Never Forget

This is indeed one thing we know about the X-Men.

This is a very good manifesto for, uh, basically everyone who works in an art form that also has a commercially pressured market attached to it. Comics I am looking at you in particular, but also other things.

And people say 90s X-books are bad. HA! Fools.

Minidiscs didn't fail. We failed minidiscs.

the 90s were a horrifying time, you couldn’t trust anyone. Somebody would tell you something and you’d listen to them and then the person would yell “NOT!” in your face and everyone would laugh. They would laugh!

A lot of people are wrong.

UK parents - is your child using Bluesky after 8:30? LOL - Let’s Overanalyse Laughs WTF - Where Twitter Followers? IDGAF - I Daily Glimpse Alf Filth JFC - Jay, Former CEO BTW - Blocked, Takes Weak LMAO - Like My ATProto Opinion STFU - Share Trump Funnies Unceasingly

Art by Yulia Lapko, story by me, letters and editing by Ken Reynolds. I reaaaaaaaally need to pull my finger out and get it out there. Been basically sat on the finished product for way too long.

I think people are right that Doctor Who shouldn't be written by fans, like the disastrous Christopher Eccleston season. Instead it should be written by people who hate the series. Just being unfamiliar with it isn't enough. They need to have a violent emetic response to just hearing the theme tune.

*FIRES UP THE SEQUENCER*

Accurate

At 211 High Street Berkhamsted was a fantastically dingy subterranean music venue called Going Underground. In the late 80s/early 90s it was the site of many a gig by bands that I was either in or my friends were. It was the kind of venue that most small towns had, that so few do now. -

The Rocky IV soundtrack in a dentists while having a filling out in. The montage music in particular was a particularly mad moment.

Make a Doctor Who title less scary.

Make a Doctor Who title less scary

Imagine waking up in a world like that of the Teletubbies? No signal, no human and just an omnipresent narrator and weird cuddly toy villagers. How did u get here and how do you get home? Wishlist now! store.steampowered.com/app/1918850/... #PitchYaGame

Started listening but other things to do so can’t concentrate on it right now, BUT: looking forward to giving this my full attention later. Because I have a lot of love for this series overall. Though not this book specifically!

A while back we had the wonderful opportunity to pitch a Red Dwarf adventure game directly to Doug Naylor himself. While the project didn't end up going ahead, we're now free to share some of the work we produced for the pitch!

Jim Moray (aka my husband) is the highest new entry in the UK Folk Charts this evening!!! Well proud.

Second series of Class!

Actually, that’s better / more era appropriate.

I love it to pieces, BUT.

My synth pop duo are supporting Tiffany at the Camden Club on Thursday 4th June if you’re at a loose end, lads.

Don’t tell me there’s nobody willing to take the role on. I’d have heard if David Tennant had died.

Cackling about this insider comment about the Doctor Who Christmas special potential postponement rumour. Have they? Have they reaaaaaally?

Blog update: New Order's "True Faith" topped the NME Indie Chart and dominated the national top ten in August 87, lifting the group up and away from the cult margins. Also the finest lyrics of Sumner's career, achieved by solitary confinement. indienumber1s.blogspot.com/2026/05/102-...

My old band released our debut single 20 years ago today! 🤯 I had some amazing times as a consequence of this daft song. Marked the occasion by finally piecing together our album on the side over the last couple of months, which has been a fun process. youtu.be/SgJ0_r8gHSw?...

rude. in my day we called that Italo-disco.

Woah!

A truly brilliant book, this. I loved it.

Thinking about the gig and remembered that this is a genuinely glorious piece of pop music. youtu.be/e9i28NoBdrM?...

The Book Lovers by Broadcast popping up on the radio and still sounding incredible I see.

Went to see Gwenno last night. She was great! Quite amusing to learn all those mysterious, elemental motorik-sounding songs sung in Welsh or Cornish have choruses that actually translate as - to give one example - “BRING ME CHEESE!”

Actually maybe Afterlife in Vegas would’ve worked better. Ho hum.

Slightly increase a band Life in Vegas

Cor. Every Sunday morning I read this with a coffee and get introduced to cool stuff I wasn’t aware of, and tbh that’s what you want from a music blog, innit? This week: The Bachelor Pad and the Sally Timms/Marc Almond duet. Fab.

It’s alright.

Doctor Who Season 3 watch finished last night with an absolute banger, so RANKINGS! 1. The Myth Makers 2. The War Machines 3. The Gunfighters 4. The Daleks’ Master Plan 5. The Massacre 6. Mission to the Unknown 7. The Celestial Toymaker 8. The Savages 9. The Ark 10. Galaxy 4

The Wild Ones - Suede Montague Terrace (In Blue) - Scott Walker Moving - Kate Bush Melody - Serge Gainsbourg Getting Away With It - Electronic I Feel Love - Donna Summer 7 Rooms of Gloom - The Four Tops Somewhere In My Heart - Aztec Camera Keep On Moving - Soul II Soul Fantastic - Slum Village

Number one in my heart.

Blog update: Grebo styled Samplemania hit the top of the NME Indie Charts in May 1987 as Gaye Bykers on Acid sent their unique racket to number one. It led to a deal with Virgin Records, which regrettably went nowhere. indienumber1s.blogspot.com/2026/04/98-g...

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Went to see this at the BFI IMAX on Friday and it was mind blowing. The art is still incredible, just packed with detail. Great article.

And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion

Blog update: Wire reformed in 1985 and signed to Mute, but almost split again before their 4th album "The Ideal Copy" was completed. Luckily they persevered and the first single from the LP got to number one in the NME indie charts. "It sounds like New Order!" spat the critics. "Not really," say I.