@wcba.bsky.social
I’m Alan and I write stuff. Mainly for STARBURST magazine but I've always got some side hustle on the go. Oh, I make ‘zines, too. AND I present a weekly music show on NOISEBOX RADIO, Sunday 6-7pm. linktr.ee/wcbazine
Tara!
13.02.2026 20:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The lyric video for Retort House is up on the SHOPFIRES YouTube Channel if you like grainy black and white images of gasworks.
youtu.be/FcBWxdys2Ac?...
The only single supporting "HARM A LONDON CHILD" on the market today.
houseofsplain.bandcamp.com/album/noiseb...
The Would-be-goods’ immaculate new album ‘Tears Before Bedtime’ is out today. Available from all good record shops, Bandcamp and here, at our online store: skepwax.myshopify.com/products/wou...
13.02.2026 10:17 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0I just remembered NFTs were a thing.
13.02.2026 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Available now!
Taken from the forthcoming album The Old Works.
'Everything could work out fine.
If we don't make a rod for our own backs tonight'
shopfires.bandcamp.com/track/retort...
Got mine. Green, if you want to make sure we have an awkward clash.
12.02.2026 17:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Every year, I go to schools and talk to The Kids about the Reading Agency’s Summer Reading Challenge. This year’s theme is music and items called Read To The Beat.
The temptation to start every assembly with “My name is Alan and I’m here to say…” is STRONG.
It's once again only Thursday and I have to whittle down at least 21 songs for a maximum 14 places in my show on Sunday. This is getting ridiculous.
12.02.2026 12:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Apparently Alison Wheeler of the Beautiful South but no-one I know remembers her being there so it's possible she's lied to get some cred.
Other than her, BBC organist Reginald Foort?
Will check out any I missed, as always, but no room for Railcard? Or LAPêCHE? Dirt Buyer?
12.02.2026 10:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people.
1. JK Rowling
2. Maya Forstater
3. Helen Joyce
4. Graham Linehan
5. Kathleen Stock
6. Posie Parker
7. Wes Streeting
8. Rosie Duffield
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
Bud Cort was a titan.
11.02.2026 21:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Finally United have a worse right winger than Gabriel Obertan
11.02.2026 19:37 — 👍 246 🔁 64 💬 0 📌 0chicken
11.02.2026 14:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
DAY TICKETS are now on sale
+ our final 3 acts to announce:
EMMA POLLOCK
SASSYHIYA
RADHIKA
💖
Please note on the Friday we’ve got later access to The Gate, so we’re starting off at Paradise Garden (300 metres away) at 2pm for the first 100 ticketholders to arrive, with
EMMA POLLOCK
WOULD-BE GOODS
👇
NEW ALBUM
I Think That I Might Love You
released by Ernest Jenning Record Co (U.S) & @fikarecordings.com (UK) 8th May 2026
PRE-ORDER Ltd Edition Vinyl NOW
carlajeaston.bandcamp.com/album/i-thin...
UK TOUR MAY 2026 > bnds.us/6y4vxs
A two-panel Little Bubbie Child comic. Top panel is the little bubbie child asking, "Dad, hwat was it like a livin' in the 90s?" Bottom panel is dad responding, "Sometimes you'd open a can a peanuts and they'd come snakes outta there."
10.02.2026 15:55 — 👍 8204 🔁 1582 💬 6 📌 33
A Bandwidth logo in the style of the TV for Schools clock. Remember the excitement when the teacher wheeled out the VHS and Telly on a trolley into the classroom? I do. KIds these days don't know they're born. And I remember when all of this was fields.
Wednesday night on @noiseboxradio.com; Two hours of resplendent rock and gothery with David J Griffiths at 8pm, followed by a new Bandwidth at 10pm - tonight's show is a Kids TV special, an hour long mix of obscure kids television themes from both the 70s and 80s. Are we sitting comfortably?
11.02.2026 09:27 — 👍 13 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
happy hump day. tune in to hear great tracks on 24/7 rotation zeno.fm/radio/hitsoftheweekretweeter2/
revolut.me/theretweeter
bmc.link/theretweetH
I remember standing outside Esquires in Bedford with you in October 2024 and you saying, "there'll be a new one soon." I didn't realise you were talking in epochs...
11.02.2026 09:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Just singing the theme to Mr & Mrs to myself, as you do, and realised I sing it: "Mr & Mrs, be nice to each other, Mr & Mrs, sister and brother..."
11.02.2026 09:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The day has finally arrived! Superguy #2: My Date with the President’s Daughter is now LIVE on Kickstarter!!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mrt...
Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.
11.02.2026 00:43 — 👍 5178 🔁 1765 💬 103 📌 310
Now playing on BRAND NEW BEATS on NOISEBOX RADIO:
Exploring Birdsong - 42
exploringbirdsong.bandcamp.com || instagram.com/exploringbirdsong
noiseboxradio.com
Just time for one more song but @colmincambs.bsky.social will be back with more BRAND NEW BEATS next Tuesday at 8pm, and if you want more ME, I'll sail the good ship A-POP! into its 7th episode on Sunday at 6pm!
Thanks for listening, now let's go out with an odd one...
Now playing on BRAND NEW BEATS on NOISEBOX RADIO:
Sorry - Billy Elliot
sorrybanduk.bandcamp.com || instagram.com/sorrybanduk
dominorecordco.bandcamp.com || @dominorecordco.bsky.social || instagram.com/dominorecordco
noiseboxradio.com
Now playing on BRAND NEW BEATS on NOISEBOX RADIO:
Sarah Nixey - England's on Fire
sarahnixey.bandcamp.com || @sarahnixey.bsky.social || instagram.com/nixeysdarkroom
noiseboxradio.com
Now playing on BRAND NEW BEATS on NOISEBOX RADIO:
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sunburned in London
rollingblackoutscoastalfever.bandcamp.com || instagram.com/rollingblackoutscf
iohyou.bandcamp.com || @iohyouforever.bsky.social || instagram.com/iohyouforever
noiseboxradio.com
Now playing on BRAND NEW BEATS on NOISEBOX RADIO:
Iron & Wine - Roses
ironandwine.bandcamp.com || instagram.com/ironandwinetour
subpop.bandcamp.com || @subpop.bsky.social || instagram.com/subpop
noiseboxradio.com
