Jonathan Wright
@jonathanleft.bsky.social
Husband, father, son, journalist doing culture and business writing/editing for, among others over the past year, @sfxmagazine.bsky.social, @historyextra.bsky.social, @electronicsound.bsky.social & @thequietus.bsky.social
"Nasty, unpredictable, properly bonkers. One of a kind." Possibly not a coincidence that scriptwriter @robwilliams71.bsky.social is all of the above except "nasty". It's more, I think, that he has a dark sense of humour.
Just been ranting about it in the newsletter but Game is glorious bit of British cinema. Nasty, unpredictable, properly bonkers. One of a kind.
November 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
"Nasty, unpredictable, properly bonkers. One of a kind." Possibly not a coincidence that scriptwriter @robwilliams71.bsky.social is all of the above except "nasty". It's more, I think, that he has a dark sense of humour.
So sad to hear of passing of Mani. Have been listening to first Roses' LP and it's fabulous.
November 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
So sad to hear of passing of Mani. Have been listening to first Roses' LP and it's fabulous.
This looks excellent from @danieldylanwray.bsky.social via @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social. I hope to learn much about I'm So Hollow, Comsat Angels, Artery and others. Going into an awards show, I once heard two girls discussing whether I was a member of Def Leppard, but that's another story.
Brilliantly researched and spanning almost seven decades, GROOVY, LAIDBACK AND NASTY features over 150 new interviews with the likes of Richard Hawley, Arctic Monkeys, Pulp, Self Esteem, The Human League, Toddla T, Def Leppard, ABC and Cabaret Voltaire – along with countless others.
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
This looks excellent from @danieldylanwray.bsky.social via @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social. I hope to learn much about I'm So Hollow, Comsat Angels, Artery and others. Going into an awards show, I once heard two girls discussing whether I was a member of Def Leppard, but that's another story.
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Just back in from seeing Game, the film my mates Geoff, Marc and Rob (and a few others) have made. The boys done good! Very proud of them.
On general release from this Friday, but still plenty of screenings with post-film Q&As. Go see!
On general release from this Friday, but still plenty of screenings with post-film Q&As. Go see!
November 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Just back in from seeing Game, the film my mates Geoff, Marc and Rob (and a few others) have made. The boys done good! Very proud of them.
On general release from this Friday, but still plenty of screenings with post-film Q&As. Go see!
On general release from this Friday, but still plenty of screenings with post-film Q&As. Go see!
Excellent evening at Bristol’s Watershed seeing Game, scripted by similarly excellent @robwilliams71.bsky.social, plus a Q&A featuring producer Geoff Barrow of @invadarecords.bsky.social & co-star Jason Williamson of @sleafordmods.bsky.social among others.
November 18, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Excellent evening at Bristol’s Watershed seeing Game, scripted by similarly excellent @robwilliams71.bsky.social, plus a Q&A featuring producer Geoff Barrow of @invadarecords.bsky.social & co-star Jason Williamson of @sleafordmods.bsky.social among others.
#lufc Current mood of fanbase: not dissimilar to when Leeds lost 1-0 to Everton in February 2023. Seems a bit early for complete despair. Although that day may yet arrive this season.
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
#lufc Current mood of fanbase: not dissimilar to when Leeds lost 1-0 to Everton in February 2023. Seems a bit early for complete despair. Although that day may yet arrive this season.
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
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Just absolutely classic BBC. You've just broadcast the most successful programme of the year, uniting Gen Z kids online and Boomers on broadcast in a return to appointment television. And instead of celebrating, your DG reigns due to a made-up right-wing scandal.
November 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Just absolutely classic BBC. You've just broadcast the most successful programme of the year, uniting Gen Z kids online and Boomers on broadcast in a return to appointment television. And instead of celebrating, your DG reigns due to a made-up right-wing scandal.
I don't often get reviews, so chuffed with this. Had a great time chatting with top fella Clive Deamer, who made doing the interview easy. Thanks to all at Roseberry Road Studios in Bath for making this happen.
thebathandwiltshireparent.co.uk/2025/11/revi...
thebathandwiltshireparent.co.uk/2025/11/revi...
Review – An evening with Clive Deamer from Portishead at Roseberry Road Studios, Bath – The Bath and Wiltshire Parent
Tucked away just off the Lower Bristol Road, Roseberry Road Studios is one of Bath’s most welcoming creative spaces — and it recently played host to a fascinati
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November 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I don't often get reviews, so chuffed with this. Had a great time chatting with top fella Clive Deamer, who made doing the interview easy. Thanks to all at Roseberry Road Studios in Bath for making this happen.
thebathandwiltshireparent.co.uk/2025/11/revi...
thebathandwiltshireparent.co.uk/2025/11/revi...
