Ricky McAllister
@rickymca.bsky.social
Husband to Jenny - dad to Ethan, Holly, Micah, Benji & Annie - Man U fan for 40 years - Music & film - coffee - Reader of books but a failed novelist - SEN teacher - lover of a fine stout/porter.
#nowreading #BookSky
Shadow Ticket | Thomas Pynchon
After the hugely disappointing previous book I read, I’m hoping what is (possibly) Pynchon’s final novel will help restore my faith in humanity (and literature)😁
Shadow Ticket | Thomas Pynchon
After the hugely disappointing previous book I read, I’m hoping what is (possibly) Pynchon’s final novel will help restore my faith in humanity (and literature)😁
January 21, 2026 at 8:53 PM
#nowreading #BookSky
Shadow Ticket | Thomas Pynchon
After the hugely disappointing previous book I read, I’m hoping what is (possibly) Pynchon’s final novel will help restore my faith in humanity (and literature)😁
Shadow Ticket | Thomas Pynchon
After the hugely disappointing previous book I read, I’m hoping what is (possibly) Pynchon’s final novel will help restore my faith in humanity (and literature)😁
#nowreading #BookSky
Treacle Walker | Alan Garner
This was nominated for the Booker in 2022, so had been looking forward to it. It was a really quick read, a snappy 150 pages.
I also understood roughly 0% of it. Hadn’t the foggiest what was going on at any point.
Treacle Walker | Alan Garner
This was nominated for the Booker in 2022, so had been looking forward to it. It was a really quick read, a snappy 150 pages.
I also understood roughly 0% of it. Hadn’t the foggiest what was going on at any point.
January 21, 2026 at 8:33 PM
#nowreading #BookSky
Treacle Walker | Alan Garner
This was nominated for the Booker in 2022, so had been looking forward to it. It was a really quick read, a snappy 150 pages.
I also understood roughly 0% of it. Hadn’t the foggiest what was going on at any point.
Treacle Walker | Alan Garner
This was nominated for the Booker in 2022, so had been looking forward to it. It was a really quick read, a snappy 150 pages.
I also understood roughly 0% of it. Hadn’t the foggiest what was going on at any point.
January 21, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Show us the last four albums you listened to ⬇️
#last4albums
Sunday evening edition (following a rare collector’s item performance by Man Utd).
#last4albums
Sunday evening edition (following a rare collector’s item performance by Man Utd).
January 18, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Show us the last four albums you listened to ⬇️
#last4albums
Sunday evening edition (following a rare collector’s item performance by Man Utd).
#last4albums
Sunday evening edition (following a rare collector’s item performance by Man Utd).
Attention all Irish shoegaze fans…the mighty Nothing are playing Belfast in April. It’s a really intimate venue so earplugs highly recommended😎
January 18, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Attention all Irish shoegaze fans…the mighty Nothing are playing Belfast in April. It’s a really intimate venue so earplugs highly recommended😎
It used to be I was nervous before a @manutdfc.bsky.social game.
Now it is more like a gut wrenching dread. The next crisis always seems to be around the following corner…it’s exhausting 🥴
Feels a drubbing could be on the cards when you see the lineups.
Now it is more like a gut wrenching dread. The next crisis always seems to be around the following corner…it’s exhausting 🥴
Feels a drubbing could be on the cards when you see the lineups.
January 17, 2026 at 12:03 PM
It used to be I was nervous before a @manutdfc.bsky.social game.
Now it is more like a gut wrenching dread. The next crisis always seems to be around the following corner…it’s exhausting 🥴
Feels a drubbing could be on the cards when you see the lineups.
Now it is more like a gut wrenching dread. The next crisis always seems to be around the following corner…it’s exhausting 🥴
Feels a drubbing could be on the cards when you see the lineups.
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 Cousin
🎤 Wilco
A momentary break from all things Wilco…always time for the mighty Wilco. One of the greatest American bands of the past 30 years for sure.
This is my favourite Wilco album since A Ghost is Born.
💿 Cousin
🎤 Wilco
A momentary break from all things Wilco…always time for the mighty Wilco. One of the greatest American bands of the past 30 years for sure.
This is my favourite Wilco album since A Ghost is Born.
