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Good lyricist Chris Rea RIP And all the reasons why it started out Hit you hard with every bell The choir practice in the empty hall Is a sound you know so well Like something lost inside your overcoat You find it later, by mistake You lost it all a thousand years ago And you pray it's not too late
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Just noticed that Holden Caulfield gives the nuns $10, the same amount that Maurice ‘chisels’ out of him the night before. A kind of karmic repayment. (I reread Catcher in the Rye every December and always notice new things.)
5 days ago
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Are Guardian going to give Dijon album of the year, in a move reminiscent of when they awarded it to Channel Orange despite having barely mentioned Frank Ocean in the previous year?
5 days ago
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Fun fact: in The Holiday, Mr Napkin Head was actually played by Jude Law
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This month on The Allender Calendar I’m joined by the fantastic
@pierrenovellie.bsky.social
to discuss his book Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things?: A Comedian’s Guide to Autism. Available wherever you get your pods!
pod.fo/e/368f8a
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The Allender Calendar: Episode 16: Pierre Novellie
This month on The Allender Calendar I'm joined by the fantastic comedian Pierre Novellie to discuss his 2024 book Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?: A Comedian's Guide to Autism. It's a brilliant, and...
https://pod.fo/e/368f8a
6 days ago
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Pictures of Nixon
9 days ago
not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize
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‘I’m just as God made me sir’
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9 days ago
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Hey man, you ok, you haven’t posted Pentangle playing Wedding Dress for a while
10 days ago
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Ringo has such an unnecessarily baggy Raiders baseball cap
11 days ago
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14 days ago
Absolutely brilliant that Nick Knowles has been honoured as a Sir by the King himself. Rightly justified - and about time too! Sir Nick Knowles.
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I was really happy with this thing I wrote about Cameron Winter earlier this year so I’m posting it again now
open.substack.com/pub/robinall...
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What I want is far away
Some thoughts on the Cameron Winter album
https://open.substack.com/pub/robinallender/p/what-i-want-is-far-away?r=wlecb&utm_medium=ios
14 days ago
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No matter how many streets you walk down in London there is always another pub
15 days ago
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We need to see the photos!
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15 days ago
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If I saw that Paddington Bear puppet in real life I’d throw it off a bridge I can tell you that for nothing
17 days ago
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ChristmasFer Mmmmm Cakes 🎄🎅🎁🌟🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 🏴
19 days ago
Get a load of this. 😆
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I’m standing in between carriages on a very busy train and, as ever, I am amazed by how long some men take in the loo. 15 minutes, 20 minutes. Just insane. Not ticket dodging either.
17 days ago
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For some reason my Instagram feed is all American barbecue blokes in black gloves cooking the most disgusting food imaginable e.g. beef shin glazed with Pepsi and Dorito dust
17 days ago
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Irish Literary Times
18 days ago
Wait, what? My son’s friend, traveling in China, is staying at a hotel chain called ‘James Joyce Coffetel’, and instead of a Gideon Bible, they leave a copy of Ulysses by the bedside.
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It’s Bandcamp Friday so why not enjoy some of my music (please)
robinallender.bandcamp.com
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Robin Allender
https://robinallender.bandcamp.com/
19 days ago
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Just realised the A section of Penny Lane is in B and the B section is in A, wheels within wheels
20 days ago
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Here at Instagram we’ve decided to make it easier than ever to accidentally video call someone
20 days ago
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A few more thoughts on my albums (and books of the year)
open.substack.com/pub/robinall...
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Albums of the year
I’m not kidding this time
https://open.substack.com/pub/robinallender/p/albums-of-the-year?r=wlecb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
21 days ago
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I am deep within
@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social
21 days ago
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AOTY! Gift Songs – Jefre Cantu-Ledesma The Making – Lavinia Blackwall Interior Live Oak – Cass McCombs Blurr – Joanne Robertson Like a Ribbon – John Glacier Night Fishing on a Calm Lake – Jerkcurb Big city life – Smerz Salt River – Sam Amidon Getting Killed – Geese private music – Deftones
22 days ago
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Harry Wallop
22 days ago
Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s
@thetimes.com
about Tom Stoppard
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Ash Preston
22 days ago
There are lots of very good covers of Beatles songs out there. But I still reckon one of the best is by the wonderfully named female group Fanny, absolutely kicking the shit out of 'Hey Bulldog'. Lovely stuff!
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Fanny - Hey Bulldog (1971) | LIVE
YouTube video by Beat-Club
https://youtu.be/Pdwzko9DZ0s?si=sxEQ1jxj6evKUVb4
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Gig of the year for me! Enigmatic, moving, funny. A true one off.
