“FAO” @secondmentions.bsky.social “the voracious rust-coloured predators”
“FAO” @secondmentions.bsky.social “the voracious rust-coloured predators”
The Sophs and Tyler Ballgame: double-bill of the year.
I love the Hinds lads. This is a very good cover (and highlight of their live show).
“How to spot a homo” 😐
Jesus Fucking Christ. This makes me want to carpet bomb all music out of existence. www.nme.com/news/music/v...
Went to see Suede AND Def Leppard yesterday. All the major food groups covered.
Who was running this “email address”? Was it Jimmy Hill? www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
Very readable. (Out at the end of October.)
I see Saint Etienne won't be making their album again. (Don't write in, I'm just "having a LOLLE".)
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I pray to God this was his attempt to bring Spinal Tap’s proposed musical (Saucy Jack) to life. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Such a shock. I never knew she held compatible views with Reform. 😐
SELF-PROMOTION POST: trying to make sense of Morrissey’s claim he’s selling half of his “share” of The Smiths (including malfunctioning Gmail address). www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
SELF-PROMOTION POST: trying to make sense of Morrissey’s claim he’s selling half of his “share” of The Smiths (including malfunctioning Gmail address). www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
Happy birthday to “The Lads”.
😐
The Sophs being exceptional at their pop concert. (Best new band I’ve seen in years.)
The Hives being exceptional at their pop concert.
Noel looks like he ate some wild blackberries a fox pissed on.
Quite readable.
Pretty readable.
Pretty readable.
SELF-PROMOTION POST: I had a chat with my great showbiz pal James Hype. For @bigissue.com
SUEDEMAZING. (From last night, obviously.)
I’ll call you that name from now on.
Highly watchable.
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Lads. (In Paternoster Square.)
Pretty readable. (Very good on the rocket ride of instant fame and the cold unfurling of anonymity. Tam Paton, Derek Longmuir and “all that stuff” is pretty much completely swerved bar a few elliptical references.)
Pretty readable.
More evidence to support my argument that everyone who a) owns or b) uses these bikes should be in prison.
I presume so given loads of chippies were originally Italian.
In Belfast, a cone of ice cream is called a “poke” (really). Loads of Italian-run ice cream parlours there over the years. This has to be the etymology of the term.
Highly watchable.
I’ve written about TV’s best and worst monarchs
Highly readable.
Pretty readable. (Only alluded to in the conclusion, but it really could have benefitted from a chapter on gay fans (male and female) and a chapter on BTS (i.e. a non-Western act + “the internet” as a fan space). Oh well.)
Yes, poor old bullied Gerry Adams. Will no one think of the feelings of this visionary with his untainted integrity? What’s Gerry Adams ever done to anyone?
Very lookatable X 2.
Highly readable. (“h/t” @cathybrown746.bsky.social)
Wow.
Pretty readable.
Hinds being exceptional at their pop concert.
SELF-PROMOTION POST. I had a chat with Peter Guralnick about his new book on Tom Parker and why public perception of the “Colonel” has been wrong for decades. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...
SELF-PROMOTION POST. I had a chat with Peter Guralnick about his new book on Tom Parker and why public perception of the “Colonel” has been wrong for decades. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...
Marginally readable.
They look like they smell of dry rot.
Given the extremely unfortunate news 😐 that this podcast seems to be "delayed", you can read the FULL and DEFINITIVE (hem hem) story of what happened with Terra Firma and EMI here. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Quite readable.
Posted without comment. From Popbitch (1) and Podnews (2).
It seems truly mysterious.
Posted without comment. From Popbitch (1) and Podnews (2).
Very readable.
I wonder if they discuss workplace bullying in regard to this “culture of care”. 🧐
Very readable.
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He is the “boost” The Viridescent Eyot needs at this time.
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Very readable.
Just write: “A return to form. Good rhythm. Nice tunes. Well done, everyone (invoice enclosed).”
Pretty readable.
You “never see them in the same room”.
Very readable.
Very readable. (Out in late October.)
An all timer from the Times yesterday, Winnie-the-Pooh as ‘the forgetful frequenter of the Hundred Acre Wood’ 🐻 🍯 👏
See also: “He thinks that I’m a CABBAGE / ‘cos I HATE University Challenge…”
"the elongated limbless reptiles" www.bbc.com/news/article...
Very readable.
Oh, Viz.
The annual retelling of the Big Eddie + Lambeg story.
Happy 12th July, everyone.
Happy 12th July, everyone.
youtu.be/7H94_cTbFgA?...
Great piece on a great song. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
KINGOVDA
The TRUE “legendary British act” comeback concert last night.
Very readable. (Out in about a month.)
EGG SNAKE 4 LYFE.
Worst breakfast ever.
Thank you!
Happy Canada Day. Here’s the 51st State’s greatest export. 🇨🇦
SELF-PROMOTION POST: the charts are constipated, but maybe the solution will come from Down Under (ahem). www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Very readable.
But it’s an “honour” for them to play. I guess I can tell HMRC that it’s an “honour” for them to charge me 10% of what my tax bill actually is. I can ask the BBC to provide multi-platform blanket coverage of me doing my bank transfer to HMRC.
Covermounted Marlboro Lights with next month’s issue.
Isn’t that just “the charts”? Etc.
A knife and fork? Calm down, Downton Abbey.
Very concerned about “excess gravy sogginess” on that bap/cob/roll.
Given “the absolute state of the charts” (especially the album chart), Australia has come up with an interesting solution – exclude anything released more than two years ago from the main chart and have a separate chart for “old shit”. www.aria.com.au/charts/news/...
SELF-PROMOTION POST: why record labels (and soon streaming services) need to stop “rinsing” their best customers. For @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
MEMBERSHIP IS CLOSED. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Pretty readable.
The oversized gnashers on both of them suggests a gene puddle rather than a gene pool.
Idea for an all-female Irish language rap trio into paramilitary chic: Niamhcap.
Very readable.
I guess the only solution is to automatically arrest anyone on a Lime bike because a) they don’t know how to cycle/follow the Highway Code or b) they are just about to steal someone’s phone. 🤷🏻♂️
Nice to see the revival of this “hilarious take” on “Glastonbu”. Which I think I first read in NME 30 years ago.
