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Here’s Episode 122 of The 157 Show!
Packed with almost 2 hours of new music, live gig reviews and The Hanley Hoedown too!!
Featuring Tunes from US, Canada, Australia, Netherlands, Portugal, France, UK and the Peoples’ Republic of Medway!
Enjoy Responsibly!!

www.mixcloud.com/Darren157/th...

🧡LISTENING PARTY FROM 7PM🧡

The @indieover40.bsky.social radio show with Steve Williamson

👂Link goes live at 6:55pm: mixcloud.com/live/vpraudioclub

Cruising towards the end of 2025 - lock in for another healthy dose of indie fun with Steve Williamson and the Everything Indie Over 40 community!

A reminder it’s the best Thursday of the month 👇

I did know that but had forgotten! Great band name😎 She is lovely to talk to as well. One of life’s good people I think.
“Monster” is a great song in my opinion.

‘Pictures unite!’: how pop music fell in love with socialist infographics When Austrian philosopher Otto Neurath invented the visual language of Isotypes, it was to democratise education. As a new exhibition shows, it ended up influencing pop art, graphic design and electro...

I wrote this for the Guardian about the Otto Neurath / Isotype exhibition at Wien Museum.
(feat. Neurath fan Andy McCluskey of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark)

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Watch Stewart Lee Interview The Fall's Steve Hanley Ahead of New Audiobook | The Quietus First published in 2015, Steve Hanley’s memoir The Big Midweek (co-written with Olivia Piekarski) details his 19 years as the ‘backbone’ of The Fall. Perhaps second only to Mark E. Smith himself when ...

Great piece in @thequietus.com today featuring a video of our mate Stewart Lee interviewing his mate @stephenhanley6.bsky.social about his memoir that Stew has just narrated for a soon to be released audiobook! The watch is less exhausting than this post! 💥 #thefall

thequietus.com/news/watch-s...

I'd never quite realised just how many of the good folks that I follow on here were from North of the border! As a football person myself I couldn't help but be enthralled by what unfolded in the latter stages of last night's game. Congrats to all of you!
Even as an Englishman wow! #3Worldies

Seen them a couple of times including at Green Man this year and they are absolutely top drawer!!

Two records for £30, bargain!!

Shapes Like People - 'Ticking Haze' (2025) & The Shop WIndow - 'Daysdream' (2024)

#vinylsky #musicsky #janglepop #indiepop #dreampop #shoegaze #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity

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shapeslikepeople.bandcamp.com/album/tickin...

Indie Top 20 Life, Remembered Indie Top 20, eighties, nineties, alternative

They do, yes - they were just rebadged. I actually did a whole blog about these years ago and Chet Selwood, who set up the series with his sister Bee, got in touch and gave me a bunch of information:
indietop20.blogspot.com/2021/01/indi...

Thank you and you'll be on the next show too as part of my review of live gigs👍

An absolute bonus Marc but word limits and things😂😂

Whether you're a fan of The Fall or not The Big Midweek by @stephenhanley6.bsky.social is quite possibly one of the best music biographies ever written.
It's now available for the first time as an audiobook!
Add it to your Xmas list😎

Details in @marcrileydj.bsky.social post below⬇️

Some very exciting news! The Big Midweek - which follows ⁦‪@stephenhanley‬⁩6.bsky.social 19 years in The Fall is available to pre order from TODAY in Audiobook form! 💥 Narrated by Stewart Lee! Published on 26th November! 💥 www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Big-M... or www.amazon.co.uk/Big-Midweek-... !!

What an excellent listen this playlist is proving to be! 60's girl bands, post-punk sounds and loads more besides.
Here's some free advice for everybody: Find yourselves 3 hours to listen to this!!

🔴 Contra2025 - NEW YORK

Bands/Artists from New York & songs about or mentioning New York

Listen🎧: www.mixcloud.com/Contraflow/c...

#mixcloud #200th #playlist #newyork

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Newish bar?

Thanks for listening Clive👍🏻👍🏻

Here’s Episode 121 of The 157 Show!
Packed with almost 2 hours of new music, live gig reviews and The Hanley Hoedown too!!
Featuring Tunes from US, Canada, Australia, Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, UK and the Peoples’ Republic of Medway!
Enjoy Responsibly!!

www.mixcloud.com/Darren157/th...

I rarely do politics on social media but this is an outstanding piece of journalism from a team at Sky News on the way that algorithms on "X" affect what you receive in your feed.
Have a (10 min) read and make your own mind up
NB
I deactivated my X account 2 years ago after 14 years on Twitter/X

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

😂😂😂

Surprise Cast #210 The Cords Podcast Episode · Surprise Cast · 30/10/2025 · 1h 3m

Here’s a new h.i. Art On The Edge Surprise Cast featuring The Cords

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

OK. It's a long 3 part message as there is lots to tell you.

I'll DM you

Hey👋 You good? xx

Much obliged Sir. By the way your work on the "Fiery Jack" t-shirt from the Grotesque (After The Gramme) Live album makes it one of my favourite t-shirts ever!!

This is a brilliant thread of Horror Comic Book covers based on a fantastic selection of songs (which may as well have been based on my own record collection!)
Scroll through and marvel at the talent shown by Mark. Time well spent indeed😎
Personal favourite (unsurprisingly) is New Face In Hell.