Bandcamp purchases yesterday inc new music from the increasingly essential AceMoMa, broken beat original Kaidi Tatham, abstract, ambient textures from Manchester by Space Africa, some gorgeous, moody UKG from Roam and, talking of things Moody, the latest from Kenny Dixon Jr. Yup!

Gilles Peterson for Prime Minister!

I love Bristol. It’s one of those cities in the UK where you feel a true vibe. But whenever I’ve visited I have been unable to shake its shameful history from my mind. This day should have come years ago. F**k statues of slave traders. Tear them down. PS Priti Patel? Get to f**k!

Happy 63rd birthday to Patrick Joseph McAloon. A great, a god. You’ve never let me down. Prefab Sprout

I see they are now replaying Euro 2016 on Whitehall. When are the Russian mob going to turn up?

Does anyone else look at this lot in Whitehall today and think what sort of music do these pillocks listen to? Or is it just Sousa’s Stars & Stripes Forever and Sloop John B on loop?

Last Saturday in London: Black Lives Matter This Saturday in London: Gak Lives Matter

Well, this hits the bullseye on a sunnyish early July day. And further proof that the good Dr is in particularly rude health.

I remember in 1984, Wogan asking Jack Charlton what he'd have done if it hadn't been for football. 'I would have gone down the pit, wouldn't I?' 'And... would you be on strike now?' 'OF COURSE I WOULD - those lads, they're just trying to save jobs and their communities.' #RIPJack

I know enough people who met Jack Charlton over the years to be safe in the knowledge that he was a funny, kind, eccentric and lovely chap. There are lots of wonderful Big Jack stories but this one is one of my favourites.

A thrill to hear Huey playing BDP’s Criminal Minded on 6Music Fan. Bought album on release. Loaned it to a lad who naffed off to Uni and sold it to fund a habit he’d developed. Got another copy a few years ago but lost it when our lock-up roof caved in. Daren’t buy it again

This is lovely. PS might spend the rest of the day speaking Jack Lads? Say ‘lairrrds’ Goals? Say ‘gurrrrrls’ Year? Say ‘yay-err’ Day? Say ‘dee-er’ Both? Say ‘berth’

"Ambitious in scope and alluring in execution....a winsome, multi-layered gem" ★★★★ Zapatilla's s/t debut album is reviewed in the new issue of MOJO Magazine by Stephen Griff Worthy 🎧 zapatillamusic.bandcamp.com/album/zapatilla 📖 mojo4music.com/articles/mojo-…

“Football is… she's a cruel mistress. She's, she's more than a mistress, Clive. She's Qatari, she's Arabic, she's an African, she’s gay. She… she’s disabled. 'Cause football’s about nothing, nothing, unless it's about something and what it is about… is being a migrant worker.”

Even better, Steve and Kavus mixed into it from Battles’ always enormous Atlas too… I nearly dropped my £7.85 pint of Camden IPA.