If you’d like to get recommendations outside of the algorithm with unique picks and thoughtful, digestible writing, I would recommending starting with @rosyoverdrive.com

Saltcoats, the St Tropez of the Firth of Clyde...

Think I do vaguely remember them using that name, but didn’t seem a good one really.

Nick Cave and the Cavemen must have been a pretty short-term thing?

Now humming ‘Gaviscon, Gaviscon!’ to the tune of the Glenn Campbell hit ‘’Galveston’

Pier reminds me of Mondello, in Sicily…

This week's episode of FRESH INGREDIENTS (Sunday, 7pm on untidyradio.com) features songs by Sea of Days, Shapes Like People, Jonathan Richman, Luke Haines & Peter Buck, Falling and Laughing, Cypress Mine!, Jens Lekman, Mozart Estate, Special Friend... and more

Show 17 of the wobbly-but-enjoyable FRESH INGREDIENTS has drifted through a gallery, had some wine, popped some songs on a piece of paper & by Sunday we'll be good to go. Some lovely songs this week: literate indie, folk, diy scribbles, rambles. Sunday 7pm untidyradio.com Painting by Gwen Johns X

A Rangers team in hoops...

If you’re in the Westcliff-on-Sea area next Saturday or not, here’s a good reason to be:

They were excellent live…

Not quite such a coup for Kirkconnel, then, but also probably very easy to get away with the fib in those days. And a naval base in Arbroath?

Spring sunshine x noise pop- a rare moment for a quick demo of a new song #demo #noisepop #spring #sunshine #indelible #wudaokou #jangle #pop

Transport available if required is a nice touch. Though probably any attendees were all within 10 minute walk of the venue. First time in Scotland, though… presumably he was on his way up the road for Glasgow show/s.

Are we about due a flexi revival? For those of us if a certain vintage they were very definitely part of the scenery.

Dans le nouveau épisode de Fresh Ingredients, we have une bizzaro collection de impulsive pop — springy, funky, jazzy et un peu bizarre. Brought to you, comme toujours, par votre correspondant très fatigué, Jonathan.

Episode 16 of Fresh Ingredients goes out tomorrow at 7pm on untidyradio.com and it's an eclectic departure from your usual programming: soul, french pop, hip hop, nocturnal whispers & day-glo melancholy. AND stuff from The Pastels, @somehappything.bsky.social, The Siddeleys and Clementine March x

Yeah, that’s the only one I’ve ever seen with banana even here, where old vinyl LPs are treasured so much. Taken a good few months ago so I imagine has found a new home by now.

Yours for a princely $3,450 or so…

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This is just genius... If you happen to just want to get lost this morning in some music that sounds totally unique... An album Yu Ching recorded during her time in Berlin before returning to Taiwan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQfQ...

If you like to receive physical musical media namely CDs in my case. I'm yet to issue anything on vinyl (I'm open to offers btw). You can still get your hands on a copy of the SHOPFIRES album We Are Not There But We Are Here and the NEUCLOUDS compilation. Just click on the links above. Thank you 🙏✨️

Thanks, Neil, very kind. Absolutely go for it… Slow Country was not initially conceived as a solely instrumental project, but as incidental music for imaginary films. After a number of listens, though, the tunes started to take on that non-vocal life of their own…

We had the Mormons down my way in Galloway. My father, staunch* as it gets, dealt with them in no uncertain terms. *Not passed down the family line.

I think we’ve all been relic-ed here and there, Rob…

Always look out for the new, but I still use the one in my avatar, as heard on jim’s twenty-one stuff. Not heard better yet…

Dinky Honey – Bourgie Bourgie Talk to any fisherman and they will have a story about the ‘one that got away’. How they struggled to reel it in, that it was ‘this big’ and with each telling the space between their outstretched h…

Another great story about the love, and strain, of trying to rerelease 'lost' records on vinyl from @unspunheroes.com. This one didn't work out, but I'd say the story says everything about what Simon is so admirably trying to do. unspunheroes.com/2025/12/29/dinky-honey-bourgie-bourgie/

In the December sun… These arrived a while ago but forgot to post. Both excellent and both sold out now… @assistant.bandcamp.com @goodbyewudaokou.bsky.social

Here's what 2025 looks like for Hidden Bay and I'm proud to manage to get things back on track. Many thanks to the bands and record labels I worked with, and to everyone who bought/shared on these releases ↓

Ah yes, heard of them but never seen one here, let alone the left-handed version I’d need.

I wonder how much one of these would go for now. 1967, made in Japan by look of it? Can’t make out the brand on the headstock.

Out and about (2025), by Harbour 16 track album

Current listening pleasure. The compilation of Pete Simmons favourite Harbour songs of the year. He had over a 100 to choose from 🤯 Pete is also a member of the wonderful @assistant.bandcamp.com

@powerfulpierre.bsky.social

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... complete with nice segue into the grand company of @glenndonaldson.bsky.social ...