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Michael Hubbard

@yeoldemother.bsky.social
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Custodian of @musicOMH.com, {blank-or-blank} at The Guardian. Here for musics, (UK) politics, infrastructure geekery, and whatever else. 📍London | Same handle on Zucksites, &c., but meh to those

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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If an airline cancels your flight because weather, their desk says they won’t refund or arrange alternative transport, and promptly closes, what to do? Asking for a me. Already phoned the airline, who can’t answer, and said they’d call back? Also the weather shattered the terminal’s glass door.
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Wrote some words about a Prom
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musicOMH @musicomh.com · 15/06/2026
Festival Review: We Love Green 2026
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Festival Review: We Love Green 2026
The 15th anniversary edition of Paris’s eco-forward gathering brings together an international bill with something for everyone
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musicOMH @musicomh.com · 05/06/2026
Festival Review: Mighty Hoopla 2026 The most inclusive, essential and downright fun festival mixes stars of music, stage and screen with umpteen Hoopla Moments
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Festival Review: Mighty Hoopla 2026
The most inclusive, essential and downright fun festival mixes stars of music, stage and screen with umpteen Hoopla Moments
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musicOMH @musicomh.com · 02/06/2026
The Age Of Consent review: queer and trans stars celebrate Bronski Beat’s debut Tom Rasmussen, David McAlmont, Bishi and Bimini are among the stars bringing the album's music and meaning into 2026
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The Age Of Consent review: queer and trans stars celebrate Bronski Beat’s debut
Tom Rasmussen, David McAlmont, Bishi and Bimini are among the stars bringing the album's music and meaning into 2026
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musicOMH @musicomh.com · 27/05/2026
Black Box Recorder @ Palladium, London – icily detached Englishness, preserved in song After 17 years away, Sarah Nixey, Luke Haines and John Moore unexpectedly reunite at the home of song and dance - and it's all thanks to Billie Eilish
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Black Box Recorder @ Palladium, London – icily detached Englishness, preserved in song
After 17 years away, Sarah Nixey, Luke Haines and John Moore unexpectedly reunite at the home of song and dance - and it's all thanks to Billie Eilish
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musicOMH @musicomh.com · 19/05/2026
Seth Lakeman @ Union Chapel, London review – “reassuringly unchanging” The 20th anniversary revisit to the Dartmoor folk proponent's third album Freedom Fields proves to be a demonstration of consummate musicianship
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Seth Lakeman @ Union Chapel, London review – “reassuringly unchanging”
The 20th anniversary revisit to the Dartmoor folk proponent's third album Freedom Fields proves to be a demonstration of consummate musicianship
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
How on Earth was Patrick Wolf at Outernet a year ago today? He doesn’t even have this hair colour anymore I swear the years are speeding up
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Basically obsessed with this youtu.be/IEjrRtI7pW4?...
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Souad Massi - Samt (Clip officiel)
YouTube video by SouadMassiVEVO
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Election Day!* Does your polling station have its own organ, though? (*Except for viewers in Northern Ireland)
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musicOMH @musicomh.com · 24/04/2026
Summer music festivals 2026 preview – London As another busy summer approaches on the music festival front, we share our picks of the capital's finest offerings
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London summer music festivals 2026 preview
As another busy summer approaches on the music festival front, we share our picks of the capital's finest offerings
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
It lives. (As does a snag list. But still.) www.musicomh.com
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Music reviews, interviews and features from musicOMH's team of music writers
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Questions for ‘election monitors’ who couldn’t wait to tell all about what they’d “found” mere seconds after polls closed in Gorton and Denton. Nothing to do with Muslims having vote, a bright female candidate, or straightforwar… sorry, ‘left wing’ policies? www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater...
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Criminal investigation concludes into 'family voting' allegation at Gorton and Denton by-election
We’ve concluded our investigation into alleged ‘family voting’ at last month’s Gorton and Denton by-election, finding no evidence of any intent to influence or refrain any person from voting.
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
That @musicomh.com will be inaccessible on Sunday. WHY? I hear nobody at all scream WELL. There’s, and whisper it won’t you, a *new* *site* But please tell no-one. They might like it
A screengrab of the new mobile-first, responsive musicOMH website
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The Frank and Walters, excellent students of the human condition, are playing an acoustic set at the Lexington in That London. BUY: www.seetickets.com/event/the-fr... Listen to stages (featuring actual Cillian Murphy) if you’re somehow unsure why you should buy tickets: youtu.be/Q4mkcH8XZgY?...
