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Michael Hubbard
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Custodian of @musicOMH.com, {blank-or-blank} at The Guardian. Here for musics, (UK) politics, infrastructure geekery, and whatever else.

📍London | Same handle on Zucksites, &c., but meh to those
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The Divine Comedy - Rainy Sunday Afternoon | Neil Hannon's best album in years sports his characteristic wit and orchestral flourishes. But its personal subject matter elevates these songs to something greater
The Divine Comedy – Rainy Sunday Afternoon
Neil Hannon's best album in years sports his characteristic wit and orchestral flourishes. But its personal subject matter elevates these songs to something greater
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September 17, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Saint Etienne’s fantabulous new (and LAST! 😭) album International is out at midnight TONIGHT.

Sarah of the actual Saint Ets sat down for a natter about the new album, collaborations, and life leading to this point here 👀

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@heavenlyrecordings.bsky.social
Saint Etienne interview - "I think our legacy is intact and that means more to me than anything" | Sarah Cracknell talks about Saint Etienne's final album and collaborations with pop music royalty past and present while reflecting on the band's history
Saint Etienne interview – “I think our legacy is intact and that means more to me than anything”
Sarah Cracknell talks about Saint Etienne's final album and collaborations with pop music royalty past and present while reflecting on the band's history
www.musicomh.com
September 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Hello. The Milky Way and some stars are above me and these images were taken on my phone. #nofilter #stars #milkyway #nightsky #ooh
August 31, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Where, I ask you, does one find specific-sized replacement chimney pots (one buff, one terracotta)? Jewsons et al don’t have the specs, roofing suppliers are impossible, local salvage yard draws blanks, Bookface marketplacers specify nought, and, ARGH
August 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Has there been a book which, chapter by chapter, lists regrets-through-life? Each as an eulogy-chapter, none more vital than any other, but the sum adding up to a whole lot of experience, imbuing personality, and perhaps indulging sentimentality. Thinking of penning one, each chapter on a person
August 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Bore witness to Billie Eilish, wrote things ⤵️
Billie Eilish @ O2 Arena, London review: "Intimate, sapphic, connected" | The two-time Oscar winner invites 15,000 people into her head on the Hit Me Hard And Soft tour
Billie Eilish @ O2 Arena, London review: “Intimate, sapphic, connected”
The two-time Oscar winner invites 15,000 people into her head on the Hit Me Hard And Soft tour
www.musicomh.com
July 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Words wot I rote about a lady called Sabrina ⤵️
Sabrina Carpenter @ BST Hyde Park, London | Tone- and note-perfect work from the Busy Woman demonstrates that there's much more where Espresso came from
Sabrina Carpenter @ BST Hyde Park, London
Tone- and note-perfect work from the Busy Woman demonstrates that there's much more where Espresso came from
www.musicomh.com
July 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Sparks @ Hammersmith Apollo, London | The Mael Brothers celebrate their highest-charting album MAD! with deep dives, hits and reciprocated love
Sparks @ Hammersmith Apollo, London
The Mael Brothers celebrate their highest-charting album MAD! with deep dives, hits and reciprocated love
www.musicomh.com
June 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Wrote some words about musics, plz read, thx
Nine Inch Nails @ O2 Arena, London review: “A feast for the senses” | Lean, mean music machine Trent Reznor and his cohorts fire on all cylinders in the Peel It Back tour www.musicomh.com/reviews/live... @nin.com
Nine Inch Nails @ O2 Arena, London review: "A feast for the senses" | Live Music + Gig Reviews | musicOMH
Live Music + Gig Reviews: Nine Inch Nails @ O2 Arena, London review: "A feast for the senses"
www.musicomh.com
June 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Ani DiFranco @ Royal Albert Hall, London | At the start of her European tour, the consummate musician/feminist icon brings together musical numbers with songs old and new 
Ani DiFranco @ Royal Albert Hall, London
At the start of her European tour, the consummate musician/feminist icon brings together musical numbers with songs old and new 
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June 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Festival Review: Mighty Hoopla 2025 | Unique, pitch-perfect and vital, the 2025 edition had nostalgia, politics, contemporary edge - and community to the fore
Festival Review: Mighty Hoopla 2025
Unique, pitch-perfect and vital, the 2025 edition had nostalgia, politics, contemporary edge - and community to the fore
www.musicomh.com
June 5, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Pulp - More | So THIS is what they do for an encore
Pulp – More
So THIS is what they do for an encore
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June 3, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Field Day 2025 and the Battle of Brockwell Park - start of a new era overcomes the odds | The opening of London’s 2025 music festival season has been fraught, with obstacles in nature both local and global thrown in its path 
Field Day 2025 and the Battle of Brockwell Park – start of a new era overcomes the odds
The opening of London’s 2025 music festival season has been fraught, with obstacles in nature both local and global thrown in its path 
www.musicomh.com
May 30, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Imagine if there were enough 37s. There’d not be half-hours between buses. There’d not be gridlocked Dulwich roads. People in south London could travel, without buying a car. What a world #tfl #tfl37 @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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AMMAR 808 - Club Tounsi | Sofyann Ben Youssef's third album marries his Tunisian identity with wall-shaking bass futurism
AMMAR 808 – Club Tounsi
Sofyann Ben Youssef's third album marries his Tunisian identity with wall-shaking bass futurism
www.musicomh.com
May 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
As Rialto play the Scala tonight, a little push for my interview with Louis Eliot about the journey to their first album in 24 years, Neon & Ghost Signs www.musicomh.com/features/int...
Rialto's Louis Eliot interviewed: "Suddenly I realised there was still love for the band" | Music Interviews | musicOMH
Music Interviews: Rialto's Louis Eliot interviewed: "Suddenly I realised there was still love for the band"
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May 14, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Rialto's Louis Eliot interviewed: "Suddenly I realised there was still love for the band" | With the release of Neon & Ghost Signs, their first album in over 20 years, Louis Eliot's band is back and better than ever. But what took them so long?
Rialto’s Louis Eliot interviewed: “Suddenly I realised there was still love for the band”
With the release of Neon & Ghost Signs, their first album in over 20 years, Louis Eliot's band is back and better than ever. But what took them so long?
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May 4, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Rialto - Neon & Ghost Signs | More than two decades since their last album, Louis Eliot and co return older, wiser and with intent
Rialto – Neon & Ghost Signs
More than two decades since their last album, Louis Eliot and co return older, wiser and with intent
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April 22, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Salif Keita - So Kono | Seven years after his retirement from recording, the Malian superstar releases an acoustic album recorded in a hotel room in Japan
Salif Keita – So Kono
Seven years after his retirement from recording, the Malian superstar releases an acoustic album recorded in a hotel room in Japan
www.musicomh.com
April 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Today is New Pulp Song Day. Herewith, Spike Island.

