I persistently plug these because they take time to do, both for me and the guests, so do share and tell people about it if you like it. The aim is to make a quality long read each week. Thanks. #FirstLastAnything
NEW! #FirstLastAnything Ep 32: We are back each Sunday, till Christmas, and my guest today - versatile and fascinating music writer and musician Joanna Wyld (@joannawyld.bsky.social) - talks about bellringing, Queen, liner notes, Molly Drake and much more. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/09/f...
FLA 32: Joanna Wyld (09/11/2025)
Of all the guests I’ve had on First Last Anything so far, Kent-born Joanna Wyld might have worn the most musical hats. Writer, musician, composer, librettist, teacher and administrator, she’s playe…
firstlastanything.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I persistently plug these because they take time to do, both for me and the guests, so do share and tell people about it if you like it. The aim is to make a quality long read each week. Thanks. #FirstLastAnything
A perfect thing to read on your journey home, although maybe not if you're driving. #FirstLastAnything is back.
NEW! #FirstLastAnything Ep 32: We are back each Sunday, till Christmas, and my guest today - versatile and fascinating music writer and musician Joanna Wyld (@joannawyld.bsky.social) - talks about bellringing, Queen, liner notes, Molly Drake and much more. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/09/f...
FLA 32: Joanna Wyld (09/11/2025)
Of all the guests I’ve had on First Last Anything so far, Kent-born Joanna Wyld might have worn the most musical hats. Writer, musician, composer, librettist, teacher and administrator, she’s playe…
firstlastanything.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
A perfect thing to read on your journey home, although maybe not if you're driving. #FirstLastAnything is back.
After a mid-series intermission, Series 3 has resumed! #FirstLastAnything
NEW! #FirstLastAnything Ep 32: We are back each Sunday, till Christmas, and my guest today - versatile and fascinating music writer and musician Joanna Wyld (@joannawyld.bsky.social) - talks about bellringing, Queen, liner notes, Molly Drake and much more. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/09/f...
FLA 32: Joanna Wyld (09/11/2025)
Of all the guests I’ve had on First Last Anything so far, Kent-born Joanna Wyld might have worn the most musical hats. Writer, musician, composer, librettist, teacher and administrator, she’s playe…
firstlastanything.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
After a mid-series intermission, Series 3 has resumed! #FirstLastAnything
My textcast - where you read it, but there's also an accompanying playlist - is BACK. Some remarkable choices from @joannawyld.bsky.social that were new to me. Please share with anyone you think might be interested. Thank you. #FirstLastAnything
NEW! #FirstLastAnything Ep 32: We are back each Sunday, till Christmas, and my guest today - versatile and fascinating music writer and musician Joanna Wyld (@joannawyld.bsky.social) - talks about bellringing, Queen, liner notes, Molly Drake and much more. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/09/f...
FLA 32: Joanna Wyld (09/11/2025)
Of all the guests I’ve had on First Last Anything so far, Kent-born Joanna Wyld might have worn the most musical hats. Writer, musician, composer, librettist, teacher and administrator, she’s playe…
firstlastanything.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
My textcast - where you read it, but there's also an accompanying playlist - is BACK. Some remarkable choices from @joannawyld.bsky.social that were new to me. Please share with anyone you think might be interested. Thank you. #FirstLastAnything
NEW! #FirstLastAnything Ep 32: We are back each Sunday, till Christmas, and my guest today - versatile and fascinating music writer and musician Joanna Wyld (@joannawyld.bsky.social) - talks about bellringing, Queen, liner notes, Molly Drake and much more. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/09/f...
FLA 32: Joanna Wyld (09/11/2025)
Of all the guests I’ve had on First Last Anything so far, Kent-born Joanna Wyld might have worn the most musical hats. Writer, musician, composer, librettist, teacher and administrator, she’s playe…
firstlastanything.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
NEW! #FirstLastAnything Ep 32: We are back each Sunday, till Christmas, and my guest today - versatile and fascinating music writer and musician Joanna Wyld (@joannawyld.bsky.social) - talks about bellringing, Queen, liner notes, Molly Drake and much more. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/09/f...
It’s back for the second half of series 3 - my textcast #FirstLastAnything, on music of all kinds with a very special guest each week. New instalment to be read will appear at about 9am this morning.
November 9, 2025 at 7:45 AM
It’s back for the second half of series 3 - my textcast #FirstLastAnything, on music of all kinds with a very special guest each week. New instalment to be read will appear at about 9am this morning.
