Matthew Horton

Matthew Horton

@matthewhorton.com

Top rollmo’ star. Writer. Media node. Author of the 33 1/3 on George Michael’s Faith. Arsenal. Running. Dartford. https://matthewhorton.com

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Oh man. Takes me back to all those Glastonbury line-ups we nearly published on Orange Music, 2007-09.

Phil Costa@philcosta.bsky.social

Really pleased to start my first day as Senior Content Editor for Ballon d’Or!

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'No Bad Memories stacks up guests and intriguing sonic finds alike—Karen O and Rivers Cuomo, Haruomi Hosono, Mike Patton, British rapper John Glacier and Tunisian footwork producer Khadija Al Hanafi...' The Avalanches - No Bad Memories buff.ly/hCVntVi

Was at a non-league football match today where a kid, about 11 years old, shouted at the ref, "Book him, Danno!" High culture spans generations.

It's that music journalist time travel period of the year when you get sent albums scheduled for February because they're too late to make year-end lists.

There's something cosmically correct about your central defenders scoring against Everton, a team entirely composed of central defenders since the early 90s.

Back in the good old days when I used to write Mercury Prize nominations panel spoofs, I would throw in some of the biggest mainstream albums of the year for LOLs. I think the moral is, the world is now a poorer place without my Mercury Prize nominations panel spoofs.

I might be able to live with it if this wasn't also the day the poppy table arrived at the station. There needs to be reasonable demarcation. It can't be all fun all the time.

Press Gazette@pressgazette.co.uk

GB News is launching GB Music Radio, a 24-hour digital station only playing artists from Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on 2 November. Chief revenue officer Ross Sergeant said this "gives advertisers something genuinely new". radiotoday.co.uk/2026/10/gb-m...

oh well never mind

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.social

do think there's a danger of looking at extremely cool shit like a car driving upside down then doing a kickflip before landing, and convincing yourself it's actually lame because the guy funding it is a white supremacist

Going to play Dare now. (I only have two copies, cassette and CD). (I have Hysteria on vinyl though, so don't tell me I haven't done the time).

Ian Wade@wadeywade.bsky.social

HAPPY 45TH BIRTHDAY DARE

Threw my hat into the Arsenal v Real Madrid ballot, just me, in a fit of pique, because I'm the only one who ever organises our little group for these things. Obviously it's the only ballot I've been successful in this season.

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The AI feature on Google is great, whenever I typed something with a typo I have a little guy saying something like: woo hey easy buddy! looks like you might have brain damage haha, did you mean

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