Tonight's show on wrkc.kings.edu is uploaded here - www.mixcloud.com/DJCalc/dj-ca... Spotify Link - open.spotify.com/playlist/1Lu... Playlist

I love The Lilac Time ❤️ but I think the solo albums from the 90's ("Duffy" and "I love my friends") might be the best of all he's done!

*New* Armstrong - double A side digital single release available on Bandcamp today - guitar pop & piano ballad song 😎🫤🙃😦🎸🎹 - If you like Lloyd Cole, Roy Orbison, Zombies, Beatles, REM, Tears for Fears, Johnny Cash, Brian Wilson etc you may like these songs too armstrong2.bandcamp.com/album/fill-m...

And don't miss @armstrong-wales.bsky.social's wonderful new single "Muddy River"! Some blogger wrote that it had echoes of the songwriting of Ray Davies in songs like "Waterloo Sunset" and "Days." armstrong2.bandcamp.com/track/muddy-...

Thank you Henry at @purepop4nowpeople.bsky.social for this lovely review of Armstrong's latest Bandcamp digital single release 'MUDDY RIVER'. An honour to be compared to the Kinks. Now getting on with full set of songs for hopefully, next album. purepop4nowpeople.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

MUDDY RIVER by ARMSTRONG , a brand new digital single on BandCamp. Influenced by songs by The Lilac Time, Kinks, Beatles, Richard Ashcroft, Nick Drake, Pogues, Bert Jansch, Dream Academy, Crowded House, David Sylvian, folk songs with lush strings, etc etc armstrong2.bandcamp.com/track/muddy-...

Two new songs by @armstrong-wales.bsky.social Brilliant! 👌👌👌👌👌✔️👍😊 armstrong2.bandcamp.com/album/fill-m...

Listen to @howcaniapply.bsky.social in a few minutes to hear a few of our releases - thanks Adam! 👍👌😊 dynamicradio.co.uk

Thanks Adam and @wallytbm.bsky.social

Prefab Sprout - Victoria Hall, Hanley, Stoke - 30 October 1985 Uploaded #FruitierThanTho @punkandnewwave.bsky.social @scotspostpunk.bsky.social @wallytbm.bsky.social @itsonlyrockandroll.bsky.social @singingconductor.bsky.social @carolinebinnie.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_sG...

This week on www.dynamicradio.co.uk from 7pm we spend some time focusing on The Beautiful Music label...... @wallytbm.bsky.social

This sounds v lovely, Wally! Listening now

The Lilac Time have been releasing gorgeous music for decades and somehow are still a best kept secret - highly recommended for fans of Nick Drake and any music from the heart - this is just one of the many beautiful albums where every song is just perfect 👌👌👌👌👌

An album by Lord Fayrebank 👌👌👌👌👌 lordfayrebank.bandcamp.com/album/lord-f...

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.

It was great to be on Pete's show yesterday and talk about the new album (as well as covering @theclientele.bsky.social, Kraftwerk, Ariana Grande, ABBA, spreadsheets and @reproutopia.bsky.social). Listen again here...

...for its springtime produce @precrecs.bsky.social has switched supply channels to parachuting in a batch of new releases.. two distinctive new albums arrive ..which lean heavily into the reconstituted veterans wing of the enterprise. @cultfigures.bsky.social #indie #musicreview t.ly/9L9eE

CULT FIGURES ALBUM LAUNCH - WEDS 22nd APRIL We’ll be launching our new album Reports of People on @precrecs.bsky.social at Paper Dress Vintage with Silver Biplanes & Dreamcoaster - should be a hell of a night! Don’t miss out! Tickets – wegottickets.com/event/695330

Listen to Batman! Come & see us launch our new album Reports of People on @precrecs.bsky.social WEDS 22nd APRIL with Silver Biplanes & Dreamcoaster Don’t miss out! Tickets –wegottickets.com/event/695330

Be a good Mouseketeer & get your tickets for the CULT FIGURES ALBUM LAUNCH - WEDS 22nd APRIL EARLY! We’ll be launching our new album Reports of People on @precrecs.bsky.social at Paper Dress Vintage with Silver Biplanes & Dreamcoaster Early bird tickets – wegottickets.com/event/695330

What a great review of Reports of People our new album on @precrecs.bsky.social timepastandtimepassing.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/c...

Great review – big thanks !

Wow, it’s suddenly less than 3 weeks until our gig with @cultfigures.bsky.social and Silver Biplanes at Paper Dress Vintage, London on 22 April, hosted by @precrecs.bsky.social. Tickets are disappearing - get yours at wegottickets.com/event/695330 and we’ll see you there.. Don’t miss this!!

...and thanks to @assistant.bandcamp.com for playing our new Bramwell single. If anyone is ace, it's you !

