Extremely grateful to @leftlion.bsky.social for doing this lovely piece on my chat with @bobpetesarah.bsky.social for the release of International - whatever funny thing was said in the photos, I wish I could recall... but my money is on Wiggs leftlion.co.uk/features/202...

What an absolute dream to host the Q&A with @bobpetesarah.bsky.social at Nottingham Rough Trade this week for their new (and last 😢) album, International… I wheeled out some of my Leeds Student questions from June 2000 - will dig out the piece I wrote back then & share in replies 👇

@thebodyserve.bsky.social Thanks for a great post-US Open show… laughed out loud a few times & completely agree on the mixed dubs atrocity!

"Echobelly pissed all over Oasis as a live band" A choice quote of @jamesbpcook.bsky.social's in this double interview we did for @drownedinsound.org about the *other* Britpop... 🙌 www.drownedinsound.org/inside-the-o...

New: 30 years on from the britpop wars, two authors in the thick of it, one a teenage fan, the other in a band you’ve somehow never heard of @annadoble.bsky.social and @jamesbpcook.bsky.social on The Other #Britpop www.drownedinsound.org/inside-the-o...

Two authors speak out about Britpop! My joint interview with the brilliant @annadoble.bsky.social www.drownedinsound.org/inside-the-o...

Thank you Moseley Folk & Arts Festival & Catherine at The Heath Bookshop - what a great event …honoured to chat ‘90s once again! Connection is a Song - get yer paperback now 💗 geni.us/Connection-i...

My newest reader is Mikey the beautiful cat! Thanks @williamleeadams.bsky.social 😺 geni.us/Connection-i...

On this day 30 years ago, Blur beat Oasis and reached number one in the Battle of Britpop. I bought Country House. But there was another Britpop... Feat. @jamesbpcook.bsky.social foryoursavageamusement.co.uk/2025/08/20/t...

Found my own book in Fopp. Reduced sticker, maximum joy... foryoursavageamusement.co.uk/2025/08/18/w...

I can’t believe there was a referendum on Brexit but we didn’t get to have a referendum on whether to keep the headphone jack

Well pleased to see I am now on the bargain shelves at Fopp in central London! Six quid for a trip to the ‘90s 🙃 geni.us/Connection-i...

That was fun!! 🍹

Needing a 90s pop fix? Listen up, the Back to Now podcast revisits the memories, tunes and everything else in between from this iconic decade. Join @annadoble.bsky.social @neilcollins1986.bsky.social and more rock and roll star guests, here! linktr.ee/poprambler

I tried very hard not to like Oasis in the mid-1990s. Then 'Live Forever' happened. Happy Oasis day to all of you who celebrate it foryoursavageamusement.co.uk/2025/07/04/l...

May reading. Thanks to: @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social @vincentdelacroix.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social @nineeightbooks.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social @backlisted.bsky.social @judecook.bsky.social @annadoble.bsky.social among many others.

The mysterious hum on Lewis just keeps buzzing… Last week Pick of the World with @annadoble.bsky.social featured our CrowdScience episode about this strange sound and the search to explain it. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Hooray! 🎺🎺🎺

An escape tunnel to a pre-internet world... (aka the '90s) Listen to Connection is a Song, via Spotify, Audible or Apple Books 🎧 geni.us/Connection-i...

Oasis back. Pulp back. Blur, already been back and gone again... But is Britpop still a dirty word? Tomorrow: Join me @foylesforbooks.bsky.social with @alexniven.bsky.social & Jane Savidge on their @333books.bsky.social on Definitely Maybe and This is Hardcore 👇 www.foyles.co.uk/events/33-1/...

On the way to Pulp with my daughter, Frankie. Getting match fit in the station loos like… 😂

@nigetassell.bsky.social Spotted your Dexys book in Camberwell library 👀

I found myself in Birmingham between a music quake and the speed of sound 👀 geni.us/Connection-i...

@wadeywade.bsky.social @annadoble.bsky.social I’m in Brussels. So are you x

Leave your make-up on and I'll leave on the light Come over here, babe, and talk in the mic Pulp summer! Oasis summer! Can't wait to host this '90s chat - join me @foylesforbooks.bsky.social on Wed 18th June - with Alex Niven and Jane Savidge 👇 www.foyles.co.uk/events/33-1/...

Brilliant night at ⁦Peckham Review Bookshop with @annadoble.bsky.social & @jamesbpcook.bsky.social talking 90s music & their books Connection is a Song & Memory Songs. Expertly chaired by Mark Rusher.

Well then, I am very excited about this! As a teen St Etienne fan my eyes & ears were *always* drawn to @debseyonbass.bsky.social 👀 Teenage Daydream: We are the Girls Who Play in a Band - via @newmodernbooks.bsky.social Pre-order: @resident-music.com www.resident-music.com/productdetai...

Oh if you find the time Please come and stay a while In my beautiful neighbourhood Please join myself & @jamesbpcook.bsky.social as we chat about "the other Britpop" this Wednesday at Review bookshop in Peckham - ticket gets you a fiver off either book! 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connection...

