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Daniel Dylan Wray
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Very happy to have an extract from my forthcoming book in today’s Guardian.They’ve ran with the early days of Arctic Monkeys - featuring tribal scenes, cattiness, bloody riots and the preposterous “New Yorkshire” movement. Out May 7 via
@whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...
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‘We were stubborn teenagers. We didn’t want to be famous’: the inside story of Arctic Monkeys’ frenzied early years
In this extract from a new book on Sheffield’s musical history, Monkeys drummer Matt Helders plus the cream of the city’s indie scene look back on the febrile mid-00s – from brilliant tunes to ‘brainl...
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/apr/29/arctic-monkeys-matt-helders-sheffield?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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'A locus of art and energy': how New York clubs CBGB, Max's Kansas City and Studio 54 were at the heart of shaping 'the cultural future of America' in the late 1970s
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Brandon Friedman
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A real photo of Kid Rock addressing service members at the Pentagon today. Nice summation of where things stand in the United States.
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Laurent Peraldi
12 days ago
Conte nocturne Olivier Metzger
#CitroënSM
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Davenant 📸
2 days ago
The Mik Critchlow gallery at Woodhorn Museum is a must see for anyone who loves documentary photography. Mik was one of the best and the gallery is a fitting tribute to someone who was taken too soon.
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Good Law Project
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Why’s an American pressure group that helped overturn Roe v Wade suddenly taken an interest in your local park? Anti-rights movements won't stop with trans people, and we must hold back the tide. Get behind
@transsolidarity.bsky.social’s
campaign:
https://protectparkrun.uk/
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Keep the ADF out of parkrun
The Alliance Defending Freedom helped overturn Roe v Wade. Now they have broken cover in the UK to threaten parkrun over trans inclusion. We have to act.
https://protectparkrun.uk/
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John Moe
2 days ago
Sometimes I think of singles, like two-sided 45s, that ought to exist. SIDE A: "Waiting for My Man" by The Velvet Underground SIDE B: "Here Comes Your Man" by Pixies SIDE A: "Love Will Keep Us Together" by Captain & Tenille SIDE B: "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division
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2 days ago
Oh hai Mark
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ian
2 days ago
correct opinion tbh
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Bertrom.
2 days ago
In the 1970s Robin Weaver was a newspaper photographer in South Wales. When he wasn’t covering hard news or local events for his paper, he liked to photograph the people and everyday scenes he came across.
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Luke Turner
2 days ago
Gentle Jesus Make It Stop
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Rob Palk
4 days ago
This is why it's important authors read a lot, Murakami has no idea this has been done already
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s. e. smith
3 days ago
You LOVE to see it, good work everyone, keep up the relentless dunks on AI, all these bros deserve a wedgie/swirlie combo and they are not allowed to sit at our table ever again.
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The AI Industry Is Discovering That the Public Hates It
If there was any doubt over the brewing public backlash to this technology, the last few weeks have erased it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/209163/ai-industry-discovering-public-backlash
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Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in Spacemen 3:
@dannypassarella.bsky.social
on a selection of songs by Rugby's finest for
@thequietus.com
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𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕂𝕖𝕪
9 days ago
The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...
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Natasha Walter
5 days ago
I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:
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Acid Mothers Temple making Bristol's Strange Brew a place of worship tonight. There's no one quite like them. Phenomenal - and the support from Teeth Of The Sea and Thee Alcoholics was extremely good too. 🫡
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Billy Corgan in 1995: "I've grown out of being a dick." 🤔
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TV review: BBC's Lord of the Flies
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Des
6 days ago
Painting by Emma May Riley, ‘Glass of Water’ 2013. Oil on Canvas. Size 23.6 W × 35.4 H
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Very much looking forward to nights in reading about nights out. Thanks
@wnbooks.bsky.social
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6 days ago
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Feel good hits of the 23rd April feat. Orcutt Shelley Miller Yow, Edwin R Stevens, Bill Ryder-Jones, Snail Mail, Nine Inch Noize, Hawkwind, Charli XCX, The Twilight Sad, Boards Of Canada, TTSSFU
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Brian Davey
7 days ago
J. H. Prynne wrote a guide to reading works of literature for Cambridge students. This was the postscript:
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Odd This Day
6 days ago
PSA: if, like me, you didn’t/don’t have HBO/Sky, this is now on Virgin (you’ll need to search for it). Just a staggeringly good bit of tv
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Blessed to enjoy an evening in the company of drumming legend Steve Shelley (hiding here behind Big Jeff), in tandem with Ethan Miller (that bass tone 😍) and master shredder Bill Orcutt, belting out freeform headmelters aplenty. Thanks to Strange Brew and Bristol New Music for making it happen.
