Robin Allender

@robinallender.bsky.social

Spotify's Daylist suggested music from Robin Allender's album Tape Dreams III. Incredibly nice ambient guitars here. Then I checked out his latest EP release. Totally different. Acoustic laid-back singer-songwriter songs. It's also one of the nicest things I've heard this entire year. Recommended!

Robin Allender@robinallender.bsky.social · last mo.

Fragment Hill, my new EP, is out today. Get it here (it's also on the streamers): robinallender.bandcamp.com/album/fragme...

say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please

Scrolling through old pictures and being reminded of the time when one of my novels was an A/S Level set text and I vanity-searched Twitter to see what students were saying about it, and got a warm glow at the thought that I was inspiring a whole new generation of readers.

Old tweet in which a school student wrote that 'My literature teacher can shove the Rotters' Club up her arse'.

If I was in the mob and they tried to “whack” me I would firmly, but politely, say: “no thank you, that is illegal.”

A great rejoinder from @joemuggs.bsky.social to the argument (that I've crankily believed myself once or twice) that music is in a terminal state of the doldrums. Just cos it's harder to quantify "The Sound Of Now" does not mean there's no such thing. bestfitmusic.substack.com/p/the-monday...

The Monday Meeting

Despite critics hailing this as an age of cultural stagnation, a quiet, globalised explosion of taste is happening right now led by teenagers, writes Joe Muggs.

bestfitmusic.substack.com

“I am the most verbally and physically attacked public figure or politician of modern times.” The disgraceful Nigel Farage. Remembering Labour MP Jo Cox, born 1974, murdered 2016.

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