El Hunt
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Obsessed with the person who brought a full size telly to Glastonbury for the footie
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Um, Jodie Comer and Nicola Coughlan (aka Clare from Derry Girls) are doing a reading of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf's letters for Pride?????? Deceased.
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What's the naughtiest thing you've ever done?
Hastily shacking up with homophobic misogynists to cling onto a final shred of power? Gosh!
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Was a total joy speaking to
@yelyahwilliams
for this NME profile - such an incisive, honest artist. Her debut solo record ‘Petals For Armor’ is one of my favourites of this year so far 🌹
After years of putting on a tough front, Hayley Williams is done with hiding. NME talks to the
@paramore
star about death, divorce and her debut solo album, 'Petals For Armor'.
Read the full
@yelyahwilliams
cover story here:
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Honestly, fuck Rex Orange County for issuing a sobby little notes statement pulling all of his touring due to "unforeseen personal circumstances" – and then enjoying one last victory lap with a massive London show before the news came out. What a complete and utter piece of shit.
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THIS INTERVIEW between Timothée Chalamet and Frank Ocean is very much the thing to tip me over the edge today. I am not ok. Help.
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I spoke to
@BBCNewsbeat
for this piece - F****t is a vile homophobic slur with clear connotations, and I don't believe Eminem's apology for a second. He knew what he was doing the minute he put it on a record.
Eminem has been criticised in the past for using homophobic language
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Please can we have a coalition government made up of Jeremy Corbyn and Run the Jewels?
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I’ve had a man aggressively demand that I kiss a woman in front of him before - he chased us down the street when we refused. Had to leave places countless times because of disgusting, sexualising comments from men. Last weekend, some random bloke taking a photo of me and my gf.
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Took 93yr Mum to vote. She's registered blind. In a loud voice she said, "WHICH WAY TO CRACK OPEN A COLD ONE FOR CORBYN". The crowd cheered.
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@MileyCyrus
might be my fave Glastonbury show. So many bangers, meticulously well rehearsed, and one big middle finger to all of the “real music” snobs who reckon that pop stars - espec women - aren’t “authentic”. She rocked harder than all of you, soz
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I’m really saddened by the story that came out today, but I’m not surprised. The attack on these women is my worst fear. Anyone coming out with stuff like “what is our country coming to?” needs to get their head out the sand; this stuff happens ALL the time.
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Reading and Leeds have only managed to book 20 acts including women. Their representation of men named either Alex or Jack, however – through the roof! I counted 10 before I gave up. Credit where credit is due.
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Tierra Whack bought along word searches, provided everyone with pens, dished out punnets of strawberries mid-show and gave everyone a box of chips on the way out - a talented legend AND an exceptional host
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The Japanese House's video for 'Lilo' should win joint Oscar with The Favourite for services to gayness, pass it on
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I’m afraid the time is upon us for a Johnny business 🚨 personal news 🚨 “announcement” - after a spell on loan I’ve joined Evening Standard’s culture desk as a commissioning ed and writer! It still remains to be seen if I’m cultured, though
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Where to even start with Sault?! Little Simz in chainmail! Cleo Sol wearing a giant lampshade! An full orchestra and choir! Going into a gig through a fridge and a mirrored cactus hall?! A ridiculously good show
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I think I've finally found the perfect cafe to work in - this one is playing the Harry Styles album in full and everyone is solemnly headbanging along to 'Sign of the Times'
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It was a real treat speaking to
@PhizLair
about her new album 'Soberish' and being "pulled out of retirement" by a fierce new generation of women in indie-rock
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In holding Adam accountable, we also need to question why his mates in the villa were so reluctant to call him out. I've written about male friendship groups and the importance of calling out toxic 'banter', for
@i_D
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It has been brought to my attention that my albums of the year list only features one man – it's not my fault, we just need to get more males picking up guitars!
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"You’re just sort of bluffing, until you’re not. That stopping-bluffing-ness has been the most joyful experience of my life.”
I LOVED speaking to dream interviewee
@SELFESTEEM___
for this frankly iconic
@NME
cover
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If it's not S Club Juniors, we riot
Our lips are SEALED until tomorrow morning. 🤫
(you're going to love this one!)
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Today's my first day as part-time Staff Writer at
@NME
! Little 15 year old me who gawped her amazed way through work experience there ten years ago cannot believe it - I'm so excited. Thanks loads to
@Charliegunn
.
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Theresa May has today confirmed her place in history - she'll forever be remembered for actively enabling racism, and standing by silently.
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Time for one of those dastardly “announcements” – today is my last day as Staff Writer at NME!! I’ll continue writing for them on the reg as I plunge into the world of full time freelance journalism, but still – the end of an era!!
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Hello hello - the April issue of DIY (out this Friday) is my last as Features Editor. After 5 years (!!) of smuggling gay icons, pop stars, and questionable puns into these pages, I’m taking the plunge into the world of freelance. HMU on elhuntfreelance [at] gmail [dot] com.
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I love Glastonbury, but this is disappointing. People will sell it out and come to Worthy Farm either way, they could totally make their own pipeline to the top and take some much bigger risks on the top billings
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V chuffed that I've joined the culture desk at Evening Standard for a bit to help out across music, telly, film, and all the rest of it. To quote a fan: "but i didn't think you were very cultured"
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Not really sure how we got here, but I ended up dancing with Janelle Monae to 'Make Me Feel' tonight so basically my life has PEAKED.
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Should add that I didn't dream this – it's on the line-up for Pride Inside
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Found these positively iconic Smash Hits top trumps cards in a junk shop in Greenwich yesterday, and LOOK AT THEM
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Just 26 days until the supposed lifting of restrictions, and there's still no proper published guidance for festivals. It's an insult to the entire industry. Me, for NME.
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I think if I was a glossy music mag organising a big celebby awards show I might think about possibly paying all the freelancers first, but that's just me!
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@PWRBTTMBAND
: We can fall in love at the Dairy Queen, we can be nice or we can be mean, but right now..
Me: I'M IN THA SHAWAAAAAAH!!
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Cannot wait for this magnificent game to be finished - a work of art, and so fun chatting to
@dandouglas
about Duke Smoochem
"Someone asked why the game depicts Keir Starmer killing an alpaca, and my only response was 'to fully enjoy Duke Smoochem you need to spend 20 hours a day on Twitter'”
'Duke Smoochem 3D' creator
@dandouglas
on capturing Britain's weird side:
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A great result for anybody who isn't poor, ill, disabled, young, unemployed, gay, homeless, in education, or an immigrant. Good job, UK.
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Madonna's 'Like A Prayer' turns 30 tomorrow! The album - and the Blond Ambition tour that followed - completely shook up pop, and shaped every concert that came after it. Me, for
@NME
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Pitchfork possibly one of the last remaining music outlets which genuinely had the power to make or break new acts, and covered a huge amount of weird, bizarre, underground music, incredibly well. Another depressing development for music journalism!
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Highlight of my night was whispering 'balegdah' at Jesy from Little Mix as she walked past me
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Spoke with
@st_vincent
for this week’s
@NME
big read!
On her spectacular new album, 'Daddy's Home', shape-shifting
@st_vincent
sifts through a painful personal narrative with lightness, wit and '70s funk. In doing so, she's more herself than ever. Read the full NME interview here:
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I am so, so, so fucking sick of abusers in the music industry coming back with new albums and being given a trumpet fanfare of big, shiny, one-sided features largely simpering over how talented they are – give it a rest
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Happy birthday to Rihanna, serial stealer of wine glasses, stealer of my heart, the greatest of all time.
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For my first NME Big Read, I interviewed
@robynkonichiwa
!!!
We spoke about death, the transient space that grief occupies, and the hazy, escapist places that loss can take you to. We chatted a bit about footie too!
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Today marks the ten year anniversary of me and the
@diymagazine
lot spreading completely baseless rumours all day that Dido was going to play Reading Festival, only to find that she was one of Eminem's secret guests. Best day of my life?!
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So cool to see
@alexander_olly
’s stage outfit from Glastonbury 2019 at
@QueerBritain
- such a great home for all things LGBTQ+ history
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Decades on from the birth of dance music, a generation of once-overlooked women are finally getting the credit they deserve for pioneering electronic music. I spoke to Suzanne Ciani (!!!) synth whizz
@ela_minus
and
@DesignMuseum
to find out more. For
@NME
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Shortly after finishing 'Our Wives Under The Sea' by
@JuliaArmfield
I apparently jolted awake in the night and roared "DON'T GO IN THE SUBMARINE" at my slightly bewildered gf, if you want a rough idea of how much it wrecked me emotionally. So so good.
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SNUBBED
On this
#GRAMMYs
nominations day, I wanted to remind y'all that Rihanna's "Anti" was SNUBBED and ROBBED.
