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🎵Now Playing: Tame Impala - Deadbeat (2025)

I should start doing a Now Playing post every Friday, as it’s always new album release day. Well let’s start now shall we? Today is the new one from Tame Impala. This is definitely continues the path taken at Currents through The Slow Rush into making him a sure-fire Festival Headliner (Glasto 2027 anyone?) with beats that are definitely not dead. I do miss the guitar riffs though.

Favourite Tracks:

  • Dracula
  • Loser
  • Obsolete
  • Afterthought
  • End Of Summer

🎵Now Playing: Boy Azooga - 1, 2, Kung Fu! (2018)

Welcome to another edition of “I totally forgot this band existed!” Really fun alt-indie. I used to play Face Behind Her Cigarette a lot at the bar where I DJed. Sigh.

I just Googled them and I never knew they were Welsh! I always thought they were American. Sadly they seem to be inactive now, but I hope they return one day.

Favourite Tracks:

  • Loner Boogie
  • Face Behind her Cigarette
  • Jerry
  • Sitting on the First Rock From the Sun

🎵Now Playing: Geese - Getting Killed (2025)

I loved Cameron Winter’s solo album and now I think Geese might be on their way to being the best band on the planet.

Favourite Tracks:

  • 100 Horses
  • Taxes
  • Long Island City Here I Come

Across Canada: Toronto

This is one of a series of posts about my trip to Canada. Most posts about this trip can be found here. This was it then, the end of the holiday. But what a place to end it. I didn’t have a huge amount planned for Toronto. A friend of a friend whom I’d met a couple of times in Manchester lived there, and I thought she might have some recommendations—but she ended up being a wonderful guide.

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I’ll be posting the final blogs from my Canada trip soon. I hope they’ve been at least vaguely interesting to read. I’ll probably revisit the posts over time to edit and add photos, but I’m glad I made the effort to record the experience. I’ll get better with practice.

Across Canada: Kingston

This one of a series of posts about my trip to Canada. Most posts about this trip can be found here. After the Pulp gig I had a coach to catch the next day, which took three and a half hours. Clearly, five days looking out of a window on a train wasn’t enough. I was headed to Kingston, one of the oldest cities in (modern) Canada and its first capital.

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Across Canada: Winnipeg to Toronto

This one of a series of posts about my trip to Canada. Most posts about this trip can be found here. Lakes. So many lakes. You think you’ve seen lakes? I’ve seen lakes. There are 250,000 lakes in the state of Ontario which is 1/5 of all the freshwater on the planet. A stat I couldn’t quite believe until I’d seen all the lakes. By the final day I was extremely ready to not be on a train, especially at night where I was managing a half decent sleep but my back and bones were aching and my skin was crying out for a proper shower.

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🎵Now Playing: Fishmans - Kuuchuu Camp (1996)

I don’t know how or why Fishmans ended up on my “Albums to listen to” playlist but I’m very glad I did. Some 90s Japanese dream/trip/psych pop was what I needed this afternoon (I have forgotten how to do my job).

Favourite Tracks:

  • Baby Blue
  • Night Cruising
  • Subarashikute Nice Choice

Landed back from Canada last night. I have a few more posts to write to catch you up (not that anyone reads them) but safe to say, it was a brilliant time. What a country.

Across Canada: Jasper to Winnipeg

This one of a series of posts about my trip to Canada. Most posts about this trip can be found here. The mountains lost their angles and the gradient started to even off and all that was left was flat. Now, in the UK you might think you know what a flat landscape is. But now. This is Flat. This is flatter than Flat Eric, and flat pack furniture. The horizon stretches out way way out and the vast horizon line totally circles you.

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Across Canada: Vancouver to Jasper

This one of a series of posts about my trip to Canada. Most posts about this trip can be found here. The train station had a queue already when I arrived. I had pre checked my bag and stood in line with the rest of my economy travellers. Looking around it was clear I was on the young side of those boarding. I would begin to loathe some of these people.

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Across Canada: Vancouver

This one of a series of posts about my trip to Canada. Most posts about this trip can be found here. I can’t think of another city as surrounded by beauty as Vancouver. The Pacific, the parks, the mountains, it’s all here. All massive and stunning. Nature feels inescapable. It wraps around anything man-made and treats it like Lego left behind by a child. On my first day I explored Stanley Park.

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Across Canada: Edmonton

This one of a series of posts about my trip to Canada. Most posts about this trip can be found here. I’m writing this on the plane on the wayo Vancouver after spending a wonderful 4 days in Edmonton spending time with family, some of whom I haven’t seen in 10 years. The flight from Manchester was long. 18 hours travelling and back through various time zones does take it out of you so I pretty much went straight to bed when I arrived at my aunts.

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There’s so many unnecessary things in an airport. Why are you trying to do me a deal on 3 bottles of gin. Why is there a space for gamblers. Why is a Kit Kat £2.50.

🎵Now Playing: Villagers - Becoming a Jackal (2010)

I’m stressing at work trying to cram everything in before the big trip. And Villagers can whisk me away into an indie-folk ethereal world while I deal with data. A stunning, lyrical album full of emotion and pictures.

Favourite Tracks:

  • I Saw the Dead
  • Becoming a Jackal
  • The Meaning of the Ritual
  • Home
  • Twenty Seven Strangers