Humans usually extract info from these fictive agents (Zeus, Pooh, E. Bennett) without believing they're real. But in psychopathologies people treat fictive agents - saints, spirits, actors, celebrities - as real influences on their actions. Chat GPT is just the latest example.

The Beatles' "Abbey Road" is the first known album that was recorded on a road. What makes it especially impressive from a technical point of view is how little traffic noise was picked up. Given the huge volume of cars in London, this type of album would be nearly impossible to recreate nowadays.

It’s Bandcamp Friday if anyone fancies bunging me a few beans robinallender.bandcamp.com/album/underg...

happy I found this again---a favorite clip of Eno and Cale in the studio, 1989. "Are any of the other verses all right?" "I don't think so, no."

I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.

'Rooftops', Hampstead (1919-1938) by Charles Ginner (Harris Museum & Art Gallery)

Just saw a THIS MUST BE THE PLACE neon in my local Dallas Chicken

Sometimes I’m not sure why I’m on here as I hate people reacting to anything or expressing any kind of opinion

🚨NEW PODCAST🚨 with the fantastically funny Ruth Husko. And it’s all about Ringo and his self-titled album. A hilarious, not unrude episode - blue content ahead! podfollow.com/your-own-per... @dankackroyd.bsky.social

Very big stuff on the Isle of Thanet this weekend “ @harrysword.bsky.social’s dream and nightmare in one” - @luketurner.bsky.social

🚨NEW PODCAST! 🚨 featuring a superb chat with the brilliant musician, William Doyle FKA East India Youth. Available wherever you get your pods now! podfollow.com/your-own-per...

New @personalbeatles.com out today, and it’s a lovely chat with the fantastic musician @william-doyle.co.uk Lots of bonus Eno chat in the Patreon, and a deep dive into Oh My Love pod.fo/e/2f4cfc

A new mailing list goes out tomorrow morning, featuring a new Variable Rewards radio and some thoughts about tennis. It's a real good'un, if I do say so myself. Sign up here before it's too late! newsletter.william-doyle.co.uk

I have somehow entered the pantheon of guests who have graced this delightful podcast about The Beatles. Available to subscribers now – which I wholeheartedly recommend you do. Out on general release tomorrow on your favourite pod app. Thanks to Robin and Jack for a lovely old natter!

This week’s new episode featuring @william-doyle.co.uk is available to subscribers now! Get the extended, ad-free version by subscribing on Patreon or Apple Podcasts. Also includes a deep dive into John Lennon ‘Oh My Love’ in Pick a Song™️. Patreon.com/personalbeatles

I can’t see how the person selected for this role will do very well at their job after a week or two

The dullest rock drama of all time trundles on. It’s fantastic. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Pigwolf was hopelessly lost but refused to admit it

one of the best DB anecdotes is from Donny McCaslin & Tim Lefebvre, who said he loved the "musicless" version of the video & would play it for them in the studio, while cracking up www.youtube.com/watch?v=_li_...

new: a publishing supernova of hastily commissioned Oasis books is coming to the shelves of Dads and Uncles near you. For @thequietus.com I read three of them. How do they confront what Oasis were for most of their career (I.e. appalling, making bad music)? thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

These are not the dots that connect it. Those are the other dots.

medium.com/@irene_68410... This is good. So much of this stuff is people’s a) inability to generate their own thoughts about something having actually interrogated how they feel. And b) their pathetic need to fit in on platforms that (sort of but not actually) reward them. It’s fucking maddening!

#Matmos, William Doyle, #TheUtopiaStrong, Haress, #ScotchRolex, Regis, Dawn Terry, 2rana 3crana and many more fantastic acts will be at Acid Horse 2025 in Wiltshire this weekend... Will you be? Full details of day splits and day tickets available here: buff.ly/DeoOf3f

This is a wild story, and AI is the scourge of the Earth, but I think we could go easier on the writer who did it. He should've checked, 100%, but also, it was for a list in a commercial "paid content" insert that was put into lots of newspapers nationally (does anyone even read those things?) (1/?)

🚨Ep 1 proper is out now 🚨 with indie rock institution, @davebazan.bsky.social AKA @PedrotheLion.bsky.social. We also introduce our groundbreaking new feature, Pick A Song, in which we take a deep dive into Back Seat of My Car. Pedro’s Santa Cruz LP is out now. KBO podfollow.com/your-own-per...

'Shepherd Market' (c.1945) by Charles Ginner (Private collection)

Just remembered that last night I dreamt Paxman was back on hosting University Challenge again and I was utterly gobsmacked. “What?? He’s back!? What’s going on!”

