(I'd been struggling to figure out who Wendy Eisenberg's voice was reminding me of and it was Sasha Bell of The Essex Green/Finishing School - so there!)

sashabell.bandcamp.com/track/by-the...

And another ‘back in the day festival poster. Sweden again- great lineup!

@alexavee.me any good recommendations for critical ai sociological interactional qualitative work?

found yesboyicecream stock at the back of a cupboard (probably more cds in storage, definitely lots more vinyl in the lock-up 😬)

lost track from Suburban Kids with Biblical Names - recorded live in 2007 for an XFM session

Loop Duplicate My Heart / A Couple of Instruments

(Johan Hedberg, legitimately an all-time whistling great 😢)

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It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.

also twenty years since this!

🫡

www.discogs.com/release/1226...

Happy birthday to this all-timer, a pal for two decades now and guaranteed to put me in a good mood every time.

@yesboyicecream.bsky.social

#3 was originally released in october 2005 - thanks to the label's aggressive (but involuntary) anti-capitalist stance, i will have several hundred unsold copies to sell pending any suburban kids revival or anniversary show

Next year is *20 years* since this??

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Clare Grogan? Talulah Gosh? The Soup Dragons? The Loft? The Sea Urchins? The June Brides? Debsey and Rachel from Dolly Mixture? The Waltones? Beth Arzy doing Shop Assistants? Can we call it the indiepop Last Waltz? I'd say so. www.patreon.com/posts/what-f...

So many of Dublin's musical spaces have disappeared over the years + now the Live Music Mapping Project (LMMP) is trying to capture the past and the present of Dublin's rich musical history.

Mini hackathon @ Flux Studios, Chatham Row Sat 18 January 12-3pm

h/t @carolineanno.bsky.social

TIL that I needed the soundtrack to the 1977 Hobbit in my life...

2025 marks 20 years since SKWBN's Jullåten 2004

"And you know those little kids eyes
There is a robotic must have little line
If you don't get that PS2
In schoolyard it's gonna be goodbye for you, goodbye
But even the bullies celebrate Christmas, they do
I have a feeling they do"

Currently nosing through a contents auction from a house in Balbriggan - loads of high-end recording equipment AND a "large collection of cds".

Trying to identify whose house it is from the cd collection and noticed they have a copy of "We Are The Pipettes!"

auctions.herman.ie/lots/view/1-...

students in tu dublin listening to till the world ends by Britney spears at full volume. the kids are alright.

SKWBN Revival 2K24:

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Demos, at various levels of completion, from around 2007-08 that were probably recorded for #4 and #5.

They're great!

Looking for recommendations of labels to include on a "mostly independent labels, mostly indie pop" starter pack

go.bsky.app/D1qSGoe

#musicsky
#indiepop
#c86

looking for recommendations of posters and writers who cover new/less-listened-to music and, very importantly, have *excellent* taste in music