Watching Trees '25 line up.

Ace night with @optimo-espacio.bsky.social in the park! Great to meet up with old friends and loads of the 1 of 100 community 🤝😄

It's almost exactly 15 years since the last weekly Optimo. Coincidentally I just found this which we handed out on the last night - 250 Optimo tunes as chosen by those who attended. Had we picked them I think it would have been a much cooler selection.

Saturday at The Berkeley Suite 11 - 4. Dreaming is free.....

We totally need s group to call themselves The Tesla Bombers and come out with something as good as this. Can be done I feel. @optimo-espacio.bsky.social #2025 #fuckthenazis optimomusic.bandcamp.com/track/break-...

Friday night, JD Twitch @ Todmorden Golden Lion. Strictly for creatures of the night.

Conic Hill

Does anyone have any inside info as to what time tomorrow the Wyndford flats in Glasgow are getting demolished?

Back on.NTS Live in 5 minutes for two hours.

Sisters Of Mercy's - First And Last And Always is 40 today. I last saw them live 40 years ago yesterday - sisterswiki.org/Sun,_10-Mar-... I've not seen them since but am going to see them this summer as they are playing practically next to my house. Will I regret it?

Tomorrow night’s all night Optimo party at Fold is sold out but there will be 20 tix on the door to incentivise some early arrivals. See you there!

Tonight - our final time playing Zukunft in Zurich. After 20 years of playing the club is sadly closing, (plus it’s probably the end of the world anyway….) We are on 01.00 - 07.00 Sunday, at Berlin Panorama Bar 20.00 - 24.00

So long, Gene Hackman, perhaps my favourite American actor. So many great lines! "You pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?" "My name is Harry Caul..I was sick as a child..." "Now you listen to ME you backward shit-ass you, go get me yr fckn boss before i kick the fckn door in"

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Our Watching Trees festival is sold out but there are some resale tickets going to be made available on Friday at 11am. watching-trees.eventcube.io/events/68381...

Back on NTS Live (www.nts.live) now, for next 2 hours.

Tristwch y Fenywod at St Ninian's Church, Glasgow = the perfect act in the perfect location. Ultragoth +++

Back at The Berkeley Suite, Glasgow on Saturday with Trystero, the new act from Optimo Music's MR TC with Low Bat on vocals. Their self released "Sfumare e Vedere" album was one of our faves of 2024. Psyched to have their Scottish debut. On stage around 00.15 - 01.00 and then we are on 'til 4.

The acclaimed festival Sancho Panza will return this summer for more no-holds barred fun, joined by a stellar lineup of DJs, including @optimo-espacio.bsky.social, Luke Una, Tiger Balm and loads more. www.theransomnote.com/music/events... #festival #sanchopanza #optimoespacio

Good times at Creeping Bent's 30th anniversary / endgame in Glasgow tonight. End of an era. It featured the 1st gig by Glasgow's finest avant-funksters, MacKenzies, in 40 years. They were sensational! Whole thing was great - the best of Glasgow!

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Femi Kuti at Celtic Connections tonight - 🔥🔥🔥🔥 As outspoken as his dad. Encored with Fela's "Beast Of No Nation" and "Water Get No Enemy" Whole thing was epic.

Back on NTS Radio at 17.00 - 19.00 GMT with a David Lynch tribute hour for the 1st hour.

David Lynch / Captain Beefheart - ELECTRICITY www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Wz...

I got to share a smoke with David Lynch outside the Glasgow Film Theatre when he was giving a talk on Transcendental Meditation. Possibly the only good thing that came out of being a smoker, which is of course what did for DL. 💔💔 #don’tsmoke

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Have had this record forever yet somehow didn't notice its greatness until today. So awesome! I'm almost prepared to absolve Richard Branson of all his evils for giving the world the Front Line label back in the 70s (though he had next to nothing to do with it). www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUYJ...

I used to keep a diary of record purchases so know that 40 years ago today I bought Treasure by Cocteau Twins (a little while after it came out). I adore this album & have recently fallen in love with it all over again, John Bonham OTT drum samples and all. Treasure fans, what's yr favourite track?

