I keep seeing this book in bookshops and I was going to buy it next time I was in a bookshop and I realised I had no idea what it was called or who wrote it. It’s got a blue cover and the title is bright pink or orange???
I'm not on here much at the moment for looking after my brain reasons. But I am also looking for freelance work! So if anybody needs proofreading, editorial services - including developmental editing - creative writing mentoring or anything adjacent thereof, I am available! stefmowords[at]gmail.com
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In the universe of The Social Reckoning did The Social Network film come out?
New podcast out today! And it’s a chat with Anwen Crawford about her new book Morvern Callar, a study of Lynne Ramsay’s 2002 film of the same name pod.link/1765567936/e...
Episode 25: Anwen Crawford
Listen to Episode 25: Anwen Crawford from The Allender Calendar wherever you get your podcasts!
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New podcast out today! And it’s a chat with Anwen Crawford about her new book Morvern Callar, a study of Lynne Ramsay’s 2002 film of the same name pod.link/1765567936/e...
Episode 25: Anwen Crawford
Listen to Episode 25: Anwen Crawford from The Allender Calendar wherever you get your podcasts!
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Pitching an unreadably pretentious article about contemporary pop to The Wire with the title ‘you who were with me in the ships at Miley’
Sunday sonder & saudade crew assemble, time for the Highway of the Heart, Antiques Roadshow & undone homework of the soul. Let your spirit hurtle down a dale like elderly buffoons in a tin bath as nameless disquiet rises under your sternum like the plaintive oboes of the Watership Down soundtrack
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The most magical two seconds in pop music
It’s amazing to think that we can pinpoint the most magical two seconds in pop music, which occur exactly one minute into ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ by The Beatles, as Take 7 melts into Take 26. L…
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The Waste Land is 433 lines long. Do you think that’s why the John Cage piece is 4'33" or is it coincidence? Am I the first person to notice that? Is it giro day?
"It was like a fairy tale, in a way. I had to ask three times, sometimes, to gain admission to his mind." New fiction by Gwendoline Riley.
Gwendoline Riley: "Two Sketches"
Short fiction by Gwendoline Riley, the author of "The Palm House."
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It’s Bandcamp Friday if anyone wishes to buy some music! robinallender.bandcamp.com/album/fragme...
Fragment Hill, by Robin Allender
4 track album
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Really looking forward to playing next month with @robinallender.bsky.social Trio at the very lovely Aces & Eights in Tufnell Park... www.acesandeightssaloonbar.com/events/robin...
Robin Allender Trio + Down For You Is Up + Polly Jones. - Aces and Eights Saloon Bar
04/10/2026 @ 7:30 pm - 11:00 pm -
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Tim Curry should also be remembered for featuring in the best between takes photo of an actor in recorded history.
Myself and @wbgooderham.bsky.social are a-doing a gig with Polly Jones at Aces and Eights on 4 October. Tickets here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robin-alle...
Robin Allender Trio / Down For You Is Up / Polly Jones | Aces and Eights
A night of indie folk and dream pop
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Don’t get me wrong, I’ll never stop listening to Radio 3 in the morning, but Tom McKinney was just going on about how much he likes wasps
April: Reckon I might breed some lilacs out of the dead land. Eliot: Well now you’re just being cruel.
I recently saw a clip of Nuts In May in which Keith & Candice-Marie visit a castle, and as they spoke I thought 'oh dear that's my inner monologue'. Thanks @adellestripe.bsky.social for articulating this odd feeling & the genius of Mike Leigh's 1976 masterpiece: thequietus.com/culture/film...
Get Back to your Tenements! The Modern Relevance of Nuts In May | The Quietus
I must have seen Nuts In May over 20 times since first watching it as a film student back in my late teens. Back then, I was an outsider trying to understand where I fitted in. Mike Leigh’s films help...
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Two 'lost' Kinks recordings have surfaced after 57 years. Ray Davies wrote five songs for BBC's Where Was Spring? before the BBC wiped the tapes. 'Let's Take Off Our Clothes' has never been heard until now #thekinks thestrangebrew.co.uk/two-lost-kin...
Two Lost Kinks Recordings From BBC's Where Was Spring? Resurface After 57 Years - The Strange Brew
Two recordings by the Kinks, have surfaced . "Let's Take Off Our Clothes" and "Darling, I Respect You" were taped off-air from Where Was Spring?, the 1969 sketch show for which Ray Davies composed fiv...
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Just got a guitar valued and it’s exactly the same price as when I bought it which is good actually because I was looking for a metaphor for the stagnation of my life and career!!!
This month on The Allender Calendar I’m joined by @simonreynolds.bsky.social to discuss his new book Still in a Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984–1994 pod.fo/e/550927
The Allender Calendar: Episode 24: Simon Reynolds
This month on The Allender Calendar I'm delighted to be joined by the music journalist Simon Reynolds to discuss his new book Still in a Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984�...
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That doesn’t look like a Tommy Nutter suit, it looks like my M&S one
Andrew Beasley@andrewbeasleyfootball.com · last mo.I always thought the Beatles biopics were a bad idea. This image only seems to confirm that.
Intrigued by Alfred Lord Tennyson's chaotic business decisions
It’s been very odd biting the bullet & revealing details only my closest friends knew about was going on around monkey cage over last few years - and now I wait for the next lot of attacks but I also know there will be solidarity www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po... www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po...
The Gaslight Years - part one | Robin Ince
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to dea
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This month on The Allender Calendar I’m joined by @simonreynolds.bsky.social to discuss his new book Still in a Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984–1994 pod.fo/e/550927
The Allender Calendar: Episode 24: Simon Reynolds
This month on The Allender Calendar I'm delighted to be joined by the music journalist Simon Reynolds to discuss his new book Still in a Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984�...
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In conversation with a fellow writer recently they characterised literary fiction as “A man goes to a place he visited once before and thinks about the time he visited once before.”