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Adrian Lobb

@adey70.bsky.social
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I write for The Big Issue about arts and culture and stuff. SE London, via Derby, Cov, N London and Glasgow.

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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This is us, just after a lengthy discussion of KPop Demon Hunters (which sadly didn't make the final feature)…
Lord of the Flies writer Jack Thorne holding his copy of The Big Issue, sat next to Big Issue journalist Adrian Lobb holding his copy of Lord of the Flies
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
"Lord of the Flies looks populism in the eye." 100 years to the minute after John Logie Baird demonstrated the first working television set at Bar Italia in Soho, I sat down with Jack Thorne to talk about his astonishing new Lord of The Flies adaptation. www.bigissue.com/culture/tv/j...
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Adolescence writer Jack Thorne: 'Lord of the Flies looks populism in the eye'
Lord of The Flies is Jack Thorne’s first big show since Adolescence – and his adaptation of William Golding's novel couldn't be more timely.
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Thank you! Was a lot of fun to write and research.
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Dr Tom May @dreamcargoes.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
This is a really good piece by @adey70.bsky.social for The Big Issue. An accurate assessment of what to expect of Channel 5's new Play for Today, which mentions some of the less often trumpeted greats from the original strand, like Destiny (1978), Sorry (1981) &, actually, The Spongers (1978).
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Power cut in the middle of screening of The Hack (new phone hacking and much more drama coming soon to ITV). Clearly some powerful people don’t want us to watch…
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
This whole thread. Scary times for the arts. We take our brilliant, innovative, skilled (and lucrative) arts sector for granted at our peril. "These planned cuts mean that by 2029, the government is projected to be spending well over a third less per citizen on Culture, Media & Sport in real terms…"
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
And here is more about the documentary… www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Here We Go! The Art of the Football Chant
Les Back charts the history of football chants and asks if they’re modern-day folk songs.
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Here is the full article featuring my interview with @academicdiary.bsky.social… www.bigissue.com/culture/musi...
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How football chants became the folk music of today
Les Back on how football can inspire songs of celebration, defiance, protest or calls to action – which sounds like folk music to us.
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Was great to talk with Prof Les Back about his new BBC Radio 4 documentary exploring the idea of football chants as folk music. Read all about it in @bigissue.com - on sale now. And listen tonight on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds…
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Norm! www.bigissue.com/culture/tv/g...
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A tribute to George Wendt: Norm, Cheers and the human need to connect
In an era of individual aspiration, the late, great actor George Wendt as Norm in classic sitcom Cheers showed an alternative, richer path.
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright. Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
More from 100-year-old former Wren Dorothea Barron: "As soon as the war finished, we were told to go back to the kitchen. It was so demoralising. We were ignored and disregarded, treated as non-people. The moment the war in Japan ended, they wanted mothers, typists, cooks." #VEDay
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"War is an absolute waste of everything – time, money, lives. It doesn’t improve anything. It just proves you’ve got some egotistical man trying to improve his status. Because men start wars, women don’t." This week's @bigissue.com cover star Dorothea Barron (100)… www.bigissue.com/life/ve-day-...
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100-year-old WW2 heroine Dorothea: 'War is an absolute waste of everything'
It's 80 years since VE Day. To mark it, our special Letter to my Younger Self, features 100-year-old former Wren, Dorothea Barron.
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Music Venue Trust @musicvenuetrust.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
We’re proudly working with the V&A on an exciting new project that champions grassroots music venues and their cultural legacy - and you can be a part of it. Contribute your artefacts from between 1988-2025 by contacting musicvenues@vam.ac.uk before May 31.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The same Tony Blair has been paid to advise oil rich autocratic states including Azerbaijan, UAE and Kazakhstan This should be included in *every* story about his net zero comments www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Tony Blair calls for radical reset of climate change policies in major intervention
Former PM warns climate policy has become disconnected from ‘political, public, and economic reality’ and claims COP is struggling to ‘deliver change at the speed required’
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Bless my cotton socks, I'm in the news (pages of the Big Issue magazine)… 2025tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/adrian-lobb
The cover of the Big Issue magazine, and a page showing a news story about Adrian Lobb running the London Marathon…
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I don't DJ very often. I'm rubbish at it. Way too indecisive. But when I do, I always play Non-Alignment Pact by Pere Ubu, whether anyone wants me to or not. RIP David Thomas… www.youtube.com/watch?v=Leax...
