Lol.  Shockingly bad  

AI art and design - where we are and where we’ve been.
https://skirky.blogspot.com/2026/05/youd-best-start-believing-in-ghost.html

Good Lord! That’s astonishing. And not in a good way.

Two gigs at the weekend to celebrate a friends 60th. Nick Harper played a “best of” set on Friday night -
superb, but definitely not birthday party music. Phil and Paul from TMTCH on Saturday afternoon, mix of stories and songs - some incredible stories about the late great Cush.

Oh my goodness, never knew that even existed. A mildly amusing attempt to play the MTV game - everyone else has a video, why not him ?

Has anyone ever seen this rather appalling video for The Wrong Heartbeat before?!  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmvfqyeAPLI

Miles Davies is composer of the week on Radio 3, an interesting listen

Anybody else here actually seen him live?  I'm not even a fan...

Tonight, 11pm 'til 1am : Scattering The Roots with Dan Ogus...two hours of the finest folk, roots, blues, etc...plenty of etc...

***For this week only, due to Express FM's live coverage of The Portsmouth Music Awards, Scattering The Roots will go out 2 hours later than usual from 11pm 'til 1am***

I've rifled through my vaults to bring you some excellent music both new and vintage every Wednesday evening...

This week's show features the following artists :

Michael Weston King, John Hollier & The Revere, Peter Mulvey, The Cousins Project, Suzanne Vega, India Ramey, The Mediaeval Baebes,  The Albion Band, The Pogues, Steve Black, Ed Snodderly, Steepways, Edward & Jane, Bob Dylan, Pearl Charles, Blair Dunlop, Pink Floyd, Steeleye Span, Pilgrims' Way, Sandy Denny...

Listen tonight, 11pm 'til 1am on Portsmouth's Express FM, on DAB and online here :

https://www.expressfm.com/programmes/scattering-the-roots/

Back and almost recovered from Bearded Theory Festival.

The heat made it pretty hard work and meant that I missed a few acts as either couldn't get in to a tent or had retreated to a place of shade and rest for a while.

However, The Unthanks at night in a Woodland copse were superb, and I just about avoided a full blubber during King of Rome  

Other standout performances for me were Skunk Anansie, better than when I saw them 30 years ago. Kate Nash, fierce, angry, funny and with a great all female band. Walpurgis, a one off 'super-group' featuring Mike Vennart of Oceansize & Biffy Clyro fame who did a set of Ozzy era Black Sabbath, introduced by Stewart Lee. It was genuinely more authentic to the original sound than any of the times I have seen the real Sabbath. And lastly, Garbage who put on the best show I've ever seen  them do. The band were heavy and tight and, at 59 and following a double hip replacement, Shirley Manson is a new woman.

I look forward to doing it all again next year.