Tracey Thorn @tracey_thorn Twitter profile

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Tracey Thorn

@tracey_thorn

5 years

I remember when I used to see a bee and go, YIKES a bee! And now I'm all, Oh wow a bee, hi! You ok there? Need anything? Can I get you a drink? A cushion? Wanna borrow the car?

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3 years

Texting daughter, who went to Clapham Common to pay respects, asking “Are you safe home?” And can’t even begin to get into the layers of irony

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2 years

Just thought you’d like to know that Ben and I have made a new Everything But The Girl album. It’ll be out next spring 😍 @ben_watt @ebtg

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4 years

Fucking hate this government

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10 months

I think what's so hateful about that Guardian Sinead obit is the way it frames her whole life in negatives - "she lacked the obsessive drive needed…never had another hit…inability to edit her pronouncements...constitutionally unable to compromise…" Talk about removing agency😡

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4 years

Funny how easy it is nowadays to be both truly shocked and not at all surprised.

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3 years

Met Ben for the first time, in the Hull Student Union bar, around this time in the evening, 40 years ago today. Very glad I did too ❤️

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2 years

Literally the nightmare isn't it, having your song used as campaign music by your enemies. I will stick to my lifelong policy of never writing uplifting bangers, while extending nothing but solidarity to those who write uplifting bangers.

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1 year

Seeing as everyone’s posting where you can find them if Twitter goes down I just thought I’d say: if you want me I’ll be in the bar.

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10 months

Oh Sinead O’Connor, no, that’s a terrible loss. What a singer and what a brave brave woman. Heartbreaking news.

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5 months

Reader, I married him too 😍

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5 months

Just to say I married the lovely @tracey_thorn 15 years ago today at Chelsea Registry Office. First met 42 years ago. Happy anniversary, darl’ 😍

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2 years

Thanks all for birthday wishes. I have turned 60 today and am with Ben looking out at the city I love ❤️

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2 years

Just got my first ever tattoo. It’s my 60th birthday present to myself. Thanks to lovely Jasmin Walsh at the London Social ❤️

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2 years

Walking back from the tube at night here there's one brief dark/creepy bit, past the churchyard. As I approached it just now I could see and hear a group of lads hanging out. Music playing. Got closer. It was "Yes Sir I Can Boogie" and reader, in that moment, I was not afraid 😍

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6 years

This week's column, about being a woman in music, written about so much of the time by men.

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2 years

Thanks for all the tattoo love. Those who joined in to tell me that tattoos are bad and I have done a silly thing, well you also made my day by reminding me what it would be like if my mother was still alive.

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2 years

11 years ago I asked if anyone had a photo of me on stage at Glastonbury with Jeff Buckley in 1995 and here it finally is. This makes me so happy ❤️

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2 years

@tracey_thorn Per your request...😁😉❤️

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3 years

Sometimes I find it heartbreaking that my children have got so grown-up but then I think at least I don't have to carve another fucking pumpkin

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3 years

Happy 25th Birthday to this one. Would love to be in a limo right now, heading out for the night, touching up my lipstick...

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6 years

A 55 year old wife and mother. God the more I think about it the crosser I'm getting. 55 year old husband and father. I'm trying to imagine it as a description in an album review. Nope. Can't do it.

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10 months

here, I've fixed it for you - "She was free of the obsessive desire to have hits at any cost...she saw no need to edit herself for public consumption...she stuck to her guns when powerful forces tried to make her compromise..."

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6 years

Big dead rat in the garden. Might stockpile it.

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1 year

"Here is the street, and here is the door/ Same as it was before/ And up the stairs, and on the wall/ Was Doisneau's Kiss and Terry Hall..." 💔

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13 days

OMG WE WON❤️

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3 years

Daughter moved into new flat in Finsbury Park. Went to visit her. Thought the street name rang a bell. Checked when I got home and it turns out my dear departed Dad was born in a flat in the same street, nearly 100 years ago. Tiny tiny little world.

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1 year

Happy Birthday to the lovely ⁦ @ben_watt ⁩ who turns 60 today. It’s been great working with him again this year ❤️

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2 years

I love this fiercely reasonable letter from Sandi Toksvig

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2 years

FAO The Archbishop of Canterbury

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Tracey Thorn

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4 years

I'm going to be a bore and post about social distancing, and just remind you that it's not about protecting yourself, it's about protecting others. Imagine you're infected and you're trying not to infect someone else. Someone vulnerable. Who you love.

