Jonny Blue Jay
@lonesomebluejay.bsky.social
Music, #shoegaze, mbv, vinyl panic buyer, failed musician/producer, Software/Web Developer, Manchester City, Miami Dolphins, Star Wars, sunsets.
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I was supposed to be spinning some newly purchased records today but got a bit distracted! It’s been a blissful, My Bloody Valentine Sunday. This is as good as it gets, musically, for me. Absolute heaven 🙌🏼😎
Last one before the football. Beautiful, haunting, folky vibes from Findlay Brown with Separated by the Sea. An overlooked gem 🤩👌🏼 #5DebutAlbums0509
February 11, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Last one before the football. Beautiful, haunting, folky vibes from Findlay Brown with Separated by the Sea. An overlooked gem 🤩👌🏼 #5DebutAlbums0509
Crikey. Another one that I can’t possibly leave out of my #5DebutAlbums0509. Grandaddy’s Jason Lytle with his stunning debut solo album Yours Truly, The Commuter. It’s basically a Grandaddy album 😅🙌🏼 Goosebumps 🤤
February 11, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Crikey. Another one that I can’t possibly leave out of my #5DebutAlbums0509. Grandaddy’s Jason Lytle with his stunning debut solo album Yours Truly, The Commuter. It’s basically a Grandaddy album 😅🙌🏼 Goosebumps 🤤
Scott Matthews - Passing Stranger won’t quite make my top #5DebutAlbums0509 but the song Elusive is right up there with my favourite songs from this era. Stunning track 🤤 I see the album is getting its first ever vinyl release on RSD too. Very tempting 🤔
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Scott Matthews, Elusive (official video) - Song written by Scott Matthews
YouTube video by Scott Matthews Official
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February 11, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Scott Matthews - Passing Stranger won’t quite make my top #5DebutAlbums0509 but the song Elusive is right up there with my favourite songs from this era. Stunning track 🤤 I see the album is getting its first ever vinyl release on RSD too. Very tempting 🤔
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I haven’t listened to The Fauns debut for ages. Really enjoyed that 🤩 Not sure it’ll make my #5DebutAlbums0509 but it’s definitely played its way back into some regular rotation. The Sun is Cruising is a proper tune! 🔥
February 11, 2026 at 5:38 PM
I haven’t listened to The Fauns debut for ages. Really enjoyed that 🤩 Not sure it’ll make my #5DebutAlbums0509 but it’s definitely played its way back into some regular rotation. The Sun is Cruising is a proper tune! 🔥
Looking at my collection for #5DebutAlbums0509, there’s about 12 or 13 genuine contenders for my 5 😰
![#5DebutAlbums0509
The Quarter After - S/T [2005]
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say [2006]
Band of Horses - Everything All the Time [2006]
Kooks - Inside In/Inside Out [2006]
Scott Matthews - Passing Stranger [2006]
Silversun Pickups - Carnavas [2006]
Alberta Cross - The Thief and The Heartbreaker [2007]
All Smiles - Ten Readings of a Warning [2007]
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago [2007]
Findlay Brown - Separated by the Sea [2007]
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular [2007]
Deep Cut - My Thoughts Light Fires [2008]
Duffy - Rockferry [2008]
Fight Like Apes - And the Mystery of the Golden Medallion [2008]
Fleet Foxes - S/T [2008]
Flight of the Conchords - S/T [2008]
Glasvegas - S/T [2008]
Laura Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim [2008]
Lykke Li - Youth Novels [2008]
Pete Greenwood - Sirens [2008]
War on Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues [2008]
Dead Weather - Horehound [2009]
Elephant Stone - The Seven Seas [2009]
Harper Simon - S/T [2009]
I Was a King - S/T [2009]
Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, the Commuter [2009]
Pains of Being Pure at Heart - S/T [2009]
Real Estate - S/T [2009]
The Fauns - S/T [2009]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ucek74fgjfz7p4uqvttumhxq/bafkreic3ahxk6wveqlr3yymqr4nfsusselzpbdgp3d7axutlxh6gl2jeh4@jpeg)
February 11, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Looking at my collection for #5DebutAlbums0509, there’s about 12 or 13 genuine contenders for my 5 😰
