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.

Milestone reached on a new graphic novel! All the vector artwork is done! Now all I have to do is address the snag list, do all the textures and painting, put it all together with the text, and probably end up revisiting sections as the doubt sets in! Easy. #graphicnovel

Also backed, because excellent creator and my favourite book is a no-brainer.

Backed, because…well. Reliably awesome springs to mind.

Celebrating 20 years of the iconic Target: 2006 story arc from Marvel, I'm opening pre-orders for my TFTM homage poster. Available in A3 and A4 and shipping this summer! ko-fi.com/s/6012f8e5db ko-fi.com/s/8b4fbaefe6

How is Mantasy a genre and not an incredible 1981 Patrick Cowley LP

Blog update: In April 1987, Rose of Avalanche had their only Indie Chart number one. Legal difficulties with their label Fire stalled their career. Self-tagged as 'Too rock for goths, too goth for rockers', they occasionally sounded like a band who might have been on Creation in another life.

Appropriate for today. From About Time volume 1 by Lawrence Miles & Tat Wood on The Daleks’ Master Plan.

buttondown.com/cooray_smith... It's time to begin again. Free for all, but why not subscribe afterwards, at Psychic Paper.

New “Monday” meme just dropped.

Season 2 now done - trying to get myself ready so I can go straight into DMP next weekend without breaking the order. Rankings! 1. The Time Meddler 2. The Romans 3. The Crusade 4. The Dalek Invasion of Earth 5. The Chase 6. The Rescue 7. Planet of Giants 8. The Space Museum 9. The Web Planet

Cannot. Chuffing. Wait. The manga has a quickly become one of my all-time favourite comics series. youtu.be/E10fd3B8hUw?...

BTS comeback concert on Netflix draws 2.3 Million more viewers than episode 4 of Doctor Who: City of Death www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New video from The Middle People out today. A love story told entirely thru the eyes. Her make-up is fantastic and the gentleman might be @kylerseibel.bsky.social 's twin. Song is like indiepop Bowie. I'm handling this thru Fire Horse PR. Shares much appreciated! vimeo.com/1160773241?s...

Jesus, they weren’t bloody joking.

6Music: The Strokes debut album is now 25 years old. Me: FUCK OFFFFFFFF The relentless march of time: hahahahaha, tosser.

Joe Quesada has been doing absolute nuts and bolts comic storytelling in his newsletter for a few months now, and they're really absolutely great stuff. You've likely heard me say Size Is Meaning, but he hits the ideas a lot harder and wider in this one.

For the evening crowd! 50 sign-ups for the day would be amazing!

Bloody hell, Hartnell is magnificent in this clip. Currently working through the series in order - I’m on The Romans - so need to work out if I can be ready when these drop to roll straight in. Amazing! youtube.com/shorts/qtM2L...

Sian got me into the models before Xmas, and I’m now on a slippery weathering paints slope, but I don’t know any of the backstory other than “these look cool and are fun to build”. This thread is gold and has one excellent pun.

A lot has been written and said over the years about how Decca failed to sign the Beatles in 1962, but was it as bad as that time The Beatles failed to sign David Bowie in 1968?

Probably the most beautiful book I own

Can’t. Wait.

One emoji review: 🤯

The demo for our surreal adventure, Sleepytime Village, is now available in German and Spanish! Thank you to @Dionousgames for the translations! Play the demo and please give us a wishlist! store.steampowered.com/app/1918850/... #screenshotsaturaday #indiegame

The crossover we all deserve...

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On the Patreon, which is a HUGE part of keeping me eating, I've recently done Rambo, I've done toy merchandising, I've done Japanese monster movies. Now it's time for the serious stuff. As ever, subscription is cheap and gets you access to a huge archive. www.patreon.com/posts/150644...

Best GI Joe characters (in order) Tank Fly Boss Walk Jam Nitty-gritty

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

Ghost Light The Happiness Patrol Battlefield The Curse of Fenric Remembrance Unless it’s not just televised stories, in which case Timewyrm: Revelation needs to go in.

Hello to all you intellectuals, creative professionals and Irish community & culture people.

Doing the watch-Doctor-Who-in-order-starting-in-1963 thing. Got to the end of Season 1 today, so! Rankings! 1. The Reign of Terror 2. An Unearthly Child 3. The Aztecs 4. The Sensorites 5. The Edge of Destruction 6. Marco Polo 7. The Keys of Marinus 8. All that stuff with the cavemen 9. The Daleks

This amused me greatly 😂 especially the fox painting 😂 Thank yoooo @cheekybudgie.bsky.social

A piece about Transformers, or why stealing media for kids, giving them to adults and torturing toys to death when you're at it is a terrible idea. As always, it's just USD $1 to subscribe and get access to eight years of archives. www.patreon.com/posts/150099...

For #bandcampfriday I've still got copies of Sporting Moustaches left, a few of the other books too. Signed if you'd like augstone.bandcamp.com/merch/sporti...