⚫Neil Kulkarni
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Link in bio. All the platters that mattered to me in 2023.
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Every great band I’ve ever seen has never felt the need to do this. Hateful, especially from such a fucking mediocre crock of shit as Royal Blood.
Royal Blood making their feelings known about the crowd at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend yesterday 😂
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A rural gift shop in England in 2021. That sign is what I keep reading. How an exclamation mark can contain so much.
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Someone has just asked me to recant my opinion on Kula Shaker, 25 years after I expressed it. I still stand by every word of this.
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Noel Gallagher, Ian Brown . . . y'know some of us have been telling you these twats are twats for fucking decades.
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Censor the word that’s more offensive to your readers I guess.
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Had to stop and get a shot of this.
That Conservative resurgence in the shires going well. Stratford Upon Avon, Nadim Zahawi’s constituency, March 16th, 2023.
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Lots of people moaning about Ian Brown doing a karaoke-set without a band: let me assure you, I saw Ian Brown solo with a full band and it was still a honking disgrace.
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Collated a few idle thoughts On Oasis & The Gallaghers - apologies if you've heard them before.
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What’s a dogshit album that came out when you were 16? I’ll start 🙂
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Hartlepool, yesterday. I know some of you will now want to organise travel to visit this bin.
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Pseudonymous letter from me to Melody Maker, Autumn 93. I did get in touch with Jim, and it all started here.
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Heartbroken. Every Sunday night, this woman revolutionised my life forever. RIPower Annie Nightingale x
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Today I’m all about these photos from the end-of-final-series party for Cheers. I suspect these will also be of potential interest to my little brother
@stevie_chick
x
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I hope that those scared by the toppling of the slaver’s statue in Bristol ARE scared, really scared. Expect coming days to be an endless stream of old white blokes appalled at this trashing of history. Well history can be made as well as taught and it’s being made today x
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I think the most aggravating aspect of the Raab story is that his holiday cost 40 grand. That’s three years earnings for me. Time and time again to be told that your world of poverty and fear is being presided over by people who will ever ever worry about money . . .
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Brooklyn99 is my comfort watch and Andre Braugher’s performance as Captain Holt was one of the greatest and hilarious acts of sustained deadpan comic artistry ever. Rest In Power.
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This just flowed. Not remotely close to everything I have to say about this man, but all I could manage this morning x
"As a poet, Terry Hall instinctively tapped into the directness, honesty and hard-boiledness that feels inherent on a cellular level to all Coventrians"
@KaptainKulk
pays tribute to Terry Hall
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I’m 50 today. As a widower all birthdays are bittersweet now but I’m spending mine popping up to Manchester so I can be with both my girls. They’re my whole world.
On balance I’ve not TOTALLY wasted my 50 years thus far. Determined to get busier though x
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On balance, in my life, the greatest debut LP of the 80s.
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Judas Priest meet Andy Warhol and please, no one explain this image x
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It was 34 years ago today that this crock of shit came out. My review. The Quietus | Reviews | The Stone Roses
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Denial.
Anger.
Bargaining.
Depression.
Acceptance.
The five stages of waking up.
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Feb 26th 1966. Ronettes live with a somewhat recognisable guitarist.
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Not one to write open letters but I’d be heartbroken if the BBC messes with
@BBCRadio3
What accountants never realise is how radio endures - especially for the lonely/isolated - because it is a friend and a sanctuary. That’s how I feel about this miraculous station.
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Collated a few thoughts about THE TEN MOST OVERRATED ALBUMS IN POP HISTORY
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Over the years it’s been steadily revealed that Noel Gallagher’s a racist sexist cunt, Ian Brown’s a dickhead and now Bobby Gillespie gets shown to a disgraceful piece of shit as well.
You should have listened to me in the first place.
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I see, so THEY get to tell THEIR side of THEIR nineties story do they? Where’s the interview with me? ‘Basically Calling Everyone a Cunt and/or Racist: How Neil Kulkarni Fucked His Future’, NOT in a Guardian near you anytime soon.
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I'm not going to put on Spirit Of Eden or Laughingstock, two of the greatest albums ever made in the history of recorded sound, because I don't think I could cope. Oh my goodness, RIP Mark Hollis. Terrible news.
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If one photo I’ve ever taken still haunts me with so many unanswered questions it’s this one in my memories today.
Car park stairwell, Hillfields, Coventry, 2019.
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Fucking hell. Not seen this in 27 years. Thank you to Rocksbackpages and Mark Pringle for finding this. The letter that first got me hired as a writer. I was 20.
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#DefinitelyMaybe
meant . . . The cunts taking over. The proper homophobic mildly racist lads. The rejection of ‘poofiness’ stylistically, the reassertion of the English Rock Defence League’s tiny-minded ideas abou’real’ ‘proper’ music, rock regressing into pure soulless pastiche
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Paki has never gone anywhere as a word, I’ve been hearing it all my life and I’m nearly 50. Why? Because there’s a lot of fucking racist arseholes in England that’s why.
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26yrsago. I miss nought about the 90s except the sense of play I had about writing. That freedom . . .
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Jerry Dammers walked past. I’m a trembling fanboy but I said ‘hello Jerry’ before my brain had a chance to stop me. Handshake, a little chat. Oh my fucking god. Shaking. Godhead.
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23 years ago today Richie Edwards last gigs with
@Manics
reviewed by me for Melody Maker edited by
@simon_price01
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omfg Racist White England - Alex Scott, who is brilliant, gets to host a show and you lose your shit. Do you know how utterly fucking self-piteously infantile you look? Of course you don't, you always have looked like that you pathetic fuckers.