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This feeling is called hope: Three lessons from a week of progressive victories iandunt.substack.com/p/this-feeli...
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
This feeling is called hope: Three lessons from a week of progressive victories iandunt.substack.com/p/this-feeli...
Barry Adamson's soundtrack for the @alicatterall.bsky.social co-directed Scala!!! is great. Every track conjures up the spirit of a time when Central London was far less gentrified and there was overlooked space in which to roam and be creative. mutebank.co.uk/collections/...
Barry Adamson - SCALA!!! - CD | Pre-Orders | Mute Bank
Release Date: 16th January 2026Catalogue Number: CDIONIC20 CD - Eco card pack, also banned, but not vinyl Barry Adamson, original member of Magazine and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and a celebrated s...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Barry Adamson's soundtrack for the @alicatterall.bsky.social co-directed Scala!!! is great. Every track conjures up the spirit of a time when Central London was far less gentrified and there was overlooked space in which to roam and be creative. mutebank.co.uk/collections/...
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Barry Adamson returns with the original score for SCALA!!!, the wild, defiant, and heart-breaking story of London’s notorious repertory cinema.
Out 16 January 2026, listen to ‘Scala Posters (Mondo Bongo)’ now.
mute.ffm.to/ba-scala
Out 16 January 2026, listen to ‘Scala Posters (Mondo Bongo)’ now.
mute.ffm.to/ba-scala
October 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Barry Adamson returns with the original score for SCALA!!!, the wild, defiant, and heart-breaking story of London’s notorious repertory cinema.
Out 16 January 2026, listen to ‘Scala Posters (Mondo Bongo)’ now.
mute.ffm.to/ba-scala
Out 16 January 2026, listen to ‘Scala Posters (Mondo Bongo)’ now.
mute.ffm.to/ba-scala
Just listened for the first time in a while to eor by @quinquis.bsky.social. And remembered it is a great LP. All of which is plenty enough excuse to repost this: thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
Quinquis – eor | The Quietus
Sung in Breton and quivering with modular synth sounds, the Ushant-based producer conjures the rippling of water
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October 26, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Just listened for the first time in a while to eor by @quinquis.bsky.social. And remembered it is a great LP. All of which is plenty enough excuse to repost this: thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
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First review's in for GAME:
‘A gripping, darkly funny watch’ ★★★★ Rolling Stone UK
Buy tickets for our Screening/Q&A tour here: linktr.ee/InvadaFilmsG...
‘A gripping, darkly funny watch’ ★★★★ Rolling Stone UK
Buy tickets for our Screening/Q&A tour here: linktr.ee/InvadaFilmsG...
October 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
First review's in for GAME:
‘A gripping, darkly funny watch’ ★★★★ Rolling Stone UK
Buy tickets for our Screening/Q&A tour here: linktr.ee/InvadaFilmsG...
‘A gripping, darkly funny watch’ ★★★★ Rolling Stone UK
Buy tickets for our Screening/Q&A tour here: linktr.ee/InvadaFilmsG...
This is great from @paddyclarke.bsky.social: thequietus.com/news/remembe... My memories of Soft Cell from back in the day circle around just how transgressive and strange they were. In part cos they created their own world. And it was, errm, different to where I grew up in rural North Devon.
Remembering Dave Ball, by Patrick Clarke
In a moving tribute to his late Soft Cell bandmate Dave Ball, who died this week at the age of 66, Marc Almond remarked that the two were “chalk and cheese”. When I interviewed several dozen of the mu...
thequietus.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This is great from @paddyclarke.bsky.social: thequietus.com/news/remembe... My memories of Soft Cell from back in the day circle around just how transgressive and strange they were. In part cos they created their own world. And it was, errm, different to where I grew up in rural North Devon.
Really looking forward to chatting with Clive Deamer in November for an event in Bath. Aside from anything else, as well as Portishead, Radiohead and Robert Plant, the man has worked with Dr John! www.roseberryroadstudios.com/events/an-evening-with-clive-deamer
An Evening with Clive Deamer — Roseberry Road Studios
Join us on Saturday 8th November for a rare evening with Clive Deamer , the celebrated English drummer whose work spans jazz, rock, trip-hop and beyond. He has been a drummer for Radiohead, Po...
www.roseberryroadstudios.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Really looking forward to chatting with Clive Deamer in November for an event in Bath. Aside from anything else, as well as Portishead, Radiohead and Robert Plant, the man has worked with Dr John! www.roseberryroadstudios.com/events/an-evening-with-clive-deamer
Very much looking forwards to hosting an interview with
@joe-hill.bsky.social at Waterstones in Cardiff in November. King Sorrow is a fabulous book, as per my review in the current issue of
@sfxmagazine.bsky.social. www.waterstones.com/events/king-...
