Thank You to the wonderful @foxlanebooks.bsky.social for today’s delivery. I need to pick up the new Wings compilation album now 😀

Sun dried tomato murders 🤣 #CelebrityTraitors

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

It was nice to have some light when I left home this morning. There’s a horrible stretch of motorway I use which is a lot easier in daylight. I honestly don’t know what I think about abandoning the time shift altogether.

“Look, im telling you, it’s after five o’clock…where’s my dinner?”

The ever brilliant @billybragg.bsky.social in conversation at Rough Trade East this evening

Wait…does this count as an album ? #5debutalbums8084 I love this record. My copy is stashed away, having been sold to me by @billybragg.bsky.social himself after a gig at Reading University December 83. Looking forward to seeing him this Saturday.

This AWS outage means that Strava will not synch up…so that five mile run I did before breakfast, you will just have to take my word for it..😀

There a few greater joys than spending Sunday afternoon cooking and listening to Guy Garvey. After a difficult week it just calms me down. As long as I turn down the volume for the news I guess…

Scritti Politti. Songs to Remember. This. And always this. #5debutalbums8084

#5debutalbums8084 The dB’s. stands for decibels A perfect slice of power pop. Essential.

If you get the chance to see Stewart Copeland on his book tour then I’d urge you to go. He’s a funny and engaging raconteur. A really fun evening in Bristol

A debut album and an only album. Loved this bunch back then….post punk folk horror from Worcestershire #5debutalbums8084 The Dancing Did, And Did Those Feet…

I really enjoyed The Ballad of Wallis Island. Hope that’s ok.

Oh gosh. Sad sad news.

This afternoon’s soundtrack whilst prepping dinner, courtesy of the mighty @scotspostpunk.bsky.social essential!!

#5debutalbums8084. Lord I loved this band. The Photos eponymous first album. Perfect power pop.

Finally caught up with 28 Years Later. Wow. I really enjoyed it, much better than I was expecting. Though that ‘what the chuff’ ending was a bit odd.

Another great evening @rnrbook-club.bsky.social with Kevin Rowland.

This is sad news. Mersey Sound was the first poetry book I bought, and the few times our paths crossed he was lovely and funny. RIP Brian Patten

Today’s discovery which I guess you all know about already…a spiritual jazz/funk/experimental record from the 70s ‘A Spirit Speaks’ by The Descendants of Mike & Phoebe…put together by Bill Lee, Spike Lee’s dad. Wonderful album that is added to my digging list…

Bit of crate digging at the dump this afternoon…

I know I shouldn’t be surprised, but booking fees just raised the price of a ticket by almost 20%.

Is today the Rapture day? That sky is looking apocalyptic

OK, it’s officially Hoodie Season now… #ChillyHomeOffice

For those of us who are fans of astronomical seasons today is the last day of summer. I shall celebrate by putting some washing out to dry and moving my tomato plants around the garden in the hope of the last ones turning red…

David Bowie ‘Earthling’ : a reevaluation of a lost classic 'David Bowie brings the drum and bass and industrial dark forest atmosphere in this lost late period classic' louderthanwar.com/david-bowie/ via @louderthanwar

“Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?"

Well that was a terrible bus journey and this is my current view of Saint Etienne. It sounds like that’s @petepaphides.bsky.social in the distance! Must remind myself to move to London….

Morning gang. I’m going up to RT East this evening for the Saint Etienne session. Normally it’s an easy couple of tube journeys from Waterloo to Liverpool St, but with the strike I’m trying to suss out an alternate method. Any London experts here have any advice? Cheers

I do enjoy cooking whilst listening to Guy Garvey and Iggy Pop on Sunday afternoons. I am sure I will enjoy washing up to Mary Anne Hobbs later also 😀

I have the mighty @markradcliffe.bsky.social and @marcrileydj.bsky.social to thank for introducing me to this on their Radio One afternoon show several lifetimes ago. When my kids were small and we were on a sunny beach in Cornwall. Thanks guys.

I love these warm days at the tail end of summer. This is the only soundtrack Cousteau. Last good day of the year.

Will probably go up to that there London next weekend to see this archive of Mick Jones. Looks like it’s near Mile End tube station in east London.

Looks like an interesting exhibition of Gerry Anderson stuff at the Museum of Brands in London.

In case anyone missed it…this evening on the telly box…

Have you all known about this album all this time and just been keeping it from me? Cat by Hiroshima Suzuki. Perfect Sunday tunes…straight to the top of my crate digging list…

This morning already feels like a ‘Train Window Girl’ kind of morning…

Martin Parr documentary on BBC4 this coming Monday.

Aphex Twin, a Brixton squat and a load of wet mattresses: revisiting Telepathic Fish, the heart of the 90s chillout boom

It’s time the tale were told The long awaited autobiography from the self proclaimed biggest Smiths fan in the world ‘Mike Joyce - The Drums’ 06-11-25 Resident: tinyurl.com/25hpf9ph RT: tinyurl.com/4a3ch57a HMV: tinyurl.com/2zcw9a8f

Zod has gone…RIP Terence Stamp

In my thistle was this very cool spiders web, pulling the leaves in to form a sphere. I think the culprit is the red beastie in the second picture.

I’m me of the saddest days of the year when have to accept that my globe thistle has had its day and it is time to cut it back. I need to work out how to keep those seeds and do something productive with them…

I used to love ‘Smelly Alley’, it had a great record shop and I bought my most favourite ever pair of jeans there in the early eighties. They had more zips than I knew what to do with…

From my sunflower and sweetcorn patch to the bbq. Trying to find my barbecue mojo again…

Why is any food with caramel always ‘salted caramel’ these days? What happened to old fashioned non salted caramel? #grumble

Rats big as cats….

Ascension by Nightbus is a cracking tune. All reverb and doom. Looking forward to the album later this year music.apple.com/gb/album/asc...