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Stages - Frank and Walters Feat. Cillian Murphy
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Fascinating briefings re: Sadiq Khan. One the one hand: please take a peerage and maybe a cabinet position, you most excellent knight of the realm. On the other: Dear press, that nasty Khan is cutting buses and we as Labour are #concerned
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musicOMH @musicomh.com · 17/09/2025
The Divine Comedy - Rainy Sunday Afternoon | Neil Hannon's best album in years sports his characteristic wit and orchestral flourishes. But its personal subject matter elevates these songs to something greater
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The Divine Comedy – Rainy Sunday Afternoon
Neil Hannon's best album in years sports his characteristic wit and orchestral flourishes. But its personal subject matter elevates these songs to something greater
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Saint Etienne’s fantabulous new (and LAST! 😭) album International is out at midnight TONIGHT. Sarah of the actual Saint Ets sat down for a natter about the new album, collaborations, and life leading to this point here 👀 @bobpetesarah.bsky.social @heavenlyrecordings.bsky.social
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Hello. The Milky Way and some stars are above me and these images were taken on my phone. #nofilter #stars #milkyway #nightsky #ooh
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Where, I ask you, does one find specific-sized replacement chimney pots (one buff, one terracotta)? Jewsons et al don’t have the specs, roofing suppliers are impossible, local salvage yard draws blanks, Bookface marketplacers specify nought, and, ARGH
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Has there been a book which, chapter by chapter, lists regrets-through-life? Each as an eulogy-chapter, none more vital than any other, but the sum adding up to a whole lot of experience, imbuing personality, and perhaps indulging sentimentality. Thinking of penning one, each chapter on a person
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Bore witness to Billie Eilish, wrote things ⤵️
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Words wot I rote about a lady called Sabrina ⤵️
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musicOMH @musicomh.com · 25/06/2025
Sparks @ Hammersmith Apollo, London | The Mael Brothers celebrate their highest-charting album MAD! with deep dives, hits and reciprocated love
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Sparks @ Hammersmith Apollo, London
The Mael Brothers celebrate their highest-charting album MAD! with deep dives, hits and reciprocated love
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Wrote some words about musics, plz read, thx
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musicOMH @musicomh.com · 14/06/2025
Ani DiFranco @ Royal Albert Hall, London | At the start of her European tour, the consummate musician/feminist icon brings together musical numbers with songs old and new 
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Ani DiFranco @ Royal Albert Hall, London
At the start of her European tour, the consummate musician/feminist icon brings together musical numbers with songs old and new 
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musicOMH @musicomh.com · 05/06/2025
Festival Review: Mighty Hoopla 2025 | Unique, pitch-perfect and vital, the 2025 edition had nostalgia, politics, contemporary edge - and community to the fore
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Festival Review: Mighty Hoopla 2025
Unique, pitch-perfect and vital, the 2025 edition had nostalgia, politics, contemporary edge - and community to the fore
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musicOMH @musicomh.com · 03/06/2025
Pulp - More | So THIS is what they do for an encore
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Pulp – More
So THIS is what they do for an encore
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Ian Wade @wadeywade.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I went to see ABBA Voyage again and wrote about it www.musicomh.com/features/spo...
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Abba Voyage, three years on: "Pop at its most powerful and life-changing" | Music Features, Spotlights | musicOMH
Music Features, Spotlights: Abba Voyage, three years on: "Pop at its most powerful and life-changing"
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musicOMH @musicomh.com · 30/05/2025
Field Day 2025 and the Battle of Brockwell Park - start of a new era overcomes the odds | The opening of London’s 2025 music festival season has been fraught, with obstacles in nature both local and global thrown in its path 
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Field Day 2025 and the Battle of Brockwell Park – start of a new era overcomes the odds
The opening of London’s 2025 music festival season has been fraught, with obstacles in nature both local and global thrown in its path 
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Imagine if there were enough 37s. There’d not be half-hours between buses. There’d not be gridlocked Dulwich roads. People in south London could travel, without buying a car. What a world #tfl #tfl37 @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social
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musicOMH @musicomh.com · 23/05/2025
AMMAR 808 - Club Tounsi | Sofyann Ben Youssef's third album marries his Tunisian identity with wall-shaking bass futurism
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AMMAR 808 – Club Tounsi
Sofyann Ben Youssef's third album marries his Tunisian identity with wall-shaking bass futurism
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
As Rialto play the Scala tonight, a little push for my interview with Louis Eliot about the journey to their first album in 24 years, Neon & Ghost Signs www.musicomh.com/features/int...
