Matt Barker

Just clicked on the Kraftwerk tickets link and it asked me to prove I wasn't a robot. Hardly in the spirit of things

Never mind Slow Horses lad, Brookside’s back next month (for one night only)

Hahahaha

Oh that’s cheered me right up ❤️

The Fucking Cunts Literally Treat Us Like Pricks

Brilliant, brilliant piece.

Dungeness pylons

By the time I was living in Liverpool in the late 80s it was all Marillion t-shirts. Brilliant read. I did some work once with Nick Mason and mentioned the whole scally-Floyd thing. “Yes, I heard something about that. I’m guessing it was drug-related.” “Yeah, I’m guessing.”

Quartet of hardbacks bought this week in New York (and hell yeah a toy pizza rat) #NewYork1960sUnderground #AndyWarhol #Edie #TheFactory #TalkingHeads #CBGB #Downtown #VanityFair #CondeNastExpenseAccounts #PizzaRat

Geeking out over the vintage mixing desk onstage at #Stereophonic at Duke of York’s Theatre. The play features a fictional (Meetwood Flac?) Anglo-American, male-female, drug-addled (the actors have lots of lines) mid-70s, five-piece band going into meltdown in the studio. It’s brilliantly done.

Will Sergeant, Weird As Fish

Oh, hope you like it (it’s great, I’m sure you will!)

Have you read Ada Calhoun’s St Marks is Dead? One of my favourite New York books.

I’m definitely going to watch A Thousand Blows (got to love Stephen Graham), but every time I see it advertised anywhere it immediately makes me think of The 400 Blows. Which now I really, really want to watch again (got a dvd copy gathering dust up in the loft somewhere)

From new Cafe Royal Books photozine “The Velvet Underground, New York 1965–66”, by Adam Ritchie. Never get bored of looking at photos of the Velvets, ever since buying Victor Bockris’ Uptight sometime back in the 80s.

Rescue, deffo.

Brian Eno at the British Library tonight, discussing attention, boredom and “what art does”.

No Moor Heroes #punkyachting

The Associates
Fire Engines
Aztec Camera
Paul Quinn & The Independent Group
Scars

Brilliant photo!

Simple Minds. That Alan McGhee line about preferring them “when they thought they were German” is great but then you think “yeah, but what about Promised You A Miracle?” All got a bit meh later, but some of the early 80s stuff still sounds good (especially after a couple of glasses).

Pretty appalling photo of Kevin Cummins I quickly took during his very entertaining talk at the Iconic Images Gallery, London, tonight

Had a few copies of this over the years, most recently one signed by the great Lenny Kaye

I built these, can you tell? 😂
#jazzmaster

Hahahaha, brilliant!

Blinded By The Fairy Light #xmasbrucespringsteen

Just got the lovely vinyl issue of @bunnymen.com’s What Are You Going To Do With Your Life?, which comes with a numbered CD single of Rust. And I am Number Six. Puts on Patrick McGoohan voice: “Who is Number One?”

I can see the TV adaptation now… Thanks Chris

Have to be honest, I’ve never really bothered with graphic novels, but loved this. Brings back lots of memories of living in late 1980s Liverpool. Thanks @thechrisshepherd.bsky.social

The book Operation Julie by Golygydd Lyn Ebenezer (as in “Julie’s Been Working For The Drug Squad”) is worth hunting down.