Wearing oasis clobber to a gig is the direct equivalent of being a full kit wanker to a football game.

Leonard Cohen’s emotional final encore at his last ever performance: “Friends, I want to thank you”

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."

Stone'enge...

Saturday afternoon wrestling on ITV was a weekend highlight for everyone I knew. We need a return to watching two enormously fat men in silly nylon costumes slamming each other around the ring on national TV. Let's normalise athletic obesity again.

The song John Prine wrote when he was staring down death

“And then they made me The Dean of Salisbury Cathedral, which was nice.”

We blokes need to organise a Zoom meeting or something to discuss a new phrase to replace our beloved "It's like the bloody Blackpool Illuminations in here", because even Blackpool is struggling with having all the lights on these days.

John Prine’s favourite John Prine song

When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.

My fess...

So Reform UK are writing to every person in Wales inviting the to "join them". Fortunately they've put a 2nd class prepaid envelope in there. I'll be posting my envelope to them today. Empty!

Pissicles: The unique gift Joan Jett would give to problematic men

The highest paid person in a company should not be allowed to be paid more than 20x the salary of the lowest paid staff or 10x the average of all staff.

Lols

Surprise — Katie and Allison Crutchfield's new band with MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook is called Snocaps, and their debut album is out now:

Makes his own kimchi and likes the warm sound you only get with vinyl.

every sports team is a Ship of Theseus

I do this too!

🎟️ TICKETS NOW ON SALE 🎟️ Wales Social Justice Conference, 4 Dec, Cardiff. Theme: "Sustaining the Voluntary and Community Sector" - an important event for Wales, the voluntary and the criminal justice sectors. Tickets are available from wsjc.info #WSJC #IOSW #ReducingReoffending #Rehabilitation

UK fans - out in paperback now for the first time. amzn.to/4o7Rduh

Lols from @orkneylibrary.bsky.social

Love this! There's a book vending machine @thirdmanrecords.bsky.social London store I've bought from before.

Playing With Statues (9 Photos): streetartutopia.com/playing-with...

So far in WC qualifying, Erling Haaland is outscoring 39 countries

Happy Birthday to my number one #DavidBowie album “Heroes”. It still sounds incredible today and side two still remains my most played side of music on any album ever. I know every nuance like the back of my hand but it still holds my attention every time I hear it. The true Berlin album. #Heroes

I fondly remembered running the Royal Parks Half for @prisonersed.bsky.social in 2019.

HOOKSTRATTEN: Spinal TAP, my mistake, I’m Lieutenant Bob Hookstratten. Welcome to the Lindberg Air Force base. This is your gentlemen’s first visit to a military facility? DEREK: Yeah...

Fantastic performance last night from Birmingham Royal Ballet. 3 act Black Sabbath the Ballet. Loved it! #BlackSabbath #ballet

Phew!

[My first day as a detective] Me: It's one way glass he can't see you. Just point at the killer. Witness: All I can see is our reflection. Me: Ah, ok. Everybody swap rooms.

Tonight's cooking soundtrack: Fiona Apple, Fetch the Bolt Cutters #fionaapple

Same

Get yer kids bike here! #Forsale www.gumtree.com/p/bicycles/2...

The Future Generations Commissioner has called for a new  Community Right to Buy Bill, warning that much-loved pubs, parks, religious buildings, village halls & heritage buildings could be lost forever unless communities are given a fair chance to save them. 🔗 futuregenerations.wales/news/give-co...

Reform keeps arguing immigration is an issue when it isn’t. There is a by-election right now in Caerphilly and Nigel Farage’s party keeps saying that immigration is an issue there. BUT over 97% percent of people in the area were born in the UK. We need to debate based on facts not scaremongering.

“Beat Van Halen”: The classic band with one very simple plan

Why does ‘Surrender’ make you nostalgic for the 1970s even if you weren’t born?

Hot Rats

Not a particularly hot take, but how are non-iron Shirts still allowed to be called that, when it's blatantly untrue?

True!

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

I did. And the subsequent disappointment when they didn't look like the cool alien-esque family on the packet is still remembered.

I’m no expert, but I’m not entirely convinced this ‘unite the kingdom’ march is going to unite the kingdom.

RIP Johnny Cash. Gone 22 yrs now. Dang. #TheManInBlack

And where are they now, the little people of Stonehenge? And what would they say to us if they were here tonight?

England, where no one has guns: 14 deaths. United States...23,000 deaths from handguns. But - there's no connection. BILL HICKS

Monty Python and the Holy Grail updated for Britain in 2025.

And vice versa, from my experience.