January 16, 2026 at 6:07 PM
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 Cousin
🎤 Wilco
A momentary break from all things Wilco…always time for the mighty Wilco. One of the greatest American bands of the past 30 years for sure.
This is my favourite Wilco album since A Ghost is Born.
💿 Cousin
🎤 Wilco
A momentary break from all things Wilco…always time for the mighty Wilco. One of the greatest American bands of the past 30 years for sure.
This is my favourite Wilco album since A Ghost is Born.
January 15, 2026 at 7:08 PM
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 Daylight Storms
🎤 Air Formation
Hard to believe this is almost 20 years old. Such a wonderful album…the opener Cold Morning is a beast; the title track is huge & closer Before We Forget is a stunner.
What I wouldn’t give for a copy of Near Miss though…😎
💿 Daylight Storms
🎤 Air Formation
Hard to believe this is almost 20 years old. Such a wonderful album…the opener Cold Morning is a beast; the title track is huge & closer Before We Forget is a stunner.
What I wouldn’t give for a copy of Near Miss though…😎
January 14, 2026 at 8:35 PM
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 Daylight Storms
🎤 Air Formation
Hard to believe this is almost 20 years old. Such a wonderful album…the opener Cold Morning is a beast; the title track is huge & closer Before We Forget is a stunner.
What I wouldn’t give for a copy of Near Miss though…😎
💿 Daylight Storms
🎤 Air Formation
Hard to believe this is almost 20 years old. Such a wonderful album…the opener Cold Morning is a beast; the title track is huge & closer Before We Forget is a stunner.
What I wouldn’t give for a copy of Near Miss though…😎
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 Collide
🎤 The Asteroid No 4
Delighted to finally have a physical copy of Collide in my hands…it is sounding really good. It is making for great company, front to back, with a few standouts.
Opener Ghost Garden is up there with my favourite AN4 tracks.
💿 Collide
🎤 The Asteroid No 4
Delighted to finally have a physical copy of Collide in my hands…it is sounding really good. It is making for great company, front to back, with a few standouts.
Opener Ghost Garden is up there with my favourite AN4 tracks.
January 14, 2026 at 6:06 PM
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 Collide
🎤 The Asteroid No 4
Delighted to finally have a physical copy of Collide in my hands…it is sounding really good. It is making for great company, front to back, with a few standouts.
Opener Ghost Garden is up there with my favourite AN4 tracks.
💿 Collide
🎤 The Asteroid No 4
Delighted to finally have a physical copy of Collide in my hands…it is sounding really good. It is making for great company, front to back, with a few standouts.
Opener Ghost Garden is up there with my favourite AN4 tracks.
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 How Lucky to be Somebody
🎤 Little Oso
A little gem of an album…glorious, melodic indie-pop. This cracker from 2025 is fully deserving of a much wider audience.
💿 How Lucky to be Somebody
🎤 Little Oso
A little gem of an album…glorious, melodic indie-pop. This cracker from 2025 is fully deserving of a much wider audience.
January 12, 2026 at 7:39 PM
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 How Lucky to be Somebody
🎤 Little Oso
A little gem of an album…glorious, melodic indie-pop. This cracker from 2025 is fully deserving of a much wider audience.
💿 How Lucky to be Somebody
🎤 Little Oso
A little gem of an album…glorious, melodic indie-pop. This cracker from 2025 is fully deserving of a much wider audience.
Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert & the band or artist.
The Prodigy | The King’s Hall | Belfast | 6th December 1996
At the height of their Breathe/Firestarter fame…have to say they freaked the life out of 16 y/o me that evening.
Unfortunately the venue no longer exists.
The Prodigy | The King’s Hall | Belfast | 6th December 1996
At the height of their Breathe/Firestarter fame…have to say they freaked the life out of 16 y/o me that evening.
Unfortunately the venue no longer exists.
January 11, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert & the band or artist.
The Prodigy | The King’s Hall | Belfast | 6th December 1996
At the height of their Breathe/Firestarter fame…have to say they freaked the life out of 16 y/o me that evening.
Unfortunately the venue no longer exists.
The Prodigy | The King’s Hall | Belfast | 6th December 1996
At the height of their Breathe/Firestarter fame…have to say they freaked the life out of 16 y/o me that evening.
Unfortunately the venue no longer exists.
So I heard!
