John Earls

As the husband of a Wolves fan: you spawny gets.

Tony Hadley tells a great story of Beastie Boys challenging Spandau Ballet to a drinking contest in the Fight For Your Right days.
It went as you’d guess, Ad-Rock turning green and all.

Happy London Film Festival booking day to all who celebrate. May you receive a low booking number in the queue.

A run-up like that followed by a penalty like that will always be Del Boy at the bar comedy gold.

You’re welcome, it was a delight to learn the album is finally getting its time again.

Paul Young - No Parlez interview With No Parlez Paul Young took over the charts in 1983 - here we talk with the singer about his genre-spanning debut

Fancy a long read on one of the most oddly overlooked best-sellers?
Here’s the oral history of No Parlez, with Paul Young, Pino Palladino, Laurie Latham AND The Fabulous Wealthy Tarts.

Are you coming to London for the It Couldn’t Happen Here/Battleship Potemkin/Neil Tennant Q&A triple bill at BFI? PSB filth, that.

£5 - The Assembly
£10 - Depeche Mode
£20 - Erasure
£50 - Yazoo

An even better joke than the cloaca gag.

I saw The National supporting REM at Brixton Academy c2007. Maybe there was a formal handover ceremony…

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Arsenal fans no doubt still going all in on the St Totterinngham’s Day Trophy.

Ha! Well I…

Richard Ashcroft was at Gardener’s World? Actual blimey.

Hiya. I've lost a sizeable chunk of work. Commissioning me to write you some words would be very helpful right now - I'll do anything on rock, metal and alternative culture, issues in the world of music, and I write bios too. Find me at emmabwilkes at gmail dot com.

I didn’t see this coming, but this is fabulous news. One of the funniest corners of the PSB canon.

No worries, thanks for letting me know.

Solbakken was Wolves manager when we beat them in the FA Cup when we were non-league in 2012.
Petty sod certainly knows how to bear a grudge.

@skipcollins.bsky.social Hi Skip. A random question - are you the Skip who was previously singer in Hohokam, please? (I’m trying to track that Skip down for a magazine feature.) Sorry if it’s not you!

Agreed. Mad they’re not on streaming. S1 totally holds up, not seen S2 in forever.

Minimum wage for a 9-5 full time job (40 hours a week) is, as of today, £25,396 a year for anyone over 21.

Which is why it's amazing to see journalism jobs requiring a degree, job experience, and driving licence advertised at a "competitive salary" of £22,380. tindlenews.co.uk/careers/jour...

I agree with Becky Hill about Jack Whitehall’s snobbery here.
Having him as Brits host is indicative that the music industry has no real qualms about freezing out working-class talent.

My dad recently found some band tees I left behind when I moved out in 1993. He now does the gardening in a Beastie Boys tee that I suspect is worth ££££, but he’s 83 and the image is worth every penny.

Damon is such an Mmkay presence these days, I’d love someone to remind him that’s what his merch used to be.

Your @ has somehow changed to ooutoftopic (with the extra o). Quite how that has kidnapped your Twitter details is for techier people. Very rum.

@ladymissbarton.bsky.social Hey. Dunno if you’d be fussed, but your Twitter has been hacked by some spam account, Out Of Topic. You’re now posting random clickbait memes, fwiw!

Fair enough, nicely put.

Hmm, you’re probably correct. It’s just the notion that the problematic thinkers are always on the right that bothers me.

What’s that dismal prick Owen Jones if not a contrarian?