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Or Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, which is a show deferred from their album promo shows last autumn anyway. Tempted to go tbf. Not least as I also like Black Honey, who are support.

Slightly surprised given I was expecting this to be rescheduled after the summer festivals, around the time of their mainland EU dates which I think they said in the same update are likely gonna be in November.

Pyramid Stage is like the ultimate water cooler to congregate by.

Seeing as our discussion on November/December's races were lost to the wipe, just wondering if things have calmed down from the Abu Dhabi antics. Also if anyone fancies sticking their head above the parapet to make predictions for 2022 and the new cars.

There are definitely moments in Don't Look Up that have the "Yeah we wanna be funny but this is serious fucking shit and this is part of our point" feel to it. Adam McKay even said as such in his interviews in a more over-arching way, given quite a lot of coverage about this film was about him saying he's split with long time collaborator Will Ferrell and that getting more attention. I quite liked his Dick Cheney film Vice, but maybe it's easier to take it on board as more of a straight-face film than broad comedy. I do like the ending in fairness, and I get why a lot of climate scientists are totally on board with it. But I'm not sure it went far enough for me to find it more than a respectable movie.

I don't think he's a terrible signing in our current situation. I just don't see why Burnley would sell him to us given we're direct relegation rivals and we just had this conversation over James Tarkowski, who was also linked with Newcastle a few weeks back. Some are reporting a surprise release clause in his contract, but I'm not sure how much I believe it. I feel like somebody else would've triggered it before now if it was as low as some clickbait sites are declaring.

Wonder what players out there count as their modern equivalents. Granted we had Bellamy about five years before he joined Man City. As I recall, started well but the ending was spectacularly rough. Not helped by Souness' crap man management, but it was probably an explosion coming regardless of who was in charge. He seems calmer out of the game than he did it.

There's a few six pointers to come tbf - some rearranged from the covid demolition job seen on the Christmas time fixtures, though Newcastle do have games against Watford and Leeds, are both at the bottom end.

I saw Matrix Resurrections in the gap between Christmas and NY and it's a very odd film. I'd gone into it thinking I might see a self-hating sequel that exists purely to slag itself off for existing, which is the vibe I got from reviews, but it didn't quite go far enough to do that. There were some scenes at the start like that, but the second half wasn't. Neil Patrick Harris' character was good, as was Jonathan Groff's Smith, but it was fairly inessential imo. Spiderman No Way Home was fun if nothing else. Don't Look Up I didn't find to be that funny (though the post-credit scenes were), but I thought it sold itself pretty well overall.

It is kinda amazing in some respects than out of us, Watford, Norwich and Burnley are going to be staying up, given we've all been pretty rubbish. Watford are perhaps the least bad so far but even then their form is going off a cliff of late.

The display against Manchester United was surprisingly excellent, and had it not been for De Gea pulling off some great stops we would've won. Some games have been infuriatingly up short - Southampton and Watford being the main two - but if we'd consistently played as well as we did in that game, we would've won more than just one game.

A quick Google says it was brought by boohoo and will be an online-only brand, similar to Topshop after they got brought by ASOS. Nearest one to me has become a Next home furnishings store instead.

Yeah was meant to be at MK Bowl in 2020 before 2020 ended up being a disaster. No return to the diary for it yet though.

I literally only went to one show in 2021, which was a friend's band called Weird Milk at the Omeara club in London, so it'll have to be that one.

It was meant to start next week with Ipswich and Cambridge shows I think? I guess pre-Christmas the Omicron variant looked like being a potentially massive issue and in that moment, it's a judgement call as to how confident people running these things were. Losing £3.45 I guess is the principle, but yeah, that thing can be irritating if there's the odd nature of it not being included in the refund. But then there can be as annoying ways to miss out. The weekend before we went into lockdown I was meant to be seeing him at an acoustic show in Aylesbury, but was unwell so couldn't go and therefore had basically paid £35 (or whatever it was) to not go.

Chvrches I guess depends on how easy it is for them to get here, given at least 2 members live in the USA. Royal Blood I think is likelier, though I imagine mainland European dates that are due to precede the UK shows might be more difficult. Wolf Alice I think it was too soon for, given it was meant to start on Friday night (I think?). Though yes, band getting covid is still a moving target of an issue.

The day before the Trippier signing was confirmed a friend who also supports the Mags said Newcastle should sign 11 new players. At the time I thought it was a joke, but now, I'm not so sure.

I mean none of Bruce, Graeme Jones or Howe have managed results with this group of players, so... I dunno. Maybe this year just has the vibe of a 2008/09-esque dumpster fire. Or Sunderland when they went down under Moyes. That and clearly the new ownership doesn't save us from our post-1950s run of FA Cup failure. Losing at home to Bedford Town in 1964, that infamous Hereford debacle in the early 1970s, getting mauled by Exeter in the early 80s, losing at Stevenage under Alan Pardew, a thumping by Oxford United under Rafa in 2017... maybe this is just who we are and the bigger surprise would've been a comfortable home win. Which tbf it would've been had the keeper not made 4/5 good saves. I'm not begrudging Cambridge - it's a glorious day for them. But it's the nature of the beast where FA Cup upsets are great to watch when it's not your team on the end of them. Something Reading fans will probably feel after they got dumped out by Kidderminster, for example.

Next thing is Royal Blood in March. Chvrches around the same time was being considered but is not currently booked.

Is there even any Debenhams still around? I thought the whole thing had shut down.

Just gonna have to take that on the chin tbh. I don't even know what is the correct reaction as a Newcastle fan to losing at home to League One Cambridge.

Yup. They postponed while Frank Turner outright cancelled. So that's the first two gigs I had booked for 2022 in the bin then. Wonder which will be the first of the ones I currently have booked that actually goes ahead on the intended date.

Yeah saw he's cancelled the tour including that date, which I also had tickets for. Shame, but not a surprise. I can't help but feel this is going to be happening a lot until March. Bloody covid.

Ironic use of still standing given Elton John is one of the concerts there next summer. Sounds like the new San Siro will be a while off yet looking at comments, seeing as it was announced this week that the current stadium will be used for the opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics being held in Milan.

Given how much of a mess Spurs made of their last managerial search in replacing Mourinho, it wouldn't be a surprise if this is similarly difficult, especially given both the fact Nuno has had barely any time at all and that the board would have demonstrated a very itchy trigger finger. But I get the sense of panic, given they have emphatically failed to build on the good parts of the team that reached 2nd in the Premier League in 2017 and a Champions League final in 2019. The Newcastle search is dragging on too long. In truth I think Bruce could well have still been in charge had the Spurs game not been such a misfire, and I had seen various things both saying Fonseca was all but done and that he's out of the running, but it's starting to take too long. Worst element is feeling like it's just burning through time that we don't have with some painful fixtures coming up. Villa is a strange one. I don't think this latest reverse will trigger a change, but it does look like they've fallen into the usual trap that happens when the big money departure isn't adequately replaced.