This is a good channel for “weird shit on the radio”:
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Yes, I’m a fan of that.
I do this too when I’m driving. The Dutch radio plays better music and I don’t have to listen to pointless news.
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This might get hate but I like Sara Cox (not Zoe Ball! Thanks @markg)because she sounds very easy going.
Iggy Pop sounds like an anti booze and cigarettes campaign.
GYBE in Manc is sold out and London date is still waiting list for tickets. What is the deal with that shit? Just sell the tickets and stop the hype, or is it to stop the resale? No idea.
Isn’t she meant to be a bit awful? Sure I remembered reading something about her being horrible to peasants.
Oh shit! You’re right! I meant Sara Cox.
Yeah, Zoe Ball is terrible. Sounds very classist.
Better edit that post 
Sara Cox used to go out with one of Avi’s old skate mates from Bolton (Jason something) then dropped him like a sack of Ormskirks as soon as she got famous and moved to London. I’m sure she’s very nice though.
Also she filmed something round the corner from my house a few years ago and has very unnaturally golden hair. But the more interesting thing about this is, it was one of those “life in a corner shop through the decades” things on the BBC, and in order to make the terraced house they filmed look ‘period’, they plastered over the whole brick exterior then spent two or three days applying a fake brick texture over it: one bloke spent a day hand-pressing a brick pattern into the plaster, then another bloke painted all the individual bricks so they looked old. But they just looked exactly like the bricks that were there before.
It’s a cafe now, I wonder if the owners/patrons know that all their bricks are fake?
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Real bricks don’t look like brick on film?
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There’s a good D&B station round here called London’s Wax
Classic pirate station stuff, missed calls for the rewind etc
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I was gonna say just this. They’re really on their high horse. I mostly listen to radio three and four now. Radio three night tracks is excellent.
Stuart Maconie freak zone is good though on six music.
Nostalgia! That bangs, took me right back haha.
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I’m watching an aphex twin fan made documentary on YouTube and they interview the guy who designed the aphex twin logo.
He’s called Paul Nicholson and he mentions at uni he had a friend he would skate with who went to America, to San Francisco to work on a company called anarchic adjustment. He goes on to talk about skating in the early 90s briefly but passionately.
Anyone ever skate with Paul Nicholson?
I imagine he’s probably talking about Nick Phillip. Nick started Anarchic Adjustment, selling stickers and tees out of his house in Muswell Hill back in the mid 80’s. He was a BMX rider who aligned himself with skating because it wasn’t as kooky as mainstream BMX was at the time. He and a few others helped pioneer BMX street riding and may have been the first rider to do a wall ride on a bike. He also went on to work at BMX Action Bike magazine with TLB, and was responsible for the look of the mag with his cut and paste/xerox style when they morphed it into R.A.D.
It seems that Paul was more into bikes than skating but did a bit of both. Found this Q&A with Paul Nicholson on Reddit -
https://www.reddit.com/r/aphextwin/comments/guqc3j/i_am_paul_nicholson_creative_designer_and_the/
Also -
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Full story to follow etc.
Nick is fucking great.
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Autechre are playing their only UK show of 2025 on my birthday next year, it’s a four hour show, it sold out before I heard it was happening. I’m not sure whether to be gutted or not, I revered them as gods in their earlier career but most of their output passes me by these days, and the last couple of times I saw them live (a long time ago) they weren’t that enjoyable.
However, Iron Maiden are playing next summer and I’m going with my old schoolmate who I saw them with in 1986 at what was my, and his, first gig. Which is nice.
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Don’t think i could handle 4 hours of insect noises. Love Incuabula but can live without the rest.
Though I’ve probably missed some good stuff, which is their closest to that vibe?
I listened to Incanabula (sp?) last weekend and didn’t enjoy it that much. Used to be a solid go-to for me. Maybe I just wasn’t in the mood but felt pretty meh about it.
Oh I still listen to that all the time, also Amber and Tri Repetae and all the stuff inbetween. Godlike music. But nothing past those
Had the email and did think that i’ll go but if it’s sold out then… Balls.
I like all Autechre phases, some more than others. Chiastic Slide and LP5 are incredible albums, my favourites.
