Happy International Workers’ Day! 🌹✊

A lot more love for the sandwich men than we knew:

If you need cheering up, here’s the sweetest thing I’ve read in ages.

theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

We Make Our Own History CD is released today on LastNightFromGlasgow & Spinout Nuggets with FOUR BONUS TRACKS. Catch us live Glas-Goes Pop in July where we will play lots of songs from the album plus songs from our Creation Records albums! spinoutproductions.com/shop/the-jasmi…

German radio listeners, I'll be on your Deutschlandfunk Kultur Tonart this hour, talking about that new Pet Shop Boys album, with references to Nureyev, Grandmaster Flash, Glühwein, Würstel, Sauerkraut.

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The absolute state of representational public art in the UK at this point in history.
Like an oversized version of the disappointing figures you’d sometimes get in Kinder eggs 50 years ago.

(yes, the ad on the same page adds another layer of irony, “something new” the enemy)

Great radio show with Robert Rotifer and Stefanie Schrank, The Burning Hell, Judee Sill, Amy Rigby, John & Beverley Martyn, Gillian Welch, OXYJANE, shotgun jimmie, Immersion ft. Cubzoa, The Pearlfishers, Comic Figure, Jane Weaver, Post Neo, Corridor.
fm4.orf.at/player/2024042…

Tonight's Radio FM4 Heartbeat from 22:00 CET (9pm GMT) happens to have a lot of Canada in it, plus things I picked up on the road in Europe (like Ornella & Co, pictured below), and others pulled into view by various threads of association. Playlist here: facebook.com/robert.rotifer…

All that Bob Marley needed was 'education' - quite clearly.

A lovely evening last night watching The Jasmine Minks and Robert Rotifer and Helen McCookerybook in Stoke Newington. And talking to lots of lovely people. Hurrah!