Ageing milestone achievement today - mislaid teenage child in shopping centre and realised that if a tannoy announcement were to be required to reunite us it would be for the child to come and pick up the confused old man rather than me to collect the lost child #OnlyAsOldAsYouFeel
Must have been something in the air at Reading 91 - just a perfect three days. (The fact that I was 17 and without a responsibility in the world might have had something to do with it too!)
The Phoebe Bridgers inspired pottery range here is expanding...
For some reason this had never clicked with me before, but it certainly has this week - this era is such well-trodden territory it is a delight to find something new from it to love...
Mama Sissoko - Diamond Fingers
Dug into this having heard a little bit of it on Radio 3's Music Planet, and it's superb - perfect Sunday morning music if you want to get it lined up in advance...
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Evening Richard, evening all - so many wonderful options for #5Albums1519 but going with:
1. Phoebe Bridgers
2. The Beths
3. Green Lung
4. Big Joanie
5. The Comet Is Coming
Top 10 Albums of the Year (Easter Version):
1. The Twilight Sad
2. Souad Massi
3. Ratboys
4. Mitski
5. Courtney Barnett
6. Flea
7. Shabaka
8. Deary
9. Chalk
10. Art School Girlfriend
Not massively in order...
You don't hear much about Bob Taylor these days, do you? Good luck for the season, hopefully promotion beckons...
Hampshire fan for the best part of 50 years! Miraculously stayed up last season so hoping for a better campaign this time...
Just spent five minutes watching the ground staff fiddling about with the covers and felt much calmer as a result!
I feel seen. That's all I am going to say!
And here are The Redskins performing Bring It Down (This Insane Thing) on the same episode on No. 73
youtu.be/HIMue-vxnHE
Shabaka is a dead cert for a place on The Quietus's end of year top 100, if you know what I mean, but he's such an interesting artist. Flea's album is great, channels some pretty obvious jazz influences but really works, been listening a lot.
Shabaka Hutchings' new album cover
Been a great month for new music. In no particular order, my top 5:
Flea
Shabaka
Chalk
Courtney Barnett
The Twilight Sad
Lots of other good stuff too...
Great to hear you enjoyed it!
It's good knowledge! ☺️
Oh rats, it's one of those... Yep, limited release 2014, Heavenly release 2015. Oh well, enjoying it very much and I'm not short of options for my 5!
Just finished it. Great book, but joining "A Little Life" and "One Day" on my list of traumatic novels...!!
If you see this, post a concert photo you took
The one good concert photo I've ever taken!
The Names by Florence Knapp
Just started but fully engrossed...
Think I might join you. Wonderful album.
Parliament’s clock mechanics will be busy changing over 3000 clocks across the estate this weekend.
Loved that EP - also had superb versions of Band Of Gold and Come See About Me, if I remember.
I think it's a Methodist hymn, yes, but all those songs - Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel too, and lots of others, they felt at the time like they were eternal. Puff The Magic Dragon too, although even as a child I should perhaps have had my suspicions about that one...
Lots of Cat Stevens in my 70s childhood too... You have just unlocked a vivid memory of my RE teacher playing guitar and singing Streets Of London in assembly. Complicated things, memories!
Butler, Blake and Grant
The Twilight Sad
Robyn
Flea
Big day for great new albums today. Loving all of these and The Twilight Sad is definitely my album of the year so far. The Flea album might surprise you...
Excellent shout
Woodland Rites by Green Lung
One more for #5DebutAlbums1519 - a tremendously fun metal romp through English occult folklore. I listen to this a lot and it will probably make my 5...
Ran out of characters 😂 Consider her added!
