1/2 How AI is improving our lives, an occasional series. A while back I downloaded a spreadsheet of my record collection to my phone, so if I was in a shop with no signal, I could check to see if I already had something before I bought it again. Today that happened.
November 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
1/2 How AI is improving our lives, an occasional series. A while back I downloaded a spreadsheet of my record collection to my phone, so if I was in a shop with no signal, I could check to see if I already had something before I bought it again. Today that happened.
Revisiting my first crush from 1971 … Mary, I hasten to add, not Mungo or Midge.
November 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Revisiting my first crush from 1971 … Mary, I hasten to add, not Mungo or Midge.
The recent death of John Woodvine reminded me of the best TV cop show there never was.
November 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
The recent death of John Woodvine reminded me of the best TV cop show there never was.
I sometimes think DI Fred Pyle has been moved to HWDC Langley and goes through spells where he thinks it is ‘my turn’. I’d better leave him a wad of notes in a toilet cistern.
November 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I sometimes think DI Fred Pyle has been moved to HWDC Langley and goes through spells where he thinks it is ‘my turn’. I’d better leave him a wad of notes in a toilet cistern.
Reposted by Darren Giddings
My @fromefm.bsky.social show from last night. Beefheart, Zappa, Geesin… everything you need to soundtrack your Friday work day.
Show sponsored by @ravesfromthegrave.bsky.social
www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/319-...
Show sponsored by @ravesfromthegrave.bsky.social
www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/319-...
319. Rebellious Jukebox (27/11/25)
So what is there for a music show to rebel against? Well, possibly the mediocre, possibly the manufactured; certainly the mundane. There are no rules here: a particular show is just as likely to be in...
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November 28, 2025 at 10:18 AM
My @fromefm.bsky.social show from last night. Beefheart, Zappa, Geesin… everything you need to soundtrack your Friday work day.
Show sponsored by @ravesfromthegrave.bsky.social
www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/319-...
Show sponsored by @ravesfromthegrave.bsky.social
www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/319-...
Now all I have to do is learn Spanish and the mysteries of Slim John will finally be revealed to me!
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Now all I have to do is learn Spanish and the mysteries of Slim John will finally be revealed to me!
The Space Folk Horror Lounge Railway 200 special has arrived at Mixcloud Central where this service terminates. www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/54-s...
54. Space Folk Horror Lounge (24/11/25). 2-05 - Space Folk Rail 200 Express Departure Lounge.
Presented by Darren Giddings.
Darren will be playing new and recent work by artists - many of them in the Bristol-Yeovil-Frome triangle - who are making music inspired by folklore and the space-age a...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The Space Folk Horror Lounge Railway 200 special has arrived at Mixcloud Central where this service terminates. www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/54-s...
Tonight at 9pm on @fromefm, the Space Folk Horror Lounge celebrates Railway 200 - and in the true spirit of British railways, it’s two months late. www.frome.fm
November 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Tonight at 9pm on @fromefm, the Space Folk Horror Lounge celebrates Railway 200 - and in the true spirit of British railways, it’s two months late. www.frome.fm
Back in the day, no-one used to say ‘back in the day’.
November 21, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Back in the day, no-one used to say ‘back in the day’.
I don’t understand why Jesus Christ would want to save anyone from the mastery of appetite.
November 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I don’t understand why Jesus Christ would want to save anyone from the mastery of appetite.
In the days when it was still funny to set up a ‘bell’/‘hell’ rhyme then not say the shocking word ‘hell’ after all, Jon Pertwee seems to have defied convention and at about 1:15 has replaced ‘hell’ with ‘fuck’ youtu.be/_9J_ePDNkqs?...
JON PERTWEE - 'The Runaway Train' - 1966 45rpm
YouTube video by VinylHell
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November 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
In the days when it was still funny to set up a ‘bell’/‘hell’ rhyme then not say the shocking word ‘hell’ after all, Jon Pertwee seems to have defied convention and at about 1:15 has replaced ‘hell’ with ‘fuck’ youtu.be/_9J_ePDNkqs?...
A double CD set comprising 81 minute’s silences recorded on Armistice Days between 1929 and 2000 …
November 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
A double CD set comprising 81 minute’s silences recorded on Armistice Days between 1929 and 2000 …
Tom Rickey asked me to bring along some of my fave records for his @fromefm.bsky.social show Mixed Bag last week - so I did! Ha ha, that’ll learn him 😁 … www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/15-m...
15. Mixed Bag (02/11/25). with Darren Giddings.
Mixed Bag is a monthly show brought to you by Mother of Mankind. Hosted by DJ Trickey, it features local people and global music
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November 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Tom Rickey asked me to bring along some of my fave records for his @fromefm.bsky.social show Mixed Bag last week - so I did! Ha ha, that’ll learn him 😁 … www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/15-m...
I thought the ‘nut brown maid’ referred to a woman tanned and wizened by working in the sun, until my wife started hulling fresh walnuts before knowing that they have a semi-permanent stain.
November 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I thought the ‘nut brown maid’ referred to a woman tanned and wizened by working in the sun, until my wife started hulling fresh walnuts before knowing that they have a semi-permanent stain.
October 28, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Tony Hart was born 100 years ago today.
October 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Tony Hart was born 100 years ago today.
The Caunter has gone 😥
October 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The Caunter has gone 😥
My sole brush with screenwriting immortality was in 1986 when me & my mate Mark wrote a sketch for a BBC kids’ TV show called Fast Forward. Watched the show today. It is irredeemably awful. This is our sketch. They changed the end. We thought ours was better.
youtu.be/Al3zZboqFkA?...
youtu.be/Al3zZboqFkA?...
Fast Forward 13.6.1986
YouTube video by DG
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October 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
My sole brush with screenwriting immortality was in 1986 when me & my mate Mark wrote a sketch for a BBC kids’ TV show called Fast Forward. Watched the show today. It is irredeemably awful. This is our sketch. They changed the end. We thought ours was better.
youtu.be/Al3zZboqFkA?...
youtu.be/Al3zZboqFkA?...
Followers of @fromefm.bsky.social’s Space Folk Horror Lounge … could the mystery of Slim John finally be solved … ? I found the book!
October 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Followers of @fromefm.bsky.social’s Space Folk Horror Lounge … could the mystery of Slim John finally be solved … ? I found the book!
