Artists can opt out of whatever they want. They just choose not to. This dynamic pricing stuff is bullshit. So are exorbitant ticket processing fees, venue levies and all the other crap punters are forced to pay when they buy a ticket. Music crushed by capitalism.

“The simple truth is the deaths were all avoidable and the people who lived in the tower were badly failed” - Sir Martin Moore-Bick, Chair of the #Grenfell Public Inquiry

Word of the day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.

Landed in Warsaw this morning - mass celebrations of this line in particular

Brilliant statement from the wonderful Linda Ronstadt. It's a must-read!

#ToxicBrexit Revealed: Far higher pesticide residues allowed on food since Brexit | Pesticides | The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20…

As a Cardiff Journalism PGDip alumni myself, I heartily endorse this sentiment. Easily the most enjoyable and rewarding year of my life in education.

Focus on retention as generational differences intensify via IBC365 Mediaproxy CEO, Erik Otto, talks to David Davies - ibc.org/features/focus… #Mediaproxy #IBC365 #TalentRetention #BroadccastRecruitment

Watch as politicians again line up to condemn the BBC's appalling cuts and closures (correct!), then refuse to increase its public funding and leave 15+ years of destructive cuts and commercialisation in place.

1129 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. 669 days since the Taliban banned women from going to university. Vice and virtue laws also ban women from speaking or showing their faces outside their homes. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn

RIP the great #PhilLesh. An entirely original musician in a band full of unique players, and a constant as the 'Dead's music forever forged ahead into extraordinary new territory. theguardian.com/music/2024/oct…

The The New York Times is a responsible newspaper. Compare and contrast The Washington Post which no longer is.

Woke to #r4today US correspondent glossing over all of this as merely ‘the usual personal insults’. No, no, this is how democracy withers and dies.

There are no words today. Just a long howl of despair.

Peter Sinfield, King Crimson’s original roadie, lyricist, lights operator and live sound engineer passed away yesterday on the 14th of November 2024 aged 81. dgmlive.com/news/peter-sin…

World War III is like middle age: you try to ignore the signs as it creeps up on you, and suddenly your days are numbered.

Another brilliant correspondent exits the BBC...

It's as if the grey heavy, weepy weather is reflecting how many of us feel as Trump, Farage etc al take over western democracy and bulldoze its pillars.