Andy P
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Music writer, football fan. Ranked by Feedspot in the Top 10 UK Indie Music Blogs of 2025. It's arcticreviews.co.uk if you want to read some stuff.
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· Apr 17
40 Best UK Indie Music Blogs and Websites To Follow in 2025
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So, I erm..appear to have been voted 10th best UK Indie Music Blog for 2025 by Feedspot.
Which is nice, obviously.
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Which is nice, obviously.
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An absolutely fabulous neo-soul song. If that's your bag, treat yourself... #musicsky
100 Greatest Songs of the 20's So Far #25 Thee Sacred Souls - Can I Call You Rose
100 Greatest Songs of the 20’s So Far #25 Thee Sacred Souls – Can I Call You Rose
Released: 2020 If we want it so much, can the past really ever come back? Some people want it to happen for all the wrong reasons of course, a reverse engineering of society and culture that suits their prejudiced worldview. But there is a better way than that. Thee Sacred Souls know it. Josh Lane, Sal Samano and Alec Garcia met in San Diego and together write songs which put old sounds on a pedestal without worshiping them, their music an implicit recognition that you can copy anything - but without heart, a copy is still only a copy.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
An absolutely fabulous neo-soul song. If that's your bag, treat yourself... #musicsky
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Fucked the blog over completely. Thanks, bot.
November 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Fucked the blog over completely. Thanks, bot.
Pavey Ark – More Time, More Speed review
Pavey Ark are more of a thing than some people. They began as a solo project for Neil Thomas, who after a couple of false starts began riding the non-existent wave of East Yorkshire Americana, releasing Close Your Eyes And Think of Nothing in 2020 to a…
Pavey Ark are more of a thing than some people. They began as a solo project for Neil Thomas, who after a couple of false starts began riding the non-existent wave of East Yorkshire Americana, releasing Close Your Eyes And Think of Nothing in 2020 to a…
Pavey Ark – More Time, More Speed review
Pavey Ark are more of a thing than some people. They began as a solo project for Neil Thomas, who after a couple of false starts began riding the non-existent wave of East Yorkshire Americana, releasing Close Your Eyes And Think of Nothing in 2020 to a somewhat bemused public. It's follow up has been a very long time in the making for a number of reasons, not least of which being that over time the collective has been adding instruments and people who play them, the most recent of which has been a horn section.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Pavey Ark – More Time, More Speed review
Pavey Ark are more of a thing than some people. They began as a solo project for Neil Thomas, who after a couple of false starts began riding the non-existent wave of East Yorkshire Americana, releasing Close Your Eyes And Think of Nothing in 2020 to a…
Pavey Ark are more of a thing than some people. They began as a solo project for Neil Thomas, who after a couple of false starts began riding the non-existent wave of East Yorkshire Americana, releasing Close Your Eyes And Think of Nothing in 2020 to a…
Suicide linked to gambling causes the deaths of hundreds of young men a year - and yet we allow advertising to mercilessly exploit them and accept their worthless concessions on messaging. It's absolutely vile.
And no, I'm not saying you can't have a sweep on the National 🙄.
And no, I'm not saying you can't have a sweep on the National 🙄.
A billion-pound jump in gambling income in a single year is not a success story — it’s a warning. We need stronger taxes and urgent action to protect people from an industry built on addiction.
#PublicHealth #EconomicJustice
#PublicHealth #EconomicJustice
November 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Suicide linked to gambling causes the deaths of hundreds of young men a year - and yet we allow advertising to mercilessly exploit them and accept their worthless concessions on messaging. It's absolutely vile.
And no, I'm not saying you can't have a sweep on the National 🙄.
And no, I'm not saying you can't have a sweep on the National 🙄.
Lots of commentary on the #budget this morning - like I imagine many fair minded people, I don’t mind paying more in tax if public services improve and there’s more opportunity for young people. Oh, and American corporations pay their share.
November 26, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Lots of commentary on the #budget this morning - like I imagine many fair minded people, I don’t mind paying more in tax if public services improve and there’s more opportunity for young people. Oh, and American corporations pay their share.
Take That
Things that need taxing in the #budget
Online petitions
Podcasts
Shops that only sell bottles of Prime
People who go through red lights at junctions
Dry robes
Online petitions
Podcasts
Shops that only sell bottles of Prime
People who go through red lights at junctions
Dry robes
November 26, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Take That
Remembering Nick Drake. #musicsky arcticreviews.co.uk/2022/12/11/1...
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #11 Nick Drake – Hazy Jane I
Released: 1971 One of the most surprising aspects of Nick Drake’s lasting posthumous success is that there is so little with which to tie him into the modern world; cursed by an incredible se…
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November 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Remembering Nick Drake. #musicsky arcticreviews.co.uk/2022/12/11/1...
You can *even* read about their excellent album if you fancy it #musicsky arcticreviews.co.uk/2025/10/17/b...
Brògeal – Tuesday Paper Club review
Let’s bless the mavericks. Let’s celebrate the rogues. Let’s take time to salute the people who we would never dare to be, but aspire to being all the same. In such a regimented, …
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November 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
You can *even* read about their excellent album if you fancy it #musicsky arcticreviews.co.uk/2025/10/17/b...
Brògeal at the Brude tonight. A slightly sketchy cover of There She Goes, but very lively down the front at the end.
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Brògeal at the Brude tonight. A slightly sketchy cover of There She Goes, but very lively down the front at the end.