#FirstLastAnything - my music-themed textcast with some extremely special guests - is back TOMORROW, and then hopefully every Sunday till Christmas. Check out its growing archive, here! (scroll down): firstlastanything.co.uk/about
November 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
#FirstLastAnything - my music-themed textcast with some extremely special guests - is back TOMORROW, and then hopefully every Sunday till Christmas. Check out its growing archive, here! (scroll down): firstlastanything.co.uk/about
Aerial by Kate Bush was released 20 years ago today on 7 Nov 2005, and in one of the earliest of my #FirstLastAnything textcast conversations, from 2022, the novelist @suzynorman.bsky.social talked to me about her love for the album. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/05/15/f...
FLA 2: Suzy Norman (05/06/2022)
Painting, photography, acting, poetry, novel writing and singing – Suzy Norman does the lot. We first encountered each other online nearly 15 years ago when both of us had other blogs (don’t look f…
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November 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Aerial by Kate Bush was released 20 years ago today on 7 Nov 2005, and in one of the earliest of my #FirstLastAnything textcast conversations, from 2022, the novelist @suzynorman.bsky.social talked to me about her love for the album. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/05/15/f...
Happy birthday wishes to Helen O’Hara (@oharaviolin.bsky.social). What a pleasure it was to talk to her at length for #FirstLastAnything about her time with Dexys, and much more besides. I wholeheartedly recommend her memoir What’s She Like. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/05/20/f...
FLA 15: Helen O’Hara (18/09/2022)
(c) Natacha Horn In the spring of 1982, the violinist Helen O’Hara had two job offers. One was to join the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra; the other was to join Kevin Rowland’s Dexys Midnight Runners as…
firstlastanything.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Happy birthday wishes to Helen O’Hara (@oharaviolin.bsky.social). What a pleasure it was to talk to her at length for #FirstLastAnything about her time with Dexys, and much more besides. I wholeheartedly recommend her memoir What’s She Like. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/05/20/f...
#FirstLastAnything, my music-based textcast is back next Sunday to hopefully cheer up the dark mornings and offer an alternative to 'current affairs'. Meantime, why not scroll down and sample the archive of 31 conversations I've had with some very special guests here: firstlastanything.co.uk/about/
November 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
#FirstLastAnything, my music-based textcast is back next Sunday to hopefully cheer up the dark mornings and offer an alternative to 'current affairs'. Meantime, why not scroll down and sample the archive of 31 conversations I've had with some very special guests here: firstlastanything.co.uk/about/
@wadeywade.bsky.social and I literally discussed Chicago on #totp in our #FirstLastAnything conversation. A good long read, and we cover a lot besides.
NEW! In ep 30 of my music textcast, #FirstLastAnything, writer, DJ and musician Ian Wade (@wadeywade.bsky.social) tells me about his superb book, 1984: The Year Pop Went Queer, plus Saint Etienne’s farewell album, Eurodisco, dub and electroclash – and more! firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/09/07/f...
FLA 30: Ian Wade (07/09/2025)
Ian Wade is a pop writer and DJ who is obsessed by its past, its present and its future. His superb and acclaimed book 1984: The Year Pop Went Queer, first published in the summer of 2024, has been…
firstlastanything.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 8:35 PM
@wadeywade.bsky.social and I literally discussed Chicago on #totp in our #FirstLastAnything conversation. A good long read, and we cover a lot besides.
And the new run of #FirstLastAnything, beginning again on Sunday week, is gonna be great.
October 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
And the new run of #FirstLastAnything, beginning again on Sunday week, is gonna be great.
Two #FirstLastAnything conversations recorded for the next run. Uploads to resume, I hope, from Sun 9 Nov.
October 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Two #FirstLastAnything conversations recorded for the next run. Uploads to resume, I hope, from Sun 9 Nov.
LRT: Plenty more Ron Geesin discussion (including adjustable spanner mentions) in this conversation we did earlier this year. #FirstLastAnything
Ep 31 of my music textcast #FirstLastAnything. This week, read my conversation with the journalist and travel writer William Ham Bevan (@hambevan.bsky.social), where we cover TV schools soundtracks, one of the 70s' biggest bands and old tapes of the top 20. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/09/14/f...
FLA 31: William Ham Bevan (14/09/2025)
Journalist, travel writer and editor William Ham Bevan has worked for nearly every national newspaper in Britain at some point over the past 30 years, plus a raft of magazines and other publication…
firstlastanything.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
LRT: Plenty more Ron Geesin discussion (including adjustable spanner mentions) in this conversation we did earlier this year. #FirstLastAnything
There are some NEW #FirstLastAnything textcasts with some more superspecial guests on the horizon. Coming soon to Sundays.
October 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
There are some NEW #FirstLastAnything textcasts with some more superspecial guests on the horizon. Coming soon to Sundays.
(I would like to do more #FirstLastAnything in 2026 because the gap between S2 and S3 was way too big, but we'll see. I'm very happy with how the book's going, and thank you for all the support, but work is uncertain. If you need an editor or proofreader imminently, or want my art cards, do shout.)
