Bzangy Groink

Category: Music

  • On Slippy-Slidey Basslines

    [One of my friends showed me the Victor Wooten vid where he plays all the wrong notes for a bassline but it sounds great. This prompted the following.] One of the weirdest things for me, cos I had organ lessons from 12 – 16 was that it was very, very square music. No jazzness, all…

  • I’m Saying Nowt

  • Dolly Parton Saved My Life

    RIP Dolly Parton, not only a razor-sharp mind but a huge, generous heart. And, to top it all, one of the greatest songwriters who ever lived. Now, that’s a life well-lived. I remember being little and my Mummy singing along to Jolene as if it was a Bollywood song. My parents loved her music and…

  • McCarthy Again

    These are some polemics by the best indie guitar band of the 1980s. Many try to copy their jangle, their wit, their slyness but they never address the foundation: communism. Revolutionary socialism or get the fuck out of my face with your fake C86 bullshit. McCarthy #CherryRed #PinkLabel

  • The Sedgwicks – Why Now Girl?

    For you other wizened ’80s/’90s indie kids – do you remember this top jangly tune? They remind me of #TheSeaUrchins.  #80sIndiepop #80s #90sIndiepop #90s #TheSedgwicks #WhyNowGirl 

  • Pixie Kut, Jamma, Live @Dubrek, Derby 7/5/26

    I had a great night out on Thursday at Dubrek watching Jamma’s FIRST EVER GIG and also seeing Pixie Kut (who used to be Kelsey And The Embers) for the first time. Sadly, I missed most of the opening act but they seemed to be going down well with the audience. Jamma brought the rock…

  • Hovering Around The 3 Mill Mark

    My monthly listeners oscillates around three million. Which is mind-boggling for me, it really is. When I started on indie labels like Parasol, I would be amazed if a pressing of 2,000 singles sold out. To be honest, you would have been far safer pressing 1,000 or even 500 unless you wanted your house to…

  • Dan Romer – The Luck Is Ours Alone

    Having recently finished re-bingeing Game Of Thrones, I thought I’d give the new Throneverse series A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms a go. I just watched the first ep and I like it. It’s well written, well acted and has one of the most undervalued virtues of Game Of Thrones: really stupid jokes. Yes, we…

  • Obedient Little Pets

    I mean… plenty of actual, living, human “punks” are just doing it for the money sooooo… ? And if someone is churning out AI punk, ska, grunge, all they need is ONE viral TikTok moment and they’re made. But then, I’m from the ’80s: I’ll always put a band’s politics before their music. It says…

  • White Town – I’m A Tiny Pig

    Available on Bandcamp now and streaming when I can be arsed, my new single, ‘I’m A Tiny Pig.’ https://whitetown.bandcamp.com/track/im-a-tiny-pig WhiteTown #YourWoman

  • Fission Hates Swedish Indiepop

    In other news – after wasting my afternoon, I can now tell you that Rogue Amoeba’s Fission destroys metadata from audio files. I was trying to transfer the above from an old CD rip I did I can’t remember when. And my rips were in APE format. Roon doesn’t play APE, but it will play…

  • LEICESTERVAL!

    Thank you to everyone in the audience last night – you were absolutely AWESOME and made the gig brilliant. You sang along, you danced along and, let me say, you were all highly sexy. mmmm Nights like last night make me glad to be alive.

  • The Morning After Girls – Run For Our Lives

    It’s this time of night/morning that I miss #TheMorningAfterGirls and their sweet, psychey swagger:  #RunForOurLives #AussieMusic #Melbourne #Rock #NeoPsych 

  • Geekaroony

    I love Roon for credit-diving. Give me proper old-school album liner notes vibes. <3 oh yeshhhh mmmmmmm … KRSpy

  • Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

    Thirty years and four days ago, this perfect pop song was released: When Corgan wrote 1979, he managed to tap the same panchronic nostalgia as Mitchell did with River or Waters did with Time.  Every time I listen to it: :’-( Remembering when I was 12, remembering when I was 29, remembering when I was…

  • RIP Dave Ball

    #SoftCell were a crucial band for me when I was 14. They innovated in so many fucking areas but I guess that was what we expected back then, not Billionaire Farts and Nepo Baby Burps.  fuck me, we need a revolution these cunts have got to go what if you’re not old like me? you…

