This week I need to speak to building safety experts about high rise development. Looking for a chat tomorrow morning, ideally. If that’s you, give me a shout #ukhousing #socialhousing #BSR

Tell. Me. Something. I. Didn’t. Know. Please. (Ps: private school kids are not ‘middle class’, they’re from highly relatively wealthy backgrounds) apple.news/A21X4S5iwROq...

A joy to discuss Withnail & I with @juderogers.bsky.social for tQ's pod: masculinity, the complexity of Uncle Monty, the lie of the Nature Cure, the grim 90s & how the film is relevant today in our age of oomska, still "shat on by Tories, shovelled up by Labour..." thequietus.com/subscriber-a...

Jury announced for @soundrootsuk.bsky.social The Folk Album of the Year Award @markradcliffe.bsky.social @juderogers.bsky.social Georgia Ruth, @robcowen.bsky.social John McCusker, @lynettefay.bsky.social Anna Massie, Philip King, Sam Hindley, Jo Frost, Alexandria Car and Becky Marshall-Potter.

Joan Bakewell in full tweeds, the best folk performance I've seen in years (it's from 1995), CMAT <3s Pentangle and Leonard Cohen book covers...I do this once a week to keep a diary of Nice Things and you might like it. juderogers.substack.com/p/10-returni...

Sunday reading: the songwriting methods of the Manics, and @keithcameron2.bsky.social’s book on their back catalogue is a terrific achievement. A pleasure to see him and @juderogers.bsky.social in conversation in Swansea on Thursday. @covertocover.bsky.social

Just had a lovely hour speaking to @juderogers.bsky.social for the next Quietus Low Culture Podcast. Here's a clue as to the subject:

This is a great Sunday read from @juderogers.bsky.social #tigerbay 🫖

And you can see @keithcameron2.bsky.social in conversation with @juderogers.bsky.social about 168 SONGS OF HATRED AND FAILURE this Thursday at Swansea's Elysium Gallery, with Cover to Cover bookshop www.ticketsource.co.uk/cover-to-cov...

Happy Birthday @thequietus.com! – a place that gives me so much joy. At a time when it is becoming increasingly difficult to make a living doing what I do, I am grateful to contribute to a title that favours thoughtful commentary over the usual slop. Arts journalism is in crisis, please support it:

Ian Catt's bedroom stinking of chips /Meeting Q-Tee's mum in Kidbrooke /Memories of Bond sets/Cardiac arrests of QPR chairmen/Gaudete terror...loved doing this for @thequietus.com with the first band in the 1993 Yanks Go Home Select issue, @bobpetesarah.bsky.social thequietus.com/interviews/s...

Missed this in August - I always love a Paddy Clarke @thequietus.com folk column. I always find things I've never heard before. Recommended! thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

More of this, please.

Ian Catt's bedroom stinking of chips /Meeting Q-Tee's mum in Kidbrooke /Memories of Bond sets/Cardiac arrests of QPR chairmen/Gaudete terror...loved doing this for @thequietus.com with the first band in the 1993 Yanks Go Home Select issue, @bobpetesarah.bsky.social thequietus.com/interviews/s...

I never knew this about my pal Campbell. As a festival programme editor myself (of 20 years' standing - eek), this story rings so true.

The first copy of #IntoTheGroove is here! I am so delighted with it. Thanks to my supportive, generous first readers: @quantick.bsky.social, @davidstubbs.bsky.social, @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social, @wadeywade.bsky.social and @juderogers.bsky.social. Out in the UK on Thur 2 Oct. @eandtbooks.bsky.social

Urgent ask - was going to buy two tickets to see @eeih.bsky.social at Chapter in Cardiff tonight but the gig has sold out - can anybody not use theirs and wants to sell? Thanks!

This is brilliant, and horribly sad to think that while one of these presenters is still a stalwart of TV, the other has been dead for 25 years. Paula was amazing – funny, forthright, glamorous, the best. margotshares.substack.com/p/picture-th...

"She has all the sexy erotic abandon of a forced hen-do activity. " This is brilliant!!! So many great lines. SUBSCRIBED. @grainnemaguire.bsky.social

Slow Sunday newsletters, my last for a few weeks. Enjoy x

Picture Post perfection, Welsh hip hop, Stravinsky and the Smiths and gratuitous violins – this week’s culture-minded/tips-and-lovely-things newsletter. juderogers.substack.com/p/10-late-sp...

