So I had a proper spine tingling epiphany listening once again to @iamsherelle's compilation. beautiful.bandcamp.com/album/beautifu… And it's about the future. So I was listening straight after listening to this, which @DJJeromeHill shared the other day. Now this tape is the FUCKING MOTHERLODE. If you wanted to sum up rave culture in one go, this is it. Acid house, punk, dub, psychedelic-industrial, hip hop, funk mixcloud.com/Stussy_Daz/dj-…

Oh BLESS Loz Fox’s BabyFash lackey trying to put a brace face on THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE VOTES and a LOST DEPOSIT.

https://twitter.com/MartinDaubney/status/1471706034557394946

Also, remember I've been telling you: when push comes to shove, the Tory heartlands DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR CULTURE WAR BULLSHIT. The fact that not one bit of the protest vote went to the antivaxx BabyFash but instead to Lib Dems says it all.

https://twitter.com/joemuggs/status/1471763876584828930?s=20

[food] So I've started eating healthy because I put on two stone stress eating and drinking through lockdown. The best way to lose wait steadily and sustainably I've found is to fill up on mostly raw vegetables through the day, then eat normally in the evening. I can't eat boring food though; previously I've made it nice by grating / mandolining fruit / veg and making interesting / spicy dressings. Rice vinegar and sesame oil, chilli dressings, that kind of thing. But this time - I think this comes from reading / watching lots of Ottolenghi - I've turned

Someone was asking me if I had practical tips for anyone who wanted to start music reviewing. And as I typed them out, might as well share... feel free to pass on to anyone who might be interested. The main answer is: do some of your own on a blog for a bit - or if you can find something like a local listings site or uni magazine that will take a couple even better. That’s a better showcase than sending things in on spec, purely in terms of how an editor will see it.

Hello, and welcome to my #PrinceTwitterThread on #SOTTDELUXE, and specifically "Starfish and Coffee". I'm honoured and not a little overawed to be part of this project, because I'm a long way from being a full-on Princeologist like most of the contributors. BUT I love this song. I love it with a passion, in fact: as a part of my life ever since 1987. And I think that its very atypicality and strangeness even by Prince standards really illuminates his wider creativity. So this thread will be quite personal, and just a little bit... mystical.

Alright it's mental health awareness week and I want to talk about something really pernicious in Very Online Culture particularly on the left, which has been bugging me for a long time: dunking on the idea of small, simple, practical, proven self-help steps. Now before you even start with the "punching left" nonsense, it goes without saying that the right and libertarian sides are despicably bad on mental health, mocking it, using it as a tool of gender, race and sexuality based violence etc. Fuck those guys - OK?

I know lots of individual people did good work at the NME in recent years. But for me it never recovered from throwing its lot in with old-before-their-time throwbacks like P-Doh and Jack White circa 2001. The death of the NME - and the other mags that will follow - is entirely on the middle management fucknuts who browbeat every hint of personality out of every title.

@Mixmag has shown a mag can engage with the world of "extended brand", sponsor partnerships etc, and thrive.

A very short thread on DJing relating to the below. I'm in an interesting position coming back to DJing as an old bastard - in some senses a very fortunate one, that I'm old enough and ugly enough to take a few steps back from the relentless hustle.

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Also because it's not my main focus in life, when I'm lucky enough to get a plum gig like @spiritland, I get to really bask in it. Being plugged into an outrageous soundsystem, and play your very favourite tunes / hear your mate do the same is 👌👌👌 mixcloud.com/Spiritland/tom…