Simon Fellowes
@simonfspeak.bsky.social
Paperback writer. Former singer.
After Moore, Peters and Hurst - Brooking and Bonds were the soul of West Ham United.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
After Moore, Peters and Hurst - Brooking and Bonds were the soul of West Ham United.
Read it and weep. Excellent piece by James Meek on the lack of joined-up thinking in the UK’s industrial policy. Sounds like a dry read but in fact is full of emotion. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n22/james-meek/ten-foot-chopsticks
November 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Read it and weep. Excellent piece by James Meek on the lack of joined-up thinking in the UK’s industrial policy. Sounds like a dry read but in fact is full of emotion. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n22/james-meek/ten-foot-chopsticks
Enjoying watching this Beatles anthology again. If only for the cleaned up footage. George comes across far better with the passage of time. A true rebel and wit.
November 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Enjoying watching this Beatles anthology again. If only for the cleaned up footage. George comes across far better with the passage of time. A true rebel and wit.
See here. Click on link: A short extract from my third and final volume of memoirs 'Lost In America' on my blog. Describes my ill-fated debut gig in the US opening for Cheap Trick. Free to subscribe. simonfspeak.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
See here. Click on link: A short extract from my third and final volume of memoirs 'Lost In America' on my blog. Describes my ill-fated debut gig in the US opening for Cheap Trick. Free to subscribe. simonfspeak.substack.com
I have just published the third and final volume of my music memoirs ‘Lost In America’. It’s the story containing all the famous names.
Available to purchase either on Kindle or Paperback. Just in time for Christmas!
Link here:
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G439PFQX
Available to purchase either on Kindle or Paperback. Just in time for Christmas!
Link here:
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G439PFQX
Lost In America (A Music Memoir)
Buy Lost In America (A Music Memoir) by Fellowes, Simon (ISBN: 9798276143668) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I have just published the third and final volume of my music memoirs ‘Lost In America’. It’s the story containing all the famous names.
Available to purchase either on Kindle or Paperback. Just in time for Christmas!
Link here:
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G439PFQX
Available to purchase either on Kindle or Paperback. Just in time for Christmas!
Link here:
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G439PFQX
Extraordinary that the UK is prepared to live with an 8% annual hit to its economy (£90bn) all because of some puffed up little racist who’s still riding high in the polls.
November 26, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Extraordinary that the UK is prepared to live with an 8% annual hit to its economy (£90bn) all because of some puffed up little racist who’s still riding high in the polls.
The BBC has turned into a version of The Apprentice (ironic as it broadcasts its own iteration of the show) as anyone who manages to displease Donald Trump now finds themselves at risk of being fired.
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The BBC has turned into a version of The Apprentice (ironic as it broadcasts its own iteration of the show) as anyone who manages to displease Donald Trump now finds themselves at risk of being fired.
Farage was just doing that funny racism.
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Farage was just doing that funny racism.
Depressing how right wing commentators, especially the women, refer to it as 'Rachel's' budget. Don't remember them doing the same with 'Jeremy's'.
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Depressing how right wing commentators, especially the women, refer to it as 'Rachel's' budget. Don't remember them doing the same with 'Jeremy's'.
It had to be said. open.substack.com/pub/simonfsp...
IS CLOWN TIME OVER?
The Covid Inquiry - the end? Or the end of the beginning?
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November 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
It had to be said. open.substack.com/pub/simonfsp...
Just watched the Pistols Xmas gig in Huddersfield on YouTube. At their best they were incomparable. There’ll be nothing like it again.
November 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Just watched the Pistols Xmas gig in Huddersfield on YouTube. At their best they were incomparable. There’ll be nothing like it again.
Quicker to read this than listen but the guys make some good points. The main one being if cinema tries to compete with the home entertainment experience it’s buggered. Far wiser to set itself apart.  https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/writers-on-film/id1567023095?i=1000737325983
November 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Quicker to read this than listen but the guys make some good points. The main one being if cinema tries to compete with the home entertainment experience it’s buggered. Far wiser to set itself apart.  https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/writers-on-film/id1567023095?i=1000737325983
Christmas Day is on Christmas Day The budget is on budget day. Badenoch’s like a whiny kid pestering her Mum and Dad in the hope of opening her presents earlier.
November 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Christmas Day is on Christmas Day The budget is on budget day. Badenoch’s like a whiny kid pestering her Mum and Dad in the hope of opening her presents earlier.
Oh flowers of Scotland... open.substack.com/pub/simonfsp...
THE MEANING OF FOOTBALL
How to find joy in the most unlikeliest of places.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Oh flowers of Scotland... open.substack.com/pub/simonfsp...
I'm on a roll. open.substack.com/pub/simonfsp...
DUMBING DOWN
The exhausting stupidity of today's television dramas.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I'm on a roll. open.substack.com/pub/simonfsp...
New blog post: open.substack.com/pub/simonfsp...
DESTABILIZATION
Navigating a path through the everyday madness.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
New blog post: open.substack.com/pub/simonfsp...
Reposted by Simon Fellowes
Lest we forget: great piece by @lionelbarber.bsky.social
David Cameron: The unlikely villain who casually killed the Conservative Party
Brexit was an inflexion point - it polarised the country and paralysed the Tories
inews.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Lest we forget: great piece by @lionelbarber.bsky.social
First episode of Death By Lightning. Matthew Macfadyen knocking it out of the park.
November 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
First episode of Death By Lightning. Matthew Macfadyen knocking it out of the park.
The Daily Mail. Pro Trump anti BBC. I know what side I’m on.
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The Daily Mail. Pro Trump anti BBC. I know what side I’m on.
The script development people at Netflix need to be strung up. The plot device at the end of The Beast in Me is so damn feeble it undermines the entire show.  And the choice of songs for the end credits all the way through was equally rotten. 
November 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The script development people at Netflix need to be strung up. The plot device at the end of The Beast in Me is so damn feeble it undermines the entire show.  And the choice of songs for the end credits all the way through was equally rotten. 
Binged four episodes of that new Claire Danes drama last night. Daft but entertaining. Danes’ face does the acting of at least four people. Matthew Rhys only manages two.
November 16, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Binged four episodes of that new Claire Danes drama last night. Daft but entertaining. Danes’ face does the acting of at least four people. Matthew Rhys only manages two.
George Osborne - has anyone in recent years made such a success of falling upwards?
November 16, 2025 at 8:16 AM
George Osborne - has anyone in recent years made such a success of falling upwards?