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👉 Stop Reform t-shirts are back in my shop

The UK local and Senedd Cymru (Welsh Parliament) elections are a few weeks away. If, like me, you want to say a resounding “no” to far-right Reform and its bigotry, racism, and xenophobia, you might like to show it

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Safe travels - looking forward to seeing you guys in Oxford! 🙌

Was so sorry to leave my soup behind.

Yeah I guess especially with books that have been out a while, there’s the expectation that you’ve already read it 😬

I just finished Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison. I question the logic of having an introduction by another author that spoils THAT ending.

I saw it as a pork pie at first (but that’s colourblindness for you)

Looks like you’ve made some friends!

Making apps out of Spite - Hicks.design A super streamlined new app to play your own music library, that makes the most of the album artwork.

Thank you @hicks.design for this very nice write-up of Spite!

Life can be confusing.

Considering how windy Dave was making it, that’s really impressive! Definitely could do that with the ATC.

About to attack.

Can’t bloody wait! For me the Patreon subscription was worth it just to hear @gralefrit.bsky.social and @willmac23.bsky.social talk about Logopolis.

April 15th.

New BROKEN VEIL.

Exclusively on Patreon

Join the Broken Veil channel and we can keep making this… and so much more.

For everyone who’s joined, sincere thanks from me and @willmac23.bsky.social

Patreon.com/brokenveil

‎Birding - Album by deary - Apple Music Album · 2026 · 11 Songs

I’m just going to be playing this on repeat all day, apart from a short break when I go and pick up my vinyl version from TRUCK music.

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Hallelujah!!!

Adrian Edmondson and Sam West standing in front of a vehicle. Both have binoculars at the ready as though they're about to start birding

There's a new birding show on the way!

Featuring Adrian Edmondson and Sam West, it'll see the pair birdwatching and talking the day away at beautiful nature reserves (including some of our own).

Watch and stream on 5 from April 14th 🐦‍⬛

More details: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

Nice! Do you have to go to a particular shop for them?

Qobuz Theme 1.1 - Hicks.design An update to the CSS theme for Qobuz

If by any chance you’re using my custom Qobuz theme, I’ve just posted the latest version to my site. For some reason my brain needs to see a sidebar in order for to feel like an app, so a sidebar it has got!

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March 2026 Top Albums 1. Blackwater Holylight Not Here Not Gone 2. Billow Observatory Resina 3. Nothing a short history of decay 4. Art School Girlfriend Lean In 5. Isabel Pine Fables 6. Avalon Emerson Written into Changes 7. The Besnard Lakes Ghost Nation (Ghost Mixes) 8. Lande Hekt Lucky Now 9. Barry Can't Swim Late Night Tales: Barry Can't Swim 10. Blackwater Holylight If You Only Knew - EP 11. Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea Alpha (Deluxe Edition) 12. Harry Styles Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally. 13. Hen Ogledd DISCOMBOBULATED 14. Ladytron Paradises 15. Lift to Experience The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads 16. Mammal Hands Circadia 17. The New Pornographers The Former Site Of 18. Steve Hillage Rainbow Dome Musick (Remastered) 19. Tyler Ramsey & Carl Broemel Celestun 20. Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan Public Works and Utilities 21. Xylitol Blumenfantasie 22. Arushi Jain Under the Lilac Sky 23. Aunt Betty's Off the Record - EP 24. Awe Kid Body Logic 25. Band of Horses Everything All the Time 26. Bill Callahan My Days of 58 27. Billow Observatory Billow Observatory 28. Billow Observatory Soliton - EP 29. Blackwater Holylight Blackwater Holylight 30. Blackwater Holylight Silence/Motion 31. Blonde Redhead Sit Down for Dinner 32. Broken Veil Broken Veil OST 33. Bruce Cockburn Nothing But A Burning Light 34. Buck Meek The Mirror 35. Charli xx Wuthering Heights 36. Chuck Johnson Balsams

My March in music, courtesy of Albums app.

Blackwater Holylight’s ‘Not Here Not Gone’ got a lot of plays in this month…

Tom J Newell's art for the cover of Wyrd Science 8 featuring mushrooms sprouting out of a psychedelic skull

Let's all chill, breathe in the wonderful @tomjnewell.bsky.social cover art and speak in colours for a while

Tyler Ramsey at The Jericho Tavern - Hicks.design Hicks.design is Jon Hicks, established 2002.

Last night, Leigh and I got to see Tyler Ramsey (ex Band of Horses) at Oxford’s Jericho Tavern:

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(It's the part from 2:58)

OMG I FOUND IT. Literally by scrolling through my music library in release date order. I can get my life back now.

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Having a ten minute break cos I’ve come up with today’s joke that justifies today. There’s always one. It doesn’t always make the cut. But you are allowed ten minutes to stand and salute.

Yeah, very much that type of thing (but not those examples)

I pity the fool!

Abducted by Cults on Apple Music Song · 2011 · Duration 2:52

I got this, which isn’t the song, but still a banger music.apple.com/gb/album/abd...

Indie rock (maybe?) and in the last twenty years (maybe?)

This is not some April 1st thing btw, I genuinely need to know, it’s driving me insane

Do you any of you know that song, that’s the last track on an album, that builds and builds and then goes:

Da dadada dadada dadada DADADA dadada dadada!!

Because it’s been driving me mad for weeks