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2026-01-17

Biffy Clyro @ Co-op Live, Manchester

Great as always (except for the venue charging £9.30 for a pint).

🎵Now Playing: The Beatles - Rubber Soul (1964)

Most Beatles songs have aged brilliantly. Run For Your Life definitely has not.

Favourite Tracks:

  • Drive My Car
  • Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
  • You Wont See Me
  • Michelle
  • Girl

🎵Now Playing: Nick Mulvey - First Mind (2014)

Big day at work today. A project I’ve been working on for about 2 years is finally going live. I put this album on to help with the stress, and it seem to be working because it’s all… going… well? Fingers crossed this isn’t the calm before the storm, but what great calm this album is.

Favourite Tracks:

  • First Mind
  • Fever to the Form
  • Juramidam
  • Cucurucu
  • Meet Me There
  • Nitrous

Joy as an act of Resistance 🎶📀

This is a series of posts about the vinyl I own. It’s important to own music, rather than rely on streaming companies. It supports artists directly and you also get to have a cool thing you can touch, look at, show off. I bought this album over Christmas (2025). I’ve loved IDLES for years, constantly amazed by their live shows, and it felt right to pick this up to add to the collection.

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I think work is going to be quite stressful at the start of the new year, so very grateful to have my out of office on until then. Merry Christmas all.

🎵Now Playing: Big Thief - Double Infinity (2025)

I’ve got tickets to see these next year with my Dad, and really looking forward to it. This new album is a lush, warm soundscape of a great band doing great things.

Favourite Tracks:

  • Incomprehensible
  • Words
  • Los Angeles
  • How Could I Have Known

🎵Now Playing: The Shins - Oh, Inverted World (2001)

This is more of a summer album, but it’s definitely a sunny album, and the sun is out today, despite the cold.

Favourite Tracks:

  • Caring is Creepy
  • Know Your Onion!
  • New Slang
  • The Past and Pending

🎵Now Playing: Radiohead - Hail to the Thief (2003)

I don’t come back to this album as often as I should.

Favourite Tracks:

  • 2 + 2 = 5
  • There, There
  • Myxomatosis
  • A Wolf at the Door

I’ve built up a list of things I really should write a blog post about, so this is my reminder to actually do it.

  • Turned an old laptop into a home Linux server
  • Started self-hosting an inventory system
  • Set up Samba for file-sharing
  • Enabled remote access so I can manage everything from my phone and laptop

A fun weekend’s work, all helped by the fact I’ve (mostly) stopped going on the piss.

Trains are so good. Train stations are wonderful spaces between here and there. I wish, wish, wish this country would decide to make them affordable and actually work properly for the public.

🎵Now Playing: Geese - 3D Country (2023)

Guys. Hey, guys. I’m serious. Geese are the best band on the planet.

Favourite Tracks:

  • 2122
  • 3D Country
  • Cowboy Nudes
  • I See Myself In You
  • Crusades

Cultural Diet - October 2025

I haven’t done one of these for a few months, but I feel like I’ve finally got back on track and caught up with life since my Canada trip. Here’s a list of everything I’ve consumed this month (culture-wise).

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