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Some of the front three play by PSG was flat out ridiculous, like watching someone on a PS4 or whatever kids play FIFA on. Nutmegs for fun, first touches like caresses, no show passing, all done at pace. Definitely felt they were deserved winners over two legs.

Very good @craner - I am a big fan of the 19thC French novel - and Lost Illusions is one of my favourites. I remember first hearing about him in a Tom Wolfe interview for Bonfire of the Vanities when it first came out. You can see how he sets Stendhal, Flaubert, Zola, Hugo and Maupassant, among...

A bit of Scandinavian jazz possibly?

Got to say the new Floating Points/Pharoah Saunders is just lovely in that In A Silent Way kind of way

When I get asked this I usually reply with Paul Quinn and the Independent Group

LRB podcast Curtis speaking to Runciman: https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/talking-politics/adam-curtis

This from 71 has Jarrett on Fender Rhodes amongst other things. Some great grainy footage https://theheatwarps.com/2021/04/08/11-20-1971-cascais/

I think Kathy Acker was there - people from Coil obvs, plus all sorts of odd looking sorts making a dreadful racket whilst GOP went around grinning at it all.

I saw Strawberry Switchblade play on an all day bill at the Palais - Thee Fabulous Feast Ov Flowering Light - run by Psychic TV and all their offshoots/acolytes. They were doing sort of pop music but were a bit too arch/knowing to be convincing. I remember The Virgin Prunes stole the show but...

Sad Steps BY PHILIP LARKIN Groping back to bed after a piss I part thick curtains, and am startled by The rapid clouds, the moon’s cleanliness. Four o’clock: wedge-shadowed gardens lie Under a cavernous, a wind-picked sky. There’s something laughable about this, The way the moon dashes...

Astrophil and Stella 31: With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies BY SIR PHILIP SIDNEY With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies! How silently, and with how wan a face! What, may it be that even in heav'nly place That busy archer his sharp arrows tries! Sure, if that...

A good example of the subtle beauty of Miles here. I Fall In Love Too Easily I think this Jarrett trio version is equally exquisite

I see kestrels a lot when I’m out on my bike - there is something utterly magical about them that immediately cheers me up. I’ve been lucky to see owls, peregrines, buzzards and kites on various rides and each time it feels like a gift.

Slates is the high water Mark for me - faultless. Leave the Capitol is like some Machen, MR James, Wyndham Lewis mash up I laughed at the great God Pan I didnae, I didnae I laughed at the great god Pan I didnae, I didnae, I didnae, I didnae LEAVE THE CAPTIOL EXIT THE ROMAN SHELL Then you know...

I’m reading his word by word analysis of Grecian Urn by Keats that @luka mentioned on Twitter - like a forensic exploration, very instructive about how he sees poetry working and maybe how to work with his poetry.

The trick is the way they’ve made us complicit , it’s the ‘I’m not surprised that I’m not surprised’ element to it all. And yes it’s not the shagging but the audacity of the corruption moral and financial which has been utterly normalised and therefore we get shrugs rather than people on the...

He really never has had a problem spending public money has he? Mistress? No problem. Garden Bridge? Sure thing. Mates rates for contracts? Step right this way. It’s nothing new to say he treats us with contempt and he does so because he is given a free pass over and again - I don’t know why...

This coming straight after the report exonerating the police at Clapham Common, it feels like serious pushback by the right - as if they’ve had enough of being painted as the bad guys by the woke brigade in the media.

That’s pretty much how I found my way into jazz - Miles late 60s stuff as a gateway from psychedelic rock. I then just followed up by listening to people who played with Miles - Herbie, Jarrett, Evans, it was a useful Mark of distinction and I didn’t go far wrong and then I was in and explored...

For a brief period of time they were perfect - The Queen is Dead is my favourite album but Well I Wonder from Meat is Murder their absolute masterpiece. Four studio albums, two compilations and they were gone. There’s a great live bootleg - Thank Your Lucky Stars which captures them at their...