Cephalopod with various synths and other noisemaking machinery. AKA Black Tempest. Yoga teacher and vegetarian. @squidtempest@mastodonmusic.social
Godalming, Surrey
Joined July 2011
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Wow!
He was 80 years old and just picking up his amps from the repair shop.
Bob Wood plugged in his 1968 Epiphone Riviera to test them at a Nashville shop in 2014, played "Bésame Mucho," and a tech grabbed a camera.
Back in 1968, he'd turned down Sam Phillips' offer to play sessions at Sun Records so he could raise his nine kids.
Bob passed in 2022 at 88. He played to the end.
First Record of The Weekend is Tystnad (meaning "Silence") from @FlowersDaun (Flowers Must Die) on @RocketRecording. Another brilliant album from this ace Swedish combo, recorded at the famous Silence Studios in Sweden. It pays dividends to increase the volume to maximum.
First Record of The Weekend is @theodysseycult Vol 3. I bloody love this - I've been listening to it constantly. Fuzz, melody, noise - this album has it all. Featuring ex members of Sonic Youth, Comets on Fire and Carlton Melton - quite the pedigree. Can't recommend this enough.
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Russian rocket drones cancelled the Kyiv half marathon so I limped my version yesterday through London drizzle: along the Thames from Lambeth to Tower Bridge on the south side of the river, cross to the north and along the north side of the river back to Whitehall, up through town to Oxford Street, along the newly pedestrianised bit which was lovely, then across Hyde Park to end up in the Polish Club. Not 13.3 miles but not a bad effort bearing in mind I tore my quadriceps tendon in December 2023 while delivering crutches in Kyiv - oh the irony!
I was walking for a basket of Ukrainian charities: @fierce__calm which looks after injured soldiers is just one of them.
If you can, please help me help Ukraine.
VPDFO!
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/XWJOK…
War Diary Day 1,705
I’m limping the Kyiv Half Marathon in London because of Russian drone attacks.
If you can, support my walk for Ukraine charities.
VPDFO!
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/XWJOK…
First Record of The Weekend is Chronicles of Nowt (Vol 2) from @GnodGnetwerk on @RocketRecording - yet another knockout chapter in the Gnod discography. Do yourself a favour and pummel your braincells with some of this. Play even louder than you think is wise.
JoJo decided to snuggle under the quilt today. I spent ages looking for her before I spotted her ears sticking out!
First Record of The Weekend is Celestial Power's self-titled debut. What a fabulous rolling, effervescent noise this trio make. Two-thirds of Dead Sea Apes and the lovely Dave Cambridge from @CardinalFuzz get together in a room and destroy the universe.
First Record of The Weekend is Psychic Tension from Dead Sea Apes on @CardinalFuzz. What an album - enough power and energy to take on the National Grid and blow its fuse. DSA seem to have outdone themselves - they've become an incredible unit, almost telepathic.
Can we all vote to have the racist Nimbys in Piddlington chucked out of the UK?
In fact we should move all the nonce-bonneted facists there and build a wall round it.
The refugees (to me they are not "illegal immigrants") can then move in where they were living. Problem solved.
First Record of The Weekend is Smoke Drip by Carlton Melton from 2012. Fine album, and homework for seeing them next week as part of the Other Side Promotions' Psych Weekender, which is probably my favourite live event of the year - its always a total blast!
The hot sauce production commences.
The peppers shown are homegrown, the green chillis all from one plant!
First Record of the Weekend is Sextet by @acrmcr (A Certain Ratio) from 1982. I've always loved To Each..., and I've also got 1982 (the album, not the year!) and acr:mcr, but for some reason never got round to picking this up. Thanks to my mate Dan for reminding me I needed it!
