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A blast talking to Sacha Lord, Manchester's night czar & the man behind the Warehouse Project & Parklife festival, about his splendid new book, Tales from the Dancefloor. Features lairy cocaine rats & Sacha being confused with Sasha by Salford gangsters thetimes.co.uk/article/ravers…

Enjoyed chatting to Matt Bellamy of Muse about the starry (Tom Hardy as BB, Cynthia Erivo as Julia, Andrew Scott as O'Brien) audio adaptation of 1984 he's co-written the score for. Includes a mortifying encounter with Andrew Garfield, who plays Winston
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The First Omen - Call the Midwife directed by Satan
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Sad to add my voice to the long list of people who haven't been paid by Rolling Stone UK – still waiting for payment for 3 articles from July-Oct '23. No doubt they've got their own issues, but ghosting so many freelancers makes it look like non-payment is official policy. Avoid.

Had a lot of fun with Daniel de Visé's Blues Brothers book, which is inevitably dominated by Belushi
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Shakira didn't disappoint

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Oh no, loads of middle-aged white dudes don't like the Glastonbury line-up. Better rethink, guys!

Twitter, are there any Retrieving Lost Data From External Hard-drive Experts on here? Will not only pay for your services, but will also worship you like a Pharaoh. DM me

I'm looking to speak to any couples who got divorced and then remarried each other later in life! For a piece in the Sunday Times Magazine. Get in touch at [email protected] #journorequest

This is such a fab interview by Will with Air, who remain as Air-like as I remember them from the pages of Muzik magazine in the 90s

Anyone in #Whitby - holiday let owner, landlord, tenant, local - like to talk to me on phone or in person (Thurs) about #Budget24 and changes for furnished holiday lets? Pls DM or drop me a quick line [email protected] #journorequest

I wrote a piece about the crisis affecting bands due to living costs, Brexit, closure of venues, streaming and pretty much every other aspect of modern life.
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I wrote something for Times Culture about the writing process and ended up fretting about time and mortality (£) Hodder & Stoughton #oneday thetimes.co.uk/article/david-…

Can someone who has seen Poor Things remind me which books she’s reading on the boat when Duncan throws it overboard?

The stars of The Zone of Interest, Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller, and its sound designer, Johnnie Burn, were fascinating on what it took to create, as was Piotr Cywiński, the director of the Auschwitz Museum. It's an extraordinary film
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Just lovely

I've selected the movies for a John Barry season at the BFI, or the NFT as I still think of it, in Feb/March. Wrote a piece about it for the Times today. Tickets here: whatson.bfi.org.uk/online/default…

Paul Giamatti and Alexander Payne were a hoot on their wonderful new film The Holdovers, plus Sideways, actors' vanity, Obama and how weed now compares to weed in the 70s
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