Sleeptalk are competing in the 2026 Greene King battle of the bands on 14th August at The Stoke in Guildford. If ever you were going to come and see us, now is that moment, as the first prize is £10k! 🤑🤑🤑🤑We really want your support. 😘 We're also playing at The Fiery Bird in Woking on 31st July.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Ah really wish Paul well. It's a brutal disease but science in progressing fast in this area and so hopefully lots of help will be available to him.and his family. Always love him on the airways.

I couldn't agree more with Rhian from Wet Leg about how complexity doesn't always equal 'good'. guitar.com/news/music-n... I'm thinking of 'Mr Tillman' by Father John Misty. Same chords over and over and it's awesome. Bolero by Ravel, anyone? 👌

New song! 🧜Killing Mermaids 🧜 You can see it live at The Fiery Bird in Woking on Friday 31st July. youtu.be/JT-Os9_HWoQ?...

On my way, Clacton.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I really need to remember to wear my ear plugs more often. It just doesn't come naturally but years of listening to music, gigs, rehearsals and DJing must have taken its toll on my poor ears! What brands do people recommend?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I'd really like to see this tour and I found this article fascinating as it challenges what live music shows should be. Must artists always interact with the audience or have support? Is there a minimum acceptable running time or a commensurate price point?

Shelter… the idea that human beings should not be forced to submit themselves to the elements…. Is a value… And markets don’t have values Communities have values

Photographer Pennie Smith, The Clash, September 1979, an image used for the 'London Calling' album cover art and voted best rock 'n' roll image #WomensArt

Happy #FeatureFriday, folks! This is the day of the week, where we pluck an album by a BlueSky artist from the field and present it to you. Today we have the extremely lovely self-titled album by @wendyeyes.bsky.social for you and you don't want to miss this one, trust me!

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

Had to! "So we sailed on to the sun 'Til we found a sea of green" 🎵🎼🎶

OK, I've been pretty critical of the BBC, but I just realised the volume goes up to eleven on BBC Sounds and that's the sort of beautiful nerd joke I'm here for.

My neighbor has a band. They were practicing late into the night, so I sent the following text. "Tell your bass player he needs a click track; he's consistently a 32nd note late on the attack." The music stopped entirely shortly thereafter.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Wowee!

This feels… portentous?

Forgot to do a post earlier but I can confirm that I am now LIVE on surreyhillsradio.co.uk to discuss the latest rail news Don't forget to tune in!

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Love my vinyl records, the weird crackly sounds, the inconvenience of them all.

Happy Father's Day! I love my Dad very much and so this song is not a reflection of my feelings towards him, but a great song that features the word 'father' or 'Dad' is Oh Father by Madonna. music.youtube.com/watch?v=BIkR... What other songs do you love about Dads?

Thinking of the women of Iran, enduring so much www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

A Life Less Ordinary with Cameron Diaz and Ewan McGregor.

There should be a social media site that lets you listen to music in a chatroom and that's it. "Hey, I'm gonna throw on some Pavement. Wanna talk about Jane Eyre and shit?" And that's all it is. And it would usher in an era of peace.

I won the lottery again. Two whole English pounds. Creme eggs are currently 99p for five. Cheaper than real eggs and they wonder why people are fat. I'm fat and I'm going to buy ten creme eggs.

It feels strange that humanity dreams of finding life on distant planets while forests here vanish every day. A forest takes decades to grow, to cool the air, protect wildlife, and create peace—yet only moments to destroy. The most important world is the one we already inhabit.

music.youtube.com/watch?v=FR2e... Urban Fox by Straw Bear

This man speaks pure truth.

Funnily enough, women don't want to quietly waste away past 40. They want to RESONATE.

I’m turning 44 next month and 43 was an incredible year. Finalized my divorce ✅ Bought my condo✅ Left a toxic industry that I despised ✅ Accepted into film school ✅ Finished my second screenplay ✅

The 17yr-old is talking about his favourite band. "And sometimes they release singles that aren't quite as good, and they call them B-sides, I didn't know why. Have you heard of that? 'B-sides'. Weird." I'm just crumbling away to ancient dust over here.

Couldn't agree more.

Tomorrow’s Independent front page:

I love it when a music post gets reposted because sharing music is a beautiful thing

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Brilliant to have a female fronted headliner! Hopefully by the time Sleeptalk top the bill, the country will be warmed up for what an older female (mid 40s) fronted band can do. Explosive!

Congratulations to Elon musk who is now rich enough to end world hunger over 165 times and still stay a billionaire but choses not to.

music.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu5c... Otis Redding - Dock of the Bay I am instantly transported when I hear this.

Medication by Garbage music.youtube.com/watch?v=9KLU... I played this song so much when it came out that I damaged the CD and had to buy another one.

Just insanely, effortlessly, enviously cool.

I love Costello's attitude here and I think Rodrigo is a terrific songwriter (check out Jealousy, Jealousy - what an awesome bass line 🤌) www.nme.com/news/music/e...

I always thought The Beatles had a career that spanned decades you're telling me that their dozen plus albums that pretty much revolutionized music came out in the span of SEVEN YEARS? THEY DIDN'T EVEN LAST *ONE* DECADE???????

The older I get the more convinced I am the secret to eternal youth is to remain continually engaged with the arts. Read a great book. Attend the cinema. Listen to new music. Spend an afternoon in an art gallery. Watch people dance. Dance yourself. Can you imagine remaining angry after that 💙x

Next gig 31st July at the Fiery Bird in Woking. This will be our warm up gig for the Greene King battle of the bands at The Stoke pub in Guildford on 14th August (1st prize £10k so we reeeeally want to win it!) Any support much appreciated! www.sleeptalksounds.com

People and their dogs (also check out Greys and We Should Hang on this album 🤌) - Willie J Healey music.youtube.com/watch?v=aOPR...

Guildford area Bass player wanted for August gigs - battle of the bands coming up on 14th August (first prize £10k) and a warm up gig at the Fiery Bird in Woking on either 31st July or 7th August - TBC. Would ideally love someone whose bass style is inspired by the Pixies, New Dad, Wet Leg.

The Bay - Metronomy music.youtube.com/watch?v=RNih...

We had a lovely evening at Solar Sisters Cafe in Guildford last night. Jack and Larley did acoustic versions of Sleeptalk songs, which went down well. We thoroughly enjoyed the other acts on - Bloodlines were amazing - ages from 14 to 17 and just brilliant songs. Tyla Dyne was fabulous. All good.

Getting ready for potential busking in Guildford later (weather permitting!) to promote our gig at the Solar Sisters Cafe tonight. The gig is being filmed for a TV series following Tyla Dyne around the country. Should be fun!

Next Sleeptalk gig this coming Saturday (6th June) at the Solar Sisters Cafe in Guildford. We're doing an acoustic set supporting the artist, Tyla Dyne. It will be filmed as part of a TV series following Tyla on her grass roots tour around the UK.

www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/cul... Oooh interesting question - would you sell your music for a billion pounds?