The Divine Comedy - Rainy Sunday Afternoon | Neil Hannon's best album in years sports his characteristic wit and orchestral flourishes. But its personal subject matter elevates these songs to something greater
Saint Etienne’s fantabulous new (and LAST! 😭) album International is out at midnight TONIGHT.
Sarah of the actual Saint Ets sat down for a natter about the new album, collaborations, and life leading to this point here 👀
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Hello. The Milky Way and some stars are above me and these images were taken on my phone. #nofilter #stars #milkyway #nightsky #ooh
Where, I ask you, does one find specific-sized replacement chimney pots (one buff, one terracotta)? Jewsons et al don’t have the specs, roofing suppliers are impossible, local salvage yard draws blanks, Bookface marketplacers specify nought, and, ARGH
Please say you're going to start a flow of articles on this. There needs to be awareness at least
It first lists AI helpings from publishers, so people don't click through to the publishers. Then it lists its own YouTube/News content. Then comes Reddit and reader reviews who've posted to Google. Eventually by page whatever come the actual content providers. It's become next to useless
Has there been a book which, chapter by chapter, lists regrets-through-life? Each as an eulogy-chapter, none more vital than any other, but the sum adding up to a whole lot of experience, imbuing personality, and perhaps indulging sentimentality. Thinking of penning one, each chapter on a person
Bore witness to Billie Eilish, wrote things ⤵️
Words wot I rote about a lady called Sabrina ⤵️
Sparks @ Hammersmith Apollo, London | The Mael Brothers celebrate their highest-charting album MAD! with deep dives, hits and reciprocated love
Wrote some words about musics, plz read, thx
Ani DiFranco @ Royal Albert Hall, London | At the start of her European tour, the consummate musician/feminist icon brings together musical numbers with songs old and new
Festival Review: Mighty Hoopla 2025 | Unique, pitch-perfect and vital, the 2025 edition had nostalgia, politics, contemporary edge - and community to the fore
I went to see ABBA Voyage again and wrote about it
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Field Day 2025 and the Battle of Brockwell Park - start of a new era overcomes the odds | The opening of London’s 2025 music festival season has been fraught, with obstacles in nature both local and global thrown in its path
Imagine if there were enough 37s. There’d not be half-hours between buses. There’d not be gridlocked Dulwich roads. People in south London could travel, without buying a car. What a world #tfl #tfl37 @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social
AMMAR 808 - Club Tounsi | Sofyann Ben Youssef's third album marries his Tunisian identity with wall-shaking bass futurism
As Rialto play the Scala tonight, a little push for my interview with Louis Eliot about the journey to their first album in 24 years, Neon & Ghost Signs www.musicomh.com/features/int...
Rialto's Louis Eliot interviewed: "Suddenly I realised there was still love for the band" | With the release of Neon & Ghost Signs, their first album in over 20 years, Louis Eliot's band is back and better than ever. But what took them so long?
Rialto - Neon & Ghost Signs | More than two decades since their last album, Louis Eliot and co return older, wiser and with intent
Salif Keita - So Kono | Seven years after his retirement from recording, the Malian superstar releases an acoustic album recorded in a hotel room in Japan
Today is New Pulp Song Day. Herewith, Spike Island.
New James Ford-produced album, More, out through Rough Trade on 6th June.
#pulp
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That cover: Kevin's outdone himself with the pictures here - and a book with more from Abbey Road Studios is part of the release. Excellent. Tour in October includes two nights at the Barbican. First single is Achilles: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YIF...
Love the cover of The Divine Comedy’s new album Rainy Sunday Afternoon, picture by Kevin Westenberg
And sometimes I just have to stop and listen to things properly, and shut the world out. Which means I don't hear 20 other things. Yann. Man makes me want to buy a boat/move to an island/have a drinkie/5 with him in a cellar bar. Further sigh. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EZX...
I've not properly updated The Spreadsheet Of All Knowledge in too long, but already 25/4 is over 30? I bet it's over 50 really (not including reissues/EPs/lives/&cs.). We're doing ok to over five; exceptional to wrap our lugholes round 10. Sigh.
Easy for you to say, luvvie; you've got enough writers! (At least two of these I'd write myself if it wasn't for having to do a day job, and why don't the gods understand)
I will always love Yann Tiersen.
Want to float away on a piano? Half of his new double LP Rathlin From A Distance | The Liquid Hour is your medication
The first half is piano | The second half is not
It's all completely gorgeous
@yanntiersenmusic.bsky.social ❤️
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Yann Tiersen. Youssou N'Dour. Marlon Williams. LA Witch. Anika. The list goes on. If these artists make albums, fling them out there and nobody catches them, it makes me sad
