James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"Late summer-autumn: the camp started falling apart. November: Kurtz orders the assassinations. The army tried one last time to bring him back. But he kept going. They lost him. He was gone. Nothing but rumours and rambling intelligence.” #celebritytraitors 0100
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Only saw this today - brilliant, thank you. I was 10 when Disco came out and I’ve never really seen it written about properly. Introspective shades it for me (somehow it’s both more literary and more euphoric) but it wouldn’t have happened without Disco. Magic. 110
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My theory is that Amol Rajan left Today because like other big name journos he deep down* really thinks HE should be the story. 120
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=yagO...youtube.comWise OneYouTube video by John Coltrane - Topic 002
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We watched Amelie again last night and it was as delightful as ever, wondrous even, but its nostalgia and sweetness might make it a good candidate for this. Perhaps rom coms are inherently conservative, but it also projects a fairy tale idea of Paris, of loneliness, and of love. 000
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I don’t think I knew this, and just looked it up. Brilliant! (I was a JAMC fan too.) Always so funny to learn that music 15 yr old me imagined as magic was actually made near where I ended up living (or walking/driving past all the time), eg Crouch End or Tollington Park (screamadelica). 110
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Nothing I love more than a band connected to that golden source and everything they throw out is great! 110
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Drama is magnificent. I loved Wild and The Innocents so much. Stop was the first 7” I ever bought (an EP to boot!). His WFL remix made me an indie portal via the Chart Show. Banger after banger. (With apologies to you and @seanedmund.bsky.social for sharing as a quote - can’t reply to thread…) 120
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I remember late night regional shows on Radio 5, early 90s. Mon was London, Mark Thomas. Weds Hit The North, Mark Radcliffe. NI and Wales thurs and Fri maybe? Tuesday was midlands, and bhangra. A whole subculture I knew nothing about. So cool when Apache broke out. God bless MW radio (and the BBC) 010
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 01/08/2026August. The first month of the fifth year of doing this. As yet no repeats. 110
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 13/07/2026My review of the Bristol gig a few weeks back. They were so good. www.bristol247.com/culture/musi...bristol247.comReview: Super Furry Animals, Bristol Sounds - 'Disparate tastes, joyfully reconciled'It's the Welsh psych-Britpop stars' first tour in ten years 120
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I remember a record shop window display when I was 11 - ‘20 years ago today!’. By 93 the cool stuff (ie NME classic albums poll) was Revolver/White Album. Then Ian McDonald’s Revolution In The Head in 94. Oasis supercharged AND smothered a new form of retro love but didn’t create it, I think. 110
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 09/07/2026We had this as a rule when naming our children, starting 20 yrs ago, and used Archie as the example. Anything else seemed to preempt the familiarising that it would also be others’ job to do (ie friends when older) as well as ours. The person becomes their own diminutive, we felt. 000
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Bad news: made the final whistle Good news: in time for analysis Bad news: itv shows 2 context-free challenges then the winning goal then a disallowed goal, pundits talking across each other, then celebrations, then an ad break, then the other goals, like get a writer, know your story 000
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Or who don’t (won’t) make their people-pleasing instincts the main show. 010
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Yeah get about the right time to get this article. Really good piece. 110
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Happy ‘families who pay for private school get to go on holiday cheaper than everyone else because other schools are still open for two more weeks’ day to all who celebrate, may the rest of us join in via the ritual receipt of all those OOO emails. 010
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 06/07/2026“And what costume shall the poor girl wear?” “Well, here’s one I made earlier.” 020
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 05/07/2026July is Odetta, as featured on the cover of this excellent new Dylan covers comp. 100
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Neuromancer is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed 010
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 02/07/2026They did another in 93 which was formative for me but also from today‘s vantage looks hopelessly conventional. 120
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 02/07/20261) Bono’s leather-waistcoat-no-shirt look. 2) The sanctification of Freddie Mercury as ‘the perfect showman’ when he died. 020
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Some of my colleagues are with you. They are all excellent. I recommended they come listen to you yesterday - hope it’s going as well as my imagination says such a thing would. The novelty/new ideas factor sounds like it is… 000
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 01/07/2026The Belgians extending the joke by playing as if they had apples for faces. 010
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Delighted to report that the real Belgium away shirts do not have the Magritte legend featured on the social media representation of said shirt, which means that the promo image was even more appropriate than it first appeared. 110
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Because we’ve had enough of experts and Karl Pilkington wasn't available? 110
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Pougatch then calling it “corporate speak”. There will be no notes taken. 110
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Went to a gig on Wednesday. Yes, Wednesday. Outside. It was a furnace but a very joyful one cos it was seeing Super Furry Animals for the first time in 10 years. My review for @bristol247.bsky.social has just gone up. www.bristol247.com/culture/musi...bristol247.comReview: Super Furry Animals, Bristol Sounds - 'Disparate tastes, joyfully reconciled'It's the Welsh psych-Britpop stars' first tour in ten years 020
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I think that’s fair enough. Used to equate PM with winter but it has sounded great in summer too, recently. Perhaps Solid Air is more season-neutral? 100
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Set design ironically the profession where nobody knows your name 1101
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 23/06/2026The Weather Station - Humanhood anaiis - Devotion & The Black Divine Xenia Rubinos - Black Terry Cat Nala Sinephro - Endlessness … and one old one: Margot Guryan - Take A Picture 020
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 20/06/2026My favourites read in the last year or so: Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled, Brookner’s Latecomers, Voss by Patrick White, Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos, Angel by Elizabeth Taylor 000
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 19/06/2026That’s an expensive way to avoid ITV‘s coverage but I totally understand it 120
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Little piece from me for @bristol247.bsky.social based on an interview with Guto from the Super Furry Animals, ahead of their Bristol show next week. We talk band democracy, being forward-facing and a love of experimentation. A lovely man in a great band. www.bristol247.com/culture/musi...bristol247.comSuper Furry Animals - 'We were so lucky to live near Bristol'The Britpop heroes on lessons learnt, 'shocking' run-throughs, their Bristol connection and the live spectacle in store at the harbour 000
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 17/06/2026This morning’s @bristol247.bsky.social article and something kind of similar. 010
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 17/06/2026@johnniejohnstone.bsky.social and if I may here are my two favourite Joni covers. Both are fascinating collabs in themselves. Supremes with Jimmy Webb doing All I Want. And Edith/Kingpin by Tina & Herbie. open.spotify.com/track/4hz5O1... open.spotify.com/track/4qpg7L...open.spotify.comAll I WantThe Supremes · Produced And Arranged By Jimmy Webb · Song · 1972 110
James Caig @jamescaig.bsky.social · 17/06/2026River Free Man In Paris Edith And The Kingpin Don’t interrupt The Sorrow Coyote 121
