Pippa Crerar, "Would you write off university fees?" Zack Polanksi, "We need to look at abolishing tuition fees and bring back maintenance grants" "We need a conversation about debt forgiveness"

Sir Jim Ratcliffe has *v* strong ‘two years out of Belmarsh after a 35 year stretch for a Republican bombing he didn’t commit; now doing an extended interview with Krishnan Guru- Murthy about his forthcoming book of prison poetry and ‘script talks/improv sessions with Ken Loach’ energy.

Today I become a film star. Well, hardly, but the documentary based on my 2022 London theatre presentation Beatles/Evolver:62 is available from Amazon Prime, 108 minutes of surprising and engaging cultural history for the price of a coffee. In the UK the URL is www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/det...

BREAKING NEWS: We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that the Southbank Centre - the Hayward Gallery, Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall and skaters undercroft - has finally been Grade II listed by DCMS after a 35 year long campaign. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/southba...

What if Bob finally plays Murder Most Foul live this year but he plays the chiptune version?

Mongolia Winter Olympics uniform, it’s over, no contest

The new film from the world's foremost Beatles expert @marklewisohn.bsky.social is out on TUESDAY! (10th February). Streaming on Prime Video and Fandango! Can't wait! #Beatles

Neil and his fringed suede jacket, Laurel Canyon, 1967. 📷 Jini Dellacio

The peculiar madness of this particular period in history is that *all* the people running the world into the weeds are exactly the malignant people they appear to be and precisely the kind of people 'we' think they are. This 'in hindsight' bullshit will not wash.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

It's amazing that all these awful bastards reached such positions of power, what with their terrible memories...

oh yes!

Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis

Listening to this for the millionth time and still hearing new things - murky piano chords mixed low, vocals double tracked (or ADT?) the double tracked leads by Richard Lloyd, how much Verlaine is singing from the stomach, the beautiful EQ job. Like all truly great music it is, at times, baffling

Happy birthday Roddy!

This is really just an excuse to post a clip of this splendid song by the eternal boy wonder Roddy Frame, who happens to be 62 today.

imagine being so rotted that Bruce Springsteen writes a brand new song about how much you suck shit and announces it by saying “by the way I’m so fucking mad that I banged this out in 24 hours” how are you still up and walking around after being slammed like that

For the Neil heads, scattershot new info on what will be on Archives Vol 4 via a Zoom call he did with NYA supporters today via neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2026/01/neil...

What am I doing here in this endless winter? Franz Kafka Drawing, Franz Kafka, 1901

*Cough* (Updated daily by the looks of it. Enjoy, before the inevitable happens…) youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Listening to Time Out Of Mind on my commute to make sure I’m good and sad before the day’s work. 👌

Oh look. The dream-tormented Pilates instructor and Every Golf Cunt You've Ever Met.

Jeff doing his own song at a Mexican karaoke restaurant 😆

Poor Pete, poor Robin. I interviewed RG in 2002 straight after he'd walked out of a BBC Radio interview with Mark Lawson. So much time was spent convincing him I wasn't there to do another stitch-up job. I don't think he full believed me until I told him of my love for 1985's Walls Have Eyes.

Mindblowing to see the original drumhead from the Ed Sullivan shows and the first US gigs

Holding up the Panopticon as a *goal* is fucking terrifying and completely unhinged. My mouth fell open reading that

Starmers mortifying efforts to placate this freak have inevitably blown up in his face. What a dreadfully weak man he truly is.

@newmodernbooks.bsky.social hi there, will Justin be doing any author events around the paperback edition of The Tremolo Diaries?

I think i may actually prefer this version with Tom Waits duetting- youtu.be/gT0wonCq_MY?...

Happy Ivor and The Captain Day!

I bought this very Jake print from Tish’s daughter Ella 🙌

*in the voice of Jake Thackray introducing one of his songs* "This is a very good episode of Backlisted all about Jake Thackray, and if you like things that are very good, perhaps you will enjoy it. See what you think." @backlisted.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/255...

Which of us can honestly say we have not joined a political party, that would have deported us and our parents, in order to earn enough money to keep our horses warm?

One of the all time greats

Band family dinner this weekend before Peter’s show with Kevn Kinney.

Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist. Blackpool Opera House, April 1989

Nuts in May on BBC FOUR tonight.

in re Scott Walker, of late the album that I come back to the most is "Climate of Hunter," which can be as weird & unsettling as Tilt & The Drift at times. Its pristine high-end Eighties sound is as if Scott's seized control of a Dire Straits record

Excited to read this!

The Electrician | The Walker Brothers (1978) Dark, brooding, and beautiful. 🖤

Happy birthday Scott 🙏🏻

Remembering Scott Walker on his birthday youtu.be/gyhr9Qb7cb4

“Have you got your big pillow, Marquis?”

Dylan Thomas at Vogue Studio, London, 1946, Lee Miller

The Tremolo Diaries by Justin Currie is truly wonderful book.

I strained my neck doing an impression of Blakey from On The Buses