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But yeah, please spend your time throwing the rulebook at a fucking punk band

That Wire piece on "radiophonic art" reads like a bot wrote it. Wasn't Carmody available?

"Jacqui Smith has revealed she felt 'frozen rather than angry' when told her husband had entered a parliamentary expenses claim for pornographic film" - that's not good enough.

Jacqui Smith saying the BBC's apology for Bob Vinyls is "not enough" OH THE FUCKING IRONY

I would have just put Olivia R on the cover this morning and told the middle-aged centrist dads to sod off if they didn't like it but that's why I'm not the editor of a national newspaper.

Becoming increasingly fond of A&tS.

One thing about the coverage of last night’s - very ace - Olivia Rodrigo gig is a noticeable focus on the fact that teenage girls were in the front row singing along to - shock, horror! - slightly sweary lyrics, which wouldn’t be mentioned if it was teenage boys doing similar.

It's the way things are heading. About time too.

My model estimates a 4.78 year duration for the Jeff Bezos/Lauren Sanchez marriage. And I tell you the best burritos you can get with same day delivery from Amazon Prime. All that and more in the next Silver Bulletin.

Ezra Collective got it exactly right. Olivia Rodrigo - fine, funny and poignant rock & roll. There's a Then Play Long-type story to be written about her but we aren't the ones to write it. But the little girls, they do understand, fully and thoroughly. Which is what pop is all about #Glastonbury

What I said about Rod Stewart at the end of 2012 and I see no need to take back one word of it: nobilliards.blogspot.com/2012/12/rod-...

Because Rod Stewart is a cunt here is my young dog having a swim earlier.

Rod Stewart, man. Sam Cooke has been dead for about 60 years and he’s been murdered all over again

Watching Rod Stewart is like being awake during surgery

Not hanging about, is he? Get the p3d3r@stic stuff out straightaway.

Say what you will about Gl@st0, but it's cleaned out the stuffy air around here. Lots of muting, unfollowing and blocking. It's quite liberating, really.

This week’s listening.

Memo to posters: comparing contemporary pop stars with forgotten indie acts from a generation ago isn't daring or clever; it just proves that you've adhered yourself to an obscure past while the rest of the world has moved on.

Ah yes, Lynn Barber, who voted Tory in 1992 and was responsible for this slice of I'm-all-right-Jack (Peter) garbage in 2004: www.theguardian.com/world/2004/d...

As k-punk put it: "Demanding perfection before you are prepared to commit is Prog Tech SF. Starting to build a way out of hell HERE, NOW is kyperpunk." All no politics/life is beautiful types should watch the last three minutes of Cabaret, several dozen times over.

Eavis wouldn't be saying this if the BBC didn't have a huge finger in Glasto's purse. The BBC needs to be drained. From the General Strike onward, this country would unquestionably have been better off over the last century if it hadn't existed.

Think the rest of Glasto should be cancelled, whether Pulp turned up or not. It does make one wonder whether Mr Healy was told to say what he said about this subject on Friday. "Love and friendship" aren't abstracts. They have to be fought for, again and again, as history repeatedly tells us.

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I mean, he's not going to do "Ole Ola," is he, so what's the point?

You do realise he's going to wrongfoot everyone tonight and just do Great American Songbook stuff with an orchestra, don't you?

TOTP was essentially light entertainment for All The Family with only occasional irruptions of newness. Later? That's been shoved to the Sunday night graveyard slot and it's like being at a school assembly where the headmistress is Mrs Mills.

I do applaud the BBC for at least putting RAYE and Charli XCX on relatively peak-time Saturday evening BBC1. Whether you like it or not, we've come quite a distance from the days of Val Doonican and Cilla Black.

Also, Wes Streeting, do the job we're fucking paying you to do and manage the country's health.

Clearly nobody saw the two invisible posts I made about this matter yesterday.

It's a duo, two guys, and you don't get it. Bye!

Just been listening to the splendid new Lorde album. It's clear she knows what time it is.

Those who don't learn from history chapter infinite.

Old Karl OTM, a century and a half ago.

Charli xcx is now the same age Jarvis Cocker was when Different Class came out. She's the present and the future. To hell with the past. This is now.

Whacked on the BBC Glasto coverage to see what they were showing instead of Kneecap and caught Amy of Amyl & the Sniffers giving a pro Palestine speech... Beeb editors playing whack-a-mole