Ralph Moore
@ralphusmoorus.bsky.social
Giving the Sky a try. First book On Tour is out now via Velocity Press. All borrowed opinions my own
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Ewan Pearson Spirit of Eden Mix
We asked Ewan to make us a short promo mix and this came in, totalling 32 tracks and clocking in at 2 hours 24 minutes! It opens with the sound of Mark Hollis’s voice as a nice nod to Spirit of Eden a
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Not seen anyone else post this over here so I’m doing my Balearic bit this Friday morning for Ewan’s new Mark Hollis and Talk Talk-inspired mix. It opens, suitably enough, with his solo torch song ‘The Colour Of Spring’ 🫖
Count me in for a read of this! 📚
Sinatra & Elvis
Bowie & Turner
Madonna & Tupac
Announcing FAMOUS: Ego, Envy and Ambition in Pop, Rock and Hip-Hop, coming March 2026 from Matt Thorne (@8minutesidle.bsky.social)
Exploring seven moments in music when huge stars have come together - and the resulting reverberations.
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Bowie & Turner
Madonna & Tupac
Announcing FAMOUS: Ego, Envy and Ambition in Pop, Rock and Hip-Hop, coming March 2026 from Matt Thorne (@8minutesidle.bsky.social)
Exploring seven moments in music when huge stars have come together - and the resulting reverberations.
geni.us/Famous
November 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Count me in for a read of this! 📚
Many of my disco-techno favourites feature in here so am sharing this for the Balearic @bsky.app community t.co/H8Cm2zfZEw
https://banbantonton.com/2025/11/27/bugged-out-its-just-a-big-disco-disco-pogo-by-adam-turner/
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November 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Many of my disco-techno favourites feature in here so am sharing this for the Balearic @bsky.app community t.co/H8Cm2zfZEw
Cheers to you too @graemethomson.bsky.social! 🫖
Big thanks to @ralphusmoorus.bsky.social for lovely words about Our Secrets Are The Same ("brilliantly captured the beating heart at the centre of this still-evolving Scottish band"), plus my Kate Bush & George Harrison biogs, in his 2025 roundup for Velocity Press
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2025 Roundup: Ralph Moore - Velocity Press
As we kick off our annual round-up of what our 2025 authors have been reading, watching and listening to, we’re starting with someone who’s had quite a year: Ralph Moore. […]
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November 22, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Cheers to you too @graemethomson.bsky.social! 🫖
Not seen anyone else post this over here so I’m doing my Balearic bit this Friday morning for Ewan’s new Mark Hollis and Talk Talk-inspired mix. It opens, suitably enough, with his solo torch song ‘The Colour Of Spring’ 🫖
Ewan Pearson Spirit of Eden Mix
We asked Ewan to make us a short promo mix and this came in, totalling 32 tracks and clocking in at 2 hours 24 minutes! It opens with the sound of Mark Hollis’s voice as a nice nod to Spirit of Eden a
soundcloud.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Not seen anyone else post this over here so I’m doing my Balearic bit this Friday morning for Ewan’s new Mark Hollis and Talk Talk-inspired mix. It opens, suitably enough, with his solo torch song ‘The Colour Of Spring’ 🫖
Still thinking about my whirlwind trip to Buenos Aires for Oasis and Ashcroft! Thank you Argentina and thank you River Plate 📚
November 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Still thinking about my whirlwind trip to Buenos Aires for Oasis and Ashcroft! Thank you Argentina and thank you River Plate 📚
See you down the front @monkeytennis.bsky.social 🫖
Blimey, the stars have aligned suitably… am on an Inset day marking GCSE mock exams but also have nabbed tickets to see the Pet Shop Boys play their B-Sides and other stuff up Camden way.
Am very pleased.
Now back to looking at diagrams of the formation of waterfalls.
Am very pleased.
Now back to looking at diagrams of the formation of waterfalls.
November 19, 2025 at 10:20 AM
See you down the front @monkeytennis.bsky.social 🫖
10/10, no notes! 📼
Me at home in 1998 watching my QuickTime download of the trailer for THE PHANTOM MENACE finally hit 98% after 2 hours.
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
10/10, no notes! 📼
So great being back in Buenos Aires!!! 🇦🇷
November 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
So great being back in Buenos Aires!!! 🇦🇷
By far the most enjoyable Sunday afternoon music thread for my hungover head 😵💫
Right, it's Sunday afternoon and therefore time for me to be completely hypocritical again and count down a UK Top 40 singles chart from a year past. This week we're going back 34 years to the chart week ending 9 November 1991. Hold onto that washing machine!
November 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
By far the most enjoyable Sunday afternoon music thread for my hungover head 😵💫
I was *hoping* it would be this!!!! 🫖
Had a total blast with this. Is it a great Predator movie? Not really. But it is a super fun, pulpy alien action adventure movie that feels like an adaptation of the 90s Dark Horse comics. I'd watch more movies with this new clan.
November 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I was *hoping* it would be this!!!! 🫖
Attention all @bsky.app Beloved heads!! You won’t find a better hour of Balearic power online this week. Absolutely everything came together so as well as oodles of Jon Marsh chat, you’ll also hear ‘Reach For Love’ and new music from Auntie Flo, J Appiah & Jacob Alon www.mixcloud.com/VoicesRadio/...
