No Limits YouTube video by Country Teasers - Topic

A good cover version of 2 Unlimited.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkuZ...

Back in 2014 I reviewed Prince for @thequietus.com.

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I have a friend called Horatio.

You don't meet many lads called Rudyard these days.

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

I'm giving loads of my clothes to Oxfam, if anyone wants to look and/or smell like a mid-list writer with erratic sales figures.

Green eggs and gammon.

This is like ee cummings meets Dr Seuss and I am, as people prone to the whims of linguistic cliche say, *here for it*.

Well, it was for a silly feature for Kerrang!, the music magazine. The 2002 Jubilee. We visited some London landmarks and then popped into a noisy gig - an American band at The Garage in Highbury.

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

I try to be of service, Ben.

You just know you'd end up stuck next to Terry, reeking of Carling, his 'Stop the boats' tattoo bobbing up & down as he grunts something about the 'libtard wokerati' 'pon completion.

Then you'd have to retire to the kitchen for a beta blocker, Earl Grey and a silent cry.

Or maybe that's just me?

Two Bluemoose Books adapted for BBC Television in the past few years.

The Gallows Pole by @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social

Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social

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@bookcornerhx.bsky.social

The finest Indy publishing from Hebden Bridge.

One of the great films.

Oh, you bloody legend. Thank you, Ian!

I did wonder how it reached them.

News: Jesus Christ Kinski has been longlisted for the Jan Michalski Prize For Literature in Switzerland.

fondation-janmichalski.com/en/prix

Evidence exists.

I do. I took her to a punk gig in 2002!

Thank you. (And is that HRH Queen lookalike Mary Reynolds in your photo?)

Big thanks to everyone who helped in a 3 hour search, in the wooded hills around Heptonstall, in the dark, for Sandy the terrier last night.

I found him miles from home trotting along the top of a drystone wall in the middle of nowhere.

Me and Adelle did 9 million steps yesterday & now can't move

The year I started at Melody Maker / the decline began.

News: Jesus Christ Kinski has been longlisted for the Jan Michalski Prize For Literature in Switzerland.

fondation-janmichalski.com/en/prix

I had a little chat with Daniel for this.

This has 'hip new eaterie' sprinkled all over it.

ICYMI: Last week’s interview with Irmin Schmidt (which was a real pleasure to write and record)…

Yes is winning on 58%

Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU.

Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well...

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

I did wonder who was doing SirPaulMaccaThumbsAloft's ever-changing barnet on Mull.

Maybe he had a sheep chew him that mullet?

(Or maybe....just maybe...a ram?)

‘This craving to go viral is tiresome’: the artists who’re sick of the pressure to promote on social media From Stewart Lee in his wolf costume to Werner Herzog’s big steak sizzle-up, artists are now under huge duress to ‘chase the algorithm’ and reach audiences. Many of them are hitting burnout – and hitt...

www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

It's fun discovering new old writers.

Thoughts?