Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Quietly excited for this!lansdownebooks.comDuncan Browne - JigsawJigsaw is an extraordinary collection of fourteen melodic, poignant demos written and recorded by much-loved British singer-songwriter Duncan Browne between 1969 and 1971. They survive only on acetate... 261
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Moored up nearer the Barge Inn on the Kennet and Avon for a couple of nights. Crop circle museum on the opposite side of the cut and a heady brew of Pirate-Crust-Funk on the stereo. IYKYK. 060
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026London folks: I will be selling cartloads of promo 45s, jazz and folky-blues nonsense (alongside the usual gubbins) at the Victoria record fair tomorrow, 10 to 4. 2122
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I mean - if you have to run a festival toilet operation, that’s a hell of a number plate. 0110
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Engraving of the Betley Window, one the oldest depictions of a British Hobby Horse and Morris Dancers. Proving to be a bugger to frame. 080
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Another unsettling Topic sleeve. Wicker Man-levels of dread. 0131
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026iamplinth.bandcamp.comLittle Summer, by The Cloisters3 track album 082
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 27/07/2026RIP Bill Oddieyoutu.beAlan Partridge, Bill Oddie & RSPB TerrorismYouTube video by RR PLANB 050
Reposted by Michael TannerGeorge Bass @georgebas5.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Dreamed of being a keeper as a kid. This was great - wish I had the swag to chuck the key in the canal on my last day. Hope @michaeltanner.bsky.social is free to do the music for the play after his excellent Smalls Lighthouse LP on @claypipemusic.bsky.social: www.claypipemusic.co.uk/2018/07/plin...claypipemusic.co.ukPlinth - Music For Smalls Lighthouse.Release: 3rd Aug 2018 Sea Foam Green vinyl. Reverse board cover. Booklet. 500 numbered copies with download code. SOLD OUT Do... 0132
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The impossibly small Prudence*. (*name subject to change) 5161
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 19/07/2026A victory for common sense. Falklands flag-waving bastards will all be back in the UK in a fortnight picking up 100k+ a week and claiming it was all a ‘misunderstanding’. 060
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Guaranteed, Coldplay will show up wherever shit turns to diarrhoea 060
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 19/07/2026You know it’s bad when only Bieber is singing live 030
Reposted by Michael TannerBenjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 18/07/2026An unearthly gorgeous performance here. I went to the funeral of a Thai composer in Bangkok last week. 100 of the composer’s students (!) played the Thai khim along with a recording of their teacher playing over the PA. The overtones were nuts. Video actually caught the sound pretty good. 28525
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 18/07/2026The Bible. My Nan gave me her copy in ‘83 and we’d pick out places to visit in the Summer holidays with my drunk Grandad behind the wheel of a blue cortina. Still looking for Herne’s horn every time I pass a tributary in Windsor Great Park. 0131
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 17/07/2026@hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com a nice euro score in Montreuil 190
Reposted by Michael TannerHwael Mag @hwaelmag.com · 13/07/2026New on Hwael Mag — a long read on @claypipemusic.bsky.social: the record as a hand-made object, and why the label stays small on purpose.hwaelmag.comClay Pipe Music at Low TideFor fifteen years Frances Castle's Clay Pipe Music has treated the record as a hand-made object — illustrated, numbered, bound to a place. A field guide to a label that maps a minor, overlooked Englan... 162
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Thank you, THANK YOU.theguardian.comNo evidence for ‘witches’ marks’ claims at old English buildings, historian saysAuthor argues symbols such as daisy wheels are no more than the working marks of stonemasons 040
Reposted by Michael TannerBen Cornish @pasty90.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Neymar showing up here is like Syd Barrett walking into the studio during the Shine On You Crazy Diamond sessions. 0123
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Today I learned about the existence of a Kraftwerk boot wherein shoddy AI has rendered all band members as a sort-of techno JD Vance gangbang. 3324
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Does anyone else own this LP and get hit with a seismic dose of nostalgia when playing it? PD James Black Tower, Clannad’s ‘Robin’, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, Chi Mai…The sounds wafting in from the TV room when you were meant to be in bed for school the next day. 160
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Went to my first gig in years. Lovely @alisoncotton.bsky.social tonight. 1130
