Alan Burns
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Kilmarnock-born Edinburgher, civil servant who likes a lot of music, niche trivia and funny stuff
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New Musick Part 2 by Sandy Robertson, Jon Savage and Hal Synthetic in Sounds 26th, November 1977 including Throbbing Gristle, The Residents and Kraftwerk
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November 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
New Musick Part 2 by Sandy Robertson, Jon Savage and Hal Synthetic in Sounds 26th, November 1977 including Throbbing Gristle, The Residents and Kraftwerk
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dimly recall that this is the approximate time of the month where normal people with sensible jobs who might possibly like books get paid 👀
it's Black Friday week! so, just like the big shops who can actually afford to, I am doing a sale on my website
use the promo code BLACKFRIDAY for 15% off my surreal sci-fi detective novel The House on Utopia Way, or my poetry books Farewell Tour and PANIC!
www.stefmo.co.uk/shop
use the promo code BLACKFRIDAY for 15% off my surreal sci-fi detective novel The House on Utopia Way, or my poetry books Farewell Tour and PANIC!
www.stefmo.co.uk/shop
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
dimly recall that this is the approximate time of the month where normal people with sensible jobs who might possibly like books get paid 👀
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"How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God!"
Made a colour variant Mr. Blobby because nobody can stop me anymore. I am beyond consequences.
November 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM
"How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God!"
Now playing (just the last track, see thread)
![Album cover of Anthology 1: Come Organisation Archives 1979-1981 by Come, Whitehouse, Nurse With Wound etc [Susan Lawly 2xCD compilation, 1998]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tzkttulzcpjkfy2ohmblfcnf/bafkreifuylkdtmvdckt7u5i6fiofkugf4i37szhaxrnpcpa6bohoz47l4e@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Now playing (just the last track, see thread)
Not sure who needs to know this, but Bradford Red Light District is currently free to dl from the Whitehouse bandcamp. The 33 min Pt 2 (Pt 1 isn't as interesting, and isn't even a walk round Bradford, it's London) is one of the most accidentally stunning pieces of sound art ever recorded. [short 🧵:
Bradford Red Light District, by Whitehouse
2 track album
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November 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Not sure who needs to know this, but Bradford Red Light District is currently free to dl from the Whitehouse bandcamp. The 33 min Pt 2 (Pt 1 isn't as interesting, and isn't even a walk round Bradford, it's London) is one of the most accidentally stunning pieces of sound art ever recorded. [short 🧵:
I try to put everything into perspective
Set it against the scale of human suffering
And I thought of the Mugabe government
And the children of the Calcutta railways
This works for a while
But then I encounter Primark FM
Overhead a rainbow appears
In black and white
Set it against the scale of human suffering
And I thought of the Mugabe government
And the children of the Calcutta railways
This works for a while
But then I encounter Primark FM
Overhead a rainbow appears
In black and white
November 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I try to put everything into perspective
Set it against the scale of human suffering
And I thought of the Mugabe government
And the children of the Calcutta railways
This works for a while
But then I encounter Primark FM
Overhead a rainbow appears
In black and white
Set it against the scale of human suffering
And I thought of the Mugabe government
And the children of the Calcutta railways
This works for a while
But then I encounter Primark FM
Overhead a rainbow appears
In black and white
Bob Geldof and Midge Ure grumpily fielding questions from the press about Sub-Saharan weather patterns, following their back-of-a-fag-packet assertion that there won't be snow in Africa this Christmastime
November 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Bob Geldof and Midge Ure grumpily fielding questions from the press about Sub-Saharan weather patterns, following their back-of-a-fag-packet assertion that there won't be snow in Africa this Christmastime
Flying visit to Stockbridge Oxfam
November 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Flying visit to Stockbridge Oxfam
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November 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Please enjoy this thread of prog bands that fuck
Prog bands that fuck.
King Crimson: yes
Gentle Giant: yes
Genesis: only Peter Gabriel
Yes: no
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer: have you seen the cover of Love Beach?
King Crimson: yes
Gentle Giant: yes
Genesis: only Peter Gabriel
Yes: no
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer: have you seen the cover of Love Beach?
They were dead set on proving that, despite the evidence of their music, they were explicitly NOT virgins
November 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Please enjoy this thread of prog bands that fuck
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Friday poem you should probably read before you head home from the office for the weekend www.havehashad.com/preview/hadp...
Please Consider The Environment Before Printing This Email by Ross McCleary
but if you must do so then please make sure to shred the pages after you’re done. If you must print this email then shred it, please, despite previous environmental concerns, burn the shreds in the Pr...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Friday poem you should probably read before you head home from the office for the weekend www.havehashad.com/preview/hadp...
Now luteing (luting?)
Anyway, favourite ECM release this quarter of the year (still tempted by the Scofield/Holland, mind)
Anyway, favourite ECM release this quarter of the year (still tempted by the Scofield/Holland, mind)
![CD cover of Libro primo by Rolf Lislevand [ECM NS 2848]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tzkttulzcpjkfy2ohmblfcnf/bafkreihak7spawqowonqojhro6hnrdclwqgfweyg4r2wnzyp6dpsnq4xwq@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Now luteing (luting?)
