Oh my word. Just, <swoon>

When you get an email from Royal Mail asking "how did we do?" it's difficult to resist the temptation to reply with low key Roy Keane inspired "you did your job."

We are delighted to announce that our support in London on December 16th will be Manchester's NICO HARMONY, described by Louder Than War as "like a Lana Del Ray from a rainy city." This will be Nico's London debut. The stellar skipratmedia will assume DJ duties. 🚀🚀🚀 www.fatsoma.com/p/quatermass3

My Top Five Movie Genres - We know you're only enjoying this film because it looks beautiful and that's fine. - This film reminds you of you. - You wished you'd played a part in this film don't you. - You wish you were in this imagined reality don't you. - It's as if the director can read my mind.

Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.

Christ I’m soo tired of leadership challenges against sitting PMs whatever the party. Nobody cares about your internal fucking popularity contests. Just get on with the job and try not to make quite such an arse of it.

SUBSTACKIN' ACROSS THE UNIVERSE quantick.substack.com/p/comparisons

Did Trump watch the Panorama programme or did someone grass the BBC up? Snitches get stitches.

Funko are well inside my top five Evil Genius brands of the last decade.

There was a dude at the Adam Ant gig in Hammersmith last night, who looked like he posseses everything ever released by Neu!, Can, Kraftwerk, Faust and Cluster nodding along to virtually every song. The gig itself? The band were superb, Adam focused, with his timeless stage presence intact.

Magavaggio

Just boarded a train from Sheffield to Preston (<60 miles) and the return ticket is nearly £50. Seems like a good time to read this account from Mick Lynch of the 30+ year disaster that has been UK rail privatisation tribunemag.co.uk/2023/11/mick...

Ruddy hell its bonfire night. Meanwhile I am listening to Throbbing Gristle on a bus home from work. Might have a toffee apple for tea.

'A decadent album, entirely appropriate to the intersection between art and fashion that Grace Jones has always inhabited.' Many Happy Returns to #GraceJones' Slave To The Rhythm, which turns 40 today! buff.ly/MhmcFtH

@onlyconnectquiz.bsky.social who’s trolling who?! @nytimes.com

Soft Cell, man. RIP David Ball.

Cop Will Eat Itself

Perhaps the most honest thing he's ever said.

I can't claim to being a TV fan back in the day, but I was never going to turn down the chance to speak to Wendy James or review her gig at The Brook. I have a lot of admiration for an artist who still loves what she does and appreciates those who come to watch her do it.

Minton Door Surround #Leek #NorthStaffordshire

If you were born the year after the Specials first split up then you don't get to pass comment on multiculturalism in the Midlands.

"The wallpaper was busier maybe, the world was browner, but essentially it was the same world, where telephones were answered with a string of digits and time flowed begrudgingly forwards like gravy." I wrote about my favourite sitcom of all time. madeleinebrettingham.substack.com/p/that-is-wh...

I have just accidentally photobombed (videobombed?) an influencer type video that was *so* Nathan Barley it was either well meta or we are all truly finished, doomed, sunk, cooked.

After a late summer break, Monstrosities Mon Amour is back, and with a seaside special: Blackpool's Golden Mile with the brilliant @seasideferry.bsky.social. And also, discover her passion for 50s wonder-fabric Crimplene! Fun, actual fun. open.substack.com/pub/johngrin...

Thought I’d give Question Time a go. What a dufus.

Ruin a book with a car Keep the Vauxhall Aspidistra Flying

Fucking hell, that broke me. Well done, Brighton.

anyone want an ear worm? Metallica. Enter Sandman. Just take it.

Getting soaked in town, CityMapper directions audible in my headphones whilst listening to the reissue of Fox Base Alpha. As Sarah sang “and the rain pours down” the robot voice told me to turn left in 250 yards. Yards. This felt all very cinematic. The rain has stopped now so I can crack on.

It’s not 1995 and I’m not spangled at midnight, its 2025 and I’m on the top deck of a packed slow bus. Praying for flashbacks.

Anarchy in the UK (obv.).

Never met one single football fan who likes the international break after four games. It's literally just in place to annoy us.

I used to practice taking free kicks into those very goal posts. This has sullied my childhood memories.

Kermit the Frog Learns to Love Jazz Through “Visual Thinking” (1959)

This should NOT be a track on our new album. Kids should NOT be fearing for their lives while at school. open.spotify.com/track/6p236c...

Great point by Andy Burnham on radio today. It's level 3 results day, not just A-level. We need to value technical education as highly as A-levels.

I'm writing a thing and when I checked the wordcount which for me is a bit like opening a white envelope to, expecting bad news, I'd written way more than I thought I had. It's not quite up there with the joy of a tax rebate but it's not a bad sensation.

Happy Birthday to Ron!! 🎊

Tin pot Mussolini - UKIP's leader doing a cheeky Sieg Heil at the end Sicilian-Brit, Nick Tenconi

Well the last time Zonz wore a Stoke shirt was before Trump and Brexit; Bowie, Lemmy and MES were all still alive and, oh yes, we were in the premier league. I mean that’s a lot to ask one man to put right but hell yeah why not?

This is such a great single 😍

Dear @mogwai.scot do you requests? Anyhoo, be seeing you Thursday! x

No cheating.your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist.who is it ?

And they say that generative AI has no purpose

Ten years ago from an article in @theguardian.com

The first time I saw The Fall at a festival and th tape was ready to buy roughly an hour later. This is it. #fallfriday www.mixcloud.com/skipratmedia...

Here’s my appreciation of Connie Francis for the Guardian.

The Thames Water hosepipe ban at least prevents gardeners accidentally spraying slurry onto their roses. @bbc-politics.bsky.social

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

Artists/Bands with most albums in my collection: The Fall The Caretaker/Leyland Kirby Bowie Cure Mogwai Lou Reed The Cramps Brian Eno