I haven’t had a proper look at a list of #5DebutAlbums0509 yet, but I’d be surprised if Silversun Pickups - Carnavas wasn’t in my 5. My wife and I have both loved this album (which is rare) for 20 years and it is drench in nostalgia of our time living (and partying) in Manchester’s Northern Quarter🤗
February 11, 2026 at 4:12 PM
I haven’t had a proper look at a list of #5DebutAlbums0509 yet, but I’d be surprised if Silversun Pickups - Carnavas wasn’t in my 5. My wife and I have both loved this album (which is rare) for 20 years and it is drench in nostalgia of our time living (and partying) in Manchester’s Northern Quarter🤗
Fleet Foxes 🙌🏼🤤 Any easy 🥇 for my #5DebutAlbums0509. Unreal production that really hits the sweet spot of my Bowers 703 S3 speakers. It’s like they were made for each other 🤩
February 11, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Fleet Foxes 🙌🏼🤤 Any easy 🥇 for my #5DebutAlbums0509. Unreal production that really hits the sweet spot of my Bowers 703 S3 speakers. It’s like they were made for each other 🤩
#last4albums #MusicSky
Phoebe Bridgers Edition.
• Boygenius EP
• Boygenius - The Record
• Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
• Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
Phoebe Bridgers Edition.
• Boygenius EP
• Boygenius - The Record
• Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
• Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
February 11, 2026 at 1:13 PM
#last4albums #MusicSky
Phoebe Bridgers Edition.
• Boygenius EP
• Boygenius - The Record
• Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
• Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
Phoebe Bridgers Edition.
• Boygenius EP
• Boygenius - The Record
• Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
• Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
#last4albums #MusicSky
• The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts
• The Beths - Straight Line Was a Lie
• MJ Lenderman - S/T
• Velveteen - Empty Crush
• The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts
• The Beths - Straight Line Was a Lie
• MJ Lenderman - S/T
• Velveteen - Empty Crush
February 4, 2026 at 10:07 PM
#last4albums #MusicSky
• The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts
• The Beths - Straight Line Was a Lie
• MJ Lenderman - S/T
• Velveteen - Empty Crush
• The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts
• The Beths - Straight Line Was a Lie
• MJ Lenderman - S/T
• Velveteen - Empty Crush
Me & my wife are both working from home today, quarantined away from our respective offices & colleagues. I’m on day 4 of horrendous, crippling man flu! She just has a mild sniffle😉😬 Always asking to listen to “something funky”, which isn’t really my bag but The Go! Team are always a good compromise
February 4, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Me & my wife are both working from home today, quarantined away from our respective offices & colleagues. I’m on day 4 of horrendous, crippling man flu! She just has a mild sniffle😉😬 Always asking to listen to “something funky”, which isn’t really my bag but The Go! Team are always a good compromise
#NowPlaying #MusicSky
Top quality, 45rpm 2LP, reissue of Blind by The Sundays. No easy task to follow up a perfectly flawless album like Reading, Writing and Arithmetic but, I have to say, since owning this reissue on vinyl, my appreciation of it has sky rocketing. Gorgeous album. 🥰
Top quality, 45rpm 2LP, reissue of Blind by The Sundays. No easy task to follow up a perfectly flawless album like Reading, Writing and Arithmetic but, I have to say, since owning this reissue on vinyl, my appreciation of it has sky rocketing. Gorgeous album. 🥰
January 31, 2026 at 2:23 PM
#NowPlaying #MusicSky
Top quality, 45rpm 2LP, reissue of Blind by The Sundays. No easy task to follow up a perfectly flawless album like Reading, Writing and Arithmetic but, I have to say, since owning this reissue on vinyl, my appreciation of it has sky rocketing. Gorgeous album. 🥰
Top quality, 45rpm 2LP, reissue of Blind by The Sundays. No easy task to follow up a perfectly flawless album like Reading, Writing and Arithmetic but, I have to say, since owning this reissue on vinyl, my appreciation of it has sky rocketing. Gorgeous album. 🥰
#NowPlaying #MusicSky
My Bloody Valentine - Isn’t Anything
🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 This 1988 Cartel version blows my mind 🤯 So punchy.
