Richard O'Brien

Gafcon elects council instead of figurehead to rival Archbishop of Canterbury The Gafcon movement had been widely expected to appoint a primus but has instead chosen a "conciliar structure".

Leaving Gafcon in protest at this to start a new even smaller splinter group called IDGAFCON
www.christiantoday.com/news/gafcon-...

Telling my cat she used to be a wolf. They don’t know different

Haha yes.. sickos..

Come back to the Cluny in Newcastle!

You can read the blurb, summary and sample chapters on the link above, and give it a like or a comment if you'd like it to move forward in the competition :)

The Libraro prize is a competition 'giving readers an active role in championing emerging talent.' My entry is THE YEAR'S DEEP MIDNIGHT: a literary mystery following a dropout from a Catholic seminary who solves a murder with the help of the elderly Graham Greene: app.libraro.com/manuscript/d...

2020: ‘Getting Into Knives’

open.spotify.com/episode/6uF7... and open.spotify.com/episode/3hSe.... Thanks for reading/listening and all your support (including yours, John!) over the last five years, or if you're just finding out about this right now. I'm looking forward to writing more about lo-fi music in the coming years.

You can also hear both episodes, and the whole series of thirty-two instalments, on Spotify. I started this initially as an essay project but I've really enjoyed working on the audio versions, incorporating snippets of songs, archive live recordings and more. I'll put links for both below!

Epilogue: ‘Arguing With the Ghost of Peter Laughner About His Coney Island Baby Review' You will always have been here once.

You will always have been here once. The epilogue is about commemoration, legacy, and staying warm inside the ripple. The song is John Darnielle's elegy for David Berman, 'Arguing With the Ghost of Peter Laughner About His Coney Island Baby Review.' thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/epilogue-a...

2020: ‘Getting Into Knives’ Held to my vision all these days.

Held to my vision all these days. Today's episode is about hateful instruments, careers in lo-fi, and things coming to an end. It's 2020 and the song is 'Getting Into Knives.'
thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2020-getti...

For the last five years, I've been writing 'a memoir in Mountain Goats songs,' looking at every year in my life 1990-2020 through the lens of a song by @themountaingoats.bsky.social. That project comes to an end today with two final episodes, one for 2020 and an epilogue. Links for both below!

The RIFFS team were really welcoming and easy to work with throughout, so I'd recommend this outlet to anyone interested in writing about music for academic audiences, especially if you're coming to the field from a different disciplinary background!

Delighted to be in the new issue of @popmusicjournal.bsky.social RIFFS with a piece on 'Jeffrey Lewis's Model of Art-Making: Between Amateur and Auteur,' looking at Lewis, Daniel Johnston, and the ways artists in lo-fi traditions position their own practice: riffsjournal.org/2026/02/12/r...

NEW ISSUE: Riffs 9.1: Pop! Art School Reunions

Edited by Ed McKeon

The pieces in this issues of Riffs reflect on the relationships between pop music, pop art, art school, and experimental music and performance.

Available to read Open Access: riffsjournal.org/volume-9-iss...

open.spotify.com/episode/1VQT...

2019: 'Up the Wolves' (Live, 2019-11-15) There’s gonna come a day when you feel better.

2019 episode of my @themountaingoats.bsky.social now up! Two more to go - 2020 & and epilogue. Today's episode (which I'm not posting on a workday) is about a strong homemade edible, meeting the President of Ireland, and making the art you love your own. thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2019-up-th...

2018: 'Younger'

open.spotify.com/episode/5TLb... Or listen here

2018: 'Younger' Now I have everything I need.

Today's episode of my @themountaingoats.bsky.social newsletter/podcast is about self-reference, expanding ambition, and being further along in your own timeline. Which is really sort of what it's all been about! It's 2018 and the song is 'Younger.' thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2018-younger

Thanks Adam

A red pack of Walkers Baked Ready Salted crisps, showing the caption ‘Always baked, never fried’

[Craig Finn voice:] He was always baked but never fried

Those horses running in a circle aren’t even original. That’s just zoeslop

God’s own goth orb, good or not - old gong, worn tooth, gloom-bowl, spook glow of rooms long lost - drop by slow, doomy drop looms low on top of Oslo

Thanks to @andotherpoems.bsky.social for publishing this late last year - sharing in time for tomorrow’s hopefully less intense moon!

My next question was literally do they engage with PRS!? My dad used to work for them too but in some kind of facilities/security role, so no oversight of the mounting Bart lawsuits

Does the Lionel Bart estate get royalties from all these ice cream trucks playing ‘Food Glorious Food’?

They kicked me out of culinary school. I’m persona non gratin

Imagining a cursed alternate reality where Jessie Buckley won 'I'd Do Anything' and got to play Nancy in 'Oliver!' on the West End, but it meant Jodie Prenger had to be Agnes in 'Hamnet'

A panto poster which says ‘Celebrating 20 years of Danny & Clive at Newcastle Theatre Royal’

[Serge Gainsbourg ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ voice]: Danny and Clive…

turns out if you put on a long black coat and walk into cupboard in a church, people will just tell you some pretty wild shit

2017: 'Stench of the Unburied'

Or if you prefer to listen: open.spotify.com/episode/6IAz...

2017: 'Stench of the Unburied' Listen now | It'll take twenty years for the toxins to flush.

Another episode of my @themountaingoats.bsky.social newsletter/podcast just went up, on one of my favourite tMG albums and one that marks a big sonic shift - as well as a new kind of self-reflection: thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2017-stenc...