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2 years

Going out dancing for first time in 2 years. Had some chips to set me up.

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8 months

Thanks for birthday wishes, you’re all lovely. And yes, we made it on holiday, phew! ❤️

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3 years

@philAllottPFCC This isn't about sensitivity, or hurt feelings. Women are angry because we feel that people in power still do not understand how impossible it would be for a lone woman, at night, to refuse arrest by a genuine police officer.

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1 year

I've always thought this, the link from The Specials to Massive Attack so clear and strong. ❤️

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1 year

The protest soundtrack to our youth & the blueprint of our band. Rest in power Terry Hall.

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1 year

I can hear @ben_watt in the other room playing the piano and it's a relief cos the last 10 days have been hard. A bad night in A&E and a delayed diagnosis & a few days in hospital to sort things out & he is finally home and on the mend. ❤️

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4 years

The current tweets from @RevRichardColes are extraordinary and wonderful - honesty, flashes of wit, and searing insight into the sometimes banal realities of what he is going through. Huge love and respect to him.

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5 years

Someone asked me today if I was Tracey Emin from Everything But The Girl. To which I had no real answer.

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4 years

People suggesting Ben and I might write some songs together during lockdown, but I worry about subject matter. Earlier we had a half hour conversation about whether or not to have a baked potato.

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1 year

Finally it’s release day! My love and thanks as ever to ⁦ @ben_watt ⁩ for the music, the ideas, the programming, the lyrics - this was a true collaboration and I’m so grateful xx

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4 years

My tolerance of people who keep to the middle of the path now at zero and soon to go into negative numbers.

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5 years

Just had dinner with the Pet Shop Boys and in case you’re wondering, they’re lovely 😍

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5 months

Terry Hall, Sinead O’Connor, Shane MacGown, Kirsty MacColl, dear god how can they all be gone it’s heartbreaking 💔

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1 year

We moved to Camden in 1984 as soon as we left university. And here we are - nearly 40 years later - outside Camden Road Overground yesterday celebrating the release of 'Fuse'. Loving the reaction from everyone. Got yours yet?

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5 years

Oh God but I loved Buzzcocks. And Pete Shelley was an amazing songwriter. "But after all life's only death's recompense." RIP ♥️♥️

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1 year

I have avoided Banshees of Inisherin because it sounded so BLEAK, but I just watched and maybe my sense of humour is v dark but I found a lot of it funny, and the rest of it moving. Tragedy played as comedy. Mad & extraordinary. (You all know this obvs having watched already).

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3 years

I’m on a wall with Mick Ronson ❤️

Martin Dougan

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3 years

Clumber Street @tracey_thorn

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1 year

Just calmly reminding you that the new EBTG single will be played on 6 Music in the next half hour yes I am completely calm what do you mean

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5 months

Merry Christmas from my family in the mid-60s. The child at the front, who seems to be on the brink of tears, will one day write a Christmas song called Joy, but she isn’t quite there yet 😍🎄

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2 years

I love these evenings out with my 20-something kids where we have a few drinks and they tell me all the stuff I didn't know from when they were teens and I tell them about how I kind of knew but didn't care, and then we laugh about how it all seemed important and now seems funny.

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2 years

@VictoriaCoren @jimmycarr I have never heard a *joke* that has more made me despise the teller.

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5 years

Very happy to tell you that I'll be the guest on Desert Island Discs this coming Sunday! Thanks to @laurenlaverne for wonderful interview 😍

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Tracey Thorn, musican and writer

Tracey Thorn, musician and writer, is interviewed by Lauren Laverne.

www.bbc.co.uk

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3 years

Having a glass of water in the belief that it will dissolve all food and alcohol consumed today so that I can start again. Always works.

