Absolutely agree Matt - it's sublime.

Wake Up Boo wasn't really Britpop either - it's more like fuzz-fuelled Motown - and the album was just a more focused iteration of what had come before.

I'm not quite sure what I just witnessed. Utterly barmy. Football's good innit?

"The advice to students is: don't ask your parents to enter into any guarantee which does not specify the limit of financial liability being guaranteed."

This is Unipol's advice:
www.unipol.org.uk/advice/paren...

Mr Hoppy!

Agreed, Wild Notion is a special record. Unwound in particular frequently earworms its way into my head.

"I've pierced my foot on a spiiiiiike"

Came VERY close to smashing into one of the three cars right alongside as well. Could have been so much worse. Glad everyone's OK.

Richard's more recent stuff as @thedecliningwinter.bsky.social is also wonderful and not to be missed.

Excellent chat! And always good to hear bands namechecking the mighty Hood.

I imagine the changes to how Billboard drop tracks once they've hit the recurrent threshold is also a factor?

Ah shit, what a loss.

I know, but there's only so much you can say in 280 characters...

Caitlin is absolutely spot on here, but also missing the point - the flag fetishism isn't the big issue in multicultural and vibrant cities like Leeds, but in our towns, where the decades of post-industrial civic underfunding leave their biggest impact and find a populace demanding a scapegoat.

Well they're not wrong. I guess.

King of Comedy with Fozzie Bear as Rupert Pupkin.