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Mark Savage

@mrdiscopop.bsky.social

BBC Music correspondent, occasional songwriter. Lady Gaga once told me a story about blueberry coffee that’s unprintable anywhere.

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Well, that’s very kind of you. 💜

01.03.2026 10:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you! Helps that they are both insanely smart.

01.03.2026 10:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Here's my write-up of last night's Brit Awards. One of the best shows in a while, I reckon.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

01.03.2026 09:48 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1
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Big night out at the 2026 #britawards with my excellent co-presenter Lola Schroer, Noel Gallaghe and Olivia Dean.

But most important of all - I got a hug from Rosalía ♥️ 💃🏻

01.03.2026 02:28 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

Live TV, eh? I think we scraped by…. just

01.03.2026 00:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Live From The BRIT Awards Red Carpet A front row seat to the UK's biggest music awards red carpet live from Manchester

Brits Red carpet live stream

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

28.02.2026 18:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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It’s Brit Awards day! Catch us on the red carpet live stream from 5:30 tonight on the BBC News website.

28.02.2026 08:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Olivia Dean warms Manchester up for the Brits with a small, but radiant show The star, nominated for five prizes at the Brits, plays a low-key gig to get Manchester in the mood.

Breaking news: Olivia Dean is quite good
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

27.02.2026 09:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The 1990 Yearbook includes the greatest interview in the history of music journalism

26.02.2026 18:59 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Some real deep cuts in there. They dedicated Aurora (Taylor’s favourite track) to Alison, who was in the audience. Very moving.

26.02.2026 17:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Just a little Wednesday night out with Foo Fighters.

25.02.2026 23:08 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Phil Collins and Oasis nominated for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Jeff Buckley, Lauryn Hill, Pink, Shakira and Mariah Carey are also among the 17 nominees this year.

Superb list of nominees for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Suspect Oasis might make the cut after last year's tour (this is their third nomination).

Phil Collins and Shakira should really be waved through the entrance with no further questions.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

25.02.2026 14:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Such a coup!

25.02.2026 13:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bonus clip from my PinkPantheress interview - all about her quiz show debut on The Weakest Link.

25.02.2026 13:12 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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John Davidson Gives First Interview and Explains Tourette’s Tics After Shouting N-Word and Other Slurs at BAFTAs: ‘I Felt a Wave of Shame’ (EXCLUSIVE) John Davidson's explains Tourette's tics and the BAFTA N-word incident in his first exclusive interview with Variety.

Fantastic interview. Everyone should read it:

25.02.2026 02:47 — 👍 622    🔁 307    💬 22    📌 27

Hope it goes well, Jane. Tell them what’s what.

25.02.2026 07:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
It Only Tuesday

It Only Tuesday

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

24.02.2026 20:43 — 👍 6827    🔁 1816    💬 78    📌 105
Tweet that reads Leo Xander
@STALLEON
Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V
- it is bigger
than the car

Tweet that reads Leo Xander @STALLEON Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V - it is bigger than the car

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

24.02.2026 04:50 — 👍 25240    🔁 6315    💬 6    📌 110
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Favourite cinema signs

23.02.2026 19:50 — 👍 2175    🔁 871    💬 6    📌 33
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An astonished PinkPantheress learns she’s the first woman to win best producer at the Brit Awards.

23.02.2026 17:21 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 2

So many moral panics about violent videogames, not enough about how the Sims has cursed a generation of interior designers:

22.02.2026 20:53 — 👍 241    🔁 28    💬 44    📌 2

Look at his beautiful face 😍

21.02.2026 10:54 — 👍 82    🔁 7    💬 11    📌 0

I really enjoyed it. The final thought, in particular. They’re a great band who’ve frequently thought themselves into a corner - but there’s something compelling about Bono’s bullheaded belief in confronting evil, even when it’s to his own detriment.

19.02.2026 18:37 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

People who do not eat pork pies will die of pork pie deficiency, says pork pie salesman.

18.02.2026 22:45 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Pancake on the streets of London. Pancake on the streets of Birmingham.

04.03.2025 14:32 — 👍 285    🔁 62    💬 8    📌 6

Bonus points if Maryam is your partner and ends the routine by flipping the bird.

15.02.2026 21:55 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

iconic shot of Lucas Pinheiro Braathen on the podium

14.02.2026 16:15 — 👍 4136    🔁 1088    💬 30    📌 163
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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022

Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

14.02.2026 03:13 — 👍 12802    🔁 3443    💬 125    📌 233

Maybe I will 😜

13.02.2026 21:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Video games, but with bacon

13.02.2026 13:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0