🎵Now Playing: Gwenno - Utopia (2025)
Saw her live twice this year, and both time she was unaccompanied on the piano. Great, but when you hear the songs in full production they soar in a different way. This new album is great.
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“If you’re at a good restaurant, get the fish. If you’re at an okay restaurant, get the steak. If you’re at a bad restaurant, get chips.”
🎵Now Playing: Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 (1972)
RIP Ozzy 🦇
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Finished reading 2025: Call for the Dead (George Smiley #1) by John le Carré 📚 Just finished Call for the Dead by John le Carré. Really enjoyed it. It’s exactly my sort of thing: pre-internet England, spies and spycraft, the dull administration and obsessive attention to detail, rather than the sexed-up James Bond version (though I enjoy that too). I wanted to be a spy when I was a kid. Not sure I would now, but there’s a certain romanticism to it in these books.
🎵Now Playing: Wet Leg - moisturizer (2025)
The new songs all sounded good when I saw them at Glasto, but I don’t think it quite hits the heights of their debut.
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Just booked my accommodation for the Vancouver leg of my Canada trip in September. Ten years since I last went, very excited already! 🇨🇦
🎵Now Playing: Fontaines D.C. @ Finsbury Park
Saw this gig with my own eyes, down in that there London. Top stuff all around, great support from Amyl & the Sniffers and politicians favourite Kneecap. A fun day out, good weather and even better company. Momentary bliss, indeed.
Some amazing space photography here. My favourite is the Dragon Tree: Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 Shortlist
“Friendly reminder: the brain is not a computer, the body is not a machine.”
A run down of everything I’ve consumed this month, and I have certainly had my fill this month. Glastonbury being the highlight of course. I’m sorry but this is a Glasto fan account.
Fontaines D.C at the weekend were great, but with that and Glastonbury I’ve had enough fun for the forseeable. Next up, planning and finalising my trip around Canada 🍁
Last minute trip to London today. Because Glasto wasn’t enough apparently…
My 6th time at the greatest place on earth, and the reason to have hope in humanity. I went with a fantastic group of friends who I love and who love music and dancing and wringing every last drop of life out of the 5 days we’re allowed to be free. The following are all quotes overheard somewhere in a field in Somerset… The safest way is the tit. Oh no, my water baby.
🎵Now Playing: Gwenno @ Glastonbury (2025)
Yes, I’m back from Glasto. I’ve just about recovered, my mind and body are about 75% but my soul is still flying free. I’m back at work and thought I would relive the first act I saw while I try to remember exactly what it is I do. This was on the beautiful tree stage in Woodsies on the Thursday. I was sat in the sun with my friends, and was a perfect way to ease into it.
I’m sad, can’t speak and everything hurts. Worth it.
Out of office is on. Alarm set for 4am. It’s happening.
It’s good to look up sometimes.
A perk of living in an “upside down” house is that my bedroom is now the coldest room and I can get a decent nights sleep in the heat.
Behold! I have returned from a hike. I was in the Lake District this weekend. My parents were there on holiday for the week, and my brother, sister-in-law, and six-month-old niece were also visiting. Savages assemble. We’re all keen hikers, and it’s my brother’s mission to complete all the Wainwright peaks. This time, the target was Silver Howe. Silver Howe is one of the smaller fells, standing at 395 metres, just above Grasmere and not far from Ambleside.
🎵Now Playing: Foals @ Glastonbury (2022)
Glastonbury returned in 2022 after a two-year hiatus (for some reason?? I can’t remember why?) and Foals on the Other Stage was a great moment for the indie Millennials to dust off their dance moves. A great career-spanning set from one of the 00’s best bands.