Matt Ashton

YouTube video by Domino Recording Co. Peter Perrett - PROUD TO BE SELF-HATING (irony and provocation) (Official Audio)

Trust Peter Perrett to write a suitably angry but complex song about the trouble with being Jewish in the current situation. Will have this over Primal Scream’s light show any day.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdXg...

Coral Grief, IAN, Stereolab, Lila Tristram, Robert Dallas Gray, Tortoise, Dominie Hooper, Firestations, Claire M Singer + many more!

I can see my little face on that Bandcamp page. Great track, do more.

Hope tomorrow is better, Kaye.

Are there any Plopps in there?

Nice to have a couple of releases on this lovely list from Robert (Mirrored Daughters and my solo Form Group album for @waysideandwoodland.bsky.social).

Mirrored Daughters, by Mirrored Daughters 11 track album

featuring members of the leaf library and fire stations, I described this as somewhere between sandy denny and stereolab, which is a great place to be imo https://fikarecordings.bandcamp.com/album/mirrored-daughters

Want to spend an evening cruising a Bandcamp account full of great music, mostly from Japan, that no one else is talking about? And then spend money on buying 3-5 albums/EPs that you can play to other people and they'll go, "What's this?"

Then I have a record label account you oughtta check out:

Call And Response Records Indie, post-punk, new wave and underground music in Koenji, Tokyo since 2005.

This Bandcamp Friday, why not explore our extensive catalogue of leftfield punk and indie music from Japan (and one or two other places)? Not gonna bully you into looking at certain things this time: we trust your own inherent curiosity and joy in discovery
call-and-response.bandcamp.com

Opened it, read it, said they were fuckers.

Doctor: Congrats on the baby! What are you going to name him?
Toss Grumley's mum: Toss Grumley

Femenine, by Julius Eastman 1 track album

If we're doing sleigh bells = christmas song then Feminine by Julius Eastman is a christmas song (which it definitely should be, anyway):

frozenreeds.bandcamp.com/album/femenine

If ever anybody needed a Ghosts of Christmas visit it's Streeting

Well, what a list and thank you, glad you enjoyed my various outbursts.

30 anniversary repress of Ken Ishii’s Jelly Tones.

D’ya ken?

I’m keeping up with all the hot new sounds, as ever.

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.

It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

The one he did with Duncan and Lee (but not Simon or Antony) is also really good.

Matt's fundraiser for Hackney Night Shelter Help Matt Ashton raise money to support Hackney Night Shelter

I did a sleep out for Hackney Night Shelter back in balmy October. The fundraiser closes soon and it is currently a fiver shy of £1000 - would be a shame not to make it a nice round number…

www.justgiving.com/page/matt-as...

Thanks to everyone that has donated so far, means a lot.

"A small but perfect body of work that seemed to sit in a hitherto unclaimed spot between The Sundays and Stereolab." | Pete Paphides Get more from Pete Paphides on Patreon

A lovely post on @petepaphides.bsky.social's Patreon today about my (Matt's) old group, Saloon:

www.patreon.com/posts/small-...

Thanks Pete!

(I went past the TA barracks in Reading recently, where that video for Impact was shot.)

A Love Supreme, Emperor Tomato Ketchup and the best of Simple Minds - all great Christmas albums.

Provincial Echo, by The Form Group 8 track album

Sitting down on a drizzly Tuesday morning and blasting the new one from @matthewjashton.bsky.social, and it's one of those albums that gets better with every listen. Beautiful drones and atmospheres. Also slightly terrifying sometimes haha: waysideandwoodlandrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/provin...

Amazing, thanks Gavin - so glad you like it. Didn't think I had something so unsettling in me (certainly several miles away from the day job group).

Live, Laugh, Lufs

We should do a Freebass cover at the next gig.

Best version of Primal Scream that ever there was.

Become friends with writers online, you'll never be bored.

Ha ha, beautiful. Invoice to the usual address.

How much would I need to pay you to write me a Vermeer limerick?