James Evans
@jdevans.bsky.social
Thanks for the tip off. 'Trees' in particular is beautiful - I've used it to round of this year's compilation (I did actually buy it, btw. I just use Spotify as a kind of repository): open.spotify.com/playlist/1ri...
2025: I NEVER HAPPENED
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November 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Thanks for the tip off. 'Trees' in particular is beautiful - I've used it to round of this year's compilation (I did actually buy it, btw. I just use Spotify as a kind of repository): open.spotify.com/playlist/1ri...
Side 2 of that Sindecut single - Wisdom - is a lost British hip hop classic: embracethemargin.blogspot.com/2020/02/line...
LINER NOTES: THE GOLDEN AGE OF HIP HOP, VOL. 2 [1989-90]
Jeff Young's National Fresh
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November 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Side 2 of that Sindecut single - Wisdom - is a lost British hip hop classic: embracethemargin.blogspot.com/2020/02/line...
The Hack's on it and that's quite good, even if only because, while watching it, for the first time in my life I felt an odd nostalgia for the 2000s. It's not even a decade to which I can attach anything like an identifiable fashion or style, but somehow it conveyed one.
November 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The Hack's on it and that's quite good, even if only because, while watching it, for the first time in my life I felt an odd nostalgia for the 2000s. It's not even a decade to which I can attach anything like an identifiable fashion or style, but somehow it conveyed one.
May the stadium last a very long time: embracethemargin.blogspot.com/2019/09/stad...
STADIA: STADIO RENZO BARBERA, PALERMO
Stadio Renzo Barbera Palermo
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November 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
May the stadium last a very long time: embracethemargin.blogspot.com/2019/09/stad...
Oh, it wasn't that bad. I was just skint, and the short-term contracts I was taking on were badly paid, dispiriting, and ultimately led nowhere. But I was fit and healthy and I was cycling a lot, which kept my spirits up. Your situation sounds way more stressful than mine ever was.
October 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Oh, it wasn't that bad. I was just skint, and the short-term contracts I was taking on were badly paid, dispiriting, and ultimately led nowhere. But I was fit and healthy and I was cycling a lot, which kept my spirits up. Your situation sounds way more stressful than mine ever was.
Another great read. Incidentally, The Field were also the backdrop to a bit of a rough time in my life (although not half as rough as yours, by the sounds of it): embracethemargin.blogspot.com/2018/04/line...
LINER NOTES: TAKE A RIDE [2013]
Terrorist chic in Berlin
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October 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Another great read. Incidentally, The Field were also the backdrop to a bit of a rough time in my life (although not half as rough as yours, by the sounds of it): embracethemargin.blogspot.com/2018/04/line...
Black Sheep - Flavor Of The Month
YouTube video by BlackSheepVEVO
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October 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Good shout (even if I am more of From Here We Go Sublime kind of guy).
October 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Good shout (even if I am more of From Here We Go Sublime kind of guy).
Choice Cut - Chapter & the Verse with Black Whip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8l3...
CHAPTER & THE VERSE - Black Whip (1991)
YouTube video by NO SOUL NO LIFE
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October 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Choice Cut - Chapter & the Verse with Black Whip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8l3...
Interesting stuff; sent me down a bit of a wormhole and I found this: revsoc21.uk/2016/11/27/a...
Anarchy in the UK? The politics and people that produced punk rock
rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century
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October 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Interesting stuff; sent me down a bit of a wormhole and I found this: revsoc21.uk/2016/11/27/a...
Choice Cut - this has never got the recognition it deserves: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3VF...
Fade To Black
YouTube video by David Johnson (AKADCJ)
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October 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Choice Cut - this has never got the recognition it deserves: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3VF...
Choice cut: www.youtube.com/watch?v=05pc...
J.V.C. Force - Strong Island [HQ] (Original 12'' Version)
YouTube video by Simon Ambler
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October 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Choice cut: www.youtube.com/watch?v=05pc...
Check out volumes 1 (not derived from National Fresh) and 3 and 4 (derived from National Fresh and the Rap Selection that succeeded it).
October 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Check out volumes 1 (not derived from National Fresh) and 3 and 4 (derived from National Fresh and the Rap Selection that succeeded it).
I don't think anybody growing up in the 1970s and '80s is either completely ignorant nor disinterested in what happened in Northern Ireland. You couldn't be - it was on the news all the time.
October 25, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I don't think anybody growing up in the 1970s and '80s is either completely ignorant nor disinterested in what happened in Northern Ireland. You couldn't be - it was on the news all the time.
I've just recently finished the book, and I would recommend it highly.
October 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I've just recently finished the book, and I would recommend it highly.
Walking With Thee by Clinic is conspicuous by its absence.
October 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Walking With Thee by Clinic is conspicuous by its absence.
That time period IS my twenties. Quite a few on there that featured on the playlists I made back then. I could suggest others that aren't, but you've got to draw a lime somewhere...
October 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
That time period IS my twenties. Quite a few on there that featured on the playlists I made back then. I could suggest others that aren't, but you've got to draw a lime somewhere...
I prefer that too, but it doesn't yield enough material on its own. I don't think music journalism is objective as it once was, and some of my friends have stagnated in their listening habits - or they'll recommend something but by the time I've got home I'll have forgotten what.
October 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I prefer that too, but it doesn't yield enough material on its own. I don't think music journalism is objective as it once was, and some of my friends have stagnated in their listening habits - or they'll recommend something but by the time I've got home I'll have forgotten what.
Listening to the algorithmic music on Spotify is a bit like shopping in TK Maxx: more often than not it doesn't lead to anything, but every now and then you stumble upon a gem. (I don't pay for it or use it for that anyhow.)
October 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Listening to the algorithmic music on Spotify is a bit like shopping in TK Maxx: more often than not it doesn't lead to anything, but every now and then you stumble upon a gem. (I don't pay for it or use it for that anyhow.)