the last of our albums not to get a reissue on vinyl... is getting a reissue. The weirdest and most hypnotic record we made, and a unanimous band fave the last time I checked. Order: UK: mergerecords.co.uk/release/5355... US: mergerecords.com/product/the_... Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwmu...

like in a fun quirky way or

This (via @johnhiggs.bsky.social and his excellent newsletter) looks like it will be an amazing and completely authentic telling of a moment in music history www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2eb...

There’s a dentist in Camberwell called ‘Camberdent’

I feel so dreadfully alone sometimes.

I’m reading Little, Big by John Crowley at the moment, I think it’s one of the strangest books I’ve ever read. Any fans out there?

Delighted that the new @stephencollins.bsky.social cartoon for the Guardian pays tribute to the great autumn hymn of British school assemblies, with its jewelled grass and refuelling jet planes. I did a deep dive into its history here: someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/jet-planes...

The minstrel filled with visions sang to his love to look against the stormy sky

An extraordinary night of programming from Channel 4 that will make absolutely no difference to anything

To accept death as a part of life? To live for the present moment (which is all any of us have)? To live in community with each other and our planet?

This is an invigorating chunk of radio about an avant garde artist, particularly because towards the end the show itself starts to struggle with the restrictive and prescriptive expectations of mainstream art about non mainstream artists. Which is sort of thrilling. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

If you are marching through London against mass migration, you are *by definition* a racist.

This month on The Allender Calendar I talk to the brilliant stand-up, and Edinburgh Comedy Award winner, Jordan Brookes! pod.fo/e/32ac58

For those in the UK, Paul McCartney's The Lyrics 1956 to the Present is just £1.99 in the Kindle Daily Deal: amzn.to/3K3xddJ It's the revised edition with seven additional entries: Bluebird, Day Tripper, English Tea, Every Night, Hello, Goodbye, Magical Mystery Tour, and Step Inside Love.

I’m always a bit sceptical of these ‘what would Orwell actually think’ from both left and right. We don’t know, he’s dead, and he lived in a different time. If Orwell was around now, he wouldn’t be Orwell.

This month on The Allender Calendar I talk to the brilliant stand-up, and Edinburgh Comedy Award winner, Jordan Brookes! pod.fo/e/32ac58

I wrote this short story a while ago and thought I'd post it on my Substack. Here you are! robinallender.substack.com/p/the-noise-...

starmer being too spineless to condemn people literally calling for his assassination is bleakly funny

bread time let's have a bread

People say the BBC lack flexibility in the modern digital era, but the launch and roll out of their 24 hour Charlie Kirk News channel in a matter of hours was pretty impressive.

Fond mems of doing this Tiny Desk with Yann (sorry I know I’ve posted this before) youtu.be/fgcheDWN5B8?...

Went to parkrun, gave up after 2km because I felt sick, now listening to Strauss’s last songs in the rain, a great morning’s exercise

Under the volcano, over the volcano Wandering free, The consul of Quauhnahuac is he. Making good use of the drinks that he finds Drinks that make everyday people go blind. @backlisted.bsky.social @malcolmlowry.bsky.social

never forget x

Someone's found time out from endorsing the best pal of the world's mist notorious pedophile, rolling back the rights to peaceful protest & hosting a man who signs bombs whilst aiding & abetting the genocide those bombs are being used in, to offer some thoughts on political violence

‘First, reflect on the long, slow alchemy of pain behind such a stunning piece of music. Then give thanks she isn’t singing about you.’ #INVENTORY @backlisted.bsky.social youtu.be/JqSP-zccbys?...

There’s a contemporary band who I’m baffled by who are praised for their ‘songcraft’ and I would love to play them that Jade Thirlwall song and say ‘now this is what you call a hook’

Three years ago some people were paying £50,000 for a picture of a cartoon monkey

The new Big Thief is very global village coffeehouse

Thinking about joining a long post office queue with more of a query really, should only take 15 or so mins

Mad how freshers’ week is always at the most beautifully melancholy time of year, summer fading to autumn, like they wanted some inbuilt nostalgia to the whole affair

me: right time for bed me 5 minutes later: how about Monopoly - Psychogeography Edition, where the value of the properties corresponds to how potent the attached memories are

Fantastically engrossing and eerie stuff from Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O’Rourke jimorourke.bandcamp.com/album/pareid...

It’s Bandcamp Friday no worries if not!! robinallender.bandcamp.com/music

The crime isn't dodging tax, the crime is dodging tax badly.

Just going through some stand-up notes on my phone. Lots of potential here.

Can anyone explain what’s going on with the new Anthology 1-3 on streaming? I’m on Tidal and the new versions aren’t there but a new Anthology Highlights is. On Parlogram YouTube he said that they’re on Apple and Spotify, but are they? People on Reddit are saying they were but they were taken down?

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

These are the things that make me proud to be British 🫡

Fond memories of the In Our Time episode on Zen when Melvyn Bragg kept trying to get his guests to be more specific and they kept getting more vague

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Sometimes doing a Beatles podcast is fantastic, rewarding, moving, life-affirming – the people you meet, the friends you make. Sometimes you have to spend the day listening to Extra Texture.

Look at this response from Polanski to Sophie Ridge's attempted gotcha on flags To *finally* have a mainstream political voice standing up for racialised & minoritised communities being intimidated by the violent fash on our streets It's really not that hard, is it?

‘I have the ghosts of autumn murders walk me home’, terrific Gravenhurst lyric, and yes it is autumn now

Well, will you look at this. Paul McCartney understands the rules. For any comedy, your vehicle must be YELLOW!

I came across this user comment while looking for some Nick Drake demos on YouTube just now. Have a read - it's rather magical. Original link: youtube.com/watch?v=fBdb...

Terrific rumination on the inherent *oddness of Van Morrison and his music. Read first before replying.