#Matmos, William Doyle, Dyslecta, #TheUtopiaStrong, Michael, Regis, Karl D’Silva and many more are coming to Wiltshire! Check out the full line-up and day splits here Day Tickets now available with and without camping for Acid Horse! buff.ly/DeoOf3f

It's Acid Horse this weekend! We're within sight of selling the last of our three day passes but have day tickets, with and without camping. It's going to be magic... see you there! thequietus.com/news/buy-aci...

To Eno at 77. From his 1995 journal: a letter he wrote to his once-mother-in-law, Joan Harvey, on turning 47. "there is a feeling that things could just drift on and on like this: me being quite successful and accruing the respect of sheer inertia - being praised for still being there"

The best Beatles pod is back! Haven’t listened yet but I am going to be very pleased to hear Robin and Jack wittering on, in the best possible way, for 40 mins today. If you’ve never listened, a treasure trove awaits. KBO!

years ago, for one of the first Dark Outside broadcasts, @williamdoyle.bsky.social sent me a track called "Five Year Glacier". It appeared as the b-side of a 10" and then vanished. Well, it's now on bandcamp williamdoyle.bandcamp.com/album/drippi... and if you're quick, you can grab the 10"

With only ten days to go until the return of Pewsey's Acid Horse festival, Noel Gardner picks out 10 must-sees at this year's edition... There are a few weekend tickets left, and some day tickets will be going up for sale in the next 24 hours buff.ly/lArDqWA

New pod out tomorrow in which we chat about all the Beatles news we've missed since we last spoke, how we've been Beatling on, and a bit of what's to come over the next few months. Series 4 out tomorrow! Subscribe here and tell your friends!: shows.acast.com/personalbeat...

I see Ed Sheeran’s new album is called ‘Play’. Looking forward to the follow ups, particularly ‘Stop’ and ‘Eject’

To my minimal followers on here: I am performing my 2014 East India Youth album TOTAL STRIFE FOREVER tomorrow in Margate at Where Else? for FREE. RSVP HERE: dice.fm/event/g5ybo6...

Hello, BlueSky. Follow us here for general admin about the podcast. Series 4 coming this month! Subscribe/resubscribe (fair enough, it's been ages) here: podfollow.com/your-own-per...

Been trying to write "Krautrock" into my notes app but it keeps autocorrecting as "Krautrocksampler" which, while I have read it, I have never typed

🚨 New on Substack: Hornsey Town Hall, Crouch End - ‘the quintessential English modern public building of the decade’ municipaldreams.substack.com/p/hornsey-to...

Last night’s insomnia challenge: how many songs/pieces have I written since I started writing (and recording) them at 14? I got to 276. Roughly an album‘s worth a year for 20 years. I read that GBV’s Robert Pollard has nearly 3000 registered. He’s 33 years older than me. I best pull my finger out.

I cannot emphasize enough how much stories like this are a form of uncritical advertising for AI companies. I understand the impulse to take them at their word when they wonder aloud if their giant matrix multiplication engines are about to become sentient, but it should be resisted.

Epping Forest fuelled the bread ovens and thus the stomachs of London, and has long hidden its secrets and its dead: A pleasure to talk about pollard symbolism, class & May Day rowdyism muddying simplistic Nature Cures for Radio 4's Open Country, listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Mark Zuckerberg’s new house has strong “we won a five year planning battle with Alderley Edge council for permission to demolish the bungalow that used to stand here” vibes.

Solo show! May 1st supporting @cheshirejack.bsky.social at Brighton Folklore Rooms. I’ll be playing some bits from my upcoming album, such as this…

The photo of Walton Goggins on Wikipedia is brilliant

'In the hectic years leading up to its release Badowski was a sort of punk Zelig, replacing Lemmy on bass in The Doomed, a short-lived offshoot of The Damned, and also singing in Captain Sensible’s side hustle, King' Reissue of the Week: Henry Badowski’s Life Is A Grand buff.ly/ZQAQlZk

All hail @petroc.bsky.social for transforming my mornings since I took up the Radio 3 habit – one of my better decisions. A real education and a true delight that set each day off on a good course

Really important topic: I HATE every version of Bowie's Heroes apart from the one that appears on the album. This includes all of his live versions, the radio edit, and every cover version. The Peter Gabriel one edges towards acceptability but it still fails. Discuss.

In Tesco now they put the avocados in a card wrapper which says “PERFECTLY RIPE” on it which is, I feel, very passive-aggressive

It's payday and though the weekend might seem enough of an escape... Why not secure yourself a sure slice of sonic utopia at Acid Horse in Wiltshire, 23-25 May? Details (and highlights) here: buff.ly/jmAC6av