Matt Foy

@mattfoy.bsky.social

Former exiled Northern Monkey, now exiled no more. Normally rambling on about music, old telly, LFC and cricket. Liable to post pictures of records . Hates verisimilitude. Mostly harmless.

HOTPRESS: “the North’s answer to the Traveling Wilburys” is a fitting subtitle for this NI supergroup. If you've heard Malojian, McKowski, Lost Brothers etc, try some dead goat! Check them out at Kilkenny Roots Festival this weekend #music #nowplaying

Dead Goat album and artwork

after the success of Dead Goat, I went back to @av8records.bsky.social for another McKowski collab, this time with Nick Power from The Coral. Various reviews say it's "disconcerting", "folk-horror", "surreal", "bleak". I wholeheartedly encourage this sort of thing. #music #nowplaying

Throat album cover with a person dressed as Ghillie Mangoodies within: signed postcards and a cut-out & keep fun mask ("permission from a grown-up required")
Dave@vip-223.bsky.social · 4mo ago

HOTPRESS: “the North’s answer to the Traveling Wilburys” is a fitting subtitle for this NI supergroup. If you've heard Malojian, McKowski, Lost Brothers etc, try some dead goat! Check them out at Kilkenny Roots Festival this weekend #music #nowplaying

Dead Goat album and artwork

Hi folks, like the World Cup we are through the group stage and into the knock out stage, it’s time for #5DebutAlbumsSF1 this being the first of four semi finals to ultimately decide the best debut album. Please see to follow a list of 100 albums, your task is to pick your top 5 in order, mine are..

Matterface and Dixon moaning about the utterly commercial hydration break ruining the flow of the game, then being obliged to plug ITV's latest competition, is a special kind of hypocrisy.

New aftershave in Lidl: gives you the precise aroma of a widowed policeman investigating the murder of his daughter, drawn into a wide-ranging political conspiracy involving nuclear weapons.

Two boxes of aftershave called ‘Edge Of Darkness’