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Rialto's Louis Eliot interviewed: "Suddenly I realised there was still love for the band" | Music Interviews | musicOMH
Music Interviews: Rialto's Louis Eliot interviewed: "Suddenly I realised there was still love for the band"
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musicOMH @musicomh.com · 04/05/2025
Rialto's Louis Eliot interviewed: "Suddenly I realised there was still love for the band" | With the release of Neon & Ghost Signs, their first album in over 20 years, Louis Eliot's band is back and better than ever. But what took them so long?
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Rialto’s Louis Eliot interviewed: “Suddenly I realised there was still love for the band”
With the release of Neon & Ghost Signs, their first album in over 20 years, Louis Eliot's band is back and better than ever. But what took them so long?
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musicOMH @musicomh.com · 22/04/2025
Rialto - Neon & Ghost Signs | More than two decades since their last album, Louis Eliot and co return older, wiser and with intent
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Rialto – Neon & Ghost Signs
More than two decades since their last album, Louis Eliot and co return older, wiser and with intent
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musicOMH @musicomh.com · 18/04/2025
Salif Keita - So Kono | Seven years after his retirement from recording, the Malian superstar releases an acoustic album recorded in a hotel room in Japan
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Salif Keita – So Kono
Seven years after his retirement from recording, the Malian superstar releases an acoustic album recorded in a hotel room in Japan
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Today is New Pulp Song Day. Herewith, Spike Island. New James Ford-produced album, More, out through Rough Trade on 6th June. #pulp www.youtube.com/watch?v=-27a...
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Pulp - Spike Island (Official Video)
YouTube video by Pulp
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Love the cover of The Divine Comedy’s new album Rainy Sunday Afternoon, picture by Kevin Westenberg
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I will always love Yann Tiersen. Want to float away on a piano? Half of his new double LP Rathlin From A Distance | The Liquid Hour is your medication The first half is piano | The second half is not It's all completely gorgeous @yanntiersenmusic.bsky.social ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EZX...
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Yann Tiersen - Rathlin from a Distance (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Yann Tiersen
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Another of those album release weeks where the number of albums it'd be nice to review is of a considerable order of magnitude higher than the number of writers available to write them. =(
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musicOMH @musicomh.com · 25/02/2025
Kate Nash, Lambrini Girls and many more ask fans to shape the future of music | Acclaimed musicians are calling on music fans to take part in the first-ever Music Fans’ Voice survey
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Kate Nash, Lambrini Girls and many more ask fans to shape the future of UK music
Acclaimed musicians are calling on music fans to take part in the first-ever Music Fans’ Voice survey
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
As if Zelenskyy doesn’t have enough on his plate, with unfathomable horrors every single day that would crush any lesser mortal. Now he has black-is-white insanity rage-facing at him. If ever a man needed a massive hug. If ever a world needed a little less orange.
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Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
This is not an intellectual point, bur I wanted to state that I am frightened by the situation in the US and I am becoming even more anxious by the extent to which most people I know IRL (ie: not politics addicts) are entirely unmoved
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Heartworms at the Electric Ballroom. This is the start of something.
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Interviewer people: I've never successfully had a machine/AI/what-have-you transcribe an interview for me. I'm feeling like the time might be nigh for this to change, to embrace the new, bridle the computers, &c. What's best, what's not-so-best?
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musicOMH @musicomh.com · 31/01/2025
Did you know musicOMH has (finally) got an Album Of The Week index/choice/pick going on? That's nice, isn't it. Eternally overwhelmed with all the #content and require only one album per week? Might we gently push this page towards your favourites and bookmarks: www.musicomh.com/reviews/albu...
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Album Of The Week | musicOMH
musicOMH: Album Of The Week
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Heartworms' LP Glutton For Punishment is out in T-minus 7 days. WHOMST? You cry, unaware of the concept of a search engine. WELL. I love a rhythm, and I love a long black coat. (Where do you get those?) If so you do too, here's Exhibit A: Warplane. You're welcome www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFmc...
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Heartworms - Warplane (Official Video)
YouTube video by HeartwormsVEVO
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musicOMH @musicomh.com · 30/01/2025
Our last Marianne Faithfull piece was a 4.5 stars. Fitting. RIP www.musicomh.com/reviews/albu...
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Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis - She Walks In Beauty | Album Reviews | musicOMH
Album Reviews: Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis - She Walks In Beauty
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Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Apple’s AI thinks I look like this if it’s summer and I’m hiking and there’s a sunset. *pout*
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