London friends – join me, @annadoble.bsky.social and Mark Rusher talking about the 90s music scene at the Review bookshop Peckham, 7–9, Wednesday 21 May! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connection...

Proud to be in Pride corner! Thank you @waterstones 💗 Connection is a Song: Coming Up and Coming Out Through the Music of the ‘90s geni.us/Connection-i...

From Saint Etienne to the Spice Girls, it was a good time to be a teenager... I've answered a few questions about mid '90s music life. Thanks @tedkessler.bsky.social! You can subscribe to @thenewcue.bsky.social here: t.co/uiGfmfclmq

...and then on the other hand we have a lovely piece by @wadeywade.bsky.social on how McAlmont & Butler's 'Yes' (released 30 years ago today, gulp) was a song of freedom that meant so much to so many LBGT+ people in the homophobic, laddy 90s thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

I’m afraid I must report this song was released 30 (😳) years ago today… why McAlmont & Butler’s ‘Yes’ won the real Britpop wars… foryoursavageamusement.co.uk/2025/05/15/a...

Best Saturday job in years! Come on down to the @bellaunion.bsky.social stall at Coal Drops Yard… (Kings X)…. beautiful records and the odd good book 👀 Cheesy grins with @mrsimonraymonde.bsky.social

Oasis reunion! New Pulp album! New Stereolab! Space comeback! Bis and EMF! Gene return! Supergrass back! The Bends at 30! Not saying I made this happen but I MADE THIS HAPPEN - Connection is a Song, the paperback, out today! Via @bonnierbooks.bsky.social geni.us/Connection-i...

Tomorrow 👀 geni.us/Connection-i...

The teen bedroom, the original place of self invention... what song did you massively overplay* in yours? Connection is a Song, the audiobook, is out now on Spotify, Apple Books & Audible 🎧 via @bonnierbooksuk.bsky.social geni.us/Connection-i... *Yes by Mcalmont and Butler for me

So, here's a story from A to Z You wanna get with me, you gotta listen carefully... Myself & @jamesbpcook.bsky.social chat about the pop culture of the 1990s!! In conversation with Smash Hits photographer Mark Rusher at 7pm, 21 May, Review books in Peckham 👇 Tickets: tinyurl.com/5r63bvyk

A Nine Eight clean sweep @peteselby.bsky.social P.s. your hardback is my paperback’s protective big brother @wadeywade.bsky.social 💗

Don’t these two look good together? 👀 @jamesbpcook.bsky.social’s beautiful tale of trying to make it in the ‘90s with his band Flamingoes - Memory Songs - was one of my inspirations for Connection is a Song. Watch this space for news of a Thing we’ll be doing together soon…

Pete is the reason this book emerged from a rambling music blog into a very personal journey through childhood & teens... trips to a record shop that smelt of mice and ill-advised Pernod-infused attacks on the jukeboxes of Yorkshire pubs. It's a story of family, love, youth & SWEET '90s MUSIC

I tried to do one of those unboxing videos… it didn’t end all that well 😂 Connection is a Song: Coming Up and Coming Out Through the Music of the ‘90s… out in paperback on *8th May*! Via @blinkbooks.bsky.social and feat. @spillersrecords.bsky.social 😜 geni.us/Connection-i...

'Kevin Lee Kharas and Pat King continue to carry the torch for modern angst, and learning to love it in the process – pulling from an even broader palette of influences to create their most mature, refined work yet.' Real Lies - We Will Annihilate Our Enemies buff.ly/4XaH5eB

Just put on this compilation tape made for me by my sister Claire this month *27* years ago… & of course the first track is by Pulp. Further adventures in mixtapes - Connection is a Song, now in paperback👇 geni.us/Connection-i...

My Mum's nostalgia for the music of Glenn Miller at the height of the swinging sixties was less than 20 years old. Time makes Glenn Millers of everyone. It seems.

Long ago… in the age before smartphones… Kids like me passed the time crafting tiny cassette box sets for Blur B-sides 😅 More of this kind of thing in Connection is a Song: Coming Up and Coming Out Through the Music of the ‘90s. Paperback: 8 May geni.us/Connection-i...

She was a lipstick boy She was a beautiful boy And tears boy and all in your inner space boy A month today, 8 May 2025: Connection is a Song in paperback via @blinkbooks.bsky.social @bonnierbooks.bsky.social Get yours: geni.us/Connection-i...

This song still gives me goosebumps. I first heard Halcyon + On + On when I was 14 typing up sleeve-notes for my English teacher. It’s not an exaggeration to say that on that day in 1993 I discovered dance music. Thank you Orbital at Brixton Academy 30 years + on + on 🤍

The Waterboys. Father John Misty. Doves. And… me 👀 Can’t wait for the Moseley Folk Festival this summer where I’ll be chatting with The Heath Bookshop about all things ‘90s… 30 years since the Battle of Britpop (😳) & signing paperback copies of Connection is a Song… geni.us/Connection-i...

On this day in 1995... I was probably reading the contents of my Love Hearts letter box while listening to The Bends. Connection is a Song - audiobook, out now. Audible: www.audible.co.uk/pd/Connectio... Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6XZn0bc... Apple: books.apple.com/gb/audiobook...