Stephen Bradbury

First Record of The Weekend is Chronicles of Nowt (Vol 2) from Gnod on @rocketrecordings.bsky.social - yet another knockout chapter in the Gnod discography. Do yourself a favour and pummel your braincells with some of this. Play even louder than you think is wise.

First attempt at making kimchi!

Miserable day? Have a cute pic of JoJo.

JoJo decided to snuggle under the qulit today. I spent ages looking for her before I spotted her ears sticking out!

First Record of The Weekend is Psychic Tension from Dead Sea Apes on Cardinal Fuzz. What an album - enough power and energy to take on the National Grid and blow its fuse. DSA seem to have outdone themselves - they've become an incredible unit, almost telepathic.

So the racist Nimbys in Piddlington want to leave the UK? Fine by me - cut 'em loose. In fact we should move all the balaklava-ed facists there and build a wall round it. The refugees (to me they are not "illegal immigrants") can then move in where the racists were living. Problem solved.

First Record of The Weekend is Smoke Drip by Carlton Melton from 2012. Fine album, and homework for seeing them next week as part of the Other Side Promotions' Psych Weekender, which is probably my favourite live event of the year - its always a total blast!

The hot sauce production commences. The peppers shown are homegrown, the green chillis all from one plant!

First Record of the Weekend is Sextet by @acertainratio.bsky.social (A Certain Ratio) from 1982. I've always loved To Each..., and I've also got 1982 (the album, not the year!) and acr:mcr, but for some reason never got round to picking this up. Thanks to my mate Dan for reminding me I needed it!

Proof of Delivery

After a week with us, JoJo seems to be settling in 🙂 I'm smitten.

First Record of The Weekend is Kapt. Kopter & the Fabulous Twirly Birds by Randy California from way back in 1972. My friend Ian is to blame - he said I should play something to do with rain. Side 2 features a cover of the Beatles' Rain, followed by a track called Rainbow.

Meet JoJo, the new member of our family. 😍 She's still settling in, and a little nervous, but very, very affectionate!

In Spain they had Totality, here we had Tortellini.

I'm now getting adverts for how AI can make "nice, soothing music" or somesuch crap - without any effort on my part, apparently. They can f*ck right off. Machines cannot and will not make music with heart and soul, it will always be empty and meaningless. Don't buy this bollocks.

It was our 34th anniversary yesterday, so we went out to the King's Arms in Godalming for a posh afternoon tea followed by fancy drinks. It was lovely!

No-one should have to pay for health care. Thanks goodness for the NHS here in the UK.

First Record of The Weekend is Kiasmos with II Reworked. A gorgeous, lilting double LP from this Faroese-Icelandic duo - shades of an ambient/ electronic Sigur Rós with added orchestra. Lovely on this sultry evening. Thanks to Matthew at Record Corner for pointing me at it!

Hydration Break

First Record of The Weekend is @theorblive.bsky.social (the Orb) with Buddhist Hipsters. Picked this up in the estimable Record Corner in Godalming this morning, and I'm glad I did - it is sounding perfect on this hot summer's evening.

I'm loving salads in this heat. Baked spuds with cottage cheese, griddled watermelon and feta salad with mint and pomegranate mollases dressing, and a lettuce, cucumber, tomato, green bean and avocado salad with it. TBH I'm not sure I like my watermelon griddled.

While we were in Greece we left our trail cam running to see if any of the hedgehogs Sue has released turned up. When we got back we had loads of clips to go through. After wading through vids of about 6 different cats and several foxes, this beauty popped up...

Had a fabulous time last night at Vittoria Wharf Studios. @deviantamps.bsky.social were great, I really enjoyed my Black Tempest gig, and then Dope Purple blew the roof off! Lovely chaps too, go see them on this tour if you get a chance. Many thanks to Elios Assiter for putting us on.

This country is multicultural and rightly proud of it. If you don't like that, clear off somewhere else. Racists and fascists have no place here.

A reminder - this Wednesday 10th June - Black Tempest play a rare gig, supporting noise titans Dope Purple from Taiwan and also featuring the brilliant Deviant Amps. Vittoria Wharf Studio, Hackney Wick, London E3 2NT - doors open 7:45.

IMPORTANT NEWS - for those attending the Dope Purple/Black Tempest/Deviant Amps gig on the 10th June - VENUE CHANGE! New venue: Vittoria Wharf Studio Unit 4, Top Floor 10 Stour Road London E3 2NT Sounds like this is a great venue too. See you there!

First Record of The Weekend is Kombynat Robotron Live at Fuzz Club Festival 2025. This is one ferocious bastard of a record, I love it! Turn it up, mash your brains.

This was very tasty. Meera Sodha's Spring rice with feta and harissa pine nut sauce.

On Saturday we went out to meet some friends and were greeted by incoming weather...

Black Tempest interview about the Folding Space album in the marvellous It's Psychedelic Baby magazine: www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/04/blac...

A date for your diaries...Wednesday June 10th, Strongroom Bar, Shoreditch.

BBC to cut 1 in 10 staff. May I suggest Chris Mason and Laura Kuenssberg are first to go? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

RIP Ozzy (AKA Squodge AKA OzPoz) We loved you dearly and will miss you terribly. You were a rascally rascal and we were lucky to have our 18 years in your company.

First Record of The Weekend is Gnod with Chronicles of Gnowt on @rocketrecordings.bsky.social. Yet again they traverse a new branch of the Gnodiverse and break away from any expectations. Haunting and beautiful, as is the wonderful sleeve.

Lovely walk on Farnham Heath this afternoon in the sun. Didn't manage to get any decent photos of the wildlife, but we saw a goldcrest, a nuthatch and a gorgeous emerald green lizard. Enjoyed a cup of coffee and some cake at the Rural Life Museum cafe afterwards too.

Sue has been doing some volunteering for the Joanna Wildlife Hospital, and we've just released Morgan, a rescue hedgehog, in our garden. Last night was release night, and our trail cam caught his first foray into freedom! Good luck Morgan.

First Record of The Weekend is Arise from Helicon x Al Lover. I've had this for a while now and it doesn't leave the turntable for long. @heliconglasgow.bsky.social have really turned up the dial on this and Al Lover has added trippy beats to the already psychedelic hot pot. Play loud.

Hard not to love Bruce.

First Record of The Weekend is the amazing new Gong album Bright Spirit. This incarnation of the band just go from strength to strength - they've had a fantastic run of albums, and this one is no exception. Bloody marvelous!

NEW! #BarnOwl at #Rollright is just finished! It's the first #painting I've done for weeks due to frequent interruptions from various building projects at home. I hope you like it & thx for looking 🙏 Watercolour, 352mm x 237mm, £225. Msg me! #standingstoneSunday #rollrightstones #megalithic

I'm off to India in the morning for 10 days of yoga, sunshine and chaos. You could say I'm a little teeny bit excited.

This is rather lovely!

Damn these tacos were good - blistered beans, feta, avocado, smoked tempeh with garlic with fresh tomato pico. With lashings of hot sauce.* *Lazy Scientist jalapeno. Delicious!