Simon Price
@simonprice.bsky.social
Biographer of The Cure & Manic Street Preachers
Music critic, ex-Independent/Melody Maker.
Podcaster with Chart Music
History Of Pop lecturer.
DJ at Spellbound
He/Him.
Welsh.
https://linktr.ee/simonprice
Music critic, ex-Independent/Melody Maker.
Podcaster with Chart Music
History Of Pop lecturer.
DJ at Spellbound
He/Him.
Welsh.
https://linktr.ee/simonprice
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“Simon's wonderful book taught me a lot about The Cure, and because I made 37 of their music videos, I know an awful lot already!” - Tim Pope (director).
The perfect Christmas gift for the Goth or Curehead in your life, CUREPEDIA is now fully updated in a paperback second edition. geni.us/Curepedia
The perfect Christmas gift for the Goth or Curehead in your life, CUREPEDIA is now fully updated in a paperback second edition. geni.us/Curepedia
Brilliant stuff from Mic Wright on the UK media's reaction to criticism of Trump's illegal action in Venezuela.
NEW | Trump, Venezuela, and why every critic is being painted as an 'apologist' for dictators…
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Trump, Venezuela, and why every critic is being painted as an 'apologist' for dictators
The right-wing British press had decided anyone who doesn't back Trump must be mad for Maduro.
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January 5, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Brilliant stuff from Mic Wright on the UK media's reaction to criticism of Trump's illegal action in Venezuela.
Right then. Year begins, work begins. Hit me up. Employ me. Writer, DJ, lecturer. I’m good.
January 5, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Right then. Year begins, work begins. Hit me up. Employ me. Writer, DJ, lecturer. I’m good.
For years, my answer to 'Greatest city on earth?' was San Francisco. Then I visited New Orleans and the answer changed. It's a weird feeling that I'll probably never set foot in either again. The millions of Americans who do not support fascism have my solidarity, but I cannot spend my money there.
January 3, 2026 at 9:25 PM
For years, my answer to 'Greatest city on earth?' was San Francisco. Then I visited New Orleans and the answer changed. It's a weird feeling that I'll probably never set foot in either again. The millions of Americans who do not support fascism have my solidarity, but I cannot spend my money there.
Shame on Starmer. You could copy-paste this to a thousand contexts since he came to power, so - for the record - this particular time it’s about Venezuela. Shame on Starmer. I hope some tiny shard of what remains of your conscience haunts you to your grave. About this and countless other things.
January 3, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Shame on Starmer. You could copy-paste this to a thousand contexts since he came to power, so - for the record - this particular time it’s about Venezuela. Shame on Starmer. I hope some tiny shard of what remains of your conscience haunts you to your grave. About this and countless other things.
Julia Donaldson film adaptations ranked.
1 The Snail And The Whale
2 Room On The Broom
3 The Gruffalo
4 Zog
5 Tiddler
6 Tabby McTat
7 Zog & The Flying Doctors
8 The Gruffalo’s Child
9 Stick Man
10 The Highway Rat
11 The Scarecrows’ Wedding
12 Superworm
13 The Smeds & The Smoos
Have I missed any?
1 The Snail And The Whale
2 Room On The Broom
3 The Gruffalo
4 Zog
5 Tiddler
6 Tabby McTat
7 Zog & The Flying Doctors
8 The Gruffalo’s Child
9 Stick Man
10 The Highway Rat
11 The Scarecrows’ Wedding
12 Superworm
13 The Smeds & The Smoos
Have I missed any?
January 3, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Julia Donaldson film adaptations ranked.
1 The Snail And The Whale
2 Room On The Broom
3 The Gruffalo
4 Zog
5 Tiddler
6 Tabby McTat
7 Zog & The Flying Doctors
8 The Gruffalo’s Child
9 Stick Man
10 The Highway Rat
11 The Scarecrows’ Wedding
12 Superworm
13 The Smeds & The Smoos
Have I missed any?
1 The Snail And The Whale
2 Room On The Broom
3 The Gruffalo
4 Zog
5 Tiddler
6 Tabby McTat
7 Zog & The Flying Doctors
8 The Gruffalo’s Child
9 Stick Man
10 The Highway Rat
11 The Scarecrows’ Wedding
12 Superworm
13 The Smeds & The Smoos
Have I missed any?