My Bloody Valentine - Isn’t Anything
🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 This 1988 Cartel version blows my mind 🤯 So punchy.
January 31, 2026 at 2:09 PM
#NowPlaying #MusicSky
My Bloody Valentine - Isn’t Anything
🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 This 1988 Cartel version blows my mind 🤯 So punchy.
My Bloody Valentine - Isn’t Anything
🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 This 1988 Cartel version blows my mind 🤯 So punchy.
#NowPlaying #MusicSky
Starting off the weekend with some very loud Just Mustard 🎸🔊🤤 Some of the most creative and inspiring guitar sounds I’ve heard in a long time 🙌🏼
Starting off the weekend with some very loud Just Mustard 🎸🔊🤤 Some of the most creative and inspiring guitar sounds I’ve heard in a long time 🙌🏼
January 31, 2026 at 11:40 AM
#NowPlaying #MusicSky
Starting off the weekend with some very loud Just Mustard 🎸🔊🤤 Some of the most creative and inspiring guitar sounds I’ve heard in a long time 🙌🏼
Starting off the weekend with some very loud Just Mustard 🎸🔊🤤 Some of the most creative and inspiring guitar sounds I’ve heard in a long time 🙌🏼
How have I only just discovered this band and album today?! I’m in love! 🥰
• Fleeting Joys - Despondent Transponder
#MusicSky
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• Fleeting Joys - Despondent Transponder
#MusicSky
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January 30, 2026 at 7:33 PM
How have I only just discovered this band and album today?! I’m in love! 🥰
• Fleeting Joys - Despondent Transponder
#MusicSky
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• Fleeting Joys - Despondent Transponder
#MusicSky
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Weekday hangovers are the worst hangovers 🤢🤦🏻♂️
Free beers are the best beers 🍻 Works do.
January 29, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Weekday hangovers are the worst hangovers 🤢🤦🏻♂️
Free beers are the best beers 🍻 Works do.
January 28, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Free beers are the best beers 🍻 Works do.
Tell me your great three album run:
The Byrds
• Younger Than Yesterday
• The Notorious Byrd Brothers
• Sweetheart of the Rodeo
The Byrds
• Younger Than Yesterday
• The Notorious Byrd Brothers
• Sweetheart of the Rodeo
January 27, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Tell me your great three album run:
The Byrds
• Younger Than Yesterday
• The Notorious Byrd Brothers
• Sweetheart of the Rodeo
The Byrds
• Younger Than Yesterday
• The Notorious Byrd Brothers
• Sweetheart of the Rodeo
#last4albums #MusicSky
Half of my office finish at 4pm and Kiss FM etc finally stops playing, so I took over the office speaker to play Midlake. Fuck me, you’d think I’d put on some of the most experimental, avant-garde, left-field music ever recorded, based on the reaction from the music muggles 🙄😅
Half of my office finish at 4pm and Kiss FM etc finally stops playing, so I took over the office speaker to play Midlake. Fuck me, you’d think I’d put on some of the most experimental, avant-garde, left-field music ever recorded, based on the reaction from the music muggles 🙄😅
January 27, 2026 at 8:39 PM
#last4albums #MusicSky
Half of my office finish at 4pm and Kiss FM etc finally stops playing, so I took over the office speaker to play Midlake. Fuck me, you’d think I’d put on some of the most experimental, avant-garde, left-field music ever recorded, based on the reaction from the music muggles 🙄😅
