The new Blitz Club exhibition @designmuseum.bsky.social. All about the birth of the New Romantics.

Week off post Glasto and while cleaning my garage found my first interview with Oasis from Oct 94.
I was an exchange student at @penn in Philadelphia, writing for the student paper @dailypenn’s arts section @34ST

Saw them play a pub that night. Was deaf for a week.

My favourite things to do whilst cooking: set Pretty Random app to 1-500, give it a shake and play which ever album in Rolling Stones’ Top 500 albums comes up. Tonight 497: The Indestructible Beat of Soweto. It is basically Graceland the year before it was out. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Just had my most cringe Dad moment for a long time. Asked my boys why on earth they were talking about 1980s cricketer Mike Gatting. They weren’t. Turns out “My gyatting” is a buzz phrase at their schools. They now know more about Shakoor Rana than they did 5 minutes ago.

Farewell 2024- the year we found out Al Pacino uses a Shrek mobile phone cover.

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I was interviewing him about his autobiography Sonny Boy and it was turned into a one hour programme. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

This was possibly my favourite moment of the year. I was broadcasting live from Glastonbury, when 5 year old Elske grabbed my microphone as she had an announcement to make.

“Toby Ogden” - I hope you have a fantastic 2025.

Remarkable viewing figures for the Gavin & Stacey finale: 12.3 million.

Five years ago the overnight audience was 11.6 million, growing to a 28 day figure of 18.4 million (with those catching up on iPlayer etc).

Paul McCartney in Manchester tonight was simply magnificent. To hear that back catalogue being sung with such utter enthusiasm by someone who is 82, was staggering.

I wasn’t expecting my first post on BlueSky to be about Che Adams, but his winner for Torino last night, away to Empoli, is surely Serie A’s goal of the season. Scots are all over that league.