AAAAAAAA

First Warpstormer show in Brighton tomorrow. Weather’s turned rubbish just in time for a trip to the seaside. 👍

When I was little, The Witches was one of my favourite books. But my mum had to tape a bit of paper over the illustration of the Grand High Witch when she takes her mask off, cos it freaked me out so much. Quentin Blake is an absolute colossus of illustration.

"I'm so goth, I wear black nail polish at work." "You think that's goth? I got married in a graveyard." "You think that's goth?...

It just rings a bit hollow to take the stance there’s some kind of wider creative good to supporting the stuff at the bottom of the pile (which I 100% agree with) if you’re then gonna turn around and stuff your bookings with pastiches of arena-filling acts.

Like, I get that it’s rough for small venues to keep afloat and all rn, but it just seems kinda disingenuous to play the “we’re essential for the future of music, for the little guys!” card while simultaneously booking tribute band after tribute band after tribute band. Have your cake, *or* eat it.

Small venue on facebook: paying 150 quid to see Oasis? Why not support grassroots music instead? Also small venue on facebook: come and see an Oasis tribute band please

I mean in fairness that foreword could believably have been written by someone who doesn’t really much like books.

Got to get through 200-odd pages of this in 8 days for a thing I’m doing and the foreword doing both “I know writers who use subtext… (etc)” and “don’t write in saying that’s fascist; it’s not” is cracking me up.