Stephen Bradbury
@squidtempest.bsky.social
Cephalopod with various synths and other noisemaking machinery. AKA Black Tempest. Yoga teacher and vegetarian.
First Record of The Weekend is Gong with Unending Ascending from 2023 - preparation for going to see them at the Boileroom in Guildford tomorrow night. Looking forward to this very much, I love this incarnation of the band.
November 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
First Record of The Weekend is Gong with Unending Ascending from 2023 - preparation for going to see them at the Boileroom in Guildford tomorrow night. Looking forward to this very much, I love this incarnation of the band.
Oi Keir Starmer - tell the Orange Fascist to f*ck off and stop trying to intefere with the UK media. Defend the BBC now, along with our sovereignty.
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Oi Keir Starmer - tell the Orange Fascist to f*ck off and stop trying to intefere with the UK media. Defend the BBC now, along with our sovereignty.
Lovely review of Folding Space on Terrascope by the estimable Ian Fraser...
www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Revi...
www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Revi...
Terrascope Reviews for November 2025
www.terrascope.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Lovely review of Folding Space on Terrascope by the estimable Ian Fraser...
www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Revi...
www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Revi...
First Record of The Weekend is @thetubes.bsky.social with Remote Control from 1979. I nabbed this 2nd hand on spec because it is produced by @toddrundgren.bsky.social, and it turns out it sounds like a lost Utopia album! As I saw Todd live this week it seems appropriate...
October 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
First Record of The Weekend is @thetubes.bsky.social with Remote Control from 1979. I nabbed this 2nd hand on spec because it is produced by @toddrundgren.bsky.social, and it turns out it sounds like a lost Utopia album! As I saw Todd live this week it seems appropriate...
This looks great!
folklore, facts and fables 6: three days to find out.
A celebration of Time Team. 16 page zine, 8 track cd.
Preorder available now!
#prehistory #megalithic #roman #standingstone #neolithic #bronzeage #stonehenge #archaeology #timeteam @timeteam.bsky.social
spaceship.bandcamp.com/album/folklo...
A celebration of Time Team. 16 page zine, 8 track cd.
Preorder available now!
#prehistory #megalithic #roman #standingstone #neolithic #bronzeage #stonehenge #archaeology #timeteam @timeteam.bsky.social
spaceship.bandcamp.com/album/folklo...
October 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This looks great!
First Record of The Weekend is the self-titled Nitro Cosmetic on the Cardinal Fuzz label, featuring the talents of Milo Smee and Demian Castellanos. For some reason this passed me by when I first got it, then I put it on the other day and it blew my head off. Fuzzy and fabulous!
October 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
First Record of The Weekend is the self-titled Nitro Cosmetic on the Cardinal Fuzz label, featuring the talents of Milo Smee and Demian Castellanos. For some reason this passed me by when I first got it, then I put it on the other day and it blew my head off. Fuzzy and fabulous!
Great review of Black Tempest's Folding Space album, this time from The Third Eye:
"...a bad-ass deep-space voyage, a narrative of sound where every pulse, sweep, and shimmer carries you further from the known world into the mysteries of the cosmic beyond."
thirdeyepsychrock.blog/2025/10/10/f...
"...a bad-ass deep-space voyage, a narrative of sound where every pulse, sweep, and shimmer carries you further from the known world into the mysteries of the cosmic beyond."
thirdeyepsychrock.blog/2025/10/10/f...
Folding Space by Black Tempest - The Third Eye
Folding Space trades the mysticism of Astral Pastoral for a cosmic voyage of modular synths, shimmering guitars, and live percussion.
thirdeyepsychrock.blog
October 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Great review of Black Tempest's Folding Space album, this time from The Third Eye:
"...a bad-ass deep-space voyage, a narrative of sound where every pulse, sweep, and shimmer carries you further from the known world into the mysteries of the cosmic beyond."
thirdeyepsychrock.blog/2025/10/10/f...
"...a bad-ass deep-space voyage, a narrative of sound where every pulse, sweep, and shimmer carries you further from the known world into the mysteries of the cosmic beyond."
thirdeyepsychrock.blog/2025/10/10/f...
First Record of The Weekend is Songs From the Free House by Smote on @rocketrecordings.bsky.social. The new album from my favourite live band of the year so far (and I've seen a LOT of great bands this year), and it isn't disappointing. It sounds massive - looming and doomy and brilliant.
October 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
First Record of The Weekend is Songs From the Free House by Smote on @rocketrecordings.bsky.social. The new album from my favourite live band of the year so far (and I've seen a LOT of great bands this year), and it isn't disappointing. It sounds massive - looming and doomy and brilliant.
Reposted by Stephen Bradbury
Spooks on the BBC: “We have to climb onto the roof, through a skylight and plug this thumb drive into the Chinese server.”
Spooks on Chinese TV: “We’ve just bought the British data centre. Job done.”
Spooks on Chinese TV: “We’ve just bought the British data centre. Job done.”
October 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Spooks on the BBC: “We have to climb onto the roof, through a skylight and plug this thumb drive into the Chinese server.”
Spooks on Chinese TV: “We’ve just bought the British data centre. Job done.”
Spooks on Chinese TV: “We’ve just bought the British data centre. Job done.”
Reposted by Stephen Bradbury
My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.
October 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.
If you're in Manchester, here's a great night out for you!
Scissorgun, Polypores and the b.all plus lights and visuals. Soundchecks completed, lights dimmed and cue the music! Finish your Friday chippy tea and come down! Starts at 8pm at Gullivers, Oldham St, Manchester.
October 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
If you're in Manchester, here's a great night out for you!
Well this is exciting! A great article and a fantastic review in @electronicsound.bsky.social magazine this month...
Copies of the album still available here:
blacktempest.bandcamp.com/album/foldin...
Copies of the album still available here:
blacktempest.bandcamp.com/album/foldin...
October 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Well this is exciting! A great article and a fantastic review in @electronicsound.bsky.social magazine this month...
Copies of the album still available here:
blacktempest.bandcamp.com/album/foldin...
Copies of the album still available here:
blacktempest.bandcamp.com/album/foldin...
First Record of The Weekend is the Psychedelic Furs' classic first album from 1980. Guess why I've chosen this one? I've just booked a trip to India for March! Any excuse to play this brilliant record.
October 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
First Record of The Weekend is the Psychedelic Furs' classic first album from 1980. Guess why I've chosen this one? I've just booked a trip to India for March! Any excuse to play this brilliant record.
First Record of The Weekend is the fantastic Noise Meditations from Bike. This Brazilian band were one of the highlights of the OSP Psych Weekender at the Strongroom Bar last weekend. This is a brilliant album - noisy psychedelic and otherworldly. Love it!
September 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
First Record of The Weekend is the fantastic Noise Meditations from Bike. This Brazilian band were one of the highlights of the OSP Psych Weekender at the Strongroom Bar last weekend. This is a brilliant album - noisy psychedelic and otherworldly. Love it!
So, yet again the BBC News acts as a Reform mouthpiece. Chris "Fascist" Mason criticises Ed Davey for accusing the beeb of Reform bias, which is followed by a other 10 minute love-in of Reform's awful deportation announcement. Disgusting propaganda.
September 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
So, yet again the BBC News acts as a Reform mouthpiece. Chris "Fascist" Mason criticises Ed Davey for accusing the beeb of Reform bias, which is followed by a other 10 minute love-in of Reform's awful deportation announcement. Disgusting propaganda.
Here is another taster for the Folding Space album, one more great video vidded by all round top human Nick Raybould!
youtu.be/UNhnRTL7n2Y
You can hear the rest of the album and purchase a copy on Deep Space Black from the Black Tempest Bandcamp site:
blacktempest.bandcamp.com/album/foldin...
youtu.be/UNhnRTL7n2Y
You can hear the rest of the album and purchase a copy on Deep Space Black from the Black Tempest Bandcamp site:
blacktempest.bandcamp.com/album/foldin...
A Memory of Stars
YouTube video by Black Tempest
youtu.be
September 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Here is another taster for the Folding Space album, one more great video vidded by all round top human Nick Raybould!
youtu.be/UNhnRTL7n2Y
You can hear the rest of the album and purchase a copy on Deep Space Black from the Black Tempest Bandcamp site:
blacktempest.bandcamp.com/album/foldin...
youtu.be/UNhnRTL7n2Y
You can hear the rest of the album and purchase a copy on Deep Space Black from the Black Tempest Bandcamp site:
blacktempest.bandcamp.com/album/foldin...
First Record of The Weekend is Folding Space, the new album from Black Tempest. Self-indulgent I know, but it is released today and I'm really rather pleased with it. Thanks to @nickraybould.bsky.social for bashing things.
Play loud.
Available here:
blacktempest.bandcamp.com/album/foldin...
Play loud.
Available here:
blacktempest.bandcamp.com/album/foldin...
September 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
First Record of The Weekend is Folding Space, the new album from Black Tempest. Self-indulgent I know, but it is released today and I'm really rather pleased with it. Thanks to @nickraybould.bsky.social for bashing things.
Play loud.
Available here:
blacktempest.bandcamp.com/album/foldin...
Play loud.
Available here:
blacktempest.bandcamp.com/album/foldin...
Exciting news! The new Black Tempest album, Folding Space, is now available from Bandcamp.
blacktempest.bandcamp.com/album/foldin...
blacktempest.bandcamp.com/album/foldin...
Folding Space, by Black Tempest
6 track album
blacktempest.bandcamp.com
September 12, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Exciting news! The new Black Tempest album, Folding Space, is now available from Bandcamp.
blacktempest.bandcamp.com/album/foldin...
blacktempest.bandcamp.com/album/foldin...
