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Hated his music, but remember reading his biog "Wouldn't It Be Nice" as a teen and being absorbed by the excess (and the horrors he faced as a result). Anyone who can make Iggy Pop say "OK, too much, I'm outta here" deserves his wings.

I've only Little Dorrit and Curiosity Shop to compare it to, but Dickens definitely seems more experimental and scathing here. I learned my lesson with the last two, so am avoiding Googling any characters or developments in case I run into spoilers again. As before, feel a bit gutted I came to...

Reading "Our Mutual Friend" (about 150 pages in). The social satire's on par with "American Psycho", the murky Thames stuff is superb, Dickens seems to be going full-on avant-garde in places and there's a spot-on description of hallucinations caused by nod-off-jerk-awake-style sleep deprivation...

So the ACTUAL official K-Punk film, featuring Danny Dyer as Mark and Emilia Clarke as Nina, ISN'T being made?? I was supposed to be in it - there's a bit where they go to see Sutcliffe Jugend live and I'm on the sound desk, wearing a t-shirt that says DEATH FUCK, and Mark asks me where the...

Call a multifaith meeting, turn up to greet him in a burkha and bomb belt, etc (or go as a tree). Unleash a butcher's dog when he takes his hands out of his pockets.

By the way, each pint has been 4.75...so it is actually the only deflationary pub in Britain...they were 4.95 two years ago.

I think the perpetually angry barmaid in the Arsenal cap is warming to me a bit. She even muttered "Cool" when I said "Cheers" for my fifth Guinness (after blanking me for the first four). She does pour them really well. UPDATE - holy shit, she just said "Don't rush, you're OK". I'm in the...

Back in FUCKING PUB OF THE YEAR and two regulars angrily debating Gaza and saying the Troubles weren't that bad really, in comparison...while finding time to crack a joke: two IRA men driving down a street with a bomb in the back seat...one says "What if it goes off before we get to the target?"...

He slagged off Crass, so fuck him.

I still feel nothing posted in the thread since has come remotely close to toppling My Son The Hurricane.

Can anyone remember what the original folders were? I'm sure there only used to be three or four? You'd click on music and get 24 pages of Zhao arguing that AIDS was a hoax, or read a load of stuff about estuaries and seabirds in Thought. I liked Covid-era Dissensus: long sunny days playing...

Now forever associated with Dennis Nilsen muttering "I've had a hell of a day at the office" while making PG Tips for a rotting corpse in Y-fronts propped up on the sofa. Anyway, here's the only voice-noise track you'll ever need referencing the GLC's Homesteading scheme by a bloke called Clive...

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Just read '69 Exhibition Road' by Dorothy 'Max' Prior. Didn't have high hopes for this one (Rema Rema were musically OK but ruined by the awful vocalist ((and I can barely hear Max's drums on the tracks anyway))...and let's be honest, all the aesthetic subversion and post-irony in the world...

In principle, I'd support suicide clinics - hardly a source of joy for those left behind, but surely preferable to know they died pain-free and with some dignity, rather than in panic, plummeting 20 floors, or getting decapitated by a train. But then I read about the Swiss clinic where the...

Trust me, I do.

I agree with Third though, it's not like we're sneering at the Beatles because they're scouse hicks. No clue why people who love the fab four think we're trolling them for kicks, I just find them very boring, whiny and pedestrian, and would feel the same way if they were from Maida Vale.

OK, a fiver

I would literally pay a tenner to go and see a band called Scab, right now.

Weirdly, though I think the Beatles were musically unadventurous dorks, I really love Siouxsie & The Banshees' covers of Helter Skelter and Dear Prudence. And the excellent Beatle Barkers.