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✨ Episode 2 of our week-by-week #Succession rewatch with Jesse Armstrong is out NOW. It's about episode 2 🎧 LISTEN: pod.fo/e/270a61

LOOK! I've written a book about the mad music explosion in 1990s UK and here is a fabulous evening out at the great Walthamstow RocknRoll Book Club with me and Sian talking about it, plus great aftershow DJ!! I've got a wheel with topics on it, and it will spinnnnn 22/10/24 come!

Good morning. Deeply honoured to be interviewing Yvonne Innes about her biography of one of the best and nicest men, the incomparable Neil at Waterstones on 12 November. Please come if you fancy it. It’ll be lovely. Waterstones Liverpool Sarah Hughes waterstones.com/events/dip-my-…

I talked about my book UNCOMMON PEOPLE, BRITPOP & BEYOND IN 20 SONGS with David Hepworth and Mark Ellen for their fabulous podcast A Word In Your Ear, they are such excellent people to talk to about pop music scenes. Here ya go! youtu.be/DrZn_as2HFY?si… and shows.acast.com/word-in-your-e…

These are brilliant

🇺🇸 U.S. Election day in the U.K. 🇬🇧

Na-night x

Depending on your point of view I've either perfectly judged the vessel size, or had a disaster.

Buying podcast equipment should be harder than buying a gun.

Oh no, it’s happening again

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On BBC Manchester tomorrow from 6-10 Derren Brown is with me to talk about his new tour coming to Lowry and Geoff Lloyd on his new BBC Radio 4 documentary about why karaoke kicked off in Stockport! Listen live on BBC Sounds ⬇️ 🎧 bbc.in/manclistenlive

Is Stockport the birthplace of karaoke? Radio 4 night at 7.15pm, then on BBC Sounds

I’m down to 2% battery. Weirdly, so is my phone.

Love this BBC Radio 4 doc about the Stockport shopkeeper who claims to have invented karaoke, and why Stockport is the karaoke capital of Britain bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Watch from start

Was in the audience for The Muppet Show and these two people in the balcony showed absolutely zero decorum. I tried to tell them that their ironic detachment is hurting how they engage with art, but they told me I should engage with a better deodorant. Then I cried

QUESTION: This is just a regular giant house spider, right? I just got into bed, and noticed it on the wall. I *really* don’t want to go through the rigmarole of getting back up and putting it outside - it’s not going to eat me in my sleep, is it?

It’s publication day for JOHN AND PAUL

Yes, it's our 5th birthday! And to celebrate my son, who's also my producer, and I have made a special episode of five things from all the episodes of My Time Capsule we'd choose to have in a time capsule. Well, five each. Listen here pod.fo/e/2cc854 Cake anyone? 🎂