Sounding the "I've Seen Footage has come on shuffle" klaxon! This World Cup half time concert Chris Martin is involved with, could he not have at least asked Death Grips

I know Shrek isn't a person but I feel like it counts

It's like when you look at the Reading poster. Catturd? Vivid Prowess?

No Lekiddo, no list www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

Just think, if Peter Crouch hadn't scored in that warmup game in 2006? 2010? and done that robot dance, we wouldn't have him as a kind of betting ad and podcast clown figure. He'd have been in the "remember that guy" file with Hugo Rodallega, Benjani and Mido

Never got it with A Little Life. Heaping misery on this one character for what, her entertainment? My entertainment? And then people keep going "oh it's so heartbreaking though" and seeing the play and buying Jude&JB&Willem&Malcolm tote bags as if those four characters should be on a bag together

This is good although I really want to read a sequel about the things that just continued happening at the same time as punk after it exploded www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

Looking forward to every other country in the World Cup having more fun than England regardless of results! I don't think anybody thinks we're going to win it, it's worse, quite a lot of people think we just should. Like rightfully

I had been after a Tara Clerkin Trio full-length for a while and it's really good! Any recommendations for new music welcome (before I slide into my Saturday evening thing of listening to something I've heard forty times before)

Catching up on the week and was sorry to read about Bob Harris. Funny to think that there will be people into country or folk or person-with-guitar singer/songwriters who don't know who the guy is! What with the popularity of horrible stadium country stuff and posh person folk

I think I see pretending to be a Nazi the same way I see dressing as a clown. Once you've done it then that's it, that's what you are. You can't de-clown

I was going to say "all killer no filler" about I Am but then I realised Rock That! is almost certainly there to make up the numbers. The first six or so are such a run of songs though

Great run of songs on TOTP here, I'd written the evening off after the first forty minutes or so too

You have to hand it to the autonomous robot clown, he really fucked up that child

Fella in the office today wearing a Linkin Park t-shirt. I wonder if he does the "shut up when I'm talking to you!!!" in meetings when he's not quite landing his point

The obvious political problems with the World Cup are pretty well documented but I think they've also got a football problem - there's been so much of it and I don't sense a lot of enthusiasm from even the most hardcore fans for another five weeks of solid football

Kenyon seems like one of those guys who "doesn't use pronouns"

There needs to be a complete list of all the journalists promoting fascism for money, together with quotes. Somebody will tell you they didn't write the headline, just the piece, but I don't think that matters all that much if their name is on it

Thinking of setting up another account for any really basic posts I think of, because they're the ones that get the most attention. Basic side project

I have been learning about the Vape Ape

Reminder to ignore that "well that's the summer over with then eh?" person in your life today. Many models going for a return to settled weather somewhen next week, you'll still have chance to wear that mankini you bought from Shein

I have just been reading about another local artisan bakery that's in business trouble. Very good by all accounts. Here's my suggestion to all artisan bakeries: bake something that is an exact replica of Warburtons toastie loaf, the best bread

Literally just being quiet and minding my own business

Was watching Blues Brothers for the first time last night. I think my objection before was that there are a lot of absolute basics who think everything on the soundtrack is just a Blues Brothers song? Great fun though. Aretha steals the whole thing

See this is what I need from a summer afternoon. About 23, sun sometimes out and sometimes in, none of that heatwave muck

Enjoyed this. The only other Iceage record I've listened to was their fairly serious-face first album so the handclaps were a surprise. Liked how close to coming apart it often is, like watching a vehicle on wonky wheels roll down a hill www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

Toploader. You don't want to make them too comfortable until you've figured out what they want with you

I feel like the weather on Bluesky today is the kind where beef bubbles up. My Bluesky weather forecast is isolated beefs that could start up in almost any part of Bluesky

an opportunity to dress up and be free* I don't think I'd want to spend my spare time anywhere with a dress code, to be honest? I just don't do them

Andy dies and then there's a Randy Newman song about it? Sounds good

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Was thinking earlier that Mr Brightside has an odd structure for a balls-out pop anthem? Never really thought about it before. Basically the same verse and bridge twice, then the filler bit that gives you a bit of a break, then the "eye nevahhhhhhh" terrace chant

Thoughts with the "what is it with all these people wearing red and white shirts? Is it something to do with sportsball?" guys around London, they must have had a rough few days of it

Which music video do you think this is a comment on? The most wrong answer you can come up with will still not touch it

"We're not being gay, it's just men being men together, admiring each other's masculine bodies and making each other happy" is how all this stuff ends though. I don't think all these lads are looksmaxxing to impress women

This Question Time chat reminds me of my ATP chalet band of the same name. I say band, basically one of us brought a Casio keyboard, one of us had a guitar, and we played percussion together by slapping the instruments. We had one semi-planned song called Penis Tap and the rest was improvised

We just had the proper rubbish collection we booked so we could get rid of a load of shit in the flat and it's so freeing. Turns out you can just get rid of filthy old tat? You don't need to have it around the place untouched like it's part of the set design? Who knew

Imagine how ridiculous this is going to look in the future, let alone now. They'll be laughing at us

How can you be called Bret Michaels and not be a wrestler? Like being called Pelé Robson-Hoddle but not a footballer

So I'm going to make a pretty powerful confession here: for a long time, perhaps 1987-2003, I never knew the difference between Milli Vanilli and Scritti Politti, to the point where I just figured all their music combined was by both of them

Very much at the stage of all this hot weather where the novelty has worn off now, aren't we? You'll miss it when it's gone, it's going to fuck down next week

First rule of Bluesky is the same as the first rule on Twitter: unless they invite you to, do NOT join in with funny posts posted by people who are paid to be funny, like who do you think you are

Might submit this idea to the band, it would sell like hot cakes

Imagine if Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams had ripped off this version for Blurred Lines

Funny to think that Forest knob was so keen to make sure they were in the Europa and Palace were in the Conference, considering which club made it to a final

I really have to question the barbecue skills of my neighbour. It smells like he's set fire to fire

FAO two and three, I know who you are, I reckon you know who you are, put your hands up

Tell me a random fact about yourself that sounds fake and is 100% fake

Also, special place reserved in hell for the ventilation hoggers on the Central line, standing right against the windows at the ends of carriages so nobody else can have any air

It's 23 outside now but it's still up to 30 in the living room, a good summary of the city suburb flat conversion heatwave experience there