DavidMcKenna
@davidmckenna.bsky.social
Rockfort, Concrete Gazebo, Personal Reasons. He/Him
https://www.mixcloud.com/ROCKFORT/
https://thequietus.com/writer/david-mckenna/
https://concretegazebo.bandcamp.com/
https://www.mixcloud.com/ROCKFORT/
https://thequietus.com/writer/david-mckenna/
https://concretegazebo.bandcamp.com/
A few days before my birthday, how kind!
Bongo Joe Records 10 Year Anniversary at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social - January 23rd and 24th
Friday - Kwake Bass, Meril Wubslin, Ayana, Marysia Osu and Anja Ngozi
Saturday - malagasy guitar legend Damily, Cyril Cyril and Bongo Joe DJs
Tickets: link.dice.fm/M6108b88f321
Friday - Kwake Bass, Meril Wubslin, Ayana, Marysia Osu and Anja Ngozi
Saturday - malagasy guitar legend Damily, Cyril Cyril and Bongo Joe DJs
Tickets: link.dice.fm/M6108b88f321
November 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A few days before my birthday, how kind!
I always think I'm going to enjoy drawing up my end-of-year list for Rockfort and then remember that it's actually a difficult and distressing process
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I always think I'm going to enjoy drawing up my end-of-year list for Rockfort and then remember that it's actually a difficult and distressing process
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The Israeli military’s genocide isn’t over, it’s expanding.
The Israeli government has violated the truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killing over 342 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office, including 28 Palestinians in the past three days.
The Israeli government has violated the truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killing over 342 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office, including 28 Palestinians in the past three days.
November 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The Israeli military’s genocide isn’t over, it’s expanding.
The Israeli government has violated the truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killing over 342 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office, including 28 Palestinians in the past three days.
The Israeli government has violated the truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killing over 342 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office, including 28 Palestinians in the past three days.
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Can’t wait for the inevitable overlong, self-serving Right Hand Files post about this and why dinner with proud bigots “makes the celestial spheres hum within us, inviting a greater understanding of awe” or some bullshit.
just two cool guys looking normal and alive, like humans
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Can’t wait for the inevitable overlong, self-serving Right Hand Files post about this and why dinner with proud bigots “makes the celestial spheres hum within us, inviting a greater understanding of awe” or some bullshit.
Tonight's Rockfort on @resonancefm.bsky.social at 19.30 (GMT) features Société Étrange (pictured), Ludu Du, NCY Milky Band, Modestine, Ioa Beduneau and JS Donny
November 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Tonight's Rockfort on @resonancefm.bsky.social at 19.30 (GMT) features Société Étrange (pictured), Ludu Du, NCY Milky Band, Modestine, Ioa Beduneau and JS Donny
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This gets more extraordinary by the day.
November 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
This gets more extraordinary by the day.
youtu.be/-IbqOhemCmE?... Not a pisstake though
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
youtu.be/-IbqOhemCmE?... Not a pisstake though
Nice!
Armande Altaï - J'aimerais Devenir Une Fée [France - Abstract, Baroque, Chanson, Experimental Jazz] (1979)
https://redd.it/lxhfje
https://youtu.be/_7NrDWQf7_c
https://redd.it/lxhfje
https://youtu.be/_7NrDWQf7_c
Armande Altaï - J'aimerais Devenir Une Fée [France - Abstract, Baroque, Chanson, Experimental Jazz] (1979)
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Nice!
I think I'm appreciating Absolutely Fabulous more now than when I first watched it. Absolutely brutal youtu.be/mjNcV0KAOkQ?...
"Oh for God's sake just die!" from AbFab
YouTube video by Jerry Fisher
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I think I'm appreciating Absolutely Fabulous more now than when I first watched it. Absolutely brutal youtu.be/mjNcV0KAOkQ?...
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Israel cannot break ceasefires, they can only “test“ them by killing dozens of people
November 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Israel cannot break ceasefires, they can only “test“ them by killing dozens of people
Peter Doig & big speakers
November 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Peter Doig & big speakers
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Early Gondry www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R2e...
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Early Gondry www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R2e...
I remember a kid at uni telling me that Resurrection was so good partly because it's structured like a symphony. Now I don't think that's strictly true, but I liked the idea.
