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Monkey
@monkeypicks.bsky.social
· Mar 23
Hallelujah comrades! MONKEY’S WANDERING WIRELESS SHOW new episode, The Church of Fuzz and Soul, is out now! An hour’s service of the most righteous global grooves from yesteryear and today. Rest assured, there will be no collection, this one’s on the house. 🙏🏽🐵🚶🏻♂️📻🎭 www.mixcloud.com/markraison12...
Big up BlueSky. Thanks to a @michaeldaly64.bsky.social post, transpires @johnbaldy.bsky.social I are old school friends. Our interests grew from Spider-Man (primary school) to The Prisoners (secondary). Lovely surprise & wonderful to reconnect after all these years. Here we are, front row rascals.
November 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Big up BlueSky. Thanks to a @michaeldaly64.bsky.social post, transpires @johnbaldy.bsky.social I are old school friends. Our interests grew from Spider-Man (primary school) to The Prisoners (secondary). Lovely surprise & wonderful to reconnect after all these years. Here we are, front row rascals.
Queen’s Park Rangers 3
Hull City 2
This is what we do for kicks on a rainy cold November afternoon
Hull City 2
This is what we do for kicks on a rainy cold November afternoon
November 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Queen’s Park Rangers 3
Hull City 2
This is what we do for kicks on a rainy cold November afternoon
Hull City 2
This is what we do for kicks on a rainy cold November afternoon
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40🎂 Psychocandy
Disco y grupo de la vida 🖤
Disco y grupo de la vida 🖤
November 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
40🎂 Psychocandy
Disco y grupo de la vida 🖤
Disco y grupo de la vida 🖤
Spending an inordinate amount of time compiling favourite albums of the year. So much really good stuff ain’t gonna make the cut, however much keep expanding the list.
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Spending an inordinate amount of time compiling favourite albums of the year. So much really good stuff ain’t gonna make the cut, however much keep expanding the list.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Finally got to see SML at the Church Of Sound in Clapton, and they were every bit as good as hoped. Crazy to think how many great records these five musicians have been a critical part of these past three or four years.
November 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Finally got to see SML at the Church Of Sound in Clapton, and they were every bit as good as hoped. Crazy to think how many great records these five musicians have been a critical part of these past three or four years.
Emma-Jean Thackray at Koko last nite. Big fan of her Weirdo album. “Really groovy music but depressing as fuck - that’s what I’m all about.” ❤️
November 21, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Emma-Jean Thackray at Koko last nite. Big fan of her Weirdo album. “Really groovy music but depressing as fuck - that’s what I’m all about.” ❤️
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I don't own many Sonny Stitt albums but this one is astonishing. You can hear Parker and Bechet on one hand (thank you @mariephillips.bsky.social) but also the unravelling of the form that would come with Ornette Coleman two years later. More like this please.
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I don't own many Sonny Stitt albums but this one is astonishing. You can hear Parker and Bechet on one hand (thank you @mariephillips.bsky.social) but also the unravelling of the form that would come with Ornette Coleman two years later. More like this please.
Some album covers collected by Raimond Chaves displayed in Tate Modern (wonderful surprise).
November 20, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Some album covers collected by Raimond Chaves displayed in Tate Modern (wonderful surprise).
Makaya McCraven at Koko last nite. Sublime demonstration of the art of jazz improvisation as a vibrant communication method. Incredible quartet.
November 20, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Makaya McCraven at Koko last nite. Sublime demonstration of the art of jazz improvisation as a vibrant communication method. Incredible quartet.
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For your #Noirvember pleasure, here are ten more international, ie, non-American, noirs that you might want to catch up with. Another past post from my Substack, it’s free to read at the link below.
andrewnette.substack.com/p/noirvember...
andrewnette.substack.com/p/noirvember...
Noirvember update: why we still need to watch more international noir
It’s Noirvember again.
andrewnette.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:56 AM
For your #Noirvember pleasure, here are ten more international, ie, non-American, noirs that you might want to catch up with. Another past post from my Substack, it’s free to read at the link below.
andrewnette.substack.com/p/noirvember...
andrewnette.substack.com/p/noirvember...
Uncanny portrait of Monkey Snr in the Tate Modern. Given the fam much merriment.
November 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Uncanny portrait of Monkey Snr in the Tate Modern. Given the fam much merriment.
Delighted for Scotland. 🏴
November 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Delighted for Scotland. 🏴
Never listened to this before. Actually enjoyed it.
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Never listened to this before. Actually enjoyed it.
Mulatu Astatke at Here/Outernet last nite. Music truly magical. Shame audience largely didn’t seem to appreciate how special it was. Made me wonder why they were all there.
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Mulatu Astatke at Here/Outernet last nite. Music truly magical. Shame audience largely didn’t seem to appreciate how special it was. Made me wonder why they were all there.
Babyshambles at Brixton Academy last nite. “The all-new dependable, capable Babyshambles,” according to their ringmaster, and they were. Pete had “a hell of afternoon” apparently, something to do with a dog, so chaos not totally eliminated from his life, although unlikely to make the front page. 🐶
November 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Babyshambles at Brixton Academy last nite. “The all-new dependable, capable Babyshambles,” according to their ringmaster, and they were. Pete had “a hell of afternoon” apparently, something to do with a dog, so chaos not totally eliminated from his life, although unlikely to make the front page. 🐶
Fair play to this urchins, Laurie Wright, setting up opposite Brixton Academy to tear through 200 mph Clash meets Dr Feelgood race to the death.
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Fair play to this urchins, Laurie Wright, setting up opposite Brixton Academy to tear through 200 mph Clash meets Dr Feelgood race to the death.
Jonny Halifax Invocation pumped two sets of heavy duty swampy psychedelic blues directly into the blood of patrons of Walthamstow Trades Hall last nite. Souls were shaken, spirits risen. 🪇
November 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Jonny Halifax Invocation pumped two sets of heavy duty swampy psychedelic blues directly into the blood of patrons of Walthamstow Trades Hall last nite. Souls were shaken, spirits risen. 🪇
Gutted to be missing the Primitives in town tonite. Sticking this on hasn’t helped! Glorious.
November 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Gutted to be missing the Primitives in town tonite. Sticking this on hasn’t helped! Glorious.
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More great Tish Murtha posts.
November 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
More great Tish Murtha posts.
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New work and how it came together.
November 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
New work and how it came together.