#HeinekenUK announced today it's reducing the alcohol content of Foster's Lager 3.7% to 3.4% claiming this is to meet "demands for a more health-conscious lifestyle." No mention of the fortune it will save on duty! In Feb it also reduced the ABV of Sol to 3.4% while increasing Draught prices by 2.9%

Good God, someone's just uploaded to YouTube a nearly 2-hour long video of one of the original Vic Reeves Big Night Out live shows at the Albany Empire from 1989. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKPU...

Experimenting with watching Spurs sober again - hasn’t ended well on previous occasions

Been to a Hockney opening at the new Annely Juda gallery in Hanover Square

An important letter from @keithbeard.bsky.social Rest well @megfdavies.bsky.social ♥️ www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Not sure about the new remake of To the Manor Born … www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today’s main activity (there was also art and beer)

@hackneyhaz.bsky.social @marriotti67.bsky.social It’s art apparently … 61 sleeps …

Arrived in Munich - it’s pissing down so we’ve gone to the Tegernseer bar

If it’s Wednesday it must be Bamberg …

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

A different era …

Celebrity Traitors is amazing

Just booked flights from London to Nuremberg and Munich back to London for later this month - which is nice

The Beta Band gig was just perfect - everything you’d want it to be

It’s been 20 years and 1 month - can’t fucking wait

to avoid confusion I have made a little table of Mitford siblings

Beta Band night! Where’s good for drinking in the Camden/Roundhouse vicinity? Tapping The Admiral still decent?

Another good game from OG - that’s 4 in the last 5 now #COYS

Stressful but successful …

Tottenham bound - I ‘may’ have sampled a 10.3% aged Brooklyn Brewery barleywine at The Kings Arms en route to help me on my way …

There’s a Lidl coming to Lower Clapton Road! Site of the old petrol station next to the (former) Windsor Castle

Excellent beer list at The Kings Arms - the Harveys/Hasting Project rye IPA on cask very much hitting the spot

The Bug Club at Moth Club - quality gig

The Bug Club even

Tonights plans: The Bub Club at Moth Club

Sneaky early finish and Kings Arms pint

FOOTBALL!

Might send this back - not sure it’s done …

Some cultural activity before today’s boozing commenced …

Any recommendations for beer places in Paris? Republique/Oberkampf area in particular. Been over 10 years - pleased to see La Fine Mousse is still there (and will be visited).

Green Man highlights - Friday: Los Campesinos!, Adult DVD (twice), Wet Leg up close at Round The Twist

Bonus Gruff Rhys secret set! #GreenManFest

I’m on my way …

Walked to The Kings Arms (E2), found this on tap #winning

Walked to the V&A East Storehouse but found there was a reasonably long queue by the time we got there so will go back another day and arrive much earlier. Going to the pub now.

God no …

Fontaines DC at The Shacklewell Arms (some of you may have heard this before) …

Bring back Lloyd Grossman … youtu.be/Os82UYqssSc?...

Made a brief visit to a hot West End for David Hockney : In the Mood for Love: Hockney in London, 1960-1963 at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert in St James’s - excellent collection of early works, a lot of which comes from private collections and rarely shown hh-h.com/exhibitions/...

This just came up in my FB memories although I’d managed to block it out of mine - why it’s only The Nolans covering The Smiths … m.youtube.com/watch?v=1WLR...

I see Oasis started their comeback with the Gary Glitter one

What I did at the weekend … #Glastonbury #Pulp

That Patchwork will go a long way #Glastonbury

BOB VYLAN IS KILLING PUNK ROCK! #Glastonbury

FAO @keithbeard.bsky.social

And relax … #Glastonbury

Glastonbury bound - via Bath …