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It’s here! Here’s a taste of our Brighton Festival 2025 programme. ✨ @AnoushkaShankar’s epic Festival line-up includes Howareyoufeeling.studio, @arooj_aftab and @nadineshah, Nikesh Shukla, @iNikeshPatel and Himesh Patel, @AakashOdedra, @adityaKprakash, @arunasays, @sweety_kap, @arshi_mona, @bishi_official, Nikita Gill, @AshaTunes, @MeeraSyal CBE, Indira Varma, @HofeshCo, @n3rm, @teatrolaplaza, @maxcoopermax, @RebeccaSolnit, @CarolineLucas and so many more. 💥 ➡️ Join us at this year’s Brighton Festival 3-26 May - check out the programme: bit.ly/4gHi3VU 🎫 Tickets on sale to Brighton Festival Members now! General on sale Thu 20th Feb. ROOM-i-Nation and Aruna Sairam & Ganavya supported by the @BagriFoundation International theatre programme supported by The Pebble Trust Brown Girl in the Ring sponsored by Dishoom Permit Room Max Cooper and Nadine Shah sponsored by @GSPBrighton Huge thanks from Brighton Festival to our steadfast support of funders @BrightonHoveCC and @ace_national, The Pebble Trust, the Bagri Foundation, Mayo Wynne Baxter and wider supporters, donors, patrons and members. #BrightonFestival #AnoushkaShankar #ArtsFestival #ArtsCommunity #ArtsNews #Culture

My friend Selina is auctioning 7 one-off hand stitched works - with all money going to Medical Aid Palestine! GazaOnMyMind.wordpress.com

@intzagram Ok thanks! I don't suppose there's a closing time on there too please? Just checking if I can actually make it! Thanks again!

@intzagram Ooooh! What time do they go on please?

This Wednesday may well be the only chance to see us live in 2023: livenation.co.uk/show/1432171/p… @ajdzar @msmohammedmusic @nadiajaved_ @pinkshiftmd @N3rm @ShivaSoundsys @TheUnderworld @LiveNationUK

@MasterTainment Big love MT xxx

I'm sorry I'm so broken everybody. I promise I didn't always used to be like this.

@RetroGameCorps I figured it out! It's set to "press and hold start" Thanks so much for all of your content, help and being a top dude! Much appreciated!

@RetroGameCorps Hi! I’ve just realised that when I access the Menu from a game using SelectY, it doesn’t overlay the current game - it quits out to the full menu. Is there another setting to activate the QuickMenu instead of the full menu please? Thanks again Russ!!

@RetroGameCorps hi! I have a RPocket2+ set up as per your starter guides! Thanks! After watching your most recent RG Nano/Pokemon Crystal vid, I was wondering: Is there a way to make the left stick on RP2+, mirror D-pad input to make one-handed RPG play easier please? Thanks!

@RetroGameCorps Thank you! Much appreciated!! x

@RetroGameCorps Amazing! Thank you so much! One quick refresher please: how do you go into the Quick Menu when in a game? Thanks so much again!!!

@N3rm Yes, start up a game, go into the RetroArch Quick Menu > Controls > Port 1 Controls > Analog to Digital Type and change it to “left analog” then go back to RA Quick Menu > Overrides > Save Core Override. Now the left analog will mimic the d-pad.

@NI_News Hi there, I've noticed this same issue in 3.9 - is there a fix on the horizon please? community.native-instruments.com/discussion/699…

@j3nnag I feel you!!! The scrolling is a bit wonky on here too. Happy Monday! 🫠

I’ve been X’d it’s thrown my social folder into visual chaos - especially as on Home Screen it’s still blue but when I open the folder it’s black 🫠 It’s so teenage boy man design it’s making me angry 🤣 How’s your Monday going? I’m being sent into a rage by a teeny tiny pic 🤷🏽‍♀️😁