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I've written about 'Norman Fucking Rockwell!' (which SLAPS) and Lana Del Rey's use of symbolism in general
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I met
@snailmail
for
@NME
's Big Read – chats about coming out at christmas (same!) air fryers, and new album 'Valentine' ensued
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Another 🚨 work 🚨 "announcement" – I'm very pleased to be starting a new role at St Mungo's as their part-time press and PR officer. I'll also continue to freelance alongside, covering culture + music, and I'm officially open for commissions, editors!
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Dear The Times' SOPHIE review, why is it necessary to use such problematic and outdated terminology relating to transgender people within the first ten words of an album review?
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My superpower is spotting a butch gay from afar and swooning at their cute outfit + skateboard before realising - to my crushing disappointment - that they are in fact, an obscenely well-dressed teenage boy.
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Evidence of just how much 'Sanctify' is shaping gay culture: this morning I found
@MegsHerring
trying to learn
@alexander_olly
's routine before work and taking it REALLY seriously
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'Earl the hooded sweater or whatever his name is'. An absolutely 'sick burn' from Eminem, the man who's named after a bag of tiny sweets.
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Obsessed with Love Lies Bleeding: Katy O'Brian is phenomenal in her biggest role yet, and gives the film so much heart. I really enjoyed speaking to her about queer representation, typecasting, and *that* jawdropping revenge scene
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It was a real privilege speaking with some of SOPHIE's collaborators and fans for this NME piece – thank you to everyone who shared some memories
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For
@guardianmusic
's The Fandom That Made Me series, I've written about me and my mum’s obsession with Whitney Houston - and how her music helped me through grief
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Time for a spot of "personal news" - today is my last day at
@ESCulture
. Huge thanks to culture squad
@MrNickClark
,
@JessopVicky
,
@nickcurtis
, now-freelance
@NancyDurrant
+ wisely-not-on-twitter Liz for making it so much fun along the way. You're all the best!
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And I couldn't help but think.... did Carrie Bradshaw forecast the political future in her column from 2000?
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Hard to find the right words, but I've tried to pay tribute to SOPHIE for
@TheForty_Five
– a true force in pop innovation who made electronic music feel hopeful and limitless.
"When I listen to ‘It’s Okay to Cry’, I think of being in a queer space for the first time. It seems unspeakably cruel that we can’t celebrate SOPHIE’s astonishing legacy tonight by packing together into a low-ceilinged club with thumping bass"
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If the clubs were open they’d be blasting SOPHIE’s bright, transcendent music all night long. What an icon
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Let this serve as definitive proof that me and
@elle_hunt
are not secretly the same person - the doppelgängers unite!!!!
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For this week's
@NME
Big Read, I had a very entertaining and slightly meta conversation with
@AngelOlsen
. Sadly failed to meet her elusive cat Violet (apparently she's the true dark soul behind all the music)
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V excited to have written my first cover story for
@TheForty_Five
– went deep with
@arloparks
on the incredible year she's had, and the importance of talking about difficult subjects. Banging photography by
@slb_photo
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Holy shit, Madonna was great tonight for so many reasons - but I particularly enjoyed her highly niche stage banter aimed at Tottenham Hotspur fans and Westminster Council’s noise curfews
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For crying out loud, when reporting on abusers, can we not dedicate entire paragraphs to their 'influence' and success?
Putting people on a pedestal in this way allows abusive behaviour to flourish and implies that talent excuses ppl from accountability.
So please, just stop.
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With It's A Sin airing tomorrow on Channel 4, wanted to reshare my history of
@switchboardLGBT
for
@HUCKmagazine
– the UK helpline supported thousands people throughout the AIDS crisis
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Have wanted to write this for so so long, and so pleased it's finally out - the story of the UK's first sex toy mail order company, Thrilling Bits. By me, for
@VICE
- with huge thanks to
@alisapower
@susiebright
@MD_ShWomenstore
and
@BishopsgateInst
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How dare Mark Ronson - aka. The only attractive man other than Harry Styles - walk past me on the street after the King Princess rock show this is so confusing for me I was gay just two minutes ago!
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On Burger Records, and a music culture that reveres and rewards toxic masculinity. For NME.
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Reviewed Jenny Lewis' very great new album
.
@jennylewis
' brilliant fourth album 'On The Line' is up there with her greatest work to date, packed with searing lyrics and solid-gold melodies – read the ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ NME review
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"Eyebrows really are the nipples of the face" – I LOVED chatting to
@yearsandyears
'
@alexander_olly
for
@ESCulture
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