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Sourdough toast with chicken liver pate for my first food of the day. Mainly because the others aren’t up yet and I don’t know what food items are allocated to what purpose / day and the CLP is definitely a me only item in this house. Toast and pate isn’t that unusual a breakfast for me anyway but the purpose is to put something in my stomach before I have an espresso martini in a while. I'm also enjoying the free use of the living room to listen to some music whilst I can

They didn’t think about that too much did they. “Our super Duper new modern best in the world aircraft got shot down by some old shit NATO we’re giving away because they didn’t need it”

Yuletide felicitations to all you grubby bastards, may you all eat drink and be merry

No culture!

I'm not a Tory but… It sounds very much like you’ve been down The George and Dragon and had one too many conversations with Mr Gammon

Wordle 918 2/6

Haha, I just brought him in for this week too and I have to get rid of Tsimikas first

One a nose always a nose

Various – Wizzz! Vol. 4 (French Psychorama 1966-1974) Great series of compilations, I have all four they’ve released so far

Paisley Underground stalwarts… Steve Wynn's The Dream Syndicate - The Universe Inside. Double album, 4 tracks. Long trippy guitar opuses and any song that contains the repeated line “Apropros of nothing” deserves credit This one really is as far out as the cover suggests (which isn’t always the case for DS)

Wordle 917 3/6

This explains the lack of Ws in NW England

They had those prices delivered

Bonnacons of Doom. You might like that. You also might like the OSees one too

You like them more than sheds?

Finished at 4, absolutely nailed on I'd get a call out. Yep, spent the entire journey making calls to sort out someone being able to work over Xmas because the council are ludicrously lazy knobheads. Still sorting it out whilst I'm in Tesco picking up tonight’s ding tea. 4:45 and it’s sorted. Yeah overtime I'd rather not have

How many of the albums listed have you actually listened to?

I'm sure I'll buy it at some point

Every one of mine is a purchase and I think all but two are vinyl

Finally got around to it. Apologies for the long post, it's been a good year Albums of the Year 2023 In no particular order (though it may be sort of reverse added to the database order) Panda Bear, Sonic Boom, Adrian Sherwood – Reset In Dub Dub Version of Reset by PB & SB by AMS Pascal Comelade, Lionel Limiñana, Marie Limiñana – BOOM BOOM! The Limiñanas and fine purveyor of toy instuments Comelade’s second collaboration album PJ Harvey – I Inside The Old Year Dying Better than the critics would have you believe Bonnacons of Doom Under the radar Scouse electronic metallic depresionists sophomore release that improves on their debut’s formula Osees – Intercepted Message I had been growing a little tired of them but this is a corking return to form. A. Savage – Several Songs About Fire Parquet Courts frontman goes acoustic with a brand new British band. It really does work too Pachyman – Switched On Prettiest Eyes drummer with another solo dub encounter with broader horizons than the previous Creation Rebel – Hostile Environment First album in… decades. It’s a grower, took a few listens for me to fully click but the perseverance was worth it African Head Charge – A Trip To Bolgatanga Another first release for aeons, another absolute barnstorming reappearance from the On-U stable House of All – House of All Founder and original singer of The Fall, Martin Brammah with assorted ex-Fall band member which could have been either awful or brilliant – it’s the latter Gina Birch – I Play My Bass Loud Ex-Raincoats Bass player’s solo debut many years later. Should have been massive this. Shame – Food For Worms It’s the best album to date Various – Adrian Sherwood Presents Dub No Frontiers THE best dub album of the year. It has quite the backstory, was a long time coming and features some that have sadly passed since the project started. AMS has done them all proud. If any album is my AOTY it’s this one. Billy Nomates – Cacti Excellent Pop Music Honourable Mentions Modern Cosmology – What Will You Grow Now? Lorelle Meets The Obsolete – Datura HAWKSMOOR – Telepathic Heights Rose City Band – Garden Party Ulrika Spacek – Compact Trauma Wild Billy Childish & CTMF - Failure Not Success Mozart Estate - Pop-Up! Ker-Ching! And The Possibilities Of Modern Shopping Goat Medicine Squid – O Monolith

I went with Watkins just because he has the best on paper fixture

I'll never understand the logic of people that just come out to gawp at politicians, protest yes but those people are just there to stare and wave

Either / Or winner (and as I've lost so many, like only yesterday ....) Wordle 916 3/6*

Anyways, we're off out to watch the play The Woman in Black at the Liverpool Playhouse for our pre-Xmas entertainment tonight, which means me getting off my arse shortly to leave for work so I can leave early