London, that was pretty special! ❤️ 💐 Onwards to Margate and Worthing with special guest @tommcraemusic.bsky.social ! 📸 Paul Stokes

Richard ̶I̶I̶ Richard ̶I̶I̶I̶ Regents Park Open Air Theatre has a new King Richard… Richard Hawley warming souls on a very autumnal Saturday night.

Happy 80th Mr Ferry 🎈 📷 Mick Rock

Happy 80th Mr Ferry 🎈 📷 Mick Rock

The world's most indispensable arts podcast is back, with a new episode out now on all your usual platforms. Another episode out tomorrow, then weekly.

Not knocking it, but every time I go in the Co-op Nena’s 99 Red Balloons is playing 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈 (and they don’t even sell balloons in my nearest branch)

Arrivederla Claudia…

Very sad to hear that Claudia Cardinale has died. A sultry legend of Italian cinema. It always amazed me that Italian was only her fourth language, after Arabic, French and her parents' Sicilian dialect (she was born and raised in Tunisia). Sit tibi terra levis. www.rainews.it/articoli/202...

Len Deighton’s spycraft | Malcolm Forbes engelsbergideas.com/essays/len-d...

"An honest person doesn't need to speak." The great Cass McCombs takes on our Life & Times questionnaire. It's a free edition: thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...

⚪️ Happy 50th birthday Kevin Gallen 🔵 See you down The George IV in Chiswick on 8 October. There's a shandy on us... Tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/newgo...

Thinking about extremism, fakes and points of view 👇 [Good people, do subscribe to my weekly column about books and how to read & write them: I'm offering a thousand top quality words every week, full of ideas, confessions, illustrations and fine music!] tobiasjones.substack.com/p/fascism-fa...

And for all details of @stokesie.bsky.social's Q&A night with Kevin Gallen, Lee Cook and Martin Rowlands follow @newgoaldream.bsky.social or head to www.tickettailor.com/events/newgo...

🚨New pod alert!🚨 @finneyqpr.bsky.social is joined by @stokesie.bsky.social and @scheza.bsky.social to: 🧚 Reflect on a fairytale day out at Disney FC 👀 Look ahead to Stoke at the weekend ⚽ Discuss Nardi's enforced return, Harvey Vale, Richard Kone, and lots more Download wherever you get your pods!

To get you in the mood for QPR vs Stoke, here’s Lee Cook putting one past The Potters in 2005. Join Lee, Kevin Gallen & Martin Rowlands at our Q&A on 8 October at The George IV in Chiswick. Tickets available now: www.tickettailor.com/events/newgo... #qpr #qprfc #qprvstoke

Yes, the world needs a new podcast. Or rather, an old one resurrected. Just finished recording - dropping next week.

Fly high Robert…

For our first live Q&A, we are bringing together #QPR heroes Kevin Gallen, Lee Cook & Martin Rowland to discuss what it is like to play for your boyhood club. 8 October 2025 at The George IV, Chiswick. Get tickets now: www.tickettailor.com/events/newgo...

Kevin Gallen, Martin Rowlands & Lee Cook – Live Q&A What it's like to support... and play for #QPR Tickets on sale now: www.tickettailor.com/events/newgo...

My cat now has her own familiar 🧹

Thoughts and prayers with anyone doing a live radio show this emergency test afternoon 🚨

If this international break has got you missing your first team #QPR fix, why not spend the next one with Kevin Gallen, Lee Cook & Martin Rowlands? Live Q&A – 8 October, The George IV, Chiswick Tickets on sale now: www.tickettailor.com/events/newgo...

I remember In Our Time starting while I was at uni. Often dip into the back catalogue still… I hope one of the ‘best’ editions they’re planning is a comp of Melvyn’s ‘What would you have liked to have said?’ question he asks afterwards for the ‘on demand’ version. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

It would have been Martin Amis’s 76th birthday yesterday. Here’s the piece I wrote on his death in 2023:

Enjoyable research for our Kevin Gallen, Martin Rowlands & Lee Cook Q&A on 8 October at @GeorgeIVW4 in Chiswick. #QPR Tickets are here if you fancy joining us: www.tickettailor.com/events/newgo... @newgoaldream.bsky.social

Forever my David Audley, goodbye Terrance Stamp. You made all the difference.

Kevin Gallen, Lee Cook & Martin Rowlands live Q&A: What it is like to play for the football team you support. Wednesday 8 October, at The George IV, Chiswick. 🎟️Tickets £15, on sale now: www.tickettailor.com/events/newgo...

