Caroline (aka beth gripps)
@cjmckenzie.bsky.social
Music, music and then more music. The Fall, Nurse With Wound, Charli XCX, The Dead C, Miles Davis, Stereolab, Talk Talk, Coil, Manic Street Preachers, Chappell Roan, The Cure, claire rousay, Autechre, Alice Coltrane etc etc etc
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I’m going to coin a law - call it Maugham’s First Law - and it is that nothing Wes Streeting ever says turns out to be true. 🧵
April 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I’m going to coin a law - call it Maugham’s First Law - and it is that nothing Wes Streeting ever says turns out to be true. 🧵
Aya! Go listen to "hexed". It's absolutely incredible.
The Wire 495 is out now!
Our brand new issue features aya on the cover + Satch Hoyt, Ailie Ormston, Joke Lanz, Bios Contrast, Laura Cocks, MIC, John King, Trân Uy Đúc, Alvin Curran's Invisible Jukebox, plus 40 pages of reviews.
Buy here: thewire.co.uk/issues/495
Our brand new issue features aya on the cover + Satch Hoyt, Ailie Ormston, Joke Lanz, Bios Contrast, Laura Cocks, MIC, John King, Trân Uy Đúc, Alvin Curran's Invisible Jukebox, plus 40 pages of reviews.
Buy here: thewire.co.uk/issues/495
April 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Aya! Go listen to "hexed". It's absolutely incredible.
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A lot of people are only sharing the headline, but the subheading is, to me, worse. It's one thing to say 'we're bootlickers who don't necessarily agree with him but could conceivably use the ties we have to negotiate' and quite another to say 'we agree with him, fuck marginalised people lol'
Labour has a history of links to fascism. It's happening again... for money.
Scottish Labour: "We'll compromise with the fascist leader who is determined to grind already poor people into the dirt."
Scottish Labour: "We'll compromise with the fascist leader who is determined to grind already poor people into the dirt."
April 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
A lot of people are only sharing the headline, but the subheading is, to me, worse. It's one thing to say 'we're bootlickers who don't necessarily agree with him but could conceivably use the ties we have to negotiate' and quite another to say 'we agree with him, fuck marginalised people lol'
Album of the year thus far, by the way...
I loved speaking to Aya recently about how drink & drug dependency have given way to sobriety; new LP hexed!; her life as a teenage metalhead & emo loving skater who banged heads savagely with the Pentecostal church.
AND, how to fill your mouth with live worms.
thequietus.com/interviews/a...
AND, how to fill your mouth with live worms.
thequietus.com/interviews/a...
April 5, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Album of the year thus far, by the way...
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Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands.
The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
April 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands.
The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
Dark Magus. One of the best. Not just one of the best by a group headed by Davis but one of the best by anyone ever.
Recorded this day, 1974: The Miles group in uncompromising, exciting form at New York's Carnegie Hall. The recording was issued as a double LP, 𝘋𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘴 (CBS/Sony [Japan] 40AP 741~2). Moja (part 1) is actually a performance of Turnaroundphrase.
#jazz #jazzsky #milesdavis
#jazz #jazzsky #milesdavis
Moja (Part 1) (Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY - March 1974)
YouTube video by Miles Davis - Topic
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March 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Dark Magus. One of the best. Not just one of the best by a group headed by Davis but one of the best by anyone ever.
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This Reddit thread of people explaining the most unhinged reason they ever abandoned a book is a delight
March 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
This Reddit thread of people explaining the most unhinged reason they ever abandoned a book is a delight
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Disabled people are not a burden. They are our neighbours and friends — and they deserve to live fulfilling lives just like anyone else.
A statement from the Independent Alliance on cuts to welfare.
A statement from the Independent Alliance on cuts to welfare.
March 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Disabled people are not a burden. They are our neighbours and friends — and they deserve to live fulfilling lives just like anyone else.
A statement from the Independent Alliance on cuts to welfare.
A statement from the Independent Alliance on cuts to welfare.
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the labour party are fighting class war and they’re on the side of extreme wealth.
March 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
the labour party are fighting class war and they’re on the side of extreme wealth.
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Zelenskyy knows what it is to fight for something bigger than yourself. Trump does not.
March 1, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Zelenskyy knows what it is to fight for something bigger than yourself. Trump does not.
I've said it before but Labour are completely ignoring Scotland because they think they've "got it back". Scotland leant Labour their votes because we knew the Tories had to go and the present system gave us little other option. That's all.
It may be four more years until the next UK General Election - But it's only one year until Scotland's election.