  • Old Bowling Balls And Balls

    Meanwhile, FORTY FUCKING YEARS AGO:  #CamperVanBeethoven #TakeTheSkinheadsBowling #FuckMeImFuckingOld #HowOldAreMyBalls #OfTheThreeOfUsWhoIsSenior

  • Paris September 2025

    Last week, me and my bestie Nat went to Paris and ate EVERYTHInnGGGG. I was over gigging for Paris Popfest 2025 (which was awesome, by the way) so we thought we’d stay a bit longer and sample some of the world-renowned cuisine. Oh My God I had cakes which were like being kissed by angels,…

  • Good News, The Vovos, Delivery Live @ JT Soar, Nottingham, 27/8/25

    Wednesday just gone, me and Robbie took a leisurely drive to JT Soar in Notts where we saw three lovely bands. We were a bit late but managed to catch the last few songs by Good News: I’ve never seen them before and they were cool – funky bass and drums with sung/spoken bits that…

  • Words And Music Festival 2025

    I was honoured that Rob Pursey and Amelia Fletcher asked me to play this wonderful festival, the weekend just gone. I had a fabulous time despite being in pain a lot and getting cramp that sent me hilariously out of tune during Your Woman. But I kept on singing, the show must go on!  I…

  • Indiepop Collaborators In Genocide

    There’s a great slice of white middle class people (which we know is the scene) who are Tories with a veneer of leftness. They would stand silent as me and you were rounded up by fascists. Then they’d go back to fondling their McCarthy 7″s and saying how much they hate capitalism. If this hasn’t…

  • The Flatmates – Heaven Knows

    Watching #LisaFrankenstein, which is a far stranger, funnier and moving film than I expected, and this pearlier comes on:  #TheFlatmates #HeavenKnows #IndiePop #C86 

  • What The Shit?

    TIL that Mr. Oizo was/is Quentin Dupieux, director of Rubber and Smoking Causes Coughing. My tiny mind is blown. #FlatEric #FlatBeat #90sMusic

  • White Town – Sleep The Days Away

    Have this new vid what I made.

  • ALL HAIL PAPA PERPETUA!

    I love the way this NEW POPE is settling in!  ALL HAIL PAPA PERPETUA!  #Ghost #Lachryma #NewPope 

  • Spiritbox – Fata Morgana

    Another lovely new 2025 choon: Spiritbox #FataMorgana

  • Girlpuppy – Champ

    This is a BOP Girlpuppy #Champ #Grungegaze #Alternative #Indie

  • Spotify April 2025

    Thanks to everyone listening on Spotify! #WhiteTown #YourWoman

  • Ghost, Utilita Arena Birmingham, Sunday April 10th, 2025

    Last night was my first ever Ritual and it was amazing. The queuing to get in was mad but the staff were really helpful (I have health issues). The Arena was absolutely rammed, 16,000 fans who were hyped to hell. Then the show started and fucking hell… the lights, the sound, all framing one killer…

  • What’s Going On

    I can honestly say that I’ve never known a better time for #NewMusic in my life, across every genre.  I can also honestly say that I’ve never known a worse time for mass music, radio, TV, game soundtracks, streaming playlists than now. The last time things were this shite was the ’70s, pre-punk. 

  • Ghost – Lachryma

    On first hearing, first chorus, I started weeping. It’s been twenty minutes now, I’ve been watching this on repeat and still weeping. I dunno how Ghost do this to me. It’s a release no other artist gives me. I guess I’m gonna weep through the entire Brum ritual too.

  • RIP Clem Burke

    Oh fuck. What a fucking amazing musician. Lost count of how many times that motherfucker has made me dance, wherever I am. Union City Blues came on in my car on shuffle on the way back from clubbing on Sat night. I ended up rewinding it five times, each time loving it more. I totally…

  • Old Man Music

    As an old man, I’m appalled that my Discover is full of OLD MAN MUSIC. fuck me, it’s as Boomerlicious. Where is the Flora Hibberd, Neckbreakker, Ghetts, Lou-Adriane Cassidy, Force Majeure, Gist? New music posters – WHERE ARE YOUUUU?

  • Headmusic

    I know some people can choose to hear music in their heads (no external input) and some can’t.  What I’d love to know is how detailed is the music you can hear, if you can hear it?  I feel that as the decades have rolled by and I’ve recorded more music, my headmusic has become…

  • More Llama Power

    If you *are not* doing beatmixing, the best DJing platform ever is: WINAMP 2.73 + a shitload of plugins and then whack Milkdrop over the top of it all.

