Heads up! Following the great success of our #Louder2025 weekend, we've now got a strictly limited number of Super Early Bird Weekend Passes available for #Louder2026! Join us @innsideuk Manchester Fri 13 - Sun 15 November. All Passes available here: tinyurl.com/2ttdb255

A week today! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1768140428...

Am in Cardiff this weekend with evidence that, yes, Bowie *is* everywhere… This Thursday (20 Nov), From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads - with @jamesbriggs11.bsky.social @rnrbook-club.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-brig...

Can't wait to chat with fab 90s indie author @annadoble.bsky.social about my Bowie escapade @rnrbook-club.bsky.social next Thursday. Come along for a Bowie bonanza and apparently a Life on Mars? themed cocktail. #DavidBowie #Books www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-brig...

🍹 We’ve yet to create this cocktail. What ingredients would you suggest? Let’s do a joint tasting in Thursday! ⚡️ 🚲

A week today - we welcome James Briggs to Mother’s Ruin Walthamstow to talk about how a madcap idea in the shower became a 3000km Bowie odyssey🚲 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1810140421...

Paul Morley talking about his new book Far Above The World: The Time and Space of David Bowie, at The Ivy House this evening with Simon Goddard. Amongst other things, Paul said if you ever needed a biopic/doc about Bowie, just watch The Man Who Fell To Earth. @ivyhousenunhead.bsky.social

This is very cool.

me, sending this video the morning after having drank eighteen pints and been thrown out of the pub for shitting myself, to the groupchat of surly, silent male friends I message listlessly everyday about football transfers: me last night 😜

Tour poster for my upcoming May 2026 tour for my memoirs. Special guest for each night will be announced soon. Tickets and pre order signed copies of the book from louderthanwar.com/john-robb-me...

Good read this. Loads of brilliant, funny stories but like life, there’s ups and downs.

A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Not long now until @lthanwordsfest.bsky.social… a preview from @yorkshirepost.co.uk www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

"...Baby One More Time" was almost a Five song, but Max Martin gave it to Britney Spears despite her being unknown at the time. Simon Cowell even offered Max Martin a luxury car for it, but that couldn't change his mind. Full episode out now 👉 linktr.ee/talk90stome #britneyspears #five #boyband

Housing, Power and Property - event at UEL, December 12th www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/housing-po...

In three weeks Walthamstow Relive a night in NYC with @acertainratio.bsky.social & @davehaslam.bsky.social Tickets www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1635438363...

Without a word of a lie - Jase is not only a really great player - he’s a great teacher too. I’m 7 lessons in and I’ve just turned down Ronnie Woods job in the Stones. If you’ve got a 6 string friend in your house - do yourself a favour! 👍🏻💥 ⁦‪‬⁩ 🎸 ⭐️ @thejase.bsky.social

‘Sublime eloquence with an occasional propensity for Lovecraftian comic horror and Kenneth Williams double entendre’ 4 🌟review of Strange Young Alien by Bid @themonochromeset.bsky.social Join Bid and @richardcabut 23 Nov, London www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1768140428...

New @musicmaps.bsky.social podcast up now

Tomorrow! Final few 🎟️ Come and see the The Coral doc at The Red Lion in Leytonstone. 6pm screening followed by Q&A www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-coral-...

A rollicking read - looking forward to this

Final tickets for our screening of & live conversation with @thecoral.bsky.social this Sunday at - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-coral-...

Tomorrow www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/paul-morle...

It’s Rough Trade’s Books of the Year for 2025. Congratulations to all authors and publishers selected. Check out the full list: blog.roughtrade.com/gb/books-of-...

One week today with @thecoral.bsky.social documentary screening + conversation with the band themselves - we’ve got a few tickets left: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-coral-...

12 November The Ivy House Nunhead, SE London Paul Morley with Simon Goddard 🎟️ link.dice.fm/HvUWc5ejYXb?...

Bob Geldof: ‘Band Aid’s time has been. I would like to bow out’ Live Aid: The Definitive 40 Year Story @newmodernbooks.bsky.social is a beast of a book www.thetimes.com/article/3892...

First look at Mike Joyce - The Drums in today’s @thetimes.com £🔗: tinyurl.com/5n6b377w And still time to buy a newspaper 📚🎧E 06.11.25

From formative nights at Eric’s and early encounters with The Fall, to coming up with one of post-punk’s most poetic band names and introducing Julian Cope to Scott Walker. We chat post‑punk tribes, unexpected fame in the Philippines, and a memorable meeting with Paul McCartney.

Two weeks tonight join HUEY MORGAN in Walthamstow for a raucous evening of tales from the Fun Lovin’ Criminal himself. Unmissable! We can’t wait. 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1727945033...

Paul Morley’s new book on Bowie is published a week today. Join us at the launch event at 21 Soho close to Bowie stomping grounds. In conversation with Travis Elborough #FarAboveTheWorld www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/paul-morle...

My Spectator review from last year of a moving memoir about the late, great Neil Innes written by his wife, Yvonne. The book came out in paperback last week.

⚠️New Willy Vlautin novel incoming, Spring 2026⚠️

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‘Adolescent optimism’ is the heartbeat of this lovely story. Well done @debseyonbass.bsky.social x

Joyous launch tonight for @danielrachel.bsky.social courageous book on pop music's dark dalliances with fascism, with guest appearance by the excellent Oysland Klezmer Quartet.

Paul Morley Far Above The World: The Time and Space of David Bowie @headlinebooks.bsky.social London events 6 & 13 November ⚡️ 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/cc/morley-fa...

2 December, Soho Pamela Des Barres with @katehutchinson.bsky.social 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/1749183848979

December events will sell out very soon 1st December Walthamstow @acertainratio.bsky.social + @davehaslam.bsky.social 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/1635438363169

As Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson bring Cabaret Voltaire back to life at the Sheffield's FORGE warehouse, Daniel Dylan Wray is knocked sidewise by a set of visceral power - a moving tribute to Richard H Kirk An Elated Sense of Unity: The Live Return of #CabaretVoltaire buff.ly/xLtjo6W

December events will sell out very soon 1st December Walthamstow @acertainratio.bsky.social + @davehaslam.bsky.social 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/1635438363169

NEW MUSIC MAPS PODCAST Paul Simpson rocknrollbookclub.co.uk/episodes/87-...

After reading the Daniel Rachel timely book about Rock’s fascination with Nazi symbolism - I went back to my first fanzine London’s Outrage and this is what I wrote in December 1976 after seeing punks wearing swastika and getting freaked out

NEW MUSIC MAPS PODCAST Paul Simpson rocknrollbookclub.co.uk/episodes/87-...

Our event with Baz Warne of The Stranglers is selling so well we've moved him to a bigger room! Join him in conversation with Mark Hart Sunday 16th November, The Innside, Manchester. #Louder2025 going from strength to strength! All tickets: tinyurl.com/y67tyvv3

I love working with Tom. I love his writing. His light touch heavy insight. His respectful irreverence. His joyful enthusiasm. And I love Ringo Starr. This has been an absolute pleasure. It’s out today and I hope you enjoy it x

Always a treat hearing @keithcameron2.bsky.social discussing the Manics and their incredible body of work. Another great event tonight with @rnrbook-club.bsky.social, for his Sunday Times bestseller 168 SONGS OF HATRED AND FAILURE

@rnrbook-club.bsky.social Strange Young Alien Book Launch Bar open from one, music also. Talk 3pm, book signing, music till 6pm at Walthamstow Trades Hall. Tickets - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bid-strang...