I’m afraid it’s light on whimsy, young Kingsley has a fairly bleak outlook on the state of things. However, he is a thoroughly lovely chap

Give it a spin, it’s second only to the Jacob Alon album this year I reckon

Have you listened to Constant Noise by Benefits?

All along I knew that (a) many thousand fewer vulnerable people would have died under Corbyn and (b) after only a handful of deaths The Sun’s front cover would have been a mocked-up photo of Corbyn with blood on his hands, holding him directly responsible.

Typo notwithstanding, brilliant! I looked up the set list last night and found something claiming Ian Brown had said this was the band’s best ever gig 🔥

What an awesome man. He was on bass duties for 3 of my favourite ever gigs: Roses at Trent Poly on 11 May 1989 and these two:

If you and I were friends on twitter back before it sucked you might recall my nearly decade long search for the episode of Scottish fishing show Trout N' About featuring Mani along with Throb from Primal Scream. I eventually found it. Enjoy that shit here:

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Me and @andrewdade.bsky.social used to make our Yorkie bars last a week. One chunk per evening. Substantial.

Sing Your Leith #McMorrissey

The Rob Reiner interview from this week is fab

I saw Callow’s arse* floating** down the road near Lancaster Gate on Monday

*in trousers
**walking

“It’s beginning to look a lot like pop-crazed”, or something…. It’s a yes from me!