I wonder if needy companies still bother contacting Kevin Shields asking him for feedback.
04.03.2026 11:32
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I wonder if needy companies still bother contacting Kevin Shields asking him for feedback.
Kurt Cobain, Ian Brown, Angelica Skyler and Yours Truly 🥳
My boy is not asking any of his pals (boys or girls) if they want to hang out in town today, just in case they get laughed at for being together on Valentine’s Day. And THAT, let me remind you, is the degree of self-policing of an early teen.
I have advised him to Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway.
Not watching The Riddle of the Sands on Talking Pictures TV? Good research for that redux episode…
I’m against old-school tough love, but if he ever expresses scepticism about black and white films again, you should sharply slap his legs and tell him to man up. Black and white films are about FORM, not about wishy-washy atmosphere. Start him off with Psycho. 😉
I’ve never seen Mean Girls!
I’m 90% reluctant to attempt to pass on cultural relics to the younger generation, but I indulged in showing my boy, 38 years to the day since my dad allowed me to stay up past midnight to watch it, 12 Angry Men. It went well!
It's rubbish that Kirsty MacColl has been gone a quarter of a century.
But check out this joyous tune to brighten you up, where she affectionately says of her boyfriend "he's appalling, it's true". Give me that. #KirstyMacColl
This is sound thinking, but I have withheld a key piece of data: I think she quietly enjoys it.
Thing is, she doesn’t even want chocolate sprinkles — she only says it to get the concept of ‘cappuccino’ to really hit home…
I mean that would be pretty funny
We have this morning recorded the 11th instance since 2020 of my mum asking for a cappuccino and being served with a cup of tea.
"I even said 'with chocolate sprinkles'!"
Great work — thank you so much for this well-considered approach to a relaxed and expansive Suggs; who knew Liverpool was the key?
Now, who fancies a crack at Adam Ant…
I’ve been waiting for this level of insight from Madness for decades. For many complex reasons they get very self-conscious when reflecting in any chin-scratchy way about their tunes. But no one better than @sodajerker.bsky.social to tease out Suggs’s love of reading, history and chord inversions…
EPISODE 306 // Madness frontman Suggs talks about their new Hit Parade compilation, balancing joy and pathos in songwriting, and serendipitous creative moments.
Platforms: linktr.ee/sodajerker
Direct: www.sodajerker.com/episode-306-...
Playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/3bT...
Advent calendar torn open. All contents eaten. No we don’t have a dog.
“The bigger the mistake, the harder it is to see”: discuss.
This year, I am opening YOUR advent calendar to find what goodies you have for me.
Door 3. It’s CHOCOLATE.
OK then: what's your most notable CHOCOLATE experience?
Mine is obviously my realisation that none of the children in Charlie & The Chocolate Factory speak to each other for the whole book.
A ball
Hello! This year, I am opening YOUR advent calendar to find out what goodies you have for me.
Door 2. It’s a BALL.
So: What is the best thing you have ever done with a BALL?
(Once, in deep goth phase, I scored the shootout basket for my team to win; I hated every second of their dumb celebration.)
The shape, I'm sure you know, being based on 'Et'.
I like a treble clef, but it's not wildly applicable to everyday communication.
Hello! This year, I am opening YOUR advent calendar to find out what goodies you have for me.
Door 1. It is a picture of an Ampersand.
OK: What are your favourite things that are joined together by an ampersand?
Reading Middlemarch for the first time. I am enjoying it. I like the very peceptive observations about internal motivations between Celia and Dorothea. What do any of you Middlemarch heads like about it?
(This is not engagement bait, unless it’s of the doomed betrothal kind)
Just laughed out loud at Terry Jones's summation of Monty Python:
"We never really stopped being friends, but I'm not sure we ever *started* being friends..."
(from Robert Ross's affectionate biography 'Seriously Silly: The Life of Terry Jones')
Grand Designs opening and closing interview shots, an occasional project.
The bathroom’s free!
Unlike the country under the Thatcherite junta…
The Empress Ballroom gig movie was what made me get into a band — I ended up playing bass AND drums. Not at the same time.
Gutting. His poor kids.
Festival line-up poster for the 1991 Reading Festival
My first festival. Look at those bands. I didn’t even set foot in the comedy tent, which would today blow my head off.
I have read both Ben Elton’s and Nigel Planer’s memoirs back-to-back, and they both mention being inspired in the 1970s by the music of, among others, Nick Drake, and while not impossible, that is also the lie I would tell.
oo, hallo.
A picture of Guy Fawkes' signature before and after being tortured after the Gunpowder Plot
Guy Fawkes' signature before and after hearing Paul Shane's You've lost that loving feeling on Pebble Mill at One