October 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
(I would like to do more #FirstLastAnything in 2026 because the gap between S2 and S3 was way too big, but we'll see. I'm very happy with how the book's going, and thank you for all the support, but work is uncertain. If you need an editor or proofreader imminently, or want my art cards, do shout.)
#FirstLastAnything, my music textcast should be back on Sundays from early November, and hopefully running up to Christmas.
October 15, 2025 at 10:23 AM
#FirstLastAnything, my music textcast should be back on Sundays from early November, and hopefully running up to Christmas.
Happy birthday to top pop chronicler @wadeywade.bsky.social.
He was on my textcast #FirstLastAnything a little while ago.
Buy his book, 1984 - The Year Pop Went Queer, if you haven't already! firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/09/07/f...
He was on my textcast #FirstLastAnything a little while ago.
Buy his book, 1984 - The Year Pop Went Queer, if you haven't already! firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/09/07/f...
FLA 30: Ian Wade (07/09/2025)
Ian Wade is a pop writer and DJ who is obsessed by its past, its present and its future. His superb and acclaimed book 1984: The Year Pop Went Queer, first published in the summer of 2024, has been…
firstlastanything.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Happy birthday to top pop chronicler @wadeywade.bsky.social.
He was on my textcast #FirstLastAnything a little while ago.
Buy his book, 1984 - The Year Pop Went Queer, if you haven't already! firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/09/07/f...
He was on my textcast #FirstLastAnything a little while ago.
Buy his book, 1984 - The Year Pop Went Queer, if you haven't already! firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/09/07/f...
The second half of the current series of #FirstLastAnything should be back in early November. Just recorded the first one, and a fascinating conversation it was too.
October 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The second half of the current series of #FirstLastAnything should be back in early November. Just recorded the first one, and a fascinating conversation it was too.
ICYMI: this was Leah's episode of #FirstLastAnything back in August, a contender I think for my favourite episode so far. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/08/24/f...
October 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
ICYMI: this was Leah's episode of #FirstLastAnything back in August, a contender I think for my favourite episode so far. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/08/24/f...
If you were following the last run of #FirstLastAnything, we had @leahbroad.bsky.social as a guest, and she mentioned an upcoming Avril Coleridge-Taylor disc, with the first ever recordings of several works. Leah's excellent blog has a new post on this. leahbroad.substack.com/p/avril-cole...
Avril Coleridge-Taylor World Premiere Recording Klaxon!!
No subtlety here, I am very excited about this recording
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October 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
If you were following the last run of #FirstLastAnything, we had @leahbroad.bsky.social as a guest, and she mentioned an upcoming Avril Coleridge-Taylor disc, with the first ever recordings of several works. Leah's excellent blog has a new post on this. leahbroad.substack.com/p/avril-cole...
Thank you! I understand. My textcast is coming back soon, #FirstLastAnything, and I love to cover classical in that (indeed, we have in many episodes). But yes, the nature of what I'm doing at the moment does rather overwhelm everything else!
October 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Thank you! I understand. My textcast is coming back soon, #FirstLastAnything, and I love to cover classical in that (indeed, we have in many episodes). But yes, the nature of what I'm doing at the moment does rather overwhelm everything else!
#FirstLastAnything, my music textcast (NOT podcast) is now on a series break (back at end of October, hopefully), but the archive of conversations is there to be read: firstlastanything.co.uk/about/
September 21, 2025 at 6:47 AM
#FirstLastAnything, my music textcast (NOT podcast) is now on a series break (back at end of October, hopefully), but the archive of conversations is there to be read: firstlastanything.co.uk/about/
If you heard this week's #GreatLives on #DerekBailey, selected by #StewartLee, you might be interested in this conversation I had in 2022 with @greavesian.bsky.social (also a contributor to the programme) as part of my textcast #FirstLastAnything. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/05/20/f...
FLA 12: Ian Greaves (28/08/2022)
Fifteen years ago, the writer and editor Ian Greaves and myself were going mad. We were spending most spare minutes of our lives researching and eventually writing a 700-page book about the long-ru…
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September 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
If you heard this week's #GreatLives on #DerekBailey, selected by #StewartLee, you might be interested in this conversation I had in 2022 with @greavesian.bsky.social (also a contributor to the programme) as part of my textcast #FirstLastAnything. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/05/20/f...
You can read our conversations, and all the others before that by going to firstlastanything.co.uk/about and scrolling down. We'll be back with a new series hopefully at the end of October. Thanks for reading us and sharing us. #FirstLastAnything
September 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
You can read our conversations, and all the others before that by going to firstlastanything.co.uk/about and scrolling down. We'll be back with a new series hopefully at the end of October. Thanks for reading us and sharing us. #FirstLastAnything