If I were in the Scottish Labour Party right now I'd be in full panic mode. This is "worst election in history" numbers shaping up.
If I were in the Scottish Labour Party right now I'd be in full panic mode. This is "worst election in history" numbers shaping up.
March 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I've said it before but Labour are completely ignoring Scotland because they think they've "got it back". Scotland leant Labour their votes because we knew the Tories had to go and the present system gave us little other option. That's all.
Come, enter the Haus....
February 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Come, enter the Haus....
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Your occasional reminder that the Daily Record was the house rag of the Keep The Clause campaign, demonising gay and lesbian people.
Scotland "Health Secretary Neil Gray has backed bosses at NHS Fife despite a global outcry over the case of nurse Sandie Peggie and women’s rights to same-sex changing rooms."
"Global outcry" lol.
Daily Record
"Global outcry" lol.
Daily Record
February 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Your occasional reminder that the Daily Record was the house rag of the Keep The Clause campaign, demonising gay and lesbian people.
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Imagine you're facing a political party that's shat the bed as bad as the SNP and you hand them back a massive lead because you simply refuse to do anything good.
February 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Imagine you're facing a political party that's shat the bed as bad as the SNP and you hand them back a massive lead because you simply refuse to do anything good.
This is why Labour will fail. They have no identity beyond what the mainstream media wants. They have no concept of the extent to which Scotland leant them their vote because we had to get the Tories out. Their ineptitude is leading us straight to a Reform/ Tory pact.
There's a worrying link between this & Labour's position on asylum & immigration.
They know that populist & far right forces are targeting these minorities, but instead of challenging the right's hateful rhetoric they are trying to copy it.
This isn't just directly harmful, it's also doomed to fail.
They know that populist & far right forces are targeting these minorities, but instead of challenging the right's hateful rhetoric they are trying to copy it.
This isn't just directly harmful, it's also doomed to fail.
NEW: Anas Sarwar has said Scottish Labour 'regrets' supporting the Gender Recognition Reform bill.
'Knowing what we know now, we would not have supported the bill,' the Scottish Labour leader told the Holyrood Sources podcast in a screeching U-turn
'Knowing what we know now, we would not have supported the bill,' the Scottish Labour leader told the Holyrood Sources podcast in a screeching U-turn
February 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This is why Labour will fail. They have no identity beyond what the mainstream media wants. They have no concept of the extent to which Scotland leant them their vote because we had to get the Tories out. Their ineptitude is leading us straight to a Reform/ Tory pact.
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Robbing a bank but misgendering somebody on my way out so the entire British political establishment has my back.
February 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Robbing a bank but misgendering somebody on my way out so the entire British political establishment has my back.
I did. Jolly good it is too.
February 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I did. Jolly good it is too.
Treated myself to this. Staggering, incomparable.
February 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Treated myself to this. Staggering, incomparable.
Stunning performance, such a wonderful evening.
Spellbinding Ultragoth ceremony from #tristwchyfenywod at #stninianschurch #glasgow. Lovely to see you @cjmckenzie.bsky.social
February 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Stunning performance, such a wonderful evening.
But is there a down side?
Deepseek could be an extinction-level event for some venture capital firms," per Axios
January 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
But is there a down side?
Absolutely this. CDs are perfect for compendiums, long programmes and anything that needs a low noise floor.
In The Wire 491/492, John Brien argues that the humble compact disc offers efficient delivery of pure audio that bypasses the artisan fetishism of the vinyl industry.
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...
Perfect Sound Forever - The Wire
In The Wire 491/492, John Brien argues that the humble compact disc offers efficient delivery of pure audio that bypasses the artisan fetishism of the vinyl industry
www.thewire.co.uk
January 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Absolutely this. CDs are perfect for compendiums, long programmes and anything that needs a low noise floor.
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The fundamental problem is that Starmer's government just won't confront powerful economic interests. So it tries to fudge the issue: we'll let housing continue to be used for investment, second homes, AirBnBs etc, we'll let rents keep rising, but if we build loads, something's bound to change!
January 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The fundamental problem is that Starmer's government just won't confront powerful economic interests. So it tries to fudge the issue: we'll let housing continue to be used for investment, second homes, AirBnBs etc, we'll let rents keep rising, but if we build loads, something's bound to change!
Jim O'Rourke was 23 when he released this absolute masterpiece. 23. Wild.
January 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Jim O'Rourke was 23 when he released this absolute masterpiece. 23. Wild.
I just want to know how this happened. Or why.
January 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I just want to know how this happened. Or why.