Along the same kind of lines, have you read this?
Along the same kind of lines, have you read this?
January 10, 2026 at 10:26 AM
So I heard!
Along the same kind of lines, have you read this?
Along the same kind of lines, have you read this?
#nowreading #BookSky
These Borrowed Hills | Scott Preston
This is a really impressive first novel. The tale itself is viscerally written, edgy and violent but shot through with a pitch perfect dose of black humour.
Really, really enjoying it.
These Borrowed Hills | Scott Preston
This is a really impressive first novel. The tale itself is viscerally written, edgy and violent but shot through with a pitch perfect dose of black humour.
Really, really enjoying it.
January 10, 2026 at 9:34 AM
#nowreading #BookSky
These Borrowed Hills | Scott Preston
This is a really impressive first novel. The tale itself is viscerally written, edgy and violent but shot through with a pitch perfect dose of black humour.
Really, really enjoying it.
These Borrowed Hills | Scott Preston
This is a really impressive first novel. The tale itself is viscerally written, edgy and violent but shot through with a pitch perfect dose of black humour.
Really, really enjoying it.
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 Atta
🎤 Sigur Ros
‘Minimal music played maximally’.
The only SR I didn’t own (& had never actually listened to) so couldn’t resist at an absolute bargain price.
It hasn’t disappointed. Some of Atta is astonishingly beautiful.
💿 Atta
🎤 Sigur Ros
‘Minimal music played maximally’.
The only SR I didn’t own (& had never actually listened to) so couldn’t resist at an absolute bargain price.
It hasn’t disappointed. Some of Atta is astonishingly beautiful.
January 8, 2026 at 7:54 PM
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 Atta
🎤 Sigur Ros
‘Minimal music played maximally’.
The only SR I didn’t own (& had never actually listened to) so couldn’t resist at an absolute bargain price.
It hasn’t disappointed. Some of Atta is astonishingly beautiful.
💿 Atta
🎤 Sigur Ros
‘Minimal music played maximally’.
The only SR I didn’t own (& had never actually listened to) so couldn’t resist at an absolute bargain price.
It hasn’t disappointed. Some of Atta is astonishingly beautiful.
January 7, 2026 at 8:04 PM
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 Sprained Ankle
🎤 Julien Baker
Her debut album is still a raw, heartbreaking listen. It’s really spare stuff: little besides her guitar, her voice & a little reverb. Confessional songwriting at its finest.
Paste Mag has called it 1 of the best indie-folk albums of all time.
💿 Sprained Ankle
🎤 Julien Baker
Her debut album is still a raw, heartbreaking listen. It’s really spare stuff: little besides her guitar, her voice & a little reverb. Confessional songwriting at its finest.
Paste Mag has called it 1 of the best indie-folk albums of all time.
January 5, 2026 at 8:35 PM
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 Sprained Ankle
🎤 Julien Baker
Her debut album is still a raw, heartbreaking listen. It’s really spare stuff: little besides her guitar, her voice & a little reverb. Confessional songwriting at its finest.
Paste Mag has called it 1 of the best indie-folk albums of all time.
💿 Sprained Ankle
🎤 Julien Baker
Her debut album is still a raw, heartbreaking listen. It’s really spare stuff: little besides her guitar, her voice & a little reverb. Confessional songwriting at its finest.
Paste Mag has called it 1 of the best indie-folk albums of all time.
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 Blue Valentine
🎤 Tom Waits
The football team I love is in turmoil, yet again, but if anyone can lift the despondent mood, the great Tom Waits can.
It’s not his most loved or widely acclaimed album, but it absolutely holds up. Great to lie back and soak up.
💿 Blue Valentine
🎤 Tom Waits
The football team I love is in turmoil, yet again, but if anyone can lift the despondent mood, the great Tom Waits can.
It’s not his most loved or widely acclaimed album, but it absolutely holds up. Great to lie back and soak up.
January 5, 2026 at 7:27 PM
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 Blue Valentine
🎤 Tom Waits
The football team I love is in turmoil, yet again, but if anyone can lift the despondent mood, the great Tom Waits can.
It’s not his most loved or widely acclaimed album, but it absolutely holds up. Great to lie back and soak up.
💿 Blue Valentine
🎤 Tom Waits
The football team I love is in turmoil, yet again, but if anyone can lift the despondent mood, the great Tom Waits can.