100 Greatest Songs of the 20’s So Far #23 Cardi B ft. Megan Thee Stallion – WAP
Released: 2020 The argument about what pop fundamentally is and isn't will rage on for as long as it exists. If you want to play it straight down the line then WAP is popular - currently around the 1.5 billion streams…
Released: 2020 The argument about what pop fundamentally is and isn't will rage on for as long as it exists. If you want to play it straight down the line then WAP is popular - currently around the 1.5 billion streams…
100 Greatest Songs of the 20’s So Far #23 Cardi B ft. Megan Thee Stallion – WAP
Released: 2020 The argument about what pop fundamentally is and isn't will rage on for as long as it exists. If you want to play it straight down the line then WAP is popular - currently around the 1.5 billion streams mark give or take, but if as a purist it's all about audience then quite clearly, it all depends on what you perceive pop's audience to be.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
100 Greatest Songs of the 20’s So Far #23 Cardi B ft. Megan Thee Stallion – WAP
Released: 2020 The argument about what pop fundamentally is and isn't will rage on for as long as it exists. If you want to play it straight down the line then WAP is popular - currently around the 1.5 billion streams…
Released: 2020 The argument about what pop fundamentally is and isn't will rage on for as long as it exists. If you want to play it straight down the line then WAP is popular - currently around the 1.5 billion streams…
Just sign up, chaps.
As someone who’s suffered from this twice in the last 6 years I can assure you that you’re indeed a life saver as is anyone who donates blood 👏🏻👏🏻
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Just sign up, chaps.
Blood Transfusion Service sent a thank you video filmed with a kid with a rare form on anaemia and if you need me I'll be sobbing in the corner for the next five minutes.
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Blood Transfusion Service sent a thank you video filmed with a kid with a rare form on anaemia and if you need me I'll be sobbing in the corner for the next five minutes.
The Defence’s request for a 10 year ban was denied.
WY Police statement: "A 61 year old man was arrested on suspicion of an offence under the Football (Offences) Act 1961 – going into an area adjacent to the playing area at the Leeds V Aston Villa game on Sunday 23 November. He has been issued with a caution."
#lufc
#lufc
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The Defence’s request for a 10 year ban was denied.
No wonder we were interested.
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
No wonder we were interested.
Released on this date in 1992, Bizarre II The Pharcyde by The Pharcyde #musicsky arcticreviews.co.uk/2021/09/22/1...
100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #38 The Pharcyde – Soul Flower (Remix)
Released: 1992 About the time Rodney King was being dragged out of his car there wasn’t much peace, love or understanding on the West Coast, no pacifist Daisy Age or Native Tongues talking ab…
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November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Released on this date in 1992, Bizarre II The Pharcyde by The Pharcyde #musicsky arcticreviews.co.uk/2021/09/22/1...
Just been giving blood like a ruddy hero *again*
Just look at the free scran!
Just look at the free scran!
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Just been giving blood like a ruddy hero *again*
Just look at the free scran!
Just look at the free scran!
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Midlake – A Bridge To Far review
Before they set to work on their sixth album, Midlake as a collective had a band meeting. Amongst the topics for discussion it seemed were fundamental principles; singer Eric Pulido revealing afterwards "I wrote (the album’s first single) The Ghouls after a…
Before they set to work on their sixth album, Midlake as a collective had a band meeting. Amongst the topics for discussion it seemed were fundamental principles; singer Eric Pulido revealing afterwards "I wrote (the album’s first single) The Ghouls after a…
Midlake – A Bridge To Far review
Before they set to work on their sixth album, Midlake as a collective had a band meeting. Amongst the topics for discussion it seemed were fundamental principles; singer Eric Pulido revealing afterwards "I wrote (the album’s first single) The Ghouls after a conversation within our camp about everyone’s respective goals." The desired approach to him anyway seemed to be clear, a job where "The temptation to demonize the realities or challenges that exist and yet to face them head on and create something extraordinary."
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November 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Midlake – A Bridge To Far review
Before they set to work on their sixth album, Midlake as a collective had a band meeting. Amongst the topics for discussion it seemed were fundamental principles; singer Eric Pulido revealing afterwards "I wrote (the album’s first single) The Ghouls after a…
Before they set to work on their sixth album, Midlake as a collective had a band meeting. Amongst the topics for discussion it seemed were fundamental principles; singer Eric Pulido revealing afterwards "I wrote (the album’s first single) The Ghouls after a…
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
An absolutely outstanding ambient album. If that's your bag, recommended. open.spotify.com/album/55mLyi...
The Dead Texan
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November 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
An absolutely outstanding ambient album. If that's your bag, recommended. open.spotify.com/album/55mLyi...
It’s a masterclass.
November 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
It’s a masterclass.
*Drums fingers on table*
November 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
*Drums fingers on table*
A very deserved winner. #musicsky arcticreviews.co.uk/2017/12/02/j...
November 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
A very deserved winner. #musicsky arcticreviews.co.uk/2017/12/02/j...
Released on this date in 1979, Walking On The Moon by The Police #musicsky arcticreviews.co.uk/2022/07/01/1...
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #55 The Police – Walking On the Moon
Released: 1979 Whilst you could spend hours debating what was punk and what was not, The Police were definitely not punk. Formed out of what could be classed as either hippie detritus and/or the mo…
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November 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Released on this date in 1979, Walking On The Moon by The Police #musicsky arcticreviews.co.uk/2022/07/01/1...
I haven’t seen anything this rattled since the 1956 cup final.
DF: "He represents so many skills we want for Leeds United. He works his socks off, gives everything for the team, relentless work, not perfect, but gives always everything. It's more than unfair. In his last three performances, he was always covering 13km per game." #lufc
November 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I haven’t seen anything this rattled since the 1956 cup final.