Ultra win the award for Most Inappropriately Named Band #TOTP

Apropos of nothing (and definitely not the Honeyz on TOTP), are Wonderbras still a thing?

Hi, I'm my own impulsive behaviour

Not sure what this says about 2026 tbh…

My book "Turning The Tables: The Story of Extreme Championship Wrestling" is 99p on Kindle throughout January (UK only deal). Reposts much appreciated. www.amazon.co.uk/Turning-Tabl...

Just listened to @darren157.bsky.social's albums of the year radio show and there's a lot of crossover with my own picks, but also some lovely new names to check out. Give it a listen yourself and find out that he's not just a damn good merch man! www.mixcloud.com/Darren157/th...

I’ve already got tickets for plenty of shows for 2026 but there’s a few I have on my hitlist if they tour or play live… * Found Footage Festival Live: it’s been 2 years, time to come back! * Scholars of the Peak: ever release a cracker so far, want to hear them live - at the Devil’s Arse? cont…

If you need some background music or you've got a spreadsheet of Anthems Poll results you need to cross-check, we're counting down the top 100 Noisebox Anthems all afternoon from 2pm until we run out, hopefully sometime just before 9. Join NACUS at noiseboxradio.com/

New year, new you, new PantoSplaining. We look at this poster from 1975 and wonder why Kenneth Connor isn't looking at the camera. Linktr.ee/PantoSplaining

Ten resolutions on the books again, four of which rolled over from 2025. If I can hit 40% again I’ll be happy.

Thanks to popular demand and a surprising amount of genuine distress at having missed a copy, I’ve just put 50 more copies of issue 3 of IN THE APRIL SUN on sale here! assistant.bandcamp.com/merch/in-the...

It’s been a ridiculously good year for bloos. It almost felt as though I had curated 2025 for myself. Thanks to @horrornonna.com and @timessqkungfu.bsky.social for their wonderful contributions to some of these sets (among other releases) Here are some faves. I may do something more with this.

Back in Feb, I asked a film crew to capture the launch for our Sensitive anthology. It smashed everyone's wildest expectations. A stellar "house" band with star turns that included Clare Grogan, Soup Dragons, The Loft, Talulah Gosh, & Sea Urchins alumni. Watch: (£) sensitivealbum.com/sensitive-fi...

Join me tonight at 8pm on NOISEBOX RADIO for one final SUGAR & LUST RADIO SHOW! Two hours of the cream of the last 6 months of a stupid New Year's Resolution to buy a 7" single every week! A grand way to warm you up for Ben Baker's HOGMANAY LIVE! at 10pm! noiseboxradio.com

For a government that is led by a former human rights lawyer, the treatment of these hunger strikers is truly debased

Finish the year with my new music playlists for the final quarter of 2025! October: youtube.com/playlist?lis... November: youtube.com/playlist?lis... December: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

By jingo 2025 is nearly over!! as a treat here are all the puppets I’ve built this year…

One final (I hope) kick in the balls from this fucker of a year: a PCN from Islington Council. It was a confusing road but it's my fault at the end of the day. But DAMN.

Join me tonight at 8pm on NOISEBOX RADIO for one final SUGAR & LUST RADIO SHOW! Two hours of the cream of the last 6 months of a stupid New Year's Resolution to buy a 7" single every week! A grand way to warm you up for Ben Baker's HOGMANAY LIVE! at 10pm! noiseboxradio.com

I'd like to hear what head of the Fabian Society Joe Dromey has to say but I can't because of all the fart noises coming from his mouth.

TIL Pink Pantheress is British. Not a massive shock but I just assumed she was American. As you were.

I’m not sure I can trust anyone who hasn’t got The Cords in their albums of the year…

⭐ This year I listened to 586 albums/EPs released in 2025. There were far more, of course, but these were the ones that caught my attention and were given marks between 5/10 and 10/10. What follows is a list of the 24 albums that received a 10/10 rating and thus stand as MY ALBUMS OF THE YEAR! ⭐

It’s the Gail Sale! 50% OFF Christmas cards & wrap 20% OFF unframed prints Use code GAILSALE Ends 18 January 2026 www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

Just uploaded my 86th and final episode of THE SUGAR & LUST RADIO SHOW, going out on Wednesday at 8pm. Always weird to finish a chapter but excited for the next thing!