It’s not his most loved or widely acclaimed album, but it absolutely holds up. Great to lie back and soak up.
Show us the last four albums you listened to ⬇️
#last4albums
‘Not quite ready to go back to work tomorrow’ edition.
#last4albums
‘Not quite ready to go back to work tomorrow’ edition.
January 4, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Show us the last four albums you listened to ⬇️
#last4albums
‘Not quite ready to go back to work tomorrow’ edition.
#last4albums
‘Not quite ready to go back to work tomorrow’ edition.
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 Hail to the Thief
🎤 Radiohead
I’ve a funny relationship with this. Feel like it needed an editor…I definitely skip more tracks on this than their other albums. Could live without Young Blood, Myxomatosis & Punchup.
On the other hand, The Gloaming is one I have come to love.
💿 Hail to the Thief
🎤 Radiohead
I’ve a funny relationship with this. Feel like it needed an editor…I definitely skip more tracks on this than their other albums. Could live without Young Blood, Myxomatosis & Punchup.
On the other hand, The Gloaming is one I have come to love.
January 3, 2026 at 10:42 PM
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 Hail to the Thief
🎤 Radiohead
I’ve a funny relationship with this. Feel like it needed an editor…I definitely skip more tracks on this than their other albums. Could live without Young Blood, Myxomatosis & Punchup.
On the other hand, The Gloaming is one I have come to love.
💿 Hail to the Thief
🎤 Radiohead
I’ve a funny relationship with this. Feel like it needed an editor…I definitely skip more tracks on this than their other albums. Could live without Young Blood, Myxomatosis & Punchup.
On the other hand, The Gloaming is one I have come to love.
#5DebutAlbums9094
Early research indicates my 5 will come from this lot.
2 are definites…with the remaining 7 to slug it out with many others I have undoubtedly forgotten about…
Early research indicates my 5 will come from this lot.
2 are definites…with the remaining 7 to slug it out with many others I have undoubtedly forgotten about…
January 3, 2026 at 10:03 PM
#5DebutAlbums9094
Early research indicates my 5 will come from this lot.
2 are definites…with the remaining 7 to slug it out with many others I have undoubtedly forgotten about…
Early research indicates my 5 will come from this lot.
2 are definites…with the remaining 7 to slug it out with many others I have undoubtedly forgotten about…
Show us the last four albums you listened to
#last4albums
New Year’s Eve edition.
Health and happiness to you all in 2026.
#last4albums
New Year’s Eve edition.
Health and happiness to you all in 2026.
December 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Show us the last four albums you listened to
#last4albums
New Year’s Eve edition.
Health and happiness to you all in 2026.
#last4albums
New Year’s Eve edition.
Health and happiness to you all in 2026.
#last4albums #MusicSky
‘Throughly enjoying the Christmas holiday now that Christmas Day is over’ edition😊
‘Throughly enjoying the Christmas holiday now that Christmas Day is over’ edition😊
December 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
#last4albums #MusicSky
‘Throughly enjoying the Christmas holiday now that Christmas Day is over’ edition😊
‘Throughly enjoying the Christmas holiday now that Christmas Day is over’ edition😊
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 What A Pleasure
🎤 Beach Fossils
Obviously the band would go to hit new & genuinely wonderful heights with Bunny.
This isn’t near that in terms of quality but there are fine moments on this. It’s an interesting & diverting listen for a band with a few gears to go through yet.
💿 What A Pleasure
🎤 Beach Fossils
Obviously the band would go to hit new & genuinely wonderful heights with Bunny.
This isn’t near that in terms of quality but there are fine moments on this. It’s an interesting & diverting listen for a band with a few gears to go through yet.
December 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 What A Pleasure
🎤 Beach Fossils
Obviously the band would go to hit new & genuinely wonderful heights with Bunny.
This isn’t near that in terms of quality but there are fine moments on this. It’s an interesting & diverting listen for a band with a few gears to go through yet.
💿 What A Pleasure
🎤 Beach Fossils
Obviously the band would go to hit new & genuinely wonderful heights with Bunny.
This isn’t near that in terms of quality but there are fine moments on this. It’s an interesting & diverting listen for a band with a few gears to go through yet.