Gig 43/24 - back to Nath Brudenell for an excellent set of atmospheric & dynamic woozy shoegaze meets Crazy Horse-fuelled Americana from 👑King Hannah👑. They always had the sound, now they have the songs too 👌 Plus cool folky indie from opening act Pina Palau 🇨🇭

Friday morning = tickets bought for The Bug Club at Nath Brudenell in Feb. Quality pints in your town 🍻🎸🎶🥳

Gig 44/24 - down to Hyde Park Book Club for the groovy ambient soundtracky sounds of Andrew Wasylyk Andrew Wasylyk & Tommy Perman Tommy Perman. Part gig, part art installation, excellent 👍 Great support from Studio Electrophonique StudioElectrophonique - fine lo-fi VU-ish bedsit pop 👏

Gig 45/24 - back to a sellout Nath Brudenell for a masterclass in melodic power-pop from The Lemon Twigs - smart songwriting, jangling gtrs, energy & ludicrously TIGHT vocal harmonies 😍 With sugar-sweet pop support from TCHOTCHKE

It was good to catch up with my pal Steve Clark last night. We ended up discussing the unassuming musical genius of our mutual friend Simon simon king, a very talented songwriter & home-recordist, specialising in lush guitar pop. You should check him out 👍

In other news, new music is coming soon...

Up north for another studio day with Martin Harbourmaster Productions 🎶 #musicproduction #allpopnostar

Bit slow off the mark, but pleased to say I have now booked my ticket to see Danny & The Champions of the World Danny the Champ at Nath Brudenell in March 👍

Today's the day! GOOD LUCK to everyone involved in the Future Collaborations Festival up at Gosforth Civic Theatre, it's going to be fab! I'll be along later, looking forward to seeing the mighty Slug SLUG_The_Band/Artist and catching up with Mike Hebden 🇪🇺 👍

Very apt, the postie has just delivered the latest instalment 🎶 of Ivan The Tolerable (from the Butterfly Effect label Stephen gill) just as I head out to the Boro game Middlesbrough FC #UTB

Gig 46/24 - back up to Gosforth Civic Theatre for the Future Collaborations festival, with a great, diverse lineup of artists, headlined by the face meltin' rock gods that are SLUG! Fabulous event, fair play to all involved, especially SLUG_The_Band/Artist

Nice one Chris Hawkins BBC Radio 6 Music, great interview with Paul Maximo Park, always interesting & eloquent 👍 Good to hear about the recording trip to Atlanta, Ga. and nice shoutout for Pylon 👏 #UTB

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I've been releasing music as Funpark Fugitives for a couple of years now. If you like noisy guitar pop and you have 15min spare, then why not checkout this 6 song mixtape, an intro to my world, including a tune approved by the great Scott McCaughey 👍 open.spotify.com/playlist/3JiPj…

Hi BBC Radio 6 Music #tshirtday, I have FAR too many band t-shirts 😁 Top of the pile today was this one from Frankie & The Heartstrings, which I picked up the last time the band played the fab Pop Recs CIC in Sunderland 👍 Frankie Heartstrings Frankie Francis

On this day 13 years ago, R.E.M. announced, via their website, that after 31 years, five months and seventeen days together, they were “calling it a day” as a creative unit. They had released fifteen studio albums and 63 singles during their career.