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10 months

As always, when someone like that dies, you hope they knew how much they were loved

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1 year

OK, I mean I'm starting to feel a bit emotional now

Everything But the Girl: Fuse review – still staking out pop’s frontier after 40 years

Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt have absorbed the revolutions in dance and electronic music since their previous album in 1999, and shaped them into melancholic, finely detailed stories

www.theguardian.com

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1 year

Ben and I recorded the new album last summer in a little studio on the banks of the river Avon. Here we are on a break on a sunny June day. Not long now, album out next week! 💥

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1 year

Ok, nearly there now! Really excited to tell you that the new Everything But The Girl single is out tomorrow - it's called "Nothing Left To Lose" and you can hear it for the first time on @laurenlaverne 's show on @BBC6Music - listen in from 8.30am GMT 😍🔥🍾

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3 years

@philAllottPFCC We are shocked and frightened. And in this awful moment we are being told stupid things like "run away", or "wave down a bus" or "refuse to submit". It is infuriating.

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1 year

Went out, had some drinks, lying in bed now listening to an owl. Am very tired. Fucking hell though, what a day, you're all lovely. Had some drinks did I mention it. ❤️

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1 year

PHEW. Thanks for reactions so far, you're all lovely. New single out now!

Everything But The Girl - Nothing Left To Lose

Listen to Nothing Left To Lose by Everything But The Girl.

ebtg.lnk.to

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1 year

What a day - have tested Covid negative, and then THIS in The Guardian - thanks to Alexis Petridis for a great interview, in which we talk about the new album, how it came to be made, and what it means to us - it means A LOT ❤️

Everything But the Girl on their unlikely return: ‘This life came into our music. We didn’t have...

They went from leftist outsiders to huge dance-pop stars, then walked away when stadiums came calling. Back after 24 years, Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt explain how lockdowns led to a new album – and...

www.theguardian.com

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1 year

Christmas Eve discovery: the young people all currently love Careless Whisper, so we sang it passionately at full volume like some kind of beautiful carol, and oh George ❤️

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1 year

We may be drinking champagne, I couldn't say ❤️

EverythingButTheGirl

@ebtg

1 year

Today 'Fuse' entered the UK Album Chart at No 3. We are thrilled. Our highest EVER chart position. We didn't know what to expect when we made it. A leap of faith after all this time. Thanks to EVERYONE who has supported it. It's been quite the ride. Here's to the future 🥂🎉❤️

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1 year

What a day it's been. I can't tell you how terrifying and exciting it has been to release this music after such a long break. Incredibly grateful for all your enthusiasm, and for a review like this, which really GETS the track, and us ❤️

Everything But the Girl: “Nothing Left to Lose”

Announcing their first album in 24 years, Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt channel the pathos and yearning that’s long made them so singular.

pitchfork.com

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3 years

I hate lording it over you as some kind of hipster early adopter, but tonight Ben and I are going to start watching The Wire, you won't have heard of it

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6 years

It's lovely having all the kids home again. *walks into kitchen to discover they have eaten all the packets and tins in the cupboards, and drunk all the milk and orange juice and all Daddy's beer and all the water in the tap*

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13 days

We’re at the Music Producers Guild Awards 2024! We’ve been NOMINATED! Self-producing artist of the year! Fingers crossed ❤️

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9 months

Fucksake, no I DON'T want to go on the radio to discuss whether I find it hard to remember my song lyrics now I'm so ancient, thanks for asking

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4 years

Bad day. Grumpy, distracted, stressed, short tempered. Maybe amid all the positivity we should acknowledge there will be days like these. Roll on tomorrow.

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5 years

I'm always bewildered by blokes who follow me on here, and so presumably like my work, but then get arsey when I say something a bit feminist. Makes me wonder if I've been annoying them since about 1982.

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3 years

Anyway, to celebrate he's having a beer and I'm having some prosecco, and then we're having different dinners cos we didn't fancy the same thing, and that, people, is my only relationship advice, you're welcome.

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3 years

And now, as the light fades on yet another day, I think it must be time for some booze, and a curry. Thank fuck.

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3 months

My god, this is the way forward - film at 3, drinks at 5.30, dinner at 7, home by 9. BOOM 💥

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2 years

Sitting outside as the heat finally starts to die. A car rolls by, and through the open window, loud, Running Up That Hill. Of course. What a wonderful thing in every sense.

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11 months

fucksake tho imagine having this many hits

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6 years

Cor blimey, what an amazing day of protest. Have marched till feet sore and sunburned, met up with all sorts of fabulous people, in unlikely scenarios, and returned home once again feeling not alone, not mad. Bravo London.