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Seems it’s confirmed. RIP Janice Long. Just as important to me as Peelie, Annie, Miss P + as discovered doing
@ChartMusicTOTP
one of the most fun, genuinely pop-loving TOTP presenters ever x
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Sometimes I get delusions that I scrub up okay and then I see a photo of the melanistic form of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) and realise . . . Nahh mate, not even close 😍
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Always remember
@JuliaHB1
this way. As someone who would use a condition faced by millions of us, including millions of kids, as a fit subject for scorn and mockery. This is what Julia and her confederates are all about. This is how they see people.
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I don’t think Terry ever cared about something as dull as ‘representing’ a city but that voice, and those words, and crucially the entire cut of that jib- whether he liked it or not no one ever got closer to what being from here is like, the mix of doom and humour
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“The annual explosion of gold from a 1400-year-old Ginkgo tree located within the walls of the Gu Guanyin Buddhist Temple, in the Zhongnan Mountains region of China.”
Photo by Han Fei.
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Lovely to see virtually everyone, especially in the UK, feeling the need to pop a Lee Perry tribute or track on their wall.
Because ska, rocksteady, roots and dub got to all of us didn’t it? Became an addiction. Power of immigration innit?
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Time to say thanks for FIFA for utterly ruining the World Cup. Thanks guys. Every four years for millions of us we have this special celebration of world football and you’ve corrupted and defiled it utterly. Hope you are proud.
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@13sarahmurphy
Just wanted to say Sarah - I love your use of language, genuinely hugely satisfying and cathartic, thankyou.
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Reminder that anyone not supporting the teacher strike - especially those arseholes who talk with hysteria about 'kids losing a day of education'
a) have never taught
b) have no idea about the realities of education for teachers and kids
c) see education as free childcare
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I don’t think white people understand how the ceaseless anti-immigration rhetoric makes us feel, how legislation desperately enacted that would retroactively prohibit us from
even being here makes us feel. It says, loudly, ‘WE WOULD RATHER YOU WEREN’T HERE’.
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Still the most effective précis of my soul I’ve ever seen.
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Yeah yeah yeah you might consider yourself ‘moody’ but you’re not Meera and Neil Kulkarni in the late 70s possibly being dragged round a garden centre moody so jog on. Look at those faces of mardiness. Punk rock started here.
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Tucked away in that excellent Quietus piece about the NME ‘brand’ today is link to this - still by some distance the greatest piece of music journalism in the last two decades.
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PLEASE SOMEONE get
#Kanye
and
#Morrissey
in the studio to do a retooled version of 'Ebony & Ivory'. IT'S WHAT 2018 IS WAITING FOR.
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3 years ago today she found peace x I know I’m a stuck record atm, so many special days x for the past month I’ve been in a tremendously bad way. You are right: there are no words.
I’m just a caretaker now. Turning the lights down, locking the house up, taking care x
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Missing me and Samantha’s morning mistletoe topped smooch (to gross any nearby kids out) and the cheeky g&t we’d clink before starting breakfast.
To anyone getting through today with a loss hanging heavy on your shoulders lots of love and strength. It’s just one day xxx
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Gave 'Just Another Rainbow' a listen and it's a truly remarkable re-invocation of Oasis and the Roses at their best.
Unfortunately Oasis and the Roses at their best were both utter shite so I can't say I enjoyed the experience. Ear-bleach/swarfega STAT.
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Nah not gonna watch ‘The Crown’ - find the thought of watching a drama about parasites so wealthy that they’ve never had to worry a day in their lives coz no matter what happens to them they have an enormous bed of wealth and privilege to fall back on curiously uninviting.
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Okuda Hiroko: The Casio Employee Behind the “Sleng Teng” Riddim that Revolutionized Reggae
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Everytime I see the word ‘iconic’ I remember my mum calling Freddie Mercury a ‘gay acorn’ x x x
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RIP one of the foundational architects of this thing we call pop, Lamont Dozier x
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I have one rule. I stick up for the fucking underdog. Transphobes and Terfs ain’t gonna change that. See - I’ve heard that phrase ‘legitimate concerns’ before. You ain’t gonna hoodwink me you reactionary lying cunts x
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A year gone for the elemental God-daemon spirit of rock n roll.
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Your annual reminder that no matter when or how you put up your Xmas tree it won’t match the sheer magical festive gaudy wonder of the G-clamp table-tree of the Kulkarnis of ol’ Coventry Town x
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Just found, slightly crumpled in a bag of baubles.
Of course upsetting but also, crucially, a reminder of how lucky I was to have a true fierce total love for 21 years together x
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RIP
#LittleRichard
. Can't believe the bodyblows this week to music - these elemental figures who changed everything. Rock & roll & pop wouldn't have about an iota of its energy, flamboyance and sheer immutable will without his influence. One of the greatest ever to do it x x
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35 years ago today. A mindriot for a 15 year old trying to figure out racism, a launchpad to so much reading and listening and crucially one of the most straight-up THRILLING debut LPs ever.
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I HAVE previously passed on the amazing mnemonic my sister taught me re: the spelling of diarrhoea haven’t I? If not, take this brothers and sisters and may it serve you well.
Did it At Robert Redford’s House One Early Afternoon.
I swear down you will never forget this.
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You can tell who we are - we're the music journalists who never get invited on anything to talk about the 90s. Because our version departs from the 'legendary'/'iconic' cliches.
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Lockdown’s impact on mental health is as nothing compared to this loathsome contemptible government’s effect on the mental health of millions. Lived thru the Thatcher years but have never so thoroughly despised a UK govt as much as this one.
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I think the face of the girl sat behind him speaks for all of us here.
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I remember thinking I could never hate anyone as much as I hated Thatcher. This current cabinet though . . . Is it them that are becoming more loathsome or us who are on a shorter fuse? Trouble is with this hate - it’s paralysing rather than productive.
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