@joe-hill.bsky.social at Waterstones in Cardiff in November. King Sorrow is a fabulous book, as per my review in the current issue of
@sfxmagazine.bsky.social. www.waterstones.com/events/king-...
King Sorrow: An Evening with Joe Hill | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about King Sorrow: An Evening with Joe Hill today.
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October 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Very much looking forwards to hosting an interview with
@joe-hill.bsky.social at Waterstones in Cardiff in November. King Sorrow is a fabulous book, as per my review in the current issue of
@sfxmagazine.bsky.social. www.waterstones.com/events/king-...
@joe-hill.bsky.social at Waterstones in Cardiff in November. King Sorrow is a fabulous book, as per my review in the current issue of
@sfxmagazine.bsky.social. www.waterstones.com/events/king-...
Listening to Kate Bush's Best Of The Other Sides, and find myself astonished that a song of such delicacy and beauty was a b-side, although maybe that was so because her music was already moving on. A-side = Running Up That Hill. open.spotify.com/track/7iHwqx...
Under The Ivy
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October 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Listening to Kate Bush's Best Of The Other Sides, and find myself astonished that a song of such delicacy and beauty was a b-side, although maybe that was so because her music was already moving on. A-side = Running Up That Hill. open.spotify.com/track/7iHwqx...
Belated shoutout. The latest LP by Brìghde Chaimbeul is fantastic. Last week's show at The Mount Without in Bristol was fabulous. Cheers to @ilkamedia.bsky.social for tix. brighdechaimbeul.bandcamp.com/album/sunwise
Sunwise, by Brìghde Chaimbeul
8 track album
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September 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Belated shoutout. The latest LP by Brìghde Chaimbeul is fantastic. Last week's show at The Mount Without in Bristol was fabulous. Cheers to @ilkamedia.bsky.social for tix. brighdechaimbeul.bandcamp.com/album/sunwise
Should you be looking for some reasons to investigate Bowie's 21st-century work, and you should, here's something I wrote earlier. thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
Boxset of the Week: David Bowie’s I Can’t Give Everything Away [2002-2016] | The Quietus
Jonathan Wright salutes the final years of Bowie, an autodidact who went out with a statement as radical as anything else he ever recorded
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September 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Should you be looking for some reasons to investigate Bowie's 21st-century work, and you should, here's something I wrote earlier. thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
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I actually think that weirdly, today is quite a hopeful day.
We're going to start getting actual policy outlines from Reform now. The policies are going to be morally grotesque and practically ludicrous.
The mainstream media will have NO excuse not to start interrogating them.
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We're going to start getting actual policy outlines from Reform now. The policies are going to be morally grotesque and practically ludicrous.
The mainstream media will have NO excuse not to start interrogating them.
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September 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I actually think that weirdly, today is quite a hopeful day.
We're going to start getting actual policy outlines from Reform now. The policies are going to be morally grotesque and practically ludicrous.
The mainstream media will have NO excuse not to start interrogating them.
1
We're going to start getting actual policy outlines from Reform now. The policies are going to be morally grotesque and practically ludicrous.
The mainstream media will have NO excuse not to start interrogating them.
1
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Some great 'arriving at a family event after having a massive row in the car' energy here
September 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Some great 'arriving at a family event after having a massive row in the car' energy here
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'Right to the end David Bowie was uniquely creative, with lessons still to impart: concern over the world we’re bequeathing our children, reassessing life from the vantage of middle age and, at the end, how to face death'
#DavidBowie’s I Can’t Give Everything Away [2002-2016]
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#DavidBowie’s I Can’t Give Everything Away [2002-2016]
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![Quietus Boxset of the Week, David Bowie's I Can't Give Everything Away [1001-2016] album cover. A black and white image of Bowie with blue lettering in the upper right hand corner.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y2ybhbqm6wmacobtl7g3465k/bafkreih35hl5vyvnnusznvvc2ahor6jllyvmwleol3aud5sgx2pg2jrqha@jpeg)
September 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
'Right to the end David Bowie was uniquely creative, with lessons still to impart: concern over the world we’re bequeathing our children, reassessing life from the vantage of middle age and, at the end, how to face death'
#DavidBowie’s I Can’t Give Everything Away [2002-2016]
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#DavidBowie’s I Can’t Give Everything Away [2002-2016]
buff.ly/JE3HHuG
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"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
IKEA today and how I imagine freshers week will be have surprisingly much in common. Lots of teenagers soon to embark in earnest on uni life looking lost.
September 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
IKEA today and how I imagine freshers week will be have surprisingly much in common. Lots of teenagers soon to embark in earnest on uni life looking lost.