djpunctum.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Chapter 23 of Uncorrected Bound Proof got bumped from today because of, well, the passing of Bill Fay, but it'll be up on Tuesday evening.

submitted 33 minutes ago • 1 comment

tbf this is to free both mind and space up for the NEXT BUT ONE Then Play Long post which at the time of writing I have absolutely no idea how I'm going to tackle.

submitted 49 minutes ago • 0 comments

On his 70th birthday as well. I pass this assessment without comment to uber-HJ fan @matthewjrudd.bsky.social for his perusal.

submitted 51 minutes ago • 2 comments

Well there's a way to spend a Sunday afternoon at home. Wrote three blog posts, including today's CoM Bill Fay tribute, tomorrow's Ogun Records blog post and next week's Then Play Long post. Tony Hancock didn't realise how easy he had it in the fifties. I'm bloody knackered.

submitted 53 minutes ago • 0 comments

Repost the first album I bought with my own money? If you mean money I actually earned as opposed to pocket money from my parents, then it was these two which I bought with money from my summer job. John Menzies, Hamilton, July 1978 (that's where I bought the records, not where I worked):

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

Bill Fay interview on Radio 4's Today programme, 11th September 2012 youtube.com/watch?v=wXkE...

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

BRILLIANT TREES and GONE TO EARTH are two of the quietest albums that shake my soul. Happy birthday to David Sylvian. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2020/01/29/t...

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

"It can’t carry on like this for ever … it has to accumulate in something"

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Church Of Me on Bill Fay: cookham.blogspot.com/2025/02/one-...

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Oh yes, and grow up, try doing that as well. Right; unlike some people here, I have work to do. Back in a few hours.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Boys (it's ALWAYS boys, of all ages). Before you do your Rik Young Ones impression here, think of the people you might inadvertently offend; for instance, those who have been educated at Oxbridge. Don't subsequently complain that nobody buys your books because guess what there's a connection.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Oh dear. I went to Oxford. I liked it so much I stayed there for twenty years. And we were getting on so well, too #blocked

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

RIP Gwen McCrae. Another superb singer has left us. Here's a playlist celebrating her brilliant work from deep soul through fabulous funk to joyous disco open.spotify.com/playlist/2dL...

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

"Human beings change over time" shock horror box of Kleenex probe

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Nevertheless, all normal blogging stuff suspended for the day because I need to write about Bill Fay today. Coming up later when I've done the writing.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

RIP Bill Fay 😔

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

R.I.P. Bill Fay. The cult favorite British folk artist experienced a career revival when he returned to music decades after his second album (1971’s ‘Time of The Last Persecution’) and went on to record three LPs for Dead Oceans. Fay passed away in London this morning. He was 81. 🤍

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Bill Fay, cult folk great, dead at 81 www.brooklynvegan.com/bill-fay-cul...

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

RIP Bill Fay youtu.be/BDORuVyHjtU

submitted 16 hours ago • 7 comments

Today is Observer Food Monthly Sunday. It's a great edition, so please do pick up a print copy. Here's my column, which went online on Thursday as a curtain raiser: as it says, all the grandiose things I have said across 180 columns, in summary.

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

Then read what I wrote about one of the best of all NOWs: nobilliards.blogspot.com/2015/02/vari...

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

The first recorded cover of a Bowie song, this #DeeperX

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Irreducible classic. Finished Sympathy #DeeperX

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

RIP Disco/R&B singer Gwen McCrae, 81, best known for 1975’s huge hit “Rockin’ Chair” but had several club and R&B hits as well soultracks.com/news-gwen-mc...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Just seen that Gwen McCrae has gone too. RIP youtu.be/GsTNMkdrkLw

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

oh this is a good 'un!

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

#NowPlaying on DeeperXtra on #MadWaspRadio #DeeperX Le Blank by Quad90 requested by @djpunctum.bsky.social @madwaspradiomwr.bsky.social - the best in advert free music, accept no substitutes

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

#NowPlaying on DeeperXtra on #MadWaspRadio #DeeperX Lee Remick by The Go-Betweens requested by @pjcj.net @madwaspradiomwr.bsky.social - the best in advert free music, accept no substitutes

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

I don't like muting accounts but all this particular one seems to post is stuff that depresses the f*ck out of me. I'm here to be cheered up. Make me happy.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

OH WOW THANK YOU! #DeeperXtra #Anthem

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

The first single I bought with my own pocket money.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

I'm surprised Pick Of The Pops is being kept at all: radiotoday.co.uk/2025/02/new-...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

#NowPlaying on Deeper80s on #MadWaspRadio #Deeper80s Mexican Radio by Wall Of Voodoo requested by @mrob1960.bsky.social @madwaspradiomwr.bsky.social - The best in advert free music, accept no substitutes!!

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

Trying very hard not to sing "Grease."

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

So Messiaen is only valid now because somebody out of Radiohead likes him. Attempting to resist turning into Alan Green but sometimes it's very difficult.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

THANK YOU!! #Deeper80s #ArthurRussellForever

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

#NowPlaying on Deeper80s on #MadWaspRadio #Deeper80s Bango (To The Batmobile) by The Todd Terry Project requested by @agincourtgirl.bsky.social @madwaspradiomwr.bsky.social - The best in advert free music, accept no substitutes!!

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

Heads up Choon Choosers ChooseTheChoons Episode 95 (John Hughes Tribute) with co-host SCANNY @simonscanlon.bsky.social is now available on #Mixcloud Includes extra bonus hour (not aired on the radio). Please listen & feedback.. You want more? #ChooseDay www.mixcloud.com/DJAndyCraik/...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments