Unexpected excitement in my Quality Book Club edition of E.S. Turner’s Call the Doctor: A Social History of Medical Men.
January 9, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Unexpected excitement in my Quality Book Club edition of E.S. Turner’s Call the Doctor: A Social History of Medical Men.
I was never younger.
January 9, 2026 at 11:27 AM
I was never younger.
I’ve listened to it while at the library and am pleased to confirm that it is also library music in that sense.
This is my new album.
It's instrumental, apart from some crowd chanting on Your Gold, Mr Bridger.
The average tune length is two minutes and eight seconds.
There are fourteen tunes.
It sounds like old telly music.
It's ace.
I'd love it if you listened.
I've love it even more if you shared it.
It's instrumental, apart from some crowd chanting on Your Gold, Mr Bridger.
The average tune length is two minutes and eight seconds.
There are fourteen tunes.
It sounds like old telly music.
It's ace.
I'd love it if you listened.
I've love it even more if you shared it.
Library Music, by Darren Riley
14 track album
ballardpop.bandcamp.com
January 9, 2026 at 8:30 AM
I’ve listened to it while at the library and am pleased to confirm that it is also library music in that sense.
Reposted by Stan Hoight
Did you know you can buy my FULL digital discography over at Bandcamp? From the 2012 single, Searching For The Summer, right up to this year's Library Music, it's a wild ride from an artist who can't make his mind up. Spiky Mod stuff, power-pop, disco, experimental synth work and library music.
Library Music, by Darren Riley
14 track album
ballardpop.bandcamp.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Did you know you can buy my FULL digital discography over at Bandcamp? From the 2012 single, Searching For The Summer, right up to this year's Library Music, it's a wild ride from an artist who can't make his mind up. Spiky Mod stuff, power-pop, disco, experimental synth work and library music.
Reposted by Stan Hoight
It would be really cool to see some of this *actually* being used like library music in a film or on TV. 'Jaunty Jack' is my favourite.
My little instrumental album was supposed to be go live on Saturday, so my Patreon patrons could have the first listen this week. Anyway, maybe I don't understand Bandcamp properly as it appears to be already on my page. What can you do?
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Library Music, by Darren Riley
14 track album
ballardpop.bandcamp.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:28 AM
It would be really cool to see some of this *actually* being used like library music in a film or on TV. 'Jaunty Jack' is my favourite.
I never remember until the fever is upon me that this is deranged online second hand book buying week.
December 29, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I never remember until the fever is upon me that this is deranged online second hand book buying week.
He wouldn’t have survived A.H. Gilkes.
26 former students and staff at Dulwich College have signed an open letter calling for Nigel Farage to apologise for his alleged racist and antisemitic behaviour while a pupil at the top London private school.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
He wouldn’t have survived A.H. Gilkes.
The Jam’s Direction Reaction Creation features a different Rickenbacker leaning against an amp on every disc. Horrifying.
If you grew up being told this by every single older guitar player, seeing the Beatles leave their guitars leaning against the drum riser and so on sets your teeth on edge. “BUT YOUR RICKENBACKER WILL BE ALL BENT, JOHN LENNON!”
December 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The Jam’s Direction Reaction Creation features a different Rickenbacker leaning against an amp on every disc. Horrifying.
I threw up repeatedly after Oliver Stone’s JFK because of the endless handheld, so yeah, that.
December 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I threw up repeatedly after Oliver Stone’s JFK because of the endless handheld, so yeah, that.
If I’d made Everything Flows I’d spend so much time admiring my handiwork I’d never get anything else done.
Teenage Fanclub performing Everything Flows. Watch the full song plus interview, which I taped off Snub TV in January 1991, here youtu.be/V3ltg4AwD7g
December 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
If I’d made Everything Flows I’d spend so much time admiring my handiwork I’d never get anything else done.
Fain would I kiss my Julia’s dainty leg
Which is as white and hairless as an egg
Which is as white and hairless as an egg
December 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Fain would I kiss my Julia’s dainty leg
Which is as white and hairless as an egg
Which is as white and hairless as an egg
Hang on, that’s what I use this for.
