Ian Salmon

Fully on board with this, picked up a Squier VI a couple of years ago and it’s a revelation - suddenly I’m Jaco Pastorius!

Boris Johnson without his security details returning from a 'party'

First Andy now Mandy, I'mm not sure about this, I think it sets a dangerous presedence investigating what secret activities people in power get up to that they shouldn't, I mean where will it end?

The George Costanza of L4

Look, if we start arresting every prominent figure in Britain who's suspected of misconduct in public office it would wipe out half the governing class who run everything. So, it's definitely worth doing.

This is incredible. This is why the right always wants to control art.

You’ll undoubtedly already be aware of this but ‘Here’; either the original Richard McGuire book or the Hanks/Zemeckis film adaptation - one location, all of time overlapping

The joys of being old:
Star Wars (1977 -when it opened in England)
Jaws 1975
Close Encounters
Withnail and I
Shawshank Redemption

One question many in Westminster are now pondering is: what sort of politician will Sir Keir be without the man many say was his political brain? Because unlike almost all relationships between prime minister and adviser, Sir Keir did not choose McSweeney - it was arguably the other way around. In the Corbyn years when control of Labour had been lost to the left, McSweeney polled party members and decided that the lawyer and shadow Brexit secretary was his best chance for wrestling back control of his party. In what some claim was an elaborate and perfectly-executed deception, McSweeney managed to persuade pro-Corbyn party members that Sir Keir was one of them. And after winning the leadership, Sir Keir purged many Corbynites - including the former leader himself - and pivoted to a more centrist general election pitch.

I think we can say there’s definitely Noticing Things going on now, at the BBC. You might have got this stuff piecemeal here and there but now they’re just laying it out in blunt terms.

Cheers, much appreciated 🙏

I’ve just weighed myself to make sure - I seriously haven’t 😂

Just catching up on this important thread from George. Bookmarking!

I didn’t get them but he was a lad from Salford who grew up in the nineties supporting Liverpool (had to talk to him, he was wearing a Springsteen t-shirt from the Asbury Park gig last year, which could only be bought at the gig)

I seriously do, I was talking to a couple in Manchester who did the quiz and had Craig on their team

Unsurprisingly also excellent in Manchester on Wednesday night (well worth missing the Qarabag game for)
A wonderful reinvention of his sound with gorgeous band performances and starting the night with ‘Maggie, I’ve been searching…’ was massively powerful

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

Lovely book

Our writing rhythm appears to be extremely similar 😂

Perfect, in both its advice on writing and Fitzgerald’s description of the current issue with our world from his vantage point of a hundred years ago

Absolutely excellent, did a bit of googling and couldn’t believe I’ve ignored them for 30 years (specially as they’re connected to the Neutral Milk Hotel scene)
I’m getting bits of Green On Red, Dream Syndicate and a dash of Conor Oberst vocals.
Exactly my kind of thing

It’s definitely it, there’s still hundreds just at our four turnstiles

I’ve been in the queue since twenty five to, I reckon I’ll be in by half past

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future.

Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.

YouTube video by The Teardrop Explodes - Topic Strange House In The Snow (B-Side)

While The Teardrop Explodes were surfing the jukebox pop wave with the glorious Reward, its b-side was a fabulous way to annoy a pub:

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It’s genuinely a great time to subscribe; the analysis of where the season is going has been excellent, Sunday’s review show was stunning

You clearly haven’t seen the World Cup Draw yet Paul 😂

I’ve caught five minutes of the World Cup Draw. The most embarrassing thing that’s ever happened.

Completely this; the further in time we move be from George, the more obviously, almost effortlessly, brilliant his work becomes.

Review 348 out this morning and we say goodbye to The Stone Roses with Second Coming www.albumsin200words.co.uk/post/348-sto...

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