Counterpoint: Yes it fucking does

RIP Tony Harrison. Long Distance II by Tony Harrison - Poems | Academy of American Poets share.google/AkL2ygh5rIAS...

Animal Collective Throwing Muses Autechre

14 ICED BEARS AUTUMN TOUR Oct 2 London The Victoria, Dalston Oct 3 Brighton The Hope and Ruin Oct 4 Southend. Craftwerk Beers (free entry) Oct 10 Preston The Continental Oct 11 Exeter Cavern Oct 12 Coventry Just Dropped In

'eau', my album with Mariska Baars (soccer Committee) is now available to download for any price you see fit, on my Bandcamp. Here's a Substack post I wrote about it: machinefabriek.substack.com/p/eau-with-mariska-baars And here's the album: machinefabriek.substack.com/p/eau-with-mariska-baars

I'm not Stewart Lee, but I also absolutely recommend the mighty 14 Iced Bears in London (and Brighton!)

Cheers to the legendary Stewart Lee for his recommendation about our upcoming gig in London www.stewartlee.co.uk/2025/09/from...

1 in 3 doctors were born overseas. 1 in 2 builders were born overseas. 1 in 6 nurses were born overseas. 1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas. 1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas. 1 in 5 university academics were born overseas. The UK would be screwed without them.

Family are away so had a quiet weekend with the cat, reading/drawing music: Marsen Jules ~ Les Fleurs, Stars Of The Lid ~ Music For Nitrous Oxide, Tape Loop Orchestra ~ The Burnley Brass Band Plays On In My Heart, Keith Fullerton Whitman ~ Playthroughs, Billow Observatory ~ The Glass Curtain

I literally live on a council estate in Archway. I have a mezuzah on my door, my next-door neighbours are Iranian. It's totally completely fine? Sorry, actually, it's nice. We have little chats. Take in each other's parcels. They bring me delicious iftar during Ramadan. I lend them my garden hose.

Descent into Hell, by Duccio, 1308-11, 📸 by Noe Llamas

The 'more than 5 books by these writers' thing: William Golding Angela Carter Gerald Murnane M agnus Mills Gabriel Garcia Marquez Emile Zola James Kelman Paul Auster Thomas Hardy Bernard Malamud

I just discovered that, should the Tories be in power and I, a foreigner, was unable to work anymore, I should not be able to claim any benefits, despite paying tax and NI here for over three decades.

Wild gig in the street at SBC cycles in Hoxton this evening - ‘Sly and the Family Drone’ - free and open to all. I know some people will moan but it’s this stuff that makes cities amazing.

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11 writers by whom you've read more than 5 books: Magnus Mills, William Golding, Emile Zola, William Faulkner, Gerald Murnane, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Angela Carter, James Kelman, Paul Auster, John Steinbeck, Thomas Hardy

This new HMHB album is the first one I've pretty much loved front to back since 90 Bisodol, an absolute top tier effort. So many standouts but the utterly brilliant takedown of toxic masculinity that is Jack's Been To The National is a current favourite.

The Giovanni Di Domenico & Rutger Zuydervelt record is brilliant

Panda Bear tonight, woo!

The new caroline album is absolutely stunning... If you dig Hood and Do Make Say Think, you'll have to check it: caroline.bandcamp.com/album/caroli...

@throwingmuses.bsky.social sorry to hear that Throwing Muses have had to cancel these shows, I hjope it doesn't cost them too badly to reschedule. I was lucky enough to see the recent Leeds show and was due to go to Brighton tonight. They are just the best band ever and I hope Kristin is well soon x

The wonderful @throwingmuses.bsky.social - Soap and Water!! 😍

Another grim day for Keir Starmer's @teamlabouruk.bsky.social. Most people want to live in a multicultural, diverse society. "Island Of Strangers" is Reform Party crap. Try standing up to them, try winning some arguments. Try offering the country a bit of hope. Pathetic messaging.

Enjoying this

I am a @machinefabriek.bsky.social stalwart and his recent Microtopia album is so good machinefabriek.bandcamp.com/album/microt...

Just hit a cow

Just finished Not A River by Selva Almada, what a brilliant book! @charcopress.com

The Pope's funeral messing up the snooker coverage. It's the Iranian Embassy all over again.

I started reading Tim O'Brien's America Fantastica, having previously really liked In The Lake Of The Woods. Early days, but I keep checking it's the same writer. ITLOTW was slow, atmospheric, sombre, moody, but AF is hilarious, like Percival Everett meets Ben Elton or something. Great fun.

happy birthday, dear Charles @pixiesofficial.bsky.social

Really digging this new one on Principe from DJ Narciso. Only 25 minutes but feels like a journey. principediscos.bandcamp.com/album/difere...

Thanks to whoever it was who recommended Jean Echenoz's Command Performance, a very funny book with an enjoyable writing style and an appealingly odd plot.

The worst and the best thing I've read on here for ages. RIP Kingsley

Just in case anyone was wondering where they could locate the greatest Chills playlist ever, it's here - open.spotify.com/playlist/2ns...

A guide to the music of Cocteau Twins, the history of music in the workplace, the late Steve Albini singing the praises of Jason Molina, a Low Culture Essay on cult Berlin film Christiane F and UFO hunting with Aidan Moffat of #ArabStrap... #ThePortal: Quietus Archive Dive thequietus.com/portal/

Holy macaroni, this new Panda Bear album is good

Through the years, @kristinhersh.bsky.social has recorded vocals for a few selected and memorable collaborations. Do you know them? Thread 👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kCo... I really love this alternative take of the song I Have Always Been Here Before, on Roky Erickson's The Holiday Inn Tapes (38.01)

Why didn't anyone tell me about Roky Erickson's post-Elevators albums? Or, alternatively, why didn't I listen when people told me about Roky Erickson's post-Elevators albums?

I think I'm having a Husker Du phase

That Kim Deal album is still ruling my world, a 10/10 record.

Looks exciting - Konrad Sprenger's Stack Music on PAN was one of my favourite records of 2017

Finished Georges Simenon's The Snow Was Dirty. Along with The Little Man From Archangel it was my favourite of his so far. One reviewer said it was 'so noir it made Raymond Chandler look beige', and another said reading it was like 'repeatedly having your head dunked in a bucket full of ice water.

I'm struck by the sudden, horrific realisation that I didn't put the Actress album high enough on my year end list.

I am really enjoying this book on Korean folk art and its symbolism, a Christmas present from my daughter. Fascinating writing and gorgeous pictures.

I've been eking out the 19 short stories in Sam Selvon's Ways Of Sunlight since before Christmas. The first half are set in 1940s/50s Trinidad and the second set are in 50s London. It's a terrific collection, bittersweet, full of vivid stories with great dialogue, friendship, and a lot of humour.

Just read the first 70 pages of On Earth We're Briefly Grgeous by Ocean Vuong (a present from my daughter). Mesmerising writing!

I think I will post a list of the books I've read this year, partly because many of them were influenced by posters on this forum and partly because I love reading other people's lists.

If anyone is wondering where their next 36-minute, multi-part, ambient sound collage featuring a bewildering array of electronic hardware is coming from, then may I strongly recommend Omval by the regularly wonderful @machinefabriek.bsky.social ? machinefabriek.bandcamp.com/album/omval