Greatly enjoyed James Acaster's meta tribute act this evening at the "6th form hall" of Bloomsbury Theatre. A tight hour turned into a freewheeling tightrope walking two thanks to a rejected meeting with the director of [REDACTED], the musical cues in Love on the Spectrum and Freddy punching a wall

Thank you to this always excellent column for introducing me to Cruel Force's thrash

they're calling it the horniest millennials have ever been

Fcukers' RA podcast has "late 90s NME cover-mounted CD mixed by Midfield General" energy (complimentary)

Found this anonymous piece from a Tehran resident in the new NYRB powerful, particularly the tightening of community bonds arising watching the bombs fall

Excerpt from Hilary Mantel’s review of Robocop archive.spectator.co.uk/article/20th...

Embarrassment of riches this evening at the Barbican for Rich(ard) Dawson's Delight Is Right, with performances from Hameed Brothers Qawwal, Tristwch y Fenywod, ØXN and the man himself w/Andrew Cheetham and then Circle. Too much crammed into one night really but all v.good. Treat to see Circle again

Sick set bro

First Neurosis album in a decade(!) rules, nothing beats some good sludge neurosis.bandcamp.com/album/an-und...

A trip to the Thames Estuary for Rainham Marshes @rspb.bsky.social always makes the world feel a better place. Unpictured; some Marsh Harriers causing havoc, the first butterflies of the year and a water vole chilling on a feeding tray

Thank you to the YouTube algorithm for highlighting Tom Jones' baggy era 🪇🪇🪇

Emotional evening at the British Library yesterday celebrating the Iranian filmmaker/poet Forough Farrokhzad, ending with a Farsi singalong of Soltaneh Ghalbha. I don't talk much about politics/personal stuff but my partner has family in Iran who we can't contact and the night struck us both deeply

This evening's entertainment in Hammersmith

Reading Will Noble's very fun Croydonopolis and intrigued by the mid-19thC Atmospheric Railway in the borough, so fault prone that it would often require passengers to get out and push the train and due to bad brakes would regularly overshoot stations needing people to trudge back along the tracks

This guy is living the absolute dream

Stop literally everything. Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time. fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

Loads of good stuff on Nyege Nyege Tapes but strongly recommend this one at Name-Your-Price; embaíre polyrhythms meets live dub nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/phanto...

New David August is very lovely, 9 sparse solo piano pieces. Not quite ambient but definitely of that lineage davidaugust.bandcamp.com/album/hymns

New Caterina Barbieri / Bendik Giske is a good 'un; complement each other very well and short enough to compel a respin as soon as you're through. Boomkat says "beatless, biomechanical trance" which I'll go with caterinabarbieri.bandcamp.com/album/at-sou...

Guaranteed to blow the cobwebs away

Very much enjoyed Courtney Marie Andrews at Islington Assembly Hall (best mid-sized venue in London?), particularly her opening run through AOTY contender Valentine

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Pig Destroyer supported by Wormrot in November at the Scala; be there or choose to continue to have functioning hearing link.dice.fm/7V4KJFUk30b?...

Some absolutely sensational drum and bass photos colinhawkins.co.uk/londons-earl...

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This track is a blast

Ann Sheridan, “Will ‘Oomph’ Title Help or Harm Her?” — Motion Picture, July 1939 #BOTD 1915

This piece detailing the 1995 WCW/NJPW wrestling shows with 170k+ (forced) attendance in North Korea is wild

Astounding set from Yellow Swans at The Lexington this evening. Last saw them way back in 2008 and they've lost none of their power live, like they're grappling with some invisible force on stage

James Ensor - Masks Looking at a Tortoise (1894)

Inspired by visiting the V&As David Bowie Centre yesterday, been tearing through this today. Not an era of his work (1989+) I'm particularly familiar with until The Next Day but Larman is a knowledgeable and evenhanded guide, and not afraid to call out some of Bowie's more selfish tendencies

Love the expansive atmosphere created on the new Imarhan album, touches of synth and electronics alongside the more traditional Tuareg desert-blues

Visited the new V&A East Storehouse in Stratford today, an interesting space - not sure I'd return unless they cycle the items and exhibits but definitely worth a visit. Particularly liked the sensitive way they acknowledged the Robin Hood Gardens Estate which was demolished to build the new centre

This is a little joy bomb

I recently got a paid sub to @thesundaylongread.bsky.social and I've been enjoying digging into their archives going back to 2015, some may say a simpler time with profiles on Jeb Bush and all. Found this piece from Yahoo on the Unicode Consortium and attempts to diversify emojis interesting

This clip is marvelous. The best bits begin at 14:40 including a tour of the interior. Barbican, 1969: The development of the Barbican Estate following World War II youtu.be/vLPlJsoVq8k?...

Vibing with the latest (and final) Orchestra of the Upper Atmosphere release atm, spacey prog-jazz discusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/theta-...

Nyege Nyege Tapes are one of my favourite labels but even for them this live recording of Uganda's Nakibemebe Embaire Group & Japan's Naoyuki Uchida is exceptional. "A striking collision of East Africa’s trance-inducing polyrhythmic traditions and modernist dub practice" gives you a decent idea

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Highly recommend the Nigerian Modernism exhibition at Tate Modern, a field of art I was completely ignorant of - every room exceptional www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...

Loved Stoppard's Arcadia at the Old Vic, saw it a decade+ ago but loses none of its heat as the years progress. The ideas keep rolling throughout and across centuries it all comes together at the end, a marvel

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15 minutes spent with Prince in the absolute zone is 15 minutes well spent

"Backengrillen arrives with new perspectives on jazz. And punk...inspired by The Cramps, Little Richard, Albert Ayler, Polly Bradfield, Entombed, John Zorn, Misfits, Stooges, Lars Gullin, Can..." Essentially the members of Refused with Mats Gustafsson skronking up the joint #nowplaying

this is the only way to appreciate someone playing a bitchin guitar solo

imagine being the guy who accidentally said "weasel" at a weird time 2400 years ago

As someone who was a young teenager at the time, found David Runciman's podcast on the OJ Simpson trial (and what it tells us about the contemporary world) fascinating.

For reasons unknown, I've started listening to Chat Pile properly - I think before I saw them as a metal band given the notices I read but they're much more in the 80s/90s noise rock lineage - shades of Helmet/Jesus Lizard/Big Black. Regardless, I'm now obsessed

Had a lot of fun watching the RSC's Twelfth Night @ Barbican Theatre this evening. I haven't always been down with the Comedies but was the first time engaging with this play and it caught me on a good day www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...