Jon Hicks

Sorry to see that the goal wasn't reached, I hope that something can come out of this in the future.

My copy of the re-release just arrived, and reading the liner notes was heartbreaking. I don’t think I’d grasped how close they came to mainstream, only for it all to go so wrong 😔

A handicap blue and white painted sign on the asphalt of a parking space. The symbols are meant to be a pregnant women and a baby stroller, but it doesn't look like that. It looks like pac man being killed with scissors next to a dancer

Twerkers at the barbeque get priority parking 🫡

Yeah that looks like the better way of doing it!

I assumed it was vibes, rather supermarket aisle

A very sweet toasted hot cross bun, with bacon and fried egg filling visible, on a wooden board instead of a plate. Presumably because the wood helps absorb the dripping honey and butter

Had a Hot Cross Bun bacon and egg sandwich with brown butter. It felt like a good idea, but one to file under “a bit much”

I *love love love* Curve. I tearfully watch all the bands from the 90s reunite, write some of the best music of their careers and tour… all except Curve…

If you're a fan of British Folk Horror, please support this innovative idea! Withered Hill was the best fiction I read last year, and has stayed with me (went on to read Scuttler's Cove, and now in the middle of Scratch Moss). It's such a rich universe and I would LOVE to see this project happen!

Grateful for this repost Suw, I hadn't seen this!

Also, meant to say that The One Footer/Unfinished Business version of the episode has short snippets of each track and is only 1hr 11m. The Troika version has the full tracks so is a hefty 2h 16m!

Recording this episode has been one of my favourite things I've done this year. Maybe I should do Troika episodes involving other people's choices…

Troika #60: One Footer in the Unfinished Troika - Hicks.design Something a wee bit special for episode #60! This is the first one to feature *other* humans, because this is a crossover with two other podcasts: One Footer in the Grave (who I co-host with Marcus Li...

It's crossover podcast Friday! Troika episode #60 is a coagulation of One Footer in the Grave (who I co-host with @marcus-lillington.bsky.social & @allthatmalarkey.bsky.social) with Unfinished Business (Andy & @clagnut.com).

We chat about our three favourite songs 🥰

hicks.design/troika/troik...

Daughter tips me off that the new Harry Styles album (Kiss all the time. Disco occasionally) has elements of Passion Pit and Postal Service. It really does! 😍

The problem with Bandcamp Friday is that I won’t see any email notifications from US/Canada bands until tomorrow morning 😕

Apple Music Rolling Out Disclosure Tags for AI-Made Songs - MacRumors Apple Music is rolling out a new metadata system called Transparency Tags, which indicates when AI has been used in the creation of music hosted on the platform. According to Music Business Worldwide, Apple sent a newsletter to industry partners on Wednesday to explain how it will roll out the new set of metadata. The system covers four categories including artwork, track, composition (lyrics), and music video. Labels and distributors can begin applying the tags immediately.

Remove it, don’t just label it.

(But then there’s always the grey areas, such as The Beatles “Now and then” for example)

www.macrumors.com/2026/03/05/a...

A fisheye photo of me performing at Whelans in Dublin.

Folks of BlueSky! I've got a range of gigs coming up in the next few weeks, places what I missed out in my big tour of last Autumn.

Come and get the full Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan experience at Leeds, Oxford, Liverpool and Llandudno!

Details at warringtonruncorn.com/live/

Mucking around with the CSS to customise the Qobuz web player and desktop app, I keep muttering to myself “have they not heard of the flippin’ cascade?!”.

Then I see the word that explains it all: “Tailwind”.

🚶💨

Totally, I’d heard that team were going to do @benaaronovitch.bsky.social’s Rivers of London series, and willing that to happen with every fibre.

One of those captcha things. This one says ‘select all images with bicycles. Click verify once there are none left’. There are 9 squares - 4 contain photos of bicycle seats, with the remaining 5 showing the beautiful head and face of a grey greyhound with a white stripe going from the top of their head to the tip of their nose.

Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).

OOh, what is it?

I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?

Peregrine Falcon flying low with Teal and Wigeon on the water in the background

Amazing moment at RSPB Greylake yesterday when this stunning Peregrine Falcon shot low across the water! 😍😊
This is the fastest animal on earth!🐦
#BIrds 🪶

This is why vampires shouldn’t fall asleep on park benches and lose track of the time.

So much good news on one day 🥰

But seriously. We are back! Next week we start shooting #bbcghosts the movie! Huge excitement in the camp, lots of splendid people joining us.

Ah that's a new one to try, thanks!

Thanks, I'll take a look! I haven't had great experience with ShazamKit apps in the past though - too many false matches, or not matched at all 😕

Hope Beats Hate: Green Party Defeats Reform and Labour in Huge Gorton and Denton By-Election Victory – Byline Times A concerted political and media campaign to scare voters about a “Green Menace” winning this by-election failed, reports Adam Bienkov

What a difference to wake up to really good news! Greens won, and by a large margin. Hope not hate!

bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/h...

Albums - 'art view' with large album artwork

Albums app - album library view

Spite app, with an even larger album art view

There are two music apps that I'm loving at the moment, with large album artwork:

Albums - for playing my Apple Music Library. The new MacOS app ticks most of my criteria!
www.albumstheapp.com

Spite - for playing my own digital collection. Lovely streamlined interface!
www.jamesreeves.co/spite/