@robinturner.bsky.social Truly fearless and fascinating writing in your latest bulletin, Robin (not to mention everything else!). Hope the staples are behaving.

What’s your name and where do you come from? Did #milesdavis really write the theme music to #blinddate ? Here’s Graham with a quick reminder of when I had too much time on my hands. #mashup #jazz #90stvshows #cillablack

Paul Stokes - NME. Between 2005-11, @stokesie.bsky.social, in his own words: worked on the news desk at NME (print, online, radio, TV) for 4 years as editor, then went on to run the NME Awards and created all the online video output for the iconic music title. Now out patreon.com/22grandpod

🚨NEW SEASON POD ALERT🚨 We're back! Pre-season starts here as @finneyqpr.bsky.social, Paul Rees, @stokesie.bsky.social, Paul Curtis & @scheza.bsky.social build some match fitness. We talk Stéphan, signings, friendlies, formations, and Finney almost sleeping on the streets of Perpignan. Naturellement

Often when consumed by anxiety and feeling awful in the head, I calm myself by following disused railway lines on maps, and imagine the layouts I might build based on them. For The Observer, I've written about engines big and small, masculinity and mental health: observer.co.uk/news/first-p...

Don’t forget I’m back on Soho Radio this Tuesday, and I’ve invited Rich from Hard-Fi to join me on another journey across the sonic landscape of Rongorongoland. Tune in 4 til 6pm GMT sohoradio.com

Been keen to see the Bayeux Tapestry (or ‘Canterbury Embroidery’ as an expert who gave a lecture I went to once suggested we call it) since a history lesson in infant school with Sister Mary🧵 www.britishmuseum.org/about-us/pre...

That time in July 2019 when @billybragg.bsky.social dropped by #NP6Music to be an on-air human jukebox for @bbc6music.bsky.social listeners... photo by @stokesie.bsky.social

A superb piece of journalism in The Observer: it seems like the one of the sacred texts of Nature Writing (TM) is not quite as much of an unflinchingly honest read as claimed observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Niche, but if you went to Club NME in the 2000s & thought the music in the backroom at Koko was decent, you're in luck. I'm DJing at @tedkessler.bsky.social & Hamish's Oasis book launch at @thesociallondon.bsky.social tonight. Come buy a book & have a dance thenewcue.co.uk

On this day in 1947 the Central Line extended from North Acton to Greenford, opening three new stations designed by architect Brian Lewis. Originally drawn up before WWII, the stations were not completed until afterwards, by which time Lewis had returned to his native Australia

Connections gonna work it out, courtesy of @edsimons.bsky.social & Tom (Spoiler that was yesterday’s)

Hey. I've started a Substack letter tracing my recent life, going from brain tumour diagnosis through recovery processes and whatever comes after that. The first letter is up now. You can read it here... and hopefully subscribe to it there. Hope it all makes sense! open.substack.com/pub/acloudab...

Happy birthday, Lana Del Rey 🎈 Enjoyed hanging out at the #QAwards – checks notes – 14 years ago (!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Urb...

The first volume of Rough Trade Records' seven-inch box set is out today, including some sleeve notes by me amongst all the brilliant singles. roughtraderecords.com/wp/2025/04/0...

Godspeed Brian... 📷 Michael Ochs

After 14 years, it's the final Now Playing on 6 Music tonight, but... it's also Tom Robinson's (@tomrobinson.com) 75th birthday today so join us for a party. Get your radio truckin' on tonight, 6 til 8. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

After 14 years, it's the final Now Playing on 6 Music tonight, but... it's also Tom Robinson's (@tomrobinson.com) 75th birthday today so join us for a party. Get your radio truckin' on tonight, 6 til 8. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Oasis’ Don’t Believe The Truth was released 20 years ago today… It was not long after I’d joined NME, and was the first time I interviewed Noel Gallagher which felt like a bit moment for me both as a writer and a teenage fan. It’s a really underrated record, particularly Andy Bell’s bass playing…

RIP to the very best, the absolute GOAT

What’s the opposite of an “omnishambles”? This, a brilliant oral history of The Thick Of It. Great work @timjonze.bsky.social

Terribly sorry to hear about Brian Glanville's passing. An inspiration to generations, but what a man he was too: erudite, deliciously foul-mouthed and wonderful company with tales to last several lifetimes. And he's the only man I'll ever know who went to dinner with Philip Roth.