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SUBSCRIBE NOW HERE WITH 35% OFF! There’s something appallingly physical about the language that’s used to describe the radical changes that are affecting every aspect of our culture. AI slop. Enshitti...

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My friend @jonathanleft.bsky.social is running the London Marathon, something I could never even contemplate. Try to donate something to his chosen charity, Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust, which helped his family hugely when his daughter had leukaemia 2026tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/jonathan-...

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This isn't really my story, it's my daughter Isabelle's story. When she was four, she was diagnosed with leukaemia. Her life was turned upside down. Happily, thanks in large part to the fantastic trea

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Shaun Ryder is one of the smartest and most creative people I have ever interviewed. @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social captures him brilliantly here: "As a lyricist and just a person in the world, he slings out... sentences like an elite athlete." www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

Shaun Ryder on highs, lows and Happy Mondays: ‘Heroin isn’t a party drug – you can’t just do it at the weekend’

As a child, the singer loved to start fires. As an adult, he was barely less chaotic. He discusses Bez, charisma, ADHD, his new memoir – and why making music is great, even if the record industry will...

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This. @johnharris1969.bsky.social elegantly states what should be the bleedin' obvious. From the perspective of Bristol, this result was no surprise. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Labour is stubborn in defeat because it knows this: we face the belated end of the political 20th century | John Harris

In Gorton and Denton, I heard again and again that people wanted seismic political change – Labour and the Tories are no longer part of that conversation, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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Looking forwards to hosting a Q&A in Bath this Friday with Nicolette. www.roseberryroadstudios.com/events/an-ev...

An Evening with Nicolette — Roseberry Road Studios

Join us on 6th March for An Evening with Nicolette… Nicolette burst onto the music scene in 1990 with Shut Up and Dance, when their debut single ‘School of the World’ / ‘Single Minded People’ be...

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Friends who live in Bath especially, I am hosting a Q&A for Nicolette this Friday, 6 March. Be good to see you there.

Harry Gray! Those who know, know. #lufc

Don't usually like covers LPs, but The Damned's Not Like Everybody Else is great. Sounds like they're having really good fun saluting the late Brian James.

The Sleaford Mods frontman discusses life and creativity with his friend, the film maker and occasional director of music videos Peer Review: Jason Williamson Interviews Ben Wheatley… and Vice Versa buff.ly/SdJYpWF

NEW POMPEY BOOK Pompey club legend Barry Harris has been linked closely to the club he loves for over 70 years+ and has a few stories to tell Discover them in his brand new autobiography - available now #pompey www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18779766...

True Blue: The Barry Harris Story | eBay UK

Barry Harris is a Portsmouth Football legend. He went to his first game at Fratton Park in February 1952 aged eight. From boy mascot to Pompey sailor’ from youth team physio to assistant kitman and ma...

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Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇

tQ's albums of the year 2025 have landed! As ever, it'll be a joy over the next 12 months speaking to people excited about the releases they discovered through it – this is why we continue, into our 18th year. I hope you'll find something you love herein: thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...

The Quietus Albums of the Year 2025 (In Association with Norman Records) | The Quietus

One of the scant benefits bestowed by editing a countercultural magazine born in a time of great financial turmoil is that you eventually develop a state of permanent readiness for the next disaster. ...

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Here are some places you can still see the ace film GAME. (Yes, made by pals of mine, but ace nonetheless)

This is excellent from @johnharris1969.bsky.social. Labour is levying higher taxes on squeezed middle without as yet improving services in ways people really notice. Or telling a convincing story about the country it wants us to be. Dispiriting times. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The ‘squeezed middle’ is back – and this time it could be Labour’s undoing | John Harris

Last week’s budget left middle-income families anxious and angry. The party is turning its back on voters it can little afford to lose, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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"Nasty, unpredictable, properly bonkers. One of a kind." Possibly not a coincidence that scriptwriter @robwilliams71.bsky.social is all of the above except "nasty". It's more, I think, that he has a dark sense of humour.

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Just been ranting about it in the newsletter but Game is glorious bit of British cinema. Nasty, unpredictable, properly bonkers. One of a kind.

So sad to hear of passing of Mani. Have been listening to first Roses' LP and it's fabulous.

