Bit different on the gig front tonight. Gary Numan, Manchester Apollo.

Interesting piece, that I would like to believe is correct. But I think there are US Tech billionaires equally happy to fund the far right.

Re-introduce yourself with 5 animals you wish you'd seen in the wild. Chocobo Common garden dragon Velociraptor (but only from a distance) Tribble Pikachu

Wordle 1,624 5/6 Grrrr ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections was super easy today Puzzle #902 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Rettel #748 30pts 🟦🟦🟦⬜ 🟦🟦🟦⬜ ⬜⬜🟦🟦 ⬜⬜⬜🟦 My best yet...

If you told me on Monday that the Stray from the Path moshpit wasn’t going to be the most likely place I’d be this week… I wouldn’t have believed you. But here we are.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Bear Yak Kangaroo Rhinoceros Wolf

The Hives is tonight tonight is the Hives Enough is enough is enough is enough Forever the Hives The Hives Forever AVIVA Manchester Manchester AVIVA

Wordle 1,623 5/6 Argh, I thought of that one first... ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #901 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Rettel #747 25pts ⬜⬜⬜🟦 ⬜🟦🟦🟦 🟦⬜🟦⬜ ⬜🟦⬜⬜

"Speaking outside his chateau in France" I moved to France because I thought Brexit was a shit idea. The fact that so many of the Russian-backed Brexit fanboys did the same (and Farage tried to get a German passport) proves I was right. The people were conned. UKIP/Reform are traitors.

I don’t know how food bloggers make their overnight oats look so beautiful. Mine look like vegan dog diarrhoea. They taste delicious though.

Tiny room. Great band. Awesome night. #Softcult #KeyClub #Shoegaze

Lozenge, She’s Green and Softcult at Leeds Key Club tonight.

My Banana-Dogshit-PeanutButter overnight oats taste way better than they look.

Beneath greyer skies I walk along the river To old haunts of mine

The Redbeck Motel is genuinely 24/7/365. I’ve had Christmas Day breakfast here and 4AM dinners on the way home from gigs in London. We used to frequently drive here (after long nights in Raffles nightclub.

It was sitting under that tree in a thunderstorm that I learned that you’re not supposed to sit under trees on the highest local point during a thunderstorm

Wordle 1,622 6/6 oof ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟨⬛⬛🟨🟩 🟨🟨⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #900 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Rettel #746 25pts ⬜⬜🟦⬜ ⬜⬜🟦🟦 ⬜🟦🟦⬜ 🟦🟦⬜⬜

I do hope this wasn’t actually just a wrong number.

Icy blue-skyed wander Ground is cold. And air is frozen. Home soon for coffee

Rettel #745 27pts ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟦🟦⬜ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 ⬜🟦⬜⬜ Wordle 1,621 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

A nice round 70,000 unread emails in my work inbox. BOLLOCKS, a new one arrived just as I was screengrabbing it.

After 30 years in dad jeans, Primark are now dealing the kind of baggies I used to skate in for £18 a shot. And ima buy them all.

Hillsborough Pumptrack is hard work. Funner than shit… but tiring as fuck!

Introduce yourself with four spaceships…

Connections Puzzle #898 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Wordle 1,620 4/6 🟨🟨⬛🟨⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 That could have so easily been a legit two Rettel #744 25pts ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟦🟦⬜ 🟦🟦⬜🟦 🟦🟦⬜⬜

I distinctly remember asking myself, three years ago, if the Slipknot mosh pit was the place for a 57-year-old man. And yet here we are three years later with me asking if the Stray from the Path mosh pit is the place for a man who is going skateboarding tomorrow…

Stray from the Path tonight. Second time this year, and the last time ever. For me, spiritual successors to RatM.

I once spent a very enjoyable evening watching "The Harder they Come" then going to see Jimmy Cliff play live. RIP.

fucked Connections today Wordle 1,619 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Rettel #743 22pts poor! ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟦⬜ ⬜🟦🟦🟦 ⬜🟦🟦⬜

“I’m gonna Sid Vicious this shit like it’s the fucking Chelsea Hotel!” After a slow third ep. Pluribus is flying again.

Wordle 1,618 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #896 Super easy. 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Rettel #742 27pts ⬜🟦⬜⬜ ⬜🟦🟦⬜ ⬜🟦🟦🟦 ⬜🟦🟦⬜

First time at Leeds Project House tonight, though I’ll be back there for Stray From the Path on Monday. Saw Australian foundational punk ledgends, The Saints.

Over thirty years since I last saw The Young Gods, their atonal bludgeoning percussive techno industrial noise still thrills me. Their new songs were great, and they dragged out some of the old favourites too.

Finally. A road cyclist talks sense. It’s a different story where I live, with great weather, quiet well-surfaced roads, and courteous drivers. But in UK… where’s the joy?

Wordle 1,617 3/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I’m not!!!

Back at the Trabendo Prolly my fave Paris venue. Been hear a bunch of times. But last time was New York Dolls, in 2010.

Well that’s the “is Trump a Russian asset” debate put to bed.

Rettel #740 26pts ⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟦⬜🟦⬜ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 ⬜🟦⬜⬜ Wordle 1,616 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟨🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Bonjour! C’est vachement froid aujourd’hui!

WTF, Mani. RIP. Too young. Was a huge fan of his work with both bands, and once shared a pleasant 15 minutes chatting with him and Bobby on a ciggie break outside a Bunnymen gig at the Albert Hall. He was cool, I am sad.

This article raises two questions for me: 1. Why do. not live in Istanbul? 2. How close does this writer put their coffee table to the sofa?

That volte-face explained in one clause.

Trump has signed the Epstein files release. So unless Trump tells Pam Bondi to block their release, we'll soon see everything that has not been deleted, shredded or redacted in the months of Trump blocking their release.

Wordle 1,615 2/6 my luck is on fire!!! 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #893 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Turns out that ”KISS”, “ROOT”, “STROKE”, and “PLASTER” are not “Things you see in porn". Rettel #739 23pts pretty mid ⬜🟦⬜⬜ ⬜🟦🟦⬜ ⬜🟦🟦🟦 ⬜⬜⬜⬜

I remember clearly this photo being taken. But I mis-remembered it as being when we won the Nationals in Aviemore, not the Yorkshire championships... which I also misremember as being held at Harrogate, not Rossendale. I prolly should have done fewer drugs.

It’s raining snow.

I guess she's a beach front bum.

introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts you’ve seen - Patterson Hood - Psychedelic Furs - Spanish Love Songs/Strike Anywhere/Comeback Kid/Ways Away/Hot Water Music/A Wilhelm Scream/Joyce Manor/Defeater/Sincere Engineer + more - Mass of Fermenting Dregs - Redd Kross concerts are life.

I've been unable to get tix for Lambrini Girls and Stereolab at Project House since Songkick alerted me to the gigs. On Project House website last night to check the parking situation and got tickets to this... Mark Arm singing. #Punk

Going to UK in a couple days for pre-Holidays malarky, gigs and gallivanting. Then to the uplands for sliding... so I've being wintering the house, and running down the perishable food stocks. Looks like lunch today is going to be a cassoulet sandwich.