If you chopped a member of Reform in half it’d say RACIST all the way through like a stick of Blackpool rock, fact! n.b. satire, please don’t try this at home, it’d make a right mess and the Police would be really cross. Extra note needed what with this being 2025…

What the husband @mjowen174.bsky.social says is true. It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately. If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website. gailmyerscough.co.uk A repost would be lovely too.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

There’s a street in Bridgnorth that has more lamppost flags than working streetlights, and if that’s not a perfect metaphor for Reform then I’m sorry I can’t help you…

Metal Box Rebuilt in Dub from the man himself and what a band he has together too 👌 The bass was LOUD

Well played Sunderland that was a great watch. I'm hoping that they're still 3rd in the league at the end of today - but without a great deal of confidence tbh 😆

Genuinely sorry for Middlesbrough fans to get hit by this managerial chaos at this point, seem to be holding their own this afternoon just fine though.

The full video for 'Innellea' is here too, filmed at an old Manor House with a camera, a massive light and a couple of whisky bottle tops... www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQF8...

New campaign ad for Dems just dropped.

Hope you have a great weekend whatever you have planned 🍻 Jah Wobble and Metal box Rebuilt in Dub later this weekend for me 👌

I always loved November 5th growing up, right into adulthood. A crappy box of Standard fireworks, whatever, it didn't matter, rockets, bangers, air bombs all of the noisy ones and the bonfire 🔥 Then we learned how harmful it is to pets and wildlife so I don't miss it. Amazing memories all the same.

Samir Zitouni: a British hero

The only reason I go back to the “bad place” these days is to check if those Wolves rumours are true, and yes they are. Good. What’s next though 🙃

I have legitimate concerns that the entirety of anti-migrant rhetoric on Facebook is racist. Why did I go back on there, I dunno must be that feeling when you hover your finger over the return key thinking “you do know what’s going to happen now don’t you?”, click…

Fiery red Acer at my parents’ place and golden Japanese Elm at ours. Soon be bare again but the colours everywhere right now are quite magical 😊 Our tree looked amazing a few days ago and it only occurred to me to take a photo today. Mad to think I put that in the car boot just a few years ago.

ANNOUNCING : The Nightingales U.K. Tour Feb 2026. I’ve selected some of our favourite spots to play our first headline dates in 3+ years! Come show us lot some love eh? We’ve missed you. Tickets will go on sale Friday 10AM 🥁⚡️ www.thenightingales.org.uk/live

I shared a post on FB last week asking what people were watching and Boy Swallows Universe, and Midnight Diner (cheers @dalestranslator.bsky.social) were both suggested. Loved the first and currently enjoying the second. Seems FB isn’t just a bunch of old racist acquaintances telling on themselves 😳

Excellent read, in Birmingham in November too. Never seen them live despite being a fan so can’t wait for this. I moved to Brum in 78 and a mate moved to London and caught them loads of times.

Beautifully put here by Stellan Skarsgård.

Trying to make my mind up whether watching Match of the Day is masochistic at this point. I’ve managed to avoid all of the other results and watch about 30 minutes after the start so I can skip bits. Still I dunno 🫣😆😆

I dunno if a metaphor is required for everything that is wrong with 2025 just now but there’s a Reform stall in my hometown at the Saturday market. There is still lots that’s good around so fuck them to the moon 🙄

Fantastic evening of music at St. Alkmund’s Church Shrewsbury, thanks again Chris @sygigs.bsky.social 👌 Hanako Omori, Kit Grill and Inner Key all superb Didn’t take a single photo for a change hinakoomori.bandcamp.com/album/stilln...

streaming news: my album Time is a Succession of Such Shapes has joined the great digital music firehouse. After a period of 2 months exclusivity to bandcamp (thank you!) it’s time to fight it out with the big lads! Choose your platform and add to your ‘ethereal bangers’ playlist sq.lnk.to/trx027

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I’ve been on an absurd diet, probably under eating to a borderline dangerous level so I won’t explain it - I have the appetite of a small child anyway - but 12 stone approached and now I’m under 11. To get Dad to the Dr.s for his early apt today I ate 2 rounds of toast and a Cadbury’s boost 😆😆

Honestly I thought Severn Trent were bad enough, the eponymous Severn is pretty shitty, how bad must the rest be 😳

To begin at the beginning: Moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the paved streets silent as the hunched vote counters, campaigners and journalists left the count. Fuck me that was a bit too close said Captain Cat. Well done Plaid Cymru.

I’m not going to tell you what to do what not to do but if you’re an LGBTQ person and you follow Roisin Murphy anywhere you should reconsider that because what the fuck is this

Read this. What a last paragraph.

Beautiful 👌 ceryshafana.bandcamp.com/album/angel

Just imagine the wealthy and powerful going to prison over here (apart from Jeffrey Archer of course) or in the US? I once read - but didn’t check up in detail - that no wealthy American ever ended up on death row too? Actual two tier justice in play.

Doesn’t seem all that long ago I saw YouTube shorts and thought no way am I clicking on any of those. Those games though, no way, never…

Hoo - fucking - ray 🎉

Obviously well worth a read because it’s Stewart Lee but this line is perfect, “Jack Whitehall and Jimmy Carr performed in Riyadh too but they are of no consequence.” 👌

Needs to be far more widely known, especially before that by-election Article via @thenerve.news and image via Foka Wolf FB

One day every week I get the remote control and it’s 12pm for Football Focus - yeah I know they’re only interested in about four teams - but I love this family tradition. Heard the classic Glasner and Iraola doing well for “small clubs” Bournemouth and Crystal Palace today 🤦‍♂️😆😆

He needs to “vigorously deny the accusations” in a US court if he insists that he’s innocent? Maybe his tangerine acquaintance could have a spell in the dock too?

Absolutely loved the last season of Blue Lights. Who’d have thought that what was once the RUC could become the subject of a drama like that?

Photographer friends what kind of scanner or more likely combined printer/scanner do you use? My old but still functional Canon MG series can only scan to SD card now which is a massive pain in the arse. I'm so old printers were once the bane of our lives, before Bluetooth appeared 😆

I’ve accidentally found a new diet, no idea what to call it but it’s either the CBA diet or “eating less” food diet? Revolutionary. Totally aware lots of people struggle by virtue of inherited DNA. I exercise too but that makes me eat more to not fall down 😳

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

Joe Wicks/Alan Partridge “Is it the job of the Government to make sure we have a healthy diet? The answer is yes!” I didn’t choose this tv myself incidentally 😆 I would have probably gone for the full Partridge.

Great read. Said this no end of times but that scene in Bristol sounds (quite literally) amazing. Bristol, Glasgow and Sheffield seem to be the UK epicentres of electronic music?

Listening to The Pleasure Principle while reading the Gary Numan article in Electronic Sound and Asylum is superb isn’t it? Only GN record I ever bought was Cars for my little brother trying to tempt him away from the Wombles and Star Wars theme album - on repeat 😆 youtu.be/EPzkafUdGcc

There’s a new Warrington-Runcorn Newtown Development Plan album out today, I snagged a Kraftwerk ticket and Trump didn’t win (what would have been frankly quite absurd) the Nobel Peace Prize. Happy Friday 😊

All my comics have happy endings!

Managed to get a ticket for Kraftwerk at The Halls (the old Civic) Wolverhampton. Prices jumping all over the shop though, saw them at £165 restricted view at one point 😬 Nabbed a much better seat a lot less. You horror Ticketmaster.