Listening to it again now, I don't reckon the swing from the main song to the funky coda will ever not thrill - genuinely feels like some door opening and a new future stretching out beyond, a promise the Roses never truly delivered upon (and maybe that's why the promise of it remains so seductive)
November 21, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I remember a kid at uni telling me that Resurrection was so good partly because it's structured like a symphony. Now I don't think that's strictly true, but I liked the idea.
Brand new album from wonderful Breton weird 'trad' duo Ludu Du out today lududu.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...
Live a l'église St Etienne de Faux la montagne, by Ludu du
14 track album
lududu.bandcamp.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Brand new album from wonderful Breton weird 'trad' duo Ludu Du out today lududu.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...
Love you Pet Shop Boys but a ticket to see The Cure's show at The Troxy cost £56 including a donation to War Child. Charging double that for the 'Obscure' shows is taking the piss
November 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Love you Pet Shop Boys but a ticket to see The Cure's show at The Troxy cost £56 including a donation to War Child. Charging double that for the 'Obscure' shows is taking the piss
Yes! More Vox Populi!
French industrial pioneers Vox Populi! arrive on Dec 5th with a reissue of their 1986 album Sucre De Pastèque. encompassing psychedelic dirges, cosmic drones, hypnotic chants, fractured machine-funk, musique concrete, early industrial & Persian instrumentation
vox-populi.bandcamp.com/album/sucre-...
vox-populi.bandcamp.com/album/sucre-...
November 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Yes! More Vox Populi!
"He said he wasn't interested in hope or change". That's his epitaph right there.
He later denied saying this, but come on, of course he said it
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
November 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
"He said he wasn't interested in hope or change". That's his epitaph right there.
Neighbours bowing out this time with an ACAB (Andrew the cop is a bastard) storyline
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Neighbours bowing out this time with an ACAB (Andrew the cop is a bastard) storyline
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Everything that Rafel Behr complains about - Starmer's lack of principle, his inauthenticity - was known from day one, but he, like the rest of the commentariat, insisted this empty suit was uniquely qualified. They will never admit fault.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Starmer’s squandering of a historic election victory is a tragedy nearing its finale | Rafael Behr
The tactics that gave Labour its huge majority in 2024 were no preparation for government – and the prime minister has proved he has nothing more to offer, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Everything that Rafel Behr complains about - Starmer's lack of principle, his inauthenticity - was known from day one, but he, like the rest of the commentariat, insisted this empty suit was uniquely qualified. They will never admit fault.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Listen back here! www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/ro...
November 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Listen back here! www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/ro...
The Space Lady was magical last night. How magical, you ask? Well she finished with a cover of Imagine and I didn't instantly die of cringe.
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The Space Lady was magical last night. How magical, you ask? Well she finished with a cover of Imagine and I didn't instantly die of cringe.
'Something's Wrong' in particular still sounds astonishing, especially towards the end when it's like you're hearing ghostly bagpipes through the sheets of noise
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!
buff.ly/nflmjN6
Happy Birthday to the JAMC's Psychocandy, which turns 40 today!
buff.ly/nflmjN6
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
'Something's Wrong' in particular still sounds astonishing, especially towards the end when it's like you're hearing ghostly bagpipes through the sheets of noise
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I’m past defending JC, but when Zack Polanski connected his Jewish heritage and family history to Labour’s immigration policy on Newsnight, and the woman next to him scoffed and shook her head, I did find myself thinking, “How interesting that we’re back to that being acceptable again. And so soon.”
I fully agree Old Jezza’s failure to clock the very dodgy mural reflected badly on him. I do however contrast the reaction to this against e.g. Sir Keir cribbing from Enoch Powell, the billowing sixty foot union flag crackdowns and Suella Braverman summoning fash football thugs to attack protestors.
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I’m past defending JC, but when Zack Polanski connected his Jewish heritage and family history to Labour’s immigration policy on Newsnight, and the woman next to him scoffed and shook her head, I did find myself thinking, “How interesting that we’re back to that being acceptable again. And so soon.”
I can't make this one but the next Under The Concrete Gazebo night is at Tony's in Ely on 26th Nov - open, free improv night open to all, electronic / experimental / acoustic / everything in-between www.facebook.com/events/15285...
November 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I can't make this one but the next Under The Concrete Gazebo night is at Tony's in Ely on 26th Nov - open, free improv night open to all, electronic / experimental / acoustic / everything in-between www.facebook.com/events/15285...