I interviewed one of the best actors on TV, in one of the best new programmes on TV, for @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

I interviewed a Smith! About the band's rapid ascent (their hairdresser's sister was their audience in Feb 83; they sold out the Hacienda, and then some, in Nov), Sinead, Suede, his favourite Smiths cover, and the last time he saw Morrissey – in the last decade. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

“Rude jokes cracking through the polite surface of people bring me joy” In last week’s Q&A, @juderogers.bsky.social spoke to poet @holliemcnish.bsky.social about politics, parenthood and the enduring power of Dirty Dancing www.thenerve.news/p/poet-holli...

#NowPlaying This is truly bizarre. For a very wet Monday. Mentioned by @juderogers.bsky.social, I think. Stay Awake (Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films. 1988 open.spotify.com/album/48eR76...

Folk and acoustic musicians! I'm excited to be part of a brilliant panel for this new folk album of the year prize, and am very heartened by everything @soundrootsuk.bsky.social are doing towards it. Entries are pouring in, but you can enter too. Read more here: www.soundroots.uk/folk-album-o...

What's the best parent-child song of all time? Kathryn Williams' Sea Of Shadows, off her new LP, Mystery Park, is up there for me. A few others follow in the next post, as well as Michael Stipe & the Roches, Hollie McNish, Jerry Stiller taking his son to the Village Vanguard, Eno at 50 and more...

Preach.

This is incredible

Complicated Mercury Prize feelings as I love the winner (it made me weep on a mountain road in Powys the first time I heard it #perimenopause ) but am also full of the ire that MY FAVOURITE WAS ROBBED. (Also wish the show was live. We’re still on fka twigs.)

THIS

Look, subscribing to @thequietus.com is great thing made even better by @luketurner.bsky.social and @juderogers.bsky.social talking about Eno's Another Green World so entertainingly and eruditely. I'm going to listen to the album again today.

Absolutely loved going deep on this gorgeous record for @thequietus.com with one of my favourite people, @luketurner.bsky.social – includes exciting chat about where the Oblique Strategies cards came from, being taught violin by John Cale's viola teacher & more thequietus.com/subscriber-a...

Brian Eno's Another Green World is a beautiful, tricksy album, summoning the wetlands of Suffolk and a playful yet melancholic childlike sensibility. A joy to speak to @juderogers.bsky.social about one of my favourite albums for tQ's Low Culture podcast: thequietus.com/subscriber-a...

If you’re in or near Swansea, we’re doing this in Mumbles tomorrow night (Wed at 7pm, Mumbles Tabernacle). Come and see @juderogers.bsky.social talk to me about 80s pop history and my new book, #IntoTheGroove! (Plz repost. Ta!)

Sirom 5 star review in @theguardian.com and folk album of the month. You love to see it! @juderogers.bsky.social being great as ever. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

In this week’s Ten Sunday Spells: Gotham lullabies, typewriters through the ages, pub-side Sylvia Plath, rap, swearing and soaring in Cymraeg, and seeing yourself live online. juderogers.substack.com/p/10-vocal-s...

Hi guys! Forgot to post this from the weekend, but you might find some interesting culture to entertain you here... juderogers.substack.com/p/10-cosy-sp...

Danny Thompson pulling out pins, tales from a 1985 London Routemaster, Senator Redford, Weirdshire magic, Welsh girls and toddler poets in this week's Sbstck x

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...