Here you go then. I went looking (unsuccessfully) for Stock, Hausen and Walkman's 'Instrumental' which clocks in at under 3 seconds (breaking the CD Red Book Standard in the process) but this is still under a minute. #Short&Quick youtu.be/SRcRn_Xv7Ek?...

#NowPlaying from the "I have no recollection of buying this" section

FYI @rolandbates.bsky.social

It has, predictably, turned up - naturally in the last place I looked. Along with another 9 LPs and five box sets which I'd managed to miss when re-filing, which suggests there may be a few too many. Don't quote me on this.

🎶 The Power of Lo-oove A Plunge from Abo-ove 🎵

Speaking as a man, a biological man, I have to ask: what's so good about us? 🤷

Decided against watching the England - DRC game asi have work to do. Sounds like it was the right decision.

So, I've got a very good record by Zoh Amba and friends, called O Light, O Life vol. 1 (The record is better than the title). I know it's good because I've played it, and would like to do so again. Can I find it?

Having indoctrinated me into the curse that is football, Dr Mole has now left the country for a week and I find myself watching a game on my own, when there are any number of good records clamouring for attention. I don't know who I am anymore. Ooh a goal!

Musil: The Man Without Redeeming Qualities

One of many FZ albums that could or should have been called Shut Up and Play Your Guitar #NowPlaying

Centipede at the Lyceum Theatre, London, Sunday 15th November 1970. The band premiered Tippett's "Septober Energy". Concert poster via Stu Wilding

If there's an American equivalent of Blue Peter and schoolkids are encouraged to make this at home out of toilet rolls and spit, every one of the models will look better.

It's cooler today but it's still too warm to be re-filing records, especially when there are stairs involved 😓

I've got a few bits and pieces of supernova remnant in me that come in quite handy.

The BBC has requested that Donald Trump hand over his phone records from Jan. 6 as part of his defamation lawsuit against the broadcaster.

RFK Jr says “any just society” should build statues to honor the anti-vaxxer Andrew Wakefield, who was struck off the medical register for horrific behavior Never, ever forget that it is Wakefield who drove & shaped RFK Jr’s vile, cruel, anti-science autism agenda www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

All below confirmed, although Rise Above did seem to have cornered the market in fans and was blissfully cool. Top marks to Mr Coxon in Atlantis for the offer of a coffee (not in this heat, thanks) and his Derek Bailey suggestions.

Memo to Mahmood: if you've upset Alf Dubs to this extent, you're on the wrongest of wrong tracks.

Extraordinary detail in the new book on Trump's second term administration

Goodbye, long wave: alexperdurabo.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

Bloomin' heck, Ecuador. Good work.

@bsky.app is there a reason why, if I try to watch an embedded YouTube video in full screen, it only works in portrait mode? Turning the phone (Samsung Galaxy model) to landscape terminates the video. Works fine with YouTube itself.

Sidenote: I'd really appreciate it if you repost this, if only because getting the damn thing to display on Bsky with a decent alt text was something of a labour of love. And also because, obviously, I want everyone in the universe to know this is coming.

Hard not to regard this as a classic example of a pre-emptive campaign by certain sectors, along with their media sympathisers, to discourage a new prime minister from appointing someone who might damage their interests in the long and short term. And it will almost certainly work.

The story of social media’s problem with news, in two posts (these are from X)

Ron Perlman breaking character here is lovely.

Listening to Pharoah Sanders' The Creator Has a Master Plan and thinking back to a fine night where me, @rolandbates.bsky.social and a host of others listened to Anthony Braxton and friends soaring their way through that tune. Happy times.

#NowPlaying perfect for this heathaze weather

Haha, nice one @privateeyenews.bsky.social !

- How did you break your fingers? - Practicing Conlon Nancarrow

We've been made aware of malicious QR codes being put on some of our parking ticket machines around the city. We do not use QR codes on any of our machines. Please do not scan these. If you see any please report them to us.

Hydration break and what I feel like doing watching this game.

Aether - The Necks Amina Claudine Myers Sings Betty Smith Catalogue - The Ganelin Trio Always a Pleasure - Cecil Taylor St Luke's Passion - Penderecki (Wit / Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra) The Necks one might be too well known, in which case Å by Knut Hamre and Steve Tibbetts.

Thinking of putting the extra duvet on this evening and seeing if it's possible to actually dissolve.

Is this <checks notes> reporting from the BBC that shows Farage in a bad* light? Do my eyes deceive me? *terrible Farage says £5m gift spending details 'not public's business' - BBC News share.google/NBLW1cDYUlqa...

Farage defends his £5m gift as necessary: "I have been physically the most attacked and endangered politician in Britain for well over a decade". I think Jo Cox and David Amess might have something to say about that, if only they could.

Barring anyone who wants to stand for political office from obtaining it. Drag people into the job based on an assessment of how well they could do it. If they perform well, consider giving them time off for good behaviour.

credit to Sally Nugent who just, in normal circumstances, brought Nigel Farage's political career to an end. If polls don't plummet after this, I will be truly astonished.

You already got one, and you didn't like it.

He's something of an expert in collapsing into incoherence.

Hoooo that's some lightning 😳

Just walked part way home and it was raining. Bliss.

In the end, there were just a lot more human rights abuses than I was expecting from the human rights lawyer.

Thank god we won't have Wes for PM, at least for a while.

I think Steve Bray is starting to unite the country but not in the way he hoped

Restoring trust on national security...? <checks notes>

And we're off

Well, this is a surprise! Not the fact that we were getting a CD by John Tilbury on @anothertimbre.bsky.social but that it was archival recordings as well adding up to a 4 CD box set! I consider myself thankful to have heard him play in person a few times. www.anothertimbre.com/products/joh...