Alan Burns
@alanburns.bsky.social
Kilmarnock-born Edinburgher, civil servant who likes a lot of music, niche trivia and funny stuff
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love how the fake vinyl records in IKEA look like private press masterpieces that you'd have to spend several hundred dollars to get from a discogs seller based in south ossetia
November 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
love how the fake vinyl records in IKEA look like private press masterpieces that you'd have to spend several hundred dollars to get from a discogs seller based in south ossetia
[spins wheel of unlikely musical desires] Stars Of The Lid [spins again] getting their own version of Tangerine Tree [scrolls tl] HOLY SHIT
Stars of the Lid Forever! Check out a new, very nicely curated site devoted to the band's live recordings, spanning 1997-2016.
Doom & Gloom From The Tomb
Stars of the Lid Forever
The brilliant Stars of the Lid came to an end a few years back with the sad passing of co-founder Brian McBride. But Stars of the Lid is forever — as a new fan-driven website....
doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
[spins wheel of unlikely musical desires] Stars Of The Lid [spins again] getting their own version of Tangerine Tree [scrolls tl] HOLY SHIT
Alone Again Or
Changing Of The Guards
Better Git It In Your Soul
A Child's Christmas In Wales
Inca Roads
Changing Of The Guards
Better Git It In Your Soul
A Child's Christmas In Wales
Inca Roads
November 28, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Alone Again Or
Changing Of The Guards
Better Git It In Your Soul
A Child's Christmas In Wales
Inca Roads
Changing Of The Guards
Better Git It In Your Soul
A Child's Christmas In Wales
Inca Roads
"LLOYDS BANK COPROLITE!"
November 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
"LLOYDS BANK COPROLITE!"
Watching this nonsense because Kerry Condon
November 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Watching this nonsense because Kerry Condon
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
Sonic Youth
Rother & Moebius
John Cale
Bob Mould
Crosby & Nash (with and without Stills)
Sonic Youth
Rother & Moebius
John Cale
Bob Mould
Crosby & Nash (with and without Stills)
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
King Sunny Ade
SPK
Diamanda Galás
George Michael
Anthony Braxton
King Sunny Ade
SPK
Diamanda Galás
George Michael
Anthony Braxton
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
Pulp
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
American Music Club
Super Furry Animals
Chalk
Pulp
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
American Music Club
Super Furry Animals
Chalk
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
Sonic Youth
Rother & Moebius
John Cale
Bob Mould
Crosby & Nash (with and without Stills)
Sonic Youth
Rother & Moebius
John Cale
Bob Mould
Crosby & Nash (with and without Stills)
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The power of Crufts compels you
November 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The power of Crufts compels you
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This is the lighthouse from the first Azimuth album!
The Ministry of Culture in #Niedersachsen, #Germany, has rejected a call for the 1885 Roter Sand #lighthouse to be declared a heritage site and remain in its present location in the #NorthSea. Two municipalities are still contending to host it once it is relocated on shore.
#Deutschland #Leuchtturm
#Deutschland #Leuchtturm
Niedersächsischer Landtag debattiert den Leuchtturm "Roter Sand"
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This is the lighthouse from the first Azimuth album!
50 years ago is clearly the Second World War, that's what I was taught in school and I'm sticking to it
Surely 50 years ago was the 1960s?
Oh no.
Christ, I’m old.
Oh no.
Christ, I’m old.
November 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
50 years ago is clearly the Second World War, that's what I was taught in school and I'm sticking to it
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I've just updated the available cats page, we have some REALLY special kitties in and some of them have been waiting ages. Their forever home might be on your timeline, please share? 🥰
Moggies looking for homes
After hearing 50,000 times that we should put the available cats on the website, we’ve made a page! Hooray! However, it is still just me doing most of the work in the shelter. So there’…
hollysmerrymoggies.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I've just updated the available cats page, we have some REALLY special kitties in and some of them have been waiting ages. Their forever home might be on your timeline, please share? 🥰
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New Mr Pastry variant discovered
November 27, 2025 at 10:19 AM
New Mr Pastry variant discovered
Not much music posting from me this week - as with most times I use up a few days' leave, end up doing other things - but been playing this a lot for nighttime relaxation. 2026 may end up being a big lute year, who knows
November 27, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Not much music posting from me this week - as with most times I use up a few days' leave, end up doing other things - but been playing this a lot for nighttime relaxation. 2026 may end up being a big lute year, who knows
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Vomiting pints of black blood, more blood coming out my ass, bruises appearing all over my body, and me thinking, "You know what? I'll have a little wank"
November 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Vomiting pints of black blood, more blood coming out my ass, bruises appearing all over my body, and me thinking, "You know what? I'll have a little wank"
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New Musick Part 2 by Sandy Robertson, Jon Savage and Hal Synthetic in Sounds 26th, November 1977 including Throbbing Gristle, The Residents and Kraftwerk
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November 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
New Musick Part 2 by Sandy Robertson, Jon Savage and Hal Synthetic in Sounds 26th, November 1977 including Throbbing Gristle, The Residents and Kraftwerk
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@theresidents.bsky.social
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dimly recall that this is the approximate time of the month where normal people with sensible jobs who might possibly like books get paid 👀
it's Black Friday week! so, just like the big shops who can actually afford to, I am doing a sale on my website
use the promo code BLACKFRIDAY for 15% off my surreal sci-fi detective novel The House on Utopia Way, or my poetry books Farewell Tour and PANIC!