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Pere Ubu - Nonalignment Pact
YouTube video by cookingvinylarchive
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The Nanosphere?
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I do! Wow, well done Jim! I've got a few toenails that have jumped ship already – expecting a few more casualties on marathon day...
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
HOLD THE FRONT PAGE etc
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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 11/04/2025
“Every sentence flows and dazzles like liquid gold, every paragraph has its own rhythm.” 📘 Big Issue books editor Jane Graham celebrates the centenary of F Scott Fitzgerald’s Great American Novel, first published in April 1925. ⬇️ buff.ly/izT9mWh
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Signed...
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
He was also the first person I've ever interviewed who wore goalkeeping gloves the whole time.
Former Watford, Liverpool, Aston Villa, Portsmouth and England goalkeeper David James and his interviewer, former FC Merrill, Mickleover Athletic and Littleover Dazzlers inside forward, Adrian Lobb.
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
"I never had a problem with anything other than handling my own obsessions." Really interesting to talk with David James, who I first saw playing for Watford v Derby County in 1992. 3-1 to Derby. He remembered. He remembers every game, every scoreline. www.bigissue.com/culture/engl...
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Football legend David James: 'I know I could have done things better'
David James didn't expect trophies at Portsmouth, but when they won the FA Cup, it was the fans' reaction that floored him.
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“It’s a classic story - a band from the UK who might have reached seminal levels if only they had been from Chicago.” I interviewed actual Billy Mahonie - whose tour starts tonight - and their old sound engineer, Paul Epworth… www.bigissue.com/culture/musi...
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'The record is a snapshot': Inside Billy Mahonie’s unlikely comeback and the evolution of post-rock
Billy Mahonie, the instrumental post-rock pioneers, return with their first album in over a decade, Field of Heads
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Meek Raffle!
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Very great. Hopefully we won't leave it so long next time…
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Wet Leg secret gig at the Moth Club last night was ace, playing as ‘Uma Thurman’. Loads of new songs. First new one was great. And one that might be called Pillow Talk. And the one they played after Chaise Longue. And one near the end. Thanks for reading my gig review.
Wet Leg’s drum kit at Moth Club (it says Uma Thurman on the bass drum) Wet Leg on stage at the Moth Club during secret gig (playing as Uma Thurman)Wet Leg (playing as Uma Thurman) at the Moth Club
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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 12/03/2025
Big Issue's Kids Cover Competition is back for Earth Day – judged by the legendary Chris Packham
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Big Issue's Kids Cover Competition is back for Earth Day – judged by Chris Packham
It's the Big Issue's Kids Cover Competition, and we're calling on all young artists to create our Earth Day cover for 2025. The theme? GO WILD!
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Greg Barradale @gregbarradale.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
EXC: How UK's biggest companies lock autistic people out of jobs with personality tests ➡️Morrison's, John Lewis, McDonald's, Co-op +more using tests ➡️"I just don't stand a chance" say autistic jobseekers, as charities tell @bigissue.com tests may be discriminatory www.bigissue.com/news/employm...
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UK's biggest companies locking autistic people out of jobs with personality tests
Just three in 10 working age autistic people are in work, and charities say the use of personality tests for roles could be discriminatory.
