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David Lynch, 1946-2025. Every time I open my phone, I live in fear of terrible news that someone I know, or love, or someone whose work and art has changed my world, has died. I know that everyone dies, but I never expected this to happen today. What will survive of us is how we made the world a better place, and how we made the people in our life feel. And David Lynch changed how I saw the wor...

The Mission released their second LP - "Children" - in 1988, preceded by the epic Zeppelinesque "Tower of Strength", an album produced by John Paul Jones, and they toured the world in a blizzard of naughty chemicals and booze. The album is a tale of hedonistic excess and success, alongside enormous sales, a second single in "Beyond The Pale", and culminating in an arena tour in the UK. 15 Janua...

Roger Waters called them The Muffins and said "They'll never f king do it!". And he was wrong. After resigning from the band, the remaining members of Pink Floyd - David and Nick - restarted the band, and created a new album (with lots of help), to wrest back a degree of creativity, and toured the world for three years : resulting in the "Delicate Sound of Thunder", "Live In Venice", and the "K...

It's 2025, and that means... well, not very much really. Instead, I pull out some random stuff - a book, a CD, a DVD, a BluRay, a 7" and an LP - from my shelves and talk through them. 02 January 2025.

U2 released their "Atomic Bomb" album 20th anniversary box set last month, in a lavish 5CD ( doodads, book, art prints etc) edition, as well as a limited edition, standalone coloured vinyl edition of the unreleased offcuts album "How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb." I go deep into the box set, contents, the shadow album, missing B-sides, remixes, live audio, and what The Box Set *could* have on ...

Iron Maiden's fourth album, "Piece Of Mind" cemented the bands classic lineup with Bruce Dickinson as a full writing member, and Nicko McBrain joining the band on drums with a bang. Not my favourite Maiden LP, this was preceded by the first non-Steve Harris single "Flight Of The Icarus", and the lesser charting classic "The Trooper". Every song is about history, or war, or death, or the history...

Another random look through my collection, picked out by unpaid labour again, as a random CD, DVD, 7", LP, and book get picked. But as I talked about the book, I realised I'd already talked about it, I got another one.... 26 December 2024.

Long touted, but utterly unexpected, The Cure released their 14th studio album - "Songs Of A Lost World" - after a 16 year break, and it's worth the wait. So far, my favourite album of the decade, "Songs Of A Lost World" is a dense, dark exploration of mortality, presenting the nearest The Cure have ever come to post-rock, focusing on the running down of time, the end of relationships - and liv...

THE WONDER STUFF, "Redberry Joytown", London Sheperds Bush Empire, 20 December 2024.

THE WEDDING PRESENT / DAVID GEDGE "It's A Gas", Kingston Pryzm, 13 December 2024.

THE WEDDING PRESENT / DAVID GEDGE "Two For The Road", Kingston Pryzm, 13 December 2024.

THE TWILIGHT SAD, "Cold Days In The Birdhouse", Glasgow St Lukes, 12 December 2024

THE TWILIGHT SAD, "Keep It All To Myself", Glasgow St Lukes, 12 December 2024

THE TWILIGHT SAD, "I Became A Prostitute", Glasgow St Lukes, 12 December 2024

THE TWILIGHT SAD, "Cold Days In The Birdhouse", Edinburgh Queens Hall 11 December 2024

THE TWILIGHT SAD, "Drown So I Can Watch", Edinburgh Queens Hall 11 December 2024

THE TWILIGHT SAD "The Arbor" live Edinburgh Queens Hall 11 December 2024

HAIVER "Love To Give" Edinburgh Queens Hall 11 December 2024

THE TWILIGHT SAD, "Chest Wound To The Chest", Leeds Brudenell 10 December 2024.

THE TWILIGHT SAD, "Designed To Lose", Leeds Brudenell 10 December 2024.

MARK'S NOTCAST Ep 415 : The Guardian Q&A (again?) 09 December 2024

HOPE OF THE STATES, "Long Waits in A E", live London Metronome 7 December 2024.

HOPE OF THE STATES, "Concerned Relative Blues", London Metronome, 07 December 2024.

HOPE OF THE STATES "Ambient Violence" live London Metronome 07 December 2024.

HOPE OF THE STATES "Ghost Story" live London Tuffnell Park Dome 06 December 2024.

MARK'S NOTCAST Ep 414 : The Stone Roses "The Second Coming" hits 30! 30 November 2024

MARK'S NOTCAST Ep 413 : Kraftwerk, Karl Bartos, and Wolfgang Flur 1993-2002. 26 November 2024

MARK'S NOTCAST Ep 412 : Random Record Rummage #13 : 12 November 2024

MARK'S NOTCAST Ep 411 : Random Record Rummage #!12 29 October 2024