Thought the Kylie thing on Netflix might be a bit much at 3 hrs but it’s great. She’s so likeable and smart and (obviously) hot. The music holds up and of course hers is a story with a bit of everything. It must be hard work not to love her but no doubt there are folk prepared to make the effort.

The blue thing is a lovely chilled cool mat. The furry thing is a pillock.

Whoever wrote that song Sunny Side of the Street never had to walk a long haired miniature schnauzer during a heatwave. Shady side mate, every time.

Style Council Paul is the best looking Paul from the three ages of Weller. Happy birthday Paul x

Happy birthday Paul Weller. I loved The Jam and the Style Council but never paid enough attention to his solo stuff because of lad rock and dad rock and all that. Anyway having read the massive book about him last year I took the plunge and haven’t looked back. Much to love. Happy birthday PW 🎂🎉🍻

Le chien dans le jardin

Sitting in the garden with a beer listening to Galaxie 500. Obviously if it’s this hot in May we are in serious schtuck but I’m happy for now at least.

Just told my better half and MiL that Martin Sheen is taking over from Osman on House of Games. Genuine mistake but imagine the potential for an opening line. ‘Shit, still in Saigon’.

I am trying to remember a record shop/outlet where I bought a lot via mail order in the early/mid 90s. Possibly based in Oxford, they would send out chunky A5 catalogues every month or so. I used to get my Kill Rock Stars and other US imports from them. Any ideas? #vinyl #indiepop

Hats off to any Plymouth fans who make it to every away game next season.

I’m still so twentieth-century that whenever I’m buying something online I’ll say in all innocence that I’m ’sending off for it’.

If West Ham go down they should sue for this five minutes of pissing about at Tottenham.

Be pleased for Schumacher if he gets Bolton up. I was really warming to him before Stoke supposedly sacked him for preferring the boozer to the training pitch. Look if that’s a crime you can cuff me now officer.

Did anyone catch the teatime theme time connection on RadMac this morning? I only caught the tunes in the car and missed the answer (plus I didn’t recognise Salad anyway).

Reading @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social’s memoir and I’m reminded to give this oft-overlooked gem a run out ♥️

Fondly remembering the days when it took the CIA to stop a Stoke player not just a missed appointment with the mindfulness facilitator.

It’s Schrödinger’s cup final. I both want to watch it and don’t want to watch it until I open the box and find out whether Arsenal have got leathered or not.

Is there a more noble creature in the animal kingdom than a guide dog? They are so cool it’s mad.

Nothing particularly against Hull City but this stuff about being denied prep time whiffs of getting your excuses in early and laying the groundwork for legal action. Not saying it’s ideal but they’ve only had to work out a plan A (Soton) and a plan B (Boro). Not that hard.

As it’s World Goth Day I’ve broken this out. I always think of it as the Phil Spector Christmas Album of World Goth Day.

Being an old man who likes The Doors and Public Enemy I’m rather enjoying this (and the sunshine).

Been watching Legends on the old ‘flix and crikey hearing Infinity by Guru Josh was all a bit Proustian.

Glorious sunshine today for #WorldGothDay. Disappointing for all those goths who were hoping it would be overcast and stormy like it always is on the World Goth Day cards.

We’ve never had much in the way of Arsenal gloryhunters this far north of Watford especially during those lovely wilderness years but no doubt some of these Man City and Liverpool shirts will be getting surreptitiously swapped over the summer.

Saints have fucked around and Saints have found out.

The Villa are definitely turning it on for Ozzy tonight. Both goals superb from a TECHNICAL point of view sending their fans into ECSTASY. (I’ve cleverly hidden a Black Sabbath album title in my post. See if you can spot it)

Aston Thrilla

Come on Villa. Makes a nice change for me to want an English team to win in Europe.

BENT 100 is out there now, the final will and testament of the Creeping Bent Organisation after 30 years aural agitation. BENT 100 is available in 12 track LP edition and 18 track CD edition. Local Produce.

It’s all very well me and you taking the piss out of Southampton but it’s a bit classless that Spiderman bloke at Wrexham doing it all over tinternet.

Jordan Pickford dislikes this.

Both released on this day 30 years ago. Must qualify as a national holiday in Wales, surely?

In the London Road Alehouse and they’ve played the Cramps and the Damned and the Delta 5 and now they’re playing Fiery Jack by The Fall and that’s why it’s my favourite pub in Stoke ❤️

I was starting to think I’d imagined seeing Half Man Half Biscuit at Shelley’s in 1986 because no one else seemed to remember it but here we are - documentary evidence. One of the venue’s ‘Alternative Moods’ events. Certainly an alternative to the Blubbery Hellbellies or Christian Death.

Still my favourite Scottish post-rock punning compilation album title.

HS2 is mental. Every time they chop a mile off the length they stick a million on the cost. Institutional spivvery.

A couple of Fall references in David Keenan’s excellent Boyhood just in case anyone still keeps a record of these things. (The character’s assertion that nobody ever listened to Trout Mask Replica all the way through is clearly nonsense because I do it all the time as I’m pretty sure Keenan does).

There’s the shot on the first Ramones album cover oh and also this.

I’d much rather go to A&E than a school reunion anyway but considering we left in 1982 I can’t help thinking this list would be improved by a liberal sprinkling of Adam & the Ants, Motörhead, Human League, Madness, Dexys or any of the other things we actually listened to at the time.

VARsenal innit.

I kind of agree with Burnham about more devolution but if he’s not careful he’s going to be devolving stuff to a bunch of reform spudheads.

Just seen a band rehearsal space not far from here being proudly advertised for £265 a month. Something else that’s become a rich man’s game then.

Oh wow this is just magnificent. As heady, absorbing, unpredictable and uncontainable as always and more forcefully written than ever. I think it’s my favourite @reversediorama.bsky.social book of them all and that’s a very big deal.

Just time to wish the great Brian Eno a very oblique birthday 🎂🎉🍻

“A new entry in this years' Sunday Times Rich List is Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis and her family, who hold an estimated fortune of £400m” Maybes they could start paying some of the artists who aren’t on the telly then. When I were a lad it all went to Greenpeace to save the whale (did it fuck)

Having a music tidy-up and by my calculations there is only one major band/act whom I love and all of whose albums I’ve got where the whole lot (and all attendant singles/EPs) are on CD and *none* are on vinyl. Just a quirk of timing I suppose. Anyway the name of that band is Super Furry Animals.

Feeling a bit nostalgic after seeing John Robb in Leek last night.

Had an enjoyable evening in Leek listening to John Robb talking about his newly published memoir then chatting with Martin Bramah about House of All, Blue Orchids and of course life in The Fall.

The Glitter Band of Holy Joy Division

Fair play I love most of these as well.