Tom Dunne: I wish some of my music heroes would stay off Twitter

Some stars do Twitter really well; others just blow away the mystique with their inanity

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Fri, 24 Mar, 2023 - 02:00

Tom Dunne is a music-lover extraordinaire who, as well as presenting radio and TV shows, can also be seen in the wild as the lead singer with Something Happens.

Twitter celebrated its 17th birthday on Wednesday. It has changed the landscape of how we get our news. For musicians it has become an unavoidable tool for self-promotion but 17 years in, is it being well used?

The problem is mundanity. Many musicians seem to have taken to Twitter to let us all know that their lives can be quite mundane too. They don’t need to tell us that. We kind of already knew that. We did not come to them for more mundanity. We are good for mundanity.