John Harris

Further to today's tickets piece, here's more absurdity

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It is!

The best gig I ever saw cost £4. Spiralling concert prices are a cultural disaster | John Harris Tickets for big tours have vastly outstripped inflation, while smaller artists and venues struggle. The magic is in danger of being snuffed out entirely, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Latest from me: the era of the £100+ gig ticket spells cultural disaster www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The stuff in it about autism is shockingly bad.

Really looking forward to interviewing @johnharris1969.bsky.social @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social. #MaybeImAmazed is my personal choice for book of the year; a tender, deeply moving memoir about music and autism — and essential reading!

Thanks Frank! See you on Sunday

Yeah, America famously was politically correct in Vietnam.

Yes

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

A point not heard often enough is that the Labour Party was founded on a civil liberties issue www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Thank you!

John Harris: Maybe I’m Amazed - It's On In Bradford When prize-winning writer and journalist John Harris’s son James was diagnosed with autism, it was music – The Beatles, Kraftwerk, Funkadelic, The Velvet Underground and more – that became a source of...

Next weekend I'm going to be talking about my book Maybe I'm Amazed, music, neurodivergence & more at two festivals
Saturday: Durham, chaired by Paul Smith from Maximo Park galadurham.co.uk/galapost/joh...
Sunday: Ilkley itsoninbradford.co.uk/events/john-...

I made it! He was great

So chuffed to hear this. Thank you!!

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

Yes!

BBC World Service - Witness History, Britain's Worst Ever Nuclear Accident A nuclear reactor in the north of England caught fire in 1957.

This is about my Dad, who was among the few people left on-site for the Windscale nuclear accident of 1957. Quite the story www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

About 30 mins. It was magnificent

Get in ... I arrive to I Can't Help Myself

Birmingham. Will I make it to Bath to see Edwyn Collins? I say YES

Birmingham. Will I make it to Bath to see Edwyn Collins? I say YES

You wouldn't say that if you'd clapped eyes on Napier Barracks

Thank you SO MUCH

PM claim of SEND reform invitation is rejected by opponents Conservatives and Liberal Democrats reject Sir Keir Starmer’s insistence that he invited political parties to collaborate on SEND reform

Ah. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

This is why mixed messaging doesn't work. Everyone ends up annoyed.

Thank you

Jersey festival of words was a blast. Six months on from publication day, Maybe I'm Amazed is still drawing audiences with experiences to share & brilliant questions to ask. Thanks to the organisers & particularly Chris Stone for such a great interview

Thank you!

Went to see John Harris today at the Jersey Festival of Words. Excellent, often moving, discussion. See other locations below.