Some great ballads and pop tunes on Tim and PTMM but I miss the daft snottiness. And Westerbeg totally lost his touch with the hard rockers once they went major label. Stuff like Dose of Thunder honks.
11.10.2025 16:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A certain centrist music journo claimed half of LIB is terrible and Pleased is their masterpiece. *shakes head*
11.10.2025 16:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
The way he lets that feedback ring and ring then finally cuts through with that perfect howl. One of the greatest moments in rock n roll.
11.10.2025 16:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.
04.10.2025 22:12 β π 23704 π 7941 π¬ 449 π 232
This is grim & dangerous over reach.
This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.
Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.
05.10.2025 07:44 β π 1872 π 727 π¬ 65 π 33
Great album, love the near silence to molten heaviness dynamics
03.10.2025 13:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Star and Shadow: Tashi Dorji
Hugely excited to be putting on the great Bhutanese experimental guitarist Tashi Dorji @dorjitashi.bsky.social at @starandshadow.bsky.social on Monday 6 October. A post-colonial disembowelment of guitar traditions RIYL Derek Bailey, John Fahey and Bill Orcutt www.starandshadow.org.uk/programme/ev...
03.10.2025 10:19 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
One piece of infallible advice I'd pass on to future generations would be to never trust anyone who says they're neither on the left or the right. They're always on the right.
30.09.2025 16:51 β π 40 π 7 π¬ 3 π 1
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MAKE NEWCASTLE MITTELEUROPA AGAIN
30.09.2025 17:22 β π 10 π 7 π¬ 0 π 8
Itβs a stunner!
22.09.2025 12:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Or rather drops Friday!
22.09.2025 11:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Listen Ship, by Henry Threadgill
16 track album
Just dropped. All guitars plus two pianos, so itβs all about the strings. Bill Frisell, Brandon Rossβ¦ henrythreadgill.bandcamp.com/album/listen...
22.09.2025 11:47 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
Seconded! You heard his new one, all guitars?
22.09.2025 11:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0
No words.
17.09.2025 06:01 β π 799 π 446 π¬ 11 π 36
Headline: Scale of βUnite the Kingdomβ march shows free speech βalive and wellβ in UK, says minister β UK politics live
Peter Kyle said he was not βdisturbedβ by huge Tommy Robinson-organised far-right protest but condemns violence against the police
Whether it is out of sheer incompetence or ideological alignment, this government is doing the far right's work
The only consistent thing they have done since getting in power is echo reactionary talking points. There is not one bad faith reactionary tirade they won't lap up and recite.
14.09.2025 12:29 β π 95 π 30 π¬ 1 π 6
Where is Keir Starmer? Where is the leadership?
Fascists marched on our streets yesterday and he hasnβt said a single word.
Instead the Prime Minister spends his time defending the βbest palsβ of paedophiles.
He is a coward. He should resign.
14.09.2025 10:23 β π 1131 π 282 π¬ 57 π 25
Posh lad jazz-rap horrors aside, I do hope that some of the jazz students in the audience will have been put on some righteous paths from hearing James Brandon Lewis and the Fugazi rhythm section up close.
11.09.2025 14:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
...which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it feels a bit secondhand, like they're catching up with the London and LA of a decade ago. Worst bit was when we went to see JBL & Messthetics and a local student band supported. The bandleader put down his horn to rap about his skiing holiday... π³
11.09.2025 14:15 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
My experience of the RC in Glasgow is that it's the classical students who gravitate towards the local experimental/improv scenes. The jazzers have little to do with it, which is a real shame. There's long been folk crossover, but the current ones are going for the groovy stuff...
11.09.2025 14:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Interesting... I think it really depends where you go, who your teachers are, what local scenes you're part of etc.
11.09.2025 13:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Too many conservatoire jazz musicians with really boring taste in guitar music. They need a solid diet of Napalm Death, Bill Orcutt and Ava Mendoza.
10.09.2025 10:53 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Donβt even think itβs good ragtime. It doesnβt do anything characterful or innovative with it (unlike say, Threadgill in the 70s or Jason Moran more recently), itβs just pastiche. Same goes for the classical stuff on there.
10.09.2025 10:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
There are a bunch of βfringeβ events around Newcastle for it, but itβs very much industry led, not much from the grassroots.
10.09.2025 10:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Haha, I just had a quick dip, so Iβm sure youβre right. Guess heβs this yearβs Fergus McCreadie: bourgeois jazz from the Celtic nations.
10.09.2025 10:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The token jazz album βtakes Britpop as inspirationβ π¬ Pleasant enough mainstream piano trio but in a year that has given us outstanding releases by [Ahmed], Pat Thomas, Alex Hawkins et al thatβs really not good enough.
10.09.2025 10:19 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
absolutely rotten stuff. horrible. fuck off
01.09.2025 16:03 β π 543 π 120 π¬ 23 π 33
For the landmark 500th issue @thewiremagazine.bsky.social I had the honour of interviewing the great vocalist, composer & improviser Fay Victor
02.09.2025 15:47 β π 13 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Unquenchable Fire by Deep Listening Band / Joe McPhee Quartet album cover. Illustration of a person in the woods with tree branches/antlers for a face and head.
'McPhee describes #PaulineOliveros as βa philosopher, a poet, an artist, and the most wonderful person in the world.β Oliverosβ Deep Listening Institute commissioned McPhee to write Unquenchable Fire'
First Movement, from Unquenchable Fire (2003) - The Strange World Of #JoeMcPhee
buff.ly/dzdMvjo
26.08.2025 17:00 β π 32 π 6 π¬ 0 π 1
If youβre doing a βdouble tapβ strike on a hospital, youβre a war criminal and a terrorist.
25.08.2025 13:20 β π 2867 π 828 π¬ 67 π 26
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