Just off to The Nickel cinema to see the 1974 Italohorror…

It’s Fulci/Frizzi Fwendnesday

Tenebrae intro tape for Blood Incantation… 👹🎃🤘

What a line-up (IYKYK) #AGatheringOfTheAngels

Enjoying being in the spritely/youthful demographic of this Michael Rother gig.

Water Damage, a highlight of Supersonic, even better at Oto tonight! Also, broke the abstinence & had 3 pints :-/

First time not drinking at a festival (Supersonic) and not staying until silly hours at the afterparty & I have to say that feeling this fresh on a Monday is something I could/should get used to… Other benefits: no time lost queuing at the bar or getting annoyed when they run out of beer…

Utterly nonplussed by Feel The Sound exhibition at the Barbican. Like, hey, did you know sound is actually vibrations??!🤯🤪? Here is a thing to stand on to prove it and now some projections on sheets in a car park. Plus commits classic error of multiple sound exhibits playing in the same space.

Had my mammoths satisfactorily grinded by Mammoth Grinder at the New Cross Inn tonight. Old School Death Metal, by their own admission. 30 minute set, Venom cover encore. Wonderful. Bass player rocking the Derek Smalls/William Murderface look admirably.

First time at Soho Theatre Walthamstow, to see Patti Harrison + pals (Inc Ayo Edebiri!!) being v funny on a wizarding theme… Beautifully restored theatre, but c’mon no central line array? Sound was iffy all night, seems like a pretty big oversight.

#nowwatching Trick or Treat (1986) RIP Ozzy youtu.be/pjOnfKvqGEQ?...

Having experienced some truly dreadful stadium rock sound last week, I’m mightily impressed by how clear & powerful the PA at Finsbury Park is. All d&b, I noticed, which can’t hurt… #Slayer

Amon Amarth are pretty ridiculous and I am very much here for it #slayer

It is my birthday. I appear to have angered the weather gods.

Back sorting through my old childhood stuff again & have uncovered this vital survey from when I was… 8? I believe I instigated the poll, expecting He-Man to do better (it got my solitary vote) & was devastated by the outcome.

TMNT II: The Secret of the Ouse. Stopped by one of my favourite spots on Earth, capitalising on the weather being “quite nice”. Thought maybe I might catch a glimpse of Kristin Hersh off to soundcheck at the Cluny, but this has not happened.

Any pals want to see Kyoshi Kurosawa's new one, Cloud, at the Prince Charles Cinema tonight? I've 2x tickets I can't use any more, due to still being abroad and all (I actually saw it last week instead - it is v good!)

O no, one of them died

Ni hao! I am in China, where it is already Tuesday morning 🤯 Kryten from Red Dwarf was on my plane. It’s all going off here!

A scene I think about often. (T Blockers, 2023, Alice Maio Mackay, Aus)

Oh JarvAIs, oh SterAIolab, what the handbag carnival partridge underfelt were you thinking?

Someone in charge of organising the films in BFI Player taking a leaf out of the Nev Clay rhyming book…

Very much enjoyed that new* Rachel Zegler film that’s out, it’s a hoot! I am of course referring to Kyle Mooney’s Y2K, what else could I have meant…? (*-ly released in the UK, on very few screens and which will probably have disappeared everywhere by tomorrow)

Visiting parents with the specific goal of helping clear out all my old stuff from the loft, but yeah that might be an impossible task. Behold this impeccable 80s childhood!

Korean bus stops have heated benches OMG

Only tweeting about Oscars this early because I am in the future…

Congrats to the Oscar winning Cafe Oto piano!!!

I appear to be in a Kubrick film

Movies you’ve watched more than 6 times, gifs only etc

Alright, let’s see about this then…

Ridley Scott etc #onlyconnect

I too will play the game! Reeeeally not ever that big a Madonna fan, and yet this list came pretty easily… Ray of Light Beautiful Stranger Music Material Girl Justify My Love Yeah, I like 90s Madge best.

To explain the train of thought that got me there would take too long, but suffice to say I’ve generated myself an earworm of “No MIDI for Mike Leigh” to the tune of “No Xmas for John Quays”, which is sure to play throughout my viewing of Hard Truths this afternoon…

Girl on a Motorcycle, RIP. Revving it up with Alain in the afterlife…

About the only reason I voluntarily go into the West End these days is the PCC. Sign, sign, sign…

You’ll probably see this screenshot floating around a lot but it really was wonderful to see Lynch put a scene in Twin Peaks: The Return where he has his character literally stare at the camera and say that you should either support trans people or die. I needed to hear that in 2017

Right lads, they’re showing Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me at the Prince Charles on Sunday afternoon. I’ve seen it a thousand times, but I’ve just booked tickets. See you there….? “O-RE-GON!”

Ah, man. Out of the cinema & just hearing the news… RIP DKL

This tonight. Featuring… me! Come down if you fancy some multichannel diffusions, plus plenty more besides from the New Wave of Oto Staff… www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/in-ho...

Young people on the bus discussing the “fan servicing” (or lack of) in the new Nosferatu… 😐

The Substance is a New Year’s film #NowRewatching

Whatever increase in mental well-being my post-Xmas inactivity stroll was bringing was pretty quickly quashed by spotting all the new years price hikes in local Sainsbo’s. ONE POUND & EIGHTY FIVE PENCE (£1.85) for a bag of Mini Eggs now!! 😩 This will seriously impact on my crispy-shelled addiction.

Just saw Christmas Eve at Miller’s Point at the pictures (Recommended!) Loved the director’s debut, Ham on Rye, and this continued the vibes tho not quite as Linklater meets Lynch as that one, mebs. Anyway, it’s now also on Sky Movies if you have that & want to watch while still calendar appropriate

Current vibes: furry pal on my lap, Autechre on the wireless.

Day Today specialist subject round! #mastermind

Well, what absolutely lovely people @radiuswindshields.bsky.social are! A very nice surprise. You can’t have enough of their cable straps… Thanks & Merry Xmas to you all too!

Another great Boundaries festival and weekend of Sunlun/Toon good times/good people etc. Congrats @grassi.bsky.social on the slickest running edition yet! Here is a picture of one highlight, Arnold Dreyblatt in action, but by no means is he wholly representative of the entire line-up…

All my friends, but me just out of shot… SRSLY tho… A) I *was* just to the left of this, so ner. B) It got wild fast! There was also a large birthday gathering that kept growing, but C) still maybe just the nicest pub to go to.

Sunderland bound, for Boundaries festival…