Rob Ashton

Partner slightly alarmed by my choice of pizza tonight, I hadn’t even given it a second thought, am I out of touch or are the children just wrong? (Pictured, king prawn, garlic and chilli pizza from Waitrose)

“It’s just a few bad apples”, reform style

It’s good the Christians are getting in early on this years Halloween celebrations

If I was a kid being invited to the Holy Ghost zone and then found out it was just a god bothering class I’d be fuming

“People really are up to all sorts”

Could sit here for hours

New one at airport today as my laptop needed two people and a supervisor to let it through “what’s inside it?” - pretty much guaranteed it’s the Blackwell gpu they were looking at 🤣- supervisor clocked it immediately “is this a gaming laptop?”

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Whenever you think trump had already gone full cunt, he finds new levels of cunt to arrive at

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“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Gianmarco Soresi

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

Weather is turning and soon it’ll be winter mats and greens and there will be little point in heading out on the course itself - a shame because I really am starting to get the hang of this movement and now just need to get to survive 18 holes

Dog woke me up by sitting on my head at 3am so I’m watching Supergirl while I drink coffee and do work - I really like the new superman/girl stuff, back to the novel idea that “comic book films don’t have to be dark” - lots of fun.

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22 Sept

Breakfast in Lyon

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21 Sept

If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out

21 Sept

Le sportsball 🇫🇷

21 Sept

Tomorrow's itinerary is quite imposing, out at 9am for a traditional Lyonnaise Machon (cheese, offal, wine), followed by a traditional Lyonnaise bouchon lunch (offal, wine), followed by an institutional Lyonnaise dinner (offan, creamy sauce, wine). Thankfully today is a light day of offal and wine.

20 Sept

Heading back into the finest city in west Europe

20 Sept

Ah yes Badenoch, “cut welfare to control inflation”, “if the poors have less money the prices are sure to come down”, absolutely out of touch with any semblance of reality

18 Sept

Praise cheeses

17 Sept

It has been a long day for pecan

12 Sept

Good email from labour there, “these people have given reform money, can you give us money” Absolutely fucking weak

10 Sept

The Waterboys, followed by Steve Earle supported by The Waterboys, followed by Steve Earle supporting The Waterboys followed by Steve Earle and the Waterboys just doing some great stuff.

10 Sept

If you were driving the Claude I've been driving for the last day or two, the only reason you'd be concerned about it destroying humanity is if somebody was dumb enough to put it in control of the nuclear launch codes

10 Sept

New Personal Trainer album is a banger

Highlights of EOTR - ChatGPT summarised my scores. and I like "musicians who are obviously capable, have a strong individual musical language, are willing to fuck around structurally/sonically, but still understand that they're supposed to entertain you - so they're the ones here.

youtube.comBo Ningen - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)YouTube video by KEXP

Bo Ningen: 8.2 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe7G... closed my festival with these chaps, an absolute favourite through the ages - thought they'd really toned it down and gone gentle, but that didn't diminish what they were doing, still love them.

But seriously, listen to Cleo Reed.

youtube.comTTSSFU - Forever (Official Music Video)YouTube video by TTSSFU

Ttssfu: 8.1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF96... back to normal scheduling, shoegaze type stuff,again completely ruined by being in the Big Top but I really liked what I heard regardless.

youtube.comØXN - Cruel MotherYouTube video by OXNmusicVEVO

ØXN 8.1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuaL... again completely blind on this one, wandered into the stage and dismissed it "oh it's drony irish stuff" only to sit it out for a song or two and absolutely love where they went - this is why we have a three song rule.

youtube.comGNOD – The Witness (Edit)YouTube video by Rocket Recordings

Gnod 7.5: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8eM... I stayed away from shouty loud stuff mostly this weekend, but after a dozen pints or so I decided to give Gnod another go, and I really enjoyed it from my safe spot at a distance

youtube.comFemur - "Locus of Control" (music video)YouTube video by Mathcore Index

Femur: 7.9: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLqi... I rather like a bit of of what they like to call "psych", but these chaps were bloody wonderful to sit in the shade with a pint to

youtube.comJust Mustard - WE WERE JUST HERE (Official Video)YouTube video by Just Mustard

Just Mustard 6.9: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vM2... - 6.9 cos the sound in the Big Top was fucking shocking, adjusted probably an 8.3, fuzzy irish stuff.

youtube.comCleo Reed — "Women At War" (Live Folk Performance)YouTube video by Cleo Reed

Cleo Reed: 8.7: A complete surprise, ran out of stuff to look at, popped over to the boat as you do, they came on, just completely blew expectations out of the water, I bought her hat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibro... absolutely fucking love them. Made a point of hitting the piano stage for more.

youtube.comMaddie Ashman - Amber (Official Video)YouTube video by Maddie Ashman

Maddie Ashman 8.3: just hit after hit after hit

youtube.comBig Red - Mission St. (Official Audio)YouTube video by Big Red Band

Big Red 8.1: Was promised Americana on the programme, but that did them a disservice www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3oL...

youtube.comBlue & GoldYouTube video by Madra Salach - Topic

Madra Salach: 7.8/8.1: saw them twice, once acoustic anxd once in full blast - the Irish bands are heavy on at the moment (presumably cos they're easier to get touring the EU), but I love a bit of alt-trad www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nGJ...

youtube.comCurls Upon the Neck, Ribs Upon the MountainYouTube video by Širom - Topic

Širom: 8.2: I was clearly in the mood for something a bit different when stood in front of this, they were bashing various bits of things from presumably kitchen cupboards and droning over the top, look sometimes you just like what you like www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORoq...

youtube.com1000 Rabbits - Virgin SoilYouTube video by 1000 Rabbits

1000 rabbits: 8.2/10: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTFF... don't worry it's not all about a woman being frantic with her great vocals, but two in a row is just how it worked out - the music is a bit more traditionally centred with these chaps, but MMMMMM yes.

youtube.comBRAKES - ALL NIGHT DISCO PARTYYouTube video by Rough Trade Records

Brakes: 8/10: If you don't already know who they are then you missed the boat, but it was so good to see them again www.youtube.com/watch?v=arKU...

youtube.comModern Woman - Daniel (Official Video)YouTube video by Modern Woman

Modern Woman: 9.3/10 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM6j... - they get better every time I see them, such a great voice and so much fun.

Doing a 10km the day after a four day festival of a beer, liquorice, and goat curry diet has a way of bringing you back to earth. Currently feel like a fat blobby mess, but I managed it.

Traditional end of festival activity

Ferris wheel

I would watch any of these