Ewan Gleadow

Music Journalist with bad taste | Own @_Cult_Following | Scribbles in other places | Won awards (apparently) |

[Ewan Gleadow @EwanGleadow]

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Legendary songwriter Elvis Costello says he did not sue Olivia Rodrigo for the Pump It Up riff for the same reason Bob Dylan did not sue him for the Subterranean Homesick Blues similarity

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Pixies take to the Royal Albert Hall stage for the second of two nights celebrating their 40th anniversary in London, and what a deserving celebration it is

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Paul McCartney's The Boys of Dungeon Lane is his best album in 20 years, with The Beatles and Wings member digging in deep as he muses on love and loss

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Phenomenal show from Bob Dylan tonight in Leeds. Scribbles from me below, as ever.

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I am the news rather than the writer of it today.

Big pieces on Cult Following to look forward to in October, including coverage of Rianne Downey, The Last Dinner Party, and Bruce Springsteen's Electric Nebraska.

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Journalist goes full-time with music site after Reach redundancy https://t.co/QBbKUMRVp5

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From The Daily Star to The Daily Mirror to just about every site Reach PLC has. Not a bad four years. Just the one site for me, now, though. Linked below. Click the adverts so I can afford the Pulp 2026 tour tickets and Tassimo coffee pods. Ta.

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Asked for and received redundancy from Reach PLC after four (ish) years there. Going to be taking my music site, @_Cult_Following, full-time.

Taken a long while to get it to that point, but it's finally there, and this is the perfect time to do it.

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More than 320 jobs to go with 135 posts created in ‘biggest-ever’ Reach shake-up https://t.co/wUoG97tM1W

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If I can land interviews with (living) members of The Beatles and cover festivals across Europe every year on a part-time basis, I've got a good feeling about a full-time stint.

Learnt more from Matt, Andy, The Star crew, and Sophie than my tinnitus-riddled brain can remember.

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#TheClearing is as good as it gets for #WolfAlice, a staggering achievement which shines through thanks to a surprising instrumental overhaul and stellar vocal work from Ellie Rowsell. ***** @EwanGleadow reviews.

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The first time it's been released on streaming services, #BruceSpringsteen's #BornToRun song, #LongNightinthePark, is surplus to requirement for his hit 1975 album, but it's a fantastic piece of work from The Boss. **** @EwanGleadow reviews.

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Went and saw Roger Daltrey last night at The Piece Hall. Lovely place, as is the case for most 18th-century cloth halls renovated into open-air venues. Daltrey was in great form, too. Another legend scratched off the list.

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A pleasure to have interviewed Pulp guitarist Mark Webber on a ridiculously hot day in Bilbao, Spain. I spent three days afterwards bedridden by the heat, like a sunburnt Proust. Don't meet your heroes, interview them instead.

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An album made at the same time as #TheGhostofTomJoad, #SomewhereNorthofNashville, featured on #TracksII, has #BruceSpringsteen finding some real and moving love for rocking country sounds. @EwanGleadow reviews.

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With a slight continuation of #BobDylan's To Ramona featured on #Inyo, much of the album from #TracksII hears #BruceSpringsteen explore the plight and significance of another country, applying the same delicacies as his best works. @EwanGleadow reviews.

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I'd need to borrow some bolt cutters, a pair of Heelies, and some noise-cancelling headphones (so I don't have to listen to The 1975) if I were to pull this off. Thankfully, I won't be doing so.

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#BruceSpringsteen compilation #TracksII offers listeners a crucial link between #Nebraska and #BornintheUSA with #LAGarageSessions83, a phenomenal collection of folk-inspired songs. @EwanGleadow reviews.

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Phenomenal stuff from Pulp in Manchester. The best of the tour? Possibly. The crowd were incredible, the band too. We can only hope there's more of More to come. No more using this dogshit app until there's some other music stuff to peddle to the masses.

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Another outstanding show in the bag for this week, with the #LCDSoundsystem residency at @O2AcademyBrix an absolute masterclass from the group. Nothing but hits, but then, they're all greats. Can't dance yourself clean in 30C heat, mind.

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@EKI087 You don't know the first thing about fashion pal, the only good shirt you've got is the vintage Celtic strip.

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Sensational as ever, Pulp at Birmingham's Utilita Arena was a delight. Jarvis Cocker and the band managed to beat the heat, though I decided to wear a jacket and am now paying the price. LCD Soundsystem tonight, Pulp tomorrow, some sort of rest on Sunday.

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