James Turrell

This is the only end of year list that matters. The most prestigious in ambient music. Benoît Pioulard's 'Stanza IV' is the winner of the @DrownedinSound Forum Ambient Thread AOTY 🏆 Congratulations Benoît 🏆 (maybe @blackknoll can let him know he's won!)

@janeholland1 I hope my first indie book will be good

Most traditionally published books never earn out their advance. Most indie books will never make their author more than a few quid/dollars. Therefore, to suggest to such authors that they should pointlessly spend ££££ on editing services in the hope of a few more sales is reprehensible. MOST BOOKS WON'T SELL. It doesn't matter how much you throw at them. To make back a fortune spent on editing etc you would need an incredibly brilliant book. Really stonkingly out-of-the-ballpark good. Let's be sensible here. 99.9% of indie books are NOT that good. So I for one am never going to urge, encourage or suggest to authors that paying for editing services is a sound policy. If you have money to burn, go for it. None of my business how you spend your cash. But please, offended fellow authors, stop telling me I'm wrong for not encouraging newbies to beggar themselves for no good reason. Because that says far more about you than it does about me. 🫵

@TheSharpeEnd You're now my favourite football journalist

I've been asked for my top 10 footballers of ALL TIME. I'm probably going to put Jamie Vardy in there.

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I reviewed the excellent Ted Mulligan show from the @LeicsComedyFest at the @PhoenixLeic . For fans of niche football jokes, pure daftness, and the most brilliantly poor German accent. Link below and in bio:

@ALLRIGHTIDIOTS @mattzarb @gambanapp Oh to have the confidence of a complete dipshit.

One for you here lads @gambanapp

@lcfchelp Are the tickets for the Norwich home game available for to non-members?

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I went to see the excellent @rayolearycomedy at the @TheYTheatre at the @LeicsComedyFest on Valentine's Day. Alone obviously. And I also wrote a review! Which you can read in the link below or in bio. It's not very long. It's Sunday and I have book due in 6 weeks. Leave me alone

@Zonal_Marking "Football is a gentleman's game played by hooligans, Rugby is a hooligans game played by the sort of people who shit in pint glasses in the Student Union."

Even those of us who question whether rugby union is genuinely of interest to anyone must accept that Wales is a traditional stronghold. No question. But now you have newspaper pullouts literally saying: hang on, Wales has given up.

There is no future for rugby union as a professional sport and the simple reason is that no-one really cares about it. It really isn't any more complicated than that. x.com/guardian_sport…

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Fortitude Valley at JT Soar, Nottingham: power-pop in a tiny room, big feelings, a bit of glorious mess — and some genuinely perfect three-minute songs. New live review, link below:

@BCWallin I'd love one!

If you’re a reviewer who would like early access to a copy of STEVE JOBS MONOGRAPH, give me a shout

My first piece for For Fox Sake is out now. On Jamie Vardy, Cremonese, and Leicester City’s growing identity crisis. Subscriptions start at £5/month — cheaper than most matchday pints, and considerably more coherent.

New LCFC home for proper independent coverage: For Fox Sake (@FFSPod) is now a full site (news, matchday, opinion, features + Leicester City Women coverage) on CounterPress. Subscribe from £5/month — and I’ll be contributing. Support it here: forfoxsake.counterpress.media

The rest of the top 5 were as follows: 2: @clairemsinger - Gleann Ciùin 3 = @hadleyroemusic The Inner Garden Rafael Toral - Traveling Light @abulmogard - Quiet Places LINK: community.drownedinsound.com/t/rolling-ambi…

This is the only end of year list that matters. The most prestigious in ambient music. Benoît Pioulard's 'Stanza IV' is the winner of the @DrownedinSound Forum Ambient Thread AOTY 🏆 Congratulations Benoît 🏆 (maybe @blackknoll can let him know he's won!)

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Some Christmas Eve reading, if you fancy it. This essay is about grief, Christmas, and how I eventually found my way back to the season. I promise it’s not relentlessly bleak. Link below & in bio. Merry Christmas! 🎄

@Zonal_Marking @Neil_Harman57

@Neil_Harman57 Wait until you see your own Twitter feed!