David N Atkinson

10/10: Peter Jefferies, Captain Beefheart
9/10: Marisa Anderson, Joni Mitchell
8/10: Spiritualized, Bill Frisell, Pet Shop Boys
7/10: Suede, OMD, Allen Toussaint
6/10: Dua Lipa, Avalanches, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
5/10: Motörhead, Allah-Las
4/10: Rosetta Hightower
1/10: Elton John

I have genuinely just listened to 17 different songs called ‘Electricity’

BBC Radio 4 - Children of the Stones The Stones are calling you. Do you feel the shiver?

(Not a film, obvs, but) the BBC did a new adaptation recently on R4, icymi: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

BBC Radio 3 - Late Junction, At home with Kate Carr Jennifer Lucy Allan pays a visit to the London studio of field recordist Kate Carr.

Twiddling my radio dial just now and happily stumbled upon @k8carr.bsky.social on Late Junction

Don’t Look Back (The Temptations) 9/10
Don’t Look Back (Teenage Fanclub) 9/10

Total score 18

'Iconic structure' in Whitby set to be removed due to high repair costs North Yorkshire Council is set to push ahead with the decommissioning of Whitby’s Cliff Lift as local councillors are set to debate the issue at a…

‘She said, the lift doesn’t work’

😄

Bought a lot of my records from Boots, which seems a bit odd these days

Here I Come twelve inch single

#NowPlaying

Yep. Reggae was just: around. Barrington Levy’s 1984 single Here I Come was one of the first records I ever bought – not from an inner-city specialist record shop, but from Woolworths in Whitby (population 12k)

Donate to Rebuilding stronger after the recent Arson Attack, organized by Peacehaven Mosque View our statement here: https://www.peacehavenmosque.co.uk/ S… Peacehaven Mosque needs your support for Rebuilding stronger after the recent Arson Attack

Help the community of Peacehaven mosque rebuild after the hate crime that targeted them last weekend

I liked the name Fisty Kendal more before I realised it was a pun

Yusef Lateef was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on this day in 1920

📸 Val Wilmer

YouTube video by Laura Kampf They broke my bench...!!!

‘Imagine a world where things are repaired one more time than they are broken’

هند رامي اياد رجب Hind Rami Iyad Rajab 5 years old Israeli gunfire 29 January 2024 “I’m so scared, please come,” were some of the last words Hind said in a telephone call to rescuers after her family’s car came under fire in Gaza City as they attempted to flee approaching Israeli forces. Hind’s uncle, aunt and three cousins were killed initially. Hind and another cousin, 15-year-old Layan, survived and contacted the Palestine Red Crescent Society. Layan was later also killed, having made a harrowing call for help herself. “They are shooting at us. The tank is right next to me. We’re in the car, the tank is right next to us,” Layan screamed in a clip shared on social media, amid intense gunfire in the background, before she went quiet and the gunfire stopped. Hind was left stranded in the vehicle for hours on the phone, surrounded by her dead relatives, as paramedics attempted to rescue her. The rescue team eventually arrived in the area, but contact was lost with them and Hind. Hind and the paramedics were later also found killed. A Forensic Architecture investigation concluded that an Israeli tank had likely fired 335 rounds on the car

‘Hind was left stranded in the vehicle for hours on the phone, surrounded by her dead relatives, as paramedics attempted to rescue her […] Hind and the paramedics were later found killed […] an Israeli tank had likely fired 335 rounds on the car’

Bar chart representing the ages of the children known to have been killed by Israel in Gaza between October 2023 and July 2025. There are hundreds and hundreds of circles in each bar.

‘Each circle represents a child’

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Lise Meitner - Wikipedia

Today's reading begins with Lise Meitner, who co-discovered nuclear fission (she wrote the paper!) and was in general an INCREDIBLE trailblazing scientist.

Except, as a Jew, she had to flee Nazi Germany to Sweden and lost her professorship in Berlin. The men she worked with got the prize instead 🧪🔭

Not sure whether to be encouraged or disheartened by the discovery that ‘T S Eliot’s own magazine, the Criterion, had a circulation of around 400’

‘I want to hear harmonica in the strip club!’: the bold ideas and bleak visions of British musician Klein Drone albums, vampire plays, Charlotte Church duets … the Londoner has an inspiringly odd CV. She explains how the disrupted experience of Black daily life fills her work

Nice to see Klein getting some attention

bid big: do good; look fly

😻 Découvrez mes caractères typographiques Astronef Base & Astronef Super.

Ici, en Français (et Anglais) j’explique ses influences multiples:
typofonderie.com/fr/gazette/t...

Tempted …

Ooh, I missed this too. 👏👏👏
He’s playing my local venue this weekend 🙂
…
It’s sold out 🙁

Psychic Warfare Department, by Chester Watson 23 track album

#NowPlaying Chester Watson – Psychic Warfare Department (POW Recordings, 2025)

YouTube video by The Watersons - Topic The Lincolnshire Shepherd

I love the Watersons’ version of this song based on the yan tan tethera counting system.
(Info & lyrics here: mainlynorfolk.info/watersons/so...)

Ha 😄

Literally her best single

Seven inch single of Too Much Time by Working Week

Working Week’s Captain Beefheart cover is a bit of a favourite in our house

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis

Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr

Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.

And you're cutting... the sleeper?

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...