Perhaps not a hip name to drop nowadays, but I do like the MJQ. There's a line that goes from here, via Jimmy Giuffre, to ECM.

My neighbour is listening to Pavement ✔️

On the deck- 1984, by Hugh Hopper.

I've just noticed the similarity between the pattern of the tabards from Dinnerladies and the sleeve of Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants) by Cecil Taylor.

I was initially a bit sniffy about the post-Daevid & Gilli Gong, but this is sounding good tonight.

Shit mate- Lou Reed is on Bullseye

There was a man on the local news called Jack Pishhorn. Tremendous.

So long, Ebo Taylor. Met him briefly after a show once and he was a pleasant dude indeed.

It's a Larry Young afternoon over here

I've just put Magma on. This could be a long night...

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

Very neat glandwriting

This afternoon's exercise

Charles Mingus was the king of the long title; Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me The Shoes Of The Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers All The Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother

AckerfuckinBilk on Bullseye klaxon

Thought of you Saturday night & had another vodka.

I reckon Scott Walker would have found Luke Littler fascinating

The darts is on tv (volume muted), and Millie and Andrea are on the stereo

Ornette Coleman - Crisis One of the best from Coleman, imo, helped by that sleeve. Denardo's drumming is great as well, considering he was 13 at the time of recording.

Playing this one now, with thanks to @torreswedding.bsky.social for the prompt. Another one with a killer rhythm section.

Playing this one, with thanks to @houseofreggae.bsky.social for the prompt

Ornette Coleman “Science Fiction”, 1972, Rolling Stone Columbia Ad.

Having an afternoon of Maggie Nicols

Just uttered on Come Dine With Me: "He just didn't know what to do. He was like a rabbit in a lamp".

Michael Chapman. Born OTD in 1941, Hunslet, Leeds, Yorkshire. Died 10/9/2021, Greenhead, Northumberland www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N2V...

Now playing, in a desperate bid to Drown It All Out. Today might be Alan Silva's birthday. It could also be tomorrow or the 29th. Depends who you ask.

"She remembered other hours like this, with Herod, when she knew the features of a teaspoon off by heart."

This is the lucky listen where this one has finally clicked with me. I'm sorry to have ever doubted it.

#Mood Kevin Ayers ~ Shouting in a Bucket Blues (Live on the Old Grey Whistle Test, BBC, 1971) #NowPlaying #KevinAyers #MusicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DPq...

Playing this nice and loud.

Share what you consider to be a goddess tier album. theraincoats.bandcamp.com/album/odyshape

Cow time Let's have a cow

Today is a birthday twofer; two of my favourite weirdos were born on January 15th and I’ve made linocut portraits of both of them. This is my Ivor Cutler portrait from a couple of years ago. If I get time I’ll post the Captain Beefheart one later. Fast n’ bulbous n’ gruts for tea.

I sometimes idly use the google song identifier app on my phone while listening to music. It got this within a couple of bars, whereas the other day it thought Stereolab were Whitesnake.

Iced with his own petard

The Chums of Chance are recruiting today 🫡

Nuts in May on BBC FOUR tonight.

1st listen of this one for a while, and it's sounding good. Jerry Garcia doesn't add a huge amount to it, but it's nice to have him there.

Poor timing perhaps, but I couldn't pass this one up. My neighbour still has his decorations up anyway, so technically it is still Christmas.

There's a programme on tv tonight called "How To Sleep Well With Michael Mosley" - sounds like a rather sinister threat.

Ten top guitarists; Mary Halvorson Robbie Basho Eddie Hazel Jandek Paul Leary Eric Chenaux Robert Fripp Sonny Sharrock Egberto Gismonti J Mascis

Some hi-hats are too short. What does this mean? Poor Harry I guess...

First play of 2026

In a bid to fully banish 2025 and get the dreadful year behind us, I'm conducting The Satanic Rites of Munkula. Mostly consists of playing Pärson Sound a bit too loud, with some lit candles, tinnies, and the shit quality street that are left in the tub. We'll just have to wait and see if it works.