Ivor and RB united at last youtu.be/Oxl2sWuKjJ0

I wrote about One Battle After Another - the breakneck blockbuster that 2025 deserves

One Battle After Another reviewed: Paul Thomas Anderson's sensational and hysterical take on Thomas Pynchon’s counterculture yarn.

A very moving column by one of the most elegant of our music and sports writers, Richard Williams. thebluemoment.com/2025/09/09/e...

Greatly enjoyed raving about the very gothic new @suedehq.bsky.social album in @uncutmagazine.bsky.social www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/sued...

Was an absolute pleasure talking to @bradmehldaumusic.com about the enduring magic of #elliottsmith

The summer grows late, cool, ragged, precious. Clouds like ungainly brooms are sweeping showers across the slates ... — ‘A Crow’ by #EdwinMorgan, published in Sweeping Out the Dark (Carcanet, 1994)

Gorgeous new issue of @uncutmagazine.bsky.social includes my words on Bowie in the USA, Suede, Stevie Wonder and this month’s best movies 🎉

✊🏽 #peterperret

Kendrick and SZA last night the best partnership a Spurs stadium has seen since the glory days of Kane & Son, Keano & Berbs, Gilzean & Greaves. My review in Uncut is here www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/live...

“Rodrigues gives us the fairy story: how a sickly boy from Middle England heard voices in the hedgerows, dived headlong into the 1970s art scene and eventually, through the power of love, transformed themselves into a pandrogynous international art monster. “ - my review of the new GPO doc 👇

What a perfect evening with Stevie and @annalisadinn.bsky.social

I expect this thread to become national news this week. Excellent, as well as infuriating, public service

If Liverpool sign this chap from Naples and he sets up a goal for the reds’ Colombian striker, can I just say (in advance): ‘Osimhen… Diaz… look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.’

Cops-- pathetic. Fuck off. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/youre-a-bu...

Reviewed! Pulp - More "Jarvis and co return with some aplomb on their eighth and perhaps finest album..."

Howard Hawks during the filming of "Bringing Up Baby" (with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn) - BOTD

Alasdair MacIntyre’s hitherto under-acknowledged role in breaking up the Beatles www.wordonfire.org/articles/rem...

www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/05... Is this an elegy? A prose poem? A list? Whatever it is I absolutely love it.

Praise be to Chris Beans Geddes’ organ, sounding particularly blessed this golden Sunday afternoon youtu.be/DzL0cNmk-n8 #songsofpraise #b&s

A pleasure to review @philippeauclair.bsky.social in the new @uncutmagazine.bsky.social

“a bulky 1920s solicitor’s cabinet arrives, which, for no clear reason, has been embellished with a jazzy black and white design reminiscent of dazzle camouflage. It stands in the gallery like some big fat vorticist elephant.” Loved this Adrian Searle review www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

🦇 St Winifred's Choir, Anita Pallenberg, Michael Powell and Joseph Conrad all make guest appearances in my essay on Juju in this fab new Banshees oneshot 👹 shop.kelsey.co.uk/product/ulti...

Was delighted to talk to the great Noddy Holder about SLADE IN FLAME for this one 🔥

Reviewed! Sam Fender – People Watching 'The canny chanter comes to the crossroads on vexed but heartfelt third album...'

Heartily (and mindily, and bodily, and dreamily) recommend the completely wonderful @stevenappleby.bsky.social exhibition at #spacestation65 in Kennington right now. Wish the Captain Star condiment set was for sale.

Enjoyed writing this. A great record for a rainy February afternoon.

Drusilla is very invested in Gints Zilbalodis’ FLOW (2024) (she later tried to climb into the screen). 10 claws up 😻

Sadly the Dylan book case at @davidsmusiclgc.bsky.social that Laura mentions here has had an Ozempic-style slim down. But there's still a bounteous selection on many other subjects...

Always enjoy Ian Sansom’s TLS appearances but this week’s lament for the loss of Tottenham Court Road YMCA struck a particular nerve

He was a dream interview…

Sounds like faint praise to say that this piece about the parakeets of South London by the mighty Tim Dee is the best thing I’ve read this year, but it is spectacularly good 🦜

Happy new Uncut everyone!

Allow me to join the chorus of folks encouraging you to see Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, opening in the UK today with my review from this month’s Uncut. Includes what I think is the best ever cinematic use of a New Order and much else besides…

In case you missed it, check out my Uncut review of the latest installment in the Bob Dylan Cinematic Universe www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/a-co...

“Taking liberties in the name of neatness”. I wrote about #acompleteunknown the latest episode in the extended Zimmyverse, and Timmy’s latest portrait of a messianic freak, for Uncut magazine www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/a-co...

This freight train is just asking for trouble tbh

I have never much cared for Frank Skinner as a comedian, but his poetry podcast is wonderful - this week’s episode on NZ poet Rebecca Hawkes is an absolute treat pca.st/episode/ccc5...

A detail that surprised me from the New Yorker interview with Eric Idle.

8/10 cats suggest you buy the new @uncutmagazine - featuring my chat with the mighty @LankumDublin + their great curated cd of the best new Irish music + my reviews of new films from Marty Scorsese and Carol Morley 😻

Quietly obsessed with this groop and song after hearing them in Kaurismäki's wonderful new Fallen Leaves. The title seems to translate to "Born in sorrow and clothed in disappointment" and Maustetytöt make the Gothic Archies sound like…the Archies youtu.be/m9QH2NnrpgQ?...

Breaking my bluesky silence with shameless self-promo - the new Uncut is in shops now and the covermount cd has been curated by the might Lankum. I write about their choices and chat to them inside about the Mercurys, the weirdos of Dublin and doom yoga www.uncut.co.uk/features/the...