I’d have expected a coach hired for tactics to have a little bit more than 11 men behind the ball and Dan Burn.

England are losing, and John Stones is down injured. The camera cuts to Mick Jagger. Guy Mowbray says some pre-scripted thing about "He won't be feeling much satisfaction." YES BUT THERE'S A PLAYER CALLED 'STONES' DOWN INJURED. MOWBRAY! YOU HAD ONE JOB.

At least we don’t have to listen to wonderwall.

Out-coached in the end - their subs were thought through and made a difference, ours were panicky and caused chaos. #ENGARG

Just told grand-daughter to watch him scurry off. She was in stitches!

🤣🤣🤣

Dismal XG. Yet somehow I quite enjoyed that first half!!

Always good to come across a Bill Forsyth/Bill Allerton (Plastic Passion/Minus Zero/Stand Out Records www.eccentricsleevenotes.com/minus-zero-s...) related anecdote. This from the latest @mojomagazine.bsky.social 13th Floor Elevators piece. #TheTwoBills

A fanzine I published just over 45 years ago, signed by the 4 members of a then up and coming boy band…..partially defaced by one of them.

Serious questions should be asked as to how the supposedly non-biased BBC can justify airing a broadcast completely operated by Reform UK themselves. Nigel Farage should not been given complete editorial control of what is being aired on our national public service broadcaster.

I can’t help but think that news organisations, particularly the BBC, should’ve waited to find out the content of Nigel Farage’s speech before choosing to broadcast this nonsense, using an official Reform UK live feed.

Summer morning stroll with the hound, at Hatton Locks, just outside Warwick. Pretty much as English as it comes. And very lovely it is.

Hackney music history, through the lens of Stewart Lee - okay, through the lens of someone filming him - at a hundred miles an hour. youtu.be/xN2X_RImdZ8?is…

Just arrived, from the mightily munificent wallytbm.bsky.social #NowThatsWhatICallACarePackage! Thanks Wally. You just gotta support this man’s undying support of independent Pop music. thebeautifulmusic.com

No #GlastonburyFestival this year of course but here, from my sister Lys, is some trader information for 1990’s the 20th Anniversary Festival. “We are still allergic to telephone calls especially at the Farm” 😀

Marvellous.

1. Teenage Snuff Film - Rowland S Howard 2. Doll By Doll - Doll By Doll 3. The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads - Lift To Experience 4. Envy Of Angels - The Mutton Birds 5. Bright Penny - Liam Hayes & Plush

Although a debut novel from me at 65 would be a big ask for anybody to welcome, I’m liking the cut of Patrick’s jib here and nothing, bar lassitude, will stop me now….. Will be buying his book.

www.gigslutz.co.uk/new-music-st... @glassmodernr.bsky.social @reversediorama.bsky.social @chrisseventeen.bsky.social

“….folk based neo-soul” Hard to conceive of a more inviting melding of genres. I’m all in!

Wilf’s message to all pets in the UK today. #StayInTheShade

I found this and it may bring a smile!🙂 This is called the "feather-drying dance of the Great blue Heron"

Epic Soundtracks 'Debris. Milky Clear Vinyl available now on Bandcamp. A collection of demos and outtakes. Sleevenotes by Stewart Lee. @glassmodernr.bsky.social @chrisseventeen.bsky.social @thelilactime.bsky.social @thepastels.bsky.social glassmodern.bandcamp.com/album/debris

Seeing that the enormous collection of taped live gigs/concerts recorded by Chicago’s Aadam Jacobs is being made available on @archive.org archive.org/details/aada... as an occasional taper myself of shows in the 80’s, I watched this really lovely documentary film. vimeo.com/866218283?fl...

The Proving Trail by Jeremy Gluck. Ltd Ed Digipak CDR for May 8. Companion piece to 'I Knew Buffalo Bill' featuring Rowland S Howard, Nikki Sudden, Epic Soundtracks and Jeffrey Lee Pierce @glassmodernr.bsky.social @chrisseventeen.bsky.social glassmodern.bandcamp.com/album/the-pr...

