Alright there!
I just wanted to drop you all a line about a few Spoook related bits and pieces!
Some of you might have got an email overnight saying your subscription to Spoook had ended. I know this because I woke up to a bunch of emails from you saying, ‘waaah, my subscription to Spoook has ended!’. Anyway, it hasn’t, I was just mucking about with some settings on Substack last night. I was a bit drunk. I’d been to my OCD support group. Probably a bit emotionally frazzled too. I think I was listening to Yo La Tengo. I likely did something wrong. What I didn’t expect is for everyone to get an email saying they’d been unsubscribed!
Just ignore that basically. Nothing to see here. What were we talking about? No idea.
Something else I did do was import every episode of The James McMahon Music Podcast to date, into the Spoook Substack. That’s well over 60 episodes! You can hear me talking about mental illness with Darren Hayes! Professional wrestling with Bob Mould! The glory of punk fucking rock with Jon Spencer! How we should probably stop cutting down the rainforest with Gojira! UFOs with Tom DeLonge! Mogwai! Deacon Blue! Steps! Quicksand! Sonic Youth! Metronomy! Lots and lots of people! For the time being the podcast is still available, as they say, wherever you get your podcasts, so feel free to keep listening to it on Apple and Spotify by all means (and I do so love getting ratings and reviews), but I’m working on the mechanic which means that I can provide bonus episodes for paid subscribers. Stick with me!
And on that note… I also wanted to say/gloat, that this Substack now has well over 2,000 subscribers. Blimey! This means that every Wednesday, the Here is the music I am listening to this week newsletter gets read by thousands of music fans across the globe. The general thinking behind HITMIALTT - which you all keep telling me you love and thanks for doing so! - is that there is a lot of music, not a lot of time to listen to all of it, so why not let me tell you what’s really good and what you might enjoy (and as ever, if there’s something you think I should know about, do email me and let me know at spoookmagazine@gmail.com, or – and I much prefer this – leave it in a comment on a post. Why not do that below?)
As ever, taking out a paid subscription to Spoook helps me stay alive and funds exciting Spoook projects. You can do this for less than £5 a month or £50 for a full year. I’m so grateful to everyone who does this. Thankyou. Thankyou. Thankyou.
I hope everyone has a lovely weekend – I’m going to see Doncaster Rovers play AFC Wimbledon and you should know that I’m having one of Wimbledon’s incredible pies. I’ll probably go see Nope too. I’ll speak to you all on Wednesday!
James
ps - Tell me what music you are enjoying below!