He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.

I called up Chicago show taper Aadam Jacobs about @archive.org preserving his immense collection of live recordings with the @ajc-project.bsky.social chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...

I don't believe that old saying about writers hating writing but loving having written. The writing is the best part. When you're in it, it's pure magic. The non-fun bit is the stuff that sometimes goes with it. A publisher running off with £20,000+ of your earnings, just to pick one random example.

Should be finished on my last manuscript before Christmas tonight (have edited 30+ this year), so it's time for my favourite - only? - copyediting joke. How many copyeditors does it take to change a lightbulb? This is the first time you've mentioned a lightbulb.

So… on 5-7 June we’ll be celebrating 50 years of The Fall at The Band on the Wall, Manchester. What a weekend we have in store for sure! For those who’ve been ‘Waitin’ for the Worm’ we have some strictly limited Early Bird Weekend Passes available NOW! All Passes available here: tinyurl.com/y7xexv9s

Absolutely stoked that I am in the very first panel of the @2000ad.bsky.social Annual 2026! Thanks @robwilliams71.bsky.social 🎄

I was just at the gym watching a The Wire s2 episode, and came back to this awful news. Ransone was incredible in that season — so believable as the screw-up determined to live down to everyone's low opinion of him. And great in almost everything else I saw him do. RIP.

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

It's all set up for the triumphant return of Adam & Joe...

Maybe Kate picks something from the time she came to WOMAD because her dad's band was playing.

Top of the world...

Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking".

My favourite Nigel Blackwell joke. Hadron Collider. Who's there? Knock knock.

Wise words from Big Jim in my Dexys book. "If I come to the crossroads, I don't have to make a choice. If the wind takes me left, I'll go left. If the wind takes me right, I'll go right. Or straight on. Or backwards. And if an alien spacecraft comes and zooms me up, I'll go upwards."

I tell you what, that Santa Claus has got real presence about him

I read Nige Tassell's Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids this year and that led me to the excellent new album from Wolfhounds' David Lance Callahan. Down To The Marshes very likely to be in my #5albums24

A lovely picture of Ullapool. That is all, carry on.

cc @rockingbob.bsky.social @birmingham81.bsky.social

BRISTOL at Watershed 19-21 Dec. Further GAME dates added - don’t miss out - tickets available now in Bio / Watershed.co.uk .

Tell your local cinema they should be screening this tense and claustrophobic gem from Geoff/Mark/Rob/John etc.

It is now theoretically possible to be the Man Who Shopped for a Liberty Valance.

Lovely to hear my pal Mark from @rnrbook-club.bsky.social on 6 Music tonight, picking out the best music books of the year. Deserved shout-outs for both Debsey and Justin Currie's titles for @newmodernbooks.bsky.social. Both among the very best I've had the pleasure of working on this year.

All I want for my birthday is a HMHB wallchart. (And I got one)

This tome is a kind of magic. With the best travel writing available, @nigetassell.bsky.social treats you to real, breath-taking, Vegas residency oohs-and-aahs magic that will leave you tearful and laughing and amazed. So jump on board for the read of your life. #booksky #highlyrecommended

Cathal Coughlan. Born OTD in 1960, Glounthaune, Co. Cork, Ireland. Died 18/5/2022, Royal Marsden Hospital, London www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaSi...

Cheeky birthday snooker.

Farewell to the great Joe Ely, a pioneer of progressive country with the Flatlanders who sowed the seeds of Americana by touring with such rockers as the Clash in the early 1980s. variety.com/2025/music/o...

Looking forward to winter properly kicking in and being able to take pics like this.

He's not stopping.

Rob Reiner had more humanity in a single fingernail than Orange Donnie has managed to show in nearly 80 years of classlessness.

Happy 70th birthday to Paul Simonon

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.

To hell with modesty.

When you think about it, Kick Start was basically Showjumping on Bikes.

Paul Spencer snapped two set ups of Blur for this photo session. British Image No 1 basically defined Britpop. I don’t think I’d ever seen British Image No 2. But had it caught on, it might have led 90s lad culture somewhere very different. Books and cravats.

Happy birthday to Mike Scott. Here's a joyous video of him singing his Waterboys classic The Whole of the Moon with a bunch of very excited schoolchildren in Clifden, County Galway, Ireland in 1987 youtu.be/pLAPOxpXGkU

@lordshortcake.bsky.social Reckon you'll like this, Dan.

Me and the boy have climbed a mountain already this morning. Meanwhile, down below us, small-dicked men with big guns are shooting rabbits for amusement. Wankers.

Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.

In just a few hours Dick Van Dyke will be 100 years old. Dick Van Dyke! 100! Here he is chatting with Sid James (filming Carry On Up The Khyber) on the Chitty Bang Bang backlot.

Very few better pop singles that decade.

Best thing you'll read all week.

Lyrics that could have been written by Orange Donnie himself. youtu.be/R5mAuPg1ZZw?...

GAME is showing @wshed.bsky.social Bristol from today. Go for some ‘trapped upside down in a car’ festive fun.

Stealworkers

Justin once very kindly drove me across the Lake District. Thankfully it wasn't as a very refreshed Jeremy.

FFS, just go ahead and ban ALL the best people, why don't you.

Sadly, they'll not get a single tourist dollar of mine for a good long time.