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To celebrate today's news that Pete Frame is still very much alive, here's a Rock Family Trees documentary inspired by his wonderful work. The New Merseybeat features Echo & The Bunnymen, The Teardrop Explodes, Wah!, Big in Japan, Dead or Alive, Frankie Goes To Hollywood etc youtu.be/jIhogeam58k

Beyond excited that @roadsongbooks.bsky.social have accepted my debut novel ‘Ultra Drifter’ for publication.

Another box of Mersey musical delights on @merseyradio 8-11pm - with Feat. Artist: Eleanor Kelly + Feat. Album: Love Crowns & Crucifies by Care @liverpoolbands.bsky.social @wallytbm.bsky.social @av8records.bsky.social @nothingville.bsky.social @henrypriestman.bsky.social @mellowtoneclub.bsky.social

Tonight! Penny Kiley. Atypical Girl. In Conversation with me. British Music Experience. The book is brilliant. So is she. Be there! @pennykiley.bsky.social Details: www.britishmusicexperience.com/pennykiley

More musical medication from the banks of River Mersey on @merseyradio 8-11pm - just check out this playlist of Mersey delights @henrypriestman.bsky.social @liverpoolbands.bsky.social @mellowtoneclub.bsky.social @nothingville.bsky.social @av8records.bsky.social @wallytbm.bsky.social

Join us on Saturday 21st March @roughtraderecords.bsky.social Liverpool, for the launch of ‘Eugene McGuinness Versus The Universe’ Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/mello... Thank you @liverpoolacoustic.co.uk for the support

Missed the show then it repeats today (Tues) on @MerseyRadio 5-8pm A glorious noise from the banks of the River Mersey on @merseyradio with Feat. Artists: Seafoam Green + Feat. Album: Slow Time by Innocents Abroad @liverpoolbands.bsky.social @henrypriestman.bsky.social @wallytbm.bsky.social

Missed the show then it repeats today (Tuesday) on @MerseyRadio 5-8pm More musical medication from the banks of the Mersey on @merseyradio with Feat. Artists: Sunstack Jones + Feat. Album: Yeah Yeah Yeah by Cast @liverpoolbands.bsky.social @av8records.bsky.social @mellowtoneclub.bsky.social

Missed the show then it repeats today (Tues) on Mersey Radio 5-8pm More musical delights from the banks of the Mersey with Feat. Artists: The Sway + Feat. Album: Truth Is King by Bluenose B @liverpoolbands.bsky.social @wallytbm.bsky.social @nothingville.bsky.social @henrypriestman.bsky.social

Musical delights from the banks of the Mersey on @merseyradio 8-11pm with Feat. Album: Truth Is King by Bluenose B + Feat. Artists: The Sway @wallytbm.bsky.social @nothingville.bsky.social @mellowtoneclub.bsky.social @av8records.bsky.social @liverpoolbands.bsky.social @henrypriestman.bsky.social

@marcrileydj.bsky.social as ever thank you for playing Kevin Coyne’s Sign Of The Times last night. He is my musical hero & selfishly I want him to be better known then some of the stuff in the vaults might get released. The last announced project that didn’t appear was his Kray’s play soundtrack 1/2

On what would have been his birthday the Kevin Coyne estate just shared this photo a reminder that exhibitions of his paintings still happen in Europe.

More Mersey musical medication on @merseyradio 8-11pm with Feat. Artists: Amy Wadge & Pete Riley + Feat. Album: Sins by James Gordon @nothingville.bsky.social @av8records.bsky.social @mellowtoneclub.bsky.social @liverpoolbands.bsky.social @wallytbm.bsky.social @henrypriestman.bsky.social

Time for another serving of Mersey musical delights on @merseyradio 8-11pm @liverpoolbands.bsky.social @mellowtoneclub.bsky.social @nothingville.bsky.social @av8records.bsky.social @wallytbm.bsky.social @henrypriestman.bsky.social @blindnessandlight.bsky.social @paulsimpson.bsky.social

💥 3 Weeks To Go 💥 Big thanks to The Guide Liverpool for the feature! Oyé and LIMF Academy present TRiBE, a collaborative event at the Phil Music Room on Sat 7th Feb, exploring the eclecticism and depth of the hip hop genre. Featuring: KOJ, Philly D, Tee, Amber Rose 🎟 linktr.ee/africaoye

Happy Dooley Day! Arthur would have been 97 today. This evening at 5pm the Black Jesus sculpture on Princes Avenue, Liverpool 8 is being illuminated If you fancy coming along to celebrate Arthur’s birthday.

