Once – for an hour or two, at least – one of my books got as high as 223. And that was without weeks of wall-to-wall coverage and exposure.

To my eternal shame I never realised Richard Tandy was as bona fide a Brummie as Jeff or Bev. He even played with Steve Gibbons in The Ugly's! The Harpsichord on 'Blackberry Way' as well. With Mike Pinder, 2 Brum Beat keyboard legends have left us in a week... RIP.

Duane Eddy, Grammy-Winning 'Peter Gunn' Guitarist, Dies at 86 variety.com/2024/music/peo…

The combination of B&S on my old home turf of First Avenue sounds a very good one to me.

Genuinely none of these celebrities ever thought it was strange that there were never any women in the Club..🤔🙄

Brilliant shot of Joe celebrating his winning goal in last night's playoff semi.

Hang it in the Louvre!

You could not make this shit up

a book so far up my street, it’s like I imagined it into existence. “C86 Kids” author ⁦Nige Tassell⁩ tracks down and tells the stories of dozens of people who’ve been in Dexys.

Today's Times.

The govt's new visa changes have caused an 83% fall in visas granted to health & care workers.

We have:

152k social care vacancies

121k NHS vacancies.

This is catastrophic for our NHS & care sectors.

The govt is putting anti-immigrant populism above care.

There we go, The FA. You rolled over for them, further weakening your greatest asset, and they've taken the piss. You mugs.

Fixture congestion, player welfare, etc. Don't they talk bollocks? #LetThemGo

Michael Caine's career turns out to be a lifelong art project during which he painstakingly recreates the DVD section of an Oxfam.

It's the first day of a new month, but already this is one of the best sentences that I'll read over the next 31 days.

'Paul Auster is a slim, elegant, somewhat dark man who writes slim, elegant, somewhat dark fiction in a slim, elegant, somewhat dark house.'

May the first be with you.

Very excited to be playing with Tim Burgess again with a new twist to the songs with Royal Northern College of Music I’m also delighted to be interviewed by Dave Haslam about my memoir #WhatsSheLike & I can’t wait to try the coffee too ☕️🎻☀️🎶

Dreamed that I had to do a reading of the new book on a live edition of the US show Soul Train.

Nerve-wracking enough, but then I realised I didn't have a copy of the book with me and so I'd have to do it from memory.

Thankfully woke up before the camera's red light came on.

Bloody genius, me.

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R.I.P. Paul Auster. Here’s his unapologetic advice to young writers. Read ‘The New York Trilogy.’ Read ‘Leviathan.’ Read ‘Travels in the Scriptorium.’

Very sad news. One of the great prose writers, I reckon.

Have always said, if I were in a band, this would be our coming-on-stage music.

Also, a possible Desert Island Disc selection. Not for any personal significance. Just to keep me upbeat in my loneliness.