I loved Oasis from the second I heard 'Supersonic'. Even though I was in my 30s already, I was hooked like a teenager. We bought everything and saw them over and over - Earls Court, Wembley, even taking our kids to see them in Cardiff when they were small, just so they could say they were there.
Caroline Collett Writer
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tyke, punk, writer, reader, watcher www.carolinecollettwriter.com https://www.instagram.com/caroline_r_collett/
#FourPhotosOneMonth September 2026 1. Plastic dog and chairs, Bridport Vintage Market 2. Lodden Lily sculptures, Festival Place, Basingstoke 3. Children's fishing nets, Lyme Regis 4. Crumbling paintwork, Bridport
In other news, I just wrote a piece about the lack of robust resistance to the far right. If you’re looking for neutrality, jog on ✊ www.wordupscot.co.uk/2026/09/cour...
Dreamt there was a massive discourse about some scholar having discovered that Tolkien had a secret second identity as J Hogjet Hotrod writing dragon porn & I don’t know what’s going on with my subconscious but I think we can conclude it’s fairly internet poisoned
Just looking through Cornwall photos taken over many years and finding lots of accidental pairings. Thought of you @tusenoch.bsky.social - I know it's one of your favourite things!
Friday tune All or Nothing - Manic Street Preachers One of my all-time favourite songs covered by one of my all-time favourite voices. What's not to love?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkoFqjVK9Rg
All or Nothing (Live at the BBC)
YouTube video by Manic Street Preachers - Topic
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Delighted to make my @detailmag.bsky.social debut in the just released Autumn issue with a piece on the cultural significance of 1960s BBC TV programme Jazz 625. A real thrill to see my words combined with the always excellent Detail design. You can order a copy here: www.detailmaguk.com
Really nice interview. Very much looking forward to going to the Ossie & Celia exhibition. observer.co.uk/style/fashio...
‘I always told Hockney the truth’: the loves and life of ...
Celia Birtwell is one of Britain’s most influential fashion and textile designers. She was also a muse to David Hockney, sitting for the artist hundreds of times. For the first time since his death, s...
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Stewart Lee on the Piddington secession. Protect our women and girls! www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Stewart Lee: ‘Danny Tommo’ and his men of fighting age seek their Passport to Piddington
The hamlet that voted to secede from the UK over asylum seekers is about to be invaded by the very worst Britons this country has to offer
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I like to smuggle a tiny piece of luggage onto the carousel at Yo! Sushi.
50 yrs ago in 1976, Graham Parker bought out two amazing albums & is now doing a small celebratory tour. Nearly 50 yrs too since my first ever gig in March '77 - to see Graham Parker! So I went along again this week. Big thanks to @michaeldaly64.bsky.social for alerting me to the tour!
Lucy Ogden, ceramic artist living and working in Shoreham by Sea on the south coast of the UK #WomensArt (via Instagram)
You’re Getting In My Hair, created c.1968 by Mavis Oultram, in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital, Surrey, where she was compelled to live. This is one of a small number of surviving works, which all feature the motif of eyes. No biographical information is currently known to us
I’m really not sure I can bear to read about a bloke who ‘manifested his way to abundance’….
Some great gallery time in London last week, starting with The Photographers' Gallery and Japanese Women Photographers, including big personal fave Miyako Ishiuchi...
Catching up with last weekend’s newspaper supplements still and loved this from Eric Idle, part of his eulogy at George Harrison’s funeral: ‘Idle addressed mourners by thanking Marlboro “without whom you wouldn’t be here this morning”.’
Friday tune Paul Heaton - Can't Get Next To You Have discovered that the Jenius album is as good as they say. Not a dud track in sight and some fantastic lyrics - very Elvis Costello, Get Happy-era. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKzO...
Can’t Get Next To You
YouTube video by Paul Heaton - Topic
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Danny Wagner And The Kindred Soul - Harlem Shuffle [US, Northern Soul] (1968) https://redd.it/608x89 https://youtu.be/j5N0crgkHcE
Danny Wagner And The Kindred Soul - Harlem Shuffle [US, Northern Soul] (1968)
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Photographer David Hurn. American washing line. Children's doll wash day. Tempe, Arizona, USA. 1992.
Tanya Donelly guides Emily Mackay through 13 favourite albums, from Leonard Cohen to The Cocteau Twins, Kate Bush to Iggy Pop, The Bunnymen, Mary Margaret O'Hara and more #TanyaDonelly’s Favourite Albums #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/55wd5Rz