It’s remarkable what you find in #Tescos in Brislington sometimes: #PenguinModernPoets: #AAlvarez #RoyFuller #AnthonyThwaite

The #Seed line-up at #JazzStroud one week ago was: #CassieKinoshi (alto sax) #CamilaNebbia ( tenor sax) #NikNak (decks) #JoeBristow (trombone) #FelixMartin (trum) #JackBanjoCourtney (trum) #HannaMbuya (tuba) #RioKai (bass) #LukaAkintaya (drums) with guests #CharlieHeywood (guitar) & #FinnRees (keys)

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”

Several catalogues from Iain Sinclair Books 1980-1990. Street/ Beat: I was a regular

At the end of last week, I helped curate the Friends of the Ridgeway, Swires Prize exhibition. It's a challenging & rewarding role & one that I genuinely enjoy. Many works inspired by the landscape, but this year, some bird inspired works. Congratulations to all the artists.
@ridgeway.bsky.social

On repeat in the car this week: ‘Gratitude’ (2023) by #CassieKinoshi’s #Seed. Wonderful stuff.

D Is for Distance review – tender portrait of parents battling for their son’s medication Only medical cannabis can stop Louis’ epileptic seizures, but the NHS refuses to supply it. Chris Petit and Emma Matthews have turned their fight into a film

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#ChrisPetit's latest film: 'D is For Distance' (2025) #EmmaMatthews

‘The Bartered Bride’ by Bedrich #Smetana #BristolOpera at #Redmaids School.

‘Driftglass’ is a 1967 #SamuelDelaney short Story, and for the last few years it’s also been this truly wonderful album by #SeedEnsemble, now just #Seed

Northleach, #Gloucestershire. 14.4.26

The 11 piece #Seed at #jazzstroud last night (12.4.26), performing a brilliant, wholly-engrossing set under the leadership of #CassieKinoshi

#HermanHesse’s novel about a very unhappy family. His ability to describe misery and frustration is exceptional; I won’t be reading it again.

My friend #RobCampbell has written a novel, called ‘Century.’

John Bowen (1914-2006)
April Morning, Wet Pavement.
oil on board. #April

Meanwhile, at #ThePatriot in #Crumlin in South #Wales last night… #AtomicRooster, as opposed to an Atomic Rooster tribute band.

‘Black London Blues’ (1969) by #RamJohnHolder: an absolute belter and one of key albums of the late ‘60s. Cover shot of Testerton Street (now gone) where RJH was filming ‘Leo the Last’ ( #JohnBoorman 1970), playing the part of the preacher and singing on the soundtrack.

#RobertFuller Still going at 92. What a guy.

The drained Upper Neuadd Reservoir in the Central Brecon Beacons. Behind (left to right) are Corn Du, Pen-y-Fan and Cribyn. #Wales

went to #fairisle a couple of years ago and did loads of writing, stupidly none of it relating to the island. Finally getting round now to attempting short fiction inspired by my time there and my goodness that place gets under your skin. Can’t believe how much I miss it - and its people.

Found a copy of this wonderful album: fast proto acid bears with synth ragas, can’t beat it. 1982

Well, it’s not much ‘fun’, as you can imagine, but I’m glad I’ve read it, once.

Ann Quin (1936-73), novelist. #AnnQuin

I actually liked ‘Crash’, but get your reservations. ‘TAE’ is much more challenging (for me anyway); and it’s pretty tedious stuff tbh, and very repetitive.

Knowing a book is ground-breaking and ‘culturally significant’ etc. doesn’t always relieve the sheer tedium of reading it. God this is harm work, but getting there, slowly and painfully. #JGBsllard #sciencefiction

times like this I remember that my grandad got a medal for being in the 1919 Third (!) Afghan War. Never met him so don’t know why he was there, and I’d hazard a guess he didn’t know either. The track record of Western powers’ intervention far from home is too often as futile as it is long.

#BristolLightFestival, which ends tonight (28.2.26).

A compilation of the much-sampled early (1981-91) work of #ESG: minimalist early #dance/#punk/#hiphop

Weird stuff in Shute Lane - which becomes Hell Lane - near #Symondsbury in #Dorset. Photo: 25.2.26

High time that #Bluesky was graced with another #CannedHeat photo; clearly an outtake from the cover shoot for their 1968 double album ‘Living the Blues.’ The classic line-up (1967-70): #AlanWilson, #HenryVestine, #BobHite, #FitodelaParra and #LarryTaylor. Only Fito survives.

Hello — the film adaptation of my book Underland will be showing at the BFI IMAX on 1 April.
It should be spectacular on the 26m-high screen there.
Tickets go on sale at 4pm today (Friday) here via bfi.org.uk.
I’ll be there for a Q&A with the director, Rob Petit, who’s created an extraordinary film.