Tom Welch
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'Might Fugazi finally reform and rescue the Western World from its sorry state like Superman descending from the clouds to violently smack the smug chops of Lex Luther..?'
Quietus Best Of 2025: The Strange World Of… Fugazi
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Quietus Best Of 2025: The Strange World Of… Fugazi
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December 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM
'Might Fugazi finally reform and rescue the Western World from its sorry state like Superman descending from the clouds to violently smack the smug chops of Lex Luther..?'
Quietus Best Of 2025: The Strange World Of… Fugazi
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Quietus Best Of 2025: The Strange World Of… Fugazi
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This Smithsonian piece was another big highlight for me in 2025. 2026 marks 20 years since I dropped out of high school & started on the arts life. It has not been easy at times but after all these years it’s still all I want to do. Lots of work coming in 26, tree music, short stories, heavy drones.
A Brilliant Folk Musician Turned the Natural Sounds of the Blue Ridge Mountains Into Powerful Songs
Daniel Bachman is on a mission to evoke Virginia’s past through strange medleys of sounds
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December 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This Smithsonian piece was another big highlight for me in 2025. 2026 marks 20 years since I dropped out of high school & started on the arts life. It has not been easy at times but after all these years it’s still all I want to do. Lots of work coming in 26, tree music, short stories, heavy drones.
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'In the video, the pair discuss the disastrous 1998 tour of America: "“All any of us were asking of Mark was to stand on that stage for an hour, and sing the songs. That was all we asked of him."'
Watch Stewart Lee Interview The Fall’s Steve Hanley Ahead of New Audiobook
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Watch Stewart Lee Interview The Fall’s Steve Hanley Ahead of New Audiobook
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November 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
'In the video, the pair discuss the disastrous 1998 tour of America: "“All any of us were asking of Mark was to stand on that stage for an hour, and sing the songs. That was all we asked of him."'
Watch Stewart Lee Interview The Fall’s Steve Hanley Ahead of New Audiobook
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Watch Stewart Lee Interview The Fall’s Steve Hanley Ahead of New Audiobook
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RIP Tony Harrison.
Reading 'V' - THE great northern poem of the last 50 years - at 13 years old blew my mind apart.
famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/tony_h...
Reading 'V' - THE great northern poem of the last 50 years - at 13 years old blew my mind apart.
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V - Poem by Tony Harrison
famouspoetsandpoems.com
September 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
RIP Tony Harrison.
Reading 'V' - THE great northern poem of the last 50 years - at 13 years old blew my mind apart.
famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/tony_h...
Reading 'V' - THE great northern poem of the last 50 years - at 13 years old blew my mind apart.
famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/tony_h...
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'Relocates her Welsh Primitive to the Great Plains, evoking a stroll taken across the dusty landscape lit by the failing light of an aging sun...'
#GweniferRaymond - Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark is a Quietus Album of the Month for September 2025
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#GweniferRaymond - Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark is a Quietus Album of the Month for September 2025
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September 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
'Relocates her Welsh Primitive to the Great Plains, evoking a stroll taken across the dusty landscape lit by the failing light of an aging sun...'
#GweniferRaymond - Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark is a Quietus Album of the Month for September 2025
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#GweniferRaymond - Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark is a Quietus Album of the Month for September 2025
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July 31, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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I had an attempt at getting down some thoughts yesterday about the great Tom Lehrer for @engelsbergideas.bsky.social. His songs are in the DNA of my childhood; finding other people who liked him has always felt a little like some kind of secret handshake. engelsbergideas.com/notebook/tom...
Tom Lehrer dared you to laugh
Clear-sightedness and the absence of self-regard made Tom Lehrer's art unique, exposing the pieties of middle-class America with dash and daring.
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July 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I had an attempt at getting down some thoughts yesterday about the great Tom Lehrer for @engelsbergideas.bsky.social. His songs are in the DNA of my childhood; finding other people who liked him has always felt a little like some kind of secret handshake. engelsbergideas.com/notebook/tom...
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Watch it and marvel at a lost golden age of late night viewing. BFI In Conversation celebrating the magic of Moviedrome with producer Nick Freand Jones, original presenter Alex Cox & fan and Tornado film director John Maclean.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4HE...
