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Friday: I’m in, love

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Friday afternoon, kids absorbed with their mates, finishing up the last knockings of the working week and looking ahead to a weekend of sunshine and f**tb*ll. What better moment to play some new.

As recently essayed elsewhere, I am currently drunk on the glory of life renewed, senses aflame, eyes and heart wide open and enjoying even the most mediocre experiences as if they were manna from the gods themselves. Does this make me an unreliable narrator when it comes to the virtues of recent music? Of course. Was I ever reliable to start with? Probably not. Will I ever stop? Yo, I don’t know.

Posted in the comments below are the 2021 tunes I’ve really been enjoying in recent weeks (Burial aside).

It’s the now customary mishmash of impenetrable Drill, uber-cliched Pop and the occasional power ballad, I’m afraid, but this is what’s on in the kitchen right now and I’m loving it, so who knows – maybe someone on here will too.

Oh, and GY!BE. Dear, sweet, ever-reliable GY!BE. Ploughing what is essentially the same narrow furrow for a quarter of a century without any apparent diminishment in returns. How on earth did they become comfort » Continue Reading.

At last….the CDswap you’ve been looking for all your life is here

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Yes this is the official kick-off and invitation post. This time @vulpes-vulpes has taken the role of ass-kicker in chief to me and @kid-dynamite to get our act together and another CDswap on the road. We have some interested parties and now we have a theme – which as it’s spring, as the pubs are properly open and hey even going to the cinema might be possible again, is NEW. The new, a new… even anew if you want to go Shakepearean. New Orleans, Neu!, new stuff it’s all good. We humbly invite you to join us for this round, in which by compiling twelve tracks on the chosen theme and posting them to two or three compadres, you will receive in return two or three CDs of anonymised musical goodness to rate or slate, while your groupees pass judgement on your efforts.

A full list of those we think want to take part this time round is included in the comments, but as this is the sign-up and kick-off post you are more than welcome to add yourself to the list. If the first paragraph leaves you baffled, full guidance » Continue Reading.

An important circular.

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Here’s something to put in your calendars in advance, to be sure you don’t miss the festivities. It’s going to be one of those ‘had to be there’ celebrations, and I understand that anyone who takes part is on a promise to get their pi arse squared.

The date in question is 3rd January 2041 and the exact time for kick-off will be early in the morning at 59 minutes and 26 seconds past midnight. Set your alarms.