John Earls

Aged well!

PHWOAR.

INDEED.

Freddie’s older brother Dan sometimes posted about his love of Farage-era UKIP when he was at Luton. What a delightful pair.

Can you jinx Woolwich from winning the title?

You jinxed any more goals, damn you.

The Quireboys, Milton Keynes Pitz, 1990.

The Guardian kept Steve Bell on for way longer than it should have done, so let’s not pretend the left has any kind of moral high ground on antisemitism.
Nowhere is the horseshoe theory more demonstrable than the treatment of Jewish people.

StubHub apologizes for mix-up involving heavy metal band Lamb of God, Christian concert StubHub’s website apparently confused a Christian concert called “Andrew Peterson’s Behold the Lamb of God” with the heavy metal band Lamb of God.

This is an *incredible* story. kfor.com/news/stubhub...

Oh yeah! Guesses? Or have you been informed?

Dispiriting to see everyone commenting on Davie are either (i) He got Trump, Israel AND trans wrong, the BBC has been hijacked by woke or (ii) He was a Tory shill and that internal BBC report was planted by Reform.
I wish those going feral would see there’s an equally probably wrong polar opposite.

Radiohead: ‘The wheels had come off a bit. We had to stop’ In their only interview ahead of their comeback tour, the band discuss 40 years of making ‘weird’ music, their new teenage fans and why Thom Yorke wouldn’t play Israel again (but Jonny Greenwood would...

Excellent Radiohead interview from Jonathan Dean in The Sunday Times.

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A pleasure! Mark and the book made it a right royal treat.

Mad that BBC4 is showing the Mercury on such a time delay. Why? How is this going to revive it? I wonder who it could be? Tsk, etc.

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…

Autechre Tee (Pre-order) • Rob and Sean down by the river • Strictly limited edition as always • Pre-order • Shipping mid June • One colour print. Hand screen printed in...

Here y’are.

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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.