After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time.
It’s weird looking forward to a TV show being ‘on’ again... and not in a ‘oh yeah I’ve heard that’s good I’ll watch that at some point’ way. Proper appointment telly.
#LineofDuty
Actual lovely print issues of things where you can smell the fresh pages, lose yourself amongst the words and don’t have to accumulate eye bags by squinting through artificial light. Put the kettle on.
@goulcher
Legit broke my wrist during a lesson when I was nine, but the PE teacher told me to stop crying and get on with it. Had to have it reset whilst on laughing gas. The teacher's name? Mr Brakewell.
Don’t worry about your exam results today. I did relatively well, and now I’m doling out unrequested life lessons to strangers on an app I don’t really know the name of anymore.
March: 15 degrees Celsius.
British people - tops off, tats out, ice cream, crowded beer garden.
October: 15 degrees Celsius.
British people - parkas, scarves, spiced fucking lattes, fireside in a pub.
@chrissyteigen
@chloeepartridge
The recap sentence after the ad break gets me. ‘I can’t believe you left the prize winning monkey on the bus! What are we gonna do?!’
Resisting the urge to slip into a twitter convo involving editors I’ve pitched to and never heard back from and typing ‘Look at you, able to write a reply!’
Well here’s some news - I now have a TV column at the
@nme
. Isn’t that nice? Here’s the latest, and you can see the first two by clicking on my name. Which is Matt Charlton. Hi.
200 years ago (last month), I went to Berlin for
@rollingstoneuk
on a David Bowie assignment.
David Bowie. For Rolling Stone.
The latest issue is out this very day. Fantastic writers, engrossing subject matter, and beautiful photography. Oh, and my thing too. ★
Lads, chaps, ma peeps - my first feature for
@empiremagazine
- all about the inflight movie - is in the new issue. It combines my four favourite things - travel, history, entertainment and facts only ever useful in pub quizzes. Thanks to
@Terri_White
for giving me some pages.
Happy 70th NME. Literally the only good thing about my school was that they took out a subscription for the library. Then, just under two decades later, I wrote this.
I ain’t happy, I’m feeling glad,
I’ve got my first
@NME
cover, in the bag,
I wrote it, and so you know,
The link, is just below.
(It’s just below, it’s just below, it’s just below)
@gorillaz
@damonalbarn
@jamiehewlett
.
@gorillaz
were readymade for an era that has seen the old certainties upended, as epic new album 'Song Machine – Season One: Strange Timez' proves. Read the full NME interview with the band here:
Absolutely overjoyed to share that in a few weeks’ time, I will be joining Team
@NME
as their New Music Writer. I can’t wait to learn and grow in this role, and I’m so grateful that my dream has become reality.
We are very lucky to be alive at the same time as this man. Few people can say they have simultaneously changed the world, and brought immeasurable joy to billions of people. Happy 80th James Paul McCartney. You will be spoken of with reverence and a smile for centuries to come.