Mardy

Two words, my friends, all run and hide from the sheer self-unaware nepo baby to outdo all other nepo babies that is Baxter Dury. Even on a farm that has cows dropping fresh sloppy cowpats all over the shop for 10 months of the years, he'll still stink the place out.

Giving it a spin now, first song she appears to be pastiching LDR. Guess that's Antonoff's touch, but it's not been as explicit as this before, really.

Hehehe, Man alive, Arcade Fire in 2024. Petition to rename Worthy Farm as 'The Elephants' Graveyard'.

One for @CaledonianGonzohere. Sure you're all over this already, but this is an absolute cracker of a record. Right up your street, I reckon. https://nyahhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mohammad-syfkhan-i-am-kurdish

yeah, that line 'Both Del Rey and the festival saw a peak in the mid-2010s' is so far off the mark. NFR, which I'd argue is the start of her Imperial phase, is 2019.

I think she's f**king amazing and from NFR onwards has absolutely stepped up a gear. Some of my favourite records of the last decade.But I also think she's way better on record than live, and that's absolutely fine. There are artists who are phenomenal live and mediocre recorded. She's the opposite. Almost no acts can do both equally well..

Bastards. I've had to buy another new A4 jotter just to keep the list of Keane apologists up-to-date.

Misunderstood, I think. I think this is a genuinely great piece of writing. Saw him give a spoken word performance and it was superb. Musically, in the main, i can take them or leave them, and his memoir is grim as all giddy up. But there's something about them that makes me glad they exist. I do fear he's all gone a bit 'you can't say anything these days' though. But man, this article. I'll forgive a lot for this. https://thequietus.com/articles/32133-lias-saoudi-fat-white-family-liam-gallagher-knebworth

there's a twickets site for nl, isn't there? dunno if it's any good though

Fascinated as to whether those Moby tickets will shift or not. I've no idea if he's still that much of a draw.

Pretty sure I've seen them every time they've visited Glastonbury; 08, 10, 13, 19

Not seen him live, so can't comment on that, but it's a very very good record. Shame he's on so early, cos the album is redolent of evening woodsmoke and campfires, passing around a smoke, with big skies above and a string of bulbs over the way. The tunes drifting across the space from something in the next field. It's ...expansive.

There's a 'A Little Sole' gag in there if you do a bit of work for it.