Half of my office finish at 4pm and Kiss FM etc finally stops playing, so I took over the office speaker to play Midlake. Fuck me, you’d think I’d put on some of the most experimental, avant-garde, left-field music ever recorded, based on the reaction from the music muggles 🙄😅
#last4albums #MusicSky
Dad taxi Sunday edition 🚕
• Rollerskate Skinny - Horsedrawn Wishes
• DIIV - Boiled Alive
• Blankenberge - Decisions
• BRMC - Howl
Dad taxi Sunday edition 🚕
• Rollerskate Skinny - Horsedrawn Wishes
• DIIV - Boiled Alive
• Blankenberge - Decisions
• BRMC - Howl
January 25, 2026 at 6:10 PM
#last4albums #MusicSky
Dad taxi Sunday edition 🚕
• Rollerskate Skinny - Horsedrawn Wishes
• DIIV - Boiled Alive
• Blankenberge - Decisions
• BRMC - Howl
Dad taxi Sunday edition 🚕
• Rollerskate Skinny - Horsedrawn Wishes
• DIIV - Boiled Alive
• Blankenberge - Decisions
• BRMC - Howl
Just time for one more, as the kids are finally up. My 🐐 of EPs and most treasured record. My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise 🙌🏼🥇 Heaven 🤗🤤 #MusicSky
January 24, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Just time for one more, as the kids are finally up. My 🐐 of EPs and most treasured record. My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise 🙌🏼🥇 Heaven 🤗🤤 #MusicSky
Fucking tune! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 A bit of Andrew Weatherall’s Soon Remix should get these pesky teenagers moving. Oh my days! Absolute monster of a track 🔥 My favourite remix of all-time. Fuck the busy day ahead. I just want to stay home and play records all day now 🕺🏻
January 24, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Fucking tune! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 A bit of Andrew Weatherall’s Soon Remix should get these pesky teenagers moving. Oh my days! Absolute monster of a track 🔥 My favourite remix of all-time. Fuck the busy day ahead. I just want to stay home and play records all day now 🕺🏻
Weekends are usually very lazy around these parts, but we’ve a busy day ahead today; once we get these teenagers out of their pits (this is early for them, and me, to be honest!) Coffee is flowing and MBV - Ecstasy is cranked up to 11 🔥 Ecstasy & Coffee, you might say 👀 I’ll get my coat 🚕 #MusicSky
January 24, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Weekends are usually very lazy around these parts, but we’ve a busy day ahead today; once we get these teenagers out of their pits (this is early for them, and me, to be honest!) Coffee is flowing and MBV - Ecstasy is cranked up to 11 🔥 Ecstasy & Coffee, you might say 👀 I’ll get my coat 🚕 #MusicSky
5 concerts you seen with female lead singers:
Belly
Phoebe Bridgers
Juliana Hatfield
Madder Rose
Stereolab
(Excluding any female and male shared lead vocal bands)
Belly
Phoebe Bridgers
Juliana Hatfield
Madder Rose
Stereolab
(Excluding any female and male shared lead vocal bands)
Five concerts you've seen with women lead singers
Wolf Alice
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
L7
Daisy chainsaw
Transvision Vamp
Wolf Alice
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
L7
Daisy chainsaw
Transvision Vamp
Five concerts you've seen with women lead singers
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Alvvays
The Pretenders
Breeders
Metric
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Alvvays
The Pretenders
Breeders
Metric
January 23, 2026 at 4:36 PM
5 concerts you seen with female lead singers:
Belly
Phoebe Bridgers
Juliana Hatfield
Madder Rose
Stereolab
(Excluding any female and male shared lead vocal bands)
Belly
Phoebe Bridgers
Juliana Hatfield
Madder Rose
Stereolab
(Excluding any female and male shared lead vocal bands)