Gary Ryan
@garyryanfreelance.bsky.social
Freelance journalist. Words for NME, The Telegraph, Big Issue, and more.
NME ‘Does Rock N Roll Kill Braincells?’ columnist - https://www.nme.com/tag/does-rock-n-roll-kill-braincells
Cuttings: whatarew0rdsworth.wordpress.com
garyryanfreelance@gmail.com
NME ‘Does Rock N Roll Kill Braincells?’ columnist - https://www.nme.com/tag/does-rock-n-roll-kill-braincells
Cuttings: whatarew0rdsworth.wordpress.com
garyryanfreelance@gmail.com
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“Keith Richards held a sword on me – then threatened to throw me in his moat” For the final @nme.com trivia-challenge of 2025, I quizzed Evan Dando
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Evan Dando: “Tim Robbins once mistook me for Kurt Cobain”
In Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!, we quiz an artist on their own career to see how much they can remember. This week: Evan Dando
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December 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
“Keith Richards held a sword on me – then threatened to throw me in his moat” For the final @nme.com trivia-challenge of 2025, I quizzed Evan Dando
www.nme.com/features/mus...
www.nme.com/features/mus...
“Keith Richards held a sword on me – then threatened to throw me in his moat” For the final @nme.com trivia-challenge of 2025, I quizzed Evan Dando
www.nme.com/features/mus...
www.nme.com/features/mus...
Evan Dando: “Tim Robbins once mistook me for Kurt Cobain”
In Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!, we quiz an artist on their own career to see how much they can remember. This week: Evan Dando
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December 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
“Keith Richards held a sword on me – then threatened to throw me in his moat” For the final @nme.com trivia-challenge of 2025, I quizzed Evan Dando
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"We saw people eating monkeys' brains!" In 1985, a 15-year-old student sued her school for showing her a class a video that purported to show real deaths. With a Charli XCX-featuring reboot on the horizon, I wrote about the legacy of mondo horror Faces of Death for the Telegraph
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December 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
"We saw people eating monkeys' brains!" In 1985, a 15-year-old student sued her school for showing her a class a video that purported to show real deaths. With a Charli XCX-featuring reboot on the horizon, I wrote about the legacy of mondo horror Faces of Death for the Telegraph
archive.is/Y1DAN
archive.is/Y1DAN
"We saw people eating monkeys' brains!" In 1985, a 15-year-old student sued her school for showing her a class a video that purported to show real deaths. With a Charli XCX-featuring reboot on the horizon, I wrote about the legacy of mondo horror Faces of Death for the Telegraph
archive.is/Y1DAN
archive.is/Y1DAN
December 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
"We saw people eating monkeys' brains!" In 1985, a 15-year-old student sued her school for showing her a class a video that purported to show real deaths. With a Charli XCX-featuring reboot on the horizon, I wrote about the legacy of mondo horror Faces of Death for the Telegraph
archive.is/Y1DAN
archive.is/Y1DAN
Had a quick chat with PinkPantheress for @nme.com about ‘Illegal’ winning Song of the Year
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PinkPantheress on the surprise success of ‘Illegal’: “I didn’t really think it was going to be ‘the one’”
Grammy nominee PinkPantheress, whose viral phenomenon 'Illegal' has been named NME’s Song Of The Year, reflects on a momentous 2025
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December 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Had a quick chat with PinkPantheress for @nme.com about ‘Illegal’ winning Song of the Year
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Merry listmas! For @nme.com s 50 Best Songs of 2025, I blurbed JADE’s ‘Plastic Box’ - www.nme.com/lists/end-of...
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Merry listmas! For @nme.com s 50 Best Songs of 2025, I blurbed JADE’s ‘Plastic Box’ - www.nme.com/lists/end-of...
50 years ago, Ross McWhirter was assassinated by the IRA. Known as the creator of the Guiness Book of Records and sidekick on Records Breakers, he (along with twin brother Norris) had a less-cuddly side which I’ve written about for The Telegraph - archive.is/aClvA
November 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
50 years ago, Ross McWhirter was assassinated by the IRA. Known as the creator of the Guiness Book of Records and sidekick on Records Breakers, he (along with twin brother Norris) had a less-cuddly side which I’ve written about for The Telegraph - archive.is/aClvA
It was dubbed “Punk’d for paedophiles” and “Paedle's About”,, and now a new film examines the uneasy legacy of To Catch a Predator. In @telegraphnews.bsky.social , I’ve written about what happens when the lines between righteous anger and entertainment blur.
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How paedophile show To Catch a Predator inspired a generation of vigilantes
A new film delves into the murky world of the paedophile-baiting phenomenon
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November 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
It was dubbed “Punk’d for paedophiles” and “Paedle's About”,, and now a new film examines the uneasy legacy of To Catch a Predator. In @telegraphnews.bsky.social , I’ve written about what happens when the lines between righteous anger and entertainment blur.