Alex Cox and producer Nick Freand Jones on Moviedrome | BFI Q&A
YouTube video by BFI
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July 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Watch it and marvel at a lost golden age of late night viewing. BFI In Conversation celebrating the magic of Moviedrome with producer Nick Freand Jones, original presenter Alex Cox & fan and Tornado film director John Maclean.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4HE...
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Nice interview here with Alex Cox about Moviedrome, and an upcoming season of related films at the BFI Southbank (which I can't stop myself calling the NFT...) www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/a...
Alex Cox on the legacy of Moviedrome, the BBC’s essential cult film slot
Broadcasting a weekly diet of transgressive, iconoclastic cinema into British living rooms, the BBC’s Moviedrome series turned a generation of viewers into adventurous cinephiles. How did it come abou...
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June 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Nice interview here with Alex Cox about Moviedrome, and an upcoming season of related films at the BFI Southbank (which I can't stop myself calling the NFT...) www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/a...
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Happy 45th birthday to Underwater Moonlight!
Nobody wanted what The Soft Boys were selling in 1980, but their superb swan song made them a Velvet Underground for new generations of jangle and psych bands
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Nobody wanted what The Soft Boys were selling in 1980, but their superb swan song made them a Velvet Underground for new generations of jangle and psych bands
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
June 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Happy 45th birthday to Underwater Moonlight!
Nobody wanted what The Soft Boys were selling in 1980, but their superb swan song made them a Velvet Underground for new generations of jangle and psych bands
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Nobody wanted what The Soft Boys were selling in 1980, but their superb swan song made them a Velvet Underground for new generations of jangle and psych bands
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
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Looks like this got re-upped. Most all of the incredible French music program Pop Deux has returned to the Internet Archive. You can see & download them here. I selected one for reference that isnt available anywhere else. Michael Chapman from 1970
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May 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Looks like this got re-upped. Most all of the incredible French music program Pop Deux has returned to the Internet Archive. You can see & download them here. I selected one for reference that isnt available anywhere else. Michael Chapman from 1970
bit.ly/4kc6pF5
bit.ly/4kc6pF5
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One of journalism's greats. I met him again only six months or so ago, in Frome. He carried all the brilliant work he'd done in a lovely kind of calm & openness www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...
Duncan Campbell, celebrated Guardian crime reporter, dies aged 80
Tributes paid to ‘courageous’ journalist who covered police corruption, Rosemary West trial and Hatton Garden heist
www.theguardian.com
May 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
One of journalism's greats. I met him again only six months or so ago, in Frome. He carried all the brilliant work he'd done in a lovely kind of calm & openness www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...
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I'm very pleased and not a little relieved that this fine book is published today by @unboundsocials.bsky.social . It's GOLDENGROVE the fourteenth novel by the great Patrick McCabe.
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Goldengrove a book by Patrick McCabe.
‘Wild, anarchic, and wonderfully head-spinning’ Neil Jordan, award-winning film directorA dark theatrical comedy about the vexed and violent relationship between Britain and Ireland, from twice Booker...
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May 15, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I'm very pleased and not a little relieved that this fine book is published today by @unboundsocials.bsky.social . It's GOLDENGROVE the fourteenth novel by the great Patrick McCabe.
uk.bookshop.org/a/2773/97818...
uk.bookshop.org/a/2773/97818...
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Talk Talk - I Believe in You (1988, Spirit of Eden) youtu.be/16mDl6dlfmE?...
TALK TALK - i believe in you (live)
YouTube video by MrKoreanoMoreno
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May 6, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Talk Talk - I Believe in You (1988, Spirit of Eden) youtu.be/16mDl6dlfmE?...
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Start Mayday right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs9P...
The Watersons "Hal-An-Tow"
YouTube video by lollipopmind
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May 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Start Mayday right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs9P...
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'In 1971, Chapman was booked to support saxophonist #CannonballAdderley. From Chapman’s perspective, he was “going on tour with God”. But these were nervy times in the USA...'
