Who remembers the Arab Spring?

Early doors, but surely a contender for Ingerland’s World Cup song next year.

Ended up going down an AI music creation rabbit hole. Hovercraft Reimagined.

Finally got around to uploading some of my old band Hovercraft’s music to Bandcamp.

What a terrific live performance by Porridge Radio on KEXP. And a really interesting and typically sensitive interview with Cheryl Waters afterwards. Going out on a high!

English Teacher and Richard Hawley cover Joy Division on the radio, live Transmission.

Dance! Dance! Dance! Dance! Dance!
To the radio!

🍿 A Complete Unknown (2024) - ★★★★☆

I really enjoyed this take on Bob Dylan’s electrifying personal highway to rock ’n’ roll superstardom hell amidst the increasingly furious shaking heads and would-be axe-wielding cable choppers of the folk establishment and elder guitar heroes.

Probably helps if you’re a Dylan fan. If you’re not, or you’re easily bothered by historical/factual inaccuracies in a “it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen” style movie then you should probably give it a miss.

Superb cast with highlights being Timothée Chalamet’s perfect portrayal of the obsessively creative introverted asshole Dylan and Monica Barbaro’s sensitive counterpoint as the already-a-superstar, slightly uptight but all-too-forgiving and exploited Joan Baez.

A Complete Unknown poster

My new favourite band. Just wow!

You watch the sky open
But I feel it fall

“Alela Diane meets MotorheadEsben and the Witch.”

Honeyglaze - “I Feel It All”

I smelled the spring
On the smoky wind

A narrowboat with a worn exterior is moored along a canal on a sunny day, smoke drifting upwards at the rear.

Bloody hell! Porridge Radio are calling it a day.