The Anderson Tapes

New EP theandersontapes1.bandcamp.com/album/broken-ep

#ThoughtForTheDay Pigeons get called sky rats. But birds like these once carried messages through gunfire when every radio failed. And the part most people miss is this. For thousands of years humans relied on pigeons to move information faster than any technology available at the time. Their homing instinct is so precise that a trained bird released hundreds of miles away can still navigate straight back to its loft. That simple biological skill made them invaluable in war. During World War I and World War II, armies deployed hundreds of thousands of pigeons. When telephone wires were cut and radio signals failed, commanders often had only one reliable way to send a message through chaos. In 1918 a Pigeon named Cher Ami carried a desperate note from trapped American troops in the Argonne Forest. The bird was shot through the chest and lost part of a leg during the flight but still delivered the message, helping stop friendly artillery fire and saving nearly two hundred soldiers. Today their descendants wander city sidewalks, pecking quietly for crumbs. Most people see a nuisance. History once saw a lifeline with wings.

@neilmlomax Amazing album.

46 long years later .. still sonically glorious 💥🎶

@FDisrespector @AdamPollock He has the same mandate (or lack of one) as every other PM for however long we’ve had this system. He may or may not be an electoral liability - that’s for Labour to decide. I’m a Labour member and I want him to stay. If I turn out to be wrong, then I’m wrong. That’s politics.

@AndersonTapes @AdamPollock All true, but it does matter. As leader he is an electoral liability for Labour in upcoming elections.

Keir Starmer was not given a mandate. The public voted for a Labour Government, not specifically a Government run by Keir Starmer. He has no more a personal mandate to run the country than anyone else.

@Darnelsipplepix @AdamPollock He does have a personal mandate of sorts, as I and others have explained elsewhere. How well or not he is doing, and whether he will last the whole term, are separate matters from this. The latter is in the control of Labour MPs only.

@AndersonTapes @AdamPollock Starmer seemed to be making the claim it was a personal mandate. The vagaries of the first past the post system obviously can create disproportion. Still doesn’t alter the fact he’s totally fucked up and will be out of a job before the end of this parliament.

@FDisrespector @AdamPollock It doesn’t matter. If you win by 1 vote you still win. It’s not a presidential system, he doesn’t need a huge personal vote or following to have a mandate. He was just the leader of the party that won the most seats. If people don’t like it they can vote Labour out next time.

@AdamPollock Yes, a simple fact which is strangely overlooked. His constituency saw a significant drop in Labour votes in the midst of a Labour landslide, and he has always polled poorly.

@AdamPollock @Darnelsipplepix They were elected using the same system as always. The problem is with the electoral system, which is not their fault. The same system has disproportionately benefited the Tories in the past, this time it just happened to benefit Labour.

@Darnelsipplepix That’s generous

@AdamPollock Technically we vote for the individual candidate? But mostly people are voting for a party, ideologically or tactically. A PM is not a president but if they have the confidence of the Commons they have a mandate. That’s the system.

Tonight 10pm @ForestFM #tkforestfm all the tunes you didn’t think were allowed on commercial radio #punk #postpunk #indie #newmusic 10-11pm 🇬🇧 2/2/26 🔗 forestfm.co.uk/radioplayer/co… 📻🎶🎙️💥

@SaulStaniforth Angela Rayner was a care worker and trade union activist. Many Labour MPs in the past came from working class backgrounds and became involved in politics through trade unions. There should be more MPs like this, of course, but is not like it’s unknown.

"I want to see tradespeople on the benches in parliament, cleaners, taxi drivers, people who work in takeaways. Whatever job, people who keep this country going should get a seat at the table" Hannah Spencer, the Green Party candidate for Gorton & Denton 🎯

Tonight 10pm 26th Jan #tkforestfm @ForestFM #punk #postpunk #newwave #indie #newmusic Stream 10pm 🇬🇧 @ forestfm.co.uk/radioplayer/co… 🎙️📻🫵🏻💥🎶

BREAKING: Bruce Springsteen at the light of day concert, tells ICE that they should get the f**k out of Minneapolis. “ICE should get the f**k out of Minneapolis! If you believe in the power of the law and that no one stands above it. If you stand against heavily, armed, masked federal troops invading an American city, using Gestapo tactics against their fellow citizens, if you believe you don't deserve to be murdered for exercising your American right to protest, and send a message to this president and as a mayor of the city has said, ‘ICE, you get the f**k out of Minneapolis.’”

@ITVNewsPolitics @PeterAdamSmith Well done @PeterAdamSmith

'Please, you don't have to have your hand on me' Watch the moment ITV News' @PeterAdamSmith was grabbed by a Reform UK staffer after being told to move on from his line of questioning while interviewing the party's new Scottish leader, Malcolm Offord

@paranoiacs It’s a brilliant song.

A fever dream of creeping spiritual corruption, Don Henley's "Boys Of Summer" may be the best song written about the failed revolutions of the 60's, and the nightmare of disillusioned consumerism that follows from its wake. The first spasms of the angry investor class. Buckle up.

@somehappything @EdensEndMusic @Sonicjules @nstop @tobisonics @musicbyfine @horde_barbarian @belgraveroadrec @sarahmcquaid @HannyaWhite Happy new year!

Happy New Year! Here's a tentatively hopeful new single to start 2026: thehappysomethings.bandcamp.com/track/meanwhile & Video: youtu.be/tnXmU_RAn24 😀😍 😎 @EdensEndMusic @Sonicjules @nstop @tobisonics @musicbyfine @horde_barbarian @belgraveroadrec @sarahmcquaid @AndersonTapes @HannyaWhite

When I look into his eyes, I see intelligence and sentience. Not something you could attribute to the dregs of society out to kill the fox today. #FoxOfTheDay

@Marc_Fagel Wonderful film, and that final scene is so beautiful and sad.

"Put your arms around me, fiddly digits, itchy britches..." youtu.be/A_2HaVGvXdg

2000 Great Songs #1181: I Love You All. The 2014 film Frank offered a challenging but remarkable look at the intersection of artistic genius, mental illness, and commercialism; this song made for an emotionally devastating final scene. jitterywhiteguymusic.com/2025/12/my-top…

@DJCalc @BornRuffians @musichorsegirl Yes we are well, we are working on new songs now which will be out next year. No snow here unfortunately, just lots of rain!

@AndersonTapes @BornRuffians @musichorsegirl I thought that those two songs sounded logical together. Winter setting in here, snow day so school is canceled. Life good on your end? More music coming in 2026?

Next set up on wrkc.kings.edu @BornRuffians - To Be Seen @musichorsegirl - 2468 @AndersonTapes - Children at Play

Missed last nights show featuring part one of our best New music played on the show in 2025 ? Fear not , it’s mixcloud ready 💥🎶🎙️📻🫵🏻 🔗 mixcloud.com/neillomax73/sh…

Thanks to Jim @DJCalc for playing our song Children At Play.