In the beginning…

Me @ this season

As the snow starts to fall, pleased to say this is now on Tidal tidal.com/playlist/133...

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened and was also expertly drawn

When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.

Just one more change upstairs will definitely solve it. Definitely. All those other ones didn’t change anything, but this one, this one definitely will.

Howay the lads.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Fuck Keir Starmer's spokesman, and fuck the cowards running the Labour party.

It isn't that long ago, a few years perhaps, where saying this out loud would have been career suicide. How far we have fallen in such a short time. :(

This year’s ’albums I have enjoyed’ list. As ever, in no particular order. Will be the last Spotify playlist too as I’m going to move to Tidal. open.spotify.com/playlist/2S6...

60 years ago tonight, the san jose acid test, the grateful dead’s 1st gig as the grateful dead, in a house downtown after a rolling stones show. several hand drawn flyers showed up this year, as described in tom wolfe’s electric kool aid acid test, but with seemingly the wrong address on them. [1/4]

GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament

Can’t believe we’re playing again tonight, give me a break.

Thanks to @stuartmaconie.bsky.social for supporting Joe Harvey-Whyte and Paul Cousins collab LP ‘in a fugue state’ on the mighty Freak Zone last night. What an honour!

He’s got to go.

This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"

6 months 🥹

Ah man, RIP Mani. Yes the Roses obviously, but his playing on XTRMNTR and Vanishing Point with Scream is brilliant, and both are cornerstones of my musical upbringing. m.youtube.com/watch?v=72BV...

Seeing as the winter has properly arrived, here’s my mega Winter Music playlist. Sorry that this is on the devil’s platform, I haven’t transferred it yet. open.spotify.com/playlist/5RT...

Anyone can be banned then. I've been mistaken for a man, a trans man and a trans woman before. It's encumbent on all of us to make this as unworkable as possible.

imagine if Nick Griffin had proposed in 2010 that we should be stealing jewellery from refugees who arrive here, we’d have spent 15 years pointing to it as a low point in the political discourse around immigration, but now we’re just suppose to accept it from our “””centre-left””” government

What is truly pathetic about Labour is that this is all they have got. They have failed so spectacularly already, despite a whacking great majority, to even attempt to govern positively that all they have is punching down on marginalised groups and saying "oh but Reform will be worse".

The views of the average pro-Palestinian student broadly match what the academic literature says, what international courts say, what the relavant UN officials & orgs say and what the relevant NGOs say. It is views of Clinton and her peers in Western capitals which are largely divorced from reality.

Seen some crazy takes about Spurs in my time but Frank should get sacked if he doesn’t come top 4 and win a trophy in his first season has got to be right up there.

Big ol’ Waka Waka from me.

Starting to get very excited about this in just 2 weeks time! Grab a ticket below for an absolutely mesmerising evening of live music.

Fuck this lot all the way to hell and back. Disgusting racists.

Breakthroughs! over the river! flips and crucifixions! gone down the flood! Highs! Epiphanies! Despairs! Ten years’ animal screams and suicides! Minds! New loves! Mad generation! down on the rocks of Time! Real holy laughter in the river!

Watford sacking managers is my favourite long running bit.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Just so, and - having said for a decade that something much like this was coming, if we didn’t move decisively to avoid it - I cannot tell you how *incredibly * hostile more or less everyone who considers themselves Sensible and Moderate was, to being told this. And yet, here we now are.

HWFG.

Summer 2025 in the UK, a time of unity and euphoria.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Thanks to Songlines mag for the great review of ‘The Channel’ by Monzanto Sound! Check it here monzantosound.bandcamp.com/album/the-ch...

Quite. So many Labour people on this website visibly have no idea of just how bad things have got for ethnic minorities since they came on, and how their visible indifference lands.

Craven stuff.

Dunk on ‘em Manders!

Joe Harvey-Whyte & Paul Cousins ‘in a fugue state’ album launch, Thu 6th Nov at The Horse Hospital. Support from Vera Sacra Released via @nonemorerecords.bsky.social www.thehorsehospital.com/events/joe-h...

You can also pre-order the album on Bandcamp and get both ‘recur’ and first single ‘lift’ now! joeharvey-whytepaulcousins.bandcamp.com/album/in-a-f...

NEW MUSIC! The latest single ‘recur’ by Joe Harvey-Whyte and Paul Cousins is out today! Available wherever you stream, it’s a pearl. open.spotify.com/album/53BPNi...

BREAKING: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a team of independent experts commissioned by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council concludes.

Fuck this lot an’ all.

I think that you think that 'racist intimidation, calls for ethnic violence and police assault' requires a 'measured response' and not unequivocal condemnation is evidence that you have outsourced your morality to your partisanship.

Following an incredible run of three EPs since 2020, ‘The Channel’ marks the debut full-length for the London-based collective Monzanto Sound, who continue their long-running association through None More Records

Israeli military kills at least 41 people as it continues to order evacuation of Gaza City