The News Cycle Attention Loop and The Nervous System
is a post on The Listening Room HQ – my men’s practice – about the news cycles, attention loops, and nervous system overload. Of how constant information streams and updates shape how we think, feel, rest and its effect on everyday life. You can read it at The Listening Room HQ site
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My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #95 – edition was broadcasted Monday 20th and 27th April, 2026, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com and is now available on mixcloud.
Amazing Songs & Other Delights #95 – The Of Light & Gentleness edition is, as the title says, a programme that mostly revolves around light in different ways, and gentleness. You can read more about the show here.
Tracklist:
01: José Gonzalez – The Light
02: The New Pornographers – Pure Sticker Shock too
03: Francisco Fontes – Copiloto
04: Laurie Shaw – Chimney Breast
05: Kevin Morby – Badlands
06: Stone Dead – Plasticine
07: Bruce Springsteen – Rainy Night In Soho
08: Tinariwen – Imidiwan Takyadam feat. José Gonzalez
09: Butler-Black-Grant – Not Alone
10: The Lemon Twigs – I Just Can’t Get Over Losing You
11: Michael Weston King – Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore
12: Red Sun Atacama – Sundown
13: Hanemoon – We Didn’t Know
14: Baby Suicida – Se Me Deixares, Eu Digo
15: The Dharma Chain – Clockwork
16: Special Friend – Isolation
All previous shows on mixcloud:
All previous shows on mixcloud:
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #96 – The We’re Still In Spring edition is broadcasted Monday 18th and 25th May, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com to (or on the app).
There’s seventeen songs of different genres and time periods. By new bands and longs established ones. Some of the songs aren’t an obvious Spring choice, but they make sense to me in springtime.
The programme goes from a Spring song for children, The Kiboomers – Ladybugs Fly, to fado with Rita Braga’s tropical interpretation of Amália Rodrigues and Don Byas’ Rua do Capelão.
There’s space for indie songs, Again and Again and Again by Silly Boy Blue, Sun It Rises by Fleet Floxes, Stranger Baby by Gifthorse or Whole Again by Saint Sappho. Along Schubert’s Frühlingsglaube sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and Test Department with the South Wales Striking Miners Choir singing Take Me Home.
The heavy weights contingent includes Taylor Swift, The Beatles, The Avett Brothers, and The Kinks.
And that’s not all.
Tracklist:
01: The Kiboomers – Ladybugs Fly
02: Taylor Swift – invisible string
03: The Kind Hills – Dance, Dance, Dance
04: Silly Boy Blue – Again and Again and Again
05: Saint Etienne – Who Do You Think You Are
06: Belle & Sebastian – Seeing Other People
07: The Beach Boys – Spring Vacation
08: Fleet Floxes – Sun It Rises
09: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sings
Schubert’s Frühlingsglaube, D. 686
10: Gifthorse – Stranger Baby
11: The Beatles – Octopus Garden (Remastered 2009)
12: Dean & Britta – Eyes In My Smoke
13: The Avett Brothers – A Fathers First Spring
14: Saint Sappho – Whole Again
15: Test Department with the South Wales Striking Miners Choir – Take Me Home
16: The Kinks – Sunny Afternoon
17: Rita Braga – Rua do Capelão
All previous shows on mixcloud:
Yé Yé Radio mixcloud|
Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #95 – edition is broadcasted Monday 20th and 27th 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
Amazing Songs & Other Delights #95 – The Of Light & Gentleness edition is, as the title says, a programme that mostly revolves around light in different ways, and gentleness.
There’s grief, there’s groove, there’s dust, but the tone is mostly gentle and luminous. Even when the lyrics subject is heavier.
Tracklist:
01: José Gonzalez – The Light
02: The New Pornographers – Pure Sticker Shock
03: Francisco Fontes – Copiloto
04: Laurie Shaw – Chimney Breast
05: Kevin Morby – Badlands
06: Stone Dead – Plasticine
07: Bruce Springsteen – Rainy Night In Soho
08: Tinariwen – Imidiwan Takyadam feat. José Gonzalez
09: Butler-Black-Grant – Not Alone
10: The Lemon Twigs – I Just Can’t Get Over Losing You
11: Michael Weston King – Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore
12: Red Sun Atacama – Sundown
13: Hanemoon – We Didn’t Know
14: Baby Suicida – Se Me Deixares, Eu Digo
15: The Dharma Chain – Clockwork
16: Special Friend – Isolation
All previous shows on mixcloud:
Yé Yé Radio mixcloud/ | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud
Aries New Moon – On Not Acting Too Soon my new post on The Polymath site is about not every impulse to act is true timing. The New Moon in Aries, the tension between action and restraint, and why the most accurate beginnings are sometimes the ones that wait. The Aires New Moon is the beginning of the Western Astrology New Year. You can read it on The Polymath site.
My radio programme Amazing Songs & Other Delights #70 – The True Love Edition has a repeat Monday 6 & 13, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).You can read about the programme here.
