And, ironically…

Are you aware of David Stubbs’ previous writing? He had a column called ‘Mr Agreeable’ in Melody Maker in the 90s, I.e. he’s been abusing Oasis in this style a since the very beginning.

He was the most Ringo-like of 70s/80s drummers, he always did his hair like that, and always had one rack tom. youtu.be/VQLZ2guM2RI?...

Oh yeah. That one is good to be fair. And actually, we have a fondness for Mr Muddle - makes a friend who persuades the whole town to make reasonable adjustments to allow him to participate in society.

There’s only two stories too - Mr Man decides to get a job and has variety of unsuitable jobs before finding one. OR Mr Man encounters a wizard/gnome who decides to teach him a lesson. Just different degrees of “and you would, wouldn’t you? Which you might. If you did, wouldn’t it?” clunkiness

But it’s a bit like feeling grateful that a venue is providing a nice meal in the venue restaurant instead of a buy out, without noticing that there’s “£100 hospitality” hidden in the show costs.

Any way to independently verify? I feel like… artists often feel like it’s surprise bonus money every quarter and they should be grateful for anything at all.

Yeah. A common thing seems to be that shows self-reported with their setlist tool get stuck on “processing” and never paid. I’ve got some from 2017 still pending.

That totally fits. Every time I’ve had to contact them in the last decade has been really infuriating, so I’m quite down on them in general.

Some of the answer re: music podcasts is PRS not offering a suitable licence, and being very slow to adopt to online usages in general. Andrew Harrison mentioned this briefly on a recent podcast about the future of podcasts.

I guess they just thought 6 year olds would be familiar with the first stages of nazism without needing to explain that bit.