The masterpiece that is Capture/Release is 20 years old today. A good excuse to share my piece for @clashmusic.com on what makes The Rakes so good www.clashmusic.com/features/in-...

"It's about grabbing the days as they come and remembering people in the fondest way you can." A conversation about The Kinks, Shania Twain and more in the latest edition of My Mum Loved This Song.

A stranger got a video of us all dancing to Common People and put it in a Glastonbury group my wife happened to be in…

My 20-month-old daughter started crying upstairs last night at the exact moment Dylan went electric in A Complete Unknown. The pain passes through the generations.

The National’s Alligator is 20. It's my favourite record of all time, one I always come back to. A defining moment where everything about the band seemed to crystallise. And it has so many quotable lines. I tried to explain all of that for @clashmusic.com. ▶️ www.clashmusic.com/features/wer...

I wrote a lot of words on my favourite album of all time

Buckle up friends, the next wave of acts for #EOTR2025 is here. We’ve got blistering riffs, dancefloor electronica, genre-pushing visionaries, blissed-out experimentalists and folk legends. Viagra Boys, The National, DIIV, Katy J Pearson, Sofia Kourtesis + many more. Link in bio for tickets.

mcluskymcluskymclusky mclusky.lnk.to/world (feel free to check out the song/video linked down there too, I suspect you might like it) x

Haven’t loved a song as much I love this in a while open.spotify.com/track/2zf1iz...

Rilo Kiley reunion! 2025 is starting to look better now.

Hoping Sophie Ellis Bextor plays A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed at midnight.

Clearing through my old room and just found an autograph book I had. The only two autographs in there are Alec Stewart and Keith Chegwin.

UK WRITERS: You need to fill in this consulation. Govt is very clearly looking to an opt-out model of rights licensing that puts all the burden on creators instead of profiteers. It's long and boring but this is important. www.gov.uk/government/c...

The best songs of 2024

Here are 10 albums that I've really enjoyed this year. In a font called Space Grotesk.

I did Parklife at ‘bandeoke’ at the work Christmas party last night and now I probably can’t ever go back into the office again?

This, basically

The Charli show last night was something else. AND Robyn did Dancing On My Own. Incredible.

Don’t think I’ve ever related to a headline more

Moth Club is one of the very best small venues in the whole of the UK. The fact that it's under threat is appalling. Please sign. www.change.org/p/moth-club-...

Went to see man of the moment MJ Lenderman last night. What a show it was. My words for the Evening Standard: www.standard.co.uk/culture/musi...

I reviewed the new Warmduscher album for the Quietus

As the old adage goes, if unsure about what to post first on a new social platform, go with a Longpigs song www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn_I...