Aka Brompton Will
@billydods.bsky.social
The original Milky Bar kid.
Only just heard of passing of Jimmy Cliff. ‘Many Rivers To Cross’ an impeccable bit of songwriting, doesn’t get much better than that. RIP.
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Only just heard of passing of Jimmy Cliff. ‘Many Rivers To Cross’ an impeccable bit of songwriting, doesn’t get much better than that. RIP.
This week’s listening.
November 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This week’s listening.
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The #Fellini Masterpiece!
Premiere: NIGHTS OF CABIRIA (1957) 9:05pm #GiuliettaMasina #FrancoisPerier #FrancaMarzi Italian comedy-drama with English #TPTVsubtitles
Premiere: NIGHTS OF CABIRIA (1957) 9:05pm #GiuliettaMasina #FrancoisPerier #FrancaMarzi Italian comedy-drama with English #TPTVsubtitles
November 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The #Fellini Masterpiece!
Premiere: NIGHTS OF CABIRIA (1957) 9:05pm #GiuliettaMasina #FrancoisPerier #FrancaMarzi Italian comedy-drama with English #TPTVsubtitles
Premiere: NIGHTS OF CABIRIA (1957) 9:05pm #GiuliettaMasina #FrancoisPerier #FrancaMarzi Italian comedy-drama with English #TPTVsubtitles
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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The BBC Scotland commentary for Kenny McLean’s halfway line goal is glorious. Stuff of dreams. 🔥
Congratulations #Scotland, see you at the World Cup.
Congratulations #Scotland, see you at the World Cup.
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The BBC Scotland commentary for Kenny McLean’s halfway line goal is glorious. Stuff of dreams. 🔥
Congratulations #Scotland, see you at the World Cup.
Congratulations #Scotland, see you at the World Cup.
Not that I need an excuse, but this is a good reason to relisten to it.
Four decades back a major label released a debut album that sounded like almost nothing on earth while still sounding incredibly familiar. Our man in San Francisco Ned Raggett takes stock of it all
Happy Birthday to the JAMC's Psychocandy, which turns 40 today!
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Happy Birthday to the JAMC's Psychocandy, which turns 40 today!
buff.ly/nflmjN6
November 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Not that I need an excuse, but this is a good reason to relisten to it.
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Ten years ago, Storm Abigail became the first UK storm with a name. Since then, clear warnings have saved countless lives. Here’s how it works and some of the biggest storms we’ve seen since then.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Ten years of naming storms and saving lives
The Met Office’s storm-naming scheme marks its tenth year, transforming how Britain prepares for extreme weather
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Ten years ago, Storm Abigail became the first UK storm with a name. Since then, clear warnings have saved countless lives. Here’s how it works and some of the biggest storms we’ve seen since then.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
This week’s listening.
November 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This week’s listening.
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Long, but stick with it: this is a brilliant, inspiring story and it moves on multiple levels.
A heavy music festival in Blackfeet Nation this summer was abut more than just music – it was a protective ceremony to shelter Indigenous youth from suicidal distress.
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Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
www.hcn.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Long, but stick with it: this is a brilliant, inspiring story and it moves on multiple levels.
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I've been thinking about the challenges of rendering beauty & joy from parts of ourselves that can cause difficulties and misunderstandings. So it's perfect timing for JJJJJerome Ellis to do exactly this with their stuttering! If you have any interest in jazz that opens your heart, you must listen.
Vesper Sparrow, by JJJJJerome Ellis
6 track album
jjjjjerome.bandcamp.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I've been thinking about the challenges of rendering beauty & joy from parts of ourselves that can cause difficulties and misunderstandings. So it's perfect timing for JJJJJerome Ellis to do exactly this with their stuttering! If you have any interest in jazz that opens your heart, you must listen.
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November 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Ah the 1970s.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
November 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Ah the 1970s.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
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I made this meme 11 years ago today. knew it’d come in handy again.
November 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I made this meme 11 years ago today. knew it’d come in handy again.
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Going to check this out, not least to find out what we Brits had instead. Comic strip featuring George Formby and his little stick of Blackpool rock hopefully.
New episode of the podcast just went up!
www.patreon.com/posts/143190...
This one on the Tijuana Bibles. 1 hour 40 minutes, and my best work so far, I think. An everything-and-the-kitchen-sink episode, since once you get going on the Bibles there's a lot that is relevant to it.
www.patreon.com/posts/143190...
This one on the Tijuana Bibles. 1 hour 40 minutes, and my best work so far, I think. An everything-and-the-kitchen-sink episode, since once you get going on the Bibles there's a lot that is relevant to it.
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Going to check this out, not least to find out what we Brits had instead. Comic strip featuring George Formby and his little stick of Blackpool rock hopefully.
This week’s listening.
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This week’s listening.
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The Parisianer is a temporary exhibition showcasing covers of the fictional magazine The Parisianer, inspired by the American magazine The New Yorker. A book compiling the covers was published in 2017 #bikesky #bici #bicycle #bike #fahrrad #paris #illustration #art #design #cycling #bikelife 🚲 🚴♂️
November 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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The new Rosalía album is absolutely spectacular. Yet another talented young woman refusing to take the easy path through a pop career, this has all the same ambition as Janelle Monáe, Kate Bush, Beyoncé & Bjork. Dripping with potty mouthed religious imagery, this is an instant masterpiece.
November 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The new Rosalía album is absolutely spectacular. Yet another talented young woman refusing to take the easy path through a pop career, this has all the same ambition as Janelle Monáe, Kate Bush, Beyoncé & Bjork. Dripping with potty mouthed religious imagery, this is an instant masterpiece.
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
Clicked on a film on Amazon Prime and get a 3 minute advert before it’s even started. 😠
November 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Clicked on a film on Amazon Prime and get a 3 minute advert before it’s even started. 😠
November 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This week’s listening.
November 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This week’s listening.
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The Week in Music 🎧
Classical - Brahms, Scelsi, Glass
Dance/Pop - Disclosure, AlunaGeorge
House/Tech - Vynehall, Talabot, Dusky
R&B/Pop - Tyla, Rosalia, Twigs
Jazz - DeJohnette, Pharoah
Electronic - Autechre, Loula Yorke
Icons - Bjork, Joni, Salif Keita
Your faves this week?
Classical - Brahms, Scelsi, Glass
Dance/Pop - Disclosure, AlunaGeorge
House/Tech - Vynehall, Talabot, Dusky
R&B/Pop - Tyla, Rosalia, Twigs
Jazz - DeJohnette, Pharoah
Electronic - Autechre, Loula Yorke
Icons - Bjork, Joni, Salif Keita
Your faves this week?
November 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The Week in Music 🎧
Classical - Brahms, Scelsi, Glass
Dance/Pop - Disclosure, AlunaGeorge
House/Tech - Vynehall, Talabot, Dusky
R&B/Pop - Tyla, Rosalia, Twigs
Jazz - DeJohnette, Pharoah
Electronic - Autechre, Loula Yorke
Icons - Bjork, Joni, Salif Keita
Your faves this week?
Classical - Brahms, Scelsi, Glass
Dance/Pop - Disclosure, AlunaGeorge
House/Tech - Vynehall, Talabot, Dusky
R&B/Pop - Tyla, Rosalia, Twigs
Jazz - DeJohnette, Pharoah
Electronic - Autechre, Loula Yorke
Icons - Bjork, Joni, Salif Keita
Your faves this week?