Spotting the indiepop connections at the Turner Prize @skepwax.bsky.social

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Hey @godseternaljukebox.bsky.social can you shed any light on a Nick Cave track I recorded off one of Mark's shows? It was introduced as 'Sweet little song' and was basically 'All things beautiful' with lyrics. I've never been able to find a single thing about it, and wonder if nobody else has it!

Great to see the superb 2007 Seabear album 'The ghost that carried us away' featured on Bandcamp daily.bandcamp.com/label-profil...

Out today, on his 50th birthday ... 50 sets of lyrics, edition of 50, from Jon Bennett @mtjunkshop.bsky.social (and Pacific Ocean Fire, Ex Comets, We Three and the Death Rattle). Truly one of my generation's great 'lost' songwriters. mountaintopjunkshop.bandcamp.com/merch/lyric-...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Bang on

PSA: Bought new car. Forgot to change registration number in a multitude of parking apps. Went for weekend in Swansea. Fines beginning to roll in. 😤

Highly recommend doing a @stevequeralt.bsky.social playlist: I D 'The beast within' and 'The glacier national park', plus 'Sun moon town' / 'Versions' with Michael Smith, and 'Swallow'. Am I missing anything?

Delivery from @janeduffus.bsky.social

Surprised this still works... and my youngest laps all this stuff up

"Writer"! Take that Jack Kerouac. And thanks @weddingpresent.bsky.social, and @assistant.bandcamp.com

Everything Everything Everything Everything Everything Everything @underworldlive.bsky.social

My youngest repping @soniccathedral.bsky.social at @underworldlive.bsky.social

Best long albums? Spacemen 3 'Recurring' has to be up there.

There are only three acceptable lengths for an album: 1) 45 mins (one side of a C90) 2) Around 74 mins (CD or MiniDisc capacity) 3) 90 mins for a double (tape again) I don't record to / burn any of these formats anymore. But still.

A chat I had for @psychmag.bsky.social ... some people say I overthink stuff myself, but actually I think about them exactly the right amount, so there...

Show just starting on untidyradio.com! Tune in! First up: Train Not Stopping by Harper Lee - a post-Sarah song as beautiful as anything released between 1987 and 1995. "This is the last stop, the emptiest platform The final walk home in a rainstorm" Quite a few more Sarah-related tracks to follow!

Chris Hemsworth has just said on Graham Norton that he has seen Wedding Crashers "more than a hundred" times. I suspect the real number is no more than 16.

Have to say I'm absolutely blown away by the response to this from people I massively respect, including @gshawisme.bsky.social @steve69.bsky.social @precrecs.bsky.social @wallytbm.bsky.social Thanks @assistant.bandcamp.com for indulging my music journo fantasies!

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... "Sad escapism"... love that. Applies to music too.

Inject it in my eyeballs

Great interview here from @jonsutton.bsky.social with Rachael from the @weddingpresent.bsky.social ... will also be in forthcoming issue of the excellent In The April Sun @assistant.bandcamp.com

My interview with @weddingpresent.bsky.social Rachael Wood, and gig photos, out now!

@soniccathedral.bsky.social Hi Nat, starting to plan my London Chapterhouse trip (already with a spare ticket due to my second born preferring a trip to Crete)... do you know yet whether it will be a normal kind of 11pm curfew?

The task my dreamworld just gave me: write a 2000 word essay, and record the audio version, on the question 'What is Psychology?', in one hour, to placate a criminal gang who were most perturbed there was no such thing on our website. Actually quite impressed with what my sleeping mind produced...

You may be aware that I love little more than turning to a fellow movie go-er and stage whispering "The name of the film!!" at the appropriate point. Has there ever been one that afforded that opportunity more than 'No Other Choice'?

Jon's Fast Food Reviews: You could put anything in the world in a McDonalds Cheeseburger and it would still just taste of McDonalds Cheeseburger.

10 days to go. Are you festival ready? Leicester Comedy Festival, 4-22 February Full programme: https://www.comedy-festival.co.uk/

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s... This encapsulates what I've been saying about AI, both in terms of how critical the 'hallucination' issue is, and Stewart Lee saying about attempts to rein in its use "it's gone, it's done".

More #NewMusicFriday goodness... as is so often the way, via @soniccathedral.bsky.social youtu.be/l008DA1HsRo?...

Today's #NewMusicFriday listening... 'Sidings' by @cravenfaults.bsky.social on @theleaflabel.com and 'Dearden's number' by Rocket Rules on @shorediverecords.bsky.social

This afternoon's listening... one of the great lost albums.

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja... I do love a time loop.

Filled a gap in my @weddingpresent.bsky.social Edsel reissue collection (you really don't want to see the rest!). If only I'd got them all at the time, I'd have the Hove Sessions EPs...

@dannykellywords.bsky.social Nerdy question: in the discussion over who popularised the term 'Britpop', names usually in the frame are Stuart Maconie, John Robb. But you used it in a review of @weddingpresent.bsky.social 'George Best' in '87. That's got to be a pretty early use, right?

Bought a video doorbell. If anything, it works *too* well. For some reason, it never occurred to me I'd get notifications every time *I* leave or arrive, or - more significantly - my son does.

Oh fair enough, I look quite the fool... I just assumed the series was unfolding in real time i.e. the outbreak was '98. Still, bad about the vinyl.

I mean, worse than that, it was released in 2000... #28YearsLaterBoneTempleNerdsUnite

What a week. Please send music. This was my listening for the day.

Morning listening from Calliere

About 18 months ago I sent this letter, along with a copy of my book, to a number of MPs and peers, including Wes Streeting. I never got a response (which to be fair was my baseline expectation), but it’s still disheartening to see today’s news about Haidt’s invitation to speak to policymakers.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... Oh who would have thought AI makes stuff up 🙄

There's a Sainsbury's ad in Leicester at the moment which says "Leicester, last year you bought 543KG of Dubai chocolate. That's nuts." Anyone else think that sounds like a really unremarkable amount?

Love this

Missing sunlight youtu.be/uf9XJDhtNXU?...

How on earth had I missed this? @stevequeralt.bsky.social and Loz Colbert.

There's a very moving scene in Hamnet where all I could think of was this @accidentalp.bsky.social

Another gala preview show as a trustee of Big Difference, the charity who run the Leicester Comedy Festival and UK Kids' Comedy Festival. Please support what we do! bigdifferencecompany.co.uk

www.theguardian.com/football/202... I only realised this week, sitting in a half empty #LCFC stadium where the official attendance was 27,000, that this is a thing...