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James Cook
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Writer. MEMORY SONGS | IN HER ROOM | Editor @Review31. Bylines @TheTLS @Guardian. Agent @oliagent @AMHeathLtd. jamesbpcook.blogspot.com
My old band Flamingoes is in this month’s Mojo magazine. ‘Flamingoes and Fountains of Wayne share a taste for Superman/ rabbit mash-ups’. #Therecordisforeverman @mojomagazine.bsky.social @keithcameron2.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
OTD 40 years ago, 9th October 1985, I watched @waterboysmusic.bsky.social , supported by @delamitri.bsky.social , play a transcendental show at the Town & Country Club (now the Forum). I later wrote about it in my book Memory Songs. #waterboys #waterboysband #80smusic #80sgigs
October 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
You say it's your birthday . . . #birthday
August 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Paging Duke @dantjenks.bsky.social What a record. #Redskins '85.
June 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
'These things I'll keep until I die'. RIP Brian Wilson #SurfsUp #BeachBoys #MemorySongs
June 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
London friends – join me, @annadoble.bsky.social and Mark Rusher talking about the 90s music scene at the Review bookshop Peckham, 7–9, Wednesday 21 May! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connection...
May 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Now that Flamingoes' Plastic Jewels is on Spotify, some of the album reviews: 'Angels descend to earth when the Flamingoes start to play . . . pristine pop.' Select magazine. 4/5
March 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
OTD thirty years ago, 6/2/95, my old band Flamingoes released their debut album, Plastic Jewels. We ticked off some pop dreams - daytime radio one, starred Melody maker reviews, Rolling Stone, MTV… and some (power)pop nightmares: Fountains of Wayne nicked our cover art ...
February 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#NowPlaying So long, Marianne
January 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
January 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
January reading. #amreading
January 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Another chance to listen to the Xmas @backlisted.bsky.social
special from 2017, @judecook.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social @johnmitchinson.bsky.social and me, discussing Ian Fleming's OHMSS. And another excuse to post this photo of Blofeld dressing the tree. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/56-...
December 25, 2024 at 12:29 PM
This is, in places, every bit as insanely enjoyable as its illustrious predecessor #AdventuresInTheScreenTrade
December 21, 2024 at 12:02 PM
OTD 40 years ago, 29 November 1984, I saw REM play in front around 200 people at Dunstable's Queensway Hall. Here's my account of the night from 'Memory Songs', and the band's autographs. Gold, man . . .
November 29, 2024 at 3:57 PM
#nowplaying Life in a Northern Town by the Dream Academy. ‘Dedicated to Nick Drake’. #nickdrake
November 25, 2024 at 3:56 PM
This is ridiculously enjoyable. A @backlisted.bsky.social gem from 2017, it’s making the train journey from London to Leeds fly by.
November 19, 2024 at 12:05 PM