@wcba
I’m Alan and I write stuff. Mainly for STARBURST magazine but I've always got some side hustle on the go. Oh, I make ‘zines, too. AND I present a weekly music show on NOISEBOX RADIO, Sunday 6-7pm. linktr.ee/wcbazine
Yes please!
Ditto but instead of posting something funny I just ate a big bag of bacon rasher crisps.
Pic of Danielle and Pete and Little Miss Sunshine with text: Wales Goes Pop! 2026 / Pink Opaque / Sat 04 Apr The Gate Cardiff
We've been busy making pop plans and are very excited for 2026 🩷🪩
First @walesgoespop.bsky.social is coming up fast and the line-up is stupidly good 🤩
Check it out and grab a ticket at
www.gigantic.com/wales-goes-p...
worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.
I'd play that game, though
TEXAS IS THE REASON in London on May 30th? In THIS economy?!?
"But why? Guess i'd better buy it..."
The lost art of comics covers
It's a remake of the 1927 original, which starred Jolson in a thinly-veiled biography of his life to that point
I doubt The Jazz Singer increased awareness of Al Jolson among teenagers in 1980 (although 8yr old me thought "Love on the Rocks" and "America" were bangers)
The new @radiotimes.bsky.social has a lovely feature on our latest @mulgraveaudio.bsky.social audio play 'Patchwuff' - narrated by Valerie Singleton, with music by Sandra Kerr. Extended version on the RT website, too... here! Huge thanks to @braxtm.bsky.social
www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/bag...
CARDIFF 394844 NEW THEATRE By arrangement with Duncan C.Weldon and Jerome Minskoft Paul Elliott for the B&B Triumph Pantomime Company presents TV's 'Bergerac RUTH JOHN MADOC NETTLES ANDREW O'CONNOR SALUCY SU HOPE and KEEN RUSSELL GRANT ROBINSON CRUSOE with OWEN MONEY The Spectacular Family Pantomime CLARE RIMMER and the OLIVE GUPPY OLIVETTES BRSAN HEWITT-JONES & ORIS MORENG SAT 9th DEC 1989 until (SAT 20th JAN 1990 Cadbury's BY SPONSORED Fudge
Coming up this Thursday on PantoSplaining...
Just a heads up to all my regulars on here, this is now 50% sold and I'm expecting this could well sell out...
⏰ LAST CHANCE ⏰
Tomorrow is Trans Mission, a huge concert in solidarity with the trans community ✨🏳️⚧️
Grab the last few tickets while you still can ⬇️
https://www.transmissionlive.uk/
COME SEE ME ON TOUR, playing songs from my new album 'I Think That I Might Love You' (out 8th May) ✨💫🌟
26 May LEEDS @ Hyde Park Book Club
27 May LONDON @ Paper Dress Vintage
28 May MANCHESTER @ LOW FOUR Studio
29 May GLASGOW @ The Rum Shack
Tickets www.carlajennifereaston.com
The Old Works will be available to preorder on 22nd March. It's about a gasworks (kinda) and it's a pop album (kinda).
(8/10s cont...) Mitski, The Music Liberation Front Sweden, Sarah Nixey, Ratboys, Remember Sports, Spill Tab and TVAM!
While there were 24 8/10s in the mix, from 72%, Bratakus, Buck Meek, Alice Costelloe, Crooked Fingers, Dog Chocolate, Doll Spirit Vessel, Fleur Electra, Grace Inspace, Juliana Hatfield & Eric Payne, Helen Love, The Home Current, Howling Bells, Iron & Wine, Katzin, Storey Littleton, Lovers Lake...
20 albums earned 9/10, records by Bears in Trees, Bill Callahan, Cootie Catcher, Dewey, Dirt Buyer, Gorillaz, Ken Park, LAPêCHE, Maria BC, Mariachi el Bronx, Mirah, MX Lonely, Nothing, Power Snatch, Project Overload, Sleepazoid, Tiger Really, Tōth, wor_kspace, and Would-be-goods...
Finally got through the SEVENTY albums and EPs that caught my ear last month & so this is MY ALBUMS OF THE MONTH for FEBRUARY 2026!
I gave FOUR albums 10/10 this month... Heavenly's "Highway to Hevanely,", "Discombobulated" by Hen Ogledd, Railcard's self-titled debut, and "Expo" by Ulrika Spacek...
Discount time again! Get a colossal 15% off our print books with the case-sensitive code PRINTED15 until midnight on Friday March 13! A trilogy of brick-sized tomes about everything dark, scary and weird from the 1970s & 80s...
Also available as colour eBooks.
Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
We're in Coventry for the first time EVER on 28/03. Excellent support from Silver Biplanes.
Tickets here: wegottickets.com/f/15341
Lovely review of @projectoverload.bsky.social in Bedford on Friday (The Cords were there, too)
www.undertheradarmag.com/reviews/the_...
I'm not one to regularly share GFM things, but my pal Holly, one of my compadres from the counselling training, lost her business yesterday in the Union St fire - she'd only just moved into the building a couple of months ago.
If you want to help: gofund.me/bfd18c292
I figure it’s a painting in the attic scenario
To those who are struggling.
It isn’t a fucking crime.
Be kind to yourselves.
What’s to say about HEAVENLY? An incredible band, whether playing songs they wrote as twentysomethings or - ahem - *older* people, creating the warmest atmosphere as they do it. I fell in love last night. Again.
Now playing on A-POP! on NOISEBOX RADIO:
liou - Dancing Life Loud
liouofficial.bandcamp.com || instagram.com/lioumusic
noiseboxradio.com
~!~
Thanks for listening - I'll be back next Sunday at 6pm, and all of our shows are available on our Mixcloud at mixcloud.com/noiseboxradio!
Now playing on A-POP! on NOISEBOX RADIO:
Girl Scout - Crumbs
girlscouttheband.bandcamp.com || instagram.com/girlscouttheband
awal.com || instagram.com/awal
~!~
Succulents - Underdog
succulentsmcr.bandcamp.com || instagram.com/succulentsband
noiseboxradio.com