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Haricot not cannellini

Proud Boys are fascists in my book

No snakes and no moles, how does the Garda catch any criminals?

The Indie is reporting that Liz Truss flew to Australia by Private Jet at a cost to the taxpayer of £500,000.

Again, you are missing the point that nobody joins Spotify for the Podcasts, it's rather irrelevant that he's more popular, people don't join for Rogan Sure you can listen to Rogan without subscribing for which Spotify gets advertising revenue but Spotify earns minute amounts of money from their advertising compared to their subscriptions and the subscriptions are generated through the music not the podcasts I also think you're underestimating how popular Neil Young is too, the documentary of the making of his latest album has 350K plus views on Youtube in 6 days, the lead song from the album has double that in under a month There's absolutely no way Rogan earns Spotify the money they are paying him, they are paying him the money to keep his product exclusive to them and that money is coming from the music artists they quite literally fleece Neil Young doesn't need the $20k a month he earns from streaming on Spotify, he doesn't even need Spotify to promote his music, leaving Spotify will do nothing to his fanbase, they aren't going anywhere Why should Neil Young partly fund Rogan's anti-vax / pro-fascist podcasts? He's decided he isn't going to any more

Nope, that was the other Food Records owner, Dave Balfe (formerly of the Teardrop Explodes)

Yes, but that isn't really the point. People don't join Spotify for Rogan's (or anyone's) podcasts. They sell their service as a streaming music platform Sure Spotify is pushing podcasts to subscribers but that effectively means that the music for which they pay buttons is being used to attract people to the platform where they are then getting pushed the podcasts and those podcasts have no content filter. The artists are being used to attract people to the opinions of nutjobs. Not only that but they are paying peanuts to the artists and paying the likes of Rogan $100 million a year and when those artists that have control over their catalogues start to realise that, more may follow. Established artists don't really need Spotify as much as the up and coming ones.

Yeah but all the wrong people are dying, I've not got one yet And my spreadsheet hasn't been touched since the first day

Same venue around the same time. That Petrol Emotion. The stage wasn't the most stable of things and the speaker stack wasn't strapped, its wobbling from the off. Me and a friend Jill took it upon ourselfves to climb the stacks and wedge ourselves between the stacks and the ceiling to stabilise them. We weren't even working that gig. Dangerous, oh yes. Didn't give it a second thought though, its just what we did, so effectively my ears were inches from the top end speakers in the stack Ear protection, what's that? It's no wonder I have tinnitus

Swans - Children of God. First UK Pressing of this double album. Vinyl in remarkably good condition Around the time this album came out (1987), Swans were purported to be the loudest band in the world. My mate put them on at The Mardi Gras in Liverpool and it was so loud that even a seasoned gig goer like me couldn't bear it, I listened to the gig from the staircase being a door. Another mate Dave (of the Room / Benny Profane et al) stuck it out inside, he got a pierced eardrum as a result I still think its the loudest gig I've ever been to

Well she does have form for it

Might get interesting if a few more major artists remove their content (I suspect they won't) because despite Spotify pushing and pushing podcasts at people, people join the platform because of music

Spotify was always going to side with Rogan, they pay him an obscene amount of money per year to have his podcast on their platform

Scouse small heath

He's a lawyer dontch know If he was any good as a lawyer, why would he want to be an MP? And I don't for one minute think its for the greater good Am I right?

You can tell things are desperate when prominent Tories are actually appearing on Ch4 News a programme they've been deliberately shunning for years

He's sent out the Defence Secretary Ben Someone to say it was him alone that made this decision and at no point was Johnson involved. This was after the email was revealed and PMQs

Are we getting growing and recovering confused here?

Winston Churchill and John Major say a big hello

The people that are currently angry won't buy that because that isn't why they are angry

This is him too. Who knew there were three God Save the Queens songs?

I presume young Jeremy Corbyn is second right because he's protesting about the white Israeli goats incursion into the brown Palestinian goats territory?

If I ignore the fact that you are talking about The Beatles then I agree with the sentiment behind this post

Just for you Brian