At last! Possibly the greatest synth pop album ever made, Testpattern's Après-Midi (produced by Haruomi Hosono) gets a reissue. A shame they didn't consider including a bonus 12" to include Testpattern's seminal non albumi tracks.

Tomorrow - Optimo New Year's Day Meltdown '25 @BerkeleySuite 01/01/25 Upstairs bar open at 22.00. Dancefloor open 23.00. On til 04.00. A very Happy New Year to you when it comes. xxx

So Low was So Mega last night. Thanks to all who attended. Same time, same place next year?

It's the annual So Low party at Exit tonight. Exit used to be called Fury Murrys. Last time I was there was 1989, DJing as support to Nitzer Ebb! I imagine I will be playing a high % of the same records I played that night gig but hopefully mixed and programmed a little better. Doors 11, on til 4.

Good times Phil Kieran’s Leatherette night in Belfast. Had a fab day there today too - Belfast is buzzing. Highlight of the day was this city centre Husky gathering.

Friday night, Salford White Hotel. Midnight til 7am. Saturday night, Newcastle Cobalt Studios 10.30 - 3am.

A few off the top of my head faves of '24. www.phonicarecords.com/best-of-list...

Final UNTIL THE MUSIC STOPS Party of 2024 - the Big Christmas Night Out, at the one and only Brixton Funhouse - @phonoxlondon Optimo Residency - Get yr Tickets - tinyurl.com/4vjkk2jz

Inbox: ‘Wanted’ posters of healthcare CEOs wheatpasted around lower Manhattan ahead of today’s Goldman Sachs Financial Services conference. “Those who would steal from us have names, faces, and addresses. Justice will only come from the working class,” per anon communique.

Apologies to anyone who was at the Public Records party yesterday evening. The venue was having technical problems that made it impossible for me to continue playing. :-(

I'm already feeling excited for @watchingtrees.bsky.social 2025, with @optimo-espacio.bsky.social & lots more 🥳🎶 Here's a few clips from the 1st #WatchingTrees #Festival Just suddenly remembered I haven't put together my images from 2024 yet. Coming soon 👀🌴🌳🎋 vimeo.com/1037106020?share=copy

Sunday evening in New York at Public Records. 2 - 9. I’m on 5 - 9. It’s free with RSVP til 4PM - dice.fm/event/7dolkp...

Back in Philadelphia tomorrow -

Out today on Optimo Music Rocks, Saint Sappho's third single, Fall Into A Lie. Their debut album will arrive mid 2025. Available on Bandcamp & all good digital and streaming platforms. optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/fall-i... fanlink.tv/Fall_Into_Th... Video - www.youtube.com/watch?v=y19z...

"Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat" is incredible. Highly recommended. 10/10. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RwL...

F**K Black Friday. Wish it didn’t exist. It is capitalism unleashed, so it also irks me even more when so many labels etc. I love feel the need to jump on it. Maybe if I lived in the USA I’d get it but here it feels like something that has been foisted on us, and it is inescapable.

Gigs up until the end of the year. Shout us if you are coming to one of them! Pt 1 Friday 29th Nov. - Todmorden, The Golden Lion Saturday 30th Nov. - Brighton, Tide Fri 6th Dec. - Philadelphia, Making Time Sunday 7th Dec. - New York, Public Records Friday 13th Dec. - Margate, Faith In Strangers

On NTS Live today 17.00 - 19.00 UK time for our last show of 2024. Feat. Penelope Trappes, Alva Noto, Cymande, V/Z, DJ Zenobia, Depth Charge, Blackhouse, Whitehouse, Octagon Man, Party Dozen, Michael Moorcock's Deep Fix, Jessica Pratt, Philip Cohran & The Artistic Heritage Ensemble ‎ +++

It's far more likely Germany will arrest Nan Goldin than arrest the fugitive mass murderer Benjamin Netanyahu

Fuck the King!

Posted a load of J Saul Kane tracks on our FB page. Remembered this one, which I also played to death. Brilliantly mad psychedelic acid freestyle from 35 years ago - www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDU0...

Sad to hear J Saul Kane has left us. An all time great UK producer. He made so many great records but these two very early ones were just so far ahead of the pack at the time. Octagon Man - Free-er Than Free Depth Charge 1st 12" www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AXE... www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVxM...