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New MONKEY’S WANDERING WIRELESS SHOW: Tambourine Dreams is calling! Escape to a better world where the soul shakes to the beat of the veins. 70 years of old treasures and shiny new musical gems in one glorious hour. Believe! 🐵🚶🏻📻🎭 www.mixcloud.com/markraison12...

Anna Devís and Daniel Rueda plan every shot as a drawing first, then build it for real — painted walls, actual props, natural light. No digital compositing; if something needs to be on the wall, they paint it by hand. Both architects by training, based in Valencia, Spain. ❤️ IG: @anniset / @drcuerda

Nice of the Manics to put an old photo of Richey in 1994 going through his Monkey phase… 😉

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“This gradual consumption of the marketplace is how we ended up with an indefensibly small number of companies controlling every major sector of the music business: touring, recording, publishing, media, distribution, management and more.” The True Cost of Corporate Dominance in the Music Industry:

Fela Kuti above the streets of Shepherd’s Bush for Black History Month

Am I alone in missing Football Focus on a Saturday?

Michael Kiwanuka - Fudge (2026). Almost unbearably beautiful.

William Eggleston: All That Goes Unnoticed at the Photographers’ Gallery, London Glorious colours and observations. Although, as one loudly bickering couple proved today, not to everybody’s taste. “I don’t care what it is Stephen, it’s not art. It’s shit.”

Jeffrey Lewis & the Voltage at the Queen Elizabeth Hall (yes, really) last nite. In a word: GENIUS.

Nice little Thursday afternoon trip to the local picturehouse ended with two old geezers nearly coming to blows in an expletive ridden stand off over talking in cinema etiquette. Madness.

Just found the most adorable cat in Istanbul near the record store 🖤🙌

Frida: The Making of an Icon at Tate Modern. As title suggests, more an exhibition of Frida Kahlo The Icon than Frida Kahlo The Artist. So, the few Greatest Hits are watered down with a lot of filler. Still enjoyed it, but then I quite like pop culture tat.

Expert on the news saying he could make an AI version of the Bayeux Tapestry tapestry but wouldn’t have the impact of the original.

Walking the dog...1966, Roger Daltrey & his Saluki stroll through Swinging London📸Chris Morphet

This month is the 60th anniversary of the Black Panther Party

Can someone check the Scala is still standing today. Last night the Jim Jones All Stars (slot now secured as Jim’s finest ensemble) and a restored Spitfire (every bit as rock & roll as they were in ‘91) shook it up something proper.

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If you’re thinking about coming to The Action/Goldhawk do - now with added Steve Mason - then don’t hang about getting a ticket. Getting low already. (This isn’t a desperate sales pitch, just friendly advice!) Link here: THE ACTION EMPTY SHADOWS www.eventbrite.com/e/the-action...

45 years ago Monkey Snr used this record as an instrument of freaky jazz torture against his children. Now I really like it…

This is a really good listen folks.

The Coral in Camden last nite. They are 100% about the songs. And what a range of songs they have. Great career spanning set.

@theacousticeggbox.bsky.social @monkeypicks.bsky.social @caistercampanne.bsky.social @traviata.bsky.social Have been listening to this today and thought it may be up your street. ellathompson.bandcamp.com/album/triump...

The Goldhawk is the stuff of top tier 60s mod legend. Home to the Action and The Who, it’s not really changed much. Always wanted to go inside so this is hugely exciting news all round. Tickets for the 100 Faces tomorrow.

The Action in action 📷 Robert Davidson

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“Toothbrushes gave us power…”

Few track/poem titles on the forthcoming William Burroughs CD-set… Get those dancing shoes ready!

New & Notable: Newly unearthed poems from William Burroughs are set to haunting arrangements, infusing them with a sense of the otherworldly.

Very long time since I’ve stopped in my tracks to see what a newspaper front page was all about. Great work by the picture department at The Observer today.

Melanddi shoe shop on Carnaby Street, early 80s. No pisstaking, we were all young and impressionable once. And I miss that.

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The BBC charter section 6.4: "...the BBC should accurately and authentically represent and portray the lives of the people of the United Kingdom today, and raise awareness of the different cultures and alternative viewpoints that make up its society"

The Yummy Fur at the Lexington last nite. Would love to claim this image was planned but was a happy accident. Great night.

Bruno and the Outrageous Methods of Presentation at the Lexington last nite. Wow! A string of blistering 90 second songs played at breakneck speed. Pure punk perfection. Best new band seen in years.

Maximum punk R&B from Thee Headcoats last nite. “Secret” gig ahead of their proper big reunion shows next year. Was like being back in the St John’s Tavern in the 90s: a riveting rollicking rock & roll jumble.

Just listened to Steve Davis’s favourite album, Mekanïk Destruktïẁ Kommandöh, a French “rock opera concept album telling the story of a doomed Earth caught in endless war, and a prophet's prediction that sparks a large demonstration march by Earthlings to kill him.” Never again. 🇫🇷

Amelia and the Housewives (2026). Nice to find other people who seemingly love the first Pipettes album as much as I.

Legacy in the Dust: The Four Aces Story is on Sky Arts tomorrow night (21:00, Tuesday 6 October) 👀 vimeo.com/1151888635

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Happy #Caturday 🐾 Sleeping Tabby by Harry Wysocki (1970)

#OtD 3 Oct 1896 designer, artist and libertarian socialist William Morris died of tuberculosis at age 62. We have used some of his iconic artwork in merch to help fund our work: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

No fan of live albums and most definitely anti releases over two hours but this is a stonking stream. The best of Paul Weller by Paul Weller at his best. Superb.

A pigeon painted onto a World Cup beer mat from 1966. Available now darrenhaymanart.com

Used audiobook for 50% of Rachel Stirling’s All About My Mother. It meant finished book in a week instead of two but doubt will repeat experience. Felt too passive.

Oh gawd, the first "The Acoustic Egg Box On The Box" video is up and running! It was fun to make, and before anyone mentions it, I know I'm a blithering idiot. Be warned - there will be more :-) www.instagram.com/reel/DdzCPsr...

For 20 years my folks have kept two goldfish in a barrel in the garden. And only NOW have they had babies! Much excitement.

A controversial instalment for the Modculture film club. A film that divides. In fact, you’ll struggle to find many positive opinions of the Absolute Beginners movie by Julien Temple. But it's an interesting one nonetheless. bit.ly/4ycFBf0

10 November Walthamstow @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-hard-day...