Shitty news. Steve Albini was a true believer, a sonic enforcer, a unique character. So much great music passed through him. What a loss. RIP

ATTENTION BOOK LOVERS / WISE SPECULATORS
Down to last few sets of my Dark Lustre books, from ltd. ed. of 667. Something to read – and a new cross to bear. Once all gone, worth will soar, sez I.
Ben Myers: “Intoxicating… a madcap classic.”
Buy here: roywilkinson.co.uk

Apple have accidentally given the game away with this advert- exposing a deep disrespect for existing culture and the belief that you can rip, scrape and literaly crush all culture to make their hi-tech toys.

Latest from me. Here's the possible key to the end of 14 years of Tory rule: For almost the entirety of the party’s time in office, millions of people have felt the effects of turbulence, shocks and disasters. What did people get in return?
Nothing. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This is literally going to be the best day at the Corn Exchange celebrating a whole load of ‘Port for £2 a band!

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RIP Paul Auster. I LOVED the New York Trilogy. Reading the Faber Books paperback (in 1988?) reorientated my expectations of the novel as volatile object and experience. #RipPaulAuster I included it in this piece for the Guardian Books ‘Top Ten’ series: theguardian.com/books/2017/dec…

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Conservative MP Mel Stride claims PIP benefit is thousands of pounds per month.

No it is an absolute maximum of £720 a month, and most people only get about £250.

Meanwhile he claims £1,250 a WEEK in rent on his expenses

Lying, thieving b******

Truly devastated by the damage done by Delta to my 20 year old martin guitar. So many memories just gone. Absolutely beyond devastated. Please repost. Delta needs to be held responsible.

Scenes in the Commons, where Angela Rayner has just called Rishi Sunak a 'pint-size loser' #pmqs

To buy one of 12 original paintings from my 2024 collection on MAY 18TH. Full details, catalogue and prices are NOW ON MY WEBSITE ! Carlbevanart.com Sign up/log in to the site you will see the info and catalog top right in drop down menu. Cheers! 🍻🤠👊 #welshart

Out and about in town today? The Stow Away bar and our outside sitting area will be open for you all to enjoy for the first time ever from 2pm today. 🌞

Limited tickets remain on the door to join Perc Club x Code to see the finest underground music that Newport has to offer! 🕺

DEFIANCE PART 2: FICTION. AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE NOW. Sun Records sunrecords.lnk.to/Fiction

The Times today. Now you know.

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Delirium in Dylife. Powerful prose wizardry from a brilliant, crazily-gifted, one-off writer. Can’t wait for my copy to arrive.

- a scattergun spree in which the author grabs the sonic cinema of Springsteen’s Thunder Road by the lapels and smashes it face-first through The Boss’s windshield. There’s no heaven waiting down on the tracks for Turner and his friends, there’s only hell 3ammagazine.com/3am/

Thanks to 3:AM Magazine and Craig Austin for this extremely funny and generous review of Stray Dogs 3ammagazine.com/3am/stray-dogs/

Stray Dogs – a dark, funny, coming-of-age road story – has been praised as “a fever dream of a novel,” and Parfitt’s words, according to Buzz Magazine, are “hard to shake off.” This remarkable debut is sitting proudly on our #Bookshelf 👇

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