she's pretty fucking good tbf!
― calzino, Thursday, 23 July 2020 10:02 (three years ago) link
You really don’t know what you’re talking about Dawn. Thought you knew better than to repeat untrue slurs.— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) July 23, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 July 2020 10:04 (three years ago) link
the barefaced cheek of it
― calzino, Thursday, 23 July 2020 10:05 (three years ago) link
Ware shared a flat with Felix White of The Maccabees and is friends with Adele.[38] In August 2014, she married her childhood friend, Sam Burrows, whom she had met at school, on the Greek island of Skopelos, where the couple had previously become engaged.[39] On 15 April 2016, Ware revealed that she was expecting her first child.[40] On 8 September 2016, Ware announced the birth of her daughter who was born three days prior.[41][42]She supports the Labour Party[43] and endorsed Jess Phillips as leader in the 2020 Labour Party leadership election.[44]
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 23 July 2020 10:06 (three years ago) link
what is right with pop music ppl!
maybe gaslighting is overused but I didn't dream about Newton Dunce putting up a link to a dubious piece by a far-right extremist group on his shitrag's website.
― calzino, Thursday, 23 July 2020 10:09 (three years ago) link
is TND trying to rely on some semantic get out with this pish
― ||||||||, Thursday, 23 July 2020 10:12 (three years ago) link
or is he just brazening it out barefacedly
"what is right with pop music ppl!"
Only the grime crowd were good not bad
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 July 2020 10:13 (three years ago) link
what odds on Grime4Starmzy? I'd say 666000/1
― calzino, Thursday, 23 July 2020 10:15 (three years ago) link
lol look at the ration on that tnd reply
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 23 July 2020 10:17 (three years ago) link
Actually stunned to see TND address that tweet, he usually ignores it.
― scampos mentis (gyac), Thursday, 23 July 2020 10:29 (three years ago) link
Keir Starmer's first official policy as Labour leader is to strip Dizzee Rascal's seminal grime masterpiece Boy In Da Corner of its 2003 Mercury Prize and instead award it to A Rush of Blood to the Head by Coldplay.— Ghostface Kafka (36 Chambers) (@TheKafkaDude) July 23, 2020
― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 July 2020 10:39 (three years ago) link
Dua Lipa and Little Mix erasure
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 23 July 2020 10:49 (three years ago) link
I carry no torch for Laura Marling (don't really know a single one of her songs), but is she really a Conservative voter?
― the pinefox, Thursday, 23 July 2020 10:57 (three years ago) link
kicking myself for missing out on doing a Dreemy Cornbin Legal Fund grift
― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 July 2020 11:04 (three years ago) link
xp that whole folk thing is v back to the land Tory isn’t it? I would never believe someone who told me Mumford & Sons aren’t tories.
― scampos mentis (gyac), Thursday, 23 July 2020 11:07 (three years ago) link
there are lots of different folk things with wildly contrasting political outlooks
― imago, Thursday, 23 July 2020 11:08 (three years ago) link
Laura Marling is a straight up aristocrat, her father is a Baron. I genuinely don't care about the political views of non-political musicians but I would guess LibDem - there are 19th century Liberal politicians in the family tree.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 23 July 2020 11:09 (three years ago) link
i like blood *and* soil
― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 July 2020 11:10 (three years ago) link
Maybe that's landed gentry idk.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 23 July 2020 11:10 (three years ago) link
Laura Marling is definitely posh, if from the old-liberal-quaker part of the posh spectrum, don't know anything about her being a Conservative, she confines her political statements to feminist stuff.
The shocking domination of music by poshos these days is a massive problem, but think attacking individual musicians probably isn't that helpful.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 23 July 2020 11:14 (three years ago) link
well
(“I assumed they were, ‘My dad was a vicar’ Tory, not ‘concerned about white birthrates’ Tory,” quipped one Twitter user).
She has other tattoos too. The Marling family motto “nulli praeda sumus” (“we are prey to none”) is written on one wrist. The family’s heraldic crest — a tower with a pennant — is on the other.
― scampos mentis (gyac), Thursday, 23 July 2020 11:15 (three years ago) link
Latin family motto is so Tory.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 July 2020 11:19 (three years ago) link
LJ is gonna inform us of the wildly contrasting tones of liberalism in the Brit folk scene.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 July 2020 11:20 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JD6ejmlpa8
― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 July 2020 11:22 (three years ago) link
well tbf folk can't with with you lot, an openly very-left-wing folk artist placed 3 in the tracks poll last year and ukpol rounded as one on him
I haven't heard the Marling album yet but given her past work assume it's a bit boring - am I wrong?
