Alright mate? This is the digital home of Daniel Savage, a small man who is trying very hard to exist.
Dave Rupert on his blog writes: I don’t have the capital to start my own Fourth Estate university or newspaper. But I do have this blog. A minor stake in the Fifth Estate. But my blog plus your blog, mix in some RSS and the power of sharing interesting blogs and podcasts… we might make a dent. The indie-web (or however you want to call it) can be a powerful antidote to the billionaire owned assets and propaganda tools.
🎵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. ⚽️
Sean Morley, writing for Now Then Magazine: Every major political party seems to be operating under the belief that Reform UK supporters have five votes each and everyone who doesn’t want to pneumatically press disabled people into an impacted cube is unable to fill out a ballot card. We live in the (disenfranchised back of) the imperial core. Here, bigotry is always on the menu. Every policy dogwhistles pied piperishly at sunburnt pink-faced pint goblins who would sink the Titanic with a nuclear warhead if they heard there was a refugee on board.
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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🎵Now Playing: Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus (1977)
It is hot and ☀️ in the UK this week and so what else, but reggae. I thought I’d start with Bob and move onwards from there. I don’t think I’ve heard this album in it’s entirety before. Great.
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A run down of everything I’ve consumed this month. April was warm and the extra daylight has been great for the old menty hel (mental health).
🎵Now Playing: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz! (2009)
I thought I didn’t know what I wanted to listen this afternoon, but yes yes yes it’s Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
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Peel Park. 📍
First festival of the year and it’s down the road.
It is a sad, angry, unpleasant island - but at least we have a new series of Taskmaster.
First ice cream of the year🍦☀️
Trying the Glastonbury resale. The two green bars taunt me again.
Work is currently at the stage where I need background noise rather than full albums. But Sault just released another album out of the blue (that seemed to die and resurrect over the Easter weekend). I intend to listen to all 10 again over the next week or two.
Daniel Savage