fergalkinney.bsky.social
Culture Editor of Tribune / also writes at New Statesman, The Guardian, The Quietus, The Face
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Yeah and if the police were pursuing a small fine for that I wouldn’t be bothered, but what concerns me is the rush to criminalise Mo Chara at the level of terrorist, which is what is happening and I think that really needs to be resisted.
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yeah as I said people don’t have to like it - I think it’s for debate whether that is the same as posing with a far right text, I have mixed views on that but sympathise with where you’re coming from - but think the certainty that they should therefore face real legal consequences is just troubling?
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you do not have to personally adore the flavour of the Irish language hip-hop act - I’m not bothered either - to recognise that it’s part of a concerning, deeply Labour-in-government rush to something that includes the Crime and Policing Bill and the Home Office’s escalation against Palestine Action
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ahh thanks Jude! Honoured to be an excellent gent
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Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life from 2010 is underrated. Loads of villain contenders but just going to plump for Creation Stories.
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cheers Nige!
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Thanks Gabriel!
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no he was quite “I’ve given you rather a lot there” which is fair. I think Shifty is sincerely better for not having it though I’m relieved that it’s coming back more generally.
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this got edited out of it but an interesting semi exclusive is that his narration will be back in the next film, and the next film seems to involve primarily footage relating to Africa
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your post about the weirdly cheeky Google pic of him last week was basically just after id done this and really cracked me up
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thanks!
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yeah that’s very imprecisely worded from me and I agree with your objection, I was pointing more towards the potential in Bandcamp’s model rather than how operates presently, but it’s on me to make that more clear, so noted
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miserable, I hate those chunky stubby Camden Hells glasses he’s drinking out of in the left pic too.
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ascending to the highest office in the country to drink like you’re being ripped off at the BFI
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time to pitch you a Strange World Of…feature on exactly this
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The list of bands Sir Bob has had to leave his mansion to go and watch because one of his children is involved with one of the line-up, would actually make for an interesting compilation on Sacred Bones.
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you were mere rows behind me it would seem! I don’t think Earth was the right venue for them acoustically at all
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quite like the painting but has something of the Bad Noel Gallagher Tattoo about it
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Two pop geniuses gone in two days; more than that, contemporaries with parallels in how they worked and how they responded to the adulation their talent brought them. Fuck.
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cheers! I’d love to read that unpublished book chapter though if you ever do want to share it
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Yeah I read this! And then tried to forget about it so I wouldn’t steal any of your points, but it’s a very good piece
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I pitched something where I would watch all of Live 8 in one go in 2025, making up for the fact I wasn’t allowed to watch it at the time because I was on a family camping holiday, but alas no takers! Like you say really mad lineup
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thanks! Yeah and I do get that, if I was reading a Prince book I certainly would expect the 1980s bits to take up more room than the 2000s bits, but just seemed odd. Mucky Fingers is good, that’s the only track that’s been as good as I remembered it from being 13.
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yeah deffo, very nicely put
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Thanks! Out of curiosity and because always I enjoy reading your posts on music, what sort of stuff do you tend to think about the record? No rush tho!
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shout out to @edentizard.bsky.social in this too, useful Steve McQueen discussions and pointed me to the Arthur Russell link which is insane imo
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thanks Cal! I imagine you heard about them at a lot greater length than this article in yr old gaff too haha
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thanks so much Claire! I have calendar alarms set for when it’s faintly appropriate to pitch a Rudebox anniversary piece, and then I can retire.
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Heathen Chemistry is the worst one IMO
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that’s totally fair, and which is why it’s surprising that the biographers feel the need to be more equivocal about Oasis than your actual real life Noel
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thanks Jim!
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tbf that was fully @jahduran.bsky.social
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thank you that’s very kind!
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Thank you! Give me a bag of cans, a Word doc and lock the door, how hard could it really be.