The Body as Threshold the new post at The Listening Room HQ is A grounded reflection for men on the body as threshold, where change is felt before it is understood. Somatic presence, capacity, and embodied authority without performance. It can be read here.
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 91 – edition is broadcasted Monday January 19 & 26, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
I love covers and have long thought of doing a covers show. Here it is. With two songs of my beloved Tim Hardin covered. Reason to Believe by Ron Sexsmith and If I Were A Carpenter by Robert Plant.
Some of these songs were made popular on the voices of Johnny Cash,
Cocaine Blues, a rework by Troy Junius Arnall of the traditional song Little Sadie. Here played and sung by Keith Richards.
Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman’s (Marie’s The Name) His Latest Flame was first recorded by Del Shannon, then Elvis made it his. It’s the only song on the show that is a medley
By The Smiths platin(Marie’s The Name) His Latest Flame/ Rusholme Ruffians playing it Live in London, 1986. The medley is part of The Smiths live album Rank.
The programme opens with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds performing Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin’s Long Black Veil. There’s also George Micheal covering Roxanne by The Police, Nouvelle Vague going for The Clash’s The Gun’s Of Brixton, Therapy? covering Diane by my adored Hüsker Dü and much more.
Tracklist:
01: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Long Black Veil (Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin)
02: Lucinda Williams – While My Guitar Gently Weeps (The Beatles)
03: Ron Sexsmith – Reason to Believe (Tim Hardin)
04: George Michael – Roxanne (The Police)
05: Therapy? – Diane (Hüsker Dü)
06: Billy Bragg – Dolphins (Fred Neil)
07: Kieth Richards – Cocaine Blues (Troy Junius Arnall)
08: Ana Deus, Carlos Zíngaro, Regina Guimarães, Zani Dislexic Band – Venus In Furs (Velvet Underground)
09: John & Lindsey Skeye – Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
10: Placebo – 20th Century Boy (T. Rex, from Velvet Goldmine Soundtrack)
11: Suede – Hungry Heart (Bruce Springsteen, live at Jo Whiley’s Sofa Sessions BBC)
12: Nouvelle Vague – The Guns of Brixton (The Clash)
13: Rowland S. Howard & Lydia Lunch – Some Velvet Morning (Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra)
14: Robert Plant – If I Were A Carpenter (Tim Hardin)
15: The Smiths – (Marie’s The Name) His Latest Flame/ Rusholme Ruffians – Live in London, 1986 (Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, Morrissey & Marr)
The New Moon In Capricorn – January 18, 2026 is the new post on The Polymath site. site.
A symbolic and astrological reflection on the Capricorn New Moon (Jan 18, 2026), Pluto in Aquarius, and the approaching Saturn–Neptune conjunction in Aries. On structural truth, quiet authority, and the end of intimidation-based systems. You can read it here.
When Authority Collapses But Structure Remains is a new post at The Listening Room HQ my men’s practice site. vision on masculinity, structure, and responsibility when authority collapses, without therapy language, rescue narratives, or fixes. It can be read here.
The Round Irregular Jigsaw – On Finishing Without Forcing my new post on The Polymath site is a reflection on creative intelligence, finishing without force, and how alignment allows work to complete itself. Without striving, proof, or performance. It can be read here.
Mine, Greg Chapman and Peter Wullen’ A Séance Of The Table – The Phenomenological Wasteland (French) will be played tomorrow Monday January 5 at Kate Bosworth’s radio show The Dark Train broadcasted at Warminster Community Radio: https://www.wcrfm.org.uk/ and Minerva Radio: https://www.radiominerva.be/ at 10pm gmt/6pm art.
A few months ago Peter had the idea to make a sound piece as a remembrance for Tom Smith of TLASILA who passed away 4 years ago on January 20 2022. One version of A Séance Of The Table – The Phenomenological Wasteland (French) is in French, the one read by me. The other in English read by Leslie Keffer.
You can listen to A Séance Of The Table – The Phenomenological Wasteland (French) read by me here, and to Leslie Keffer’s English reading here.
A Séance Of The Table – The Phenomenological Wasteland (French) a concept by Peter Wullen with undertones by Greg Chapman for which I read an excerpt of Jacques Derrida’s Spectres de Marx was played at David Warmbier’s Spectra Sonic Sound 1.3.2026
Previous note note on A Séance Of The Table – The Phenomenological Wasteland (French). You can listen to it on Peter Wullen’s soundcloud and get an MP3 or on Peter’s audius and get a wav or flac.
The first Full Moon of 2026, January 3, is in Cancer. I have written about in on The Polymath.
With a Full Moon in Cancer care becomes structural. You can read my post here.
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 90 – The Turning Light: To The Solstice edition is now available on mixcloud.
In the Northern Hemisphere we’re on the pathway to Winter Solstice, the beginning of the return of the light. We’re also in Hanukkah – the festival of lights – season (sundown of Sunday December 14 to nightfall of Monday December 22). And, of course Yule that coincides with Winter Solstice and Christmas. You can read more about the programme here.
Tracklist:
01: The Zombies – This Will Be Our Year
02: The Altons – Your Light
03: Todd Rundgren – I Saw The Light (2015 remaster)
04: The Offline – La belle en lumière
05: Damh the Bard – On Midwinter’s Day
06: Popol Vuh – Aguirre I (L’Acrime di Rei)
07: The Sound – Winning
08: Tom Hiddleston – I Saw The Light live in the Wittertainment studio (Hank Williams cover)
09: Nick Drake – River Man
10: The Smiths – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (2011 Remaster)
11: Aztec Camera – Wall Out To Winter (extended version)
12: Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
13: Love & Money – Winter
14: The Stone Roses – I Am The Resurrection
All previous shows on mixcloud: Yé Yé Radio mixcloud | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud
Nothing Is Being Asked of You Right Now the new post at The Listening Room HQ concerns guidance for men in stillness. Practising coherence, restraint, and presence when no action or decision is required and can be read here.
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