HUSTINGS UPDATE Having done 2 WHOLE SATURDAY MORNINGS giving out Lib Dem leaflets in rough n ready Torbay, I now seek to place myself right on the C-Vo jamwagon. Please welcome, Caroline Voaden, MP for South Devon, ousting the Conservative incumbent.

Very good from actual Cumbrian Lib Dem Tim Farron...

Keeping the art of headline writing alive 🥳

FUßBALL EXTRA The brave England team have now truly earned the right to be beaten by Spain. Yet I hope England win – and despite the massive £2 I bet on Spain at start of competition. Some say an England victory would be priceless. Nuh-uh. It will cost £17.60

KRANKEN UPDATE Just three weeks until Sea Power’s Krankenhaus Festival in a Lake District castle. Only a few ticket left. Where rock music meets the highest rocks in England –looking out to Scafell Pike. Tickets here: krankenhausfestival.com

LAKELAND ROCK ACTION Three weeks to Sea Power’s Krankenhaus Festival in a Lake District castle. Few ticket left. Lias Saoudi playing solo show and judging dog competition. Bonus prize for first dog to exhibit fecal urgency. Tickets here: krankenhausfestival.com

ESKDALE ECSTASY Three weeks to Sea Power’s Krankenhaus Festival in a Lake District castle. Few tickets left. Exquisite rock fare plus amazing bird-of-prey displays, fell walks, steam trains and a beautiful campsite. Krankenhaus tickets here: krankenhausfestival.com

LIVIN' LA VIDA LAKER Three weeks to Sea Power’s Krankenhaus Festival in a Lakeland castle. Few tickets left. Nadine Shah, BC Camplight, Maxine Peake, Sea Power, Lovely Eggs Book Club, The Fallen Women, birds of prey and Lord of Lords Lias Saoudi. Tickets: krankenhausfestival.com

The IPA of post-war Britain and how I wish it was still the UK beer of choice. Thank you Harvey's Brewery #LiquidBread

A Kranken-kombi post from Marc Riley and Lawrence – what finer recommendation can there be?

Another festival to add to our August Bank Holiday Bonanza. Glastonferret. Preston on Thurs Aug 22. Then a Headline show in Huddersfield on Fri 23. Future Now Fest in on Sat 24 and then up to Krankenhaus Festival - a magical micro-festival for the Eggs Book Club on Sun 25. In the meantime back to drinking mead

KRANKENHAUS KOUNTDOWN 20 days to this excelsior event – wonderful words and music and Siberian eagle owls, in a castle on the Cumbrian coast. Here is the K2023 OS Mass Mind Map, signed and illustrated by many of 2023’s participants. Tickets / info here: krankenhausfestival.com

“I’m With Pulp, Are You?” is now available to pre-order. linktr.ee/imwithpulp Mark Webber’s visual history of Pulp also features a foreword by Jarvis Cocker & essays by @LukeTurnerEsq and @SimonRetromania. Coming soon from Hat & Beard Press. #imwithpulpareyou #welovepulp

Brighton!

RIP Jack Karlson. Obviously ‘Democracy Manifest’ and ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ are the bangers but what are your deep cuts? Mine is “Ah yes, I see that you know your judo well.”

Very best wishes to Christoph of North Rhine-Westphalia – cycling, for the forth time, to Sea Power's Krankenhaus Festival, all the way from Germany.

*Sheer* Verhoeven. They can run 80 miles per hour and hunt/skin elk with terrifying, deft efficiency. Cold water sensory deprivation chamber. Then soft lighting and classical music. Schnapps, discussion of the need for ‘perfect synergy in the Helsinki bunker experiments’

Well then, it's time to go. Sailing now, looking out for Orcas, lighthouses and always, always, always the sea... Thank you all you lovely people at Krankenhaus Festival - a magical micro-festival & @muncastercastle, all the crew & staff for your hard work! Auf Wiedersehen! Take care! See you next year!🤞🚴

Thirty years ago today, Manic Street Preachers released The Holy Bible. Not only their greatest album but one of the greatest made by anyone, ever. A savage appraisal of the 20th century and a merciless inventory of the worst of humanity, with a thrillingly uncompromising post-punk soundtrack.