Hugh Morris
@hwfmorris.bsky.social
Writer on music for NYT Guardian Wire Private Eye and more. Digital Editor at @vanmusicmag.bsky.social Email is hughmorris98@gmail.com
“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”
BrooklynVegan, Alt Press Hit With Mass Layoffs
Music publications Revolver and Goldmine have also been gutted by owners Veeps and Live Nation
pitchfork.com
New wire - I profiled Lucy liyou! Looking forward to diving in
The Wire Magazine@thewiremagazine.bsky.social · yesterdayThe Wire 511 is out now! Featuring Space Afrika on the cover, plus Nuno Canavarro, Lucy Liyou, Jad Atoui, Rump State, Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra, Darla Quintana, Jennifer Herrema’s Invisible Jukebox, and much more. Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/
Haters focusing on Liddle's violence toward his pregnant partner, his galloping racism, or his repeated defences of paedophilia, should remember to mention he was also one of the worst writers to ever do it. A calorie-free hack of the first water. Just absolute dogshit, back to front.
older lady next to me managed to take three (flash!) photos of her feet one video of her face before filming yesterday’s Konzerthaus concert. But it’s the kids who are the problem right!!!
your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors
The sec of state who has seen at least 15000 academics lose their jobs just said this. Out loud. Mercy me. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘It hurts to lose a job you love’: Starmer loyalist Bridget Phillipson fights on despite cabinet demotion
Exclusive: The former education secretary on her new role as Labour chair and continuing as the minister for women and equalities
theguardian.com
Apple Music Classical’s approach to metadata generally excellent. But this made me chuckle: the S, in this case, stands for ‘Sir’
The Times corrects its splash story headlined "Migrant care workers bring dozens of family members." The Times got this totally wrong. It then used its own error as the basis for an editorial calling explicitly for forced expulsions of people living here legally. www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...
Listening to uchida’s new Beethoven record, and thinking of this banger interview with Javier from a few years ago
Lot of love for John Wilson on the timeline. Revisit my nytimes profile of him from a few years ago www.nytimes.com/2023/08/03/a...
brass neck of this lot is staggering.
Press Gazette@pressgazette.co.uk · 2w agoYesterday Reach CEO Piers North said the publisher's "renewed editorial brand focus" on original content instead of volume of stories is "showing early promise" via the subscriptions push pressgazette.co.uk/news/reach-m...
Two great Proms this week - Stele Mahler 6 BBCSO, and Black Dyke on Sunday. Really good feeling around Proms at the moment, feels full and positive
The misdirection briefing over chancellor is very funny. But fair play to the mysterious people who this morning and at lunchtime curiously backed John Healey for chancellor at odds of up to 130/1, days after the last time any bets been placed on him for the job with Betfair.
The World Cup unveiling perhaps the most tacky thing I’ve ever seen
not sure I still qualify as a pro critic but three impeccable pre opera dinner options: 1. fish cafeteria behind the Deutsche Oper Berlin 2. Surinamese restaurant in the subway stop next to the Dutch National Opera 3. Kammerspiele restaurant near the Bay Staats, Munich
Hugh Morris@hwfmorris.bsky.social · 3w agoOn my way to glyndebourne for the first time. Reminded of this fun piece, where I asked friends at the Guardian, Observer, NYT, Spectator and more about their pre-concert dining options. Ft an enjoyably elegiac ode to Pizza Express’s American Hot by Richard Bratby van-magazine.com/mag/pre-conc...
Burnham's victory is a victory for 6Music's Britain. By me, for the New Statesman.
On my way to glyndebourne for the first time. Reminded of this fun piece, where I asked friends at the Guardian, Observer, NYT, Spectator and more about their pre-concert dining options. Ft an enjoyably elegiac ode to Pizza Express’s American Hot by Richard Bratby van-magazine.com/mag/pre-conc...
Crisp Dinner
What do professional concertgoers do about pre-concert dining options? A mixture of crisps, kippers, and Pizza Express, as it turns out.
van-magazine.com
one of the things i truly hate about this country is the way it treats anybody seeking benefits. whole mechanism and discourse around welfare should be thrown in the fire. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Labour must stop just writing a cheque for benefit claimants, says McFadden
Exclusive: Work and pensions secretary signals possible reform to welfare as ministers await key reviews
theguardian.com
would it really have mattered if they’d left the baz announcement until after the lord’s test?
Also, @hwfmorris.bsky.social reports on the leaked KPIs that ensure strict global uniformity for Fever’s Candlelight Concerts van-magazine.com/mag/candleli...
KPIs by Candlelight
Fever, developer of the Candlelight Concert series, is one of the most prominent voices in our space. With 8.2 million followers on Instagram, the Candlelight Concert series is also a dominant force i...
van-magazine.com
Wrote about seán Clancy for New York Times. Accompanying picture is me climbing on a donkey in a park www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/a...
Saying you're the "most physically attacked" MP when two MPs have been killed in the last decade is just horribly self-absorbed.
In the guardian, a great day in Leeds with Ferg’s imaginary big band www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
Forty-one members and counting! Ferg’s Imaginary Big Band, the gigantic Leeds jazz group embracing ‘chaos, imperfection and all that’
With a punkish, antifascist take on the trad jazz sound of Duke Ellington, this noisy outfit are epic in every way. But how on earth do they make a living?
theguardian.com
