The government is considering a ban on for-profit resale of gig/theatre/sports tickets. The likes of Viagogo and StubHub are lobbying furiously against it. But with practices like this going on, they would have only themselves to blame. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s...

playing SMALL MIRACLES 'Cherry Pill' linktr.ee/smallmiracle... @_smallmiracles #BBCIntroducingOnRadioWales

New post on Substack: reviewing ‘Lovers Always Win’ by The Sun Kings - a summer album full of nostalgia, chaos, and unexpected depth. There’s Cumbian rhythm, brass sections, Triffids, and Barry Island. Think: Cardiff grooves meet emotional hangovers. Read it here ⬇️ substack.com/home/post/p-...

watching my girlfriend produce is like watching wizardry

NEW NINE INCH NAILS HYPERVENTILATE

in today’s thing that fills me with rage, PRS charging fees for GROSS receipts, not net. as if we make money off VAT. swines

New @smallmiracles247.bsky.social music video alert! I directed & edited ‘You Know’ - no script, no plan, just instinct, live chaos and a DIY kaleidoscope aesthetic. Wrote about how it came together here: erraticcontrol.substack.com/p/small-mira...

playing SMALL MIRACLES 'You Know' linktr.ee/smallmiracle... @_smallmiracles #BBCIntroducingOnRadioWales

new cooking mishap today - I burnt the hairs off my finger clean off by igniting the hob too close to it

uncontroversial opinion: those playing TikToks out loud on their phone on public transport should be ejected from said transport immediately

Labour Party announced something left wing challenge (impossible)

“Rapino maintains that prices are, in fact, still too low because resale reveals a ticket’s true market value. By this logic, a £100 ticket is underpriced if a secondary seller can list it on StubHub for £400.” Obscene attitude. This paints a skewed picture. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/m...

let out a much too loud “what?!” after they changed my train service last minute today. I am become grouchy dad

finally caught up with Andor the night before they release three new episodes 😓 Disney let me have a breath, release them weekly!

I've always shared music with my daughter, and it's been an eye opening experience for me both as a parent and a music lover. I've written about our journey in music discovery (including some cute stencils and absolutely with her approval). open.substack.com/pub/erraticc...

“Listings on resale site suggest that touts are speculatively selling tickets they do not yet have” …yeah, could have told you that YEARS ago

why is it that smoke/CO alarms decide to tell you they have a low battery in the middle of the night, and never at a convenient, awake time?

the problem with being such a massive Nine Inch Nails fan is that people will tell me about things excitedly that I already knew, weeks, days or hours before… sometimes I’m even the source of that information 🤦‍♂️ it’s extreme levels of fandom

playing SMALL MIRACLES 'Make It Make Sense ft. Freyja Elsy & Luciana West' linktr.ee/smallmiracle... #BBCIntroducingOnRadioWales

10-1 TONIGHT on BBC Radio Wales @bbcintroducing... . Part Time Signals talk about their excellent current EP, The Window . a tribute to Steve ‘Pendle’ Jones, guitarist with north Wales’ Pocket Venus Music front and centre from all over Wales & all over the sonic spectrum. Tune in via @BBCSounds

"what happened to this then?" - musical reviews from the past month or so open.substack.com/pub/erraticc...

achieved an hour walk today for the first time since breaking my ankle. feels good but oh my god I’m so tired ahhhhh

what listening to 1500+ “new” albums does to you… as learnt by me

note to self, if you’re writing a Substack article and your phone dies, you will lose the whole article and have to start again

“when did freedom of the press start to die?” “when journalists refused to accept a stupid name change”

do you think they’re making things intentionally repulsive and depressing in order to make people switch off from the news? that’s what’s happening to me…

people have been suggesting I write more… open.substack.com/pub/erraticc...

Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize

Website update! Might be a new addition on there... www.eltmusic.co.uk 👀

A popular city centre bar in the Welsh capital is to open a brand new pub theatre venue

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

can we just not with this? the alarm bells are already ringing wildfires rage in LA and we are looking at removing MORE water for this? we are hitting the accelerator to our doom www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

slow progress, but progress nonetheless www.theguardian.com/business/202...

My face whenever CHALLENGERS [MIXED] drops into my playlist

another “way too late to the party, music wise” thing - the last two Bowie albums are phenomenal aren’t they. holy wow.

cane acquired

top albums of 2024, here we go! I listened to 1200+ this year, so think I covered quite a bit... here's a write up to read over your holiday break medium.com/@edtownendcd...

I was looking at purchasing a cane off the internet this morning. I’m 33, what a year…

Nine Inch Nails super fan and comedian Ignacio Lopez appeared on Celebrity Mastermind last night with Trent Reznor and NIN as his specialist subject. Not to rub it in, but I would’ve got at least nine points mate… (still, good effort, and bringing NIN to the masses is always a good thing!)

had to ask my girlfriend to pause The Holiday tonight whilst I made dinner. she’s hooked me, it’s our fourth watch together.

The Moon Staff crowdfunder ends today - www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-th... The timing is not great, as I know everyone is down to their last before Christmas, but I couldn't plan for that.

after 12 days without broadband… it has returned! we had started adapting to our lifestyle of adjusting the thermostat manually and watching DVDs. 2002 chic

The Moon Staff Crowdfunder closes this Friday at 3pm If you can, please donate before then, thank you x www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-th...

live album is done now. I’ve got three more things left to do and then I have to finally say goodbye to the music venue I worked at for the last 7 years.

there’s a lot of upsides about working from home. having your internet go down, of course, is not one of them. thanks EE

last night I dreamt Dara Ó Briain was in Cardiff and asked me where he could find some famous film locations nearby. I ask him if he’d seen Gavin & Stacey. shameful.

A Daytrip-related release for a good cause... Our beloved venue The Moon sadly closed it's doors a few weeks ago. To help raise money for it's staff who are out of work just before christmas, @edtownendcdf.bsky.social put together these live tracks made at the venue. Includes a new The School song!