What's (Re)New? — Sleepytime Gorilla Museum will be reissuing their 2000s-era trio of albums as a 6-LP box set titled Triptych via AVANT NIGHT and Joyful Noise Recordings (@joyfulnoiserecs.bsky.social).
www.lettersfromatapehead.com/blog/whats-r...
The audio tours for medieval castles should have a separate channel for people who are not complete idiots, who want to hear a deadpan description of the history of each room with absolutely no struggling actors hamming it up pretending to be a nobleman or a lowly washerwoman.
Brian Hibbard
Hi folks. This is a long shot. I have a vague memory of a BBC Wales show for emerging talent, fronted by the late great Brian Hibbard (pictured). I can find no information on it. All I can tell you is that it was semi dramatised to make the most of Hibbard's comic talents. Any ideas?
Bangor nu-metallers C E L Λ V I have been chosen to play this year’s Download Festival - the first time the Welsh language will be performed on stage at the UK's biggest rock and metal festival
Happy St. George's Day to Y Saes, but for those of us with a literary bent Happy Shakespeare born/died day. To celebrate here is the sickest burn in the Bard's work:
Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother!
Aaron: Villain – I have done thy mother.
[Titus Andronicus (IV, ii)]
Electric Wizard Dopethrone CD Black and white illustration A Satyr, or Devil, smokes a bong. The illustration is deliberately out of focus.
#NowPlaying
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
2000
Rise Above Records
Footage of them creating a mission focused Gantt Chart and assignment of task and finish group to improve performance up to 5.6% over the next financial year.
Barry Cryer
Remembering Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, born on this day, one hundred years ago.
Info for 2026 BBC Proms is out. Highlights for me include:
Prog Rock: A Fanfare for the Common Man (18 July)
Under African Skies: The Songs of Graceland (5 Aug)
John Coltrane (8 Aug)
Marvin Gaye: Prince of Soul (14 Aug)
Miles Davis Centenary (20 Aug)
Altın Gün (28 Aug)
Steve Reich at 90 (2 Sept)
BREAKING: "I'm shocked that a man who's political career blew up in his face and nearly took down a Prime Minister, has blown up in his face and nearly taken down a Prime Minister!" Says Prime Minister who nearly got taken down by a man who's political career blew up in his face again.
Yob Our raw heart CD Features wings with eyes, sticks, blue yellow and red.
#NowPlaying
#MetalMonday
Yob - Our Raw Heart
2018
Relapse
I stand corrected. Thank you. Mind you there's been a lot of him about today, plus stuff on the telly later. This is a great track though isn't it? I find it utterly glorious every single time.
It's also 10 years to the day since Prince left us. I don't know which is worse: that fate robbed us of his mercurial talent or that it's a decade since. Anyway, two legends. And as Andy didn't make a record here's one from the other fella's Love Symbol/NPG period.
youtu.be/7IQE62Vn4_U?...
We lost the great DJ Andy Kershaw today. He had is fair share of problems. Andy, however, introduced me to the wonders of international music via his Radio 1 show.
See me in me heels an' ting
Dem check, sey we hip an' ting
True dem no know an' ting
We have dem going an' ting
Nah pop no style I strictly roots
Nah pop no style I strictly roots
Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection.
So forgive me if I smell a rat.
What would create a 'breakthrough' in your area? A chainsaw A sledgehammer Small grenades A falling grand piano
It is true that I was bored filling out that monthly report.
Baaba Maal Baayo Baaba Maal appears on the cover in traditional costume.
#NowPlaying
Baaba Maal - Baayo
1991
Island Records
In public, Wes Streeting is furiously back-pedaling from his earlier Palantir cheerleading.
But in private he is refusing to let us see what civil servants told him about Palantir
So, with @petergeoghegan.bsky.social, we are taking him to court to try and force him to hand over the briefings.
A clarification for non-UK residents. Our PM is as bland as a 1970s middle-of-the-road top 30 pop hit called something like "That Old Time Jug Band Rag" and was danced to by Legs & Co on Top Of The Pops. His 'Furious' is probably flushing a bit red and ruffling his quiff.
“Marco, Merrick, Terry Lee, Gary Tibbs and yours truly
In the naughty North and in the sexy South
We're all singing, (I have the mouth)
In the naughty North and in the sexy South
We're all singing, (I have the mouth)
I have the mouth”
Today I learned that standing up and shouting "Energise!" does not teleport one out of a boring planning meeting.
Yes, but who will flush the luxurious toilets of the mind...?
Nocturnus Thresholds Spacecraft above a green planet and black firey planet.
#NowPlaying
Nocturnus - Thresholds
1992
Earache Records
I remember buying a best of Clannad out of Woolies back in the late 80s. I played it a lot at the time but soon moved on to other things and forgot about it. It all came flooding back however on hearing about Moya Brennan's death on the news just now.
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...
"They remain focused on the future more than the past." -
Echoes And Dust
Chronicles Of Gnowt Vol.1 – the new album by GNOD is Out now...
rocketrecordings.com/products/the...
Is The Last Pull about wanking? If so then that tracks re: Trump.
Always been in awe of the unassailable capitalist logic of privatisation ever since they sold BT and British Gas and the water and the trains and all the rest of it.
Everything was ours
And they sold it all
To us
And we bought it
Then suddenly
We didn't own it anymore.
Genius.
