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James Elliker
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Music, books & walks
Happy 30th birthday to Alice In Chains’ sludgy masterpiece, ‘Alice In Chains’. Their heaviest work, but also some sweet acoustic flourishes and great vocal interplay between Jerry and Layne
October 31, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year
October 30, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Beside myself with excitement for the new book by @lucynichol.bsky.social , ‘Girls To The Front’, a found footage feminist revenge thriller soundtracked by Riot Grrrl bands. Loving the cover - designed by Chris Bigg of 4AD fame. Book sourced by Yorkshire’s finest bookshop, @jebookshull.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Burmantofts tiles in Leeds Central Library @tnmnttiles.bsky.social

My grandmother grew up overlooking the kilns at Burmantofts. Long gone now, of course. The kilns and her
October 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
September 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Saw this beauty in Cádiz and was reminded of @tnmnttiles.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
5 years gone. Peter’s music saved my life. I’m forever in his debt

Listen to this live performance and see why BB King once said, ‘He’s the only one that gave me the shivers’

Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac Founder, 29th Oct 1946 - 25th July 2020

youtu.be/FxoaEbbk92Q?...

#FleetwoodMac
July 25, 2025 at 8:35 AM
30 years of this blistering set of fuzzed up pop gems

#FF30 #FooFighters
July 4, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Happy Birthday, George Orwell. I do wish you’d been wrong
June 25, 2025 at 5:40 AM
#OTD in 1995, Seattle grunge supergroup Truly releases their opus, ‘Fast Stories…From Kid Coma’

trulytheband.bandcamp.com/album/fast-sto…
June 20, 2025 at 6:27 AM
30 years of Fugazi’s ‘Red Medicine’

One of many leaps forward for the band, RM saw Fugazi turn down the volume and dial up the experimentation. Despite its challenging nature, it remains their most commercially successful release. A testament to the perfect execution of their vision.
June 12, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Post a robot that’s not from Star Wars or Transformers
May 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
New EP of unreleased material from Seattle band Capping Day, ‘Who Does Anyway’

Harmonising vocals, askew sense of melody, dark & literary lyrics

It’s glorious
April 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
OTD 30 years ago, Tad released their final, full studio album, ‘Infrared Riding Hood’. It manages to be both their most brutal work, and, in places, their most melodic. It’s a stark document of a band at the peak of its powers.
April 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
5th April is a shitty day for fans of grunge music, losing Kurt in 94 and Layne in 2002, but just remembered we also lost Shawn Smith on 3rd April 2019. Fuck this month
April 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Beacon Alert: Missing Veteran
April 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Celebrating the lives of Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and Layne Staley of Alice In Chains today by playing their music loud

(Kurt 📸 Charles Peterson, Layne 📸 Darrell Westmoreland)
April 5, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Amazing to think that all of these incredible albums were released within 42 days of each other in 1991
March 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Finally got my hands on a copy of the new rereleased ‘Feeling You Up’ (1997) by grunge originators, Truly. Featuring former members of Soundgarden, Screaming Trees, and Nirvana. ‘Feeling You Up’ sees the band lean into the 60s psych-pop vibe whilst retaining their full throated grunginess. 10/10
March 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
An excellent evening aboard Leeds’ Hold Fast Books for the {ahem} launch of @adamjfarrer.bsky.social’s ‘Broken Biscuits’ with insightful questions from @bradleybooks.bsky.social

Adam’s excerpts were hilarious and i can’t wait to start the book
March 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
What perfect albums came out when you were 16?

Soundgarden - Down On The Upside
Pearl Jam - No Code
Screaming Trees - Dust
Love Battery - Confusion Au Go Go
March 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
New @throwingmuses.bsky.social album ‘Moonlight Concessions’, courtesy of Leeds’ premier record shop, Jumbo

Gutted I can’t make the show in May 😭
March 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Everyone has their breaking point
March 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM