John

I went to see Lifesigns last week at Future Yard in Birkenhead! They were brilliant, musically tight and didn’t put a note wrong throughout the whole set! Check this band out if you haven’t heard of them. Melodic prog rock at its best!

There have been a few seriously great Brexit commentators but no-one has captured its profoundly sick pathology as well as Fintan O'Toole.

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Donald Rumsfeld got his famous quote on knowns wrong he ignored the unknown knowns

Donald Rumsfeld got his famous quote on knowns wrong: he ignored the unknown knowns, and they are a huge issue in modern politics.

youtu.be/FZGyluRmbIM?...

Hmm. Not really for me sadly. My taste is prog rock and prog metal - largely the antithesis of your style.

Il have a listen and let you know!

It’s Bandcamp Friday. Artists get the whole amount of what you pay! My contribution today…

Listening to Shells, the new album by Everon. Second time and I think it’s a good album.

No second state visit for Trump Unbelievable. Keir Starmer has handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and should not go ahead.  This is the...

Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

I liked The Overview Effect from Jet Black Sea enough to buy it. I thought it would be good to listen to the previous album, Absorption Lines.

And now this album from 2018. The Overview Effect by Jet Black Sea. Very ambient electronic vibe with elements of Tangerine Dream and Pink Floyd.

This arrived in the post today. Friend Of All Creatures, the new album from Pattern-Seeking Animals. Great album without a band note on it!

This tonight. I’ve read the Adrian Tchaikovsky and the Iain M Banks books. Liking what I hear!

YouTube video by Scientists for EU Has Zelenskyy just played Trump?

🔥 Has Zelenskyy just played Trump?

Yes. Yes he has. 🇪🇺🇺🇦

Sophy Ridge calls out President Trump's lies,

"Donald Trump said Ukraine should never have started the war, that is not true, and it should be called out"

Still up. Music and classic Science Fiction.

Something different tonight. Iress.

And now this. Some might argue that Seal isn’t progressive but just listen to his voice, the production and song craft!

I’m new to Mogwai! This is a great album with some real depth and energy to it!

Two recent finds on Bandcamp. Both well worth a listen if you like heavy prog rock. The Lightbringers and The End Of Suffering by Orion - benjones4.bandcamp.com

The ABA supports the rule of law It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accor...

🚨🚨 Timely statement from the American Bar Association on the looming Constitutional Crisis in the US: "The ABA supports the rule of law". Well worth to read the statement in full. 🧵
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

A dried up riverbed with a water-filled emu footprint with a large egg shaped droplet above it and the word EMU above that. Rocks on fire in the background and a bird or pterodactyl flying overhead. All Yellow album artwork for the album EMU by the band EMU.

From Bandcamp tonight. Australian psych/stoner rock.

And currently listening to Peter Gabriel’s Secret World Live and the title track is my favourite on the album!

Some recent listening and wish list additions on Bandcamp.

Abstract artwork of desolate valley with blasted trees and a skeletal tree stump in the foreground with a mountain in the background. Cover art for album Sykofant by the band Sykofant

Tonight’s Bandcamp randomness!

A black and white picture of a woman’s face in left profile with red paint daubed over the hair. Album cover art for Hand. Cannot. Erase by Steven Wilson.

Steven Wilson tonight. Hand. Cannot. Erase! It must be a mood thing with his solo work. Re-listening after initially dismissing it and I quite like this album!

Album cover of Nowhere Highway by Eye 2 Eye. Shadow of a person pointing at a hill across a body of water with three falling point sources of light. Band and album title at the top of the image.

More Eye 2 Eye tonight. Nowhere Highway from 2020.

Sharing is a little different here. I think commenting on the last point allows for others to scroll back and read this rather well written critique of the Rejoin Rants podcast. As a remainer in 2016 and a pragmatist now I despair of large sections of the rejoin camp!

2/ the constant suggestion we could have what we wanted and the solution to any problem would be for the EU & the rest of the world to reorganize themselves to suit Britain’s convenience. After all these years that still hasn’t gone away.

1/ We are back to cake again. Back to the belief that the EU 'should' give us a special deal. And anger that they won't. And yes that all comes back to Brexit, or rather to the failure to be honest about the choices for years after the vote,

So I got a message privately from a contact from the UK concerning this, amounting to:

If you're so in favour of invisible borders and soft edges, why not include the UK?

Firstly, I would like to include the UK. Get on with it?

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