Tracklist:
01: Jane’s Addiction – True Love
02: A 90s new man called Stan – Sushi feat. Adamski
03: Anthony Moore – Earthbound Misfit
04: Black Toska – Three Silver Nails
05: Cosmic Room 99 – E Corp
06: Fernando Triste – Escuro
07: Franz Ferdinand – Audacious
08: Good Sad Happy – Shaded Tree
09: Jonas – Bato À Porta
10: Kingbird – There Were Things That Needed Forgiven
11: Laurie Anderson – Road to Mandalay
12: Primal Scream – Love Insurrection
13: Terry Gross – Sales Pitch
14: The Heavy Heavy – Feel
15: Tindersticks – Always a Stranger
16: Virgem Suta – Amor Ao Avesso
17: Daniel Johnston – True Love Will Find You In The End
All shows on mixcloud: Yé Yé Radio mixcloud | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #94 – Of Art & Image edition is now available on mixcloud.
Of Art & Image edition has 15 songs that refer to art, artists, mostly painters, and image, both still and motion. You can read more about the programme here.
Tracklist
01: Don McLean – Vincent
02: Manic Street Preachers – Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning)
03: Death Cab for Cutie – Photobooth
04: The Passions – I’m in Love With a German Film Star
05: John Cale – Magritte
06: Modern Lovers – Pablo Picasso
07: David Bowie – Andy Warhol
08: Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead
09: Duran Duran – Girls On Film
10: The Kinks – Picture Book
11: Spoon – I Turn My Camera On
12: Paul Simon – Kodachrome
13: Dire Straits – In the Gallery
14: John Mayer – 3×5
15: Manic Street Preachers – Kevin Carter
All previous shows on mixcloud:
Yé Yé Radio mixcloud/ | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud
The repeat of my radio show My Amazing Songs & Other Delights #63 – The Say Hello, Wave Goodbye edition is broadcasted Monday 16 & 23, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
The title comes from the Soft Cell song of the same name, here on a cover by David Gray. There’s some of my music, along, among others, Franz Schubert, Old Jerusalem, The Clash, Kings of Leon, Bernard Butler. You can read the programme original text here.
Tracklist:
01 – Raquel Pinheiro – Big Bang (radio edit)
02 – Old Jerusalem – Red sun over the interstate
03 – Franz Schubert – Erlkönig, (Op. 1, D. 328 – Wer reitet so spät sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau)
04 – The Modern Lovers – Dodge Veg o-matic
05 – Bernard Butler – Camber Sands
06 – The Fugs – Bartleby The Scrivener
07 – Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
08 – David Gray – Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Soft Cell cover)
09 – The Beatles – Drive My Car
10 – The Clash – Lost In The Supermarket
11 – Kings of Leon – Going Nowhere (live in Nashville)
12 – Siouxsie & The Banshees – The Passenger (Iggy Pop cover)
13 – The Proclaimers – I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) (2011 remaster)
14 – Aaron Copland – Going to Heaven! (Emily Dickinson poem, sung by Sanford Sylvan)
15 – Little Eve – The Loco-Motion (remaster)
16 – The June Carriers – Pastoral Epigraph
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #94 – Of Art & Image edition is broadcasted Monday, 2nd and 9th, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
Of Art & Image edition has 15 songs that refer to art, artists, mostly painters, and image, both still and motion. You read more about the programme here.
Tracklist
01: Don McLean – Vincent
02: Manic Street Preachers – Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning)
03: Death Cab for Cutie – Photobooth
04: The Passions – I’m in Love With a German Film Star
05: John Cale – Magritte
06: Modern Lovers – Pablo Picasso
07: David Bowie – Andy Warhol
08: Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead
09: Duran Duran – Girls On Film
10: The Kinks – Picture Book
11: Spoon – I Turn My Camera On
12: Paul Simon – Kodachrome
13: Dire Straits – In the Gallery
14: John Mayer – 3×5
15: Manic Street Preachers – Kevin Carter
All previous shows on mixcloud:
Yé Yé Radio mixcloud/ | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #94 – Of Art & Image edition is broadcasted Monday, 2nd and 9th, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
Of Art & Image edition has 15 songs that refer to art, artists, mostly painters, and image, both still and motion. The Manic Street Preachers have two songs, from Everything Must Go, their fourth album. One for painting, Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning), and one for photography, Kevin Carter.
Don McLean’s Vincent is based on Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, while Dire Straits’ In the Gallery is a tribute to sculptor Harry Braun.
Bauhaus and their Bela Lugosi’s Dead are a double reference. The band’s name to the German arts, design, architecture, crafts school, and to Hungarian-American actor Bela Lugosi.
Tracklist
01: Don McLean – Vincent
02: Manic Street Preachers – Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning)
03: Death Cab for Cutie – Photobooth
04: The Passions – I’m in Love With a German Film Star
05: John Cale – Magritte
06: Modern Lovers – Pablo Picasso
07: David Bowie – Andy Warhol
08: Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead
09: Duran Duran – Girls On Film
10: The Kinks – Picture Book
11: Spoon – I Turn My Camera On
12: Paul Simon – Kodachrome
13: Dire Straits – In the Gallery
14: John Mayer – 3×5
15: Manic Street Preachers – Kevin Carter
All previous shows on mixcloud: l
Yé Yé Radio mixcloud / | www.mixcloud.com/MondoBizarreMagazine
Mondo Bizarre Magazine 