Bluesky. Am looking for recommendations for folk/traditional albums coming out in the next month. Not singer-songwriter records, but music that uses traditional folk songs or traditional instruments to make something interesting/intriguing/magical, from anywhere in the world. Thank you!

THANKS, DAN!

Pete was great – check out Burning Shed too! burningshed.com/about_us

Thank you, Justin! x

An eleven-year-old's new obsessions, Fiona Shaw on Virginia Woolf, 1980s space books and my favourite new novel, over on that other platform, because I like limiting my big social media posts to one a week, because it keeps me sane. <3

I’m no expert but I would’ve got a person to do it.

Dungarees. Warm ankles. Messing around with cars. Hedge hair. Gobs full of bananas. My favourite ten summer pop songs on video on my newsletter. Also features cheese, schmaltz, O-Zone and Olivia 🌞

I spent a wonderful Friday afternoon with lovely @juderogers.bsky.social and if you want to see a photo of me with some art levitating above my head, allow me to recommend her substack open.substack.com/pub/juderoge...

Can confirm this Sparks story still makes me guffaw. I will never tire of telling it to people, either. The album is still one of my favourites from the recent past, too.

Want to witness the most Swansea afternoon ever? Join two Gorseinon College girls for lots of fun in Cwmbran (ticket link went up last night and lots sold already – lush, mun). www.book-ish.co.uk/event/an-aft...

I finished @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social's The Benefactors today, having read it in snatches over six weeks. It swirls and it teems and it builds – you've got to get yourself into its rhythms - and then it meshes and my god, her *phrases*! Her characters gaining flesh and spine and spit.

Some sense (I hope) about bloody Oasis. Also: I wish I’d kept this T-shirt but not for the reasons you might expect….

Hi! Suzi Quatro here. I'm amazing, and my early interviews are full of absolute gold from which women of the future can learn timely lessons. (Sorry, it's not Suzi, it's Jude, and I've written about how rock stars like Suzi can teach us not to be boxed.) Read all about it...

What do Kate Bush, Gary Numan, John Foxx, John Cale, John Cage and *checks notes* Danny Dyer have in common? They all have a part to play in the story of the revival of the music of Erik Satie, who died a lonely recluse in a Paris flat a century ago. Up now on @bbcsounds.bsky.social x

CMAT at bedtime, every Moviedrome intro, Kate Bush, Kathryn Williams, Gavin Bryars and more in my email newsletter... juderogers.substack.com/p/10-swelter...

Excellent piece here by Luke.

I'm quite staggered by this. I read Eamonn's excellent The Final Days of EMI when it came out, full of original research and interviews, and the similarities between this piece and what he did...is pretty jaw-dropping. I hope @thetimes.com and @bbcsounds.bsky.social have been made aware of this.

For my Friday Flashback this week, I wrote about siphoning the guts of Self-Esteem – and what happened when I asked AI to pretend to be me.

It was an absolute delight to talk to @juderogers.bsky.social on the new episode of @personalbeatles.com. Jude’s book The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives is superb. And Jack and I take a deep dive into Fixing a Hole for our patreon bonus feature! pod.fo/e/2ef57c

Always a treat and thanks for the nod!

Unexpectedly Ian Wright reading a letter from Albert Camus to his teacher has left me in bits. Jude's Sunday newsletter is always the best.

This is much needed balm as ever, and I never thought I'd be in bits after seeing Ian Wright reading Albert Camus, but here we are.

Ten things from my midsummer week, including Grimy Channel 4 Glastonbury, Julie Christie in Mold, Sarah Dempster's return, Estonian folk and Alesha Dixon on fire..

Grand to see @juderogers.bsky.social's lovely obituary of my mate and mentor Barry McIlheney in print in today's @theguardian.com. He would've loved that. Online here: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

Pulp give me More in Birmingham, and my four giddy times as a journalist with Jarvis. Let's see if I can get this review past the algorithm...

It’s been a magical few days - and a magical year 🎭❤️

Valleys psychedelic rave-ups, the jaw-dropping account of Barry McIlheney's first Cannes, women's work to lose yourself in, joining the Gordon Burn prize judges and poor cows in this week's (slightly delayed) Substack newsletter

We now cross over to BBC Radio Derby.