When you have a 97% consensus against your preferred outcome, I don't think the answer is "consult harder" www.ft.com/content/e759...
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When you have a 97% consensus against your preferred outcome, I don't think the answer is "consult harder" www.ft.com/content/e759...
SONGS OF TRANSCENDENCE HISTORIES OF BECOMING A choral celebration of trans lives with music from The Fourth Choir and storytelling from Robyn Holdaway & Mary Malone Sat 14 March 7pm Milton Court Tickets from £15 barbican
This looks like a lovely attempt to respond to current ugliness, with timeless gorgeousness. Please book and share.
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
Records For Palestine announce vinyl raffle in support of Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). Over 200 artists and labels have contributed, including Fontaines D.C, Kneecap, Nilüfer Yanya, and more.
And per this report yesterday, it was deliberate:
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...
Also for Best Fit, I met with Norwegian artist Juni Habel at the National library in Oslo to chat about her new album Evergreen in Your Mind, coming April 10th
I also had the huge joy of chatting favourite songs with extremely lovely Icelandic musician and composer Hildur Guðnadóttir ahead of her @barbican.bsky.social performance on March 21st.
I had the lovely task recently of writing a bio for Isak Danielson and his gorgeous new single, Always You.
“It reminds me of one of those romantic movies where two people who’ve broken up do come back around to find each other in the end, like The Notebook or One Day,” he says, “only nobody dies.”
Shabaka guides @jayw1023.bsky.social through the creative pillars behind Of The Earth, his latest solo album and first on which he fully spreads his wings as a producer
A summer evening at the Southbank Centre; a couple sit on steps in the shadow of the Royal Festival Hall; a man looks over a wall to the level below. The golden sunlight catches the concrete facade of the Queen Elizabeth Hall. People can be seen climbing the yellow steps to the roof garden, the water of the terrace fountain is forming a spray in the sunshine.
I’ve worked at the Southbank Centre for over 8 years now.
In that time I’ve become desensitised to mad conversations that wouldn’t happen anywhere else. But in my first few years I noted down ‘overhead’ snippets that would be ridiculous in any other setting.
I’ve just found those notes. Strap in.
A pox upon them!
Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
"This is the only lullaby my dad ever sang to me that's not about a guy getting drunk and killing his girlfriend" Watch Throwing Muses' Kristin Hersh play "The Cuckoo" for Best Fit's secret sessions at @endoftheroadfestival.com.
I still get the odd ‘it’s alright for you living in a lefty paradise’ comment from British friends, so I thought I’d draw attention to the current Swedish policy of deporting an unknown number of children born here even when parents have right to remain.
www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/born...
Forza!
No Lube So Rude out on Friday from the one and only Peaches. If this was a review, I'd give the record 8 out of 10 fruits, but it's not so please enjoy us just chatting instead www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/int...
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
🥲 Glenn and Elizabeth were absolute sweethearts to talk to. Laughter in Summer out this Friday via @transgressive.bsky.social
Thanks Nadine! So glad you enjoyed it 🫶🏼
100 more names added to @endoftheroadfestival.com lineup - Super Furry Animals, Kurt Vile, Brakes, Lucinda Williams, and more (but the mystery headliner is still a mystery). Check out the full list: buff.ly/ah2rcDz
"Turkish makam, the compositional 'building blocks' developed over centuries by classical and folk musicians during the Ottoman Empire, has always been at odds with Western music theory. [It's] finally getting its due in the electronic music world …"
Bringing Turkish Makam to Electronic Music:
With her recent album Crown of Roses up for a Grammy this weekend and her searing debut turning 30 this spring, Patty Griffin looks back with @neverdoneing.bsky.social on five of the songs she’s most proud of
Swedish art-pop rebel Jenny Wilson is celebrating two decades of her solo career with a new digital-only compilation, DREAM vs. DREAM, compiling her personal favourites
Always a joy to chat to this queen. Patty for President. And a third Grammy win this weekend.
Swedish singer/songwriter Amanda Bergman tells @neverdoneing.bsky.social how a search for answers after a terrible accident brought her to a place of realignment, as heard on her new album embraced for a second as we die
I spoke to musician, farmer and philosophical dreamer Amanda Bergman last week and the interview’s out today, along with her fantastic new album ‘embraced for a second as we die’ 🌺
95% of Greenlanders want to remain part of Denmark, apparently.
share.google/ehyJt4RsoxCu...
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
Such an impressive debut. I suspect it will be right up your street. Enjoy!
The Annahstasia record should be here too. So good!
Making sure everyone knows that Kate Bush's 1979 Christmas special is available to stream on YouTube and it's VERY worth your time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6BP...