A foxy selfie

Placebo Audio - Bird Blossom

Placebo Audio - Sea Loop

The Future Now

From the forthcoming album, 'Maverick Action'.

Tweet

Allotment birdsong, May - October.

Cows (Grant Acid Mix) Edit

Now that the nights are drawing in, there will be more of this sort of thing. (Full music track here. ) Thanks Grant!

Ambient Allotment

Lazy calm

Saint Agnes

Cloud Roll (Repost)

While I'm in animation mode, here's one I did a few years ago to accompany an ambient audio project I recorded under the name 'Placebo Audio'.

Coming up roses

Three mixes of Rose Smith's 'Life Changes' but still can't find the '2 Banks of 4 Dub Remix' !

Totnes earworm

Can't get rid of this earworm, a fine pop song and the best thing to come out of Totnes since KLF pop prankster Jimmy Cauty.

Trish Keenan

Guardian obituary

Spot The Difference

Little changes

Playing For Laughs

I've ranted before about the rib-tickling comedy series Ideal set in the world of disorganised crime in Salford, starring Johnny Vegas. Not only is it extremely funny but it also features snippets of dozens of excellent previously unheard tracks, thanks to writer, actor, producer and DJ Graham Duff. The last track in the final series, as Moz was seen leaving his flat for the first time, was a slow, grungy Cocteau Twins-esque number which turned out to be the oddly named 'Recent Bedroom' by Atlas Sound, aka Bradford Cox of Deerhunter.

Good to now hear Atlas Sound have made daytime radio, well, BBC 6Music at least, with singles from last year's great Logos album, like the catchy, singalong 'Shelia'.



Nothing much to laugh about on the telly at the moment, except reruns of fabulously kooky Flight Of The Conchords.

Placebo Audio - Cloud Roll

A Deep Affection For Flowers

The Bloody Apprentice

I wondered what the hilarious Cassetteboy had been up to recently - seems that he's turned his hand to video editing, producing this bladdy brilliant Apprentice cut-up.

Colder

Watched a documentary on the 1984 miners' strike, reminding me of its effect on my politicisation at the time, but also setting me off to hunt down a haunting song which appeared in the soundtrack.

I seemed to know it well, yet I couldn't put my finger on it. Was it Echo & The Bunnymen, The Psychedelic Furs ? No, too electronic for that, but it wasn't New Order or Joy Division and it was too European to be Suicide.

So I typed a few of the lyrics into googly and eventually identified the song. It was quite a shock to discover that the track was only 6 years old, not 25 as I'd assumed, that I hardly recognised the artist's name and he wasn't British.

But what a track ! Crikey !! It's got bits of all the bands mentioned above and he's clearly into his Joy Division. I remember now that I must have recorded it onto MiniDisc from a John Peel show, the year before he died.

It's a great one for doing the Ian Curtis dance to ; )

Last FM (Some interesting remixes too) : Colder - Crazy Love

YouTube : (Until they block all music vids)

Video - Coniston Leap (Hit The North)

After lots of pffaffing - uploaded the 2004 video of 'Hit The North' to lastfm and YouTube, featuring the soundtrack Coniston Leap, from the album Asylum Seeker. (And no, nothing to do with The Fall!)