Andy Healing
@healingandy.bsky.social
No, not *that* one.
Recuperated music consultant person - have helped out with albums, books, retail, digital stuff etc.
More Marti Webb than Martin Rev.
Recuperated music consultant person - have helped out with albums, books, retail, digital stuff etc.
More Marti Webb than Martin Rev.
I love that Smash Hits kept rolling into the Fiona Apple era. We're so obsessed with our own associations sometimes.
Smash Hits Magazine 551 Jan 2000, page 61
Full mag --> https://archive.org/stream/smash-hits-551#page/n60
Full mag --> https://archive.org/stream/smash-hits-551#page/n60
December 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I love that Smash Hits kept rolling into the Fiona Apple era. We're so obsessed with our own associations sometimes.
Hang on, didn't they re-release this one just a few years ago? I remember something about a houseboat...
Pink Floyd celebrates the 50th anniversary by giving Wish You Were Here its second super deluxe box set, one featuring the first official release of the legendary bootleg of their 1975 show at the Los Angeles Sports Arena. My review:
sterlewine.substack.com/p/pink-floyd...
sterlewine.substack.com/p/pink-floyd...
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here 50 Review
Floyd's classic receives its second Super Deluxe box, one that betters its predecessor thanks to the first official release of the legendary bootleg of their 1975 show at the Los Angeles Sports Arena.
sterlewine.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Hang on, didn't they re-release this one just a few years ago? I remember something about a houseboat...
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Switched my location to the US to read something and now I'm getting Instagram adverts for bulletproof classroom doors. Beyond parody.
December 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Switched my location to the US to read something and now I'm getting Instagram adverts for bulletproof classroom doors. Beyond parody.
Just visited LinkedIn for the first time in years and man alive are these people like this all the time?
November 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Just visited LinkedIn for the first time in years and man alive are these people like this all the time?
Just happened upon an artist biography on Discogs that may contain inaccuracies.
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Just happened upon an artist biography on Discogs that may contain inaccuracies.
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Morrisons Radio this morning went a little off piste by treating the gathered throng to "Your Love" by The Outfield (1986, #6 US, #83 UK).
Hadn't heard that in, what, 39 years?
Hadn't heard that in, what, 39 years?
November 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Morrisons Radio this morning went a little off piste by treating the gathered throng to "Your Love" by The Outfield (1986, #6 US, #83 UK).
Hadn't heard that in, what, 39 years?
Hadn't heard that in, what, 39 years?
Tori Amos's version of "I Don't Like Mondays" (2001) is now older than the Boomtown Rats original was at the time (1979).
Time flies like an arrow in to the knee.
Time flies like an arrow in to the knee.
November 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Tori Amos's version of "I Don't Like Mondays" (2001) is now older than the Boomtown Rats original was at the time (1979).
Time flies like an arrow in to the knee.
Time flies like an arrow in to the knee.
Now live! Feels later than usual, this year?
November 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Now live! Feels later than usual, this year?
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hello friends, loved ones, and haters, I wrote a long piece about the last 25 or so years of "indie," inspired by @chrisdeville.bsky.social's fine new book
open.substack.com/pub/ericdhar...
open.substack.com/pub/ericdhar...
October 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
hello friends, loved ones, and haters, I wrote a long piece about the last 25 or so years of "indie," inspired by @chrisdeville.bsky.social's fine new book
open.substack.com/pub/ericdhar...
open.substack.com/pub/ericdhar...
Saw a pic of June Whitfield on an old ep of Pointless (relax ladies, I'm married) and my brain went "dee dee na na na!"
October 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Saw a pic of June Whitfield on an old ep of Pointless (relax ladies, I'm married) and my brain went "dee dee na na na!"
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I found this on Reddit and had to share.
Simpsons quotes that could be Morrissey song titles.
Simpsons quotes that could be Morrissey song titles.
October 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I found this on Reddit and had to share.
Simpsons quotes that could be Morrissey song titles.
Simpsons quotes that could be Morrissey song titles.
Describe your Bluesky account in a single image.
October 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Describe your Bluesky account in a single image.
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Morrisons Radio played "The Robots" by Kraftwerk earlier. Then blew it with "Two Princes" immediately afterwards.
October 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Morrisons Radio played "The Robots" by Kraftwerk earlier. Then blew it with "Two Princes" immediately afterwards.
In 2007, I went to a screening of the first Simpsons movie. The vibe then was "yeah, it's OK, but this should have happened about 15 years ago". Now look.
Woohoo! The Simpsons are coming to theaters with an all-new movie on July 23, 2027!
September 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
In 2007, I went to a screening of the first Simpsons movie. The vibe then was "yeah, it's OK, but this should have happened about 15 years ago". Now look.
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How bizarre but delightful to see a big piece on Rachel’s so many years after listening to them to death way back when. A Neil Kulkarni elegy would have been the way in, of course
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
‘People seemed deeply insulted’: how cult 90s band Rachel’s took chamber music out of the classical world
The graceful ensemble prefigured the neo-classical phenomenon and found surprising success in the post-Nirvana alt-rock boom. After the deaths of two members, reissuing their debut has proven bittersw...
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
How bizarre but delightful to see a big piece on Rachel’s so many years after listening to them to death way back when. A Neil Kulkarni elegy would have been the way in, of course
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
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www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s... danny wasn’t just wildly talented with one of the most recognisable double bass tones ever produced; he had a wonderfully disarming sense of humor, a dominant voice that loved sharing a good story of which he had countless. no airs, all round good fella. missed.
From Kate Bush to Pentangle to T-Rex, the late Danny Thompson’s musical brilliance knew no bounds
The bassist, who has died aged 86, was an extraordinary and wildly versatile presence in British music, bringing his personality into everything he played
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s... danny wasn’t just wildly talented with one of the most recognisable double bass tones ever produced; he had a wonderfully disarming sense of humor, a dominant voice that loved sharing a good story of which he had countless. no airs, all round good fella. missed.
There's money to be made offering a streaming service with additional audible surface rumble.
A hill I will die on: You don't like the sound of vinyl, you just don't like the sound of cheap digital music. Everything is recorded digitally anyway. Buy a proper DAC and all of a sudden everything sounds better.
September 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
There's money to be made offering a streaming service with additional audible surface rumble.
We're going to need a bigger fax machine
Morrissey puts his business interests in the Smiths up for sale ‘to any interested party’
Morrissey puts his business interests in the Smiths up for sale ‘to any interested party’
Musician says he has ‘no choice’ after being ‘burnt out by any and all connections’ to his former bandmates
Morrissey has announced that he “has no choice” but to put up for sale the entirety of his business interests in the Smiths “to any interested party/investor”.
The deal, made in apparent seriousness on his website, Morrissey Solo, in a post titled “A Soul for Sale”, would include the band’s name and artwork, which he created, as well as his share of merchandising rights, lyrical and musical compositions, synchronisation, recordings and publishing contractual rights. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
We're going to need a bigger fax machine
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Dispatches from the West Country: somebody’s painted 🏴s on a load of roundabouts in Penzance and the locals are furious because they also hate the English
September 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Dispatches from the West Country: somebody’s painted 🏴s on a load of roundabouts in Penzance and the locals are furious because they also hate the English
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August 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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August 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM