Made handy playlist of The Ivors Academy nominees in Best Contemporary Song & Best Song Musically & Lyrically Fontaines D.C. RAYE Laura Marling JADE LOLA YOUNG GHETTS BERWYN Ashley Thomas PA SALIEU orla gartland Sans Soucis open.spotify.com/playlist/1wM6o…

One of my favourite things to do while on cooking duties: set the Pretty Random app to 1-500, give it a shake and play which ever album in Rolling Stones’ Top 500 albums comes up. Tonight 497: The Indestructible Beat of Soweto. It is basically Graceland the year before it was out

Robbie Williams brought out 5ive at his Friday night Emirates show. He said it was the first time they’d played a stadium for 25 years.

Very relieved my piece on the Brit Awards for the BBC1 6 O'Clock News is finished, as Scotland are live on BBC2 at 17:00 playing the might of Liechtenstein. It's on for the whole of the UK. Come and join the fun, you glory hunters. *joke* bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Week off post Glasto. While cleaning my garage found my 1st interview with Oasis from Oct 94. I was an exchange student @penn in Philadelphia, writing for the student paper The Daily Pennsylvanian’s arts section 34th Street Magazine Saw Oasis play a pub that night. Deaf for a week. Prescient last line.

Really enjoying the BBC's live stream building up to Oasis. Starts in earnest at 15:00, hosted by Jason Mohammad and Tina Daheley Some of my old interviews with Noel and Liam pop up too. Tune in. 💻🎸🎙️⬇️ bbc.co.uk/news/live/c991…

The footage of Acquiesce (courtesy of Big Brother Recordings) has got me very excited about seeing Oasis first night in Manchester at Heaton Park next Friday. Interesting that they skipped their 3rd most popular song on streaming, Stop Crying Your Heart Our.

This is quite a stat: Rod Stewart at Glastonbury got a bigger overnight TV audience (3.4m) than the three headliners: The 1975 (0.9m), Neil Young (0.7m), Olivia Rodrigo (0.9m) and Charli XCX (0.8m) added together.

Liam and Noel walking on hand in hand at Heaton Park tonight. (Courtesy: Big Brother Recordings).

Oasis live in Manchester, 16/07/2025

Incredible that after 28 days, the viewing figures for the third episode of Wednesday are almost identical to the third episode of BBC1’s Destination X. 5.2m to 5.1m Rob Brydon’s reality show was a big hit without people really realising.

It’s 2025 and The Blitz Club just made the news headlines on BBC Breakfast ! New the Design Museum opens this week. Tune in at 0640 and 0840 for the club which spawned the New Romantic movement. Boy George Boy George , Spandau Ballet & Sade were all regulars. Photo: Sheila Rock

Only 120 could fit into the Blitz Club. So many of them would become stars: Spandau Ballet Boy George midge ure💙 Sade Visage Gary Kemp Robert Elms Exhibition the Design Museum

Loved speaking to Gary Kemp about the Design Museum Blitz Club exhibition. He is a proper pop historian. Have started exploring his Rockonteurs podcast. The episode with Boy George on the Blitz is a great starting point. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/roc…

Two years on. Different colours, but same complaint. And I would not be against names on backs.

Went to see Lewis Capaldi play in Nottingham last night. Only found out then that earlier in the day he turned up at the Aldi in West Bridgford and sang on the roof.

Prince fans. This is a very interesting listen. @WIYE John McKie Prince Bonnier podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/wor…

It's been fun to see my Kpop Demon Hunters interview go big in the US. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…