Stephen Stills snubbed. So much for Our House.

We're going to need a bigger Hague.

Proof, if ever was needed, that pilots fly by the seat of their pants

Today's little victory- discovering that something you've been doing for over 20 years because it felt right rather than because someone showed you what to do wasn't only accepted practice but BEST practice. (phase correlation metering, if anyone's interested)

the best part of pluribus is when she says "it's plurbin' time"

"How do you know it's AI?" Well, firstly, if you went to the expense of installing a cat-sliding pipe like that, the cat would give it a stiff ignoring & would merely glance at it disdainfully every now and then on their way towards the stairs. Secondly, just look at how the cat gets into the pipe

"‘Jack Hylton lived like Nero,’ noted his friend, comedian Arthur Askey, ‘and was, naturally, a good socialist!’" @alwynturner.bsky.social celebrates the best of interwar British dance bands. thelionandunicorn.com/2026/01/01/t...

Into 2026 like

Have a cracking 2026, everyone.

Short of music for a NYE party? This’ll sort you out. Stuff we used to play at Blow Up, compiled by someone who was there.

It is, tonight, the tenth anniversary of what has been to date my only appearance on Jools Holland's Hootenanny. But my goodness, if you're going to be on it only once, do it in style and then help Jeff Beck lift his amp into his Land Rover at the end. That's what I say youtu.be/IDuV95doffc?...

Well @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social always knocks it out of the park, but this he's hit it into orbit. And boy does Pearson deserve the opprobrium for that column. open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...

How I started 2025. How I ended 2025

I'm sorry, but in a world where A Night To Remember exists, there's no need for The Titanic Sinks Tonight. The post-production misty breath just makes everyone look like they're vaping. The wrong sort of mailbags are floating around in the post room. The ship's pre-nominal letters were RMS, not CGI.

Geese are always getting killed this time of year

Again: they thought they’d win a shattering court victory with the Harry Potter lady’s money, then the public would rise up in gratitude, salute them as heroes and stomp all over transgender people on their behalf. That hasn’t happened, because the public mostly aren’t vicious cranks, like they are.

A chat with Paul Abbott about the loungetastic mid-nineties Easy Listening revival and giving a groovy spin to the much-loved compilation series The Sound Gallery and a few of its more overlooked exhibits... timworthington.org/2025/12/08/t...

Every owl that appears on television seems to be thinking "This is SO embarrassing".

French screen legend Brigitte Bardot has died aged 91. She is survived by her husband, Pepé Le Pew

Honestly, live your fucking life like you don’t want people to argue about whether or not it’s appropriate to call out what a shithead you were once you’re dead.

We put onto people our own ideas about what they must be like when we admire their work or their look and believe that because *we* are a certain way, they must be too. Every now and again our perception of what someone must be like is so wide of the mark it's a total shock when we find out...-

How I started 2025. How I ended 2025

After their excellent piece on Penda's Fen a few weeks ago, @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social turns its attention to the Midlands' other great slice of celluloid history. Time for another showing, @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social?

I think the problem with Sir James Dyson- guest editor of the Today Programme today- is that he genuinely thinks that "inventive spirit" is enough to run an economy on. We can't all be entrepreneurs. We can't all invent a revolutionary new product. Also, for a "futurist" he's massively nostalgic.-

Anyone else get this in a Paisley fabric outer sleeve?

I’d say I had a good Christmas, one way or another

An Intergalactic Cosmic Christmas with Tom Dissevelt And Kid Baltan Norma Winstone's Winter Wonderland Strident Night by Rufus Harley (#niche)

The merriest of Christmases to you all. Peace on Earth and goodwill to all people, including that bloke from Ryker Records.

Sunday’s Soho Radio show. Like me, only minimally festive. Apologies in advance for a couple of technical issues. Hopefully they won’t stop your enjoyment of anything. They didn’t stop mine www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/an...

Just saw a seagull walk past me with a whole mince pie in its beak. NOW it feels like Christmas.

A propos of absolutely nothing, this is my favourite bit of one of my favourite books, to wit the introduction to "Spinning" in the Royal Air Force flying training manual for the DHC Chipmunk T10.

I thought it was Jesus who did the saving

Let’s take a moment to remember everyone taken in by his whole rEVOLution bullshit, especially anyone who released an album influenced in part by his idiotic, childish prattling that was only ever a cover to get women to sleep with him rather than a manifesto for a better world

It is every bit as brilliant as he says it is. As an aside, I have often wondered (since discovering The Intruder) if Frank Spencer's costume was a nod to the trenchcoat and beret wearing main character, or if both are a shorthand for a sort of post-war, post-National Service ptsd-suffering manhood.

Capable of launching a Statue of Liberty, the Trump class battleship will be a formidable weapon system and the envy of lesser nations. -

Be nice to your postie at Christmas, they are doing a job you would probably find too difficult. 🙏

As with cameras, so with audio equipment. Sometimes good ideas take you further than the latest expensive toys ever will

Spooner's career as a continuity announcer was short-lived

Lots to unpack in this article; from the ghastly antics of a retail "innovator" run by a fiercely rich celebrity, to the notion that someone wouldn't notice nearly sixty quid a month disappearing from their bank account or going on their credit card until they'd lost five grand. -

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Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

I'm putting a shift in on Soho Radio today between 4 and 6 this afternoon. One or two vaguely Christmassy tunes will be played, including that one about Jesus being born in Euston station if I can find it. I haven't seen it since last Christmas. Listen in at www.sohoradiolondon.com

An essay I wrote about the idea of building motorways in London. It is - I am not joking - nuanced. That’s my brand. I hope www.onlondon.co.uk/lewis-baston...

Rock & Roll by Status Quo Yesterday Today & Tomorrow by The Small Faces Music To My Heart by Patti Austin you're going to want to see my working out, aren't you? -

There is in my studio (*it's a shed, Lewis*) a box of cables I inherited from a dear family friend who died some years ago. It has regularly saved a session from disaster. All my WordClock cables came from within it. Ancient DIN to phono bunches it provided connect old tape decks to modern DACs. -

It’s all happening in Leeds in 1964! youtu.be/IYIdAxfmbss?...

A toss up between Tate or Mountbatten-Windsor

Ah that's a nice worst kept secret in publishing you have there, sure would be a shame if it was revealed just before Christmas