Jim Mortleman

Tweeted Love: Twitter in all its diversity - from mundanity to perversity - "sings" Soft Cell. Enjoy. youtube.com/watch?v=On4v2z…

It's a miserable #BlueMonday. We're months from another holiday, it's freezing outside, and Trump's gurning mug is all over the news. Need cheering up? Look no further. youtu.be/chdNRTxeotU 🟦 Help beat the blues - please share! #bluemonday2025 #comedy #humour #neworder

@neworder @theCALMzone Ordered mine. And if you need cheering up today, here's a video I made to raise a chuckle. 🙂 #bluemonday youtu.be/chdNRTxeotU

We are delighted to be partnering with @theCALMzone on a release of a brand new t-shirt featuring the iconic die-cut sleeve design and the original synth used to write Blue Monday. £10 from each t-shirt purchased will be donated to CALM. Buy now: wmg.lnk.to/NewOrder-BlueM… 💙

@neworder @01BSumnerr @gillian_gilbert @stephenpdmorris @peterhook @The_OtherTwo @Peston BTW, if you enjoyed the video, please consider supporting the suicide prevention charity CALM, perhaps by buying this great new #BlueMonday t-shirt from @neworder... store.neworder.com/gb/new-order/b…

(With 🎩 hat tips and apologies to @neworder  @01BSumnerr @gillian_gilbert @stephenpdmorris @peterhook @The_OtherTwo @peston.)

Always good to check out the purveyors of vinyl when you're abroad. Picked up the Associates first album and an Ultravox bootleg here.

Coming soon

@intheeighties Another one for the #whoasongs list (from Basildon's finest*)... youtu.be/ucIv-sMta7I?si… (*Fletch excepted, whose cuntishness 17yo me was - like you - exposed to when I saw him in The Spice of Life in the West End and got told to fuck off after I said I was a fan)

Here is some of Suzanne’s kit

@Jimjar @ElectronicMagUK I saw her at Hidden Notes festival in Stroud, Gloucestershire 2 days later and it had been returned….

Brand new episode of Acceptable In the 80s with @kuntandthegang & Roy Listen wherever you get your pods or open.spotify.com/episode/7E0teC… LINK IN BIO

Anyone know if Suzanne Ciani has been reunited with her lost Buchla yet? @ElectronicMagUK? I do hope so.

Just running through my holiday photos and realised this waterfall in Arnisdale reminded me of someone... 😄

@iambillwaters @sevwave Agree the venue should have mentioned it and offered a refund to those who wanted one. Yes, disappointing not to have seen Ciani interacting with her Buchla, but I still enjoyed the evening and loved hearing 'Four Sequences' in quadrophonic sound in a venue with great acoustics.

@Jimjar @sevwave A disappointing night I thought.. they could have said something on the way in… it wasn’t really a gig more a lecture.

OMG the airline sent Suzanne Ciani's Buchla to Budapest so she was unable to play live at Union Chapel tonight. Rescued the evening by playing a previously recorded gig through the quadrophonic soundsystem then did a Q&A. Hope you're reunited with your synth soon, @sevwave. ❤️

TONIGHT 🎵 "Diva of the Diode" and "America's first female synth hero" SUZANNE CIANI takes to the Union Chapel stage. Fri 20 Sep Doors 7pm Hekla 8pm Interval 8.30pm Suzanne Ciani 9pm Last chance tickets at unionchapel.org.uk/venue/whats-on… @sevwave [Photo: Maria Jose Govea]

Banning smoking in an outside space is the worst kind of prurient, hectoring, interfering, puritanical bullshit. No health basis to it whatsoever. Just a flat-out act of social control.

The Opening Ceremony begins. A man walks out under a spotlight, pauses, looks around. He shrugs. More spotlights ignite. Ten men, twenty. One hundred middle aged French men, all shrugging in time. An orchestral version of Ca Plane Pour Moi begins to swell. Incredible. #Olympics

@robinrimbaud ...oh, and Stan Shaff, founder of SF's experimental sound theatre Audium who, if he's still alive, must be in his mid 90s (I'm pretty sure he made it through COVID, though, so 🤞)

@robinrimbaud Suzanne Ciani (she's in London in September, too); Bruce Gilbert & Edvard Graham Lewis

Having been invited by a music magazine to write features on influential electronic musicians, focusing on technology, ideas and approaches to sound, who would you like me to interview?