one! 🍄❤️🍄

Very sad to hear legendary producer Rupie Edwards has died aged 80. Rupie produced early singles by Gregory Isaacs and Mighty Diamonds. His innovative work peaked in 1974 when this groundbreaking 7" made the UK Top 10... 🙏 youtu.be/sZZlQqG7hEg?... #reggae #reggaesky #vinyl #vinylsky #musicsky

This A-Z guide to UK punk bands in Sounds in April 1977 was one of a dozen or so things that changed my life at around this time. I’d just turned 16 and I was so fired up that it’s amazing I made it to 17.

Singles Page reviewed by Rat Scabies and Brian James in Sounds 2nd, April 1977

Sounds of the New Wave by Vivien Goldman and many other journalists in Sounds 2nd, April 1977. @jonsavage.bsky.social

New @electronicsound.bsky.social podcast episode 8 "What connects Paul McCartney to the Sex Pistols and Throbbing Gristle?" has a nice little anecdote courtesy of Chris Carter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovtu...

Moonbuilding Weekly Issue 102 is out now for your bank holiday weekend reading pleasure. Oh yes. moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-102-...

Stay Alive will be a Sunday Times Bestseller this weekend. Thanks to everyone who’s supported the book, and everyone who bought, read or listened to a copy. And to everyone who’s reached out - I’ve had some incredible messages. You’re all too fucking lovely. Here’s to Stuart: back in the charts.

I grew up in the small Norfolk town of Swaffham and I remember being physically sick with excitement when the story of The Peddlar was told on Jackanory…

The Peddlar of Swaffham travels to old London Bridge and waits three days to find his fortune. The journey is successful- but not in a way you might expect #WyrdWednesday #Norfolk #britishfolklore

40 years and one week ago precisely, The Wolfhounds got our first feature in the NME, courtesy of Jerry Thackray. I rushed down to WH Smith in Romford, snapped one up and read it – twice – on the fountain wall. I'd been reading the magazine for 10 years by that point. It was all downhill from there.

Thanks to @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social I now know that Bitches Brew and Sign ‘O’ The Times were both released on this day exactly 17 years apart, which might seem like an insignificant number, but it affords me the opportunity to share Miles and Prince jamming on stage at Paisley Park on NYE 1987

‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive

Four weeks today for this concert where I will be playing alongside @flcartographer.bsky.social & @sulkrooms.bsky.social at the Capstone Theatre in Liverpool. We're all playing solo sets followed by a three way jam session which should be fun. Modulars at the ready. Hope to see some of you there.

Oh God. www.action-transfers.com/html/at_yell...

Something happening here..

Ross the Boss, guitarist for NYC proto-punk band The Dictators, has died at 72. He would later play with French band Shakin Street and heavy metallers Manowar. The Dictators live in a CBGB promo film in 1977. #RIPRossTheBoss #PunkMusic m.youtube.com/watch?v=pE12...

Just been sent this goldmine of potential DJ/Band Names.

Moonbuilding Weekly Issue 101 is out now... A little bit like Room 101 but with much less torture moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-101-...

Following a year away, I'm back on @vpraudioclub.bsky.social The first of four seasonal shows planned for the year kicking off with this Spring edition 🌱 An eclectic selection of recent releases from the year so far, plus a 30 minute mix to reflect the season... www.mixcloud.com/vpraudioclub...

And finally, here's a great clip of Prince Alla revoicing Daniel a few years ago on the same Tapper Zukie produced rhythm... youtu.be/kZ1O5CXkazo?... #reggae #reggaesky #musicsky

Here’s some footage of Robert Rental & The Normal filmed on this tour with Stiff Little Fingers youtu.be/LqK6fy1h1js

It’s the first weekend in UK shops for the new Electronic Sound, with CABARET VOLTAIRE on the cover. You can also buy the mag with a green vinyl Cabs seven-inch featuring awesome live versions of ‘Nag Nag Nag’ and ‘Spies In The Wires’ direct from us at electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine

We have a new issue out tomorrow…

There's too much ambient music. Things would improve if ambient musicians had to produce a symphonic power metal LP, a Carnatic grindcore ballet or a jazz fusion opera in F# Phrygian once every 5 years, just to show they can (cf The Straight Story) before being allowed to fire up the reverb again.

It’s the first weekend in UK shops for the new issue of Electronic Sound, with Sheffield legends CLOCK DVA on the cover. You can also buy the mag bundled with a grey vinyl DVA seven-inch featuring the band’s post-punk classic ‘4 Hours’ direct from us at electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW! This month’s Electronic Sound cover stars are Sheffield legends CLOCK DVA and we’re bundling the magazine with a grey vinyl seven-inch by the electro-industrial pioneers with the awesome ‘4 Hours’ as the lead track. Get your copy at electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine

Just wished to draw a final line under this project and also to say a huge thank you to everyone who's supported this series throughout the year. May I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a peaceful New Year 🙏🎄x 52 Albums To Shape A Soul : Epilogue lippykidmusic.substack.com/p/52-albums-...

Many thanks @lippykidmusic.bsky.social. A truly brilliant series.