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Me, too. “Well, we put bloody [insert name] on the cover in May, so they need to be in there.”
Haha, indeed. She looks like she’s had enough, by the end. Love her strange personal intensity, so inseparable from her music.
Just 10am but already today's best news: a new album from Aldous Harding, "Train On The Island", is due on May 8. Terrific first single here. youtu.be/vyKaSM1FJ8w?...
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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Hilariously mistaken (& futile) on so many levels. The spirit of Jim Hacker is about…
Never met a piece of Nathan Bowles’ music I didn’t like but “Gum Bump”, brand new from his Setting trio, is irresistible: a lightly fried, improv-based mix of kosmische, dub, ambient techno & gamelan music. (LP out April 24.)
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Bang on the button, clearly. But I shouldn’t imagine it’s going to stop any time soon. Late-stage capitalism is racing gleefully to the cliff edge, dragging us all with it. We’d need an entire overhaul of humankind’s twisted value system first…
This is indeed v lovely & I challenge anyone to watch it without blinking back a tear. If you’re cynically thinking, well, yes, he’s an actor so pushing emotional buttons is his business, then I double down on that challenge. (Also: sweetly, Timmy Chalamet is transfixed.)
State-sanctioned criminality on a colossal scale. It beggars belief. As we face a hike in our water bills from April…
Well, Bobby G’s tribute to Noel Gallagher last night has surely seen off his rep as a rebel rock’n’roller sneering at the status quo - one big slice of obsequious pie, topped with cheese & ham. Kind of weird.
Reading your award acceptance speech off your phone (seemingly for the first time)? Okaaay… #Brits
Just turned on start of Brit Awards, curious to see Olivia D & Wet Leg: dear god, whoever wrote Jack Whitehall’s “jokes” should be put on the rack. Lead balloons galore…
As family histories go, this is quite a story… www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
They were kind of amazing. Next time!
Fantastic set from Mermaid Chunky last night: art pop, Balearic house, surreal recitations & psychedelic rave, all with wit & obvious glee. Plus sax, double-flute action & a lampshade hat the size of Wales. Bravo.
When the hounds are closing in, go to war. Again.
You’d think if you’d lost as dramatically & comprehensively as Matt Goodwin, you’d feel at least slightly chastened & wind your neck in for a bit, but no - the racist effluent is still pouring out of him. He’s rotten to the core.
Absolutely. Chinks of hope, at least.
I was boiling with fury for days afterwards. Knowing full well beforehand how deeply baked into the EA corruption, greed & cynicism are didn’t make it any less shocking a watch.
A natural follow-through from CD revivalism, at a guess but
the figures reported here are surprising, especially re video rental memberships.
Absolutely this. Some people appear to believe Tourette’s is akin to being drunkenly outspoken & that the person is “just saying what they really think”. It is nothing remotely like that.
On cortisol spikes, throwing a cat down the stairs & going back to caveman times: A-grade chat from Bill… open.substack.com/pub/thenewcu...
I now understand that when a sun icon is showing on the Met Office app, it just means the sky will be brighter than its usual Vantablack. For maybe 20 minutes. #thenewlucky
Hugely poignant read here, on the context & resonance of an extraordinary piece of music. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...
Tell me again, property owners, how “tenants have more rights than landlords these days”.
Rapaciousness on a galloping horse & it seems there’s nothing to stop this appalling a-hole. A fine (if enraging) piece of reporting here…
Here to recommend Hayward Gallery’s small (free) show of photographs by Co Kerry’s Samuel Laurence Cunnane, which he prints by hand: direct, seemingly banal but with an odd, calm beauty & amazing light. Flat titles - Blue Bowl, Petrol Station, Cigarettes - add to doc feel. An unexpected delight.
When did he start dressing like Drake? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Well, this doesn’t sound at all like a turbo-charged migraine in the making…
Damp-eyed overwhelm at Cass McCombs’ show last night, a much needed salve for the soul & pretty much perfect. Aside from the fact that they didn’t play for another 90 minutes, that is.
