Been up London for theatre and comedy. Staying around Brick Lane, obviously, had some great food. Senegalese pumpkin stew with jollof rice at UpMarket. Lobio and Phachakuri at Aba Ra. Georgia is well known for wine but has some superb, naturally vegan dishes. #veganfta #nutsandpulses #veganuary

Up Strange Brew in Bristol for Street Sects, King Yosef and Youth Code. Combination of venue, vibe, bands and soundtrack, was like being in a police procedural, where the cop who doesn't play by the rules, smacks up a formaldehyde dealer to get a lead on the serial killer he's obsessed to catch. 🎧

Up Coventry for Rev Pro. Old Guns Vs Young Guns was a great grudge match. I was looking forward to Skye Smitson Vs Kanji being a banger - but Alexxis Falcon ran interference and it ended shorter than expected. #wrestlesky #somebodycall911 #itsstillrealtomedammit

Happy Natto Sunday to all who celebrate. Just buffing up my fermented soy beans. #veganfta #umami #soyboy

Out for Bulk with Ben Wheatley doing a Q&A. I enjoyed it but will need to see more than once to make sense of it. Good to have him return to the backyard of Chris and Tina. #movesky 🎥 #sightseers #midlandsartcentre

Out for the 28 years later double bill. Is it too early to call best double bill of the year? Loved it! #moviesky 🎥 #samson #jimmy

If you fancy changing lanes from doom scrolling... and... If you haven't checked out any state of the art beat boxing for a while, then, here's some wow! #beatbox #musicsky 🎧 youtube.com/watch?v=qlrp...

As Wrestle Kingdom finishes, 2026 can officially begin. A really enjoyable show and an emotional send off for Ace. Now, if only another figurehead would be willing to call it a day, I'd cough up something for the bouquet. #njwk20 #aceforever #goace #itsstillrealtomedammit

Starting 2026 witchy with a triple bill of folk horror via BFI player. The Outcasts from Ireland Sorcery from Chile The Blood on Satan's Claw from UK Chile looked a lot more like a rainy day in Puzzlewood / The Cotswolds than I think I was expecting. #filmsky 🎥 #folkhorror #brujeria

Anyone wanting to take part in #veganuary and concerned about giving up cheese... La Fauxmagerie is unlike any vegan cheese I've tried. When I veganned in 2015, I wasn't expecting a #vegan cheese board to be a thing in my lifetime. It really is easier than ever to ditch dairy. #veganfta

Bringing in the New Year with a double bill of musicals with curly haired leads (wearing green). Daniel Radcliffe has made an interesting and diverse range of films since HP. Weird plays irreverently with celebrity and history. #filmsky #musicsky 🎥 🎧 #transvestite #transexual #transylvania #trans

A very traditional Xmas this year. Gochoujang tofu and all the nori and kimchi trimmings whilst we all sat around to watch Songs From the Second Floor. #moviesky 🎥 #absurdist #festivus #whatveganseat #veganfta

On a beautiful, crisp, winter night, Winter Solstice at the Sheldon Stones. There's a palpable sense of history vibrating through the stones. Standing Stone Sunday #doingdruidshit #standingstones #stonecircle

Is House by John Cale and Charli XCX the Xmas number one yet? #musicsky 🎧 #drone #thatsnothowromannumeralswork

Out for my last gig of the year with Xmas For Palestine. A great bill of Birmingham bands via Birmingham promoters This Is Tmrw. Matters Total Luck Meatdripper Flesh Creep Loving Meatdripper. A great and heavy mix of bluesy stoner space rock. #freepalestine #gigsky #musicsky 🎧

Red sky at night: Vampires Red sky in the morning: Werewolves Stay safe out there #silver #redsky #vampires #werewolves

Dunno about you but all that wrestling has given me an appetite. Out at the Vegetarian Food Studio for vegan thali. Bonus, they do vegan masala chai. #veganfta #whatveganseat #cardiff

