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Stuart Braithwaite @plasmatron.bsky.social Plays guitar. Hates fascists. Just confused by life.
Simon Raymonde @mrsimonraymonde.bsky.social Musician with a label. Cocteau Twins/Lost Horizons. Producer, mixer. Some non-Cocteaus gig highlights? Playing bass with Midlake, on “The Rat” live with The Walkmen, and playing guitar on tour with Mercury Rev ❤️ Memoir “In One Ear” on Nine Eight Books now.
Daniel Taylor @dtathletic.bsky.social Senior football writer for The Athletic.
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Keith Cameron @keithcameron2.bsky.social Contributing Editor, MOJO magazine.
168 Songs of Hatred and Failure: A History of Manic Street Preachers out now. keithcameron.co.uk
David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social Writer. Mr Agreeable in a previous life. Author of, among others, Fear Of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don’t Get Stockhausen (Zero) and Different Times: A History Of British Comedy (Faber)
Simon Reynolds @simonreynolds.bsky.social Writer, music and other things
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Helen O’Hara @oharaviolin.bsky.social helenohara-violin.com
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Author - ‘What’s She Like’ - a memoir.
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White Rabbit Books @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social Music. Memoir. History. Fiction. Limited Editions. “Fail we may, sail we must”
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Jonathan Wilson @jonawils.bsky.social Author of Inverting the Pyramid, Angels with Dirty Faces, The Names Heard Long Ago and Two Brothers. Editor of the Blizzard. Journalist for the Guardian. Co-host of It Was What It Was: the Football History Podcast.
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HelenBrownJournalist @helenbrownwrites.bsky.social Journalist contributing to the Daily Telegraph, i paper, The Independent, FT, Perspective magazine, BBC and Sky News. 
Stick in the Wheel @stickinthewheel.bsky.social Experiments in London roots music.
Working class artists.
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Franz Nicolay @franznicolay.bsky.social Music, writing, teaching: http://linktr.ee/franznicolay ||| PianoFighter.substack.com ||| Member AAUP, AFM ||| To us, the beautiful!
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social Political sketch-writer for the Guardian. Author. Latest book out now 'Taking the Lead: A Dog at Number 10'.
Jonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social Guardian columnist. Presenter: BBC R4's The Long View, the Guardian's Politics Weekly America and Unholy, alongside Yonit Levi. Author: THE TRAITORS CIRCLE
Tim Jonze @timjonze.bsky.social Guardian culture writer. Just trying to get through the day without cocking up, and drink as many hot drinks as possible in the process.
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
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Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer. Author of Rogues, Empire of Pain, Say Nothing. Podcast: Wind of Change. Producer of FX series Say Nothing, now streaming on Hulu (in the US) and Disney+ (everywhere else).
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Simon Inglis / Played in Britain @playedinbritain.bsky.social Writer/lecturer/campaigner on sporting heritage/architecture + works of Archibald Leitch; erstwhile editor for Played in Britain + SGSA. Villa fan since 1962. Current professional status: 'semi-required'.
Alexander Milas @alexandermilas.bsky.social Erstwhile archaeologist, Kerrang! writer and Metal Hammer magazine EIC. I head up my own company working with Iron Maiden and the European Space Agency among others, and run a cycling charity on the side. Cats rule. Linky: https://linktr.ee/alexandermilas
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Sam Jones @swajones.bsky.social Madrid correspondent for the Guardian. Concebollista.
Dan Hancox @danhancox.bsky.social Journalist and author from south London. Latest book: MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World (Verso 2024).
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David Smyth @davidrsmyth.bsky.social writer, teacher, runner, late adopter
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Richard Norris @mrrichardnorris.bsky.social Musician, Writer, Producer. Jack The Tab, The Grid, The Time and Space Machine, Oracle Sound, Music For Healing, BTWS, etc. Lewes, England. Memoir 'Strange Things Are Happening' (White Rabbit) out now. www.richardnorris.bandcamp.com
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James McNair @jamesmcnairwrites.bsky.social Slightly under / over word count since 1994. Writes for MOJO, Prog and Classic Rock. Previous stints at The Independent, Q, and as a trainee baker. Whitley Bay transplant via Glasgow, East Kilbride and London.
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Will Hodgkinson @willhodgkinson.bsky.social Author of Street Level Superstar, A Year With Lawrence; In Perfect Harmony, Singalong Pop In 70s Britain; The House Is Full Of Yogis; Guitar Man; Song Man; The Ballad of Britain
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Damnably @damnablyrecords.bsky.social Indie Record Label, MGMT, Publisher, Promoter est 2006
Based in Stratford, East London
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