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social love the play of Kevin Coyne’s I Want My Crown. This dance to it by artist Bruce McClean might raise a smile youtu.be/5rGP_hqUCuI?...

Great to see @cerysmatthews.bsky.social joining @marcrileydj.bsky.social as some of the few radio DJs that have played Kevin Coyne on their shows. Cerys played two on Sunday and on the Radio 2 Blues Show she played I Want My Crown www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Currently reading Delíria by Jeff Young. A theory of the city for day drinkers and nightwalkers. roughtradebooks.com/products/del...

💃 First Two Acts Revealed For Oyé 2026 💃 🇳🇬 Nigerian Afrobeats trailblazer @patoranking.bsky.social! 🇨🇩 Congolese eco-punks Fulu Miziki! The UK's biggest celebration of African and Caribbean music and culture returns to Liverpool on 20th and 21st June 2026! TICKETS: www.africaoye.com/tickets

Another cornucopia of musical delights on @merseyradio 8-11pm with Feat. Artists: Planet Noir + Feat. Album: Beautiful Beasts by Liz Owen @henrypriestman.bsky.social @nothingville.bsky.social @wallytbm.bsky.social @av8records.bsky.social @liverpoolbands.bsky.social @mellowtoneclub.bsky.social

Remembering Chris Callander on @merseyradio + a box of musical delights from the banks of the River Mersey 8-11pm with Feat. Album: Buck by Red Rum Club @mellowtoneclub.bsky.social @liverpoolbands.bsky.social @nothingville.bsky.social @wallytbm.bsky.social @av8records.bsky.social

Liverpool friends, it would be lovely to see you at my book launch. 5th March, at the British Music Experience, in conversation with Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social. Non-Liverpool friends, we are planning events in London and Oxford too - watch this space. www.britishmusicexperience.com/pennykiley

@wildtwin.bsky.social Saw these yesterday on the wall of one of the old warehouses on the dock road. No context.

21 yrs since my musical hero Kevin Coyne died. He tacked subjects like mental health, child abuse, religious hypocrisy and then balanced it with songs of humour and silliness. His guitar style was basic blues chords so surrounded himself with great musicians - never a guitar hero

News! The Sacred Memory Bank is an exhibition of assemblage, collage and word at Kirkby Gallery. It’s a joint exhibition with the mighty Mike Badger and we open on 19th January. We would love to see you there! @mikebadger.bsky.social

I wrote about this street in Liverpool and about memory and myth for the 12th edition of Science & Magic, full of splendid writing as ever. You can read the magazine here: www.violetterecords.com/science-and-... (Photo taken from the window of what used to be O’Halligan’s Parlour)

Bus Pass Desperados “I had to go down to London for a scan. My chum, Wayne Avrili met me off the train and we went on a little adventure. I had a lovely time so I wrote this song about it. McKenzie Crook's charming poem/book about Nick Drake prompted the trip.” Barry Jones youtu.be/UMwMmTN9KPQ?...

Tonight's musical medication on Mersey Radio 8-11pm with Feat. Artist: Liz Owen + Feat. Album: Slender Years by Dan Wilson @mellowtoneclub.bsky.social @liverpoolbands.bsky.social @nothingville.bsky.social @av8records.bsky.social @wallytbm.bsky.social @henrypriestman.bsky.social

Join me for more musical delights on Mersey Radio 8-11pm with new music from Dan Caine, The Wood, Leere, Mike Ryan and more! @liverpoolbands.bsky.social @av8records.bsky.social @nothingville.bsky.social @wallytbm.bsky.social @mellowtoneclub.bsky.social @henrypriestman.bsky.social

