On Monday we'll be covering Snodgrass, Ian Hart's third outing as a 50-year-old John Lennon, who as you'll remember left The Beatles in 1962. And we're delighted to announce we'll be featuring an interview with its writer @quantick.bsky.social.

We were going to send cryptic VHS tape teasers out to our biggest fans but nobody could be bothered

Holy hell. Balls or creativity. I don't know what is bigger.

See yer old fella's taken up baseball

Bob James being interviewed by @mikaeljorgensen.bsky.social at Solid Sound. Excited to see the documentary on Bob’s career

Happy birthday Robert!

Wilco & Billy Bragg at Solid Sound, Mermaid Avenue live for the first time!

Solid Sound 2026!

12 years ago Janet Street-Porter curated an incredible collection of BBC Archive films for BBC Four on post-war architecture. They're all still available and it's difficult for me to think of a better illustration of the value of public service broadcasting. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...

The genocide in Gaza is a moral litmus test for Burnham.

Okay. Ai can go bankrupt then. This is not our problem, this sounds like a rich tech billionaire problem.

The Beatles’ attempt to buy a Greek island in 1967 is usually seen as John Lennon's fantasy. But George Harrison was also drawn to islands his whole life. "Shell-shocked” from Beatlemania, he built homes on a Hawaiian clifftop and a remote Australian island seeking space. New Substack post:

Paul McCartney looking wonderful

And this is before we get to support for a government committing genocide, ever more deranged attacks on the right to protest, ripping down planning and environmental protections, kowtowing to corporate lobbyists and treating the left of the Labour Party as the real enemy to be crushed.

Keir Starmer lied through his teeth to become Labour leader. He justified Israeli war crimes, arrested opponents of genocide, attacked pensioners, disabled people and migrants, pocketed freebies, crushed dissent and threw others under the bus to save himself. History damns him

When I posted my interview with John Hillcoat, who directed Dylan's scrapped Nobel Prize performance video, Conor Lumsden commented “Being Bob’s stand in was the best job I ever had!” I had to hear more. Today, Conor's surreal story of playing the role of Bob Dylan around Bob Dylan himself.

I'm not sure exactly which song will ultimately win in The Great Audit Of Songs Which, When It All Comes Down, Will Be Adjudged To Hold Within Them The Actual Meaning Of Our Brief Time On Earth, but this is definitely in the shortlist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-ck...

Magical Trashcans hometown show tonight in Irvine! @trashcansinatras.bsky.social @johndouglas.bsky.social @francisreader.bsky.social

Magical Trashcans hometown show tonight in Irvine! @trashcansinatras.bsky.social @johndouglas.bsky.social @francisreader.bsky.social

#FiveAlive The Age of Miracles Never Anyone But You Isn’t Life Strange Falling Asleep Since K Got Over Me

Scott and Cathy.

Monkeeing around at Columbia Ranch with the Monkeemobile before the Monkees logo was added 🚗😜 #petertork #mickydolenz #davyjones #michaelnesmith

In case you didn't know it, the coolest ever instalment of Amoeba Records' What's In My Bag was conducted by @theclientele.bsky.social youtu.be/5F1FBRvF1hI?...

Paul Buchanan of The Blue Nile turned 70 in April. When Mid Air came out in 2012, he gave a long interview to David Peschek for @thequietus.com. The whole thing is remarkable, but I found this segment especially moving. (PB has released no new music since 2012.) thequietus.com/interviews/p...

Davy Jones with his daughters Sarah and Talia ❤️

Elon Musk is set to become a trillionaire within the next few months and a Karl Marx quote comes to mind. "One day there will be trillionaires, but you will still have nothing." Amazing powers of prediction.

My Hockney badge. RIP David

I made a playlist. Then I realised that the playlist was trying to tell me something. And this was the result.

RIP

Something my wife and I made for Super Deluxe years back

Macca at the Roundhouse 👍

Never seen this before - Neil Young in rehearsals for the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Celebration doing "Forever Young" solo on pump organ and harmonica. Wow! (When the camera zooms out at the end you can see a young Eddie Vedder looking on)

Macca will play Carnival of Light tonight as a birthday treat for me #Roundhouse

Really enjoyed this!

Wonderful Gerry show in Manchester last night

The Leslie speaker added a layer of distortion to many of the Beatles' most famous records. Although impressive at first sight, a closer look revealed a surprisingly hollow interior with poor connections. Repairing them resulted in nasty shocks and a stern reprimand from the manufacturer.

What a find - the house of Peter Firmin, the creator of bagpuss, which doubled for Emily’s shop, is for sale www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/8...

Listening to my favourite Partridgian podcaster and he just asked his guest “Are you someone who enjoys collecting, bit of a raconteur of things?” Magnificent work.

I’d say the tedious fucking ashtray disqualified himself from Desert Island Discs with this interview in March 2015. See also: not being invited on A Good Read or Front Row. The man’s got nothing. He is the Archbishop of Fuck All.

I spoke to Harpo Marx's son Bill about his father – and a newly unearthed recording of his dad talking, at what would be his final public appearance www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Have van. Will travel.

A lovely interview. Anyone who's interviewed McCartney or read enough interviews with him knows the usual pitfalls, the bromides and oft-told tales disguised with easy familiarity, but this felt fresh and funny. A tough gig.

Wonderful @johndouglas.bsky.social and Eddi Reader show tonight in Masham, North Yorkshire

Oh yes, I’ll be having a brat summer Beers Raves And The creeping, lingering feeling that I’ve let life slip between my fingers, what was once a thin, barely-audible whine now a deafening tumult, as though someone has turned up a radio which bawls out my errors and follies, numbing and v

An astounding show! Best time I’ve seen them 🇩🇪

Bruce Springsteen has no fucks to give. 👏

(2) And last night Stephen Colbert ended his Late Show with a final guest of Paul McCartney - back on the Ed Sullivan stage 62 years later. Part One youtu.be/j7TX2c-gYyQ Part Two youtu.be/j7TX2c-gYyQ

David McCallum - House of Mirrors [UK, smoky, spooky jazz/instrumental] (1967) https://redd.it/446ieu https://youtu.be/Y0jfzSJFU5Y

Paul Simon!