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3 years

He's been very brave and I have given him a sticker ❤️

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3 years

Halfway there! Been shielding since March. Loved the quiet concentrated buzz in the hall. The politeness of volunteers. The ex-army veteran organising the queue outside. The carers with the vulnerable. The wiping down of the chairs. We go on. #COVID19

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10 months

Went to lunch with one daughter, the other daughter coincidentally walked into the same restaurant. Train home had some kind of problem and turfed us out a couple of stops too early so I headed to the nearest pub I knew, and son was on a shift behind the bar. #London #family

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3 years

Lipstick on, Zoom interview about to begin, here we go again

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4 years

Think I might have just delivered the final draft

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3 years

My wild garden, keeping my spirits up

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4 years

Went for my walk quite early this morning. Passed a few people. We are all now saying "Morning!" to each other, like we live in a little village or something.

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4 years

Oh lord, was not prepared for that at all, our entire neighbourhood clapping and whooping and banging saucepans, am crying now

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5 years

@laurenlaverne As someone who had the actual pleasure of being on actual DID interviewed by actual you, I am very much in your corner xx

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4 years

I realise on my early walk this morning that as there is no one around there is no reason not to sing along with whatever is in my headphones. Dance too. Why not?

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5 years

A man wanted to argue with me on the internet but instead of joining in I went to the gym and did a fierce workout to Donna Summer, and Los Hermanos, and Mary Jane Girls, and Freeez, so who's the winner now eh. This will be the opening chapter of my self-help book.

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4 years

My daughter, who as a child wouldn't eat ANYTHING, has just schooled me in how to do oven chips. You add olive oil, salt, and rosemary and honestly who is this person and what did they do with my daughter

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4 years

Having a gin now to take the edge off the alertness

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10 months

Compared to the outpouring of love and good feeling I have seen on here, it is extraordinarily tone deaf, and really upsetting.

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4 years

Starting to feel gloomy now about the idea that future generations might have *ironic* Stay Alert posters on their kitchen walls. And then mugs, and tea towels, etc.

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1 year

Happy New Year - can't wait to share new music with you in 2023 - love to all of you ❤️

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@ebtg

1 year

A kiss to wish you all a Happy New Year. Been a big year for us, bringing us back together to record for the first time in 23 yrs. Never imagined in Jan that this would happen. Yet here we are. New music very soon. Pic: Juergen Teller, 1999

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3 years

I was happy to go out a bang a saucepan earlier on in lockdown, but I'm not sure carers need our applause any more. Instead, I've donated to my local hospital, the Royal Free, and I send my gratitude and respect to everyone working in the NHS right now

Donate Main Form - Royal Free Charity

royalfreecharity.org

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1 year

I remember hearing her for the first time on John Peel and thinking HOW IS SHE EVEN DOING THAT, and I've never quite stopped thinking that ❤️

#WOMENSART

@womensart1

1 year

Elizabeth Fraser, Scottish singer, songwriter and musician, best known as the vocalist for the pioneering indie pop band Cocteau Twins #WomensArt

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6 years

Just got home. Been out dancing. Sometimes I think everything apart from dancing can get fucked.

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3 years

Early footage of me playing one of my new songs to Ben

Hey Kids Rock'n'Roll

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3 years

Shivering in bed post-second-vaccine, but it’s all good, body busy doing the right thing

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6 years

I realised earlier on that I met Ben 37 years ago today. Which means that about now he was playing me Solid Air and blowing my tiny mind ♥️

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3 years

Walking down Ladbroke Grove and a car drives by with Walking Wounded absolutely blasting out and MY GOD it sounds good 😍

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3 years

Happy Birthday to the mighty ⁦ @ben_watt ⁩ ❤️

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4 years

You think you're getting used to it and then the weirdness hits you all over again.

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3 months

The other night I dreamed an entire song - lyrics, melody, arrangement, the whole lot. Woke up excited thinking I'd written something amazing in my sleep. Had a coffee and realised it was Prefab Sprout's Couldn't Bear To Be Special.

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5 years

I love how properly thrilled he is! No playing it cool, no dissembling. Brilliant.

Richard E. Grant

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Am levitating at this astonishing news. Thank you to @TheAcademy for this nomination in such incredible company. I’m indebted to so many people but most of all @melissamccarthy & Marielle Heller @cyefm ❤️ @SearchlightUK

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2 years

Ok here’s my look for tonight’s book event

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