Anyway, favourite ECM release this quarter of the year (still tempted by the Scofield/Holland, mind)
Anyway, favourite ECM release this quarter of the year (still tempted by the Scofield/Holland, mind)
Right back up to date now with this absolute belter
![CD cover of The Shieling by Fergus McCreadie [Edition Records, 2025]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tzkttulzcpjkfy2ohmblfcnf/bafkreia4lligb3e3efac5cea5onl3ralm4xxnnnnfy3okoxxku37kkxlmy@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Right back up to date now with this absolute belter
While I'm on 'piano plus electronics', dug this out because I still rate it as one of the best things Erased Tapes have ever released, really need to catch up on what Boysen's done since
![CD cover of Spells by Ben Lukas Boysen [Erased Tapes, 2016]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tzkttulzcpjkfy2ohmblfcnf/bafkreigpanettelcmupon6fphm6f3ehfk6hua53s6f772ozk43b2ipbiai@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
While I'm on 'piano plus electronics', dug this out because I still rate it as one of the best things Erased Tapes have ever released, really need to catch up on what Boysen's done since
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'Before Aksak Maboul feels like the discovery of a residual tail, an essential part of the story that you didn’t even know existed, an extension of the label #Crammed as well'
Reissue of the Week: Before #AksakMaboul (Documents & Experiments 1969-1977)
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Reissue of the Week: Before #AksakMaboul (Documents & Experiments 1969-1977)
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November 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
'Before Aksak Maboul feels like the discovery of a residual tail, an essential part of the story that you didn’t even know existed, an extension of the label #Crammed as well'
Reissue of the Week: Before #AksakMaboul (Documents & Experiments 1969-1977)
buff.ly/Q3LBS0Y
Reissue of the Week: Before #AksakMaboul (Documents & Experiments 1969-1977)
buff.ly/Q3LBS0Y
![CD cover of Feathers by Poppy Ackroyd [One Little Indian, 2017]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tzkttulzcpjkfy2ohmblfcnf/bafkreidyecbawcqitbuf3gj36tehlnd7coyhvr7vxqhbwzs66rs5ncfdna@jpeg)
Back on my regular obsessions, opening track of this one is so good (is Winston doing plucked piano strings in the intro? Almost like proto-Frahm/Ackroyd)
November 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Back on my regular obsessions, opening track of this one is so good (is Winston doing plucked piano strings in the intro? Almost like proto-Frahm/Ackroyd)
Satie a la Windham Hill time. Starting to get used to this one and how resolutely unadorned Quist's renderings are, it's very pure in a way. Can imagine young Gould at his most mechanical doing Satie like this
![CD cover of Erik Satie: The Piano Solos performed by Bill Quist [Windham Hill, 1979]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tzkttulzcpjkfy2ohmblfcnf/bafkreiaxq3cdnk3u672eifjxyufyjeyzymhqhb75kfkaq4ab7xugjbe44u@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Satie a la Windham Hill time. Starting to get used to this one and how resolutely unadorned Quist's renderings are, it's very pure in a way. Can imagine young Gould at his most mechanical doing Satie like this
John Travolta Dildo was a friend to the poor
He travelled with a gun in every hand
All along this countryside he opened many a door
But he was never known to hurt an honest man
He travelled with a gun in every hand
All along this countryside he opened many a door
But he was never known to hurt an honest man
November 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
John Travolta Dildo was a friend to the poor
He travelled with a gun in every hand
All along this countryside he opened many a door
But he was never known to hurt an honest man
He travelled with a gun in every hand
All along this countryside he opened many a door
But he was never known to hurt an honest man
Weirdo percussion time, and respecting the Random Acoustics label's commitment to the bit of 'album covers no, most inaccessible CD sleeves ever made yes'
![CD cover of Electro-Acoustic Solo Works 1984-95 by Gerry Hemingway [Random Acoustics, 1996]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tzkttulzcpjkfy2ohmblfcnf/bafkreihasvizmvtxwzwywoy2mrufcjmajc4y2kt5ry6mstt6egztcblrla@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Weirdo percussion time, and respecting the Random Acoustics label's commitment to the bit of 'album covers no, most inaccessible CD sleeves ever made yes'
This again to start the morning
![CD cover of Philip Glass: Violin Concerto, Company, Akhnaten performed by Ulster Orchestra cond. Takuo Yuasa [Naxos, 2000]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tzkttulzcpjkfy2ohmblfcnf/bafkreifk5bx5xzxikvamr3r53xeyfbroskeycgkhkhxter5jcda3p5salm@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
This again to start the morning
This again for bedtime, something wonderfully relaxing and calming about it
![CD cover of Philip Glass: Company, Violin Concerto, Akhnaten performed by Ulster Orchestra cond. Takuo Yuasa [Naxos, 2001]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tzkttulzcpjkfy2ohmblfcnf/bafkreien6k5dqazmg5i3v7p6c3gujahj3fwc3m3zgcvler36eao7wvi3xu@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
This again for bedtime, something wonderfully relaxing and calming about it