Jonathan tweeting. Assistant make lovely jangle pop from Brighton: Felt/Yo La Tengo/Stereolab etc. CERTAIN MEMORIES is our masterpiece; our new single is FLOWERS. Fanzines available; radio show Sundays 7pm on Untidy Radio.https://bsky.app/profile/assistant.bandcamp.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/assistant.bandcamp.com/post/3mueuln52kk23A poem from Barbara Guest. I like this one.31 Aug 2026 12:06 +0000at://did:plc:dd5e7knkihfvrubfl5dk2kxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mueuln52kk23https://bsky.app/profile/assistant.bandcamp.com/post/3mu7d424cfs27This LP by @johnhogarty.bsky.social is beautiful: paintings with light & shadows using guitars, moving through song-locations with such instinct & deft deployment of tone. It ends with a wild, sunrisey finale - 'Shapes, Stars' - which made me think of Pavement's 'Strings of Nashville'. So so good! https://nationalpark.bandcamp.com/album/outside29 Aug 2026 07:10 +0000at://did:plc:dd5e7knkihfvrubfl5dk2kxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu7d424cfs27https://bsky.app/profile/assistant.bandcamp.com/post/3muedtu3p4k2aMy mum was a splendid & influential illustrator in the 70s: a decade earlier she hung out with Mick Jagger & Marc Bolan, featured black models in her first fashion show (unheard of in London in the mid 60s). She was daft, brave, impulsive, contrary, modest, unpretentious. I wrote this about her https://youtu.be/4h3vznMMPDg?is=8dh4RdKSzNXZFO8731 Aug 2026 07:07 +0000at://did:plc:dd5e7knkihfvrubfl5dk2kxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3muedtu3p4k2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/assistant.bandcamp.com/post/3mudbooo6kk2tFound this book in Newhaven Fort today. It is an absolute goldmine of amazing indie rock band names & album titles. I am banking ‘DEPRESSIONS IN SWASH ZONE’ as a future Assistant LP, so hands off.30 Aug 2026 20:55 +0000at://did:plc:dd5e7knkihfvrubfl5dk2kxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mudbooo6kk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/assistant.bandcamp.com/post/3mucrxg3tkc2oWell this is totally outstanding, unsurprisingly. Listening while I cook the kids dinner. https://dinosaurjr.bandcamp.com/album/there-near30 Aug 2026 16:14 +0000at://did:plc:dd5e7knkihfvrubfl5dk2kxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mucrxg3tkc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/assistant.bandcamp.com/post/3mucfgb3dzs2mThis morning’s haul!30 Aug 2026 12:30 +0000at://did:plc:dd5e7knkihfvrubfl5dk2kxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mucfgb3dzs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/assistant.bandcamp.com/post/3mt5dia4j4k2mYou can’t see the water from the road at Daglan - a small town a few miles south-west of Carsac-Aillac, where we’re staying in the Dordogne this week. We spent a lovely afternoon there today. We drove down a track & parked the car in a place we (wrongly) thought might be shaded in an hour or two.15 Aug 2026 18:46 +0000at://did:plc:dd5e7knkihfvrubfl5dk2kxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt5dia4j4k2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/assistant.bandcamp.com/post/3mu7hextvt22aSometimes I look at my tweets & think "will people assume I used AI to write this?". Partly cos my writing = pretentious, often careless & sometimes atrocious, but also cos cutting basic words to retain superlatives is like overcooking stock 'til it boils down to nothing. Nevertheless, it's a worry.29 Aug 2026 08:27 +0000at://did:plc:dd5e7knkihfvrubfl5dk2kxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu7hextvt22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/assistant.bandcamp.com/post/3mu7d424cfs27This LP by @johnhogarty.bsky.social is beautiful: paintings with light & shadows using guitars, moving through song-locations with such instinct & deft deployment of tone. It ends with a wild, sunrisey finale - 'Shapes, Stars' - which made me think of Pavement's 'Strings of Nashville'. So so good! https://nationalpark.bandcamp.com/album/outside29 Aug 2026 07:10 +0000at://did:plc:dd5e7knkihfvrubfl5dk2kxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu7d424cfs27https://bsky.app/profile/assistant.bandcamp.com/post/3mu6ge7ignk27I missed this - how glorious. The Monkees doing Paul Westerberg; literally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRYDb7W8-Ic28 