🎵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.”
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…
🎵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.
🎵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.
The world’s elites are inextricably linked. Their fates are tied. A defeat for one is a defeat for all. If resistance can work somewhere, it can work everywhere. Knowing this, ruling classes across much of the world are committed to crushing and delegitimising the movement for Palestinian liberation. If the corrupt, authoritarian regimes that govern us permit our protest to move them, we might start to realise that organising works. They need us to believe that resistance is futile.
The tech billionaires, the finance bros, the oligarchs, the corrupt bureaucrats – each of their positions rests on our obedience. That’s what capitalism is: a system of entrenched, institutionalised hierarchy, based on the unflinching obedience of each rung to those above. Workers obey bosses. Citizens obey governments. Debtors obey creditors. Colonies obey empires. The strength of the ruling class anywhere rests on the strength of obedience everywhere.
Grace Blakeley, Resistance Anywhere is Resistance Everywhere
🎵Now Playing: Tame Impala - Glastonbury (2019)
Another old setlist in the run up. This time from Australia’s Tame Impala who put on a brilliant performance on the Other Stage (we chose him instead of Stormzy’s Pyramid set). From what I can remember, a lot of smoke, a lot of lazers, a lot of dancing. Let it happen.
🎵Now Playing: Foo Fighters @ Glastonbury (2017)
2 weeks until Glastonbury! I haven’t packed! I need tent pegs! Argh!
As we head closer to my favourite place on earth, I’ll be listening back to some of my favourite sets from the festival, as well as catching up on the music of artists I’m planning to see. First up from my first ever Glasto in 2017 - it’s Mr Dave Grohl and his band.
🎵Now Playing: Wolf Alice - My Love is Cool (2015)
There’s a new album on the way, and they’re on my list to catch at Glastonbury so I’m going back through the old stuff. It’s good! I played a lot of this album when I was DJing in bars on a Friday afternoons. Sadly I am not in a bar and it is only Tuesday.
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Had a Mac for years and only now discovering Raycast…
🎵Now Playing: Wild Beasts - Present Tense (2014)
I miss Wild Beasts.
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🎵Now Playing: Cameron Winter - Heavy Metal (2024)
Have heard his name banded around a bit, and then saw this performance on Jools Holland and thought I’d give the album a shot. It’s a lovely, strange, folksy, poetic treat.
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The full Glastonbury line-up and (most importantly) stage times are out. Need the app to properly see where the clashes are - SO MUCH CHOICE.
37!
🎵Now Playing: Bat for Lashes - Two Suns (2009)
Bat for Lashes, I’ve not heard that name in years. But this is a stunning album with a song called Daniel that I can pretend is about me. Natasha Khan’s soaring vocals really sell her theatrical indie pop landscape.
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Was at a wedding this weekend so just caught up with the last Match of the Day of the season. Gary Linekar is one of the good guys and he’ll be missed. The montage at the end was something special too. The BBC isn’t perfect but it is essential to British life and must be protected.
The outfit, the commentary, the way she treats it like the dvd sale bin at Woolworths. This Natasha Lyonne video is perfect.
Well that was very 16th vs 17th. ⚽️
I did a Mensa test a couple weeks ago, for fun, and I’ve ended up becoming a member of Mensa. Nerd.
Eurovision is a lot of silly fun really isn’t it. I love silly fun. America could never.
Given the seasons we’ve both had, more should be made of how shocking and bizarre it is that we are contesting a European cup final against Tottenham. ⚽️
Buile Hill Park. 📍
A walk in the park. ☀️🌳
🎵Now Playing: Tune-Yards - Better Dreaming (2025)
It’s always a good day when a new Tune-Yards record is released. Today is that day! (There’s quite a few good records out today)
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🎵Now Playing: Toots & The Maytals - Funky Kingston (1973)
Continuing with the reggae theme we move from one legend to another in Toots and his Maytals. I was lucky enough to see them play at midnight on the Truth Stage in Shangri-La at Glastonbury 2017 and they were still going strong. This is a classic.
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