New James Ford-produced album, More, out through Rough Trade on 6th June.

#pulp

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Pulp - Spike Island (Official Video)
YouTube video by Pulp
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April 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Love the cover of The Divine Comedy’s new album Rainy Sunday Afternoon, picture by Kevin Westenberg
NEW ALBUM & UK TOUR NEWS!
'Rainy Sunday Afternoon' to be released 19th September.
Pre-order now from our webstore for ticket pre-sale access.
More info: thedivinecomedy.com/news/rainy-a...
Listen to the lead track 'Achilles': lnk.to/RainySunday
#thedivinecomedy #rainysundayafternoon
April 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I will always love Yann Tiersen.

Want to float away on a piano? Half of his new double LP Rathlin From A Distance | The Liquid Hour is your medication

The first half is piano | The second half is not

It's all completely gorgeous

@yanntiersenmusic.bsky.social ❤️

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Yann Tiersen - Rathlin from a Distance (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Yann Tiersen
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April 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Another of those album release weeks where the number of albums it'd be nice to review is of a considerable order of magnitude higher than the number of writers available to write them. =(
April 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Kate Nash, Lambrini Girls and many more ask fans to shape the future of music | Acclaimed musicians are calling on music fans to take part in the first-ever Music Fans’ Voice survey
Kate Nash, Lambrini Girls and many more ask fans to shape the future of UK music
Acclaimed musicians are calling on music fans to take part in the first-ever Music Fans’ Voice survey
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February 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM