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@mrsimonraymonde
Musician with a label. Cocteau Twins/Lost Horizons. Producer, mixer. Some non-Cocteaus gig highlights? Playing bass with Midlake, on “The Rat” live with The Walkmen, and playing guitar on tour with Mercury Rev ❤️ Memoir “In One Ear” on Nine Eight Books now.
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USA BOOK EVENTS NEXT WEEK
A tour-de-force folk-leaning psychedelic album, and a career milestone. Midlake’s A Bridge to Far is out this week on @mrsimonraymonde.bsky.social’s @bellaunion.bsky.social. I’ve looked at it for @theartsdesk.bsky.social: www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/mi...
Mutations x Bella Union stage on Saturday, BC Camplight at The Roundhouse tomorrow, Divide and Dissolve at Pitchfork Festival Corsica Studios) tomorrow) plus our new shop has its official launch party on Thursday with two Bella Union bands performing live between 530 and 7! We are fighting back 1/2
Tough year of that there is no doubt but this week alone, LuxJury debut single for us today and play Servants Jazz Quarters tomorrow, The Wave Pictures announcingp a new lp+tour Marissa Nadler here playing shows supporting New Radiations LP….2/2
Hahaha great shots of the audience at the end made me laugh
New York!
A photo of the book “In One Ear: Cocteau Twins, Ivor and Me” by Simon Raymonde
Just finished @mrsimonraymonde.bsky.social’s wonderful memoir, interesting and insightful, Simon is modest, humble and thankful - some incredible “sliding doors” moments (eg the Mexico City incident, crikey). A joy to discover his father Ivor too, what a career HE had. A great read, many thanks 🙏
One year has passed …but you are never forgotten Nell ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Fine words from @clunkmag for @cubzoa new single “Buckle Up” clunkmag.com/clunk-recomm... We have a live performance on Oct 24th at our new space in Gloucester Street on the day the lp is out!!
New PLANTOID !!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
Me too!!
Blinding set from congratulations at Concorde 2 last night
Goodnight world
youtu.be/yWi89zyss2E?... last minute of this song is so good. We thought so anyway🤣
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My Reflector show on ROVR this week is Part One of a look at this year’s END OF THE ROAD festival
Thursday 4-6pm
Today is the soft launch opening of our new record shop @bellaunionvinylshp.bsky.social come down to 6 Gloucester St, BN1 4EW to hear live music at 1pm from M.Woodroe free food and music what’s not to love! What will be the first album /item purchased in our new abode??
New albums released this week - list: ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Laura Groves - Yes (indie) Anton - Glacier/Volcan (post-punk) Blanck Mass - She Rides Shotgun (score) Blush - Beauty Fades, Pain Lasts Forever (shoegaze) Brad Rose - A Life We Once Lived (ambient) Cornel Wilczek - Together (score) Daniel Pemberton - The Bad Guys 2 (score) Danny Elfman - Dracula (score) Hans Zimmer & James Everingham - Chief of War (score) Harbors - When We Are Free (ambient) Ill Considered - Balm (jazz) Lorne Balfe - The Naked Gun (score) Mansur Brown - Rihla (alternative) Marysia Osu - harp, beats & dreams reworks (ambient) Memotone - smallest things (ambient) Michael Garrison - Dimensions (ambient) Nadeem Din-Gabisi - OFFSHORE (hip-hop) Natural Information Society - Momentum (jazz) Rhetta Hughes - Re-Light My Fire (soul) Roger Waters - This Is Not A Drill – Live From Prague (rock) Ryan Holladay - Weapons (score) Seaside - Same Old/Same New (shoegaze) Sofia Kourtesis - Volver (electronic) Steve Parks - The Golden Key (soul) Steven Bamidele - If It Matters (jazz funk) Susumu Yokota - Magic Thread (2025 Remastered) (ambient) The New Eves - The New Eve Is Rising (indie) Wisp - If Not Winter (rock)
New albums released this week. Album Of The Week by Laura Groves @laura-groves.bsky.social
cc: @bellaunion.bsky.social @mrsimonraymonde.bsky.social :)
NEW MUSIC ON THE BLOG: Laura Groves @laura-groves.bsky.social - YES #indie #alternative #singersongwriter #music #indiereview 🎧
New EP will be released this week!
www.mavoymusic.com/2025/07/laur...
Made me smile. No further thought needed really. It’s like peanut butter and jelly. Shouldn’t work but for some palletes it does.
Well of course, a mashup of 50 cent x Cocteau Twins! We all saw 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 coming…
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Sonny had an op and she’s feeling a bit sorry for herself ❤️❤️
Following the announcement of shows this autumn, my @rovr.live show this week is 2 hours dedicated to the mercurial @cabaretvoltaire.bsky.social
Not at all!! Not AT ALL!!!!
New music from CUBZOA highlighted here on @ourculture.bsky.social ourculturemag.com/2025/07/03/c...
Comes out in November in the usa and I’ll be there at a few book shops here and there across the country hopefully!
A sugar-coated exorcism. A Sober Conversation is the most meticulously melodic, outwardly most immediate @bccamplight.bsky.social album to date. Out on @mrsimonraymonde.bsky.social’s @bellaunion.bsky.social. I’ve looked at it today for @theartsdesk.bsky.social:
www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/al...