Tomorrow morning sees the release of the new Black Tempest album, Folding Space. It will be available from the Black Tempest Bandcamp site.
As a taster, here is a video of Manifest Space from the album. All hail to @nickraybould.bsky.social for putting the vid together.
youtu.be/v6mp03Z66XI
As a taster, here is a video of Manifest Space from the album. All hail to @nickraybould.bsky.social for putting the vid together.
youtu.be/v6mp03Z66XI
Manifest Space
YouTube video by Black Tempest
youtu.be
September 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Tomorrow morning sees the release of the new Black Tempest album, Folding Space. It will be available from the Black Tempest Bandcamp site.
As a taster, here is a video of Manifest Space from the album. All hail to @nickraybould.bsky.social for putting the vid together.
youtu.be/v6mp03Z66XI
As a taster, here is a video of Manifest Space from the album. All hail to @nickraybould.bsky.social for putting the vid together.
youtu.be/v6mp03Z66XI
Tonight (actually, if my calculations are correct, about 5:00am UK time), Black Tempest feature on Bushwick Garage, Radio Free Brooklyn.
www.radiofreebrooklyn.org
www.radiofreebrooklyn.org
Bushwick Garage - Radio Free Brooklyn
Psychedelic, rock n' roll, hip hop, funk, punk, alternative, independent and underground music from around the world.
www.radiofreebrooklyn.org
September 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Tonight (actually, if my calculations are correct, about 5:00am UK time), Black Tempest feature on Bushwick Garage, Radio Free Brooklyn.
www.radiofreebrooklyn.org
www.radiofreebrooklyn.org
Water Damage were ace last night at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social. One song, one riff (sort of), and total intensity. Amazing!
It was about ten minutes in before I realised there was a sax player behind that pillar on the right!
It was about ten minutes in before I realised there was a sax player behind that pillar on the right!
September 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Water Damage were ace last night at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social. One song, one riff (sort of), and total intensity. Amazing!
It was about ten minutes in before I realised there was a sax player behind that pillar on the right!
It was about ten minutes in before I realised there was a sax player behind that pillar on the right!
The new Black Tempest album, Folding Space, is due out in the next couple of weeks! Joining the crew of the starship Tempest is the multi-talented @nickraybould.bsky.social on drums & percussion.
Here's the 1st video (made by Nick) of a track from the album - Star Drive No 5.
youtu.be/MPS85_lUmhI
Here's the 1st video (made by Nick) of a track from the album - Star Drive No 5.
youtu.be/MPS85_lUmhI
Star Drive No 5
YouTube video by Black Tempest
youtu.be
August 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The new Black Tempest album, Folding Space, is due out in the next couple of weeks! Joining the crew of the starship Tempest is the multi-talented @nickraybould.bsky.social on drums & percussion.
Here's the 1st video (made by Nick) of a track from the album - Star Drive No 5.
youtu.be/MPS85_lUmhI
Here's the 1st video (made by Nick) of a track from the album - Star Drive No 5.
youtu.be/MPS85_lUmhI
First Record of The Weekend is
@sklossduo.bsky.social (Skloss) with The Pattern Speaks on
Fuzz Club - what a great record! Proper full on fuzzed up psych out of Austin TX /Glasgow (of course!). Wish I'd seen them in London on Wednesday. Turn it up, blast the neighbours into next week.
@sklossduo.bsky.social (Skloss) with The Pattern Speaks on
Fuzz Club - what a great record! Proper full on fuzzed up psych out of Austin TX /Glasgow (of course!). Wish I'd seen them in London on Wednesday. Turn it up, blast the neighbours into next week.
August 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
First Record of The Weekend is
@sklossduo.bsky.social (Skloss) with The Pattern Speaks on
Fuzz Club - what a great record! Proper full on fuzzed up psych out of Austin TX /Glasgow (of course!). Wish I'd seen them in London on Wednesday. Turn it up, blast the neighbours into next week.
@sklossduo.bsky.social (Skloss) with The Pattern Speaks on
Fuzz Club - what a great record! Proper full on fuzzed up psych out of Austin TX /Glasgow (of course!). Wish I'd seen them in London on Wednesday. Turn it up, blast the neighbours into next week.
Reposted by Stephen Bradbury
August 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
First Record of The Weekend is Kombynat Robotron with AANK on Fuzz Club - this is a pulsating, throbbing beast of record, the sound of a band really hitting their stride. Turn it on, turn it up, blast off.
kombynatrobotron.bandcamp.com/album/aank
kombynatrobotron.bandcamp.com/album/aank
August 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
First Record of The Weekend is Kombynat Robotron with AANK on Fuzz Club - this is a pulsating, throbbing beast of record, the sound of a band really hitting their stride. Turn it on, turn it up, blast off.
kombynatrobotron.bandcamp.com/album/aank
kombynatrobotron.bandcamp.com/album/aank