First music book of '26 in the bag and I just flew through this. As a recovering self confessed music snob myself 😉 there is much in here I can relate to - from an era I lived through but can't remember much of 🥴. Highly recommended read by the super talented @annadoble.bsky.social #BookSky

Thank you Simon @rnrbook-club.bsky.social - I definitely want to time travel and come round to yours for Subbuteo and I Should Coco! P.s. The Mariah Christmas song came out 1994 but was truly monstering pub jukeboxes by ‘95 - just in case the pop nerds come for me 😬

The wondrous Stereolab at Electric Brixton on Sunday. It was an electrified teenybop dream ✨⚡️✨

Thanks to everyone who braved subzero Walthamstow for a dive into the Bowie-verse with @annadoble.bsky.social and @rnrbook-club.bsky.social. Mother's Ruin serving up the good stuff with some Norfolk sloes in their Bowie themed booze!

Everybody go and find a copy of From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads by @jamesbriggs11.bsky.social - a mad and brilliant cycling adventure through the Bowie-verse…. ⚡️ We had a great chat at the legendary @rnrbook-club.bsky.social at Mother’s Ruin Gin Palace this week - thanks for having us!

Am in Cardiff this weekend with evidence that, yes, Bowie *is* everywhere… This Thursday (20 Nov), From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads - with @jamesbriggs11.bsky.social @rnrbook-club.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-brig...

Can't wait to chat with fab 90s indie author @annadoble.bsky.social about my Bowie escapade @rnrbook-club.bsky.social next Thursday. Come along for a Bowie bonanza and apparently a Life on Mars? themed cocktail. #DavidBowie #Books www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-brig...

Remembering my Grandad Frank - front right - who fought in WW1 at age just 17 as you can see in his young face here. He lived to the age of 90 and never wore his medals, never wanted to speak about what he saw (at least two of his friends killed) and truly hated all talk of war.

🆕 20 November WALTHAMSTOW JAMES BRIGGS - From Ibiza To the Norfolk Broads - A Bowie Odyssey in conversation with @annadoble.bsky.social 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1810140421... @laurenlaverne.bsky.social

A wonderful night - congrats @debseyonbass.bsky.social - can’t wait to get stuck in - looking good on my music book shelf 🧡

What a joy to spot International out in the wild (Southwark tube) @bobpetesarah.bsky.social @rockingbob.bsky.social 👀

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 💗