'They do two sets
Then take requests

'Play one the drummer knows...''

In Street level Superstar Will Hodgkinson has crafted a biography that stands alongside Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson. It transcends the music-biography genre. A tragi-comedy up there with Withnail and I.

It’s great.

I am delighted to be hosting an evening in Brighton with Robyn Hitchcock where he will be talking about his fantastic new memoir, 1967.

6pm, Wednesday June 26th: the venue is Resident Brighton, 27-28 Kensington Gardens, North Laine.

And the Ayr Advertiser comes through once again 😂😂😂

She gave a hungry fox food and he came back with friends 🥹❤️

Thank you ⁦⁦Nige Tassell⁩ for sending me your new book. I’m looking forward to reading it. Congratulations and wishing you all the best x

It's nearly Tour de France time and this year it's 35 years since the greatest edition of them all.

Thankfully, someone chronicled it in award-shortlisted book form.

amazon.co.uk/Three-Weeks-Ei…

How am I expecteded to craft reasonably regarded, mid-list selling prose under these conditions?

I see Malcolm Gladwell has written his book again.

thebookseller.com/rights/malcolm…

Sport! New and recent titles in store include Andy Clarke The Knockout, a host of fighters, trainers, contribute to a survey of the most impactful and dramatic moments in sport. Plus recent paperback editions from Nige Tassell Stuart Broad Richard Williams Carl Frampton MBE

‘Mumpsimus’, 16th century: one who insists that they are right (or wronged) when all evidence points to the contrary.

Here's a playlist of more than 30 songs that R.E.M. covered during their Green World Tour in 1989. Features the Velvets, Cameo, Gang of Four, David Essex, Wire, Ohio Players, Television, Audrey Hepburn, the Go-Betweens and many more
open.spotify.com/playlist/2cgBu…

Will be renewing my close acquaintance with my old pal Michael Sheen tonight.

(Trans: I once interviewed him on the phone and I'm watching him on stage in an hour or so)

Paul Brand

Toolstation RIP.

That's today's tagline - 'Seven days too long?'

Just the Danelaw casting its long shadow.

Today’s Bookseller reports on Jeremy Vine being signed to write a new crime series and Jamie Oliver doing something with his children’s book.

Meanwhile actual authors… I wish publishing would stop this obsession with signing celebrities

'So, Keir, here's the ball. You see that open goal over there? Just dribble the ball towards it and tap it in. It's easy - you'll see that the other team has given up. Nothing fancy needed. Off you go...

'Keir, stop! Where are you going? No, not your own goal...'