Professor Keith Gildart

@ChrisHewittLFC Nah Motty was better

A vastly superior commentator to Motson. It’s ridiculous that he had to wait so long.

Thanks to @ProfGildart for his valuable contributions to the film. See the film for yourself: #theatrical" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">northernsoulfilm.com/#theatrical #northernsoul #stillburning #incinemasnow #booknow @ScreenboundPic @munrofilms @CharlyRecs

@afneil Major closed the last remaining coal mines in that region.

Nice to hear from you, Andy. Thanks for the by election. We live for such things. I’m in no doubt life is tough for lots of folk in Makerfield. But it’s hardly a poster child for urban squalor/deprivation. Thatcher left power in 1990. She was followed by seven years of unThatcher Major and 13 years of Labour government, of which you were a part. So it’s quite a stretch to blame her for any continuing woes. Unless we blame Labour for failing to put anything right. On the other hand the houses you were walking past were bought by the tenants under Thatcher’s right to buy scheme, which has given them some pride in place and some wealth they once could only have dreamt of accumulating. I assume your pledge to ‘renationalise housing’ does not include taking these homes back into public ownership ... even if that would constitute a proper, radical reversal of the Thatcherism you’re (some what bizarrely) campaigning against.

Opening night of Northern Soul film in Manchester. Made it on to the big screen.

@HumbleChavPunk @labour_history Still need to read this.

Rereading this. Such a good book!

@TheExtremeMusi1 Prince

Do you agree? Who’s missing? 👇🏻

@VintageRockN_85 Elvis

Would you rather spend the rest of your life listening to Michael Jackson or Elvis Presley?

@TheExtremeMusi1 Yes

Is Prince one of the greatest guitarists of ALL TIME???

Very nice review of the new Northern Soul film by Peter Bradshaw, a sympathetic outsider. theguardian.com/film/2026/may/…

Great review of new music doc In the Guardian today. I was involved in this one. theguardian.com/film/2026/may/…

RT @DrJoGrady: Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel and save 2700 jobs. The Uni of Nottingham put 2700 s…

@TheExtremeMusi1 Yes

Do you actually like Lou Reed???

@PulpLibrarian And Tom Waits

Albert Finney was born today in 1936! Here is in Wolfen (1981), a fine horror movie that's a bit overlooked nowadays. A fascinating plot, an unsettling atmosphere and great use of SFX: think Predator meets The Howling on the streets of New York.

@ProfKFairclough See you there👍

Really pleased to share that I’ll be delivering the opening keynote at the Music, Autobiography, and Constructing the Self conference at University College Dublin School of Music this July. My keynote, Writing the Self, Performing the Star: Popular Music Autobiography and the Construction of Musical Identity, explores how musicians construct identity through memoir, performance, mediation, and audience encounter. Drawing on themes from our edited collection Rereading Musicians and Their Audiences: Popular Music Autobiographies, the talk examines autobiography not simply as confession or memory, but as an ongoing performance of selfhood shaped through stardom, fandom, gender, labour, and cultural memory. The conference brings together an exciting international group of scholars working across musicology, autobiography studies, performance, and cultural history, and I’m very much looking forward to the conversations this event will open up around musical lives, identity, and narrative

Interview with director here underground-england.com/northern-soul-…

New film I appear in opens on 120 cinema screens next week. Already given a great review by James King on the Jo Whiley Show.

@JVMonte2 Pops Staples

What guitarist is so unique and recognizable that his or her sound and tone might as well be “trademarked”?

A tiny bit from me in @thetimes on The Devil Wears Prada and the female journalist trope. thetimes.com/article/92fbbd…

@redrumlisa Yes

Question. I have just got on a train carriage empty I'm on one set of 4 seats with table another woman on another - 2 guys get on despite empty carriage go and sit on the table with the woman there is 4 other empty tables- is this wanky behaviour? Just got out a set of pokemon cards talking intensely about characters- grown fucking men.