Big day tomorrow

#dannythompson playing on Talk Talk seminal album The Colour Of Spring. His double bass on Happiness Is Easy is a workout for any pair of loudspeakers youtu.be/gl4lvJmvqQU?...

RIP Danny Thompson. His beautiful playing runs through British music like letters in a stick of rock.

This is absolutely magnificent. If you're struggling, reach out, you're not alone.

Graffiti in Rome

Afternoon viewing.

Massive

Anthony Gordon's dedication to recreating all of Princess Diana's iconic looks is to be admired

There's a new thing. Called Track Record. Free. No adverts. No clickbait. Just decent writing about sport, music and stuff. I've written a bit about my part in bringing in the curse of VAR. And how home fans have just got to SHUT UP! Give it a go. 😉😀😡 trackrecordmedia.org/2025/09/17/i...

Tonight's washing up soundtrack. A beautiful farewell from @bobpetesarah.bsky.social

Behold a lovely stamp sheet by Chris Ware ... ... where each stamp shows a moment in the day of a postwoman apparently it's the first time anyone has tried to tell a story with a stamp sheet item #1 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free here: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

Tonight's washing up soundtrack

Afternoon viewing

Reunited. RIP Robert Redford

We must unite against those who seek to divide us.

Tonight's washing up soundtrack

Afternoon viewing

Good morning

I've got a minor surgery in a couple of weeks and (probably because of my anxiety) at the moment I'm finding everything exceptionally emotional. I saw a family saying goodbye on the tube today and I almost blubbed, I even welled up watching Gladiator this afternoon.

I nearly missed my train stop because this just came up on a playlist

Off to the BFI Imax

Good morning

I always think a hundred thousand fascists on the streets is a good time for a nominally left-wing prime minister to say something other than “I get it, I too have a flag in my house”

Vintage on train reading. Unbelievably 22 years old.

After years of conversing on a variety of different social media sites I finally managed to meet Tom (and Jake), pleased to confirm that he's just as nice in real life as he is on here.

Tonight's viewing

When I wrote Ancient Heart at 18, I was searching for who I was and where I belonged. Now, at 56, the questions return - no longer about identity, but about my place in England. I can’t wait to share more on October 10th!

@wmarybeard.bsky.social I just wanted to drop you a message of thanks. We have recently returned from a week in Rome and the experience was massively enhanced by having read some of your books and watched some of your tv shows. They added layers to an already fabulous experience. Thank you

Downtown Manhattan with World Trade Center towers, seen from 'lover's lane' in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. 1983. By Thomas Hoepker

The moment that you realise that you've begun to climb out of the deep funk that you've allowed yourself to fall into.

David Bowie, Dorchester Hotel, London. October 1977. 📷 Barry Plummer.

My latest monthly playlist is now up on Spotify. A round up of the sounds that have made the modern world slightly tolerable over the last few weeks. Summer is well represented but there are a few things that hint at the chill to come

Iggy Pop, Berlin, 1978. 📷 Esther Friedman

'Now we are all in Guernica' by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.

Japanese poster for 'The Man who fell to Earth'

You know when you can't get a tune out of your head? Sometimes it also happens with goals. Today's retro gem is this cracker by Josimar against Northern Ireland at the 86 World Cup.

My latest monthly playlist is now up on Spotify. A round up of the sounds that have made the modern world slightly tolerable over the last few weeks. Summer is well represented but there are a few things that hint at the chill to come

A lovely evening at Rough Trade listening to @petepaphides.bsky.social interview @bobpetesarah.bsky.social

Newly added to the word pile. An enthusiastic audit of new exciting music things, including the utterly life-affirming (and somewhat emotional) new album by Saint Etienne – released TODAY! www.patreon.com/posts/whats-...

A tremendous piece by @juderogers.bsky.social

There's a very good (free) exhibition of photographs of Blondie at the Barbican at the moment. I think it's on until January.

Richard Vernon was only 39 when he played the commuter harassed by The Beatles in 'A Hard Days Night'.

Squeeze are playing in the park that's 15 minutes walk from my house and are being amazing

At the same time we were starting to marvel at the concept of a remote control without a wire, and the possibility of getting a fourth TV channel look what they had in the States. It's almost as big as him, we'd have had to have taken windows out to get that in the front room.

Hot dog seller, New York 1963 by Evelyn Hofer. Kodachrome has such a fantastic look to it.

Underworld live in Burgess Park from a few weeks ago. A stunning set.

“I always wanted to experience everything and go down swinging. Well, so far, so good. I know I'm old, but I feel young. And there's one thing they can never take away: Nobody had more fun than I did" Burt Reynolds passed away on this day seven years ago .