Steve Spithray
@underthehills
Freelance writer and music industry adjacent editor of repute | #pressonbook OUT NOW | press at Mbro Gigs, KU bio.site/underthehills
Dinosaur country 🦕 I’ve never seen the waterline so low at #codbeck although Google tells me this is an engineered drawdown 🫤
In the last 15-years or so, I’ve consumed approx two million KJ of Warburtons teacakes. A pack of four literally every weekend. Now they have changed the packaging - but also the recipe - I think I’m done 😞
On that note, (not sure what I was expecting) I tried these so nobody else has to
I’m the father of two young adults, why is my house still like a toddler’s after play?
So, apparently if I’m not cringing at how much I’m talking about my books I’m not talking about them enough, so here goes… I’ve got two creative non-fics out. #pressonbook via Butterfly Effect and From Shrug To The Moon on the Amazons. See alt text for more details
We have one at home in a fish tank in the utility room. He’s called Max
Bought this t-shirt the other day (ex-smoker here, what of it?) but it was pretty cheap looking and too big when it came. A couple of hot washes hasn’t made me feel any better about it so I’m just posting a picture of it here instead 🤷♂️
Got to admit I was sceptical of the reworked Paris stage at #tdf last year and it was good to see a few tweaks this time. So much incredible action on the Montmartre climbs (full-on Belle Ville Rendezvouz and people hanging out of windows). And what a finish on the Champs Elysees. Absolutely class..
Something for the weekend perhaps? amzn.eu/d/03czGSEi Paperback or Kindle Now with exclusive photos and updated bonus chapter
FYI I’ll be selling my Press On Vinyl book at the next Betterdaze record fair at Middlesbrough Town Hall on Saturday 11 July. Come down if you like
🔴⚽️FROM SHRUG TO THE MOON: THE ROBERT NICHOLS STORY (SECOND EDITION) featuring a previously unpublished bonus chapter and photos🔴⚽️ For a limited time only available again exclusively on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle formats (free on Kindle Unlimited) here amzn.eu/d/0fU8No3E
Still thinking about this mushroom leak and garlic from Propa Sunderland yesterday. I can’t think that I’ve eaten a better pie tbh. Brought it back to Boro in the car and it was still hot enough to eat too…
Just found these. Who wants one? £15 plus p&p. More book news coming soon
This time yesterday I was vaguely interested in going to Porto in the summer, by now I am completely obsessed with Francesinha
The Met Gala is the most vulgar and public symptom of late-capitalist elitism… celebrities pretending they are normal people while playing at being billionaires…
Charlie Sheen probs already contracted to play Trump in the four-hour David Fincher biopic #winning
Every time I see this place I think ‘stoves’ must be Yorkshire parlance for oven bottom muffins
I ❤️ this redevelopment in Stockton but it’s mad that the skyline is going to be dominated by a kids slide
#brunch not had a Fray Bentos for like 25 years. Was not expecting much but you never forget that soggy undercooked pastry composition and I didn’t detect much in the way of steak
Popped to the WSL Merseyside derby yesterday at Goodison (five goal thriller, all goals at the opposite end to where we were 🤷♂️) then a cheeky tour of the Bramley-Moore Dock stadium…
This photo of Saltburn makes it look like a mountain top enclave. If I was Italian (cos they love an enclave) I would definitely holiday there…
Yo trainer people, any idea what these are called so I can try and locate some deadstock? Yes I’ve googled the number on the tongue and I’ve tried scanning the data matrix thingy to no avail…