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22 days ago
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The Beatles Films Podcast
23 days ago
Part 1 of yer season finale is LIVE and of course, it's the polished up Beatles Anthology. We'll cover episode 9 next week but for now: 🍏Episodes 1-8: what's new and what's gone? 🍏How will this be received by the intended audience? (ie people younger than us) 🍏AI faces and The Beatles Ontology
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Did anyone else notice Shirley going dub last night
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23 days ago
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Ben "Ben Pack" Pack
24 days ago
If The Green Knight appeared before me and my uncle and his friends and promised that whatever I did to him he would repay me in one years time I would simply give him an ice cold Modelo Especial.
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This is a not-in-any-way-autobiographical short story I wrote a few years ago. Also included the audio which was on a Moon Under Water patreon episode.
open.substack.com/pub/robinall...
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All Back to Philip Duffy’s
A short story I wrote in (I think) 2018
https://open.substack.com/pub/robinallender/p/all-back-to-philip-duffys?r=wlecb&utm_medium=ios
24 days ago
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Bill "Misteltoe" Stinkwater
24 days ago
Jesus Christ, the "remastered" Beatles Anthology documentary they re-released is filled with AI slop. Look at John and Paul's faces, and the "T" on Beatles.
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Almost impossible to watch George Martin on Anthology and not think it’s actually Kevin Eldon in disguise
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Brilliant post from Christian, who plays keys with Oasis, about being in the eye of the storm this year
open.substack.com/pub/christia...
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To Be Included
I think I’ll need to take a week off from regaling you with tales of the Earlies bleak and mildly triumphant jaunt around America twenty years ago.
https://open.substack.com/pub/christianmadden/p/to-be-included?r=wlecb&utm_medium=ios
25 days ago
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I’m fascinated to find out more about the ‘Denim Delinquents’
25 days ago
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Graeme Thomson
26 days ago
Happy birthday, William Blake (and the Eternals)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xAk...
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You Don't Pull No Punches, But You Don't Push the River
YouTube video by Van Morrison - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xAk3vF653s
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Can I be real. Steak isn’t that good.
26 days ago
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Colin Dickey
28 days ago
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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Thoroughly enjoyed listening to these eps from 2020, so insightful. Excited to watch Anthology this weekend!
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28 days ago
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Candy “Kane” Miller
28 days ago
A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the
@backlisted.bsky.social
Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read about the Clientele and the ‘suburban uncanny’, support the podcast.
@theclientele.bsky.social
This week: God Save the Clientele.
www.patreon.com/backlisted
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Just went up to the top deck of the bus but there weren’t any seats
29 days ago
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Sooz Kempner
30 days ago
The feeling I felt watching was familiar but I couldn't place it for a few minutes....then I realised....I felt the way I feel when I'm at a party and Cards Against Humanity comes out.
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Ben Stanley
about 1 month ago
I watch this every time I am feeling a bit miserable and want to remind myself what humans are capable of. He plays with effortless swing and grace, pinching cymbals like he’s picking daisies and harmonising so sweetly it’s as if he’s dragging Ian Brown back into key.
youtu.be/4PBU_N5x4ls
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Stone Roses - Waterfall 2013 Made of Stone HD
YouTube video by ManicStreet69
https://youtu.be/4PBU_N5x4ls
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Michael Haslam
about 1 month ago
Seals singing in a sea cave
#Orkney
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Stefan Mohamed
about 1 month ago
this is really lovely
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Thanks so much to all our guests and listeners for this series of
@personalbeatles.bsky.social
! I think it was my favourite series so far. We’ve got one more Patreon episode on Anthology 4, and then an Xmas special. And then… we’ll be back again!
about 1 month ago
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Possibly of interest to anyone who listened to John Peel in 1999/2000, loads of Element/Transelement stuff has been uploaded to Bandcamp:
transelement.bandcamp.com
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tRANSELEMENt
tRANSELEMENt formerly EleMenT were a band from Nelson, Colne and Earby. 2 John Peel sessions, cult following, lots of home recordings, memorable live shows, split up in 2004.
https://transelement.bandcamp.com/
about 1 month ago
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I’ve got a great idea for a new kind of central heating system: when it’s cold you press a button marked ‘on’ and the heating comes on
about 1 month ago
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German compound word for trying to watching Strictly but eyes keep being drawn to Paul Chuckle in the audience
about 1 month ago
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Listening to the new Oneohtrix Point Never album and pretending it’s Carnival of Light
about 1 month ago
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