Today marks 20 years since Nikki Sudden died in New York. To remember him I wrote something which ended up being mostly about his parents Trevor and Lois. open.substack.com/pub/chrissev...

I’ll confess to a personal bias as #DaveTwist has been, for over 40 years, largely responsible for the design and graphics on most #SeventeenRecords releases (#TVEye, #TheHawks, #TheLastBanditsInTheWorld et al) but DO NOT MISS OUT on this fabulous book. easyaction.co.uk/product/glit...

Stewart Lee hoisting aloft Epic Soundtracks' 'Debris' LP for RSD2026 - April 18. Stew was kind enough to write sleevenotes for this @glassmodernr.bsky.social @thepastels.bsky.social @chrisseventeen.bsky.social @thelilactime.bsky.social @nofansrecords.bsky.social @bmxbanditsduglas.bsky.social

How to perfectly time a race. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/videos...

The magic was there from the start - Caroline Aherne’s first ever TV. Posted on Substack by Martin Kelner. open.substack.com/pub/martinke...

🫡 Dumfermline, love the crossover.

I’m at a stage in life where, though the memories are fond it kind of frightens me as to how long ago they happened. 34 years ago - just over half my lifetime - I saw the Manic Street Preachers play in Birmingham. (Black eye-liner may have been applied) youtu.be/3DzjQ1qG00Y

…..in part of which notes Stewart Lee recalls, after their only (brief) meeting: “I didn’t have time to tell Epic I loved his records, and that, as a teenager, I used to deliver newspapers to his parents’ home on Widney Lane in the leafy Birmingham suburb of Solihull, long after he had left.”

Should anyone ask about my musical journey I tend to say it started with glam rock. But that’s not strictly true. 1972, 11 years old and I heard #BuddyHolly for the first time. Soon after I owned this very cassette. Not, for me at least, the day the music died.

I fear he’s probably brought the cavalry with him now, but it can’t be too soon (or, hopefully, too late) to check in on “A Horse In A Hospital”. youtu.be/JhkZMxgPxXU?...

Play it. Share it. Sing it. "Pyongyang Blues" - Hounds (YouTube) youtu.be/47RMdoOSW5k?...

Hard to believe it’s 10 years since we lost Ohio musician Kevin Junior. If you admire his work with The Chamber Strings and with Epic Soundtracks as much as I do, I’m sure his family would love to see you leave a message. www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

My dad, who died in July 2024, would have been 91 today. Here he is, in 1949, preparing supper at scout camp. Fair to say my two younger sisters Sue and Lys, my younger brother Nik and I all miss him like billy-o* (* “billy-o” - adverb UK old-fashioned informal)

Away for a couple of days over Christmas so we paid a slightly early visit to Warwick Cemetery to lay a wreath in memory of brothers Nikki Sudden and Epic Soundtracks, as well as their parents Lois and Trevor. #ChristmasMorning #TheLastBandits #SwellMaps

Stewart Lee and Swansea Sound at The Waiting Room in Stoke Newington, 20 Dec 2025 @glassmodernr.bsky.social @chrisseventeen.bsky.social @thepastels.bsky.social

Pretty good!

The War Between The Land and The Sea, Episode 2: #TheWarBetween #TWBTLATS

#CCFC at The Gabba! #PUSB

……with applause and table banging from his just as bad cabinet. Come on Christian Right, disown the lot of them!

Flicking through the pages of the end of year edition of Mojo in a nearby newsagent, I glanced at the best reissues of 2025. One thing I’m sure of is that Swell Maps’ Epic Soundtracks would be pleased to see his band in the same list as Laura Nyro.

For a couple of years in the early 1980’s I produced a fanzine called Stringent Measures. I decided to “design” some stickers to promote it. They were simpler times for sure, the early 1980’s.

For my late father, modern music ended in 1962 with Acker Bilk’s “Stranger On The Shore”. Never downloaded any music in his life. Yet looking at his iPad I found this - and only this. Reminded me of Apple’s controversial 2014 decision to send the new U2 album to ALL customers.