Currently reading, would highly recommend (as I would all PRK’s books, which are uniformly fantastic).

That live bands you’ve seen thing but only those who can’t be seen again: Broadcast David Bowie Low Psychic TV Beastie Boys Seeds/Sky Saxon Love/Arthur Lee The Fall Leonard Cohen

This can fuck right off. Solidarity to UK trans people living through this vitriolic persecution. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Hal here, posing for his confessional singer-songwriter album cover.

Was going to watch Legends with Steve Coogan. Opening scene: ‘Liverpool 1990’ - a kid leaves his house, goes to a party where N-Trance ‘Set You Free’ is playing (released 1993, only became a hit in ‘95) This kind of thing drives me nuts, so lazy. Anyway, won’t be watching any more of that.

Make a band out of two others? Midnight Coil

Brotherhood of Man is the Bastard

Slightly increase a band Neutral Cream Hotel

From where I’m sat

Great article about the new Super Furries reissue and potted history of Welsh language underground music. I winced at the description of ‘Hiraeth’ by non-Welsh speakers, having, ahem, co-written a track with that title! But a fantastic read. The Ffa Coffi Pawb doc linked also well worth a watch.

(Apologies for predictability but an open goal really…)

Chris Mason increasingly resembling Peter O’Hanraha-hanrahan.

This is great news and the new tunes are killer. We toured with P&L back in the day and I have very fond memories, brilliant to have them back!

Picked this up on vinyl for a steal this week, however upon listening it is, annoyingly, the US/European version with different running order and new mixes on 2 tracks. Begs the question who on earth heard the majestic Party Fears Two and thought it needed remixing for the US market? Frustrating.

“I have billions of eyes, yet I live in darkness” - me, playing scrabble.

Alright, I’m in.

As ever, no idea how effective this will be but takes 30 seconds and can’t do any harm. notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

Great little record fair in The Piper St Leonards today, only a couple of stalls but some great stuff, could easily have spent hundreds but had to limit myself to these 3.

Absolutely sickening but essential read. Thousands reported massacred in one night. It’s a bit nuts how little coverage this has had. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Is ‘Inject into my veins’ still a thing? If so, that. But I still want more.

Amazing to hear an extensive and earnest discussion of an Aaron Dilloway track on today’s ep of the Football Cliches podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

Am I the only person in the UK claiming a pair of illuminated maracas as a legitimate business expense in the last tax year? I think I might be you know.

Mildly perturbed by the quotation marks here.

Proper LOL here

Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist.

Why on earth is anyone listening to anything Peter Mandelson says in 2026, let alone publishing him or commenting on it. Get out of public life, man.

Recent scrawl of @teethofthesea.bsky.social @rocketrecordings.bsky.social @thegreatbartoni.bsky.social live gig from last year from a forthcoming work in progress tome of illustrated live reviews.....

Ben Lamar Gay absolutely brilliant in Cafe Oto last night, a genuine original.

Buffalo 66 with Big Bird as Billy Brown (neat alliterative name synching going on too)

Alarmed by how close this Partridge get-up is to stuff I wear myself. Convincing myself he’s got cooler but we all really know what’s actually happening here.

Whenever I see one of these ‘series of celebrated novels bound together in a beautiful gift Hardback’ I only ever think of 1 thing.

Me when people are losing their minds trying to get Oasis/Radiohead tickets: “what is it with these people going crazy just to see bands from the 90s, don’t these people listen to any new music?” Me when Super Furry Animals tickets go on pre-sale:

Was very honoured to be asked to play some trumpet on a few tunes in this great album, released today. alphabet-business-concern.bandcamp.com/album/lsd

So fucking depressed by the state of politics/discourse in this country, esp the supposedly mainstream left/centre politicians and media who are too cowardly/careerist to call out what’s happening here right now. This is exactly how we end up with a fash gov’t in 18 months time. Wake up dickheads.

“Find It” by The Carrie Nations in Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls

Hi @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social Out of interest if someone with a huge platform had publicly invited people to commit serious violence against you and then, rightly, under longstanding laws of this nation, been arrested for this, would you now be mocking the police for doing so?

I’m going to bang the drum for the terminally unfashionable ‘You’re Under Arrest’ to get a look-in here. Whilst his many 70s electric masterpieces pictured will probably quite rightly dominate the piece I still feel that particular slice of tasteless 80s sleaze has a unique place in his catalogue.

Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.

6.99 for a Dr. Oetker (to the tune of “You’re gonna get your fucking head kicked in”)

#BookSky hivemind - what's the best NON-fiction book you've read so far this year, please? Doesn't have to be published in 2025 but usual rules apply - has to be available in the UK, and can't consider *anything* self-published. Reposts appreciated. Gogogo 😀📚😀📚😀📚😀📚

An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below). If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.

Next up for me is this. LOVED Ablutions so had extremely high hopes but 50 pages in this has already surpassed them. Jesus he can write.

Really loved this by @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, it draws characters with incredible detail and uses a litany of disparate voices to tell a real story in a sad, funny way. Highly recommended.