I was talking to my neighbour about the supermoon last night and he turned to me and said "you knew about, did you?" like I was Galileo

More art vs the artist column inches regarding Brigitte Bardot. My take on this is that she retired in 1974 so it's legitimate to love pre-74 BB without any feelings of shame or guilt (not that you should feel shame or guilt anyway, it's not like you actually knew her).

I presume that abominable creature from the imagination of Ray Harryhausen, Gianni Infantino, will be stripping the first FIFA Peace Prize recipient of his tacky gold ornament

Expecting a strongly-worded rebuke from Splinter after Vanilla Ice misrepresented the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at Mar-a-Lago

MTV is officially ending all of its music channels. In honor of that, what's your favorite music video? 💯 youtu.be/N3gN9Up6hmc?...

RIP to a legend

#nowplaying Just a phenomenal album. The one thing I didn't mention in my review earlier in the year is Xenakis, probably on account of the fact I've listened to a lot more Xenakis in the last six months than I ever had before. There's a lot of Xenakis in this record #Laibach #Alamut

Go round the outside.

Six-page feature on Cabaret Voltaire by me in the new RC, out today!

Ello ma...

Also Le Mépris is objectively Goddard's best film if you ask me. Is there anyone from the "nouvelle vague" who's not dead now aside from Jean-Pierre Léaud?

I got rinsed on social media a while back for wishing BB a happy birthday but I loved her all the same. If for nothing else, she recorded two of the greatest songs of all time (Bonnie & Clyde and Contact), but there was so much else 📷: Terry O'Neill

Expensive

Happy Tom Bawcock's Eve, to those who celebrate

Kylie got her first Xmas no.1 blah blah blah... but does it mean anything when the UK chart looks like a hauntologist's sick puddle? There are more important things to fix but it isn't fit for purpose

When I was growing up, the Xmas tree would go up around now and then my mother would insist it stayed there until Jan 6th even if everyone had gone back to work. Now the bastard is there throughout December, at least until I saw it up and despatch it into the wheelie bin in the yard on Boxing Day

This is like one of those photos you get in the local paper where someone's broken into their shed and murdered all their ferrets

Also, Queen Elizabeth II died www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...

Obviously the website that cannot cope with human nipples has censored the cover of Country Life 🤦

I was sad to see Antony Price go. I spoke to him a few years ago and he was hilarious and very deaf. I'm not in the habit of interviewing fashion designers - obviously - but it was Roxy related of course. Oh why not reshare? www.anothermag.com/design-livin...

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I'm actually really delighted they named a footbridge on the Canal Saint Martin after Jane Birkin, an honour rarely afforded to rosbifs (David Bowie got his own tiny street last year). An extraordinary life, especially when you consider the fact that it would never happen here.

On Dick Van Dyke's 100th birthday I must declare that I'm still reeling from the episode of Diagnosis: Murder when Radiohead, Portishead and the Propellerheads all got namechecked

The enshittification of everything has definitely infected Duolingo. The much trumpeted AI conversation feature invariably crashes before you've completed it, or it does 9 out of ten times for me anyway. If you're thinking of buying over the new year, I recommend you don't.

I'm a dad again. All hail the NHS!

Aside from having a brilliant eye and a very distinctive style, one of the most underrated elements of Martin Parr's work was the fact that he clearly really liked people. I love his work but it also makes me realise I could never be a photographer.

The BBC Hamburg biopic has yet to be cast. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Godspeed Frank Gehry, your buildings are genuinely awe-inspiring, dynamic and also a bit of a laugh. I can't imagine that's an easy trick to pull off but what do I know.

Definite Fleetwood Fox vibes here

My listening age is 66 which coincidentally is the Pythagorean numerological score for Daniel Ek fuck off

Or to give it its full name, Spotify Wrapped on the knuckles

Sky Sports needs to stop obsequiously pointing cameras at Noel Gallagher. It'll end in a colonoscopy.

I'm a late earbuds adopter but what's the deal with them turning down or skipping tracks or going completely quiet in one ear if you have a sneaky lughole scratch? You need the skills of a theremin player

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Introduce yourself with five apocalyptic horsemen: War Famine Pestilence Death David Walliams

The absolute relentlessness of Black Friday. Can I get an injunction? I'm being stalked by capitalism.

New research claims you don't have an adult brain until you're 32. Zarah Sultana turned 32 in October so they probably mean 32 and a bit.

Introducing yourself with five gigs feels inadequate. In the early to mid 2000s I had a job at a music website and I pretty much went to see everything I could for three years and it was so hectic and so drunken that I can barely fucking remember any of it.

Less discussed is the fact that François Ozon's films have a habit of being ponderous and underwelming or is it just me?

Oh do fuck off

Annual reminder to writers not to miss the end of November deadline to submit 2025 works to ALCS. Money for nothing, folks, the best sort.

Hype is a funny thing isn't it? I put the Geese album on expecting to feel something though it's not necessarily Geese's fault that I didn't *grinds teeth and backlashes*

I interviewed The Strokes by mistake after contacted them via their humble website at the time (PR? What's PR?)

'Before Aksak Maboul feels like the discovery of a residual tail, an essential part of the story that you didn’t even know existed, an extension of the label #Crammed as well' Reissue of the Week: Before #AksakMaboul (Documents & Experiments 1969-1977) buff.ly/Q3LBS0Y

Jeremy Allen talks to Stephen Mallinder about The Cabs' first decade, the eternal struggle to find the right drum machine and inventing anti-fascist dance routines. The Strange World Of… Early #CabaretVoltaire buff.ly/GphQnBX

Talking tracks with Stephen 'Mal' Mallinder for this Strange World piece for the Quietus. Can't wait to see them in Brighton on Saturday! thequietus.com/interviews/s...

Amazing really that that AI-generated hit that everyone is getting worried about is basically a more shite Rag'n'Bone Man

This is an interesting idea. Always been a, erm, Macca backer, but Lennon is in the form of his life on The White Album and I'm not surprised it works together. The drugs did work (for a while at least).

Finally got around to listening to Rosalía's new album and it's pretty special so far. Weird that it's been hyped as a classical album because it clearly isn't.

The thing that's most vivid for me when remembering the events of Nov 13th 2015 is how dry my mouth was as we made our way home through the 11eme. I couldn't run as I'd just finished cancer treatment and each time we turned a corner we hoped we wouldn't come into contact with a kalashankof