Hello here is my Observer audio review, featuring DRAMA, including Lena Headey’s Intimacy, The Archers and a sci-fi/magic autism show hereeeee observer.co.uk/culture/audi...

This is a brilliant chat between Bobby Gillespie and @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social. Well worth an hour of any #PrimalScream fan’s time.

Talk ’90s To Me@talk90stome.bsky.social · last wk.

🙂 NEW EPISODE 🙂 Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie talks to @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social about the highs, lows, euphoria and dark side of smashing together rave and rock’n’roll in the ’90s 🎸 Get loaded and have a good time 👉 linktr.ee/talk90stome

LONDON I'll be talking about my new book and discussing interview encounters, strategies, highlights, and disasters with interviewing royalty Miranda Sawyer and LBC's James O'Brien... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dave-hasla... @mrjamesob.bsky.social @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social

DAVE HASLAM CREATIVE JOURNEYS

Dave Haslam presents conversations with creative trailblazers. With guests James O’Brien and Miranda Sawyer

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This ep is a portal into a wonderful parallel world that was going on under our noses in the 90s but we didn’t clock it

Talk ’90s To Me@talk90stome.bsky.social · 2w ago

🛹 NEW EPISODE 🛹 Tony Hawk and how skate culture took over the ’90s, changing music, street fashion and all youth culture. Features RaD Magazine, Thrasher, Slam City Skates and much more 🛹 @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social talks to skate journo Neil Macdonald 🛹 Listen linktr.ee/talk90stome

Hey I’m King Dirk for the week! Thanks @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social !

Talk ’90s To Me@talk90stome.bsky.social · 3w ago

🎸 GODFATHER OF BRITPOP 🎸 Record producer Stephen Street was THE go-to guy for the ’90s guitar sound. He talks Blur, Cranberries, Morrissey, why Graham Coxon was skateboard-dependent and more with @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social…  🥁 Listen up – linktr.ee/talk90stome

🎸 GODFATHER OF BRITPOP 🎸 Record producer Stephen Street was THE go-to guy for the ’90s guitar sound. He talks Blur, Cranberries, Morrissey, why Graham Coxon was skateboard-dependent and more with @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social…  🥁 Listen up – linktr.ee/talk90stome

Had SO much fun on today's @bunkerpod.bsky.social, talking to @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social and @jacobjarvis.bsky.social about Liz Jones, sex cruises and whether to eat poniez

Observant, razor-sharp, and totally uncynical, there’s a reason why Clueless has endured. Often referred to as the best teen film ever, @helenlohara.bsky.social ara.bsky.social joins @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social to discuss how Clueless infiltrated every part of our culture. ➡️ linktr.ee/talk90stome

Big Breakfast presenter, tabloid icon and 50% of THE rock power couple, Paula Yates was one of the most fascinating figures of the 1990s. @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social is joined by Guardian columnist Polly Hudson to explore the woman who captivated Britain and her legacy. ➡️ linktr.ee/talk90stome

Dropping this truth in the third para of your Sid Caesar feature. Hats off, John Lahr.

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 2mo ago

Also in this issue: Andrew O’Hagan on Marilyn Monroe Zain Samir on the war in Lebanon J.S. Tennant on Cuba John Lahr on Sid Caesar Dinah Birch on Beryl Bainbridge Ruby Hamilton on screwball comedies Daisy Hay on the masquerade ...

🎸 If you haven’t yet heard our celebration of SELECT, the music mag that kickstarted Britpop… why not? 🎪 Listen up for Nirvana, Primal Scream meet Kylie, naked hippies at Glastonbury and more with @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social and her old boss @nndroid.bsky.social 📳 Connection: linktr.ee/talk90stome

Our monthly review of the columns is back! 🥳🥳🥳 @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social and @jonnelledge.bsky.social join @jacobjarvis.bsky.social to discuss terrible Telegraph takes, Liz Jones, spoilt pigs and more ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

We were so excited to release our episode celebrating Buffy The Vampire Slayer with the brilliant Brendan Murphy of buffyrevamped.co.uk. Then we got the sad news that Anthony Head had passed away. So now it’s our tribute to Rupert Giles. RIP xxx 📲 Listen linktr.ee/talk90stome

The music biz's golden age of excess, extravagance and enormous expense accounts came in the ’90s and John Niven was in the front row as an A&R man at the era-defining London Records. What was it like? @nivenj1.bsky.social joins @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social to discuss it all. ➡️ linktr.ee/talk90stome

Paul Verhoeven’s camp, deranged “erotic drama” Showgirls was a $45 million Hollywood gamble that became one of the biggest box office flops of the decade. Comedian Chantal Feduchin-Pate joins @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social to ask: was Showgirls really the worst film of the 90s? ➡️ linktr.ee/talk90stome

Oh m8. This was so exciting for me at the time. Kingmaker on Raw Soup in 93 premiering their new song. This was a really fun show presented by @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social and Paul Tonkinson - sort of like The Word, but much less sticky and gross. youtu.be/R-LBraWJ8-8?...

