We made a tribute mix on Mona’s show on WFMU to Dave Ball of Soft Cell and The Grid who passed away on 22 October 2025.
Listen here and read the comments. https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157508
Our radio tribute to Dave Ball of Soft Cell
Co-Creating “Time Inside the Violet” — A New Video for The Soft Pink Truth
Has been most excellent to co-create a new video for The Soft Pink Truth alongside animator Matthew Murray Sullivan – “Time Inside the Violet”, features Drew Daniel (Soft Pink Truth), M.C. Schmidt on piano, and strings arranged and played by Ulaş Kurugüllü, accompanied by Filippo Tramo (French Horn), Elin Andersson (Trumpet), Simon Fransman (Trombone), and Nicklas Dahlin (Saxophone). We made the disruptive mincemeat-and-worms middle section of this video.
SPT’s new album “Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever?”, comes out on the Thrill Jockey label on January 30th. Pre-order the LP/CD/digi from Thrill Jockey Records, Bandcamp and other purveyors of music.
People Like Us performance and conference curation in Newcastle
Star & Shadow Cinema, Newcastle / Afternoon session is free; evening programme £5/3
starandshadow.org.uk
In collaboration with Culture Lab (Newcastle University), wildpop 2025 takes place across Culture Lab and Star & Shadow Cinema. It’s a lot of info so just look at the poster 🙂
7 Nov: After morning sessions at Culture Lab, 2–5pm artist presentations at Star & Shadow feature Daniel Bird, Gavin Butt, Dina Kelberman, and Graham Dolphin. The evening programme follows with performances by Elaine Mitchener & Loré Lixenberg, Dina Kelberman, People Like Us, and YEAH YOU, and DJ Kenosist.
8 Nov: Morning and afternoon conference-style presentations and roundtables at Culture Lab lead into the evening performances by Mark Fell, Rian Treanor, Elvin Brandhi + Tengal, One or Several Wolves (Toi Guy, Mark Wardlaw, Stewart Smith), GUT (Pinnel, Cath Tyler, Mariam Rezaei), John Bowers (GLOW), and Adam Soper (BLACK BILE: Melancholy, Hauntings, and Hope for Change), and DJ Sean C.
Culture Lab daytime sessions (10am–5pm) are free to attend. https://wild-pop.org/
