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...

'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 silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2026/04/locu...

A real photo of Kid Rock addressing service members at the Pentagon today. Nice summation of where things stand in the United States.

Conte nocturne Olivier Metzger #CitroënSM

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.

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/

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

Oh hai Mark

correct opinion tbh

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.

Gentle Jesus Make It Stop

This is why it's important authors read a lot, Murakami has no idea this has been done already

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.

Of course I bought this.

Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in Spacemen 3: @dannypassarella.bsky.social on a selection of songs by Rugby's finest for @thequietus.com silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2026/04/ladi...

The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...

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:

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. 🫡

Billy Corgan in 1995: "I've grown out of being a dick." 🤔

TV review: BBC's Lord of the Flies silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2026/04/beau...

Painting by Emma May Riley, ‘Glass of Water’ 2013. Oil on Canvas. Size 23.6 W × 35.4 H

This thread 😂👏

Very much looking forward to nights in reading about nights out. Thanks @wnbooks.bsky.social.

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 silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2026/04/feel...

J. H. Prynne wrote a guide to reading works of literature for Cambridge students. This was the postscript:

This feels very @brianbutterfield.bsky.social.

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

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.

This thread. 👏 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration etc. The creative act is the doing, not the conceiving.

Precisely why @marcdavenant.bsky.social's vital Outsiders project encompassed temporary accommodation as well as sleeping rough www.buzzmag.co.uk/marc-davenan...

The fact that this cosplay wanker is a living, breathing #AccidentalPartridge would be funny, if he wasn't one of our technofascist overlords.

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...

'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...

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

oh FOR FUCKSSSSS SAAAAAKE

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...

Morning all. Photographer Tony Ray-Jones. Weymouth 1968.

#NowPlaying Playing with Fire by Spacemen 3. Who would have thought I'd be urgently seeking sonic oblivion following a NUFC match? spaceagerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/playin...

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-...

#NowPlaying Wuthering Heights by Charli XCX m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgp7...

Trad publishers: we produces better written books than indie. Also Trad publishers.

UK dates please... au.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

We all have days like this

Enzo Sellerio. Palermo. 1924 - 2012. His black and white images are inspired by neorealism, that in those years prevailed in cinema and literature.

Are you fucking kidding me www.forbes.com/sites/johnta...

Film review for Buzz: Underland by Robert Petit, based on the book by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2026/04/deep...

I'm presuming someone's branded the current mission the Friendly Fyre Festival?

“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”