Rationale: drug trafficking + dodgy elections.
Reality: left wing leader sitting on top of the world’s biggest oil reserves.
Trump couldn’t point to Venezuela on a map.
Guaranteed he’ll install that Nobel-winning Nazi next. And “free and fair elections” will mysteriously vanish from the agenda.
Reality: left wing leader sitting on top of the world’s biggest oil reserves.
Trump couldn’t point to Venezuela on a map.
Guaranteed he’ll install that Nobel-winning Nazi next. And “free and fair elections” will mysteriously vanish from the agenda.
January 3, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Rationale: drug trafficking + dodgy elections.
Reality: left wing leader sitting on top of the world’s biggest oil reserves.
Trump couldn’t point to Venezuela on a map.
Guaranteed he’ll install that Nobel-winning Nazi next. And “free and fair elections” will mysteriously vanish from the agenda.
Reality: left wing leader sitting on top of the world’s biggest oil reserves.
Trump couldn’t point to Venezuela on a map.
Guaranteed he’ll install that Nobel-winning Nazi next. And “free and fair elections” will mysteriously vanish from the agenda.
Not kidding - it is fucking going OFF!
HAPPY NEW YEAR from @spellboundclub.bsky.social! We're having an awesome time at Komedia Brighton, and a little bit of space has now opened up if you fancy joining us. Playing Goth, Post-Punk, New Romantic, Alternative Rock, New Wave, Indie, Synth & Ska 1979-89 (emphasis on party-friendly bangers).
January 1, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Not kidding - it is fucking going OFF!
HAPPY NEW YEAR from @spellboundclub.bsky.social! We're having an awesome time at Komedia Brighton, and a little bit of space has now opened up if you fancy joining us. Playing Goth, Post-Punk, New Romantic, Alternative Rock, New Wave, Indie, Synth & Ska 1979-89 (emphasis on party-friendly bangers).
January 1, 2026 at 12:15 AM
HAPPY NEW YEAR from @spellboundclub.bsky.social! We're having an awesome time at Komedia Brighton, and a little bit of space has now opened up if you fancy joining us. Playing Goth, Post-Punk, New Romantic, Alternative Rock, New Wave, Indie, Synth & Ska 1979-89 (emphasis on party-friendly bangers).
Dancing With Myself not an option.
Counting down to @spellboundclub.bsky.social New Year's Eve Party at Komedia! Advanc3 t!ck3t5 are 50ld 0ut, with none held back for walk-up. However, if you're out in Brighton and fancy adding some Alt-80s to your NYE mix, try us after midnight when space often opens up (watch our socials). HNY! x
December 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Dancing With Myself not an option.
Counting down to @spellboundclub.bsky.social's New Year's Eve Party at Komedia! Advanc3 t!ck3t5 are 50ld 0ut, with none held back for walk-up. However, if you're out in Brighton and fancy adding some Alt-80s to your NYE mix, try us after midnight when space often opens up (watch our socials). HNY! x
December 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Counting down to @spellboundclub.bsky.social's New Year's Eve Party at Komedia! Advanc3 t!ck3t5 are 50ld 0ut, with none held back for walk-up. However, if you're out in Brighton and fancy adding some Alt-80s to your NYE mix, try us after midnight when space often opens up (watch our socials). HNY! x
I feel like it’s too late to give a shit about microplastics, if they’ve been as prevalent for decades as we’re suddenly being told they have. Anyone of my age is already riddled with the fuckers and there’s not a lot we can do about it, retrospectively. Any lifestyle changes will be of minimal use.
December 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I feel like it’s too late to give a shit about microplastics, if they’ve been as prevalent for decades as we’re suddenly being told they have. Anyone of my age is already riddled with the fuckers and there’s not a lot we can do about it, retrospectively. Any lifestyle changes will be of minimal use.
