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This is beautiful in both is specificity and universality

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Superb The Dame related typo in today’s Guardian. Momentarily confused as to why the Little Things hitmaker - or indeed a minor radio personality - caused such fawning adoration in Norman Cook.

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RIP Bill Fay. Reputation assured with those first two albums of course, but 40 years later he returned and did something heartbreakingly beautiful and tender with this song by Wilco youtu.be/TNYm9Ciog2s?...

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The binary ‘Sad Beck’ or ‘Party Beck’ options clearly too reductive, with other choices tabled: Squelchy Synth-Pop… Noise Rap… Mad Sweary Losing It Mutherfuker…Chaos… Horny… & Jeff… But Matt nails it

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Curious to know. Which model is everyone’s favourite Beck? Sad Beck or Party Beck?

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“Wait. Let me see if I've got this straight. All the lust….coursing through this lodge tonight. All the hormones virtually ricocheting off the walls, and no one.……was chasing ME?” ‘The Ski Lodge’. One of *the* great sitcom episodes

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"And you totally know how to paint a baby?" Artist: Yup "You're sure?" Artist: Don't worry about it "You know what a baby looks like?" Artist: Yes "It's just you always paint babies like they're 40yr old blokes called Colin" Artist: Not this time

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

'Freaks Out' my latest is now available in paperback. Read it and stay for the Freaks ( unicorn hat not included).

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Hear, hear Anneliese. With specific reference to musicians but also pertinent to publishing and all of the creative industries in the UK. The Labour party have the opportunity to stand up to Big Tech, not go soft on copyright protection whilst glad eyeing the White House. Do the right thing.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Listening to Neil Young’s Harvest for the first time with the terrible realisation that I am now the Old Man

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Splendid new art from @darrenhayman.bsky.social darrenhaymanart.com

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Saw the Led Zeppelin film last night. It’s actually made me like Led Zeppelin a lot less. I’m not sure that was the intention

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

One of the greatest songs of all time. Happy 50th to Slade’s masterpiece

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This 20th anniversary reissue of Craig Armstrong’s ‘As If To Nothing’ is currently very cheap across the board. It includes Evan Dando on one of the saddest songs I know youtu.be/Da7ipt2xQn0?...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Material Girl Like a Prayer Beautiful Stranger Live to Tell Take a Bow

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Lovely idea from a great writer. Proud to publish Nige’s music based output, quietly jealous I didn’t get to do this one

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Five years ago today the UK left the European Union, the WHO declared Covid a global health emergency and me and @sophyhenn.bsky.social went on our first (chaperoned) non-date date. So, you know, one out of three….

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

What a life. RIP

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Funny how it’s always the people least qualified to discuss working in an office who shout the loudest about going back to work in an office 5 days a week. Everyone else knows how much more productive hybrid actually is

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NEW @musicmaps.bsky.social Yvonne Innes tells the story of her husband NEIL INNES of the Bonzos, Rutles & erstwhile Python. Dip My Brain In Joy: A Life with Neil Innes rocknrollbookclub.co.uk/musicmaps/

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Hard agree. Naturally.

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