Just two weeks until I discuss my Manic Street Preachers book with the brilliant @willhodgkinson.bsky.social at London’s Institute of Contemporary Music Performance. www.tickettailor.com/events/insti...

I did give him a copy of Street Level Superstar though

Sly Stone at 80: ‘Everyone has some Riot in them’ The musician has penned a memoir while housebound and wired up to an oxygen tank, he tells Will Hodgkinson

RIP the great Sly Stone.

Sly Stone at 80: ‘Everyone has some Riot in them’

www.thetimes.com/article/d7d2...

My wild life with Siouxsie Sioux Budgie, the drummer with the Banshees, has written a memoir about his great love affair with the band’s lead singer — and how it fell apart

Budgie speaks! On the Banshees, the Creatures, the shadow of his mother’s death and his crazy life with Siouxsie Sioux in a crumbling pile in France.

www.thetimes.com/article/d995...

street-level superstar: An evening with LAWRENCE Tickets | From £13.75 | 19 Jun @ The Ivy House, London | DICE The Rock 'n' Roll Book Club present - An evening with the street-level superstar himself: Lawrence (Felt/Denim/Mozart Estate). street-level superstar: a yea...

A month to go South London: Lawrence, @willhodgkinson.bsky.social & @sian-superman.bsky.social Street-level Superstar, The Ivy House Nunhead 🎟️ tinyurl.com/StreetLevel-...

Sparks: ‘We can’t understand why other brother acts have so much trouble’ Ron and Russell Mael talk about 50 years in the music industry — from subsisting on food stamps to dancing with Cate Blanchett

Spoke with Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks, one of the only bands of over 50 years’ standing still making great records, like the forthcoming and appropriately titled MAD!

www.thetimes.com/article/d3e2...

Bruce Springsteen review — stadium protest for the America he loves The rock legend was on a mission, decrying the authoritarianism of Donald Trump in an impassioned yet hopeful performance

“Bruce Springsteen review — stadium protest for the America he loves:

The rock legend was on a mission, decrying the authoritarianism of Donald Trump in an impassioned yet hopeful performance”

@willhodgkinson.bsky.social for The Times

street-level superstar: An evening with LAWRENCE Tickets | From £13.75 | 19 Jun @ The Ivy House, London | DICE The Rock 'n' Roll Book Club present - An evening with the street-level superstar himself: Lawrence (Felt/Denim/Mozart Estate). street-level superstar: a yea...

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street-level superstar: An evening with LAWRENCE Tickets | From £13.75 | 19 Jun @ The Ivy House, London | DICE The Rock 'n' Roll Book Club present - An evening with the street-level superstar himself: Lawrence (Felt/Denim/Mozart Estate). street-level superstar: a yea...

South London folks. We’re heading to the Ivy House Nunhead with @willhodgkinson.bsky.social Lawrence and @sian-superman.bsky.social 19 June - join us.

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Our family lived off-grid in the forest — then Mum died A new documentary follows a British couple and their four children as they deal with grief, loss and home-schooling. Will Hodgkinson meets them now

A New Kind of Wilderness is one of the most moving docs I have seen in years - a tale of grief, alternative living and the challenge of holding onto your ideals. And the Payne family’s choice to go off grid chimed with my own odd, albeit more suburban childhood.
www.thetimes.com/article/0f22...

My Dad - a very cool man in his eighth decade - is taking a cruise around the Mediterranean. His holiday reading companion is ‘Street Level Superstar’ by @willhodgkinson.bsky.social.
I am receiving regular updates on the pilgrims progress

What a wonderful thing to say, thank you so much!

Thank you! X

Fame at last for cult indie-pop singer who never hit the big time A book about Lawrence — lead singer of the bands Denim and Felt — by the Times pop and rock critic Will Hodgkinson has won a prestigious award

Fame at last for cult indie-pop singer who never hit the big time
@willhodgkinson.bsky.social

www.thetimes.com/article/84f4...

