Thom Beaterson

Not to be confused with the Would Be's, who had that excellent jingly jangly 'Hardly Ever Wrong' single out in the early 90s.

Das keramik ist das opium des volkes... or something.

Sternwood: Do you like anchovies on your pizza?
Marlowe: Not particularly.
Sternwood: Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men. Their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.

Great compilation. Loved this band and pretty much everything Track & Field released - the 'Have You Seen The Light?' split single with Dressy Bessy is an all-timer for me!

Had some technical issues with my old laptop during the week - remembering this prevented me from throwing it out of the window.

This is the Computer World Software Helpline, please
make sure you can see your screen.

Simon Armitage, Killing Time, f&f

#booksky #poetry #poetrysky

Pleased to tick this Stetsasonic 45 off the wantlist this week. Possibly the best Sally song, apart from Lonnie Donegan's version of 'Sally Don't You Grieve' of course.

#weekendsingles

Rather taken with the new Lande Hekt LP, which is out today.

#VinylSky #VinylRecords #NowPlaying

With secret track on the CD version, if I recall!

I'm a big fan of his graphic novels but would love a coffee-table book of his New Yorker covers.

I always loved how the author Geoff Dyer described a live recording of Coltrane's My Favourite Things as reaching "into the darkness of space before re-entering, everything burning up around him. The solo: a whole career on alto compressed into just 11 minutes."

Found this book in an old crate earlier.

"The technical ability must work on the inspiration. Technical skill alone can produce a flawless work but not true greatness. That comes from beyond."

I used to say this all the time when sat with friends listening to jazz records as a student.

#booksky

New tape just dropped. Or something.

I'm just going to put this out there... Motiv8 improved every song that they remixed. Yes, even He's On The Phone.

Jumping on the trending 2016 bandwagon and attempting to impress my eldest by playing out 4 of my favourite #weekendsingles from that year. Met with a shrug.

The Hayman Kupa Band,
Youth Of America,
Mozes and the Firstborn / Roland Cosio split and
best of all, a repress of Iganda's Mark Of Slavery

We were on the brink of the great Romo invasion...

And in the city it's a pity cos we just can't hide
Four candles in the window, they know who's inside...

That Gigolo Aunts comparison really is spot on. Lovely stuff.

Greystones, marvellous.

I said a tankard not a tankto.... etc. Just need a Wards one to complete the Yorkshire holy trinity.

Just back from the shops, this seems appropriate:

cold feet the rain drips into itself on its round trip round heels

Tom Raworth, Penguin Modern Poets 19 (cover photo by Alan Spain - who did amazing covers for Penguin Crime)

#booksky #poetry #poetrysky

Given you use them in a very specific and artistic way, I guess there's no way this will escalate to bar mats. I spent an undiscolsed fee on this recently. Looks great in the centre of the dining room table (the family disagree)

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... keeping warm inside by playing some weather-appropriate #weekendsingles

Dark was the night cold was the ground
Lovesick snowman
Cold & wet
Fallen snow

I know they were completely different, but I always used to get this lot confused with God Is My Co-pilot - both seemed to release an album a month and were always on Peel, when I wanted to hear more jungle.

The most important radio broadcast of the 00s (apart from the last Fall session for Peel)... Was initially disappointed when more dubstep and grime started to creep into the Breezeblock, displacing bigbeat and electroclash. But by the time this show aired, I was fully on board. What a show.

Great choice - for me, just pipped by Jon E Cash's Sublow (although, arguably, that's technically more of a compilation rather than a reissue).

Remember how hard it was attempting, and failing, to track down the CDr in the mid 00s!

Quite partial to the remix by Double 99 (of 'Ripgroove' fame) which had some airplay on Radio 1's various dance shows at the time.

Very excited for the new Lande Hekt record at the end of this month!

And the disposable cups for the water cooler are always very flimsy looking tiny cones.

#Top30FirstAlbumFirstTrack
#musicsky #musicchallenge

Snake Eyes - Main Source
Breaking Atoms

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfq8...

Ash were surprisingly low - I thought that at the time, and still think it now.

I was obsessed with Dreadzone in 95 and was probably annoyed that their string of singles from Second Light weren't better represented.