Matthew McConkey
@mmcconkey.bsky.social
Enthusiastic about music in all shapes and sizes. Learning guitar, and have become a bit of a pedal obsessive. Known to enjoy a craft beer and folk horror. Born in Brum (still work there), but more often found around Walsall and Lichfield.
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Pebbling: sending little links and memes to the people that you love. Derived from the behavior of gentoo penguins, who “pick up pebbles in their beak and carry them to their partners or potential partners as a gift”. [redsetteragency.com]
Words we love: Pebbling – a new love language | Blog | Red Setter
It’s a word I admit I’ve not really thought of, until in recent weeks it became news that ‘Pebbling’ is the new term for when people share memes and gifs to…
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November 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Pebbling: sending little links and memes to the people that you love. Derived from the behavior of gentoo penguins, who “pick up pebbles in their beak and carry them to their partners or potential partners as a gift”. [redsetteragency.com]
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The thing about a “LadBaby comeback” (god help us) is that they already feel like the product of a different time; their singles are just a perfect fit for the Johnson era, a slapped together grift preying on the known weakness of Britain for a “bit of fun”
December 2, 2025 at 8:57 AM
The thing about a “LadBaby comeback” (god help us) is that they already feel like the product of a different time; their singles are just a perfect fit for the Johnson era, a slapped together grift preying on the known weakness of Britain for a “bit of fun”
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
Didn't realise before today that Calvin and Hobbes started the day Psychocandy came out
November 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Didn't realise before today that Calvin and Hobbes started the day Psychocandy came out
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Quote with your favourite film and album from the year you were born
November 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Quote with your favourite film and album from the year you were born
How did I not know about this? I think Ramsay is only really challenged by Jonathan Glazer as best living director
Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, gets some new posters. Trailer and details here bit.ly/47morPS
#DieMyLove #LynneRamsay #JenniferLawrence #RobertPattinson #film
#DieMyLove #LynneRamsay #JenniferLawrence #RobertPattinson #film
October 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
How did I not know about this? I think Ramsay is only really challenged by Jonathan Glazer as best living director
There's been so many times I've heard Nick Grimshaw say "I'll be with you until 10 until Lauren takes over" and then got this stuck in my head spotify.link/JN1xVvWSDXb
Lawrence Takes Over
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October 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
There's been so many times I've heard Nick Grimshaw say "I'll be with you until 10 until Lauren takes over" and then got this stuck in my head spotify.link/JN1xVvWSDXb
Just noticed that Donkey Skin is on Prime Video; I love Demy, and think is a fantastic film, albeit one that is too odd to get the plaudits that Umbrellas Of Cherbourg receives.
watch.amazon.co.uk/detail?gti=a...
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Watch Donkey Skin | Prime Video
A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise and flee the kingdom so she won't have to marry the king who happens to be her father.
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October 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Just noticed that Donkey Skin is on Prime Video; I love Demy, and think is a fantastic film, albeit one that is too odd to get the plaudits that Umbrellas Of Cherbourg receives.
watch.amazon.co.uk/detail?gti=a...
watch.amazon.co.uk/detail?gti=a...
Define "perfect ending"
October 19, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Define "perfect ending"
Looks like the setter of the NY Times Connections puzzle gave a shout out to a favourite album the other day
October 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Looks like the setter of the NY Times Connections puzzle gave a shout out to a favourite album the other day
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A big Happy Birthday to Phil Oakey, the fresh prince of Speciality Meat products!
October 2, 2025 at 10:23 AM
A big Happy Birthday to Phil Oakey, the fresh prince of Speciality Meat products!
Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?"
September 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?"
I've tried to do a playlist of 80s Pastoral, but struggled - any suggestions? I've put Kate Bush, Virginia Astley, "It's A Fine Day", "Spring Is Coming With A Strawberry In The Mouth" so far but that's about it. Maybe Art Of Noise?
As Hounds Of Love turns 40, Toby Manning explores how Kate Bush suffused 80s pop with the pastoral and evoked both the allure and the terror of nature, allowing her to both capture the uncanny and make it commercial
No Greater Wonder: #KateBush’s Hounds Of Love, 40 Years On
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No Greater Wonder: #KateBush’s Hounds Of Love, 40 Years On
buff.ly/B1GSAn1
September 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I've tried to do a playlist of 80s Pastoral, but struggled - any suggestions? I've put Kate Bush, Virginia Astley, "It's A Fine Day", "Spring Is Coming With A Strawberry In The Mouth" so far but that's about it. Maybe Art Of Noise?
