New member of just dropped. My book, which appears in alongside over a hundred more people from the 00s pop era, is out next week! linktr.ee/michaelcragg
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This is making me blush. It’s also making me want to drop the preorder link ‘just in case’: linktr.ee/michaelcragg?f
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Read some great books on holiday including this, #ReachForTheStars by @MichaelCragg. A brilliant, celebratory, gossipy history of 90s pop. The Spice Girls, 5ive, Sugababes, Blue, Steps, S Club and the rest. Great stories and interviews. If that's your era you'll love it
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My memoir Is This OK? is out 25 May 2023. If you spend too much time lurking online, if you have hormones, if you have ever looked at yourself and thought: why am I such a rat? Then this is the book for you. I winced while writing every word. Pre order panmacmillan.com/authors/harrie
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Boy just called Matt Hancock a cunt on Radio 2 😂
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For those coming to our gigs next week:
WHERE:
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WHEN:
12th + 13th Oct
Doors 6:30pm 🚪
7:15pm ✨
US‼️ 8:00pm 👄
HOW:
Book tickets 🎫
tinyurl.com/apocalipstt
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WHY:
Because it’ll be your best night out in 2022 💃🪩✨
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I wrote about how The Rings of Power git gud
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Now we’re Tolkien! After six glacial hours, The Rings of Power is finally worth watching theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2
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Michael Fabricant: What we need, Prime Minister, is a ‘dead cat’.
The PM: On your head be it.
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Goldeneye 007 pause music had no business going so hard, but I’m glad it did.
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Wrote a bit for this, in which I seem to have slightly misunderstood the brief
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I've tried to to review the PS5 and Series S/X's first year of Being Things, and ended up talking about Marvin the Paranoid Android's arse
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Examining the #PlayStation5 and #XboxSeriesX one year on, it’s hard to shake the feeling that these are consoles that launched a year too early.
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Tomorrow's issue is fucking brilliant as well. And I'm not contractually obliged to say so any more, so you know I mean it
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Everybody on the Guide desk – from back when I started to now, at the end – bloody loved this magazine. I hope that came across. I think it did. Gonna miss putting one of these out every week. Hope you enjoyed at least some of them
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So yeah, this is a weird day. 9 years working on this funny little magazine with some of the best people I've ever met, let alone worked with. 7 years doing the Guide's twitter, which is why it sounded a bit like a grumpy, tired northern bloke, because it was
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Howdo. So after 28 years and 1,451 issues, the UK’s finest (and, OK, only) weekly A5 listings magazine, the Guide, is bowing out. Tomorrow will be our last issue
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I got fired from Argos after designing a brochure containing only clothes horses. It was a catalogue of airers.
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I wrote this, which if nothing else is a reminder how shit the graphics on GoldenEye actually were
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From GoldenEye to Alien: Isolation, there have been some whopping games based on film and TV. Here's @lukeholland01
with 10 of the best of the blighters
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From GoldenEye to Alien: Isolation, there have been some whopping games based on film and TV. Here's
with 10 of the best of the blighters
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Time loops, intrigue, the wrath of gods and a bumload of togas – reviews The Forgotten City
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This week's Solved: what is the most overplayed song ever? Well don't stop him now because he's living on a prayer and hoping to get lucky up on that wonderwall, it's
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In the Guide tomorrow: the most overplayed song ever has been identified, and you probably already know what it is
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PLUS: @joelgolby remembers the good old days when summer TV used to be, well, rubbish; in this week's Solved @lukeholland01 asks: what is the most overplayed song ever?; and @steverose7 runs through the best drive-ins around the UK to visit while the weather, briefly, permits
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'If we don’t give our true opinions, what kind of job are we doing?'
A characteristically classy riposte from HJD to some horribly personal abuse
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Dogs! Guffs! Snacks! – cinemas may be closed for now, but the humble drive-in movie theatre remains one way you can go out and catch a film. But what are the rules? presents the dos and don'ts
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Years & Years! Pizzagirl! Sawayama and Elton! Prince! Plus two megastars who really couldn't be bothered! It's reviewing the singles this week
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AND he was on & Acaster's (both Taskmaster alumni) amazing podcast this week - aca.st/6fadc7
One hand washes the other!
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I pitched a show about slebs cruising about on wee fucking horses and TV is shit for not making it happen yet
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Lockdown's given us all time to think. It's also given our writers far too much time to dream up TV and film concepts. From a Terminator sitcom to a star-making Timothée Chalamet turn as Dominic Cummings, some of these might just work. Others: no
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Lava La Rue! Yxngxr1! Mette! Bon Jovi! Weezer! It's @lukeholland01
reviewing the singles this week. And some of them are total bobbins
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I had a chat with Justin Roiland, and he was very nice #squanch
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Rick and Morty's Justin Roiland: 'I never imagined the show would get this big' theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2
'My cat's whiskers are better than your cat's whiskers' is very much the 'my dad's harder than your dad' of your mid-thirties
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Sound art, Charlie Sheen-alikes, doomed airport deep-dives and an investigation into Jake Gyllenhaal's height - here's what the big names in podcasting are listening to, featuring @claraamfo, , , and more
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If the Last of Us adaptation keeps hiring great people then there's a very real danger it won't be shit
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Oh christ after reading this I'm going to watch Lost again aren't I ffs
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'if you can break free from your bourgeois expectations of “getting any of your questions answered” there is so much more fun in this show than I remembered' @jennycolgan helps me remember heady days coming up with Lost theories with @jessicamhopkins
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Wrote this about whether games are too expensive. Which – spoiler alert! – they aren't
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In this week's Solved, @lukeholland01 asks are video games too expensive? Or, actually, is it just the right amount of bang for your hard-earned buck? theguardian.com/games/2021/feb
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In non-Curtis related cultural content, asks if there's a downside to being living saint, Tom Hanks, dips into the magnificent archive and in this week's Solved, asks are video games worth the price of a flight to Greece?
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Reviewed Miley's song about her dead dog. And some other stuff
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