‘New York Ladies’ from Millstone Grit (1973) - The Strange World Of… #MichaelChapman
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‘New York Ladies’ from Millstone Grit (1973) - The Strange World Of… #MichaelChapman
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April 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
'In 1971, Chapman was booked to support saxophonist #CannonballAdderley. From Chapman’s perspective, he was “going on tour with God”. But these were nervy times in the USA...'
‘New York Ladies’ from Millstone Grit (1973) - The Strange World Of… #MichaelChapman
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‘New York Ladies’ from Millstone Grit (1973) - The Strange World Of… #MichaelChapman
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With their banks of synths and the addition of #Thighpaulsandra, Jeremy Allen makes the case for the English space rock band's late period
#Hawkwind - There Is No Space For Us
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#Hawkwind - There Is No Space For Us
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April 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
With their banks of synths and the addition of #Thighpaulsandra, Jeremy Allen makes the case for the English space rock band's late period
#Hawkwind - There Is No Space For Us
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#Hawkwind - There Is No Space For Us
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'A band that combines the twin guitar attack of Television, the hypnotic groove of Neu!, the uber-cool vocal delivery of Lou Reed, the repetition of Philip Glass and the scorching, single-note guitar solos of Neil Young'
#TheFeelies Crazy Rhythms turns 45 today!
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#TheFeelies Crazy Rhythms turns 45 today!
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February 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
'A band that combines the twin guitar attack of Television, the hypnotic groove of Neu!, the uber-cool vocal delivery of Lou Reed, the repetition of Philip Glass and the scorching, single-note guitar solos of Neil Young'
#TheFeelies Crazy Rhythms turns 45 today!
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#TheFeelies Crazy Rhythms turns 45 today!
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My new record Moving Through Light is out next week Friday the 28th. I've got a couple of the tracks up at my bandcamp page for the pre-order. TBH I couldnt be happier with how this one turned out. Hope you enjoy it!
danielbachman.bandcamp.com/album/moving...
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February 21, 2025 at 4:01 AM
My new record Moving Through Light is out next week Friday the 28th. I've got a couple of the tracks up at my bandcamp page for the pre-order. TBH I couldnt be happier with how this one turned out. Hope you enjoy it!
danielbachman.bandcamp.com/album/moving...
danielbachman.bandcamp.com/album/moving...
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I think this recording of The Fall in some ways defines what the band was about. Certainly in my time with the band. Maybe beyond. Wild. Uncontrolled. Thrilling. Every member locked in. @stephenhanley6.bsky.social @hanleypa.bsky.social Craig Scanlon Mark E Smith… m.youtube.com/watch?v=KfYw...
THE FALL new puritan (Peel Session) 1980
YouTube video by SeagreenSerenade
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February 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I think this recording of The Fall in some ways defines what the band was about. Certainly in my time with the band. Maybe beyond. Wild. Uncontrolled. Thrilling. Every member locked in. @stephenhanley6.bsky.social @hanleypa.bsky.social Craig Scanlon Mark E Smith… m.youtube.com/watch?v=KfYw...
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Announcing my new solo guitar record today, Moving Through Light, out February 28 2025 at Bandcamp and streaming services.
January 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Announcing my new solo guitar record today, Moving Through Light, out February 28 2025 at Bandcamp and streaming services.
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James Blackshaw :: Unraveling In Your Hands
aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/11/27/james-blackshaw-unravelling-in-your-hands
A formidable player then and now, James Blackshaw was considered a fitting heir to first wave Takoma artists like John Fahey and Robbie Basho....
aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/11/27/james-blackshaw-unravelling-in-your-hands
A formidable player then and now, James Blackshaw was considered a fitting heir to first wave Takoma artists like John Fahey and Robbie Basho....
November 27, 2024 at 8:39 PM
James Blackshaw :: Unraveling In Your Hands
aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/11/27/james-blackshaw-unravelling-in-your-hands
A formidable player then and now, James Blackshaw was considered a fitting heir to first wave Takoma artists like John Fahey and Robbie Basho....
aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/11/27/james-blackshaw-unravelling-in-your-hands
A formidable player then and now, James Blackshaw was considered a fitting heir to first wave Takoma artists like John Fahey and Robbie Basho....