Hayden Merrick

Features Editor @bestfitmusic | co-host @ Cities to Love Podcast | book editing at OUP | see ya on Bluesky

[Hayden Merrick @HaydenMerrick96]

Deflated I may be today, but I got to write about End of the Road festival (@EOTR) for DIY Mag. It’s perhaps the greatest place on earth (and I’ve been to the M&Ms store!). Thanks to everyone who let me do this ❤️

[DIY @diymagazine]

For 18 years, End of the Road Festival (@EOTR) has orchestrated the final gasp of summertime hedonism, and this year feels more joyful than ever. Read our review of the weekend - feat. @cmatbaby, Sleater-Kinney, @TheRealYLT and more - onsite now. https://t.co/2Zf9R6EXNR

[Mark Lippmann @Mark_Lippmann]

The brand new @ististmusic album ‘Light A Bigger Fire’ is out today. It’s their best work so far and is coinciding with their growth across the UK & Europe as a now fully fledged international touring artist.

[Hayden Merrick @HaydenMerrick96]

@KatieMalco @BBC6Music Til malco is a cheekfreak!

[Hayden Merrick @HaydenMerrick96]

Went all the way to Croatia to have a *bit of a moment* watching a band from my hometown (Lambrini Girls). Read my review or SHIP festival at the link below. It’s mostly about cats so… https://t.co/zWGIVmfPNm

[THE LINE of BEST FIT @bestfitmusic]

At the second edition of SHIP festival – the Šibenik-based celebration of the best in new European and Croatian music – @HaydenMerrick96 finds a showcase event firming pushing things forward, and in the right direction https://t.co/AGRdVeccPu

[Hayden Merrick @HaydenMerrick96]

@amyealbinson @americfootball @bestfitmusic Beautifully done!

[Hayden Merrick @HaydenMerrick96]

Happy new Dummy album day to all who celebrate! It’s what we in England would call a CORKER

https://t.co/GVG9mLWyLd

[Loud And Quiet @LoudAndQuietMag]

End of the Road festival: A village fete version of the Crystal Maze, where anything can happen and usually does https://t.co/5XtXEsFy0F #EndOfTheRoad @EOTR

[Hayden Merrick @HaydenMerrick96]

@SlumberlandRecs @ChimeSchool @Bandcamp Awesome

[THE LINE of BEST FIT @bestfitmusic]

Ahead of the release of their second album, Midas, on @CommunionMusic, Wunderhorse tells @HaydenMerrick96 about recording at Pachyderm Studios in Minnesota, forming the sonic blueprint of the record and their Eno-inspired ethos https://t.co/MhfpPS9pM8

[Hayden Merrick @HaydenMerrick96]

Wrote “constructive-critically” about one of my faves (@illuminatihotts) according to my top-notch editor

[FLOOD Magazine @floodmagazine]

After mastering the art of irreverent power-pop, illuminati hotties tone down the mischief on an uncharacteristically sincere document of honeymoon contentment and goofy domestic bliss | https://t.co/hOnfnjWL26

✍️ by @HaydenMerrick96

[Hayden Merrick @HaydenMerrick96]

@kiwijrgroup Well this is sick

[@joshfwd.bsky.social @JoshFwd]

i think what we've discovered tonight is that Farage has been lying.

britain doesn't actually agree with him.

he doesn't 'have a point'.

could we stop putting him on the tv now?

since he basically only represents a fringe that have fallen for his lies.

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

Nazi salutes, swastika tattoos, defecating in gardens, looting local shops, attacking mosques, chanting fascist slogans, throwing missiles at everyone & setting police stations on fire, but don’t you dare call them “far right

Well, just plain “Nazis” it is then

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Do remember that if you see a group of people attacking a mosque or throwing bricks at the police this weekend, they aren’t ‘ordinary people’ or ‘concerned citizens’, they’re cunts.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

He couldn’t take a moment. He couldn’t even take a single moment to praise the return of the hostages. To praise our people coming home. Not one word of praise. He’s an utterly horrible human being.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

#1 The US president has no control over Olympic rules.

#2 This woman is not “transgender”. She was born a woman and has always identified as a woman since birth.

#3 Stop spreading hate towards transgender people merely because you are angry about the Olympic rules that allow a woman to compete as a woman, in a woman’s sport.

Yes, a biological woman can have XY chromosomes due to certain genetic conditions. Stop being so ignorant and using this to attack trans people. Stop oversimplifying a complex situation.

I don’t know what the right move is here but ignorance and hate is not the solution.

[Hayden Merrick @HaydenMerrick96]

NOTHING about the far-right terrorism on the BBC or Daily Mail. Wtf is going on

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

People of Southport repairing the wall of the mosque - *actual* patriots clearing up after racist shitheads who use faux patriotism as an excuse for a drunken fight.

[Adam Rowe @adamrowecomedy]

If there’s any fibre of your being, that thinks doing this to the community that is already in mourning of those children, is in any way helpful & a step towards “getting your country back” then you have well and truly lost your fucking mind.