It's total Partridge when anyone introduces Madonna as "the material girl", especially Peter Drury a few seconds ago.

I was looking forward to this until I remembered how underwhelmed I was by Inherent Vice. That's going to be a problem isn't it?

Bad hair that desperately needs a cut always manages to look quite cool a few days before a trip to the barbers. The hairs are working together and saying: "Please don't chop us. We'll try harder".

#nowplaying my AOTY #lucreciadalt

This book is travelling to me via carrier pigeon at the minute. J'ai hâte !

Starmer is an absolute shit for playing along with this "golden ticket" nonsense. I have in-laws who've turned into full blown xenophobes, radicalised by the Daily Mail, and there's no hope for them if nobody in authority is telling them any different. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Happy birthday, @stevereich.bsky.social!

GAY closing down by this weekend. This sucks, and I really do think the straightification of Old Compton Street will get so much worse without GAY anchoring the area... www.scenemag.co.uk/one-of-londo...

takeaway curry with Rod Stewart but he ‘stays in the car’. You go and get it but pass it through the window before getting in - bzzzz; window down; hand comes out - *croak* ‘lahverhly’ *croak* but some of the orange grease has ‘gone through the bag’. .

“Righteous and exhaustive account of one of the biggest bands of all time. If oral histories are generally more about sculpting than writing, then PINK FLOYD SHINE ON is the Michelangelo’s David of the genre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️” Record Collector Huge thanks to @jeres.bsky.social

Sleek, vigilant puma, principal of the mountains...

Got two Underworld tickets for February

It's funny the smug things people used to say about fascism that no longer hold water. Like 'if you had a time machine would you go back and assassinate Hitler?' After all, he was the singular personification of evil and his death would immediately turn everyone liberal again.

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It's weird how digital downloads suddenly dried up from new vinyl releases. I suppose in the spirit of the times ("fuck off, you will not share your password") it was inevitable.

Good post day! Three of my five a day in that lot

Je t'aime? Moi non plus...

On a pillow made from Gaddafi's money

The cheese is freaking me out, not sure why

This is the problem with columns and columists isn't it? They either slowly radicalise themselves upping the ante with more contrarian takes every week, or they resist the way of madness and end up defending the semicolon.

I'm not sure why I clicked on this but the answer is Song for Bob Dylan

'There’s an open-hearted embrace of the guitar that’s unusual on records by electronic musicians; the sound of strings reverberating in the hollow body gives this record its soul' Kieran Hebden + William Tyler - 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s buff.ly/SwQTXDj

There's something about when that autumn evening air first hits you and all the teenage mushroom adventures come flooding back

Wearing a gilet and some salmon trousers

I grudgingly understand why people might use the Amazon website for convenience (laziness), but imagine voluntarily walking with your actual legs into a physical store and handing over cash to a proxy Jeff Bezos that you could have spent somewhere else on the same street? Madness.

My old band once supported The Rapture in that massive white elephant in Sheffield. Seven people showed up and four of them were our friends. As Raptures go that was pretty anticlimatic.

@luketurner.bsky.social was previously on here complaining about Kate Moss on David Bowie and I held my tongue. I can hold my tongue no longer now that Nick Grimshaw is involved.

Al Bundy RIP

Food supplements in Sunday magazines are amazing. All that work just so people can flick through and then pop it in the recycling.

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And verily did Your Party go the way of the funny tinge... 🤦

My Late Father's Record Collection on Instagram makes me about my own kids and the account they'll create called My Late Father's 12" Frisbees

Don't get me wrong, I'm impressed by Mamdani and broadly like what he stands for, but the thought of politicians attempting to get internet savvy on online platforms in his wake fills me with utter dread

Oooooooh a dispatch in my inbox from across La Manche says The Cure will be headlining Rock en Seine next year...

Dear PRs, as much as I love Iggy Pop you're not going to lure me in with the knowledge that Iggy Pop collaborates on your record. Iggy Pop would duet with a skip if someone slipped him £50

Sunday Roundup. 10 Bands/Artists I listened to this week Cabaret Voltaire Sparks Suede Baxter Dury Karl Bartos Lucrecia Dalt Wally Badarou Luciano Berio Art of Noise Biosphere

I know I sound like a spoilsport but the idea the world went to hell after Bowie died really annoys me. I was closer than I'd ever care to be to a terror attack in Paris two months before and, believe it or not, terrible stuff happened consistently even before that share.google/KyIS997a8vbv...

It's hard not to connect idiotic phrases like "I support flags" with the massive far right rally that's streaking through central London right now. Appease fascism get banged.

Out now and very very good!

Bright autumnal Saturday mornings, the perfect conditions for this masterpiece #NP

Kernewek

I grill Budgie (Under the Influence) and go inside Ken Patten's Studio Electrophonique with Martin Ware (Time Machine) in the new ES!

For a second there I thought the Holy Ghost had gone anti-woke

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I'd be really happy to see the ratings in magazines disappear. I've just flicking through one and there are no scores below six - which means everything is pretty good or great apparently. Hmmm...

I don't have anything to add about 22-year-old shooters and fascist influencers but I can report that Sparks are spoiling us again with Madder and that crazily addictive Gorillaz collaboration l. So good!

I can now talk about Spinal Tap II since the NDA elapsed. But it's probably best that I don't.

'The self-proclaimed Nylon Panther is back and this time he’s shown up with a wingman. Backed up by super producer Paul Epworth, the latest from Dury Jr finds the singer at his rawest – and perhaps most exposed' #BaxterDury - Allbarone buff.ly/tZpnjDz

I was just reading something about Italia '90 and wondering why we call it Italia '90 when all the other World Cup names are said in our mother tongue. Any ideas?