Stephen Troussé

Thanks Ian, much appreciated!

Soft Cell: “I suppose you could say it was a strange career path. But there were some amusing moments…” Soft Cell's Marc Almond and Dave Ball confess all: “It was sex, drugs and electronic rock’n’roll!”

www.uncut.co.uk/features/sof... Pleased to see that @uncutmagazine.bsky.social have shared my 2018 interview with Dave & Marc. One of the very greatest British pop groups. 🙌

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere – a sentimental take on Bruce’s own private Nebraska Jeremy Allen White brings wildness and wonder to this solid Boss biopic

I reviewed the new Bruce biopic www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/film...

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere – a sentimental take on Bruce’s own private Nebraska Jeremy Allen White brings wildness and wonder to this solid Boss biopic

I reviewed the new Bruce biopic www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/film...

Ivor and RB united at last youtu.be/Oxl2sWuKjJ0

I wrote about One Battle After Another - the breakneck blockbuster that 2025 deserves

One Battle After Another reviewed: sensational and hysterical take on Pynchon’s counterculture yarn With his new film, One Battle After Another, director Paul Thomas Anderson rises to the challenge of his times

One Battle After Another reviewed: Paul Thomas Anderson's sensational and hysterical take on Thomas Pynchon’s counterculture yarn.

Every beat of my heart This is the bass-drum head from the kit I used as a member of an R&B band in 1964-65. Last week, two days after I’d taken it to the recycling centre as part of a general clearout of super…

A very moving column by one of the most elegant of our music and sports writers, Richard Williams. thebluemoment.com/2025/09/09/e...

Suede's Antidepressants reviewed: Britpop outliers on exhilarating, grandiose form Brett and the boys set the controls for the heart of darkness on resurgent 10th album

Greatly enjoyed raving about the very gothic new @suedehq.bsky.social album in @uncutmagazine.bsky.social www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/sued...

Was an absolute pleasure talking to @bradmehldaumusic.com about the enduring magic of #elliottsmith

A Crow The summer grows late, cool, ragged, precious. Clouds like ungainly brooms are sweeping showers across the slates. On a dripping lamp-standard a crow hunches, flaps, hunches. The young painter with his ring of white sings as he hops in and out of the rain. The sun bursts what it has been saving so suddenly, so brilliantly, we are smiling. It is August still. The leaves hang fast and glisten. If there were no seasons, who would be singing? If there was no weather, who would be painting? If there was no earth turning, we darkly, partly think, no crow would have a lawn to stamp on or Aristarchus any globe to dandle. As not to be born is worst – a crow will tell you, a worm will tell you – not to be created crosses galaxies like a shadow of horror. But created they are; born, I and the painter; really wet ruffled shiny black half-happy the feathers of the raucous-hearted clatterer.

The summer grows late, cool, ragged, precious.
Clouds like ungainly brooms are sweeping showers across the slates ...

— ‘A Crow’ by #EdwinMorgan, published in Sweeping Out the Dark (Carcanet, 1994)

The cover of the new Uncut magazine featuring David Bowie

A review of the new Suede lp in Uncut magazine

A review of Stevie Wonder live at Hyde Park in Uncut magazine

Reviews of m new films in Uncut magazine

Gorgeous new issue of @uncutmagazine.bsky.social includes my words on Bowie in the USA, Suede, Stevie Wonder and this month’s best movies 🎉

✊🏽 #peterperret

No Drimble Wedge and the Vegetation, no credibility.

I did a search for sailability centres, and the ones that offer windsurfing seem to be in north and west London…

find.rya.org.uk/new/?affilia...

Kendrick and SZA last night the best partnership a Spurs stadium has seen since the glory days of Kane & Son, Keano & Berbs, Gilzean & Greaves. My review in Uncut is here www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/live...

“Rodrigues gives us the fairy story: how a sickly boy from Middle England heard voices in the hedgerows, dived headlong into the 1970s art scene and eventually, through the power of love, transformed themselves into a pandrogynous international art monster. “ - my review of the new GPO doc 👇

What a perfect evening with Stevie and @annalisadinn.bsky.social

YouTube video by My Ajji's Kitchen Maracas de Pollo Recipe ~ Episode 254 - Happy Cinco de Mayo

Baggy chicken maracas www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtKC...

Feel that today he would have to add whole new entry on the somatic shame of *cringe* to the lover’s discourse

I expect this thread to become national news this week. Excellent, as well as infuriating, public service

It may be that the genre they really fit into is the terrace anthem. They made their name with songs to sing when you were winning, when you were young and it didn’t take much more than cigarettes and alcohol to make you feel like you were a rock and roll star. Like New Labour, they’ve benefited from the good fortune of ten years of relative plenty. But really, the great football songs are the ones you sing when you’re losing – when you’re relegated to the third division, or you’ve been twatted at home by United or your club’s been taken over by criminal plutocrats. They’re songs that give you heart, in spite of it all – “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles”, “Blue Moon”, “You’ll Never Walk Alone”. As their audience slump into middle age, and recession looms, when folk might lose their homes, their jobs and more, it may be that Oasis’s biggest challenge is to give their audience something to sing along to when there’s not much else else to shout about. Are they up to it? Are they still mad for it?

Remember making a similar point reviewing their 2008 album! www.uncut.co.uk/news/oasis-d...

Ari Aster’s forthcoming Covid western, Eddington, is very much in this genre

Actually shocked at how badly you have treated your copy of this beautiful book 😢

If Liverpool sign this chap from Naples and he sets up a goal for the reds’ Colombian striker, can I just say (in advance): ‘Osimhen… Diaz… look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.’

You're a Bunch of Cowards! We're all laughing at you.

Cops-- pathetic. Fuck off.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/youre-a-bu...

Prefab Sprout: Steve McQueen [Legacy Edition] The defining record of 1985 sophisto-pop, now remastered and reissued with an extra disc of new acoustic renditions by the band's singer and songwriter Paddy McAloon.

Great stuff - made some similar points in my pitchfork review way back when... "For a year or two, just before Live Aid and Q magazine, the challenge of making new pop for grown-ups without being dowdy, smug, or jaded was met, quite superbly." pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Arne Slot reveals music legend who is inspiring him to further success Though Jurgen Klopp will be at Anfield on Sunday to witness Liverpool's Premier League trophy lift, it's the original 'Boss' who is inspiring Arne Slot to more glory.

"In a way, Bruce was the original mentality monster..." www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba...

The moment I saw this picture on RAWK I thought of you. 🙏