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026ITV just casually dropping Mother Love Bone in the Belgium Senegal match 010
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026youtu.beEngland's 2026 World Cup song 🎵YouTube video by HaytersTV 000
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Gonna tell my kids this is the Wicker Manyoutu.beMen Without Hats - The Safety Dance (Official HD Video)YouTube video by DemonMusicGroup 2465
Reposted by Michael TannerAndrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Drumming up interest for a Steve Reich How To Buy in @mojomagazine.bsky.social. Don't get phased. What are your favourite recordings of Shaker Loops, Different Trains, Desert Music, Clapping, 18 Musicians, Jacob's Ladder Double Sextet... etc. Best replies will go in the mag. Show your workings. 559221
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I know @andrewmale.bsky.social will agree with me on this one…criminally underrated small press British folk that recalls Lal Waterson’s darker songs for Bright Phoebus. Stone Circles, Celtic mysticism and a Tim Buckley cover that doesn’t suck. 5293
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Aw man. RIP Barry Dransfield.youtu.beBarry Dransfield - She's lile a swallowYouTube video by TheLilBlackbird 1456
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I think I make this my fourth or fifth copy, but nice to finally grab a red label in pristine nick. A proper old fashioned ‘why you get up early for a boot sale’ morning. 1130
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Superb Ithell Colquhoun painting of Men An Tol coming up at Bonhams: www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio... 050
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Like sitting in a warm bath. Labradford boot from 1999. Saw them at The Garage on this tour with Stars Of The Lid and it was heavenly.archive.org 0101
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I’m not sure I buy all the Lynch allegations, but Backrooms was decent. 120
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Was lucky enough to have in my possession a bundle of ‘Source’ magazines (temporarily) - a late 60s treatise on avant garde music complete with 10inch records including the first recording of Lucier’s “I am sitting in a room” 1141
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Bagpuss house. Emily’s shop window. Even the pingwings barn is still there.rightmove.co.ukCheck out this 4 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove4 bedroom detached house for sale in Blean Hill, Blean, Canterbury, CT2 for £1,200,000. Marketed by Finn's, Canterbury 092
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 29/05/2026A 'live' (as of 45 minutes ago) equipment test with dusk chorus, out of the rear window. An exercise in navigating cobwebs.iamplinth.bandcamp.comDusk, by Michael Tanner/Plinth1 track album 1100
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 25/05/2026How perfect this sounds, tonight of all nights, the heat escaping the lawn.youtu.beThe Open Window - 4 AM, JUNE; THE SKY WAS GREEN .1969YouTube video by anji nagi 060
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 23/05/2026The joys of getting records out of storage. Born 9 years and an ocean apart, but made their debut on the same indie label 90+ years later. 0140
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Ben Beaumont-Thomas has criticised your drum-programming. Christ.theguardian.comBoards of Canada: Inferno review – after 13 years away, their prodigal return is a big disappointmentThe Scottish electronic duo remain hugely influential – but their new album’s interrogation of religion is dubious, and the drum programming is worse still 4120
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Thinking this day about the sadly-departed Brading Wax Museum on the Isle of White and how it just about laser-sculpted all of my tastes. Little Jane! The Boy in the chimney! The murder of Louis de Rochefort!youtu.beBRADING EXPERIENCE / ISLE OF WIGHT WAX MUSEUM - Final Day, Full Walk-Through (3rd January 2010)YouTube video by GuildfordGhost 130
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Hammersmith Morris in the hood, one of the best to do it. 4100
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 01/05/2026The sun is about to rise over Cerne Abbas and the Ooser is undoubtedly already marching up the hill. I should be there (in my usual spot) but am laid low, listening to Holiday Rap by Miker G and MC Sven in an attempt to rouse myself. Memories of honey beer and dew dampening my arse. Happy May Day🌞 1120
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Lewes is the one place you could leave a bunch of (admittedly shabby) Fairport pink labels for free outside your house and they’ll still be there 48hrs later. 1140
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Worlds worst flip-through. I found out a neighbour who passed away last year was on the fringes of the Fluxus group. I was invited to buy his LP collection and was blown away by how our tastes converged, right down to the DVDs of The Clangers next to Kenneth Anger. Currently hauling from the van: 21975
