David Lance Callahan

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English Primitive reinventor, Moonshake mooner and shaker, Wolfhounds ranter, Swell Maps supply guitarist, nature writer. #MDANT https://davidcallahan.bandcamp.com/album/english-primitive-ii

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Great to hear the first play of the new record on 6 Music last night after I got home from the pub. You can re-enact this vaguely disorienting experience here, at about 1 hour and 2 seconds in (before an excellent Bridget St John track): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Riley & Coe - Gideon steers the ship single handedly - BBC Soundswww.bbc.co.uk Captain Gideon Coe plays the music he loves from every era and genre.

Loading up for a same-day rehearsal before bringing the East End, estuarine-accented, Sahel, folk, post-rock blues to The Lexington tonight ...

A heads up for attendees to my gigs in London, Edinburgh and Birmingham over the next month: I have copies of the new album in CD format for sale (vinyl to come soon) – before they're in the shops! See me on the night!

Another track from my forthcoming album has now been liberated! davidcallahan.bandcamp.com/album/down-t...

Down To The Marshes, by David Lance Callahandavidcallahan.bandcamp.com 8 track album

Edinburgh gig incoming on 6 September – please let those you know in the town or nearby! Tix: www.eventim-light.com/uk/a/656f3b4...

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Finally dug out my 90s CDs and I'm now enjoying this underappreciated Joni...

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Breaking: AJ reporting over 100 dead after air strike on school in Gaza This cannot wait until January.

More than 100 reported killed in Israeli strike on school in Gaza Cityaje.io Israeli military confirms attack carried out on school in Gaza City that has reportedly killed more than 100 people.

Had a great time on the 'hate march' as @elonmusk's civil war kicked off!

Yep, definitely a Nazi no-show in the "Stow tonight ...

Local public information service.

I'm all about that beat/freakbeat crossover today ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbhx...

The D Coys Bad Timeswww.youtube.com The D Coys Bad Times

"... a man who drove a car into the gates of Downing Street while carrying a phone full of indecent images of children, impressively managing to commit two quite distinct offences simultaneously, like Gary Glitter starring in Fast & Furious." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The end is nigh. For insects, bats, protest, the planet… | Stewart Leewww.theguardian.com Our response to global heating and the decimation of animal species is to marginalise the Green party and lock up protesters

There are lots of good ear puns here. There's also an important announcement at the end about the Legends of Indie shows at London's Lexington. Unfortunately, ear-ly bird tickets have now sold out but it's still very affordable for those on a lobe budget. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Which Home Alone child star should everyone blame if Trump is re-elected? | Stewart Leewww.theguardian.com Macaulay Culkin might have convinced the billionaire to shun political ambition when they met on the film sequel, but didn’t

Public service announcement: the 1st track from my forthcoming LP 'Down to the Marshes' has 'dropped' on Bandcamp. If you don't like 'Robin Reliant', like Groucho Marx, I have others. It's officially released on 27 Sept; pre-orders ship well before that: davidcallahan.bandcamp.com/album/down-t...

Down To The Marshes, by David Lance Callahandavidcallahan.bandcamp.com 8 track album

I'm super pleased to have another long-form article about global flyways in the latest @BirdLife_News magazine. The magazine is free to BirdLife International members (www.birdlife.org/world-bird-c...), supporters and donors. Join the world's greatest bird conservation charity to read it!

Adios, Valencia...

Valencia: where even the manhole covers are cool ...

Being a tourist for the day after a press trip to Valencia ...

The cat's out of the bag: I've been curated & the curator will be doing a long preview of his new show too. Get early bird tickets before the kind of people who say "These days, if you say you're English" all the time hear about it. It's your last chance. Next stop the V&A! dice.fm/partner/dice...

Stewart Lee Introduces the Legends of Indie - David Lance Callahan Live Tickets | From £11 | 14 Aug @ The Lexington, London | DICEdice.fm At 8.30 each night sharp, Stewart Lee (“world’s greatest living stand-up comedian” – The Times) offers 30-45 unfinished minutes of work-in-progress material ...

Another excellent Novara Media interview tonight, this time with Matt Kennard who is this generation's John Pilger in his fearless exposing of the machinations of imperial power. Plenty of info about why you shouldn't vote for Starmer here too: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig-A...

On Intelligence Services, Corporate Media & Propaganda | Ash Sarkar meets Matt Kennardwww.youtube.com If you want to understand how power works in our society, you can’t just examine what journalists say - you have to pay attention to what they’re silent abou...

A belated review of the Eva Luna deluxe edition just sneaks through: "The raw energy of Eva Luna was and still is an utterly satisfying listen, especially if life has dealt you a nasty surprise or two and you really need to vent." freq.org.uk/reviews/moon...

Moonshake – Eva Luna (Deluxe) – Freqfreq.org.uk

Kiran Leonard at the MOTH Club tonight - a strange, thrilling hybrid of Richard Thompson and This Heat is as good a description as any ...

As if having my own Wikipedia page wasn't fame enough, you can now read about my last LP, English Primitive II, on the same huge Tower of Digital Babel here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English... If that doesn't encourage you to buy it, I give up ...

English Primitive II - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

Today's chazza scores. Quadrophenia was a treat but the others were 50p each...

Wreckless Eric at Walthamstow Trades Club last night, courtesy of @e17RnR_books. The 20-minute version of Whole Wide World that told the story of how he wrote the song within the song itself was a stroke of meta genius...

You'll know by now that Kara Jackson made one of the all-time great debut albums last year. Tonight at EARTH in Hackney she started with a Karen Dalton song and all her own sounded as good or better.

So sad to hear about the death of James Chance. No New York was one of the key records of my musical 'education', and The Contortions the most accessible way into that melee of noise and primitivism. Wish I'd seen his most recent gigs here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKz9...

James Chance & the Contortions - I Can't Stand Myselfwww.youtube.com From the "No New York" compilation (1978).Pat Place: "The most significant thing I remember about those sessions is that he said, 'Why don't you go in and wa...

Ladeez an gennelmen – it appears that I now have a Wikipedia page all to my li'l ol' self: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L... Clearly, at some point, I existed!

David Lance Callahan - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

I have but one gig upcoming at the moment and it's a corker (plus there will be surprise extra announcements soon). Hear the next LP and even parts of its follow-up, as well as some old faves. Early bird price of £11 will double v soon so get your skates on: www.thelexington.co.uk/event.php?id...

The Lexington is an award winning bar in Islington with Live Music venue, Bourbon, craft beers, DJs, Food and a nightclub! Open all day & most of the night.www.thelexington.co.uk

Not everything goes smoothly if you're signed to a major label ...