The captions on this music thing on BBC2 seem to treat music as if it’s something at the end of a long tube. Super patronising

AMERICA A-Z AALIYAH TO ZZ TOP via BEACH BOYS! JAMES BROWN! MADONNA! VELVET UNDERGROUND! PIXIES! ORNETTE COLEMAN! JONI! PRINCE! CAROLE KING! BARRY MANILOW! CHER! PHILIP GLASS! BOYS TOWN GANG! DONNA SUMMER! 4 SEASONS! BARRY WHITE! JOHN LEE HOOKER! BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN! open.spotify.com/playlist/0Gs...

In Liverpool

Thought this might have been of more interest tbh. It’s a celebration of America’s musical genius so naturally Kiss and Red Hot Chili Peppers are outlawed from appearing

Thought this might have been of more interest tbh. It’s a celebration of America’s musical genius so naturally Kiss and Red Hot Chili Peppers are outlawed from appearing

I appear to be one of the last dozen homosexuals of swinging London not going down the Madonna rave-up this evening.

I see that rather than celebrate a denim Neu! People have instead opted for violence instead

Pope music is important

Part of the reason why I want to start a 90s night is so I can play this at deafening volume

AMERICA A-Z AALIYAH TO ZZ TOP via BEACH BOYS! JAMES BROWN! MADONNA! VELVET UNDERGROUND! PIXIES! ORNETTE COLEMAN! JONI! PRINCE! CAROLE KING! BARRY MANILOW! CHER! PHILIP GLASS! BOYS TOWN GANG! DONNA SUMMER! 4 SEASONS! BARRY WHITE! JOHN LEE HOOKER! BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN! open.spotify.com/playlist/0Gs...

Pride Month may be over for some people but I’m doing weights in a jock listening to Rod McKuen’s fruity spoken word/ poetry In Search of Eros album like I did in the eleven other months.

Actually I’ve always wondered how fisters work out where to put the line tattoo on their arms. Are they usually mid-fist and then say “oh hang on, don’t suppose you’ve got a pen handy have you?”

Now for the bumming

Obviously a death is always sad, but when that death is of someone who deliberately turned their back on a community to cosy up with a fascist, then you're okay to think otherwise. Put this one to a 'Yeah, I get that, but also...'

On the last day of Pride Month, happy Trans Pride, now and forever and ever and ever, Amen.

Trans rights

the criteria for an inclusion on WAFR is a record or album that isn't shit and sometimes one or two slip in due too having a significant anniversary and a couple of bangers on their tracklist. So sometimes it's surprising how, say, I dunno, an album that scrapes through the net does so well

40 Now form a homosexual

Word. You think that the sort of people who wanna harm or kill you exhibit the level of sophisticated discretion enough to go “oh no, not this guy. He’s not queer. He wrote a column about it” like you’re a different type of grape in a wine? Oh DO fuck off.

I was discussing Butthole Surfers with a friend earlier and how I thought there was a new album and he said he’d check. Anyway I’ve been enquiring deliberately loudly “DID YOU CHECK OUT THE BUTTHOLES?” ever since and I’ll be 60 in three years time.

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I've written a thing about Margo: the Surbiton sum of all fears open.substack.com/pub/johngrin...

RIP MY QUEEN

Sylvester at the Gay Freedom Parade on June 26, 1988, a month after being diagnosed with AIDS. He told the LA Times, “I’d like to think that by going public myself with this, I can give other people courage to face it.” Sylvester died six months later at the age of 41 on December 16th, 1988.

banned from Vinted lol

Never forget........🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

❤️

would it kill this Glastonbury moments compilation to have something involving a fucking synthesizer or sequencer on it rather than this dullardian display of mobile phone-aloft 'iconic moments'

HOT SCENES 2

HOT SCENES

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One of today’s WAFRs was Number 1 when I was born “But the Beastie Boys didn’t have any Number 1s, Ian” - everyone

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD

Pub Disco

My least favourite interviewee, there. Cunt

H20 - White Pyjama Music (c/o @simonprice.bsky.social)

There’s a SHAKATAK connection to high energy which I wrote in the first draft which I might post in the next few days. It made my bf cry. Just in despair, really.

I used to listen to Radio Luxembourg in 1983 and it was hazardous

I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues is great.

Sorry, 27

Sorry, 27

26 “I have been the most relevant and impactful music critic of my, and any, generation for over ten years now. There’s no music critic bigger than me who’s had more impact than me for as long as I have, consistently. And if I die tomorrow, nobody’s going to outdo that run.” (me on drugs)

This morning I spent an hour or so talking about my book to a popstar (more news on THAT soon) and I mentioned that it was this man's birthday today and so we raised a glass. Happy Birthday George, here's a Top 40 I did a few years ago about your best numbers.

(Our new one, obviously)

This morning I spent an hour or so talking about my book to a popstar (more news on THAT soon) and I mentioned that it was this man's birthday today and so we raised a glass. Happy Birthday George, here's a Top 40 I did a few years ago about your best numbers.

Back to Now! New Episode! 🎧 Ahead of the new NOW Yearbook ‘99, revisit one of the year’s finest volumes. NOW43, the final summer of the 20th century. Guest Rob Johnson from PopMusicActivism guides us though a feast of pop! Listen and subscribe now at all podcast providers. linktr.ee/poprambler

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