It's here! PantoSplaining Episode 3! Live from London in 1975, with Diddy David Hamilton and Adrienne Posta, plus a cast of thousands. It's only our 3rd episode but this may have pushed us to the brink. youtu.be/FGxDcyvdJF0?... Linktr.ee/PantoSplaining

There are 5 radio shows here, presented by me, which have a absolute ton of good songs. If I was gonna recommend one I'd probably say, er, I dunno, maybe the fourth or fifth episodes? I thiiiink its getting better. #indiepop #learnthroughdoing www.mixcloud.com/jonathanship...

I played so much GREAT music tonight. What a time to be alive (in a new music appreciation way ONLY)!

Massively happy with my Christmas haul!

Tonight at 7pm on NOISEBOX RADIO, THE SUGAR & LUST RADIO SHOW finishes up my pick of 2025's top tunes, with a decidedly indepop slant! Join me for 2 hours of BRILLIANT NEW MUSIC, with a full tracklisting - and links to where you can find the songs - in this thread!! noiseboxradio.com

The Kid is on @noiseboxradio.com for an hour now, if you're at a loose end!

Only 12 new records to listen to this month and so here is MY ALBUMS (AND EPs) OF THE MONTH from DECEMBER 2025! I went 10/10 on Junk Whale, 9/10 to Dorothy, Lovejoy, Melody's Echo Chamber, Paris Banlieue, Sulk Rooms &This Is Lorelei, and 8/10 to Juliana Hatfield, The laughing Chimes & Ribbon Skirt

On @noiseboxradio.com today, The Kid runs down their year in CHARLES’S CHART OF 2025 at 4pm, and I finish my massive BEST OF 2025 in a special Sunday SUGAR & LUST RADIO SHOW at 7!

Been out for drinks with friends I first met between 1982 and 1984. The magic’s still there. Love my pals ❤️

There are 8 zines left for sale on my Bandcamp! I have only heard lovely things about this from people who bought copies, so who knows? Maybe worth getting! Lots of nice writing about indie pop for £6. assistant.bandcamp.com/merch/in-the...

Just heard an album from August that I missed at the time that’s gone straight into the Albums of the Year list 👊🏻

Cat with her present appreciation :)

A handsome bounty to whoever can steer me in the direction of this year’s Michinoku-Pro Great Space War!

I'd like to hear what Steve Reed MP has to say about the Green Party but I can't because of all the fart noises coming from his mouth.

I know you’re not THAT Jess Conrad, but if you let him know through the telepathic link you all share that would be grand, ta.

Hey @jessconrad.bsky.social, I just heard “Sexy Black Stockings” on @noiseboxradio.com and I think you should release it for Christmas next year!

Been up since 5 but still feeling CHRISTMASSY! Feliz Navidad, one and all! Except that one guy.

Rob has written about his ten favourite t shirts of 2025 for Chickfactor magazine. www.chickfactor.com/chickfactor-...

Haven’t finished my Albums of the Year list because I’ve still got about ten left to hear! You never know!

Ho ho ho! Join us for a special presentation of 'A Noisebox Christmas Carol', adapted by Ben Baker and starring presenters and friends of the show! Set a reminder: 8:30pm Christmas Eve repeated on 9:30am Grab your free copy of Noisebox Times here: tinyurl.com/noisebox...

No SUGAR & LUST RADIO SHOW in its usual spot tonight as it's Christmas Eve. The final part of my Best of 2025 round-up will go out on NOISEBOX RADIO on SUNDAY at 7pm! And you can still hear parts 1 & 2 here (www.mixcloud.com/NoiseboxRadi...) and here (www.mixcloud.com/NoiseboxRadi...)!

I listened to this morning when I should have been getting my own show ready for Sunday. Such a sweet hour!

Was there a particularly dismissive attitude towards them in the music press at the time? I can see me being easily swayed by that without a big champion in their favour...

Whiling away the hours at an empty work by trying to write something for a 'zine, maybe. Trying to explain how I missed out on Sarah Records when, from late 1988 onwards I was most definitely an "indie kid," and one buying stuff on small independents from a few years after that, but never Sarah...