Kingmaker - Queen Jane (Raw Soup 29/4/93)

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John Robins was a child at the start of the ’90s and 18 by the end. He talks to @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social about his Freddie Mercury obsession, controversial non-uniform day outfits and how his music taste evolved to the likes of Mogwai and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. ➡️ linktr.ee/talk90stome

Stagflation

Don’t want to be mean, but if the choice for PM is Keir Starmer, Ed Miliband or Wes Streeting a) there’s something wrong with the Labour Party b) no women AGAIN and c) noone normal will vote for Streeting in a million trillion years honestly wind yer neck in

Nigel Farage’s partner, a former waitress not known to have any private money, bought a £1 million house for cash shortly after he secretly received £5 million from a Thailand-based cryptocurrency billionaire - the same house that he claimed, months previously, that he was about to pay for himself.

Why does the UK keep inventing these impenetrable and arcane processes for selecting a leader when "Bake Off" already exists.

🆕 Elizabeth Wurtzel’s memoir of depression, medication and alienation Prozac Nation divided opinion like few books ever have. How did it become the book of a generation? @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social is joined by @sian-superman.bsky.social to discuss its lasting impact. ➡️ linktr.ee/talk90stome

Thinking about our celestial evening with Melissa Auf der Maur & @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social last month discussing Melissa's awe-inspiring new memoir Even the Good Girls Will Cry. Again, the emotion in the room was electrifying, & it was a privilege to be part of such a unique evening.

Me talking alcopops with @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social. Ridiculously good fun. I had to give an after-dinner speech after tasting these. That went well.

Talk ’90s To Me@talk90stome.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🍋🍓🍒 Bright, sugary and brewed to go down far too easily, alcopops arrived in the ’90s with a bang. @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social is joined by drinks writer @petebrownbeer.bsky.social to revisit the sticky-sweet rise of Hooch, Bacardi Breezers and Blue WKDs ➡️ linktr.ee/talk90stome

It’s 1996, three schoolkids from Downpatrick get permission from their headteacher to go on tour with Elastica… and the rest is history. Ash Frontman Tim Wheeler joins @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social to revisit the madness and their complicated place within Britpop. LISTEN HERE ➡️ linktr.ee/talk90stome

Truthing

The Fence@thefence.bsky.social · 4mo ago

'It was my daughter who’d helped me choose my photos for the dating app, not that I let her see when it started trying to match me up with men who, like her, probably lived with their parents.' @heawood.bsky.social recalls a memorable encounter. the-fence.com/how-do-you-k...

🚨 NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! 🚨 The undisputed king of the '90s Jungle & Drum'n'bass scene — Goldie — joins @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social to look back on the craft and chaos of '90s D&B and its transition to the mainstream. 🔊 LISTEN HERE: linktr.ee/talk90stome

I really like Luella Bartley's art (and her clothes back in the day) and I love Tanya Gold's writing and this is a very moving interview for @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

Luella Bartley: ‘I’ve been very lucky – and very unlucky’

When her son died at 18, Luella Bartley’s world collapsed. Here, the designer opens up about grief, 90s hedonism and the power of art

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oh hello!

Sean Carroll@seanedmund.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If you're looking for some early evening reading, @joemuggs.bsky.social's brilliant KLF piece has been unlocked from behind the Disco Pogo paywall for a little while.

This is a v g and interesting interview with Preston from The Ordinary Boys (and Big Brother and Buzzcocks etc etc etc) www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

‘Fame quickly became a nightmare’: Preston on Big Brother, falling from a balcony – and reforming the Ordinary Boys

‘Trauma-bonding’ with his future wife on Big Brother, selling their wedding pics to OK!, walking off Buzzcocks, writing hits for stars like Kylie and Olly Murs … as the singer returns, he looks back a...

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