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.

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

Tbf my main problem with led by donkeys is it's sanitised protest that gains legitimacy through having access to capital; like every time they pay for a billboard it gets perceived as 'acceptable' and in doing so de-legitimises people who would just paste it up in the night.

I thought it was the done thing in these situations 😔

Nice of them to acknowledge that I’m a HUGE idiot

Can’t get away from me that easily pal

Obviously it's bad if 11 year olds are watching Andrew Tate and Tommy Robinson online. But it's also very bad that the British media is more consolidated around the idea that nothing can ever get better, can only get worse, except for crackdowns on migrants, which is good and necessary.

And Rowling, of course

I can hear it in his *voice*