So sorry to hear of the death of The Cure's Perry Bamonte, a former guitar tech who stepped up to become a full member for 15 years, an invaluable Swiss Army knife multi-instrumentalist. Every fan loved seeing him back on board for the Lost World tour. R.I.P. 'Teddy'. Love to his family & friends. x
December 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
So sorry to hear of the death of The Cure's Perry Bamonte, a former guitar tech who stepped up to become a full member for 15 years, an invaluable Swiss Army knife multi-instrumentalist. Every fan loved seeing him back on board for the Lost World tour. R.I.P. 'Teddy'. Love to his family & friends. x
Michael Buble's version of Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) is a hate crime.
December 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Michael Buble's version of Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) is a hate crime.
I'm not saying the Ostalgie is always strong, with me, but two of my Christmas presents (both asked for, and got) are Katja Hoyer's Beyond The Wall, and a 12-pack of Kofola (the Communist cola from Czechoslovakia, developed as an Eastern Bloc alternative to Pepsi and Coke). #Letitgosimonyourguyslost
December 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I'm not saying the Ostalgie is always strong, with me, but two of my Christmas presents (both asked for, and got) are Katja Hoyer's Beyond The Wall, and a 12-pack of Kofola (the Communist cola from Czechoslovakia, developed as an Eastern Bloc alternative to Pepsi and Coke). #Letitgosimonyourguyslost
This kind of Christmas weather - dazzling blue sky, but testicle-shrinkingly cold - is classic Christmas, for me. It's only snowed maybe twice in my life at Christmas. But this, today, is canon.
December 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
This kind of Christmas weather - dazzling blue sky, but testicle-shrinkingly cold - is classic Christmas, for me. It's only snowed maybe twice in my life at Christmas. But this, today, is canon.
Tell you what I still haven’t had this year: anything mulled. What an oversight. Heading to a nearby sports club bar later. If they have anything mulled, I’m going to get mulled out of my tiny mind. I’m gonna be comedian turned TV executive Jimmy Mulville. Wrexham’s Paul Mullin. The Mull of Kintyre.
December 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Tell you what I still haven’t had this year: anything mulled. What an oversight. Heading to a nearby sports club bar later. If they have anything mulled, I’m going to get mulled out of my tiny mind. I’m gonna be comedian turned TV executive Jimmy Mulville. Wrexham’s Paul Mullin. The Mull of Kintyre.
There’s an ad I keep hearing on podcasts where a woman is getting stressed out making Christmas dinner, and her teenage son says “Mum, I, er, made you a playlist on Amazon Music.” God, it is so unintentionally bleak. The whole interaction is so cold and joyless.
Maybe it’s just poor acting, I dunno.
Maybe it’s just poor acting, I dunno.
December 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
There’s an ad I keep hearing on podcasts where a woman is getting stressed out making Christmas dinner, and her teenage son says “Mum, I, er, made you a playlist on Amazon Music.” God, it is so unintentionally bleak. The whole interaction is so cold and joyless.
Maybe it’s just poor acting, I dunno.
Maybe it’s just poor acting, I dunno.
Chris Rea originally wanted to be a journalist, you know.
I’ve just been asked to talk on air about his death, in a text with the sign-off “(LBC News unfortunately doesn’t have a budget for guests).”
I like to imagine that, in my shoes, he’d have gruffly told them to get to absolute fuck.
R.I.P.
I’ve just been asked to talk on air about his death, in a text with the sign-off “(LBC News unfortunately doesn’t have a budget for guests).”
I like to imagine that, in my shoes, he’d have gruffly told them to get to absolute fuck.
R.I.P.
December 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Chris Rea originally wanted to be a journalist, you know.
I’ve just been asked to talk on air about his death, in a text with the sign-off “(LBC News unfortunately doesn’t have a budget for guests).”
I like to imagine that, in my shoes, he’d have gruffly told them to get to absolute fuck.
R.I.P.
I’ve just been asked to talk on air about his death, in a text with the sign-off “(LBC News unfortunately doesn’t have a budget for guests).”
I like to imagine that, in my shoes, he’d have gruffly told them to get to absolute fuck.
R.I.P.
Sometimes, at a certain hour, it turns out that Homosapien by Pete Shelley is hands-down the greatest record of the entire 80s and that’s all there is to it. youtu.be/lQa1dGk--xI?...
Pete Shelley - Homosapien (Official Video)
YouTube video by Domino Recording Co.
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December 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Sometimes, at a certain hour, it turns out that Homosapien by Pete Shelley is hands-down the greatest record of the entire 80s and that’s all there is to it. youtu.be/lQa1dGk--xI?...
GOTH MUSIC FOR GOTH PEOPLE
Announcing the @spellboundclub.bsky.social GOTH SPECIAL! Sat 17 Jan at Komedia Brighton playing the 80s Gothic A-X from Alien Sex Fiend to Xmal Deutschland, via Sisters Bauhaus Cramps etc (plus videos, smoke, snakebite)
Tickets www.komedia.co.uk/shows/spellb...
Info www.facebook.com/events/83588...
Tickets www.komedia.co.uk/shows/spellb...
Info www.facebook.com/events/83588...
December 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
GOTH MUSIC FOR GOTH PEOPLE
Announcing the @spellboundclub.bsky.social GOTH SPECIAL! Sat 17 Jan at Komedia Brighton playing the 80s Gothic A-X from Alien Sex Fiend to Xmal Deutschland, via Sisters Bauhaus Cramps etc (plus videos, smoke, snakebite)
Tickets www.komedia.co.uk/shows/spellb...
Info www.facebook.com/events/83588...
Tickets www.komedia.co.uk/shows/spellb...
Info www.facebook.com/events/83588...
December 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Announcing the @spellboundclub.bsky.social GOTH SPECIAL! Sat 17 Jan at Komedia Brighton playing the 80s Gothic A-X from Alien Sex Fiend to Xmal Deutschland, via Sisters Bauhaus Cramps etc (plus videos, smoke, snakebite)
Tickets www.komedia.co.uk/shows/spellb...
Info www.facebook.com/events/83588...
Tickets www.komedia.co.uk/shows/spellb...
Info www.facebook.com/events/83588...
Our Yuletide Throwdown. Full info: www.facebook.com/events/10108...
December 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Our Yuletide Throwdown. Full info: www.facebook.com/events/10108...
Alternative 80s lovers of Brighton! See you at @spellboundclub.bsky.social Christmas Party at Komedia TONIGHT!
£7 cash at the door (if you don't already have an advance ticket, which are all gone). We'll get you in - we hold back plenty of places for walk-up.
Info: www.facebook.com/events/10108...
£7 cash at the door (if you don't already have an advance ticket, which are all gone). We'll get you in - we hold back plenty of places for walk-up.
Info: www.facebook.com/events/10108...
December 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Alternative 80s lovers of Brighton! See you at @spellboundclub.bsky.social Christmas Party at Komedia TONIGHT!
£7 cash at the door (if you don't already have an advance ticket, which are all gone). We'll get you in - we hold back plenty of places for walk-up.
Info: www.facebook.com/events/10108...
£7 cash at the door (if you don't already have an advance ticket, which are all gone). We'll get you in - we hold back plenty of places for walk-up.
Info: www.facebook.com/events/10108...
Usual shizzle, but with added Waitresses, Pogues, mince pies and Christmas crackers...
Alternative 80s lovers of Brighton! See you at @spellboundclub.bsky.social Christmas Party at Komedia TOMORROW! £7 cash at the door (if you don't already have an advance ticket, which are all gone). We'll get you in - we hold back plenty of places for walk-up. Info: www.facebook.com/events/10108...
December 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Usual shizzle, but with added Waitresses, Pogues, mince pies and Christmas crackers...
Alternative 80s lovers of Brighton! See you at @spellboundclub.bsky.social Christmas Party at Komedia TOMORROW! £7 cash at the door (if you don't already have an advance ticket, which are all gone). We'll get you in - we hold back plenty of places for walk-up. Info: www.facebook.com/events/10108...
December 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Alternative 80s lovers of Brighton! See you at @spellboundclub.bsky.social Christmas Party at Komedia TOMORROW! £7 cash at the door (if you don't already have an advance ticket, which are all gone). We'll get you in - we hold back plenty of places for walk-up. Info: www.facebook.com/events/10108...