For this month's @bandcamp.com Tape Label Report, I caught up with the good folks behind Bloxham Tapes. Read it, if you like: daily.bandcamp.com/tape-label-r... @alisoncotton.bsky.social @obsidianshard.bsky.social @lukedrozd.bsky.social

For @thequietus.com, I discussed the experience of recording the fantastic Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go with composer and multi-instrumentalist @michaelcduguay.bsky.social. You can read it here: thequietus.com/interviews/m...

For @thequietus.com I wrote about the latest endeavour from the research and development wing of that Salford wrecking crew we call Gnod. You can read all about it here: thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

For the 25th anniversary of @zsennef.bsky.social's masterpiece 'Endless Summer', I dipped into the nostalgic lure of summer and found something lurking beneath the waves. You can read my feature for @thequietus.com here: thequietus.com/opinion-and-... @editionsmego.bsky.social

The second album from Truck Violence is a raging, bucking beast with a few surprises up its sleeves. Here's my review for @thequietus.com: thequietus.com/quietus-revi... @theflenser.bsky.social

I was accepted onto the London Library’s Emerging Writers programme a year ago after submitting a piece about the time I saw Sunn O))) and the ceiling started to crumble. The programme finished on Sunday and, in an enjoyable moment of synchronicity, Sunn O))) played Brighton last night.

And the trio of @merzbow.net Iggor Cavallera & Eraldo Bernocchi

Featuring: @alexandertucker.bsky.social

And followed it up with a dose of MERZBOW at @iklectikartlab.bsky.social courtesy of @babayagashut.bsky.social

Featuring these cultural artefacts... Really enjoyed the haptic sonic experience and felt like the colonial historical context was a vital inclusion.

Took a trip around the fascinating 'The Music Is Black' exhibition at the V & A East yesterday...

Back smothering dreams this weekend with a total banger of a lineup: The energetic screamo of @ritualerror.bsky.social Aku's punk thrash And some poptimistic jangle from @themoats.bsky.social Cop a cheap advance ticket: www.ticketsource.com/dream-smothe...

And Silbury in all its majesty...

Swallow guardians part 2

Complete with swallow guardians

And a little trip up to West Kennet Long Barrow

So above

As below

Even found time away from the musical mayhem to roam a little through the wilderness...

Had to grab two videos cos they were that good.

And, finally, The Ex brought the proverbial house down

The legend Mohammad Syfkhan doing the business, as per.

Just E the Artist crashing a lifetime of genres into one invigorating sound collage

This was shortly followed by the witty and charismatic Ultan O'Brien

A beautiful moment of synchronicity occured on Sunday. I was reading @zakiasewell.bsky.social's superb 'Finding Albion' whilst a band sound checked and, at the exact moment I finished the book, MacGillivray began their set, perfectly manifesting the book's optimistic ideas in front of my very eyes.

And then Lord Spikeheart erupted into the tent, whipping the whole place into a total frenzy

Setting up in the round, Bégayer delivers a joyous and playful set made up of textural percussion, masks, and piggybacks... Best I've seen 'em yet

Beast mode lessons from Helm

Overcoming technical difficulties, @bruiseblood.bsky.social were in pounding form.

Which was promptly lacerated by Guttersnipe's howling bedlam