Also, smashed this down my neck earlier, that’s a 12” crackling sword btw…

Was not expecting this from my late 70s parents…

This Stranger Things release schedule is the 20s version of Use Your Illusion. We’ll ruminate for ten minutes that they should have just made one three hour film

Let the festivities begin!

Any of my Northern followers, fancy a cracking night out at #Disgraceland to help save this important space for music & so much more industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/merch/rainy-... If you can't make it, but would like to keep this amazing place going, 😍 www.gofundme.com/f/disgracela... IYKYK....

Get involved in this. Disgraceland is wild. Inspired by Berlin squat culture and a rare treat inside… I wrote an article about #counterculture a while ago and name dropped them www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2023/09/20/m...

I’m fifty on Friday. Don’t be sad, I’m not (I’m certainly not fixin’ to die) but here’s my favourite song about October youtu.be/TZKX-LHN6C4?...

Sometimes gigs just go beyond expectations…

Portland doesn’t need the military. Portland has its own defenses.

I’m hearing that the little blue sachet of salt in Salt & Shake crisps is now white

Someone recommend me some books: either music/culture bios that might have gone under my radar, or genre bending novels. Ta muchly

This weather calls for a smashing little brunch

Who does this and why?

Tomorrow I’m wearing a black shirt with blue trousers to work and I’m not even scared

Popped out to B&M for a caulking gun and struck gold in the non-perishables

I bet billionaires have got a version of the internet that never glitches and isn’t full of pop-ups

What a selfish, greedy, violent species we are 😞

It was decent fwiw. Bit heavy on the spinach but defos something I’d pick up again in the Oops!

NEW: Tonight, this is all that remains of Nepal's seat of government in Kathmandu. Singha Durbar was the largest palace in Asia; home to the Prime Minister & government offices. A 48-hour revolution, led by Gen Z protestors, has toppled the government & left large parts of the capital in flames.

Good effort Nepal. Come on kids, you know what to do. As a once great man once said, for God’s sake burn it down

I love the idea of that Newcastle band Brother, but now I know who is involved it’s all a bit (best case) Gay Dad and (worst case) SSD. Shame, cos I’m not against that kind of deep spiritual indie per se

INTERESTED

Manufacturers don’t even cares about back pocket detail on jeans anymore.

Looking for cool shit to do in Newcastle on a Saturday afternoon that doesn’t involve alcohol (plenty of that on the night). Any off the wall ideas hivemind?

Solo cinemaring on a Saturday night

Textbook false 9 formation

I approve of this message…

Oh, he means luxury communism…

I’ll say it again that a three-day weekend should be mandatory for over forties

I did kind of tell people a couple of years ago that #pressonbook was the second in the Teesside trilogy. Well, if the planets align next year might see the final book. Could do with an agent though #creativenonfiction

Ooh, the new #motd analysis is VERY scripted is it

Chappel Roan looks like she smashed Reading there, like. It’s true, Taylor Swift and Lorde can’t compete with that

It’s 10:58 now, I’ve got work tomorrow. Some BS this

Where can I get a bit of flash fiction (1200-ish words) published these days?

Apart from Withnail & I I’ve probably watched Young Guns more than any other film. Terence Stamp was a big presence as John Tunstall in the first half of a massively underrated western. RIP

For the festival win

The old one in Darlo indoor market was more like the mouth of the space slug in Empire

Every single Taylor Swift album has suffered from being overlong. A trimmed down Red could be the best country-pop album ever. This new 12-song effort might be worth a listen I guess…

Been in Croatia for a week and now I’m low-key obsessed with pasticada gravy

Can't fault the clarity of Labour's message on protest. There are BAD protesters who must be punished (Irish musicians, anti-genocide vicars) and there are GOOD protesters whose views deserve respect (masked thugs with petrol bombs trying to start a pogrom)

I’m on hold with Natwest and I’ve opted for a softer repeated tone rather than hold music and it’s basically the first piano chord from Silver Springs repeated every 30-secs

100% going to this in Split next week froggyland.net/collection/

Incredible final stage of #tdf #letour #vanaert. As a lover of mountain stages I still can’t help feeling sad that it is probably the end of the 60kph 10k leadouts along the Champs Elysees that were always such a spectacle on the final Sunday…

Fucking hell, listening to Des Demonas for the first time reminds me of how I felt listening to Pavement or Operation Ivy for the first time when I was sixteen. Not because they are similar bands but because they share all the same synapses in my brain…

Forgot this happened a couple of weeks ago. Someone I know at the British Library processing a book I wrote (they must have some backlog, lol). Even more coincidental the someone used to be in the band the book is about… #utb

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Incredible news for Middlesbrough this. Having failed to take advantage of R1 Big Weekend in 2019 this is a real opportunity to make a lasting cultural mark… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One is in Zante, one is at McFly in Scarborough and one is at the over 30s thing at the Empire so I’m left to make my own fun

Reality TV’s Altamont…

Liam dragging Noel out to shout “this is the place” is proper Weekend At Bernie’s behaviour