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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 31/01/2025
Sense was the only disability charity that supplied evidence to a Public Accounts Committee report, which said the DWP was providing 'unacceptably poor service' to disability benefits claimants. ⛔️ Its policy and public affairs advisor writes about why change is needed. ⬇️ bit.ly/4jwxVgV
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ryan john butcher @ryanjohnbutcher.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
hello 👋 looking to hear from people working on any sweet photo or art projects in the areas of: social justice and activism; housing and homelessness; nature and climate change; immigration; health; human rights; other cool stuff is this you? hit me up on ryan dot butcher at big issue dot com
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
He’s reading my interview with Nicola Coughlan about the Doctor Who Christmas special…
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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 17/12/2024
In perhaps his most personal column to date, Big Issue editor Paul McNamee writes about how this time last Christmas, his family was standing on the edge of a deep drop. They just didn’t know it yet. ✍️ Read his words on mental health, transporting trees, and hope. ⬇️ buff.ly/41ECwHk
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
It was a thrill to represent @bigissue.com in this match at Kingsmeadow (home of Chelsea FC Women). At 50, I thought I'd hung up my boots (they went to the charity shop in 2015). But I scored in a 7-3 victory over the Mayor and his Politician pals! Now we all join forces to tackle rough sleeping…
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The Leadmill @theleadmill.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Here's an update on our eviction battle. Thanks for all your continued support, it means the world to us ❤️
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
"I guarantee we will definitely not be coming back." Oh! What's occurring? Only a MASSIVE exclusive Gavin & Stacey interview with Ruth Jones and James Corden across FIVE PAGES in @bigissue.com magazine – on sale from today. Please seek out your local vendor…
Cover of The Big Issue magazine featuring the stars of Gavin & Stacey.Ruth Jones and James Corden posing with The Big Issue magazine (featuring Wham!) in London after their exclusive interview...
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Putting the Ian Rush in Proustian Rush…
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
And here is my @bigissue.com interview with actual real life Andrew Ridgeley – on George Michael, Wham!'s incredible year in 1984, and the legacy of Last Christmas… "His music lives on. And in that, he lives on." www.bigissue.com/culture/musi...
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Last Christmas: Celebrating 40 years of Wham!'s Christmas classic
Andrew Ridgeley knew from the moment George Michael wrote Last Christmas that it would become a festive classic.
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Exactly. That's what made the film so important for me. I can't believe Dexter is old enough for such proper grown up films. Blimey. Love it. Hope you cats are doing okay.... x
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Thank you, Kathy!
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Aha. Amazing. This is the picture Steve McQueen told me about when I interviewed him here – the one that unlocked the whole idea for the film Blitz… www.bigissue.com/culture/film...
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Steve McQueen and Saoirse Ronan on Britishness, trauma and war drama Blitz
Blitz tells a familiar story through fresh eyes and by shattering cliches. Director Steve McQueen and Saoirse Ronan explain how they did it.
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
"Give it to someone special!" Just got my hands on new @bigissue.com, out today, featuring my interview with Andrew Ridgeley celebrating 40 years of Last Christmas, talking about George's marvellous melody and recalling how Wham! made it big in 1984. Please buy a copy from your local vendor…
Cover of The Big Issue magazine, on sale from 25 November 2024, featuring exclusive interview with Andrew Ridgeley (by me!) inside and picture of Ridgeley and George Michael on the cover. "Give it to someone special!"
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Blimey, that’s a blast from the past. Yep. That was me… hello.
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Dolly Mixture reunion at the Rachel Love & the Loveables afternoon gig at the Betsey Trotwood yesterday. Packed pub on a gloomy afternoon. Was VERY hard to leave…
Rachel Love and the Loveables playing at the Betsey Trotwood pub
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Do you have Sunderland’s finest @poprecsltd.bsky.social on your list?
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
On the streets of Liverpool, there is a humanitarian crisis A perfect storm of problems means more and more people are finding themselves homeless & sleeping rough & it’s getting worse - it’s a situation playing out across the country A difficult 🧵 on what I’ve found reporting on this situation
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Signed!
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Erol Alkan @erolalkan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Moth Club is one of the very best small venues in the whole of the UK. The fact that it's under threat is appalling. Please sign. www.change.org/p/moth-club-...
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Sign the Petition
Moth Club Faces Second Building Planning Application
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