I once went to Qatar. Bloody boring country

No Context Brits We’re a nation of introverts with terrible weather many of us spend our formative years stuck in bedrooms teaching ourselves guitar = huge export business for our sexually repressed and self taught take on music that appeals to teenagers around the world.

“Normalize going to movies and restaurants alone” you know you can just do that, right? You are an adult there is literally nothing stopping you. Nobody else gives a shit. Normalize not seeking external validation for every boring thing you do

The amount of ads I see online along the lines of 'learn the piano in these easy steps fast!' - when will people realise that there is no quick way to mastering an instrument

They should definitely connect gym machines to some kind of power generator... All that wasted energy!

Sometimes I remember the time years ago when I saw Ken Livingstone standing alone on a street corner in Willesden Green, and I wonder what he was waiting for

Tech companies scrambling to create AI that can produce music, art, even jokes... meanwhile phone signal remains as shit as it was in 2002 and no one is doing anything about it

There seems to be a certain fame threshold, beyond which composers and performers are automatically trusted and allowed to be themselves. Until that point, suspicion and judgement. Let's extend the trust to everyone.

I would rather listen to a shitfaced 1/10 karaoke performance than a tryhard 9/10 karaoke performance

How do people deal with the depressingness of the British winter?

Someone, somewhere, please fund the next season of 1899

would you rather have legs the length of your fingers, or fingers the length of your legs? death is not an option

Random commuter smiles at me today and it really improved my mood. Gonna spread the cheer to someone else! Don't avoid eye contact people, it ain't human :O

Take away the spellbinding music and our extraordinary, world-class musicians, today really is MAN IN HAT SITS IN CHAIR. As our last 5 PMs (6 if you count the lettuce) sat basking in the reflected glory of this mass of talent, worth remembering they did this to arts funding:

Well. Fuck.

Where have all the cheap bakeries gone? Why is everything now so cute, quaint, small, expensive, instagrammable..? I just want a big homemade sandwich for a couple of quid!

Whenever I hear Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” all I can think about is the fact that nothing in our pop culture, across any medium, occupies that emotional register now

Barely anything gives me more joy than a warm, balmy night in the UK

It's such a shame... When I find out... That some people only listen to music from their own culture

PLEASE RT I HAVE LEFT MY VIOLIN ON A BUS GOING TO THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL. IT WAS EITHER THE 52 OR 452 IN THE DIRECTION OF LADBROKE GROVE. PLEASE HELP IM SUPPOSED TO BE PLAYING IN TODAYS PROM TfL BBC Proms BBC Radio 3