Even if Hallowe'en and trick or treating really gets on your tits you should suspend your cynicism for as long as it takes to listen ...

In this short film Billy Chyldish and family launch thirty-one CTMF dazzle ships into the Thames estuary. Each dazzle ship carries one gre...

Warpaint, whose first album Exquisite Corpse I loved and second album I liked a bit less if I'm honest (though I did like the single ...

While everyone pays tribute, quite rightly, to Lou Reed's street poetry, use of a minimal number of chords, black clad rock 'n' ...

Today I am staving off the effects of this foul weather with calypso from Lord Kitchener (not the man who organised recruitment into the ...

The early Big Audio Dynamite songs and lps are easy to praise and admire. Some of the later stuff seemed less so but I really like this 1...

You don't need me to tell you why Lou Reed's passing today aged 71 is so significant, or to add to what will be a tidal wave of b...

I heard this Roddy Frame song somewhere on the internet recently, from his 1998 album The North Star. I sort of meant to get it at the ti...

Twice in a day with the Weatherall connections. A live set from Andrew Weatherall and Sean Johnstone at one of their A Love From Outer Sp...

The Boiler Room hosted a night recently where Andrew Weatherall and Ivan Smagghe were set the challenge of trying to out-weird each other, s...

October 25th is also my wife's birthday- I hadn't forgotten this morning, no no no, I just thought I'd link it to Friday nigh...

October 25th is Keeping It Peel Day across the internet. I've taken part previously- the sound of John Peel's voice followed by s...

                                                                  The Poet's Muse by William Oxen This is from an e.p. called Today,...

I haven't posted any old-school Andrew Weatherall for some time- at least I don't think I have, it's easy to lose track. This...

I've heard this song crop up a few times in different circumstances over the last week or two and where the blog's concerned I ...

As well as the beefy indie-dance Andrew Weatherall remix of Jagwar Ma's Come Save Me single there's this remix by The Pachanga Bo...

I am developing an unfortunate habit of missing gigs I'd like to go to. This Friday Lloyd Cole is playing Sale's Waterside Arts C...

Sorry about the delay- I got caught up in a few family things and went out for tea and suffered the slowest service known to man. Earli...

Today, at 11.37 precisely, the Frank Sidebottom statue pictured above will be unveiled in Timperley Village (opposite the Nat West). The...

On this Saturday morning in October, for no reason other than it came to mind last night, I present to you.... the greatest techno record...