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Collaborating with ghosts, gloryholes, and being mistaken for John Lydon…I quizzed Sammy Hagar for this week’s @nme.com trivia-challenge
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Sammy Hagar: “I’m sad I didn’t get do a tour with Dave Lee Roth and Van Halen. Eddie wanted it to happen”
In Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!, we quiz an artist on their own career to see how much they can remember. This week: Sammy Hagar
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November 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Collaborating with ghosts, gloryholes, and being mistaken for John Lydon…I quizzed Sammy Hagar for this week’s @nme.com trivia-challenge
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Quizzed 10cc’s Graham Gouldman for the latest edition of @nme.com ’s Does Rock N Roll Kill Braincells? trivia-challenge
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10cc’s Graham Gouldman: “Doja Cat helped bring our music to a different audience”
In Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!, we quiz an artist on their own career to see how much they can remember. This week: 10cc's Graham Gouldman
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November 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Quizzed 10cc’s Graham Gouldman for the latest edition of @nme.com ’s Does Rock N Roll Kill Braincells? trivia-challenge
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hi all, the awaited day has come: I'm looking for freelance writers to pitch Inverse Gaming for end-of-year coverage! namely, I'm looking for someone to contribute our best of RPGs this year list ($350), and pitch us on some year-end lookback essays ($500+). please pitch me: shannon@inverse.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
hi all, the awaited day has come: I'm looking for freelance writers to pitch Inverse Gaming for end-of-year coverage! namely, I'm looking for someone to contribute our best of RPGs this year list ($350), and pitch us on some year-end lookback essays ($500+). please pitch me: shannon@inverse.com
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For my Manchester Mill debut, I’ve investigated the grim social media trend of online vigilantes “patrolling” gay cruising areas in the city, and exposing the men there to ritual humiliation.
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Cottagers Cove: how the Rochdale Canal tunnel became a content-mine for online vigilantes
A new online trend seeks to expose gay men having sex in public places around Manchester
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October 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
For my Manchester Mill debut, I’ve investigated the grim social media trend of online vigilantes “patrolling” gay cruising areas in the city, and exposing the men there to ritual humiliation.
manchestermill.co.uk/cottagers-co...
manchestermill.co.uk/cottagers-co...
For my Manchester Mill debut, I’ve investigated the grim social media trend of online vigilantes “patrolling” gay cruising areas in the city, and exposing the men there to ritual humiliation.
manchestermill.co.uk/cottagers-co...
manchestermill.co.uk/cottagers-co...
Cottagers Cove: how the Rochdale Canal tunnel became a content-mine for online vigilantes
A new online trend seeks to expose gay men having sex in public places around Manchester
manchestermill.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
For my Manchester Mill debut, I’ve investigated the grim social media trend of online vigilantes “patrolling” gay cruising areas in the city, and exposing the men there to ritual humiliation.
manchestermill.co.uk/cottagers-co...
manchestermill.co.uk/cottagers-co...
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Pasolini’s 120 Days of Sodom is still the most shocking film of all time - The Telegraph
Once banned around the world, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò is about to be shown at the Barbican
“Elegantly beautiful…but at the same time you can barely watch it” ~ John Waters
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Once banned around the world, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò is about to be shown at the Barbican
“Elegantly beautiful…but at the same time you can barely watch it” ~ John Waters
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Pasolini’s 120 Days of Sodom is still the most shocking film of all time — The Telegraph
Once banned around the world, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò is about to be shown at the Barbican
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October 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Pasolini’s 120 Days of Sodom is still the most shocking film of all time - The Telegraph
Once banned around the world, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò is about to be shown at the Barbican
“Elegantly beautiful…but at the same time you can barely watch it” ~ John Waters
apple.news/AMTpYdOE1S4C...
Once banned around the world, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò is about to be shown at the Barbican
“Elegantly beautiful…but at the same time you can barely watch it” ~ John Waters
apple.news/AMTpYdOE1S4C...
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Pasolini’s final film, Salò, earned a reputation as one of the most depraved and censored of all time – yet the director considered it a powerful anti-fascist tract. On its 50th anniversary, I spoke to its stars for @telegraphnews.bsky.social
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Pasolini’s 120 Days of Sodom is still the most shocking film of all time
Once banned around the world, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò is about to be shown at the Barbican
www.telegraph.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Pasolini’s final film, Salò, earned a reputation as one of the most depraved and censored of all time – yet the director considered it a powerful anti-fascist tract. On its 50th anniversary, I spoke to its stars for @telegraphnews.bsky.social
www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2025/1...
www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2025/1...
Pasolini’s final film, Salò, earned a reputation as one of the most depraved and censored of all time – yet the director considered it a powerful anti-fascist tract. On its 50th anniversary, I spoke to its stars for @telegraphnews.bsky.social
www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2025/1...
www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2025/1...
