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Superb review. Also check out the other chapters on Ogun Records on the blog including the Introduction, there are links to downloads where available. Great writing about some extraordinary music.

#NowPlaying Tired Lion - Breakfast for Pathetics (2020). Described at the time by NME as 'gloriously grungy anthems of personal growth,' Brisbane based frontwoman Sophie Hopes plays everything bar the drums, she even manages some whistling on an album full of hooks and memorable lyrics.

#NowPlaying Sylvie Kreusch - Comic Trip (2024). Belgian singer/songwriter Sylvie Kreusch's second album, you can play spot the references, from Stereolab to Morricone via The B52's on an album that is engaging throughout.

We all knew this story was coming from the bits and pieces that have already been out there, but however you parse it (and I believe the women, obviously), he seems like a thoroughly odious and abusive individual. I'm always wary of self-declaring feminists. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

'The Roundabout', Hampstead (1923) by Stanley Spencer (Tate)

For anyone who missed last night's upload and for Ivor Cutler fans in general. A treat.

Final series of Bump airs tomorrow and will be available on iPlayer. It's been some journey from that toilet cubicle. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Beatrice Romaine Bradford - married surname Brooks - had a quite extraordinary life, it reads like something out of a Bradford Taylor Bradford novel awaiting adaptation by ITVX.

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Ulla Stina Wikander, Swedish designer who uses household appliances and cooking tools as the base to her cross-stitched sculptures #womensart

#NowPlaying Bad Bunny - Debí Tirar Más Fotos (2025). @djpunctum.bsky.social was right, this really is a very good album.

Watched this last night, absolutely engrossing film featuring a very engaging Keith Jarrett. He's asked at one point what he got out of playing with Miles Davis, "I saw him happy," he replies. No longer on iPlayer so here's a YouTube link. youtu.be/_fB5YXgNX-w?...

This is very sad news, Dean Windass is so relatively young. The phasing out of heading in youth football is the first step, earlier testing for professionals is a must, the Football Brain Health Fund needs serious funding from the sport. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Online restaurant reviews are as random (as our daughter would say) as Amazon reviews, except they never go as far as saying 'I had the cod and chips which I ate for a friend.' How can so many people eat at the same place at the same time and be at polar opposites?

How do you get a huge imbalance between following and followers numbers without ever having posted anything? I'm not a bear with a small brain but to borrow from Elton John, 'All this science I don't understand.'

Farewell to the great Sam Moore, one half of the legendary soul duo Sam & Dave. variety.com/2025/music/o...