I wrote a few words about Mani for The Sunday Times - I didn’t know it would be behind a paywall, so here it is if you would like to read it:

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Times are tough for everyone right now and lots of bands and musicians are feeling the pinch as much as anyone. At @KendalCalling we serve ace coffee and pizzas and raise around £7,000 each year for charity - from this year we have decided to switch it up a bit… …it’s music fans at the festival who spend their money and come and enjoy what we do, so we thought that we’d use the funds to help artists who are struggling or need a helping hand…

Friday February 10th
7pm (UK time)

@antonnewcombe will be our host for a @LlSTENlNG_PARTY featuring the new album from the ever brilliant Brian Jonestown Massacre - the future is your past

The album comes with a sleeve to be coloured in with 6 pencils that are included Or grab the artwork from the previous tweet and make your own online (ping completed ones back to us here)

In 1994 @thecharlatans accountant stole £300k from us and had faked our taxes for 7 years. We ended up owing £1.9Million. We didn’t earn money from any of our gigs for the next 10 years. He went to prison.
Now let’s see what happens to those PPE fraudsters who stole from us all Keep in mind this involved just one person - nobody else knew. He did it secretively and without speaking to anyone else about it. Look at how many knew, colluded and benefitted from PPE contracts - with none of them raising the alarm

I mentioned @RoddyFrame in a song on Typical Music and he just sent me the loveliest message saying he’d heard it and loves the song ❤️❤️

One of the highlights of anything ever was when he asked me to join him signing Walk Out To Winter (in Tim Peaks at @KendalCalling 2012) on that same day in Tim Peaks at @KendalCalling @EdwynCollins joined @RoddyFrame, and they played a beautiful version of Falling And Laughing

I wrote a feature for @esquire about how I accidentally became an author. You can read it right here esquire.com/entertainment/… Maybe the greatest magazine cover ever.
@esquire (1968)

The kindle edition of One, Two, Another is £1.99 right here amazon.co.uk/One-Two-Anothe… Telling Stories on kindle for £5.99 amazon.co.uk/Telling-Storie…

5 years ago today in an old shoe shop in Manchester

https://twitter.com/tim_burgess/status/861650883641266176?s=21&t=GqmsciCCOfcDaibkGumDDg

And here is the news…

Venues, please stop taking merch money from artists. We don’t ask for a share of the bar. To be clear, this isn’t all venues but there are enough that do it. @FeaturedArtists have compiled a directory of venues that don’t take commission from artists.
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thefac.org/venuedirectory