Pasolini’s 120 Days of Sodom is still the most shocking film of all time
Once banned around the world, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò is about to be shown at the Barbican
www.telegraph.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Pasolini’s final film, Salò, earned a reputation as one of the most depraved and censored of all time – yet the director considered it a powerful anti-fascist tract. On its 50th anniversary, I spoke to its stars for @telegraphnews.bsky.social
www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2025/1...
www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2025/1...
Quizzed The Wombats for this edition of @nme.com 's Does Rock N Roll Kill Braincells?. Director’s commentary: I contacted Lord Kenneth Clarke’s office to find out what he thought of the song ‘Kenneth Clarke’s Beard’, but alas, he declined to comment.
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The Wombats: “Landfill indie? Indie sleaze? We’ve risen above any media tags”
In Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!, we quiz an artist on their own career to see how much they can remember. This week: The Wombats
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August 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Quizzed The Wombats for this edition of @nme.com 's Does Rock N Roll Kill Braincells?. Director’s commentary: I contacted Lord Kenneth Clarke’s office to find out what he thought of the song ‘Kenneth Clarke’s Beard’, but alas, he declined to comment.
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Keeley Hawes as a hard-drinking “perimenopausal James Bond” who rampages around calling children “F*ckface” would be my pitch for anything (including a revamped Songs of Praise), so The Assassin was up my alley
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‘The Assassin’ review: Keeley Hawes' "perimenopausal James Bond" thriller hits the target
License to kill? What about a license to do the school run?
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July 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Keeley Hawes as a hard-drinking “perimenopausal James Bond” who rampages around calling children “F*ckface” would be my pitch for anything (including a revamped Songs of Praise), so The Assassin was up my alley
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Spoke to Eric Idle for @nme.com about the Beatles, turning down writing a musical for Bowie, and why he expects to be the first comedian to be deported from the US since Charlie Chaplin
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Eric Idle on Bowie, Beatles and odds of a Monty Python reunion
The comedy legend tours the UK this September
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July 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Spoke to Eric Idle for @nme.com about the Beatles, turning down writing a musical for Bowie, and why he expects to be the first comedian to be deported from the US since Charlie Chaplin
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Coming on like Leigh Bowery organising a children’s birthday party, the world of Gelli Haha is riotously fun. I interviewed her about her debut album ‘Switcheroo’ for
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Gelli Haha paints the town red with cheeky, liberatory dance pop
The Gelliverse is a kaleidoscopic world soundtracked by Los Angeles artist Gelli Haha’s silly, soaring synth pop – read the NME interview
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July 3, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Coming on like Leigh Bowery organising a children’s birthday party, the world of Gelli Haha is riotously fun. I interviewed her about her debut album ‘Switcheroo’ for
@nme.com
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"The truth is, we were all absolutely knackered at the end of a 77-date tour and they didn’t want to go back to the UK and do it. My view was that was mad – and we should do it."
June 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"The truth is, we were all absolutely knackered at the end of a 77-date tour and they didn’t want to go back to the UK and do it. My view was that was mad – and we should do it."
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"Le fait que 'Relax' ait empêché 'Radio Ga Ga' de Queen d'être n° 1 a dû être comme un coup de couteau dans le cœur pour le pauvre Freddie Mercury, car personne n'avait entendu parler de nous la semaine précédente" @garyryanfreelance.bsky.social
Holly Johnson: "‘Relax’ keeping ‘Radio Ga Ga’ off Number One must have been like a knife through Freddie Mercury’s heart”
In Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!, we quiz an artist on their own career to see how much they can remember. This week: Holly Johnson
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June 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
"Le fait que 'Relax' ait empêché 'Radio Ga Ga' de Queen d'être n° 1 a dû être comme un coup de couteau dans le cœur pour le pauvre Freddie Mercury, car personne n'avait entendu parler de nous la semaine précédente" @garyryanfreelance.bsky.social
“When I asked Boy George if he had a brush, he called me a comb-osexual” Quizzed total gent (and riot) Holly Johnson for this week’s @nme.com Does Rock N Roll Kill Braincells? trivia challenge
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Holly Johnson: "‘Relax’ keeping ‘Radio Ga Ga’ off Number One must have been like a knife through Freddie Mercury’s heart”
In Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!, we quiz an artist on their own career to see how much they can remember. This week: Holly Johnson
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June 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“When I asked Boy George if he had a brush, he called me a comb-osexual” Quizzed total gent (and riot) Holly Johnson for this week’s @nme.com Does Rock N Roll Kill Braincells? trivia challenge
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Enjoyed chatting with Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost for @nme.com about working with David Lynch, whether the series may continue, and the time that Queen Elizabeth II rushed out of a private audience with Paul McCartney to discover who killed Laura Palmer
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Inside David Lynch's plans for 'Twin Peaks' to return: "We had a recipe forming"
Co-creator Mark Frost on the chances of more episodes
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June 12, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Enjoyed chatting with Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost for @nme.com about working with David Lynch, whether the series may continue, and the time that Queen Elizabeth II rushed out of a private audience with Paul McCartney to discover who killed Laura Palmer
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