Matt Nida

My article for the latest edition of The Fence - about the life, death and afterlife of the comedy panel show - is now online at their website!

My account of the life, death and afterlife of the comedy panel show for @thefence.bsky.social is now online to read for free!

feat @kaye.bsky.social @cosmicchambo.bsky.social and more!

Three album covers are displayed, each with distinct artwork and styles, featuring abstract art, bold text with graphic imagery, and a black-and-white portrait.

Listening diary: weeks 3-4, 2026: https://mattnida.com/2026/01/24/listening-diary-weeks.html

New York Television is a new online community television station from @kaye.bsky.social (who records wonderful music as Time Wharp). This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time.

timezones permitting, I would 100% tune in for this!

Flyer for The Really Strange Record Club at Dreamhouse Records, Thursday 3rd July, 7:30pm. The picture is of Brian Eno and John Cale being all "arty", and they're not wearing any shoes.

And join us for the next one! Thursday 3rd July! Full details on reallystrangerecord.club!

A Trip to The Really Strange Record Club There aren’t a lot of places in London where you can go for a pint and expect to hear a 1950s record called ‘My Pussy Belongs to Daddy’, but Dreamhouse Records is one of them– at least it is when the ...

🚨 @pulpyfiction.bsky.social wrote a really lovely essay for @ihavethatonvinyl.com about my East London music social, the Really Strange Record Club. Thrilled to bits with this, have a read here: ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/a-tri...

recent work from me!!

A Trip to The Really Strange Record Club There aren’t a lot of places in London where you can go for a pint and expect to hear a 1950s record called ‘My Pussy Belongs to Daddy’, but Dreamhouse Records is one of them– at least it is when the ...

part 2: we have a fantastic, interesting essay from @pulpyfiction.bsky.social about a really strange record club ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/a-tri...

Obviously there's been a ton of takes on the #DoctorWho finale already, but none asking the crucial question: what was it like to watch this at 3am with food poisoning? Available now wherever podcasts are found!

Promo pic for I’ll Explain Later’s Wish World/The Reality War episode, featuring a picture of Ncuti Gatwa as ‘John Smith’ in a pinstripe suit and bowler hat.

🚨 🚨 NEW EPISODE!! Yes, our I’LL EXPLAIN NOW strand finally kicks into gear for our review of WISH WORLD/THE REALITY WAR. @mattnida.com battles his guts and @jwestjourno.bsky.social *marvels* (geddit?!) at RTD’s influences. LISTEN NOW! illexplainlater.com

YouTube video by The Beach Boys - Topic Honkin' Down The Highway (Remastered 2000)

Obviously people are correctly posting bangers from Pet Sounds etc, but I'd like the record to also reflect just how much pleasure my 7 year-old gets from this song. Goodnight Brian. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGFs...

a man wearing a brown leather jacket is smiling in front of a disney+ logo Alt: A gif of Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor wearing a brown leather jacket and clicking his fingers.

Hi @illexplainlater.bsky.social fans - both of you will be wondering where our pulse-pounding I’LL EXPLAIN NOW finale covering the series closing two parter has got to. Fear not, as it drops next week!

Happy Birthday Brad!!

personally i just want to post to my friends and read my friends’ posts, and maybe find other people to connect with who could be friends. i don’t want Larger Debate. i don’t want to be in a marketplace of ideas. i don’t want algorithms or ads. i just want to be able to talk to my friends

Proud Wire subscriber here. You should subscribe too. It's sensational value for the worlds it opens up to the adventurous listener, and the online archive (back to the 80s!) is astonishing.

Hair! Teeth! International conflict! All this and more on the latest installment of knockabout Doctor Who podcast @illexplainlater.bsky.social - listen now!

First heard this song in my teens and liked its vibe. Heard it again a few years back (in my late 30s, having lost a few people along the way) and started sobbing uncontrollably in public. Which is basically what it's about. A high watermark on so many levels.

Oh for the days when being a Doctor Who critic meant tossing around a few phrases like "Holmesian double act" and "pseudo-historical" and calling it a day. #DoctorWho

Promo pic for I’ll Explain Later’s double episode reviewing The Story & the Engine and The Interstellar Song Contest, with images of Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor and Rylan as Rylan.

🚨 🚨 NEW EPISODE!! I’ll Explain NOW is proud to present a double-header, exploring THE STORY & THE ENGINE and THE INTERSTELLAR SONG CONTEST: two lighthearted romps with barely a ripple of discourse about them. Listen now! illexplainlater.com

YouTube video by Edward Younger The Human League - All I Ever Wanted

HUMAN LEAGUE - All I Ever Wanted, 2001.

The whole Secrets album is among their best work, the titanium-grade Nine Inch Nails production sound still hits.

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

YouTube video by Dead or Alive - Topic Isn't It a Pity?

DEAD OR ALIVE - Isn't It A Pity, 2000.

An unexpectedly moving moment of self-aware introspection. "I'm a kind of hybrid of the cartoon and the feature" is a breathtaking lyric.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jsu...

Gif of the Fifth Doctor giving Peri that bat stuff to cure her Spectrox toxaemia in The Caves of Androzani.

*ILL* EXPLAIN LATER! Alas, a medical malaise - feared to be Spectrox toxaemia - has struck the @illexplainlater.bsky.social crew, so no The Story & the Engine hot take this week. But never fear - we’ll be back very soon to continue our Season Two/Series 15 chat!

"You know who else loved Sinners?"
- cool vicar

Loved this week's newsletter, and listened to the first show which is wonderful. Now on a detour to listen the Astra interview you posted then will come back for the other two eps. Inspiring work as always.

We brought this up the closing minutes of the ep. I think it's basically an "allowable" plot hole to set up the rug-pull reveal that Conrad's a bad dude, but it doesn't really stack up that he's got a huge conspiracist following and a ton of Patreon subscribers yet isn't on Ruby's (or UNIT's) radar

I've used this one - thank you so much, I wishlisted the album when you announced it and am very excited to download and spend some proper time with it.

Here I am, on a podcast episode about an episode about a podcast. #DoctorWho

Action Against ASGSF Changes (Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund) Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Adoptive families are yet another group whose lives are about to get a lot harder because of the UK government's asinine approach to "fiscal rectitude".
It would mean a lot to families like mine if you could sign the petition below.
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