Ban Summers

I made plans but my body made other plans.

The distillation of my experience with chronic illness in Day In/Day Out.

Bedroom Indie by a chronically ill sad lad, shown here in the bedroom it was recorded in.

bansummers.bandcamp.com

push.fm/fl/noman

#LoFiIndie #Shoegaze #PostPunk #BedroomPop

What if instead of the book and film Yes Man, you felt like you were always saying no? Well that’s me, the No Man.

Touching on chronic illness, disability and depression, No Man is my letter to friends and family on my absence and isolation.

EP is free to download on Bandcamp

push.fm/fl/noman

Oud Music from Gaza Volume 2, by Samih Madhoun 13 track album

ergophizmizmusic.bandcamp.com/album/oud-mu...

No, mainly because there isn’t anywhere near as many women’s games on TV as there are men’s games.

I don’t think I agree with her singling Wright out, which she apologised for, but I think there’s some logic in it despite being said very clumsily.

And not one of them says Ban Summer(s), which is very rude tbh

Cola Boyy's new song "Walk Again" is out 🚸 A gem of a song co-composed and produced by Blasé 💎

Final studio album "Quit to Play Chess" available to pre-order: found.ee/ColaBoyy_QTPC ❤️

Shot in Oxnard, CA in 2018

YouTube video by Shaft - Topic [Mucho Mambo] Sway

Yet again this song occupies my mind 24/7 thanks to Josh Murphy

Written by Elvis Costello, performed amazingly by Robert Wyatt, probably the first performance of a song that brought tears to my eyes! Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding - Old Grey Whistle Test -1983

Ending the day with this, perfect.

Saw him at one of these a few years ago in The Edge 😎

YouTube video by Jeff Lebowski WU LYF - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain [2011] [Full Album]

Wu Lyf returning to make everything right in the world (or something like that)

We are happy to share with you Cola Boyy's new single "Babylon" 🎆

His final studio album "Quit to Play Chess" will be out May 23 and is available for pre-order: found.ee/ColaBoyy_QTPC

Cola Boyy forever ❤️♾

I can get behind the idea of not putting all your eggs in one basket

Ban Summers chronically ill sad lad with homebrewed lofi indie @bansummers Mailing List: https://bit.ly/BanSummersList Links: https://push.fm/fl/noman

Home brewed lofi indie made by a chronically ill sad lad this Bandcamp Friday #MusicSky bansummers.bandcamp.com

It's your first Survey Sunday! TAKE THE SURVEY: musicfansvoice.uk

The Music Fans' Voice survey launched earlier this week and a huge number of live music fans have already taken part... but thousands more are needed. And that includes you.

I just know that Adam Curtis has bookmarked this video

🪐 (hope the assessment goes as well as these things can)

Day 1: set up the Subbuteo

Made a small "starter pack" list of cool people involved in Portsmouth music now that there's more than 4 of us here! Please let me know if I've missed anyone though as it's not easy to find people on here. go.bsky.app/UgYGmDh

II (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition), by Unknown Mortal Orchestra 17 track album

Day 7: Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II

unknown-mortal-orchestra.bandcamp.com/album/ii-10t...

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#MusicChallenge

YouTube video by GrizzlyBearVEVO Grizzly Bear - Losing All Sense (Official Video)

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 6: Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins

youtu.be/Av-BCG0xjS0?...

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#MusicChallenge

Midnight Boom, by The Kills 13 track album

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 5: The Kills - Midnight Boom

thekills.bandcamp.com/album/midnig...

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Broom, by Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin 10 track album

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 4: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Broom

sslyby.bandcamp.com/album/broom

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5, by SAULT 14 track album

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 3: Sault - 5

saultglobal.bandcamp.com/album/5

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#MusicChallenge

YouTube video by Doves - Topic The Man Who Told Everything

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 2: Doves - Lost Souls

youtu.be/KsfYpoEv3gc?...

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@dovesofficial.bsky.social

A Brief Introduction To Unnatural Lightyears, by Oliver Wilde 10 track album

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 1: Oliver Wilde - A Brief Introduction To Unnatural Lightyears

oliverwilde.bandcamp.com/album/a-brie...

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Silent Night but make it fuzzy garage rock/lofi indie

Up on Bandcamp and free to download to torment your family on the big day

bansummers.bandcamp.com/track/silent...

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Cover of the january 2025 issue of Harper's magazine. A black background with the words GHOST MUSIC written largely in green, tangled with wired headphones. underneath in small text it says "INSIDE SPOTIFY'S FAKE-ARTIST SCHEME"

For years, the public has called them "fake artists." But internally at Spotify, the program has a name: Perfect Fit Content. My investigation, and the first look into my book Mood Machine, is the January cover at @harpers.bsky.social. Online now & on newsstands next week
harpers.org/archive/2025...

Alvvays: Molly Rankin and Alec O'Hanley, with Shawn Everett Tape Op is a free magazine exclusively about recording music. Subscribe (yep, for free) at tapeop.com.

I was really enjoying their tape op interview earlier

And Morriss is back at the same rehearsal studio as six months ago next month