Mark Brennan

Easily one of the best live bands in the city at the moment. Can't wait for them to get an album recorded.

Picture of the band Faetooth playing live at the Classic Grand, Glasgow

First headliner of the year with @faetooth.bsky.social bringing the doom on a cold February night #faetooth #doom #doommetal

Picture of the band Gout playing live at the Classic Grand, Glasgow

First gig of the year has been a while in coming. Gout are as good a way of kicking any year off #gout #noiserock #sludge

12 hour trip home. No luggage. Gonna doom metal and beer. The only true way to get on.

Dear Green Coffee now being available at Glasgow Airport is a serious small mercy for the frequent traveller #coffee #independentcoffee #glasgowairport #deargreencoffee

I think the expectation that there is a deity either listening or willing to act might be part of the problem here. That said, hope is important.

A truly tremendous game.

A still picture from the opening of The Terminator

So we've got three years to get the AI pish sorted is what I'm understanding here #theterminator #fuckai

Alert ! Alert !

Two glasses of beer

Black Tusk by Holy Goat Brewing and Dead End Brew Machine on tap at the Koelschip Yards. Imperial stout with treacle and toasted Pedro Ximenez staves. Sludge as fuck #beerskybeer #sludgemetal #sludge #koelschipyard #blacktusk

The Koelschip Yards' menu on Friday 23 January

Pub menu this Friday night at The Koelschip. Pretty sure The Holy Goat and Dead End Brewing is pure sludge metal worship #blacktusk #sludgemetal #beer #pub

I'm confused. When did they stop?

John Harris art. A tiny red spaceship flies through black outer space, nearing an asteroid.

Moebius artwork. A woman sits cross-legged on a bed surrounded by stuff like toys and snacks. She holds an apple in her left hand and her right hand is open, with a series of red computers hovering in a line above her hand.

Ludwig Schwarzer's Der Planet, 1977. A bunch of flowers sits on the top of a wall overlooking a desert planet, under a big crusty moon.

Ralph McQuarrie Star Wars concept art. A figure with a tall rifle on their back looks out over a chasm with a big blue sky and two suns above them. A speeder floats nearby.

A false-color picture of Saturn's northern hemisphere, taken by the Voyager 2 space probe in 1981. It looks liks swirling, seemingly abstract layers of green, blue, yellow, and orange.

Art by Ichiro Tsuruta, 1989. A spaceship looks tiny next to the giant wheel-like space station above it. The Earth is visible beneath the ship.

Here, have some good phone lockscreens - artists credited in alt text

Would it not have been better to ask a human to create the image?

YouTube video by Converge - Topic We Were Never the Same

Can't wait for the new @convergecult.bsky.social album. This slays. #converge #loveisnotenough

youtu.be/94oxBi5bUns?...

New Poison The Well to boot.

YouTube video by sunn O))) Band Official sunn O))) - Glory Black (Official Audio)

More new releases on the way and this might be the most uplifting I've ever heard sunn o))). Hope doom? Hope drone? Magnificant either way.

youtu.be/XXXQbGvofeo?...

YouTube video by The Flenser Bosse-de-Nage – No Such Place (Official Audio)

New year and some new music beginning to filter through. Eight years on new Bosse-de-Nage on @theflenser.bsky.social will help cope with the lack of sunlight and hope at the moment.

youtu.be/RdrmkoxHTxE?...

That's not bad. New music from Bosse de Nage and SUNN O))) as well today.

Well, that'll do it

11 days in and I've held firm so far. Mostly because of the terrifying and threatening nature of the unread list.

And polite as well.

#rules

I listen to them with everyone.

How it began and how it ended. New Year, mew homemade hot sauce, with Armageddon chillies, home fermented jalapenos and fresh blood orange reduction. Yes there was [heavy metal music playing] #hotsauce

Nothing says New Year like Carolina Reaper shots #warpigs #carolinareaper

One last music post for the year and it's my favourite and most listened to album by @pelicansong.bsky.social. An avalanche of riffs that just about kept me sane this year.

More excellent beer for the Baby Krampus from Rivington Beers courtesy of @weebeershop.bsky.social #bskybeer #rivington #krampud