The Whole of the Moon has got the worst groove of any song

People really seem to struggle with the idea that Bob Dylan is basically a weird guy

I could happily watch a lot more film of the automated sawmill saw sharpening from the Twin Peaks credits.

Society for people who think Paul McGann’s performance in Withnail & I is somewhat uneven

Ultimate- *ultimate* - Partridge final boss quote from Richard Keys in the Telegraph today. @luketurner.bsky.social @matcolegate.bsky.social @william-doyle.co.uk

Imagine what your mouth thinks

I was reading Transcription by Ben Lerner on the bus and I looked up and someone was reading Transcription by Kate Atkinson, and that’s about all I’ve got for you this morning!!

Thinking again about this perceptive comment re: the new McCartney single it might be fair to say that Paul's voice has reached its ‘Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet’ stage.

New post on mysticism, Margaret Drabble, Connor O'Malley, Ben Lerner, Blood Orange, trousers open.substack.com/pub/robinall...

at the 30 year preschool reunion: so, you still into blocks?

a latticework of regrets, John Ashbery

Mike McGear McCartney has just leaked his brother's new album title 😅 Wonder what Paul's publicists are thinking :)

I’m reading Loving by Henry Green and have given up trying to understand who anyone is or what’s going on, just treating it as an ambient comedy of manners

Who says poetry makes nothing happen

Because you're not on Twitter/X here is what the lovely Dave Davies had to say in response to Moby's idiocy re. Lola. Also, I love that The Cockettes were Kinks fans.

I broke a cafetière the other day and last night I had a dream that I bought a new one, absolute Amazon-ass dream

Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton. Makes me feel car sick.

Great Jacklin’ Crushin’ chat here

New podder alert! This month on The Allender Calendar I chat to stand-up Celya AB about Julia Jacklin’s brilliant 2019 album Crushing pod.fo/e/3ab382

I listened to Music for 18 Musicians while I was running and because of my lumbering pace I ended up hearing it as a shuffle. Was quite cool! Recommended.

I remixed this ambient-ish tune I released ages ago. Haven't been able to get through it without falling asleep so I figure I must be doing something right. robinallender.bandcamp.com/track/oh-tim...

I don’t understand why old fellas now dress exactly the same as old fellas did when I was young. It doesn’t make sense. An 80 year old now would have been 45 when Nevermind came out.

Catching up with February’s Allender Calendar. Great interview with Wendy Erskine on The Benefactors, which I now want to read again. Also found out why ‘Hawaii’, which is my favourite RA track, is called ‘Hawaii’. Check it out! @robinallender.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Does anyone else get strangely irritated by Arlo Parks’s lyrics? ‘We got Greek food in Hackney’. I got an oven pizza from Sainsbury’s you don’t find me going on about it.

If you still haven't watched the very good BBC TV adaptation of Lord of The Flies do it just to behold the magnificent performance of David McKenna as Piggy. This was his answer, in casting, as to who he'd want to be stranded on a desert island with.

Stop literally everything. Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time. fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

Can’t wait to read this!

Love this story. Two moments from the beginning that made me smile: “On the TV was a close up of a rugby player’s thigh, like a shoulder of Iberico ham.” “Dan kept a shoeless house so we were both in our socks, which felt like a kind of terrible intimacy.” But then Dan starts to remember…

HEATHCLIFFE IT'S ME YOUR COUSIN, MARVIN HEATHCLIFF

I need to start wearing my glasses more often, it’s called Alaskan Tapes 🤓

New substack, a short story called Alaska Tapes open.substack.com/pub/robinall...

Such a cursed vibe over on Threads. Hard to believe that anyone posting there is real?

RIP ELIANE RADIGUE no firewall www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/a...

On an almost deserted train I just walked past a man sitting on the folding chair by the toilets. Other minds, truly unknowable etc.

Love how Kenneth Williams understudied Richard Burton as Konstantin in The Seagull. An influence on Withnail, perhaps? ‘I’m not going to understudy anyone, especially that little pimp!’ www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

“I remember the first time I saw Andy…”

I imagine it was extremely disturbing

Really enjoyed this!

Sometimes we’re so busy we don’t take a moment to just sit and enjoy today’s Bing wallpaper

New podcast alert! This month on The Allender Calendar I’m chatting to the brilliant writer @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social about her polyphonic 2025 novel The Benefactors pod.fo/e/390340

New podcast alert! This month on The Allender Calendar I’m chatting to the brilliant writer @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social about her polyphonic 2025 novel The Benefactors pod.fo/e/390340

I really like the new Mackenzie Crook sitcom, partly because it feels like a really good post-Newsround BBC children’s show, but with swearing.

But… but is there *ANY* way this could be a woman’s fault…?

It’s Bandcamp Friday if anyone fancies chowing down on some tunes. New music this year I promise! robinallender.bandcamp.com

Kier Starmer to perform a live 'apology rap' in a move his closest allies are calling 'misguided' and 'a mistake'

BREAKING: New SNL UK line up revealed

Brenton Salo, Walk Through the Light, Havanna, Cuba, 2015 brentonsalo.com

Awake at 3am my brain decided to treat me to a montage of the worsts gigs I’ve ever done, good stuff 👍