This is incredibly cool.

RIP Dash, joining Jimmy in the Abha Kingdom where Bahá'ul'lah is getting one hell of a band together

If Syd Barrett had written All Too Much people would make much more fuss about it

Mr Pastry with an old Alexandra Palace camera in the first ever production broadcast from the new BBC Television Centre.

An old lady saw me looking at this in the dentist waiting room

One sure sign that you buy too many records is when you're looking at a menu and see "VG" next to a dish and your first thought is, "Sorry, that's no good. I want at least a VG+."

I’m at Dylan-level for one last week. Somehow I have had less of a cultural impact than him in the same amount of lifespan. Weird.

Like many comments in the thread this post is associated with, I always considered them 'venerable elder statesmen' of music, not men in their 40's Every time this fact comes up it blows my mind and today is no exception

Well this one has finished me off from the morning's age discussion even more than the Travelling Wilburys reminder: this man was THIRTY NINE in real life at time of filming. Wonder if they had to grey his hair, or if that'd come in naturally and it's just the clothes that age him

Rio update: first bask of this year in the summer chair

i am selling a pile of records and such for reasons. uk folks get ten percent off if you deal with me and not the shitscape that is discogs. if yr overseas feel free to hmu (but i'm not responsible for yr wayward postal services / customs fees / taxes etc). www.discogs.com/seller/marxs...

Underrated aspect of being off work for a bit: getting to pounce on Stockbridge Oxfam while fresh stock is being priced up & put out. These two spent all of six seconds on the 'new arrivals' shelf, I know an ECM spine from ten feet away like a mountain bear catching a glint of salmon

This is genuinely interesting intel. bsky.app/profile/regt...

1/2) I first heard Lola at age 14 on a Hits Of The 70s compilation, and even then could parse that by the end of the story the protagonist has decided that love is more important than rigid gender presentation.

Any excuse. I wrote about these for @thequietus.com a few years back thequietus.com/culture/film...

I swear I once went on a walk in (I think) Kent, and they had the best-selling Gorecki 3rd CD on the jukebox. Mournful lunchtime pint.

Watching this. Its entire soundtrack appears to be a decade-early version of the noise loop that takes up the last half hour of Hit To Death In The Future Head by the Flaming Lips

Out and about music not played for some time, *knew* the Weapons end credits music had been reminding me of something

Now playing

This afternoon's viewing, from that era about a decade ago when Zoe Kazan was being pushed as a slightly younger Zooey Deschanel and post-Girls Adam Driver was stuck with supporting asshole roles. Daniel Radcliffe is basically playing a human Paddington

Quick 4 for £4 from Heart Foundation. For anyone missing the usual CD posts, I'll be signed off work at least another 2 weeks so I'm just not sitting at my desk as often, but will try to work some in

Out and about music with Lady Di

It's World Poetry Day apparently and I just remembered this reflexive Poem I wrote once www.riddledwitharrows.com/issue1-1toc/...

👀 Archival elecronic-era live release (Palast Der Republik, 1983) for Reinhard "Lacky" Lakomy, Tangerine Dream's Eastern correspondent who arranged their concert at the Palast in 1980. Out on 10th April!

When asked of his selection of music to include on the Voyager space probe, he is reputed to have said something like "I would send the entire works of J.S. Bach, but that would seem like bragging."

Good time to share my favourite handbell clip! youtu.be/mKtnQ5FLVqc

There's always a guy who is the reason there's a sign; the sign making clear the illegality of "molesting owls" is no exception

I am once again begging Chris & Cosey to make all the live recordings available individually: even as limited edn, just do few 1000 of each, basic card digipaks, original tapes artwork, so I can finally have copies of ICA, Nuffield, Goldsmiths, Crypt, Iberico. They were originally available singly!

Very very happy to have landed this piece, tough oeuvre to sum up in 1400 words, but hopefully this pays tribute properly but also functions as a way in for the newly acquainted.

Stalin FRAME MOGGED Trotsky by jestermaxxing at the Politburo

Show someone who absolutely rocks a hat (that isn't Indiana Jones)

This afternoon's balmy coming-of-spring viewing

Dump him, girl www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Massive Eid Mubarak to the family walking back from Jummah prayers that I just passed on the bus, their two wee girls in flowery dresses playing hopscotch on the paving stones. Oh my goodness my heart just leapt

Finally we get to fuck gnomes at the flower show

Last song of the night, everyone's a bit sentimental-tipsy, and I shamble up like Jimmy Durante and absolutely nail Stardust (Willie Nelson arrangement).

Saw your boyfriend in Hobbycraft

HAD A GOOD TERRY RILEY COLLECTION GOING BUT NOW IT’S IN SEA

I had an Alvin Lucier joke but it was much like the one I'm quoting now.

Also enjoying that "naturally" clearly being in the wrong place in the sentence, giving the impression of a breezily confident surgeon going 'yep, always happens mate, bosh'

the news about Frame's passing is apparently false. but it's been a joy to celebrate his work this morning, and glad he's still here.

🚨 Important 'rumours of death very much exaggerated' update about Pete Frame. Long live litanies of lineage! 🚨

I came up with a Schoenberg joke, but it turns out everyone prefers my earlier stuff.

Second track on Material is "Infiltration" which features a recording of a numbers station. This dates from 1981, years before The Conet Project popularised numbers stations, and earlier than any other use in a piece of music that I know of.

I tried making a long-term hobby out of Steve Reich jokes but it was just a phase