Reform UK are organising hard at local level ahead of the May elections. That’s not something we can afford to ignore.

we sequence the first Pale Saints album next to Cardiac Arrest and nobody spotted our genius

Hear me out: this is Blur doing Elastica. Yes yes I know, but imagine it à la Car Song. You’re welcome.

The most famous person who went to my school is me.

WAFR's first 300 Club entrant of 2026. If only you were all this keen on I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman, you heathens.

Both the new Ladytron and Alexis Taylor albums are amazing.

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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

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Writing about Russ Conway for the next book and discovering he smoked 80 a day but also had the top of his finger missing too. He was basically the Honky Tonk Tony Iommi

Of course I went on holiday and came back with records. (This Mortal Coil was a sniiiiip! at £15 even if Norwegian Krone made it sound like it was three grand)

I've done another radio show. Listen whenever you like for a few months. www.mixcloud.com/mofgimmers/f...

Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

Neil is quite literally the greatest

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just compiled the next Blood Everywhere album while awaiting a connecting flight in Oslo. Also just subbed a chapter of next book

bit too excited about the Gay Dad RSD

I went to see myself in the @foylesforbooks.bsky.social window and behold! Me, Bowie and Stalin. Now THAT’S a sitcom

I dunno if a book where I talk about the death of a sibling in one paragraph and then giddygoat with the idea of Prince solving crime with a pocket lion the next will work but we can only hope at this stage.

I keep calling the blocked hoover helpline, but it's not picking up

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I keep calling the blocked hoover helpline, but it's not picking up

My intentional gaming of the WAFR feed in favour of Whistling Jack Smith has failed to work.

We're looking to capture experiences of what it means to be queer in the UK today! To do that we're collecting day diaries for 12th February. It doesn't matter what you get up to, or how you record it, we'd love to have it!🧵 (1/4) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26

I'm in the Foyles window next to Bowie which is kinda far out

I'm in the Foyles window next to Bowie which is kinda far out

#OtD 2 Feb 1988 4 lesbians abseiled into the UK House of Lords in protest at the homophobic section 28. In 2017, 4 other lesbians climbed onto the Houses of Parliament in order to put up a blue plaque commemorating the 1988 action stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9181...

Every Lego catalogue, in full, from 1966-2015. At the link brickset.com/library/cata...

KP Twiglets saying her favourite album cover is the one where Bowie looks like a cat when it’s literally called Diamond Dogs is my new reason to carry on disliking her

Such, such a superb book. Highly recommended.

It’s LGBTQ+ History Month and allow me to recommend my book that’s basically that

A while back I posited that prime Quo was almost Krautrock and it appears that the Germans agreed

50 years Slik were about to be Number 1

"When I was 12, I think my friend gave me this album and it was just so otherworldly. I’d never heard any music like that. Later on, it was such an exciting time when Hounds Of Love came out and it was such a hit." #Peaches on Kate Bush - The Kick Inside buff.ly/anuMdEn

What he said✊

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Car 67 is dull bloke rock. Almost deliberately made for dull radio DJs. Absolute shit.

Two Man Sound's Lou Deprijck was behind Plastic Bertrand. In fact there are claims he was Plastic Bertrand instead of Plastic Bertrand. It all got messy as court case-y however he's dead now.

Very bored at having to hear the opinions of a rapist on literally every fucking thing.

Watch Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting from Start to Finish: Every Episode from 31 Seasons in Chronological Order

My new book Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers, and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984-94 is out in June on @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social . It's a love letter to the music of my youth and a flashback to the most exciting time of my writing life. Pre-order geni.us/StillInADream

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I chatted with the incredible Peaches about her favourite records for @thequietus.com and you can read all about them right here.

while I didn't think my next book was that gay, today I've written entries about Scissor Sisters, Fierce Girl, Male Stripper, the gay anthem aspect of You Don't Know Me and the queerness of Elastica

FUCK YEAH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Mood

Ian Wade meets Peaches in Soho to discuss the 13 records that have shaped her life and work, from Lil' Kim to Laurie Anderson, disco to krautrock The Reaches of Peaches: #Peaches’ Favourite Albums buff.ly/IHRANYT