A review of Cuarteto Casals @wigmore-hall.org.uk yesterday lunchtime for @arcanadotfm.bsky.social arcana.fm/2026/01/13/c...

Back on the rails...and another listen to Dry Cleaning's rather brilliant Secret Love album, produced by Cate Le Bon #commuterworld

A fine lunchtime concert from Cuarteto Casals @wigmore-hall.org.uk today. Shostakovich's 3rd quartet resonating all too strongly with world affairs at the moment: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Instrumental musings in the gloom from supergroup Pullman - their forthcoming album, simply titled III #commuterworld

Our local has a dark beer weekend. Could be dangerous, there are some fine specimens here. I may be some time!

Our local has a dark beer weekend. Could be dangerous, there are some fine specimens here. I may be some time!

Enjoying Dry Cleaning's Secret Love in the rain - another fine album from a properly distinctive band #commuterworld

Thinking the @arcanadotfm.bsky.social site should have more pun-related content in keeping with its editor's dubious humour. A series of playlists for stringed instruments called Bow Selecta would be a good start! Coming soon hopefully...

Brightening a murky start with the Jimi Tenor Band, and last month's album Selenites, Selenites. A cosmopolitan mix - Afro jazz from Finland! #commuterworld

Today's #commuterworld soundtrack is the new Dry Cleaning album, Secret Love. A keeper for those bass lines alone!

Up and running with my Arcana site, which has a busy year planned. Do give it a follow if you haven't already! @arcanadotfm.bsky.social

Spot the moon! Listening to Art Decade, a colourful set of covers of David Bowie, King Crimson and Brian Eno from clarinettist Evan Ziporyn and Toronto group ContaQt #commuterworld

Really enjoying Landman at last...Billy Bob Thornton is superb and the ensemble cast excellent too. A fine, comic yet poignant script to back it up

Happy New Year! I'm restarting my #commuterworld listening diary...a journal of listening and pre-work photos from the commute. Today's frosty number on the edge of the park in Tonbridge is to the soundtrack of Who Cares Wins, an easy album with hip-hop leanings from Ben Marc

Top 5 gigs of 2025 - a fallow year (moving house and all that) but was fortunate to see: 1) Stevie Wonder at Hyde Park 2) Suede at Royal Festival Hall 3) The Charlatans at the Roundhouse 4) ABBA Voyage at ABBA Arena (qualifies as the live band were brilliant!) 5) Anne Queffélec at Wigmore Hall

Some pertinent reflections on culture from an ever-reliable (and relatable) pen

Ha! Not today, but there's potential!

@richards7370.bsky.social Hi Richard, here with my #5albums25 Andy Bell - pinball Suede - Antidepressants Cate Le Bon - Michelangelo Dying Baxter Dury - Allbarone Annie and the Caldwells - Can't Lose My Soul

The Stevie Wonder chart on Radio 2 is ideal for New Year's Day - wonderfully restorative while reminding me of that special Hyde Park gig in July

Happy New Year! Hoping that 2026 will be full of good music and much more besides

Jessie J singing My Way on Hootenanny just now - a powerhouse performance. Inspirational!

Last article share of the year...and it's an interview with Marc-André Hamelin, talking about his new album for @prestomusic.bsky.social www.prestomusic.com/classical/ar...

Last day to access my #Tailleferre short book online! Hard copies will be on sale from next month. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

How I'm showing up to the Bluesky Xmas party.

musicOMH's Top 50 Albums of 2025 | WWith absolutely no ado at all, here's a list of 50 rather fine albums that came out in 2025. Hoorah.

Signing off for Christmas with an appropriate tribute...and wishing everyone a peaceful holiday! X arcana.fm/2025/12/24/c...

RIP Chris Rea - made the mistake of underrating him for many years. So many good songs, though - personal favourites Josephine, Auberge, On The Beach, The Road To Hell, I Can Feel Your Heartbeat...even before you consider driving home! A master of his craft

I've picked a dozen albums of the year from this year's @arcanadotfm.bsky.social reviews - the only such list featuring Bloch and Andy Bell! arcana.fm/2025/12/20/a...

A review of the Choir of St. John's College Cambridge @wigmore-hall.org.uk carol concert on Monday - together with a link to listen. Some imaginative choices! arcana.fm/2025/12/16/s...

My latest roundup of contemporary recordings for @prestomusic.bsky.social is now live: www.prestomusic.com/classical/ar...

Until today, I didn't know sherry trifle doughnuts could be a thing! That's tomorrow's guilty pleasure sorted

Thoroughly enjoying the Happy Mondays Factory singles collection. Those remixes are👌too!

Heading for the train with Rick Wakeman's piano album Melancholia - feel like I'm in a cafe already! #commuterworld

A first appearance on #commuterworld for Happy Mondays - appropriately! - heading in to London with their new collection of early Factory singles

Celebrating 3 points with this 'zesty lemon' number - an apt description for the Canaries today! #ncfc

My account of a night with The Charlatans, celebrating their continued abilities to rouse a crowd @tim-burgess.bsky.social

A joyous night in the company of @timburgess.bsky.social and The Charlatans at the Roundhouse. Here's to nearly 35 years of meaningful songs married to danceable grooves!

A moody sky to soundtrack another encounter with Kompakt's Pop Ambient 2026 compilation, as we speed into Surrey #commuterworld

It should be the Lighthouse Family's 'Raincloud'...but this morning’s ##commuterworld listening is the soft hues of Kompakt's Pop Ambient compilation, always welcome at this time of year

This World Cup draw is beyond nauseating

Mixed feelings with all the Spotify reveals today. Other streaming services are available!

I had a chat with composer David Matthews and conductor Jac van Steen about their new recording of Matthews' Symphony no.10 for @prestomusic.bsky.social: www.prestomusic.com/classical/ar...

Back to Daniel Avery and new one Tremor for this morning’s #commuterworld listening, the first album in a while. Some massive sonic spaces!

Excellent work by agent Placheta, even if it means Oxford are further clear. Makes up a tiny bit for Tuesday night! #ncfc

Up in Scotland...and enjoying a run round part of Loch Leven before the rain arrives!

A movie that takes place where you're from.

It's painful...and Clement now knows the size of the task he faces! #ncfc

A few words and musical examples in honour of the great Mani: arcana.fm/2025/11/21/m...

My latest ‘Hanging Out a Window’ column is just out and it’s a piece on the recent album and London concert by Mulatu Astatke, the father of Ethio-jazz. Read and subscribe (free) here: johnearls.substack.com/p/in-praise-...

Shocked to hear the news about Mani's passing. An outstanding musician, one of the very best things about that Stone Roses debut album