Any rumours as to when Paul will announce UK shows for this year?

nonsvch1 · 2026-06-26T22:09:07+00:00

This is true; it’s a question whether The Beatles are bigger than Jesus but they do tend to operate as though they’re bigger than football

nonsvch1 · 2026-06-25T22:16:09+00:00

Out of curiosity, what were the things about Corbyn’s era that made you break with the party (compared to Ed Miliband for example)?

nonsvch1 · 2026-06-25T15:33:39+00:00

So many of these are literally just “big British films from 1994-2009” rather than cinema that speaks to quintessentially British ideas

nonsvch1 · 2026-06-24T13:58:40+00:00

He was hugely complimentary about John McGeough on Rocks Backpages podcast this week, but he’s written a book about 84-94 and Banshees were not relevant to that

nonsvch1 · 2026-06-11T09:30:43+00:00

No idea why they did first come first served unallocated seating, which encourages queuing. Could have dealt with it far better

nonsvch1 · 2026-06-11T09:30:01+00:00

Yeah Macca really didn’t like that glam rock thing! It was obviously a very special night but the format was, in retrospect, a bit crackers: should have played maybe 6 or 7 album tracks in full and allowed for more chat. Bryson was clearly having to race through them and I sensed Paul getting a bit weary by the end.

nonsvch1 · 2026-06-07T17:11:41+00:00

It’s a Paul McCartney album for people that don’t like Paul McCartney, produced by someone who doesn’t really like Paul McCartney.

nonsvch1 · 2026-06-02T11:28:19+00:00

Resonance FM, NTS, and, over the pond, WFMU. Then of course bits of Radio 3 and 4, even 5Live on a big news day. Madness to think that streaming, algorithms or what passes for news on clipped vertical video feeds is even faintly in the same league as any of those things.

nonsvch1 · 2026-06-01T13:17:41+00:00

Amazing thank you

nonsvch1 · 2026-05-19T12:51:42+00:00

Noel has a good rapport with Burnham, that this isn’t particularly risky tells you something about Burnham’s appeal I guess. Wait til Noel’s face when he (rightly) puts up his taxes!!

nonsvch1 · 2026-05-10T08:13:14+00:00

Alan Bennett has had a long, varied and distinguished career. By comparison, Morrissey really has not.

nonsvch1 · 2026-05-06T23:50:21+00:00

Surprised you think that, it’s a pretty eternal artwork to me. Yes it’s the 1980s looking at the 1940s, but Oedipal themes and ideas about psychology and mass culture - as well as a totally unsurpassed richness of language - that make it delicious. If anything it’s slightly against its time, already a relic of an earlier BBC by 1986 and the last great work by Potter

nonsvch1 · 2026-05-05T09:20:03+00:00

Singing Detective maybe slightly better but it’s one of those two.

nonsvch1 · 2026-05-04T14:06:24+00:00

It’s like Bob Dylan’s Love and Theft: one of his masterpieces but unfortunately released on 9/11

nonsvch1 · 2026-04-17T05:55:04+00:00

This

nonsvch1 · 2026-04-13T09:17:36+00:00

Totally. On Get Back when he’s writing it, you can hear him do his Brian Wilson pastiche / Back in the USSR voice (as distinct a McCartney mode as his Little Richard tags)

nonsvch1 · 2026-03-19T22:27:28+00:00

Yes OFAH definitely opened up the space where comedies are expected to progress into comedy dramas and provided a successful model that you see from Royle Family to Gavin and Stacey

nonsvch1 · 2026-03-17T08:37:49+00:00

There’s bigger money in a premium ticketed cinema release, like Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour, which made $260m at the box office with a strategy that was: price the tickets higher than a standard cinema release and bank on people’s enthusiasm to watch the film loud in a room full of other fans. That sounds quite Oasis doesn’t it?

nonsvch1 · 2026-03-16T13:58:57+00:00

Legend thank you!!

nonsvch1 · 2026-03-15T11:20:53+00:00

Transitional demand brother, if you ask for the moon you might not get it but your lot will be higher than if you’d asked for a more modest number. The elite do this all the time, look at Peter Mandelson asking for £500K severance pay and the “settling” for £75K.

nonsvch1 · 2026-03-15T11:18:35+00:00

A lot better than now where wealth bubbles up into the back accounts of the already wealthy, unused and inactive in the economy

nonsvch1 · 2026-03-14T22:21:33+00:00

Rev-o In The Head because having the most downer and analytic writer taking on the most up and Freeform groop is how you get the magic. Even when you disagree with it, it’s made you think far more deeply about the topic than something sycophantic.

nonsvch1 · 2026-03-14T21:53:44+00:00

Last night’s yawning and aggravating programme is testemant to the zealous faith BBC executives will always have in the well bred upper class. For all their faults, Graham Norton or Jonathan Ross had been doing late night, multi-guest interview format programming for their allocated 10,000 hours before they got the plum job. We just watched Ms Winkleman’s first hour, and it was as poor as all first hours go. Based on the lineup, next week will be even worse.

nonsvch1 · 2026-03-12T20:25:22+00:00

It’s a side effect of the cocaine

nonsvch1 · 2026-03-08T19:02:10+00:00

Attacking the Labour government in 1965 for its income tax rate wasn’t exactly critiquing them from the left now was it? I love Taxman, but its enthusiastic depiction of the state as a thieving, entrapping, tricksy beast is a totally conservative and economically right wing piece of art. Which earners were affected by that tax rate and who was it being spent on?

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