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

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.)

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?

Fun fact: in The Holiday, Mr Napkin Head was actually played by Jude Law

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

not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize

‘I’m just as God made me sir’

Hey man, you ok, you haven’t posted Pentangle playing Wedding Dress for a while

Ringo has such an unnecessarily baggy Raiders baseball cap

Absolutely brilliant that Nick Knowles has been honoured as a Sir by the King himself. Rightly justified - and about time too! Sir Nick Knowles.

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...

No matter how many streets you walk down in London there is always another pub

We need to see the photos!

If I saw that Paddington Bear puppet in real life I’d throw it off a bridge I can tell you that for nothing

Get a load of this. 😆

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.

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

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.

It’s Bandcamp Friday so why not enjoy some of my music (please) robinallender.bandcamp.com

Just realised the A section of Penny Lane is in B and the B section is in A, wheels within wheels

Here at Instagram we’ve decided to make it easier than ever to accidentally video call someone

A few more thoughts on my albums (and books of the year) open.substack.com/pub/robinall...

I am deep within @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social

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

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

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!

Gig of the year for me! Enigmatic, moving, funny. A true one off.

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

Did anyone else notice Shirley going dub last night

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.

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...

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.

Almost impossible to watch George Martin on Anthology and not think it’s actually Kevin Eldon in disguise

Brilliant post from Christian, who plays keys with Oasis, about being in the eye of the storm this year open.substack.com/pub/christia...

I’m fascinated to find out more about the ‘Denim Delinquents’

Happy birthday, William Blake (and the Eternals) www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xAk...

Can I be real. Steak isn’t that good.

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.”

Thoroughly enjoyed listening to these eps from 2020, so insightful. Excited to watch Anthology this weekend!

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

Just went up to the top deck of the bus but there weren’t any seats

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.

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

Seals singing in a sea cave #Orkney 🦭🎧

this is really lovely

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!

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

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

German compound word for trying to watching Strictly but eyes keep being drawn to Paul Chuckle in the audience

Listening to the new Oneohtrix Point Never album and pretending it’s Carnival of Light