Love to the Trashcans and all who loved John Douglas. Lovely human. Great musician. "through t-shirt breezes walking home from work county kilburn sun weekends we'd just wash away the dirt of busy, hazy london"
the new mountain goats album is out on Friday. presave it please! or even preorder it! the vinyl package is a super cool O-card design by @seenstudio.bsky.social 30tgrs.ffm.to/days
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Best BBC buildings in which to get completely lost. In reverse order: -Old Broadcasting House -Bush House (especially after a couple of hours in Moe’s Tavern) -Maida Vale. (The smallest of the three and now the most missed).
I'd imagine The Brother Lees were announced incorrectly from time to time.
I said the words "Invisible Mending" and somehow ended up with a "Lily The Pink" earworm. So it goes. Even if she didn't invent it.
I don’t have any tattoos because I really like pop culture and I’d definitely have something from a thing that I love, and eventually the creator of that thing would be revealed to be a hellmonster and I’d feel I was endorsing them. Anyway, my online identity was definitely Connie Booth’s idea.
Farewell Bill, most radical of the Goodies. Present at Grosvenor Square with Tariq & Vanessa. Turned his harassment by the Met into slapstick TV comedy for kids. Angry, hairy, furiously talented.
Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social Jetstream Pony, Arab Strap, Bessie Smith, Messenger Dub, Prefab Sprout, MC Solaar, Jessica Pratt, Luke Haines, The Notwist, break_fold: so much variety! Luvly. Drew the morning after the night before, Newcastle
Shadowlands, a new four-day festival at Canterbury’s Gulbenkian Arts Centre, has revealed the initial lineup announcement for its inaugural edition in July 2027. The festival will be headed up by JG Thirlwell’s #Foetus project, performing with a 20-piece chamber orchestra buff.ly/dgp128h
Tonight and tomorrow night. King’s Cross, London. Candidate at the Harrison. No support. Just loads of songs. Come along.
My book #IntoTheGroove is published in North America tomorrow. I have no big launch plans, but reposts will be welcome. Thanks.
Hats off to Edward Stourton. Excellent journalist and broadcaster. Very much enjoyed his account of the BBC in WW2 "Auntie's War."
Spanish Radio Orchestra about to enter a Likely Lads Scenario.#proms
This is being repeated and is available on Sounds. Magnificent Radio. Audio. Pictures in your mind.
The Changing Sound of Radio - 1: Under Water and in the Garden - BBC Sounds
Chris Watson examines some of the ways technology has changed the radio we listen to.
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Hats off to David Willey. Brilliant journalist and correspondent.
Archive on 4 - From Our Rome Correspondent - BBC Sounds
The BBC's veteran Rome correspondent David Willey looks back at his 50-year career.
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Buses replace trams eh? They may give it a go, but they don't.
You'd think after 40 years of the internet, robots would know what a traffic light looks like by now.
Respect is due to this Summer Cold. Up there with the best I've had. Two bananas, Coffee, Pills, Some sort of Ginger/Turmeric thing and I'm just about ready for work. Let's hope so anyway.
Off to bed. Keep the noise down, some of us have got work in the morning.
Happy Birthday to Marcel Proust and also to @marcrileydj.bsky.social xx
Hats off to Patricia Greene. Jill Archer for nearly 70 years. This is a great episode of Desert Island Discs.
Desert Island Discs - Patricia Greene - BBC Sounds
Archers actress Patricia Greene is castaway by Kirsty Young.
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