Stayed over in Cardiff for Rev Pro. It was a stacked card. Great use of local talent. Loads of highlights. I thought Rhio was going to get the W - but didn't. Sha Samuels brought a load of heel heat to build the grudge match ahead of a title change. #wrestlesky #itsstillrealtomedammit

Out in Cardiff for AEW Collision. Bought my tix at late notice on a whim, relatively cheap and way better view than I expected. Collision was a lot of fun and we got a bunch of bonuses with ROH Vs Rev Pro matches and a relaunch of Dark. It was a great evening. #wrestlesky #itsstillrealtomedammit

Up Wolves for the farewell tour of Orange Goblin. An emotional send off for the stoner titans with a set showcasing 30 years worth of bangers. #orangefuckinggoblinbaby #gigsky #musicsky 🎧 #redtiderising #ilikebigriffsandicannotlie

I have sinned against both god and man. I'm a little bit behind the curve catching up on these but... Just finished watching the greatest quadrilogy in the history of prison fighting championship movie quadrilogies. Boyka. Boyka. Boyka. #moviesky 🎥 #scottadkins #bigbeefymenslappingmanmeat #boyka

If you watch Slade In Flame in December, does it work as an inoculation against Merry Xmas Everybody as the month progresses? The Citizen Kane of British Pop Movies - forces the revelation that Slade at their best were pretty good. How much of the rest of my life do I need to re-evaluate? 🎧 🎥

Wondered how they'd fit the Pain of Truth crowd into the upstairs room at Dead Wax. Ballsy move in December to use the bigger outdoor beer garden. Intense and high energy. We kept warm. Great show. #gigsky #musicsky 🎧 #painoftruth #keepingthescenealive #alfresco

Up Leicester for comedy shenanigans with Josie Long. It's been ages since we last saw her, really looking forward to it. As we're in Leicester, enjoying some South Indian food. Obviously. Here's my pre-theatre thali at Herb. #whatveganseat #veganfta #comedysky #nowisthetimeofmonsters

In Bristol for Alpha Wolf and Stray From The Path. Why Bristol when they had a Birmingham show? Because #fuckticketmaster the price gouging monopoly bastards. Ended up well. Last night of the tour / ever, so totes emosh. #gigsky #musicsky 🎧

Out at the Mockingbird for a special #flatpack showing of Aaaaaaaah! Finally got to see it - and with a live Q&A with Steve Oram, Toyah and Julian Rhind-Tutt. #moviesky 🎥 #filmsky #goape

Out for Conan Doom with a sprinkle of psychedelic sludge. Heavy as. #musicsky #gigsky 🎧 #hawkasweapon

An afternoon well spent up Coventry for Rev Pro. A bunch of grudge match bangers. Highlight for me was Leon Slater Vs Robbie X. But it was a great card and a lively audience throughout. Good to meet fellow BlueSkyer AW irl. #wrestlesky #somebodycall911 #itsstillrealtomedammit

Up Coventry for wrestling related shenanigans. At Kerala Cafe for the brunch of champions: Aloo Tiki Chaat and Masala Dosa. I inhaled the masala dosa, so here's a close up of the Aloo Tiki Chaat. South Indian breakfast is the best. #whatveganseat #veganfta #southindian #chickpeas

Up Manchester at Fairfield Social Club for Rural Concerns. The Rural Concerns covered were leeks, (Marge Simpson) fleshlights, Coleman's mustard, alien invasion, finger licking.

Out at #centrala for Never Said and some #0121queercore Got there a bit late. Loved what I heard from Pain Program from Liverpool. [Brick] from Brighton might be my new favourite band. Pure 1986 Mermaid vibes. #gigsky #musicsky 🎧 #queercore #hardcore

Out in Birmingham for Cabaret Voltaire. They have an extraordinarily rich back catalogue to draw on. 80 minutes but it could've gone on for days. #gigaky #musicsky 🎧 #nagnagnag

Up Milton Keynes for Discharge. Still fierce. #gigsky #musicsky 🎧 #neveragain #stateviolencestatecontrol #dbeat #hearnothingseenothingsaynothing #decontrol #realitiesofwar

