Imogen Tilden
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Senior Arts Editor @ the Guardian
London
Joined June 2009
Ear worm alert: ‘I didn’t think it was annoying enough’: how Spitting Image made The Chicken Song
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‘It’s a piss-take of Agadoo by Black Lace, one of those mindless summer hits. Someone said “Hold a chicken in the air” and I went “Stick a deckchair up your nose”. We finished it in four minutes’
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RT @RDH_tweets: Interesting first week. The Glyndebourne Festival receives no public funding. Today's Arts Council cut is to the grant f….
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RT @mrjamesob: Boris Johnson is, by some distance, the worst thing ever to happen to British politics. A serial liar, a proven cheat, an en….
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RT @campbellclaret: Do you think Johnson statement tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? If so press LIKE. If on the….
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RT @martinkettle: I suspect the claim @BorisJohnson had 102 nominations is about as reliable as claims the Covid rules were followed when h….
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RT @paulwaugh: As @BorisJohnson talks about *that* unauthorised meeting with ex-KGB spy Alexander Lebedev, his official writes a note, *dr….
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This is one of my favourite pieces we've ever run - the brilliant Joe Cornish on Britten. b https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/mar/17/joe-cornish-peter-grimes-benjamin-britten-opera-addict.
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Didn’t think I could love an album as much as @alex_neilson ‘s Otterburn , but Paradise already running it close. Stunning new record from brilliantly funny and original musician.
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Mary Bevan: 'Why have musicians been left out in the cold?' thanks to @MaryCBevan for great piece.
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I’m a self-employed musician with a mortgage to pay. Why have I and so many of my colleagues been abandoned by the government?
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RT @MayorofLondon: Congratulations @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris on your well-deserved win. London looks forward to working with you — it's….
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Our new series begins with Beethoven: Where to start with his music
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We begin our new series with Beethoven, the gruff uncompromising genius who changed music forever
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RT @paul__johnson: So, now we know:. -Dominic Cummings deceived.-His wife deceived.-Boris Johnson deceived.-Half of Cabinet look like crave….
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RT @Aiannucci: How about this Thursday we do a minute’s boo at 7.55? Then grab a drink, and at 8pm do one final massive clap for carers?.
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RT @martinkettle: Here\s my take on this evening's press conference and related issues . By backing Cummings, Johnson has laid bare….
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The prime minister’s self-centred endorsement of his overmighty adviser is an outrageous snub to the rest of us, says the Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
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RT @smitharrytv: This is the most incompetent performance I have seen from a Prime Minister having interviewed the last nine.
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