CULT FIGURES - LUNATIC FRIEND (OFFICIAL VIDEO) I designed & directed this noisy little blighter from Cult Figures’ new album 'Reports of People', released April 2026 on Precious Recordings of London and available for pre-order at: cultfigures.bandcamp.com/album/prelp-... youtu.be/FQOnqIEvXUY

Be a good Mouseketeer & get your tickets for the CULT FIGURES ALBUM LAUNCH - WEDS 22nd APRIL EARLY! @cultfigures.bsky.social We’ll be launching our new album Reports of People on @precrecs.bsky.social at Paper Dress Vintage Early bird tickets – wegottickets.com/event/695330

Buy early to avoid disappointment .. might not be any tickets on the door !

First song on #FreshIngredients tonight (after my now overfamiliar jingle) was one of the best songs played at @walesgoespop.bsky.social last week - Even As We Speak's wonderful 'Drown', which went down a storm. You can read my blog about their performance here if you like:

Next up on #FreshIngredients, my favourite track from the wonderful new @shapeslikepeople.bsky.social LP. I attended a delightful listening party for it the other night and it is a beautiful record: it felt to me like a brilliant college-pop soundtrack to a late 80s/90s cult US film.

Next up on #FreshIngredients a track from the archive (recently exhumed!) by Scissor Fits. REALLY into this! For fans of Lou Reed and/or The Television Personalities. After that, a glorious song by Nic Jones ('The Humpback Whale), & then, Comet Gain ('Strength').

I’m normally quite careful not to put too many self-indulgent personal faves into the show, but this one-two of Richard and Linda Thompson then The Blue Aeroplanes is about as good as music gets for me. ‘Wall of Death’ then ‘Jacket Hangs’.

Tonight's Mersey musical medication on @MerseyRadio 8-11pm with Feat. Artist: Miles Temp + Feat. Album: by Michael Weston King @wallytbm.bsky.social @liverpoolbands.bsky.social @av8records.bsky.social @nothingville.bsky.social @mellowtoneclub.bsky.social @henrypriestman.bsky.social

#weekendsingles XTC—Wait Till Your Boat Goes Down/Ten Feet Tall Boasts one of the finest accreditations ever committed to a sleeve: Terry Chambers Banged Colin Moulding Twanged Dave Gregory Clanged Andy Partridge Sanged #musicsky #nowplaying #vinyl

💥NEW💥 in time for #WeekendSingles. BOWIE, the German, and more sinister, black label press. #bowie #vinyl #nowplaying #nowspinning #music #caturday

And here are parts one and two #WeekendSingles #RoughTrade @roughtraderecords.bsky.social ▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/2l0...

Thanks to @stupefaction.bsky.social, my Spotify playlist is now also available on Apple Music 🍏▶️ music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

My third batch of Rough Trade sevens for #WeekendSingles, including The Go-Betweens, Kleenex, Cabaret Voltaire, Young Marble Giants, The Fall, The Nightingales, The Pop Group, The Raincoats and Aztec Camera. Listen to them all on this playlist of the label’s 45s ▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/2l0...

#weekendsingles Signing off! thanks @jimmyviz.bsky.social for hosting and thanks everyone for the tremendous posts and friendly chat. Have a good week

Janice is wearing her Win baseball cap. If you know that album, your life is instantly made at least 46% better. #totp

Pick of the pops on R2 revisiting 1979, and it’s chock full of classics. Just like (shameless plug) the episode of Back to Now with special guests @nickheyward.com and Daryl Easlea! Tune in (after POTP obviously) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

The Loft - Riverside Studios Hammersmith 14th May 1985 Uploaded by #FruitierThanTho @punkandnewwave.bsky.social @scotspostpunk.bsky.social @wallytbm.bsky.social @birmingham81.bsky.social @itsonlyrockandroll.bsky.social @singingconductor.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3VA...

Today’s reward for completing @ckcufm.bsky.social homework is reveling in joyous janglepop courtesy of Spain’s @theyellowmelodies SUNSHINE POP Released through @hurrahmusica.es @oldbadhabitslabel @discos_imprescindibles Huge thanks @wallytbm.bsky.social for turning me on!

Coming soon. VA - Something For The Longing - Scottish Independent Pop 1985-1999, 3CD Box Set - via Cherry Red, curator Grant McPhee. www.cherryred.co.uk/various-arti...

I'm afraid I'm still hacking away at my review of @walesgoespop.bsky.social but have just published my thoughts on the first half of day three - much praise for @smoxham.bsky.social & Radhika therein (and some rambling about Penarth) intheaprilsun.substack.com/p/day-3-of-w...

I'm Going To Spain youtu.be/_N5UczXWwoc?...

Stop laughing! youtu.be/Z2K_YnSZP5A?...

Blog update: In April 1987, Rose of Avalanche had their only Indie Chart number one. Legal difficulties with their label Fire stalled their career. Self-tagged as 'Too rock for goths, too goth for rockers', they occasionally sounded like a band who might have been on Creation in another life.

In a bid to save the world from JK Rowling and her ilk I’ve written some books. Please buy them.