Once more for the haters...

Excited to announce that my wife Karen has taken up the bagpipes

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent cattle I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

This is music for many seasons but one of them is definitely early December when it's pissing down outside. I hold this album in as high regard as Bryter Layter. I think it's a masterpiece and Ron Geesin's arrangements are as good as Robert Kirby's.

GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament

If Crystal Palace beat Man Utd, one lucky person to RT this will win one of these beauties tufac.bigcartel.com/product/tufa...

Wowsers, we're mighty excited about this!! We've only gone and made no. 5 in MOJO Magazine's Best of Folk 2025! Woohooooo! @lisaknappmusic.bsky.social @gerrydiver.bsky.social @concertedartists.bsky.social @mojomagazine.bsky.social

Tomorrow, another NIReissue! The making of The Beatles Anthology 1992-1995, featuring the most important moment of the documentary. #Beatles #Anthology #BeatlesAnthology

When @ericidle.bsky.social came over to host SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE in 1977, he brought Neil Innes over as his musical guest, and Neil reprised his RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION role of The Rutles' Ron Nasty, performing his Lennon pastiche "Cheese & Onions"...

Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.

If you're cheering Trump on then you have no right to call yourself a patriot. You absolute moron.

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THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

Nothing to see here, just a GB News presenter suggesting the BBC bung Donald Trump a few million of license fee payers' money.

Peace, Love & Pop - Ringo Starr’s remarkable solo run, 1970-74 #Ringo #Beatles oldgodsmadenew.blogspot.com/2025/11/peac...

Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Hello! My CEO Roscoe and I are giving away TWO signed copies of my novel 1983 to two randomly selected people who repost this & pop a reply below. You also get a free postcard of this illustration of Roscoe by my mum. It’s been called “Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut & Sue Townsend”…

Braverman deleted this tweet which made me wonder who that previous prisoner was. His name was Junead Ahmed. He was a conman mistakenly released in 2023. She was Home Secretary at the time. Oh. news.sky.com/story/migran...

The Beatles - I’ve Just Seen a Face take 3 is now online. Oh boy, they were so tight! thebeatles.lnk.to/Anthology4-2...

During lockdown the then Chancellor Sunak told people to leave creative jobs and get business back on its feet. I decided at that moment (different than any before it) to fly my freak flag high, to put aside a lifetime's aversion to the ISB and embrace them to my heart. It's going well.

The Ultimate Mixes of S̷o̷m̷e̷ ̷T̷i̷m̷e̷ ̷I̷n̷) New York City have landed on streaming today. Including in Atmos if your streaming sub does Atmos. music.apple.com/ie/album/powe...

My BFI Classic on The Beatles’ film A Hard Day’s Night is available to preorder now. Here’s the story behind it. I love the cover - inspired by the film poster and a key theme in the book: the power of television in transmitting the Beatles to the world. samiraahmed.blog/why-i-wrote-...

The picture of Farage with the T shirt from Gill’s briber’s wife, taken the day Gill appears her Pro Russian TV channel, is taken in Gill’s office

Entries 1 to 43 of an ongoing project reimagining Beatles songs as old, mid century design inspired film posters.

Make America Great Again… GTF Out!

What's that? You want to listen to a Cambodian cover of Hard Day's Night? My pleasure ... youtu.be/4cjWvk9U2uo?...

This is, indeed, extraordinary - and magnificent. @eggpod.bsky.social @stevenc63.bsky.social @quantick.bsky.social

At some point in the last week or two, without me noticing, Unsung Unsaid has quietly hit the 800 sales mark. Thank you to everyone who made this possible, everyone who bought it, everyone who promoted it or reposted on here with kind supportive words and everyone who left an Amazon review. ❤️❤️❤️

And just a couple of months ago, I found this version of Joni Mitchell doing Chelsea Morning in session for the BBC. By now, I didn’t need to check the credits, because I knew immediately it was Danny Thompson. He lifted everything he ever played on. RIP open.spotify.com/track/72CY4C...

Danny Thompson has died. His work with Pentangle, especially his work with John Martyn... Jazzy, fluid, honey-like, shoulder-rolling and other terms that I'm going to struggle for because I can't write about music for toffee. But anyway. He was amazing and glorious and what a legacy he's left us.

Standout stat from today's county cricket? Northants bowling 99 overs!! Old school over-rate! And a lesson to others. #cricket #statsgeek @zaltzcricket.bsky.social

How do we fix this mess?

Onibaba 1964

It’s a filthy day outside, so why not head to A CINEMA to watch the now-playing rockumentarequel, Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues? In fact, the running time is admirably short, so why not see it twice?

Spinal Tap's Nigel Tufnel and Leyton Orient FC, eh? Who knew? Go see the movie! Hope the club can maximise the tie-in. #spinaltap @leytonorientfc.bsky.social @leytonorientear.com

In an otherwise bleak news agenda, Martin Carthy's shortlisting for the Mercury Prize is a real - and much needed - ray of sunshine!

Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

CAN YOU IMAGINE CALLING FOR SOMEONE TO BE ARRESTED FOR A TWEET?!?!

If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty crap about my small business. It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI. Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk

A perennial poem from @mitchbenn.bsky.social

With all due respect to your correspondents, including me, no one is going to beat Julian Cope’s case for Dark Magus. (Taken from his brilliant essay, Miles Davis On The One.) www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/album...

Dear Hotels throughout the world - please stop tucking in the duvets.

Mo Salah is asking the right questions

My 85 year-old mother regularly wanders around the West End post theatre.

Lovely interview with arts journo @markffisher.bsky.social in the latest issue of @nujofficial.bsky.social's The Journalist magazine

Eyup, I've just sent out a newsletter... DUO AUTUMN TOUR DATES / TICKETS ON SALE NOW - CROWDFUNDERS AND EVENTS OF INTEREST - NEWSY BITS. Click on link below & it will magically appear on your screens in its glorious entirety. Took me ages, go on. x @concertedartists.bsky.social shorturl.at/6DvIc

RIP Tom Lehrer ‘Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.' youtu.be/TIoBrob3bjI?...

My all-time favourite podcast? The Collings And Herrin Podcast. Tons of new ideas brought in every week, an arbitrary set running time they would not go beyond, and they had so much fun developing running jokes rather than simply repeating them. Brilliant. timworthington.org/2022/03/20/l...