This looks excellent from @danieldylanwray.bsky.social via @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social. I hope to learn much about I'm So Hollow, Comsat Angels, Artery and others. Going into an awards show, I once heard two girls discussing whether I was a member of Def Leppard, but that's another story.

White Rabbit Books@whiterabbitbks.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Brilliantly researched and spanning almost seven decades, GROOVY, LAIDBACK AND NASTY features over 150 new interviews with the likes of Richard Hawley, Arctic Monkeys, Pulp, Self Esteem, The Human League, Toddla T, Def Leppard, ABC and Cabaret Voltaire – along with countless others.

Just back in from seeing Game, the film my mates Geoff, Marc and Rob (and a few others) have made. The boys done good! Very proud of them. On general release from this Friday, but still plenty of screenings with post-film Q&As. Go see!

Excellent evening at Bristol’s Watershed seeing Game, scripted by similarly excellent @robwilliams71.bsky.social, plus a Q&A featuring producer Geoff Barrow of @invadarecords.bsky.social & co-star Jason Williamson of @sleafordmods.bsky.social among others.

#lufc Current mood of fanbase: not dissimilar to when Leeds lost 1-0 to Everton in February 2023. Seems a bit early for complete despair. Although that day may yet arrive this season.

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

Just absolutely classic BBC. You've just broadcast the most successful programme of the year, uniting Gen Z kids online and Boomers on broadcast in a return to appointment television. And instead of celebrating, your DG reigns due to a made-up right-wing scandal.

I don't often get reviews, so chuffed with this. Had a great time chatting with top fella Clive Deamer, who made doing the interview easy. Thanks to all at Roseberry Road Studios in Bath for making this happen. thebathandwiltshireparent.co.uk/2025/11/revi...

Review – An evening with Clive Deamer from Portishead at Roseberry Road Studios, Bath – The Bath and Wiltshire Parent

Tucked away just off the Lower Bristol Road, Roseberry Road Studios is one of Bath’s most welcoming creative spaces — and it recently played host to a fascinati

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This feeling is called hope: Three lessons from a week of progressive victories iandunt.substack.com/p/this-feeli...

Barry Adamson's soundtrack for the @alicatterall.bsky.social co-directed Scala!!! is great. Every track conjures up the spirit of a time when Central London was far less gentrified and there was overlooked space in which to roam and be creative. mutebank.co.uk/collections/...

Barry Adamson - SCALA!!! - CD | Pre-Orders | Mute Bank

Release Date: 16th January 2026Catalogue Number: CDIONIC20 CD - Eco card pack, also banned, but not vinyl Barry Adamson, original member of Magazine and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and a celebrated s...

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Barry Adamson returns with the original score for SCALA!!!, the wild, defiant, and heart-breaking story of London’s notorious repertory cinema. Out 16 January 2026, listen to ‘Scala Posters (Mondo Bongo)’ now. mute.ffm.to/ba-scala

Just listened for the first time in a while to eor by @quinquis.bsky.social. And remembered it is a great LP. All of which is plenty enough excuse to repost this: thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Quinquis – eor | The Quietus

Sung in Breton and quivering with modular synth sounds, the Ushant-based producer conjures the rippling of water

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First review's in for GAME: ‘A gripping, darkly funny watch’ ★★★★ Rolling Stone UK Buy tickets for our Screening/Q&A tour here: linktr.ee/InvadaFilmsG...

This is great from @paddyclarke.bsky.social: thequietus.com/news/remembe... My memories of Soft Cell from back in the day circle around just how transgressive and strange they were. In part cos they created their own world. And it was, errm, different to where I grew up in rural North Devon.

Remembering Dave Ball, by Patrick Clarke

In a moving tribute to his late Soft Cell bandmate Dave Ball, who died this week at the age of 66, Marc Almond remarked that the two were “chalk and cheese”. When I interviewed several dozen of the mu...

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Really looking forward to chatting with Clive Deamer in November for an event in Bath. Aside from anything else, as well as Portishead, Radiohead and Robert Plant, the man has worked with Dr John! www.roseberryroadstudios.com/events/an-evening-with-clive-deamer

An Evening with Clive Deamer — Roseberry Road Studios

Join us on Saturday 8th November for a rare evening with Clive Deamer , the celebrated English drummer whose work spans jazz, rock, trip-hop and beyond. He has been a drummer for Radiohead, Po...

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