🏳️‍🌈 ⚧️ THRaKaTTaKeR 🤘🏻🏳️‍⚧️

Gig bill: Botch, Cave In, Isis, Hangfiredisaster

Good Lord. THIS is a gig line-up! 🤯

I’ll forever be miffed that they bottled out of calling this album, “Tonight, Matthew, We’re Going To Be…”!

Didn’t even know there was a US take.

“Martyrs” 😮‍💨

Uboa

I think there’s a very good chance @uboatheflesh.bsky.social is my artist of the year again, just as she was in 2024! And she may have provided my favourite track of this year too… 🫶🏻🔥

Didn’t even know that this was out! 👴🏻

If it’s safe to call the 1980s the decade of thrash, it’s kind of funny that the best thrash album ever didn’t even come out in that decade!

Happy 60th to #Björk! 🥳

God bless pay day! #YellowEyes

I removed 🦋 from my phone’s home screen so as to help reduce my doom scrolling. As such I have to go into Apps to search for it and open it back up every time. 🦋 is regularly as low as in the 40s now in terms of popularity. Sad.

@michaelshallcross.bsky.social

YouTube video by Swallow - Topic Head in a Cave

Totally obsessed with the “Blowback” version of Swallow’s ‘Head in a Cave’ from 1992. Compliments the Uboa fest I had earlier!

contact mic’d snow sculpture heckled by seagulls

YouTube video by Luar Furtado Nat King Cole - Lush Life

How it’s taken me 34 years to discover that ‘Love Rears Its Ugly ahead’ by Living Colour contains a 13 second sample of ‘Lush Life’ by Nat ‘King’ Cole, I don’t know! 🤯

Absolute belter of a film

I saw them at Supersonic festival in Brum back in 2010. They were a presence to behold.

Snap. Funnily enough I listened to the collected works of Body Haters/Body Lovers yesterday. I’d never done it before. Loved it. How’s new 🦢 🦢?

Anybody else working on AOTY lists?

Protection, by Fashiongore & Uboa track by Fashiongore & Uboa

By my reckoning @uboatheflesh.bsky.social has released about 65 minutes of music this year across a mini album (“All The Dead Melt Down As Rain”), a split with Whitehorse, and various miscellany. All of it is deep and powerful stuff. #Uboa

vermeer, by DOOR EATER track by DOOR EATER

I’m new to #AdaRook, and thus #DoorEater. This is good stuff though. Black metal, noise, noise rock, bit of melodic skramz in the riffs…

YouTube video by Living Colour Ignorance Is Bliss (Live 1993) - Living Colour

The. Shit. #LivingColour

Ah yes! 👓

Found this image of back of cover from an eBay sale. Can’t see any region coding details annoyingly.

Cover of Black Christmas Blu-Ray

Tech spec of my Blu-Ray player.

Map of Blu-Ray region codes

🚨 Calling UK/US 🦋 film/Blu-Ray nerds! I’m considering buying the NTSC 2-disc collectors edition Blu-Ray of “Black Christmas” (1974). My player (see photo) is Region 2 (DVD)/Region B (Blu-Ray). NTSC seems to be Region A. I’m always a tad sceptical of such tech parameters! Should I risk it? 🤔

I’d been taking an early lead (Def Leppard, Alice Cooper, Scorpions, Living Colour, Faith No More, Deerhoof, Yoko Ono, Delta 5, even Napalm Death [‘You Suffer’]).

YouTube video by SpiceGirlsVEVO Spice Girls - Stop (Official Music Video)

Came back in when it had finished. Our daughter asked for ‘Stop’ (Spice Girls banger!) to be put on. I agreed only if her mam showed her the dance moves she still remembers. Wife acts all shy. But can’t help herself, boogying along. Daughter copying her. I literally start greeting. #SoftLad 😭

The strangest thing happened today. My wife has edged ahead of me in the “Seventh Son”-style manipulation of our daughter’s music tastes, getting her into Spice Girls and 1 Direction. We put on some old Spice Girls videos. I had to leave the room during ‘Mama’ - lump in my throat! 🥺

Impeccable! What a run!

Our 2 yo son’s two favourite songs are ‘Pink Pony Club’ by #ChappellRoan and ‘Lemonade’ by #SOPHIE. I am very proud!

That’s some sweet cover art!