Maybe I should write a diary. You know? Weird shit that only I get to see
Do you ever get stuff which is so annoying that you can't really put it on social media, but it definitely does belong somewhere out there... can you remind me where that is?
December 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Hang on, that’s what I use this for.
Chucked work to spend the day with my Telecaster. Carpe diem, motherfuckers.
December 4, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Chucked work to spend the day with my Telecaster. Carpe diem, motherfuckers.
Important political fact: José "Xanana" Gusmão, current Prime Minister of East Timor and its inaugural President when it regained its independence from Indonesia in 2002, is nicknamed after Sha Na Na.
December 1, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Important political fact: José "Xanana" Gusmão, current Prime Minister of East Timor and its inaugural President when it regained its independence from Indonesia in 2002, is nicknamed after Sha Na Na.
Acclaim for this 1959 Air Force comedy: “Perhaps its principal distinction among British films is that it has three scenes set in men's lavatories” - Monthly Film Bulletin.
November 30, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Acclaim for this 1959 Air Force comedy: “Perhaps its principal distinction among British films is that it has three scenes set in men's lavatories” - Monthly Film Bulletin.
I didn’t get where I am today by not endorsing Tony Molina.
Going to join the chorus regarding this; listening now and it’s completely brilliant.
#NowPlaying I saw a post by @iammilliam.bsky.social saying how much he liked this album, so I took a chance and ordered a copy. It is just fabulous. 21 beautiful & breezy pop songs in 22 minutes! Beatles, Lemonheads, Big Star, The Byrds & Lilys all popped into my head as I listened.
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I didn’t get where I am today by not endorsing Tony Molina.
I agree that a TV critic should have a working knowledge of why Friends was fucking horrific and its creators and audience should have been ejected into space.
November 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I agree that a TV critic should have a working knowledge of why Friends was fucking horrific and its creators and audience should have been ejected into space.
Say what you like about cricket, at least it’s not fucking rugby.
November 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Say what you like about cricket, at least it’s not fucking rugby.
Robert Plant, in his just-now Tiny Desk, talks about looking forward to catching up with Bob Mosley and for some reason that thought just fills me with joy.
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Robert Plant, in his just-now Tiny Desk, talks about looking forward to catching up with Bob Mosley and for some reason that thought just fills me with joy.
All my opinions are unhinged.
October 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
All my opinions are unhinged.
If it’s the Doctor and your granny on bongos, it’s Doctor Who.
October 15, 2025 at 10:23 AM
If it’s the Doctor and your granny on bongos, it’s Doctor Who.
If excerpts from GBV’s forthcoming Thick, Rich and Delicious are representative, somebody’s surreptitiously replaced Bob’s copy of Who’s Next with a copy of All Mod Cons.
October 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
If excerpts from GBV’s forthcoming Thick, Rich and Delicious are representative, somebody’s surreptitiously replaced Bob’s copy of Who’s Next with a copy of All Mod Cons.
Ripping TV version of ripping tune. youtu.be/gnWq_bgS8yU?...
Makiza - La rosa de los Vientos (En Vivo Canal 2)
YouTube video by PaNcHoRs
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March 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Ripping TV version of ripping tune. youtu.be/gnWq_bgS8yU?...
Is she one of these moody, genre-defying singer-songwriters? I find it hard to keep up with them.
This website is especially good if you like seeing people constantly reference Elon Musk
February 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Is she one of these moody, genre-defying singer-songwriters? I find it hard to keep up with them.
I’d always uncritically accepted the “Love underperformed commercially because Arthur wouldn’t tour” narrative but as Johnny Echols points out, much of the US wouldn’t have booked “a bunch of race mixing California hippies” in 1966 in any event, so I feel like an idiot now.
February 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I’d always uncritically accepted the “Love underperformed commercially because Arthur wouldn’t tour” narrative but as Johnny Echols points out, much of the US wouldn’t have booked “a bunch of race mixing California hippies” in 1966 in any event, so I feel like an idiot now.