Holiday reads before I start my new gig on Monday! CC: @annadoble.bsky.social 📚

Bali really is the best!! Soaking up the vibes on my last day in paradise 🫖

10/10 no notes #Astley 🪟

“By the time Manic was released, we’d already achieved Silver Disc status with Disgraceful and had our option picked up for a second album. Both developments raised a few eyebrows around Camden…” If, like me, you had a particular soft spot for @dubstaruk.bsky.social, this is a delight 🍿

George Duke! Sharon Red! And Jamiroquai’s best record (‘When You Gonna Learn’) to close out two hours of non-stop festive dancing in Dalston last night. ALLLL the vibes at Om on Kingsland Road 🎁

A most excellent week in the city 🌃

Putting both of these up for my fellow Balearic @bsky.app music nerds 🫖

I wrote a chapter about the Weekender in this! With inclusions from @mixmag.net, Johnno, Charlotte, Heidi and Dusky: the 2010s were so much brighter thanks to @skreamizm.bsky.social et al 🍿

1. Depeche Mode – Enjoy the Silence 2. Kate Bush – Love and Anger 3. The Cure – High 4. Electronic – Get the Message 5. Hole – Celebrity Skin 💥💥💥💥💥

Count me in for a read of this! 📚

Cheers to you too @graemethomson.bsky.social! 🫖

Not seen anyone else post this over here so I’m doing my Balearic bit this Friday morning for Ewan’s new Mark Hollis and Talk Talk-inspired mix. It opens, suitably enough, with his solo torch song ‘The Colour Of Spring’ 🫖

Still thinking about my whirlwind trip to Buenos Aires for Oasis and Ashcroft! Thank you Argentina and thank you River Plate 📚

See you down the front @monkeytennis.bsky.social 🫖

10/10, no notes! 📼

So great being back in Buenos Aires!!! 🇦🇷

By far the most enjoyable Sunday afternoon music thread for my hungover head 😵‍💫

I was *hoping* it would be this!!!! 🫖

Attention all @bsky.app Beloved heads!! You won’t find a better hour of Balearic power online this week. Absolutely everything came together so as well as oodles of Jon Marsh chat, you’ll also hear ‘Reach For Love’ and new music from Auntie Flo, J Appiah & Jacob Alon www.mixcloud.com/VoicesRadio/...

Doing my Balearic remix homework ahead of tomorrow’s Voices Radio show with Mr Marsh! 🫖

As per most of my own (beloved!) boxes, the word ‘useful’ is doing some heavy lifting: that picture disc belongs in a museum!

I’ve always loved this album. The duet with Michael Stipe (‘Trout’) is a beaut 🎣

Bravo on all The Beloved in there 🫖

An extended thread to remember Dave Ball by. R.I.P. to a production master 🪐

Fabric’s birthday was fantastic!!! Took me a minute to recover, not gonna lie 📼

THIS! 📚

Great cover 📚

“Mastering + 100 CDs = £564”: this is a brilliant thread for anyone wondering what the costs of self-releasing and dabbling in physical music are in 2025 🫖

Hard to compute at this point 💔

I am ready 🍿

Had a brilliant time doing a short On Tour book reading at The Social on Little Portland Street last night… which just gave me time to head back to Islington for Jamie Woon! It’s just so good to have him back and Union Chapel the perfect venue 📚

I’ve had this song on repeat for a week! 💥

Precisely this! Thank you for saying it @patrickzircher.bsky.social 📚

Last night was THEE BEST! Talks from Hawtin and the original Muzik Magazine staff (including yours truly at the end) plus some blistering techno from Hawtin in the main room at Koko from 3AM. The games continue tonight with a talk between me and the original End creative team and Tenaglia to close 🫖

Big, big weekend ahead #Muzik #Koko

Announced at long last! With London’s date landing at the Royal Albert Hall 🫖

My first-ever Malta boat party delivered!! @defectedrecordsuk.bsky.social

What a superb music week this is turning out to be! After Defected Malta, I head to SE1 for Faith with Harry Romero, Sophie Lloyd and crew. But Robert Plant will be hard to beat 📚

“Venues are getting thinned out, although that’s still probably the best way for musicians to pay for their dinner. I don’t know what’s happened exactly, but it’s tough being someone who uses human expression or artistic expression as a kind of livelihood.” Amazing Jim Jarmusch stuff here 🫖

Just back from second viewing, which was just as magical as the first! Five star movie with a soundtrack to (ahem) die for 🍿

“George Harrison may be thought of as a holy man, but the primordial ooze his career emerges from is made of cars.” If you too love George Harrison, this is a complete Sunday treat. This one is for (and indeed by) @kalebhorton.bsky.social 🕊️

Regardless of whether his family and estate signed off on this or not, the ethics around this are awful. Let Stan Lee rest in peace!!!

Happy Birthday to meeeeee 🎈

It’s a @nikkershaw.bsky.social kind of afternoon youtu.be/WWpzeK2ZiaA?...

As usual, this looks like a stellar round-up of recent mixes and a few surprises. Very proud to have played my part with the Paul Weller remix @paulwellernews.bsky.social 🪐

Favourite Bluesky convo this week and hard to disagree with @dannykelly.bsky.social’s overall assessment below #TwinPeaks

“I never did look like a 21-year-old kid just outta college who’d never been laid.” Wonderful, erudite stuff by @christinalefou.bsky.social here 🫖

“Am I really so bad? Am I really so frightening?”

Precisely this and I’d wager Quiz Show is one