The Pavarotti Snake Oil Cabinet sounds like it should be a track from Here Come The Warm Jets
Eno diary, 12 Sept 1995: "My cold gone thanks to the Pavarotti
snake-oil cabinet - Feldene Fast (piroxicam 20 mg), Pfizer
Fluimucil 600 (acetylcysteine 600 mg) and ‘Coryfin’-Bayer were
the ones I used in the end). Well, if anyone has it sorted out, it
should be him."
snake-oil cabinet - Feldene Fast (piroxicam 20 mg), Pfizer
Fluimucil 600 (acetylcysteine 600 mg) and ‘Coryfin’-Bayer were
the ones I used in the end). Well, if anyone has it sorted out, it
should be him."
September 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The Pavarotti Snake Oil Cabinet sounds like it should be a track from Here Come The Warm Jets
Lovely to see Anna Domino's East and West as the Sunday Album Review on Pitchfork. The first time I heard "Everyday , I Don't" it beguiled me; like what Young Marble Giants might have grown up into:
Anna Domino: East and West
Read Shaad D’Souza’s review of the album.
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September 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Lovely to see Anna Domino's East and West as the Sunday Album Review on Pitchfork. The first time I heard "Everyday , I Don't" it beguiled me; like what Young Marble Giants might have grown up into:
RIP Mark "Flo" Volman, only discovered this song fairly recently and it's amazing
Keep It Warm
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September 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
RIP Mark "Flo" Volman, only discovered this song fairly recently and it's amazing
About 25 years ago I saw Peel at a Broadcast gig. I was really into psych at the time, and asked if he was still in touch with any of The Misunderstood, a band he managed in the 60s. He spent about 10 minutes telling me about what they were up to, and when he last spoke to them. Proper gent.
Remembering John Peel on his birthday. He celebrated his 40th in August 1979 by playing 40 of his favourite records on his radio show. They're in this playlist
▶️🎧 open.spotify.com/playlist/15h...
▶️🎧 open.spotify.com/playlist/15h...
August 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
About 25 years ago I saw Peel at a Broadcast gig. I was really into psych at the time, and asked if he was still in touch with any of The Misunderstood, a band he managed in the 60s. He spent about 10 minutes telling me about what they were up to, and when he last spoke to them. Proper gent.
Very on brand
Mike Love Used Brian Wilson’s Funeral to Remind Everyone He Also Wrote Hits
“I didn’t feel the compassion, let’s put it that way,” Al Jardine says. “Mike’s got some serious megalomania problems.”
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August 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Very on brand
I was raised without any kind of male role model when growing up, and now realise:
1. I don't have anything against traditional masculine traits, but they're universal and society encourages them in men and quashes them in women
2. Performative masculinity is rooted in a deep cultural homophobia
1. I don't have anything against traditional masculine traits, but they're universal and society encourages them in men and quashes them in women
2. Performative masculinity is rooted in a deep cultural homophobia
i wanna try something. quote this post if you’re a man who hates the manosphere
August 2, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I was raised without any kind of male role model when growing up, and now realise:
1. I don't have anything against traditional masculine traits, but they're universal and society encourages them in men and quashes them in women
2. Performative masculinity is rooted in a deep cultural homophobia
1. I don't have anything against traditional masculine traits, but they're universal and society encourages them in men and quashes them in women
2. Performative masculinity is rooted in a deep cultural homophobia
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I've a Spotify playlist featuring a track from an album release from my birthday month every year since I was born, and I think I've found this year's track: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Gp...
July 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I've a Spotify playlist featuring a track from an album release from my birthday month every year since I was born, and I think I've found this year's track: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Gp...
Lovely to see a review on @pitchfork.com for a record that's a straight 10 for me
Connie Converse: How Sad, How Lovely
Read Sophie Kemp’s review of the album.
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July 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Lovely to see a review on @pitchfork.com for a record that's a straight 10 for me
I've only just clicked that this was directed The Steve Barron, who basically directed every famous music video from the 80s
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), directed by Steve Barron; written by Bobby Herbeck, Todd W. Langen boxd.it/28FY
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
A quartet of humanoid turtles, trained by their mentor in ninjitsu, must learn to work together to face the menace of Shredder and the Foot Clan.
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July 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I've only just clicked that this was directed The Steve Barron, who basically directed every famous music video from the 80s