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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.
Hi with I Believe In You by Ladytron. Have a nice afternoon.
Hi and Happy Sunday with Like You Really Mean It by Anjimile.
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)
Good morning with Against the Dying of the Light by José González. Have a nice weekend.
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.
Good morning with our Middle of the Week Song – Gasoline by Buck Meek. Have a nice day.
Hi and good afternoon with They Keep Trying by Bonnie “Prince” Billy.
Hi and Happy Sunday with Joy by Dry Cleaning.
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.
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