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.

Prince - Gold (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Prince

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.

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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

We’re fighting for transparency over Palantir NHS briefing documents | Good Law Project Wes Streeting is refusing to publish documents that will provide the truth about the risks of Palantir’s systems for handling our health records, so we’re fighting back

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

Clannad singer and harpist Moya Brennan dies aged 73 The Grammy and Emmy-winning ‘first lady of Celtic music’ was credited with popularising Irish music and lyrics

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.

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Echoes And Dust

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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.

Oi oi ravers, anyone remember Lechlade? Great days.
SAFE!

Of course they are....

Oh Discogs has changed and I don't like it.

#PettyGripes

Fuck's sakes folks, AI needs that water not you. You're so selfish. Jesus.

The battle against Trump is a battle against genocide iandunt.substack.com/p/the-battle...

Aren't all Trump's guys estate agents or some shit like that? No wonder that they don't have a scooby.

Now they’re using the Epstein files to distract from the war with Iran that they started to distract from the Epstein files. A 5D chess move if I ever saw one.

The first two Aswad records are also brilliant, but terribly difficult to obtain. I've only heard them on YouTube streams, which probably doesn't get the band any money sadly.

Yes but those first two UB40 albums are great, and the band they became is a poor reflection of them.

Picture: The Artemis mission astronauts share a friendly group hug. Text: Artemis has helped crystallize one big theme. I'm tired of wars. I'm tired of lies. I'm tired of these shitty pathetic men wasting humanity's time. I'm tired of the worshipping of money. I'm tired of the corruption. The indecency. The cruelty. I'm tired of all the bakery. The sadism. The cynicism. The abuse. The cowardice. The obnoxious narcissism. The shameful and disgraceful criminality. They are at the end of this run. We want to be caring humans again. We want to dream again we want to live. Credited to: Rajat Soni - threads.com/@sierracascadia

Amen.