www.stefmo.co.uk/shop
use the promo code BLACKFRIDAY for 15% off my surreal sci-fi detective novel The House on Utopia Way, or my poetry books Farewell Tour and PANIC!
www.stefmo.co.uk/shop
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
dimly recall that this is the approximate time of the month where normal people with sensible jobs who might possibly like books get paid 👀
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"How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God!"
Made a colour variant Mr. Blobby because nobody can stop me anymore. I am beyond consequences.
November 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM
"How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God!"
Now playing (just the last track, see thread)
![Album cover of Anthology 1: Come Organisation Archives 1979-1981 by Come, Whitehouse, Nurse With Wound etc [Susan Lawly 2xCD compilation, 1998]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tzkttulzcpjkfy2ohmblfcnf/bafkreifuylkdtmvdckt7u5i6fiofkugf4i37szhaxrnpcpa6bohoz47l4e@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Now playing (just the last track, see thread)
Not sure who needs to know this, but Bradford Red Light District is currently free to dl from the Whitehouse bandcamp. The 33 min Pt 2 (Pt 1 isn't as interesting, and isn't even a walk round Bradford, it's London) is one of the most accidentally stunning pieces of sound art ever recorded. [short 🧵:
Bradford Red Light District, by Whitehouse
2 track album
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November 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Not sure who needs to know this, but Bradford Red Light District is currently free to dl from the Whitehouse bandcamp. The 33 min Pt 2 (Pt 1 isn't as interesting, and isn't even a walk round Bradford, it's London) is one of the most accidentally stunning pieces of sound art ever recorded. [short 🧵:
I try to put everything into perspective
Set it against the scale of human suffering
And I thought of the Mugabe government
And the children of the Calcutta railways
This works for a while
But then I encounter Primark FM
Overhead a rainbow appears
In black and white
Set it against the scale of human suffering
And I thought of the Mugabe government
And the children of the Calcutta railways
This works for a while
But then I encounter Primark FM
Overhead a rainbow appears
In black and white
November 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I try to put everything into perspective
Set it against the scale of human suffering
And I thought of the Mugabe government
And the children of the Calcutta railways
This works for a while
But then I encounter Primark FM
Overhead a rainbow appears
In black and white
Set it against the scale of human suffering
And I thought of the Mugabe government
And the children of the Calcutta railways
This works for a while
But then I encounter Primark FM
Overhead a rainbow appears
In black and white
Bob Geldof and Midge Ure grumpily fielding questions from the press about Sub-Saharan weather patterns, following their back-of-a-fag-packet assertion that there won't be snow in Africa this Christmastime
November 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Bob Geldof and Midge Ure grumpily fielding questions from the press about Sub-Saharan weather patterns, following their back-of-a-fag-packet assertion that there won't be snow in Africa this Christmastime
Flying visit to Stockbridge Oxfam
November 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Flying visit to Stockbridge Oxfam
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November 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Please enjoy this thread of prog bands that fuck
Prog bands that fuck.
King Crimson: yes
Gentle Giant: yes
Genesis: only Peter Gabriel
Yes: no
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer: have you seen the cover of Love Beach?
King Crimson: yes
Gentle Giant: yes
Genesis: only Peter Gabriel
Yes: no
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer: have you seen the cover of Love Beach?
They were dead set on proving that, despite the evidence of their music, they were explicitly NOT virgins
November 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Please enjoy this thread of prog bands that fuck