@Hanifkureishi Love you bro xx

A PAIN IN THE ARSE Isabella suggested that I shouldn’t write a blog if it was going be too miserable and morbid. But this is how it is. I left the previous hospital a few days ago. It was such a relief. It was a general hospital and a mad house. I might have said already that I was on a dementia and stroke ward which was noisy if not tragic. I was taken in an ambulance to a hospital fifteen minutes down the road, to a new neurological ward, where they are used to patients like me with spinal injuries. The room is small, grey and grim. There’s a TV on the wall opposite me which doesn’t work, despite Sachin’s efforts. The view to my left is of the sky and every two minutes a plane passes across the window, on it’s way to Heathrow. I think of the passengers packing up their things and getting ready to disembark. I wonder if I’ll ever go on an airplane again.  I’m still weak and in low spirits. I’m trying to eat despite my nausea. The doctor ordered an abdominal X-ray which demonstrated that I’m full of shit and heavily constipated. A clinical nurse stuck his finger up my ass to try and dislodge some of it, which gave me a tremendous pain which lasted all night and prevented me from sleeping. People pay good money for that. Two of my visitors made the same joke. I still speak to my analyst on the phone, after years of silences and dreams, we’ve become more intimate. I tell him how much I love him after so long. I wonder whether he’d come here to visit me. He tells me to eat despite my disgust, and seems to believe that I can find some living force within myself, that I will not want to give up, as I so often feel like doing. I had a visitor here yesterday, a good friend, and we were gossiping away happily when a more or less stranger walked in. I recognised her of course but I barely know her and had no idea what her name was. Luckily she introduced herself. She’s a woman I see in the supermarket and on Brook Green when I am walking my dog. I would usually chat to her a little bit. She found out from a film producer film friend of mine where I was. She went to the previous hospital and was redirected here. We talked about films and politics and not long after she left for a pilates class. It was strange to be visited in such intimate surroundings, in my pyjamas, barely able to speak by someone I hardly know. The friend who was here was annoyed on my behalf and said she should have called or texted but I don’t think she has my number. I wondered whether she was being kind or just inquisitive. She didn’t ask me much about myself. I’m not a kind of show. I’m happy for any company, but wonder if I should be annoyed. I’m pleased to be out of the last place but my spirits are at rock bottom. It is quiet here. At night it is dead silent. When it gets dark I listen to Radio 4 and take sleeping pills. I try not think about my misfortunes, but they are mounting up. More and more is going wrong with my body. At each examination they find something new which makes me worry. I can’t help wondering if I’m ever going to get out of this, or whether I’m going to die here. Sometimes I think about killing myself, by some kind of overdose. I wonder if it would be a relief. As I said to my friend David the other night, I feel I have been picked on and bullied, that somehow, someone has made a mistake and got the wrong person, that this is an injustice, and that someone will recognise that I have been hard done by, that this farce will end and will I return to my normal state. But on the other hand I realise that this is not a mistake, that this is reality; that this has happened to me. I have gone through the door and can never return. This is my fate. But at least I’m alive, even though I’m stuck in this small grey room, desperate to not be left alone. Frightened. Injured. Your loving writer Hanif. xx

4/3 Bonus Beat: Want to know something really mind-blowing about the making of 36 Chambers? The Ampex MM1200 24-track used to record it was the same one used for Purple Rain. Thank you and good night!

@chloerobinsondj Da fuck?!

Evidence

There’s no rules that say you can’t eat fish on the overground or tube but a man has just seated himself next to me cracked open a can of tuna and is eating it w his hands. I got up to move away and this women with one leg took my seat.. even she is now standing instead

⚠️ GLASTONBURY DJS ⚠️ Every time you play an artists song this weekend, they get paid, but only if you register what songs you played during your set. Pls don’t forget to do this !! 👍🏾

Indulging the "DEBATE ME!" shitheels does nothing to further the truth. It is exhausting because its purpose is to exhaust you and no credible person should do it.

When GOONIES wrapped, Richard Donner needed a vacation after working with the kids for an entire year, and went to Hawaii to finally relax. As a prank, Steven Spielberg flew the entire cast out (including The Fratellis!) to surprise Donner at home. Here's that footage. Amazing.