Aug 2026 22:36 +0000at://did:plc:dd5e7knkihfvrubfl5dk2kxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu6ge7ignk27https://bsky.app/profile/assistant.bandcamp.com/post/3mu67s3aqlc25My wife, on completing the first week of her new job: “I know it’s lame, but I’m so tired, do you mind if I go to bed?” Me: “Of course not, you head up! I’ll tidy the kitchen and head up in a bit”. Also me, but in my head: “HA! Finally a chance to dance around the kitchen to the Happy Mondays”28 Aug 2026 20:38 +0000at://did:plc:dd5e7knkihfvrubfl5dk2kxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu67s3aqlc25https://bsky.app/profile/assistant.bandcamp.com/post/3mu5vkkbe622dNot sure if this lovely punk-mod confection by @somehappything.bsky.social deliberately references 'Mrs Robinson', but there's a lovely crossover of melody, & I'm a big fan of that apparerently unloved Lemonheads cover, & of the brill Happy Somethings LP, of which there are -go, go- just 4 CDs left! https://thehappysomethings.bandcamp.com/track/here-and-now-becomes-then28 Aug 2026 17:35 +0000at://did:plc:dd5e7knkihfvrubfl5dk2kxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5vkkbe622dhttps://bsky.app/profile/assistant.bandcamp.com/post/3mu3njmwngc2yWhat a beautiful photo [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Aug 2026 20:06 +0000at://did:plc:dd5e7knkihfvrubfl5dk2kxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3njmwngc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/assistant.bandcamp.com/post/3mu3k6bgt522wI am thinking of making a little EP of songs from my Dordogne holiday. On the self-indulgent scale, how does that compare to, say, making you watch a holiday photo slideshow? [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Aug 2026 19:06 +0000at://did:plc:dd5e7knkihfvrubfl5dk2kxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3k6bgt522whttps://bsky.app/profile/assistant.bandcamp.com/post/3mtwmsjltac23A demo of a song I wrote & recorded in France a couple of weeks ago. I came up with this thinking of a sort of prelude to @sunnyintervals.bsky.social's 'One Last Day of The Holidays'. It was written in Camping La Route d'Or in La Flèche, on the first night of our trip. https://soundcloud.com/assistantbrighton/first-day-of-holidays25 Aug 2026 20:10 +0000at://did:plc:dd5e7knkihfvrubfl5dk2kxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwmsjltac23https://bsky.app/profile/assistant.bandcamp.com/post/3mtwmsjltac23A demo of a song I wrote & recorded in France a couple of weeks ago. I came up with this thinking of a sort of prelude to @sunnyintervals.bsky.social's 'One Last Day of The Holidays'. It was written in Camping La Route d'Or in La Flèche, on the first night of our trip. https://soundcloud.com/assistantbrighton/first-day-of-holidays25 Aug 2026 20:10 +0000at://did:plc:dd5e7knkihfvrubfl5dk2kxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwmsjltac23https://bsky.app/profile/assistant.bandcamp.com/post/3mtckqdfoc223More unserious & half-formed tent pop. Made this in the Loire today (in the car, not the tent) and it’s about Charles VIII, who lived in Amboise until he was 27 then died after banging his head on a doorframe.17 Aug 2026 20:40 +0000at://did:plc:dd5e7knkihfvrubfl5dk2kxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtckqdfoc223https://bsky.app/profile/assistant.bandcamp.com/post/3mtm77zfx5225And my physical copy has arrived! Hooray! Thanks @somehappything.bsky.social! [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Aug 2026 16:40 +0000at://did:plc:dd5e7knkihfvrubfl5dk2kxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtm77zfx5225https://bsky.app/profile/assistant.bandcamp.com/post/3mtlx5jizh222New John McCabe is good news!! Excited about hearing this. [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Aug 2026 14:16 +0000at://did:plc:dd5e7knkihfvrubfl5dk2kxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtlx5jizh222https://bsky.app/profile/assistant.bandcamp.com/post/3mtjf5ii2dk2mIf anyone is wondering how elevating, inspiring & transformative pop can be in 2026, this LP soars above the field turning up the saturation level on everything. I love it deeply. [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Aug 2026 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:dd5e7knkihfvrubfl5dk2kxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjf5ii2dk2m