Would I have joined this platform at the outset if it had been like this? No way. So perhaps we can rate biscuits, match fonts to the footballers whose spirit they most embody & list the clothing brands that were most likely to get you duffed up at school over on the other place.

Today feels like the perfect day to tell the story about how Stephen Duffy came to the attention of Robbie Williams and how I tried to cheer him up by quoting a Sting lyric at him.

Over in London on @petepaphides @sohoradio We’re on at 6pm. Listen live via https://t.co/Y73LTDptQl we’re chatting about about @needlemythology re-issue Brian album Understand & Planes EP #TheBlueNile #REM #TrashcanSinatras #TheGoBetweens Will post podcast later.

I put together a playlist of music I was listening to in the 90’s, living on Avalon Road, Ealing and writing the Brian album Understand - now Understood on @needlemythology @petepaphides #SetantaRecords #NeedleMythology

@petepaphides Couldn’t agree t with you more @petepaphides And very impressed with @BurningShed that my teal vinyl version arrived yesterday @KenSweeney

33 years ago, Ken Sweeney sang his heartbreak into a tape machine and, in doing so, created a modest masterpiece of jingle-jangle mourning. I've loved this album ever since it came out and it's dream to be able to give it an expanded re-release on Needle Mythology. Out today.

I honestly think it was a matter of historical importance that this was captured on film & I couldn't have let it pass without getting a proper film crew to do it. The gasps when James from The Sea Urchins walked on stage after a 30 year absence will stay with me forever.

Get on this very good thing ! You get a better view here than I did on the night -- had to watch it to see what happened 😂

This Bank Holiday only. Sensitive – The Film: £3.50. #Indiepop Wrecking Crew plays house band to singers from Talulah Gosh, Sea Urchins, Soup Dragons, Altered Images, Weather Prophets, June Brides, Waltones, Jetstream Pony: 100% indiepop classics. Buy: https://t.co/4EJAdQ8Uqs

To celebrate the Bank Holiday weekend in the UK, @NeedleMythology - the British record label founded by respected music journalist @PetePaphides - is having a flash sale Artists include The Lilac Time, The Finn Brothers, Robert Forster and Stephen Duffy https://t.co/9PTRTCimPW

For just this Bank Holiday Weekend, I've reduced the price of every already released album on Needle Mythology by 20%. To help you decide, here's a playlist featuring some of my fave songs from those releases. Purchase link in the playlist description.

The first time I ever heard Looking For A Day In The Night.

DOING GOD'S WORK – THIS JUST IN

🗞️ Our latest issue is on sale today - The comeback edition Featuring @TomBaldwin66, @petepaphides, @MatthewdAncona, @soniasodha, @youngvulgarian, @johnkampfner, John Bleasdale and more 🔗Subscribe here: https://t.co/hZbOuyhmm7

Always argued Acquiesce was their best tune :) Great piece by @petepaphides Amazing how much energy the ‘angry young men’ story still (and forever will) encapsulates. And there’s plenty to say I imagine on its return now. a boxer’s triumphant comeback to looking-back crowds.

@MatthewdAncona @oasis @petepaphides @TheNewWorldmag Here in France , our once influential music magazine Les Inrocks has just devoted a whole issue to Oasis and it comes nowhere near Pete ‘s article. I may even consider listening to their records right now . Powerful, insightful and utterly moving piece, Pete!

It’s @oasis day - and you will read no better piece on the band’s return than this, by the great and powerful ⁦@petepaphides⁩ for ⁦@TheNewWorldmag⁩

Growing up in an abusive household, the Gallagher brothers became two very different personalities. Together, they made one great rock ‘n roll star ✏️ @petepaphides https://t.co/sDI2PDmpPU

Thanks to @TheNewWorldmag for letting me go deep on #Oasis: on the disruptive power of their music; on the societal, gender & cultural faultlines they opened up. On how we process childhood trauma. And why Acquiesce is their best song.

I hardly ever post here, but I'm at Glastonbury – and having seen & read some baffling hostility directed artists who delivered performances that made a lot of people very happy – it pains me that those same artists might be waking up this morning & somehow think they fucked it.

There's so much hostility in the world right now & I want to say that 99.9% of musicians who get on stage just want to make people happy. Let's not punish or shame them for that. They're not trying to trick you. And, at a festival, if you're not feeling it, you can just move on.