Ben Mackenzie

A bottle of ‘urine buster’ cat piss remover.

How I’d respond if Phil Collins asked me to name a film he’s been in.

Do not ask how much time I actually spent on this, I hope this is satisfactory

Going back in time and convincing Genesis they need to play every song they’d ever recorded live in 1977 so we had the whole discography sounding as good as Seconds Out

A Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schulz from September 7, 1956. Charlie Brown walks behind Violet, yelling "CHANGE YOUR MIND!" He yells louder, "CHANGE YOUR MIND!" As she walks off, he shakes his fist and yells, "CHANGE YOUR MIND, I SAY!!!" He walks away with his hands in his pockets saying, "It's almost impossible to get people to change their minds these days!"

I like this one more every time I see it.
September 7, 1956

Cardiacs Share First Single "Woodeneye" From An Album They're Been Making For 20 Years: Listen The cult-beloved British band Cardiacs released Guns, their most recent album, in 1999. For a very, very long time, they’ve been planning a new double LP called LSD. The lead single was supposed to be...

Cardiacs share new single "Woodeneye," from 'LSD', the album they've been working on for 20 years

PREORDER: 'LSD' by Cardiacs

Returning with a seventeen track album, the cult-iest of all cult UK groups are back with a follow up to 1999’s ‘Guns’.

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Didn’t want to say that I’d heard it before the Official Release due to getting overexcited and some VPN shenanigans but the new Cardiacs single is absolutely brilliant stuff. Cannot wait for the album next month!

First time at the Windmill in Brixton and as someone on gig 23 out of at least 37 this year I’m now convinced I’m still not going to enough shows. £10 tickets! Enough said.

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Where did you see this? Just heard too but not finding much

Goodnight everyone I hope you all have a restful relaxing sleep
When you try not to think about something it sticks
Just visualise the thoughts floating away like a balloon
Out of your head into the sky
Be free
Let go
❤️❤️❤️💙❤️❤️❤️

Trivia card: The Arts and Music: Of which successful group was Phil Lynott, who died of a drug overdose on January 4, 1986, a member?

#BleakTrivia

STOP SPREADING THE FALSE REPORT that Ozzy Osbourne, Hulk Hogan and Chuck Mangione all simultaneously shot each other like at the end of Reservoir Dogs. They were not in the same location and passed of natural causes.

I don't like to speak badly of people. I have grown up thinking and being told that if you cannot say something nice about someone, you should not say anything at all. But I must break that rule in this case because I hate Hulk Hogan very much. He is a big ugly goon and I want to squash his face. -Andre the Giant

Here you go. If Black Sabbath had been Acid Folk softies.

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Sharon I bloody died Sharon. Sharon they sent me to bloody heaven. Where are the bloody flames Sharon. Sharon it’s all bloody choir music up here Sharon. Sharon for fucks sake all the white is bloody blinding me up here Sharon

I think the fact that Sabbath were, at least on Master of Reality, a Christian band lyrically (I mean After Forever is right there) strikes me as why Ozzy could sound absolutely struck by the fear of the demonic forces described in the lyrics

Ozzy was the greatest metal vocalist of all time. He had it all - the power, and the absolute, bone chilling terror of a man who had seen all of what he was singing about, all contained in his absolutely electric voice. Rest in peace. You will never, ever be bettered.

No Arms for Plasticine Gods, by cori&her 13 track album

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my album released. I’ve been working on it. So much. And now it’s out! Its “a cosmic rock in opposition/hyperpop/avant-splurge meltdown” with “a novel's worth of painstakingly (and densely) plotted lyrics” and I would be extremely grateful if u could listen……

I’m sorry!

Awful Kate Bush confession: as good as the original Wuthering Heights is, I’m a big fan of the re-recorded. I think Kate’s more mature vocals sound great on the track.

YouTube video by Wire - Topic Field Day for the Sundays (2006 Remastered Version)

✋🤠🤚 hold it right there cowpoke! i reckon you might could use a 28 second break 👋🤠🤙

The best part about The Mix era is that those are the versions they’ve been touring on ever since, and they absolutely rule

‘Yeti blood oath’ divides Denver seminary ‘A well-intended moment, it clearly went badly wrong and never should have happened.’

in an era full of astonishing articles this manages to stand out

I think seeing Megalopolis in IMAX and Godspeed You! Black Emperor live on the same day last year changed something in me permanently

The star of Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia is telling us this?

“How much?” he asked. “Eight quid,” I replied. He put it down and strolled off. At the nearby café stall, you could buy two flat whites for a tenner. | Pete Paphides Get more from Pete Paphides on Patreon

Just added to the word pile: Field Music's Doors tribute band side hustle; the perceived value of music set against that of a flat white; the accusation that charging £100 for a Nick Drake box set is "social cleansing". Why it's all connected!

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Potentially medically harmful for me to be watching a repeat of Live Aid at 11:40pm on 3 hours sleep having woken up around 5:20am

As expected, Neil Young was amazing tonight - about 10x better than his (already great) Glastonbury show. Pulled out all the stops, heard pretty much everything (except Heart of Gold) I really wanted to hear. Absolutely wonderful.