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This thread. 👏 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration etc. The creative act is the doing, not the conceiving.
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Precisely why
@marcdavenant.bsky.social
's vital Outsiders project encompassed temporary accommodation as well as sleeping rough
www.buzzmag.co.uk/marc-davenan...
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7 days ago
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The fact that this cosplay wanker is a living, breathing
#AccidentalPartridge
would be funny, if he wasn't one of our technofascist overlords.
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I'd been told seeing Dry Cleaning live would change my mind on them. After Tramshed last night, if anything, I now like them less...
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'The expectation of presence':
@danieldylanwray.bsky.social
talks to Stewart Lee,
@benefitstheband.bsky.social
,
@benjaminmyers76.bsky.social
, Black Country, New Road and more about social media and self-promotion
silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2026/04/expe...
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One kid has turned up to my son's 13th birthday party wearing a Sabbath T-shirt. Another has a Ride the Lightning T-shirt. 🤘
#thekidsarealright
10 days ago
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Laura
10 days ago
oh FOR FUCKSSSSS SAAAAAKE
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Adelle Stripe
10 days ago
Glad to be of assistance 🙏 You can hear me enthusing about this book with Jude Rogers on the Songbook podcast >
shows.acast.com/songbook/epi...
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Des
10 days ago
Morning all. Photographer Tony Ray-Jones. Weymouth 1968.
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Andy Mascola
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Playing with Fire by Spacemen 3. Who would have thought I'd be urgently seeking sonic oblivion following a NUFC match?
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Playing With Fire, by Spacemen 3
22 track album
https://spaceagerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/playing-with-fire
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The start of a new demer-era?
@steviechick.bsky.social
talks to Sugar ahead of their UK tour next month
silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...
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#NowPlaying
Wuthering Heights by Charli XCX
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Charli xcx - House featuring John Cale (Official Video)
YouTube video by Charli xcx
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgp7wlBfASA
12 days ago
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M. T. Anderson
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Marine St. Jean
12 days ago
Trad publishers: we produces better written books than indie. Also Trad publishers.
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UK dates please...
au.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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The Drones Reunite for First Australian Tour in Over a Decade
After more than a decade away, Australian rock band The Drones are reuniting for a special one-off tour of Australia in 2026.
https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-drones-reunion-australian-tour-tickets-dates-93579/
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Chris Paxton
12 days ago
We all have days like this
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Bertrom.
12 days ago
Enzo Sellerio. Palermo. 1924 - 2012. His black and white images are inspired by neorealism, that in those years prevailed in cinema and literature.
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I Heart Noise
12 days ago
Are you fucking kidding me
www.forbes.com/sites/johnta...
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The Overwhelming Absurdity Of The Jury Verdict Against Live Nation
Without Ticketmaster, there would be fewer concert venues and fewer tickets sold.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2026/04/16/the-overwhelming-absurdity-of-the-jury-verdict-against-live-nation/
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Film review for Buzz: Underland by Robert Petit, based on the book by
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
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I'm presuming someone's branded the current mission the Friendly Fyre Festival?
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Angus Main
13 days ago
“Of course in the old days Bluesky was only on for three hours a day. We used to get dressed up in our Sunday best to log on to it. Then when it shut down again we’d all stand up and sing the national anthem”
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