Here's the early heads up for tonight's show on Mersey Radio Feat. Artist: Zero Glimmers + Feat. Album: PING by Steve Avo Lindsey @mellowtoneclub.bsky.social @nothingville.bsky.social @av8records.bsky.social @wallytbm.bsky.social @liverpoolbands.bsky.social @henrypriestman.bsky.social

Enormously proud to be the new UK home of Beryl Bainbridge. In March 2026, we kick things off in earnest by publishing AN AWFULLY BIG ADVENTURE, with an intro by Yiyun Li, and THE BOTTLE FACTORY OUTING, with an intro by A. K. Blakemore. Ruthlessly smart, darkly comic, her novels are sharp-edged gems

If you care about grassroots music in the City this is an important read. From the heights of Merseybeat and post-punk, the city’s long, dark decline into musical irrelevance www.livpost.co.uk/the-zanzibar...

As it’s World Mental Health day here’s the Kevin Coyne song Talking To No One (is strange but talking to someone is stranger). As the song says you need someone you feel safe to talk with. youtu.be/_uxQvzsCUVQ?...

A musical odyssey from the banks of River Mersey on Mersey Radio 8-11pm Feat. Artist: Andrew James Pringle + Feat. Album: Louchecore by The Lunar Pull @liverpoolbands.bsky.social @mellowtoneclub.bsky.social @nothingville.bsky.social @av8records.bsky.social @wallytbm.bsky.social

Lovely to be a contributor alongside lots of wonderful people to this 50th anniversary tribute to Eno’s Oblique Strategies. If you're interested in getting hold of a box of Ambagious Tactics email the address below for price and payment details: [email protected]

RIP Liverpool poet Brian Patten, aged 79. I still have an original copy of the Penguin Mersey Sound paperback, which I bought as a teenager. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

[Repost from @amazingradio.com] The Tom Robinson Show starts this Sat from 9pm on Amazing. Marking 50 years since his first LP release in 1975, and 40 since his presenting debut on the BBC World Service, we're delighted to welcome Tom Robinson to the Amazing platform amazingradio.com/shows/the-to...

INDIKA 2025 FULL LINEUP We are delighted to announce our full lineup for INDIKA 2025, featuring the very best of music, dance, yoga, storytelling, shared reading, food and fun for all the family. Coming to Liverpool 17th - 31st October… More Information & All Tickets: milap.co.uk/experience/i...

Tonights playlist - join me on Mersey Radio 8-11pm @lightningseeds.bsky.social @ianmcculloch.info @thecoral.bsky.social @willsergeant.com @moonband2025.bsky.social @liverpoolbands.bsky.social @professoryaffle.bsky.social @jimiunomusic.bsky.social

@marcrileydj.bsky.social great to hear Kevin Coyne on last night’s show. So tempted to share Mona Where’s Me Trousers about child abuse another harrowing song but Kevin could often just be playful. This has music by his son Robert Coyne youtu.be/HarEvae1Di8?...

Here's the early heads up for the Bank Holiday Monday Show on Mersey Radio 8-11pm... another cornucopia of musical delights from the banks of the River Mersey. @mellowtoneclub.bsky.social @nothingville.bsky.social @av8records.bsky.social @wallytbm.bsky.social @liverpoolbands.bsky.social

Tonight - another cornucopia of Mersey musical delights on Mersey Radio 8-11pm with Feat. Artist: Marc Vormawah + Feat. Album: This Blue Earth by @theshipbuilders.bsky.social JUST TELL ALEXA to 'START MERSEY RADIO' @nothingville.bsky.social @av8records.bsky.social @liverpoolbands.bsky.social

@tomrobinson.com thank you for tonight at the Parish. Sad that so many of your songs are even more relevant today.

OUT NOW Seascape by Eugene McGuinness "absolutely beautiful' @johnkennedydj.bsky.social , @radiox.co.uk "Evocative, illustrative and instantly likeable" @atthebarrier.bsky.social Stream here: ditto.fm/seascape-eug...

Tonight - more Mersey musical medication on Mersey Radio 8-11pm with Feat. Artists: @leinsangster.bsky.social + Feat. Album: The Green Lilac Park by @moonband2025.bsky.social JUST TELL ALEXA to 'START MERSEY RADIO' @liverpoolbands.bsky.social @av8records.bsky.social @nothingville.bsky.social