Close to perfect.

Many thanks to everyone who's shared and followed this (unexpectedly lengthy) walk-in-progress over the past few days. It's much appreciated. The full thread (128 posts) is below.

Thank you for posting this. I’m giving this a good listen: sat on the floor, absorbing it.

Lunchtime play. The lovely (7th?) chords hitting the spot.

Apples. A few of them. Sliced.

Straight off the tree.

Derek Bailey. Plink. Plunk. Pluck. Plink plink. Great, really.

Listening to Derek Bailey as Sunday tips over into afternoon.

Thanks for the orders, likes and reposts.

Certain Memories, by Assistant 12 track album

You can get 25% off a lovingly packaged CD of our last LP, Certain Memories with the code “20percent” here today.

There are 24 copies left at present. One day there will be none, at which point cult status will officially be conferred.

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If digital purchases are your thing, our sold out first album is available that way. Here’s a flavour of lead track ‘Ending Chairs’: nightjrrs.bandcamp.com/album/interr....

A biiiiiig recommend from me for this one! Reliably fascinating and enchanting stuff

Live sliver of the A side of ‘Dabbin Houses’. For anyone thinking of bandcampin’ today: nightjrrs.bandcamp.com/album/dabbin....

Live excerpt of the AA side of our last 12”. Hand stamped limited edition here, if you’re bandcampin’: nightjrrs.bandcamp.com/album/dabbin....

In The April Sun (Assistant Fanzine #1) from Assistant In The April Sun (Assistant Fanzine #1) from Assistant

It's #bandcampFriday so I've knocked £2 off the price of each of my IN THE APRIL SUN fanzines. You can get both for £3.50 today.

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Lots of great stuff, reviews, contributions, essays and diaries. New issue coming soon!

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A long, long time ago this is what I sounded like live. ‘Route One Lie’ - an obvious, powerful lie.
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Listening to Rachel’s ‘Handwriting’.

Lyrics from ‘For Those I Love’ recent album rendered without line breaks.

Always interested when musicians do this to their words on the sleeve. The effect on your reading of the lyrics is very different as a result. This is from ‘For Those I Love’.

“She travels education class/
Reading poems on the tube.”

My Life Story’s album ‘Mornington Crescent’.

Dun dun dun durn, dun dun dun durn…. Here comes the motorcade…

It starts ‘It was a dream I had…’: Paco de Renaldo’s Dream on the Tindersticks’ first album.

Can’t stop listening to ‘Paco de Renaldo’s Dream’ on this.

Raw Melody Men, across some formats. A body of work that consistently asked me to think for myself.

My Life Story’s album ‘Mornington Crescent’.

Dun dun dun durn, dun dun dun durn…. Here comes the motorcade…

There is a moody looking-back baked into it, although it’s warmer, I think? I liked the switching up of the beats (although I think I remember Stem being a bit one-trick) and that it all seemed to come from a love of music.

Haven’t listened to that for very many years. I remember liking ‘Organ Donor’.

Deserved.

Derek Bailey, eh?

All of you about to enjoy The Noise: I salute you.

There’s bags of character in that bottom right one, even at this stage. Brilliant.

The AA side of our last 12”, but live.

Matthew Stewart’s ‘Whatever you do just don’t’ (Happenstance Press, 2023): Five Reasons to Read. No, not a review. I have no right and no ability to do that. Instead, five reasons to buy it and read it. So… 1: poetry that passes the Rembrandt test. This does. Let me explain. Two things. Bear t…

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Ultravox(!).

“I’m wearing someone else’s clooo-oooothes…”

Book about The Fall.

Sat in the floor, listening to The Fall. Listening to The Fall. Reading about The Fall. Thinking about The Fall.