Ralph Moore W/ John Marsh - 06/11/25 [Voices Radio]
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November 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Attention all @bsky.app Beloved heads!! You won’t find a better hour of Balearic power online this week. Absolutely everything came together so as well as oodles of Jon Marsh chat, you’ll also hear ‘Reach For Love’ and new music from Auntie Flo, J Appiah & Jacob Alon www.mixcloud.com/VoicesRadio/...
Doing my Balearic remix homework ahead of tomorrow’s Voices Radio show with Mr Marsh! 🫖
November 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Doing my Balearic remix homework ahead of tomorrow’s Voices Radio show with Mr Marsh! 🫖
As per most of my own (beloved!) boxes, the word ‘useful’ is doing some heavy lifting: that picture disc belongs in a museum!
November 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
As per most of my own (beloved!) boxes, the word ‘useful’ is doing some heavy lifting: that picture disc belongs in a museum!
I’ve always loved this album. The duet with Michael Stipe (‘Trout’) is a beaut 🎣
Neneh Cherry released ‘Homebrew’ 33 years ago on October 26, 1992 | Listen to the album here: album.ink/NChomebrew
October 26, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I’ve always loved this album. The duet with Michael Stipe (‘Trout’) is a beaut 🎣
Bravo on all The Beloved in there 🫖
Automatically buying any old record if it has the word Balearic on it, thats how I deal with the evenings drawing in…
October 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Bravo on all The Beloved in there 🫖
An extended thread to remember Dave Ball by. R.I.P. to a production master 🪐
Soft Cell were an equal partnership who, when firing on all cylinders as usual, were unbeatable. You get the best sense of how brilliant Dave Ball was (and Marc too) on the 12" mixes of singles. Some of the greatest records of all time.
Memorabilia goes hard as hell.
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Memorabilia goes hard as hell.
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Memorabilia 12 inch / Soft Cell
YouTube video by Melancholy Rose
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October 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
An extended thread to remember Dave Ball by. R.I.P. to a production master 🪐
Fabric’s birthday was fantastic!!! Took me a minute to recover, not gonna lie 📼
October 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Fabric’s birthday was fantastic!!! Took me a minute to recover, not gonna lie 📼
THIS! 📚
Any other Partridge fans found a new love for New Song since watching How Are You? It’s Alpha Papa / Cuddly Toy all over again
October 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
THIS! 📚
Great cover 📚
October 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Great cover 📚
“Mastering + 100 CDs = £564”: this is a brilliant thread for anyone wondering what the costs of self-releasing and dabbling in physical music are in 2025 🫖
The economics of self-releasing music as physical media, a thread.
My first self-released CD is SEA OTTERS by The Bionics, an album of Not-Quite-Techno made in a very analogue way, and on our Bandcamp page along with 17 back catalogue treats.
thesonsofsilence1.bandcamp.com/music
My first self-released CD is SEA OTTERS by The Bionics, an album of Not-Quite-Techno made in a very analogue way, and on our Bandcamp page along with 17 back catalogue treats.
thesonsofsilence1.bandcamp.com/music
The Sons of Silence
Formed 1995 as offshoot from O Yuki Conjugate. Daniel Mudford, Joe Lamb, Pete Woodhead, Andrew Hulme.
Releases on The Leaf Label: Suited + Booted, Spring Forward/Fall Back, Silence FM
Film soundtrac...
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October 16, 2025 at 11:55 AM
“Mastering + 100 CDs = £564”: this is a brilliant thread for anyone wondering what the costs of self-releasing and dabbling in physical music are in 2025 🫖
Hard to compute at this point 💔
Heartbreaking: Neo-soul legends Angie Stone and D’Angelo both passed away in 2025, just 7 months apart. Stone died in March at 63. D’Angelo died today at 51. They shared a son together. An entire generation’s soundtrack, gone. Rest in power to both 🕊️💔
October 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Hard to compute at this point 💔
I am ready 🍿
My next book will be a biography of Jack Nicholson, written as an epic story of the transformation of the movie industry and modern masculinity from the 1950s to the present, with Nicholson as the main character. The title: Leading Man.
October 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I am ready 🍿
Had a brilliant time doing a short On Tour book reading at The Social on Little Portland Street last night… which just gave me time to head back to Islington for Jamie Woon! It’s just so good to have him back and Union Chapel the perfect venue 📚
October 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Had a brilliant time doing a short On Tour book reading at The Social on Little Portland Street last night… which just gave me time to head back to Islington for Jamie Woon! It’s just so good to have him back and Union Chapel the perfect venue 📚
I’ve had this song on repeat for a week! 💥
Sade released "By Your Side" as the first single from 'Lovers Rock' 25 years ago on October 13, 2000 | Watch the official video, listen to the album + explore our tribute here: album.ink/SadeLR
October 13, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I’ve had this song on repeat for a week! 💥
Precisely this! Thank you for saying it @patrickzircher.bsky.social 📚
I liked the idea that Diane Keaton was out there, somewhere, being Diane Keaton.
--sigh--
Rest in peace, Annie Hall.
--sigh--
Rest in peace, Annie Hall.
October 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Precisely this! Thank you for saying it @patrickzircher.bsky.social 📚