“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.

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

Don’t want to be a bitch but the hunter’s chicken at Taylor Swift’s wedding was a bit overdone

(Footballer scores from a bicycle kick seven miles away) Person on Instagram: this actually isn’t very good

One morning, after waking up from agitated dreams, Gregor Samsa fell out of bed, dragged a comb across his head, found his way downstairs and drank a cup, and looking up, he noticed he was late…

Barbarian Sacrifice by Paul Klee, 1932 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137291

Next up… The race is on for the Christmas number one - new albums include The White Album, Beggars Banquet and Electric Ladyland. A casualty of these new releases was The Kinks are The Village Green Preservation Society Join @iammilliam.bsky.social this Sunday! Or listen now at patreon.com/eggpod

Just a hunch but is this new Christopher Nolan film too long

I like Olivia Rodrigo but I don’t think I’ve felt such a contrast between expectation via ecstatic reviews and actual listening experience since the National last released an album. I know it’s not for me but I wanted to like it. What are people hearing?

Bloke came round to service the boiler today and I happened to be playing Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel, and then I realised that the same bloke had come round to service the boiler last year and I’d been playing Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel then too

Not long to wait now, sports fans.

You can find the darnedest letters in old record albums - my friend Phil in Buffalo, NY found this in an old Monkees LP!

Just realised Esus4 is the same as Asus2. What else are they hiding from us?

Letraset dry transfers used by animators on 'Yellow Submarine' to speed up the process. www.action-transfers.com/html/a_artic...

Might whack the heating on and cook a roast dinner

Bit more about it (and other bits and bobs) here: robinallender.substack.com/p/fragment-h...

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

This is probably quite London-centric but crisps-wise South really needs to get over Torres and get on the Bret’s scene

In many areas the differences between Labour and Tories/Reform aren't big enough, hence bleeding left-wing votes, but net zero remains an incredibly important dividing line and there's something in being the "let's not all burn" party. In a week like this the right-wing position seems simply insane

A little reminder of a fun gig with @robinallender.bsky.social and Joe Ryan from last summer www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAGL... If anyone wants to book us, give a shout!

Stop Making Sense, 1984

Imagine turning up to the horror convention talking about folk horror. Everyone winces. They’ve moved onto liminal stuff.

Amazing how Paul’s best love songs on Revolver are about a) feeling sad that the relationship with the woman he’s constantly cheating on is ending, and b) weed

Love Robyn Hitchcock's Substack. His latest begins with the line, 'The Beatles were a mouth full of very talented teeth'.

A bit niche, but this vid is magnificent. A guy tests the notion that particular (& very expensive) pieces of audio gear have distinct, “warm” tones. I mean, he really tests it. An unbelievable amount of effort has gone into this. Hugely watchable. His findings? 😬 youtu.be/K-vIeA7yy6Q?...

Pickford should be allowed to have a gun

Tonight's launch at The Wheatsheaf Tavern in Fitzrovia of Guillermo Stitch's 'The Coast of Everything.' You had to be there.

I'm going to go with: Bonfires on the Heath I Dreamed of You, Maria The Evening in Your Eyes Bicycles The Neighbour Something for everyone

A pleasure to pay tribute to this novel, this writer, on this day of all days. Off to Dublin today for the Irish launch tomorrow: www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-for...

Thanks to @davidcollard.bsky.social and @robinallender.bsky.social for spending an hour on The Coast of Everything. Out in the world today (podcast and book both).

Happy Bloomsday, and happy publication day to The Coast of Everything, the brilliant, epic, multi-layered new novel by Guillermo Stitch. To celebrate, I chatted to @davidcollard.bsky.social on this month’s Allender Calendar! pod.fo/e/431ca5

Sorry there were no goals in the Spain game. I listened to it on the radio and whenever I listen to football on the radio no one scores. I’m afraid that’s the way of the universe and we’ll all just have to get used to it!

There's probably never been a better time to remind you that when David Hockney first took his Mum to California she remarked 'all this lovely weather and nobody puts their washing out'.

You could write a pretty terrible book about tech called The iCloud of Unknowing if you wanted

The entire second series of #BrokenVeil is now available. Join the Broken Veil Channel on Patreon to hear it, ad free, and more. Patreon.com/brokenveil

My thanks to @robinallender.bsky.social for inviting me (for the second time, mind you) to appear on his very cool podcast The Allender Calendar. We recorded it last night and it will be shared on Bloomsday (16th June). Good reasons for this! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Someone at the Guardian’s got four-four confused with four-to-the-floor again tsk www.theguardian.com/music/ng-int...

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

My latest Substack is out now. I can't remember anything about writing or recording the song it should be about, so instead I talk about when @thisistheloves.bsky.social went to New York to play the CMJ Festival in 2002. open.substack.com/pub/simonlov...

I loved Sam Campbell’s Make That Movie so much. If I was a teenager and it was the 90s I would have taped every episode and quoted it incessantly. So many hidden details and throwaway jokes. And nice to watch something where it feels like the creator had editorial control.

C just hipped me to this. Lovely bit of footage. Very evocative of a Bristol I remember well. I've even left a comment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTlI...

new William Gibson book opening line dropped

This has lived in my head for 2 joyful years 🙏🏼 @jonnymorris.bsky.social

Looking forward to doing Father and Son by Boards of Canada at karaoke

“I’ve got a good idea for a TV show: Dutton Ranch” - someone, apparently

I wonder if the foxes I heard shagging last night are the descendants of the foxes I heard shagging last year

Hard to explain but this playlist is pure down from Cambridge for the summer sitting in a hot dusty attic drinking lemonade feeling wistful in 1967

Male peacock spiders sport colorful, hinged abdominal flaps covered in microscopic, light-refracting scales (displaying vibrant blues, reds, and greens) If the female is unimpressed by the dance, she may eat the male. IG: flynn_prall Macro Photographer, Australia

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