Hello bastards. Out seeing Anemone. As I've never seen an episode of Sharpe, it's strange to see actor Sean Bean doing actoring opposite Daniel Day-Lewis. It's much more usual for me to see actor Sean Bean as the brooding alter ego of comedian Adam Riches. #moviesky 🎥 #dungeonsandbastards

Out for Conjurer. Heavy. Atmospheric and full of riffs and grooves. #musicsky #gigaky 🎧 #thisworldisnotmyhome

#Bassgoboom Out at the Hare and Hounds for Jah Wobble performing Metal Box. It's an iconic LP but they avoided the gig being a nostalgia fest by playing around with sound and structure. #musicsky #gigsky 🎧 #poptones #albatross

Up Nottingham for a spot of hip hop-post punk-space jazz with Maruja. Great show #musicsky #gigsky 🎧 #trenches #lookdownonus

Out for Maruja. Enjoyed their constantly shifting sound. From #discopogoforpunksinpumps through #theshapeofjazztocome and into #postrockhiphop The Castle & Falcon was heaving. #musicsky #gigsky 🎧 #kakistocracy

Out at the Scala for Amenra. As intense as you'd expect - and these kick drums thudded like a mutha. Great gig. #gigsky #musicsky 🎧 #withfangandclaw

Up London for shenanigans with some time on my hands. The Japan Centre had (a lot) less #vegan choices than I thought I remembered, so, with an appetite for #veganjapanesefood I'm at Itadakizen - and bonus, I'm just 'round the corner from The Scala - venue for shenanigans. #whatveganseat #veganfta

Out at the Flapper for Moon Reaper. Nice that a band playing blackened doom, name themselves after an Audrey Hepburn song. Good gig, especially in the slow bits. #musicsky #gigsky 🎧 #ilikebigriffsandicannotlie #blacksunsorcery

Well, I really liked Bugonia. Conspiracy theorists, multi death corporations, flat Earth, bee colony collapse disorder and the last days of the planet. The ending really cranked the whole thing to 11. I need to give Save The Green Planet a rewatch. #moviesky 🎥 #deadplanet #doomed

Got the house to myself, so went liberal with the chillies. Chilli tofu with rice and vegetables. If you think tofu is bland, you're doing it wrong. #whatveganseat #soyboy #spicy #veganfta.

Up Coventry for Pram. First time seeing them with the new line up. Interesting evolution of their sound. More theremin!!! #musicsky #gigsky 🎧 #moretheremin

Out for a Seed Talk event. Gothic Fiction & the Female Writer. Very interesting. It's going to add a bunch of new books to my "must read" pile and will push up those Shirley Jackson books I've already got, closer to the top of the "read these next" pile. #seedtalks #booksky #gothic #lifeistooshort

Hometown show (for me). Out for the mighty Slow Crush at the Hare & Hounds. Had an eye appointment and eye drops beforehand, so everything looks more #psychedelic. Local Support, Terminals will be worth keeping an eye out... #musicsky #gigsky #shoegaze 🎧 #dilatedpupils

I was out, bringing in the dark nights, up Nottingham with Belgium's premier guitar pedal abusers, Slow Crush. It's a strong bill, in an evening also shared with Blanket and Som. #musicsky #gigsky 🎧 #shoegaze #thirst #etherealasfuck

Up London for theatre. The Bacchae at the National. A very contemporary (and sweary) version. Born with Teeth at Wyndham's. Kit Marlowe and Bill Shakes getting horny in grim Elizabethan times. Ncuti Gatwa is a shining presence on stage. #greektragedy #dionysus #atheist #heretic

Up Milton Keynes for The Obssessed. In the presence of Doom metal royalty. Great gig. #ilikebigriffs #doom #musicsky #gigsky 🎧

Up Bristol for Igorrr. The recorded insanity translates well to the live environment. It is quite the melting pot of sound they've developed. Unfortunately, got there a bit late and missed Imperial Triumphant. #gigsky #musicsky 🎧 #operainnit