Jonathan Thornton

@jonathanthornton.bsky.social

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Writer for The Fantasy Hive, Tor dot com, Gingernuts Of Horror. Books reviews editor for Foundation. Entomology technician at LSTM. Lover of cats, books, music, starships, gardening

Mojave 3’s Puzzles Like You album
The Flamin’ Groovies’ Jumpin’ In The Night playing on the record player
Mojave 3’s Ask Me Tomorrow playing on the record player
The Sweet’s Desolation Boulevard playing on the record player
Scheer’s debut album Infliction
Insides’ Euphoria playing on the record player
The Flamin’ Groovies’ Shake Some Action playing on the record player
Badges for The Sweet, Badfinger, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea and Sub Pop records on a plaid shirt
Unrest’s Perfect Teeth playing on the record player
Graffiti of Indiana Jones discovering Shoes
Huggy Bear’s Peel Sessions compilation Basic Strategies For Going Out playing on the record player
Badges for Urge Overkill, The Jam, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Ursula Le Guin and Sub Pop records on a plaid shirt
Unrest’s Perfect Teeth playing on the record player
Sunn O)))’s new self-titled album on vinyl, signed by Stephen and Greg
Me wearing my new Sunn O))) shirt
Sunn O))) live in Liverpool
Badges for Lookfar from Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea, Alice In Chains, Urge Overkill, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, and Sub Pop records on a plaid shirt
Meat Puppets’ Up On The Sun playing on the CD player
Me wearing my glasses and cuddling Gertie
Frogs in my garden pond all snuggled together
Me wearing my new Voivod shirt
Voivod live at Rebellion, Manchester
Midnight live at Rebellion, Manchester
Cryptosis live at Rebellion, Manchester
My piece on the Flamin’ Groovies’ Shake Some Action in this month’s issue of Shindig!
The Wondermints’ debut album playing on the cd player
A blank grid showing the x axis as Prog to Post Punk and the y axis as Power Pop to Extreme Metal, upon which all Jonathan Aesthetics music may be plotted
Milk ‘N’ Cookies tapes with badge
Badges for Shoes, His Name Is Alice, Dell Abyss, Sub Pop records and Ursula Le Guin’s Lookfar from Earthsea on a plaid shirt
William Reid of the Mary Chain pointing out that Van Halen suck
Train table with coffee cup, cassette tape and kindle
A tiny frog on a blade of grass
Shoes badge!
Badges for Lookfar from Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Super Furry Animals, Fountains Of Wayne and Sub Pop records on a plaid shirt
His Name Is Alive’s Mouth By Mouth playing on the record player
His Name Is Alive’s Home Is In Your Head playing on the record player
His Name Is Alive’s Livonia playing on the record player
Me wearing my new Sugar shirt
Sugar live at New Century, Manchester
Vinyl reissues of the first three His Name Is Alive albums
XTC’s Skylarking on tape for a sunny day
Morphine‘s Cure For Pain playing on the record player
Jellyfish’s Bellybutton on vinyl!
Jellyfish’s Bellybutton playing on the record player
Set of four Super Furry Animals badges
Super Furry Animals live at Manchester O2 Apollo
Badges for Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea, XTC, Badfinger, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, and Sub Pop records on a plaid shirt
Badges for Dell Abyss, XTC, Milk ‘N’ Cookies, Lookfar from Le Guin’s Earthsea, and Sub Pop records on a plaid shirt
Me wearing my new Cowboy Junkies tshirt
Cowboy Junkies live at New Century, Manchester
XTC’s Black Sea playing on the record player
Soul Jazz Records Power Pop playing on the record player
The Lemon Twigs’ Go To School playing on the record player
Loop’s Fade Out on vinyl
XTC badge
Listening to XTC’s Nonsuch on my cassette player
Frog in a froggy pond
ExTC live at the Cavern
Melanie Sami and Kate Box in Deadloch