Well this is lovely. A huge and deserved congrats to @willhodgkinson.bsky.social - and Lawrence - for winning the Penderyn Book of the Year prize.

And if anyone’s counting, that’s two wins in a row for Nine Eight Books

Street Level Superstar, A Year With Lawrence has won the 2025 Penderyn Prize. Thanks to everyone who has helped on the crazy journey, with extra special thanks to @peteselby.bsky.social for all he has done.

‘They got more flash but really they stayed the same’: Tom Sheehan on Oasis The music photographer captured the rise and fall of the Gallagher brothers’ band over a wild decade

The mighty Tom Sheehan talks to @willhodgkinson.bsky.social about photographing Oasis. ‘They got more flash but really they stayed the same’: Tom Sheehan on Oasis

www.thetimes.com/article/59c0...

Remembering the Sex Pistols-Induced Anarchy in 1970s America Ahead of their reunion, the British punk band recalls the madness of their U.S. tour—drugs, cowboys, and all.

“It ended up being the ruin of the band, the nail in the coffin.” @willhodgkinson.bsky.social

Yes it is in the possession of the Scottish artist Jim Lambie - who promises to wheel it out next time Mozart Estate do a Glasgow gig

Will Hodgkinson: manual de sabotaje (con Lawrence)

Will Hodgkinson: “Diría que, más que querer ser una estrella famosa del pop, Lawrence prefiere representar ese papel”

José Manuel Caturla habla con el periodista musical @willhodgkinson.bsky.social por “Superestrella de las calles. Un año con Lawrence”, de los mejores libros de 2024.

From Brat to the Brits: meet Charli XCX’s secret weapon A. G. Cook has worked with the singer since they met at a party a decade ago — now he’s been been crowned producer of the year

The real story of Charli xcx’s Brat, from its producer and co-mastermind A.G. Cook

www.thetimes.com/article/6c4f...

Will Hodgkinson: manual de sabotaje (con Lawrence)

. @willhodgkinson.bsky.social dedicó doce meses de su vida a desvelar el enigma tras la máscara de Lawrence (Felt, Denim, Go-Kart Mozart y Mozart Estate). El resultado de semejante hazaña es el libro “Superestrella de las calles. Un año con Lawrence”.

José Manuel Caturla habla con el periodista.

Just heard the news about Roberta Flack. So many nights spent listening to this masterpiece.

Dancing At The Edge Of The World by Brooke Combe on Apple Music Album · 2025 · 11 Songs

Happy Release Day for @brookecombe.bsky.social “Dancing At The Edge Of The World” produced by @jamesskelly.bsky.social

Been eager to hear the entire album on an early Friday morning, just great songs start to finish rooted in soul. Highly recommended

music.apple.com/us/album/dan...

#MusicSky 🎧

Google spent billions of dollars on this shit.

Mantra of the Cosmos: the secrets of Bez’s supergroup Noel Gallagher, Ringo’s son, and the Happy Mondays have joined forces in a supergroup, with music that combines Dylan, Dali ‘and a bit of cosmic jibber-jabber’

Spoke to Noel G, Shaun Ryder, Bez and Zak Starkey about their new group Mantra of the Cosmos.

Bez: ‘I was trying to start a revolution and tell everyone to live without money. Nobody got it.’

Shaun: ‘You were doing it while wearing a Rolex.’
www.thetimes.com/article/ca68...

Great news and well done to everyone on the list. Happy to be in such good company.

Well that was wonderful. Thanks @nineeightbooks.bsky.social, @willhodgkinson.bsky.social and of course Lawrence. What a tale. #feltband #gokartmozart #mozartestate

Tambourines at the ready people, Joel Gion is heading to Walthamstow...

Celebrating his acclaimed book IN THE JINGLE JANGLE JUNGLE in paperback with @rnrbook-club.bsky.social, in conversation with @willhodgkinson.bsky.social + guest DJs

Tickets on sale now eventbrite.co.uk/e/joel-gion-...