Amplifier | Friday, March 15, 2019

7:59 PM

#Amplifier being scrubbed before it goes to a new home. Vacuumed and cleaned, contact cleaner on all the switchgear, has come up a treat. A classic, bought it off a guy whose housemate had run out on the rent, so they were flogging anything he had left behind. It’s a lovely amp, huge warm sound. Enjoy @rjcrookshank! #Pioneer #A400 #hifi #audiophile

ASuitableBoy | Sunday, March 10, 2019

6:18 PM

As the books on the in-pile dwindle, I’m going to have to finally tackle this beast. Minuscule type and 1535 pages, jeepers. #ASuitableBoy #VikramSeth #bookstagram #book #readinglist #1993

CHIC | Monday, March 4, 2019

8:41 AM

Do we really need a new #CHIC album when it really can’t get any better this? @nilerodgers how about a small CHIC rarities show in the RFH ballroom this summer for all of us waiting to hear the back catalogue? I believe there’s an orchestra nearby… #meltdown @southbankcentre

PaybackPress | Sunday, February 24, 2019

8:54 PM

Gotta say, @canongatebooks are my favourite publisher of all time, mainly due to #PaybackPress who started printing all the lost classics I wish I’d had when actually studying African-American History and Culture. Still I made up for lost time after uni. This is a brutal classic by #ChesterHimes published by Canongate in 2001. #CottonComesToHarlem. #CoffinEdJohnson #GravediggerJones

fur | Sunday, February 24, 2019

8:14 PM

These are my splendid fox fur mittens that were carbon-neutral and made by the hunters that killed the fox, so a very succinct supply-chain. Few chances to wear them, sadly, but next time I’m back in the Himalayas or some other tundra… #fur #mittens #foxfur #peta