Eddie Robson

Someone on this train is wearing a scarf that looks so much like mince I did a double take.

Absolutely, in fact I was replying to the follow-up - the point I was trying to make (not very coherently) was that the ones who get the attention for the highest prices are the ones who can afford not to charge them, and that can obscure how artists in the mid tier *do* have to charge them.

It does seem mad that the economics now mean you get to sell loads more tickets at arenas and stadiums AND charge loads more for them.

I know I say this fairly often: people are right to complain concerts are too expensive, but they got that way because a lot of artists started to make almost no money out of their actual records. We have to look really hard at how we pay for music.

I think what's happened is that, while in theory streaming offers boundless choice, in practice most people have clustered around a handful of big artists, who can charge almost any amount because the demand is so huge.

This is what I find grim: newer artists who are making shit all from streaming are the ones you can see for about £20. But you also have a lot of artists in the sort of £30-£75 bracket, and yeah that is a lot more in real terms than it used to be, and they do need to charge that to make a living.

There's definitely a correlation between ticket prices rising and album sales collapsing, though I'd note pretty much *everyone* charging the truly eye-watering prices can afford not to: they're either big enough that their income hasn't collapsed, or legacy artists who've made their money already.

Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

BAFTAs host Alan Cumming criticises BBC after ‘triggering show’ BAFTAs host Alan Cumming has criticised the BBC and labelled the show as a ‘trauma-triggering s*** show’ following a racial slur controversy.

Glad to see Alan Cumming making a statement on the BBC failure:

“I’m so sorry for all the pain Black people have felt hearing that word echoed round the world. I’m so sorry the Tourettes community has been reminded of the lack of understanding and tolerance that abounds regarding their condition."

That does look a LOT like something you'd see in the Adidas Terrace Icons range.

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

Decent strike from Kalinina TBF, and I'm a fan of her 90s indie haircut, she looks like she might have been in Elastica for a week at some point. #UKRENG

An expat in Dubai has a startling revelation: the Stephen Collins cartoon Reality check …

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UK singles chart screenshot 39: Always Everywhere, Charli XCX 40: Wuthering Heights, Kate Bush

Pleasing to see Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights is next to a track from Charli XCX's Wuthering Heights in this week's top 40.

Weird. “Hostility to ethnic minorities en bloc” + “the social policy preferences of the craziest street preacher you can find” are not an attractive combo. Who would have guessed?

Amazing isn't it. Their failure to explain how it happened is quite damning by implication: they know full well how this happened, and they don't want to say it. I feel like they should have to say it.

I usually go for two or three runs a week. Just counted up the posts on this hashtag and I've only done eight so far this year, thanks to a constant stream of illnesses. Hopefully I'll actually make it to the end of the series by the summer though.

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Goon Show, Series 9, I Was Monty's Treble The British hatch a cunning plan to confuse the Germans. But who (or what) is Eccles?

Goon Show 9.2: I Was Monty's Treble. Spoofs tended to provide useful structure for Milligan, and this loose spoof of the film I Was Monty's Double works well, with a good punchline. Contains a sound effect which foreshadows Major Bloodnok's Stomach. #GoonForARun www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

However it's a strong start to the series, with the gleefully stupid premise that as the Russians don't know what effect an atom bomb would have on a nude Welshman holding a rice pudding, the British can gain an advantage over them by finding out. #GoonForARun

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Goon Show, Series 9, The Sahara Desert Statue What is Eccles doing with a cement sack and an imaginary piano? Starring Spike Milligan.

Goon Show 9.1: The Sahara Desert Statue. Rather loose and miscellaneous even by Goon standards, with the plot not even beginning until after Geldray's number, rather like the earlier episodes where the notion of episodes with a story was only just forming. #GoonForARun www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Also, the boob hypnosis stuff is misinformation put out by The Sun. A journalist asked him specifically to make her *think* her boobs had grown, he initially refused but agreed to try it. Cool to see Smart Thinkers(tm) run with that.

I'm always fascinated by how much people love to hear stories about creativity being easy. Classic songs written in ten minutes based on a riff the guitarist doodled between songs, that sort of thing. Stories about it being a long and difficult process are less popular, oddly.

They’ve hit 9 hospitals in Iran so far, including a maternity ward. Remember that the next time they try to sell you some bullshit about “the most moral army”

Ask the public what services they want to cut, or what services they're happy to be rubbish, and you get a very different set of answers.

They'll say cut foreign aid, ofc, but that's all but gone already. What next?

Totally, having two guys who are watchable in anything helps.

Yeah there isn't one in my parents' village any more, and there used to be a couple when I was growing up. I'm always baffled there isn't one in Looe, where my in-laws live: you'd think people in a seaside town would buy magazines, but no.

Anecdotally I do know someone who used to vote Tory and is a natural Tory who became a Green counsellor a few years ago, and it made more sense than them going Labour.

The amount of events and festivals around the country using genAI for their promotional images is slightly maddening. All about supporting local, except their local artists.

Watched this last year, story is decent but the location work and music sequences are stellar.