Recommendations

Every week I give recommendations in my newsletter. (Sign-up here). Here are some of them.

CHAATSGPT - this is a food truck in Coventry. They sell dosa for stupidly cheap prices and it is also stupidly delicious.

GPT in this case stands for Golgappas, Paavs and Teas. And they serve the only AI I approve of: Authentic Indian street food.

The staff are stoic, and aren’t up for much conversation. But I reckon that this is because they really know what they are doing, and that they recognise that idle chatter is superfluous to a good Dosa.

TROUTFLIES is the musical project of my York friends Reuben and Guy. They have a new single called “Pugh”. I recommend listening to it.

Small disclaimer: I play with the live version of Troutflies. Toy piano, melodica, guitar and banjolele. But I’m not on the record. So I’m recommending it here.

COUNTRY LOVE SONG #6 is a song that I am on. And in March I made a music video for it with some friends. It is a duet with Jude Brothers, an amazing singer-songwriter from Arkansas.

They were not in the country while we made the video, so they appear by projection on the wall behind me, overlaid with footage I found on Wikimedia Commons.

JUDE BROTHERS is in fact releasing a new album in September. And - having heard multiple songs off it ahead of release - I reckon its gonna be pretty pretty pretty good.

There are two songs already out: “Desire and Devotion” & “Treat Me Like A Tree & Love Me For Your Crookedness” (I love a long song name) and I recommend you listen to both.

WIKIMEDIA COMMONS is a great place to find open source images and videos to make digital collages with. It is also a great window into the lives of other people.

Click on someone’s username and you get a small cross-section of their interests through the medium of images. It feels chaotic and uncurated - like 2012 Instagram, but with less focus on the self and moreso on knowledge.

SPINACH PIE - I made spinach pie yesterday and it was really nice.

‘PUGH’ - Troutflies have a new single out called ‘Pugh‘. There is even a really great video you can watch here.

CHAMPION TREES - I really enjoyed listening to their 2nd album, A Duck's Water Off My Back.

TAKING SOME TIME FOR YOURSELF - it’s important to take some time for yourself.

GOING TO BED - it feels really great to lie down in bed at the end of a long day.

NOT GOING ON THE INTERNET - there are so many things that you can do instead.

FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED - this is one of my favourite Kool Keith albums - under his moniker Dr. Dooom however - and I have been relistening to it this week. One of the most creative rap albums of the 90s. But pretty gross/weird.

UNCLE BONITO - I saw Uncle Bonito’s longest set to date on Tuesday. For those not in the know, Uncle Bonito is a Cypriot-Yorkshire performer who likes to recall memories that may or may not have happened.