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rpf is at its best when you don't even Want to ship it but theyre so Like That you don't have a choice
i do have to say that no matter how shitty any sort of media is or how shitty your own creations are. always remember
face of a man who just thanked himself for getting his album to #1
i think one of the worst things the left wing internet ever did was push the idea that oppression is basically a virtue, and being oppressed is a sign of your morality. it has made it like…impossible for some of you to hold the idea that most people are privileged in some ways and oppressed in others. AND a lot of you seem to have it in your mind that terrible people cannot be oppressed, and that oppressed people cannot do terrible things, which is a dangerous rhetoric to hold imo.
i’m giving up personhood to become a full-time abstract concept
Now and Then // We Two // 2026 Mescal Interview
I’ve really enjoyed the promo for The Boys of Dungeon Lane, especially some of the quirkier choices like Chicken Shop Date and this history podcast. Partly because they get away from familiar questions, but it’s also giving Paul a different kind of space for reflection. Having now heard the album, it very much feeds into the sense that Paul has been reexamining his early life, and seeing or acknowledging different things about it. A couple of highlights:
8,50, on Paul’s mother’s job, where they lived, and her aspirations for the family:
Tom Holland: That was very important, wasn’t it, in terms of where you would live - because as a midwife, she would get houses, and you would kind of move around, upgrading with each house.
Paul: It’s true, we moved around quite a lot, and didn’t realise, til we were much older, that “Ah, that’s why we moved!” But yeah, she would - It was often on the edge of the city, you know. But they were nice houses. It was always an upgrade, to us.
TH: Forthlin Road had an indoor toilet, didn’t it?
Paul [laughs]: Wow! An indoor toilet! Yeah, no, it’s true. So we thought we were going somewhere.
And my mum was very aspirational. Like a lot of good mothers, she just wanted her kids to succeed, do well. My wife, Nancy, she will say to me, “You don’t talk Liverpool! People love it when you talk Liverpool.” I say, “Yeah, but my mum tried to get us not to talk Liverpool. She tried to get us to talk posh.” She thought, she was hoping we’d be doctors or something, you know.”
Given how long Paul held on to the guilt of teasing his mother for “talking posh”, it’s such a change to see him speaking so fondly of it here. (@crepesuzette2023 mentioned his mother’s ambitions in the comments to this post, reminding me of this interview - thank you!)
12,20, on Liverpool:
Paul: I think at one point it was the second city to London, because it was a big port.
Tom Holland: Fabulously rich!
Paul: Yes, so we had a great sense of importance. Which waned through the years, you know. But when I was growing up, you definitely thought Liverpool was a very great, grand historic place. You used to go down and see all the liners off, they’ll be going off to Canada, you know, places like that.
It was only later that you learn that this was slave trade. There was a lot of that. The only thing we would see would be the local Caribbean people. So we would know people that would be descended - we didn’t talk about it then.
I love how emphatic he is about Liverpool’s wealth coming from slavery. Particularly in the context of an album that is often nostalgic, idealising some aspects of his childhood. “Good old days” reminiscences can be horribly popular with the far right, which gets sentimentally racist about an invented all-white past, and wants to go on “not talking about” the violence that goes into that. So it’s good to see all that so explicitly and actively rejected.
More generally, The Boys of Dungeon Lane has such an interesting relationship with memory and the past. Because some of it is seen through rose-tinted spectacles, but there’s also this emphatic awareness of hard times and pain, along with a sense of opening it up and being able to process it differently. And I think you can see threads of that in this conversation, too.
does anyone else miss him or is it just me and paul mccartney
ALL. OF. THIS.
marketing an album as being a sentimental reflection on his childhood and then having it start with a psychotic stalker techno bonanza is so, so paul
guy who’s listened to 1 beatles song: hahaha she loves you rocks
guy who’s listened to 57 beatles songs: hahaha she loves you rocks
guy who’s listened to 896 beatles songs: hahaha she loves you rocks
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The bébé. Photo from my collection, 1956.