  • WIN – You’ve Got The Power (Live)

    I still reckon this should have been number one. They wuz robbed.  #Win #YouveGotThePower #FireEngines #NectarineNo9 #Aberfeldy #RIPIanStoddart

  • Set The Tone Agaaaain

    PREMISE – there are no good bands who are not from Glasgow. OVER- EXTENSION – All bands from Glasgow are brilliant *even if they are not.* SOURCES – FIGHT ME! “Hallo, we’re Set The Tone! We’re from Glasgow!”

  • Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle

    I never thought that Pete Astor had Nostradamian skills at predicting the future government of the USA but it’s true! (The downside is that this is one of my fave ever songs and I feel mean if I DJ it now, Iike I’m hating on RFK’s illness. WIGGLE WIGGLE WIGGLE WIGGLE.)

  • Dead Pioneers – PO$T AMERICAN

    New #DeadPioneers single is… timely.  “Bougie politicians with open handsGigantic toddlers with demandsCheck notes, what’s the result?Your people in a fascist cult” #PunkRock #IndigenousRights #AntiFascist #FuckNazis 

  • The Passage – XOYO

    I first heard this on @cherryredrecords.bsky.social #CherryRedRecords #PillowsAndPrayers comp so I must have been 15 or so. 43 years later and I’m still thrilled by the drums, the synths, the EVERYTHING. What a tune.  #ThePassage #XOYO

  • BMX Bandits – Come Clean

    I was lucky enough to see #BMXBandits live in Derby with a really, really dull support band* and Duglas was soooo effortlessly cool, funny and all round brilliant. This is a banging tune.  #ComeClean *that band? Some chancers called Oasis. 

  • Stick To Your Guns – Keep Planting Flowers

    In 2013, I was lucky enough to see #StickToYourGuns do a fucking amazing set at #HitTheDeck in Notts.  Jan 10th, they released their new album #KeepPlantingFlowers and it is *glorious.* #StraightEdge #StraightEdgeHardcore #Hardcore #HardcorePunk 

  • Justin Hayward – Forever Autumn

    This came out when I was 11. I’m still ?r?i?p?p?i?n?g? ?o?f?f? er, very influenced by the lyrics now.  I sing it every autumn, like the daft twat I am.  #JustinHayward #ForeverAutumn 

  • Kate Bush – 13yo Genius

    At 16, I wrote my first songs. Which were typical sexist rubbish about some hapless girl being “mean” cos she didn’t fancy me (not that I had even told her I fancied her or she even knew who I was).  Meanwhile, Kate Bush wrote this when she was 13. wtaf.

  • Albums Of The Year 2024 Twitch Not-Livestream

    If you’d like to watch/listen to three hours of me running through my BEST ALBUMS OF 2004, interspersed with much dyspeptic rambling and the occasional weep, today is your lucky day! You can download the full vid at the following link:  Albums Of The Year 2024 Vid

  • Teenage Engineering K.O. II

    So, today, this wonderfully stupid doodad arrived: And, after a little confusion cleared up by watching this vid: … I got into fun mode and I’ve been dicking around on it since I got home from Cafe Palestina. It’s huge fun and the built-in speaker makes all the difference. As soon as I have to…

  • Only Bops In The Building

    Theme tunes lately, by which I mean the last ten years, have been poor to nonexistent. But I never skip the theme tune to Only Murders In The Building because it’s a bop. So I googled the composer… … it’s Siddhartha Khosla who was also in Goldspot who made one of my fave ever albums,…

  • New Year, New Music!

    NEW YEAR, NEW MUSICS! I’m on Twitch and last week I did a live acid improv stream. Now, here’s the EP of that night! So, if you’re a fan of acid house or just like minimal, extremely repetitive, annoying electronic music, check it out!

  • Derby EMOM Night 15/12/22

    Here’s a few pics from the recent Derby Electronic Music Open Mic Night at Derby Dubrek. It’s only the second that I’ve been to but I enjoyed it loads and I love that so many acts are on that it keeps everything shaken up. Good point – if you don’t like an act, it’s not…

  • RIP Martin Duffy

    I only just found out today that Martin Duffy of Felt, Primal Scream and The Charlatans died on the 18th December. Here’s the blurb I wrote for the debut White Town single: If you’ve listened to anything I’ve done over the three decades, you know how many times I’ve ripped off Duffy. That fucker was…