― imago, Thursday, 23 July 2020 11:23 (three years ago) link
xp otm
― scampos mentis (gyac), Thursday, 23 July 2020 11:26 (three years ago) link
iirc the high-Tory approach to folk music after about 1920 tends to be to view is as suspiciously Marxist.
Kinfolk-styled, vaguely pastoral pop is something else entirely.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 23 July 2020 11:42 (three years ago) link
thanks i tried to articulate that elsewhere, folk musician = plays actual folk music or gtf
― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 July 2020 11:45 (three years ago) link
There are probably more genuinely working class musicians (as opposed to the grand British pop tradition of fake working class) achieving a degree of success than there were in the 90s and maybe before. But they're black and also mostly rappers so the kind of people who write hot takes focusing the Florences and Mumfords of the world don't notice.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 23 July 2020 11:46 (three years ago) link
also bingo
― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 July 2020 11:50 (three years ago) link
Mercury Prize 2020 Shortlist – The Poll
― imago, Thursday, 23 July 2020 11:51 (three years ago) link
Government has announced new rules on evictions ahead of lifting the eviction ban on Aug 24.But they won’t protect the 600,000 people in rent debt due to Covid, we’re heading for an evictions crisis & @RobertJenrick has been telling barefaced liesTHREAD 1/#CantPayWontPay— London Renters Union (@LDNRentersUnion) July 23, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 July 2020 11:53 (three years ago) link
tbf there's no way i'm on top of any scene in 2020 but the Mercury is the last place that will get right what's going on with Grime, Drill etc and like everything in it the noms reek of an algorithm that's got little to do with how vital something is
― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 July 2020 11:56 (three years ago) link
lol I wasn't trying to answer Matt's concern, more divert this conversation there
― imago, Thursday, 23 July 2020 11:58 (three years ago) link
Taylor Swift - Folklore
lmfao the exclamation mark this conversation didn't know it needed
― imago, Thursday, 23 July 2020 12:09 (three years ago) link
I totally support the broad consensus from centre to far left that the k bush/may thing never happened, was just a bad dream/misunderstanding/etc. that’s my left unity take
but seriously anyone who can should join LRU now
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Thursday, 23 July 2020 12:20 (three years ago) link
The Mercury Music Prize...in 2020?
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 July 2020 12:26 (three years ago) link
one year ago today jo swinson became leader of the liberal democrats, raise a glass
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 23 July 2020 12:46 (three years ago) link
RIP
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 23 July 2020 12:51 (three years ago) link
This is a terrific, sad and heartbreaking piece on covid, BLM, migration and so much more:
https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/18/black-lives-matter-grandma-and-me-how-our-world-changed-during-lockdown?
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 July 2020 12:59 (three years ago) link
Boris Johnson’s Brexit negotiator David Frost says: “We must face the possibility that [a trade deal with the EU] will not be reached."— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) July 23, 2020
https://youtu.be/zejLuDMjBMs
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 July 2020 14:11 (three years ago) link
shocked_pikachu.jpg
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 23 July 2020 14:12 (three years ago) link
oven-ready deal not thawed out properly ffs
― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 July 2020 14:15 (three years ago) link
THIS IS HUGE!Nobody should be detained for immigration purposes during a pandemic. We are one step closer to that today with Morton Hall detention centre shut. https://t.co/EiXqqiiY6c1/— Freedom from Torture (@FreefromTorture) July 23, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 July 2020 14:21 (three years ago) link
This shameless hack published literal neo-nazi propaganda, from an organisation literally called "Aryan Unity", then got himself banned from Wikipedia for repeatedly trying to remove any mention of it from his page. https://t.co/iivNZBJTPL— Gordon Maloney #BLM (@gordonmaloney) July 23, 2020
lol TND blocked by wikipedia for trying edit out the details of his own appalling history
― calzino, Thursday, 23 July 2020 15:43 (three years ago) link
This is awful. She was the same age as my dad.
Paulette Wilson has died. She moved to the UK from Jamaica in 1968, but was stripped of her rights by the home office and left destitute as the Windrush scandal unfolded. While awaiting compensation, Paulette selflessly campaigned for justice for others. RIP Queen 👑 pic.twitter.com/P48853CG2a— Nadine White (@Nadine_Writes) July 23, 2020
― scampos mentis (gyac), Thursday, 23 July 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link
best country in the world
― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 July 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link
The centrists are sparing thoughts for the left:
The Labour left needs to decide what it wants most — to try and influence the party's future or to defend/vindicate the Corbyn years — because right now those two goals are frequently in conflict.— Dorian Lynskey (@Dorianlynskey) July 23, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 July 2020 19:18 (three years ago) link
says the hypocritical shitwriter/melt who expended so much energy undermining the Labour Party for 5 years because he didn't like the non-melt leadership
― calzino, Thursday, 23 July 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link