Fergal Kinney
@fergalkinney.bsky.social
Culture Editor of Tribune / also writes at New Statesman, The Guardian, The Quietus, The Face
ah good tip! But I’m firmly over in the Cornishware camp now, got this last week - made in England, 12oz so commands a decent glug, and crucially has that same weightiness as the now Partridge-approved French cookware merchants
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
ah good tip! But I’m firmly over in the Cornishware camp now, got this last week - made in England, 12oz so commands a decent glug, and crucially has that same weightiness as the now Partridge-approved French cookware merchants
crucial here is Smith appearing in Mark Aerial Waller’s short films Glow Boys and as the spectral Caterer in Midwatch (sample dialogue: “these conditions are worse than in Nelson’s time”, Smith: “in Nelson’s time there *were* no conditions!”
October 31, 2025 at 9:16 AM
crucial here is Smith appearing in Mark Aerial Waller’s short films Glow Boys and as the spectral Caterer in Midwatch (sample dialogue: “these conditions are worse than in Nelson’s time”, Smith: “in Nelson’s time there *were* no conditions!”
London 13/09/2025
September 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
London 13/09/2025
Jill Dando’s Car. 13 miles from new. A horror story (Swanley, Kent)
September 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Jill Dando’s Car. 13 miles from new. A horror story (Swanley, Kent)
the Michael Jackson Thames statue for people who tell you that Northside were the last great Factory band
July 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
the Michael Jackson Thames statue for people who tell you that Northside were the last great Factory band
this is a phrase I try and use sparingly but wish Mark E Smith was around to see the Oasis drone light installation above Prestwich
July 11, 2025 at 10:58 AM
this is a phrase I try and use sparingly but wish Mark E Smith was around to see the Oasis drone light installation above Prestwich
it wasn’t this guy was it? I was watching this for a while, quite limited Friday night entertainment!
July 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
it wasn’t this guy was it? I was watching this for a while, quite limited Friday night entertainment!
thin end of a wedge where the other side is a staff member in a charity shop recently repeating my own words back at me in a lobotomised comedy northern drawl, or the local government boss who thought it hilarious to do the same to a younger female colleague in meetings. Hate this shit!
July 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
thin end of a wedge where the other side is a staff member in a charity shop recently repeating my own words back at me in a lobotomised comedy northern drawl, or the local government boss who thought it hilarious to do the same to a younger female colleague in meetings. Hate this shit!
Stereophonic for people who like Stereophonics
June 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Stereophonic for people who like Stereophonics
rewatched Love and Mercy last night and it’s pleasing how 2010s-y it’s vision of the 1960s now appears: Van Dyke Parks looks like some indie boy Brooklyn love interest for Marnie on Girls
June 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
rewatched Love and Mercy last night and it’s pleasing how 2010s-y it’s vision of the 1960s now appears: Van Dyke Parks looks like some indie boy Brooklyn love interest for Marnie on Girls
quite like the painting but has something of the Bad Noel Gallagher Tattoo about it
June 13, 2025 at 8:34 AM
quite like the painting but has something of the Bad Noel Gallagher Tattoo about it
more writing! Prefab Sprout’s Steve McQueen is 40.
For @thequietus.com I looked at how the unusual union of Paddy McAloon and Thomas Dolby created an album that would influence Arthur Russell and Caroline Polachek, closer to Thriller than it’s indie contemporaries.
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
For @thequietus.com I looked at how the unusual union of Paddy McAloon and Thomas Dolby created an album that would influence Arthur Russell and Caroline Polachek, closer to Thriller than it’s indie contemporaries.
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
June 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
more writing! Prefab Sprout’s Steve McQueen is 40.
For @thequietus.com I looked at how the unusual union of Paddy McAloon and Thomas Dolby created an album that would influence Arthur Russell and Caroline Polachek, closer to Thriller than it’s indie contemporaries.
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
For @thequietus.com I looked at how the unusual union of Paddy McAloon and Thomas Dolby created an album that would influence Arthur Russell and Caroline Polachek, closer to Thriller than it’s indie contemporaries.
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
me reading the three Oasis books
June 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
me reading the three Oasis books
in this week’s New Statesman with longish Stereolab piece
June 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
in this week’s New Statesman with longish Stereolab piece
why does this look like a MailOnline graphic about notorious offenders being given early release back into the community under Labour
May 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
why does this look like a MailOnline graphic about notorious offenders being given early release back into the community under Labour
failed to sell at the time, was deleted and they want back to more conventional sofa releases before an eventual reappraisal - probably tbh at the expense of the bleaker, more grandly experimental 3 seater - thanks to interventions by the likes of Marc Almond and Julian Cope
May 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
failed to sell at the time, was deleted and they want back to more conventional sofa releases before an eventual reappraisal - probably tbh at the expense of the bleaker, more grandly experimental 3 seater - thanks to interventions by the likes of Marc Almond and Julian Cope
if Paddy McAloon hadn’t dropped out of the seminary and became the hip priest he never really stopped looking like
May 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
if Paddy McAloon hadn’t dropped out of the seminary and became the hip priest he never really stopped looking like
great to learn that the Hungarian word for blade is the same as South East London’s finest charity shop suburb
April 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM
great to learn that the Hungarian word for blade is the same as South East London’s finest charity shop suburb
was reading this interaction on Nick Cave’s Red Hand Files and…I don’t think Carol from Blackburn was being a dick at all? I think Cave should empathised more with why someone in Blackburn might be frustrated by extreme wealth and celebrity? Maybe resentment in this case is actually a useful thing?
April 9, 2025 at 8:59 AM
was reading this interaction on Nick Cave’s Red Hand Files and…I don’t think Carol from Blackburn was being a dick at all? I think Cave should empathised more with why someone in Blackburn might be frustrated by extreme wealth and celebrity? Maybe resentment in this case is actually a useful thing?
I do not have £475 to spend on a single book, but saw this on eBay - a Hungarian first edition of BS Johnson’s The Unfortunates made out to June Tillinghast, the widow of Tony Tillinghast whose death aged 29 inspired the novel - and I don’t know, surely that’s a very important thing to exist
April 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I do not have £475 to spend on a single book, but saw this on eBay - a Hungarian first edition of BS Johnson’s The Unfortunates made out to June Tillinghast, the widow of Tony Tillinghast whose death aged 29 inspired the novel - and I don’t know, surely that’s a very important thing to exist
this 2013 Popjustice interview with Neil Tennant - conducted in the PSB memorabilia dungeon, no less - is glorious
March 31, 2025 at 10:36 AM
this 2013 Popjustice interview with Neil Tennant - conducted in the PSB memorabilia dungeon, no less - is glorious
Chappell Roan in the new single promo pic looking like she's announcing an ambitious package of fibre-optic telecoms investment in a traditionally bellweather marginal constituency
March 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Chappell Roan in the new single promo pic looking like she's announcing an ambitious package of fibre-optic telecoms investment in a traditionally bellweather marginal constituency
when you are from the north it’s always hilarious when someone does a comedy northern impression at you, especially as the opening gambit on a professional interview context, it’s always really funny
March 8, 2025 at 10:04 AM
when you are from the north it’s always hilarious when someone does a comedy northern impression at you, especially as the opening gambit on a professional interview context, it’s always really funny
do you take requests Harry? Specifically curious what you think the Hungarian liberal opposition upstart Peter Magyar looks like, which I spend a disproportionate amount of time thinking about
March 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
do you take requests Harry? Specifically curious what you think the Hungarian liberal opposition upstart Peter Magyar looks like, which I spend a disproportionate amount of time thinking about