hello, the weather’s grotty, why not lounge about/sort out a cupboard/make nice pasta while listening to one of the shows in my Observer audio review observer.co.uk/culture/audi...

Linder's scalpel-sharp artwork in Swansea's @glynnvivian.bsky.social! The new artwork in @theatrclwyd.bsky.social – worked on by Catrin James, @studiomothership.bsky.social and me! Plus Paul Mescal dancing, Will Arnett being introduced to horse-hair harps, and why you must see Sinners in my....

Fortunately @juderogers.bsky.social and @thequietus.com are here to put Edge of Darkness into perspective. 🙏 thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Superb Suede review by @juderogers.bsky.social, can’t wait to see them on this tour. The bit where Brett Anderson does a turn completely unaccompanied is stunning - I saw footage online of the bit mentioned at the start here & there must have been something in my eye

Am thinking of Peter Capaldi being in the same room as Kate Bush, at the exhibition of renowned Scottish painter John Byrne, and wondering how this could be turned into a Dr Who fantasy in which she's his new companion. Or he's *her* new companion. Imagine.

, @juderogers.bsky.social 's newsletter of super interesting things is a weekly treat. In a world rammed full of distractions it's always good to have a trusted voice point you in the direction of the good stuff.

Review of the Week: Our Town (on tour) @welshnattheatre.bsky.social’s first large-scale show, starring its artistic director Michael Sheen @mchshe.bsky.social, brings a shimmering Celtic quality to Wilder’s tale of smalltown America, writes @juderogers.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/review-of-...

Has anyone had issues with Substack in the last 24 hours? I wrote a long newsletter yesterday, formatted, ready, really happy with it, and it saved nicely, was all scheduled to go. This morning an old version, all scrappy notes, is scheduled. So weird – anyone else had this?

Tonight’s event with @ellielevenson.bsky.social @juderogers.bsky.social discussing Room 706….belter of a debut novel!

Here's a sublime, beautifully-written review from @thenerve.news on the @welshnattheatre.bsky.social production of Our Town. Thank you @juderogers.bsky.social

Wonderful to see Adam Weikert's extraordinary album 'To Whom Ourselves We Owe' reviewed in @juderogers.bsky.social Folk column @theguardian.com.

I've updated the weekly Quietus archive dive The Portal with some choice articles to mark Music Venue Week, The Congos, Megadeth and @juderogers.bsky.social Strange World Of... Black Box Recorder (joy it is that they're back) thequietus.com/portal/

A nice article from @theobserveruk.bsky.social by @juderogers.bsky.social on 100 yrs since the first radio scare: observer.co.uk/style/featur... ...We re-enacted this lost broadcast + delved into the press coverage of the time on the latest British Broadcasting Century podcast: pod.fo/e/379c24

Interviewed the excellent Lucinda Williams for @theobserveruk.bsky.social about Bob Dylan gossip with Mavis Staples, chasing Flannery O'Connor's peacocks, how @roughtrade1976.bsky.social changed her life, and writing to deal with the day-to-day insanity of the US. observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

An interesting read > 100 years of fake news: the accidental BBC radio hoax that influenced the young Orson Welles, and later his infamous War Of The Worlds broadcast buff.ly/ksmcjQa By @juderogers.bsky.social @theobserveruk.bsky.social #Satire #WarOfTheWorlds #Media #OrsonWelles

Look at this stunning portrait of Bob Dylan that @kathrynwilliamsuk.bsky.social gave me!

Delighted to get a good review from the brilliant Mr Male!

@juderogers.bsky.social surfaces the back story to one of the finest drama’s commissioned by the BBC, including the fact that writer Troy Kennedy Martin would still be dictating scripts the night before recording. Same riding the brinks as David Milch with Deadwood, on the floor of his trailer.

@juderogers.bsky.social Jude, i had not read this before because i not have a facebook account. — Marianne’s honest and simple recognition of /tribute to 🌠Sinéad O'Connor.

was a student in spring 1999, at the Cambridge Corn Exchange. tumultuous time for me. i loved everything second with her. Jude, this archive documentary feature is absolutely brilliant. enthralling—as i knew that it would be. thank you so much for making this excellent www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I’ve always loved #MarianneFaithfull but this beautiful doc from @juderogers.bsky.social on #BBCRadio4 stopped me in my tracks when I stumbled upon it driving home tonight. Thoughtful, revealing and deeply moving it’s a really gorgeous listen and well worth seeking out. #ParisWithMarianne

Hello, Bluesky people. A very niche request. Does anyone have access to the audio interviews between Peter Bogdanovich and Orson Welles? I am trying and failing to find them, as they include a reference that I need. Any help would be hugely welcome!

Actor Denise Gough on poverty, Palestine and the joy of nesting About to open in the stage version of the western High Noon opposite Billy Crudup, and in the film of H Is for Hawk, the star of Andor answers the Nerve Q&A Interview by @juderogers.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/actor-deni...

40 years since this brilliant statement of intent got to number one. I still stand by every word of this. www.theguardian.com/music/2012/m...

Was late to this, but have devoured @juderogers.bsky.social’s The Sound Of Being Human in very few sittings. Part memoir, part musicology, part philosophy- a very smart, comforting account of the role of music in our humanity.

We're currently just 25 subscribers off the magical 2000 that ensures the long-term viability and stability of The Quietus. Join the Subscriber tier today & get instant access to hours of music in playlists covering our three main end of year charts: thequietus.com/subscribers/

Which actor wanted to change career to be a surrealist painter after he saw a Max Ernst exhibition, is mad for the Cocteau Twins, and whose brush with acute myeloid leukaemia gives him pause to say to himself often: "for Christ’s sake, wind your neck in, you twat"?

Was talking about this piece only last night, a piece I thought about pitching after watching the credits to The Snowman, then wanting to interview everyone involved in bringing Bowie to the project, to find out why it had happened. I found out so much more. Thanks, Unkle Rupert!

I always enjoy a bit of bleakness and beauty at Christmas. Looking forward to listening to @lauracannellmusic.bsky.social's latest. Nice review from @juderogers.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...

Out now: The Nerve's Best Books of 2025. Feat: @elizabethalker.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social @sevenstories.bsky.social @jonathancape.bsky.social @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social @panmacmillan.bsky.social @sceptrebooks.bsky.social @jennashworth.bsky.social

I love this.

Also: why songs are like Rubik's cubes, why he carries a knife, and the scandal of knowing more about the Mariana Trench than the mind. www.thenerve.news/p/richard-ha...

What's @richardhawley.bsky.social's favourite joke? It doesn't contain any swear words, although the rest of this @thenerve.news interview (by me) certainly does.

What's @richardhawley.bsky.social's favourite joke? It doesn't contain any swear words, although the rest of this @thenerve.news interview (by me) certainly does.

I completely missed the fact that this was at the London Film Festival - but few reviews? Did anyone see it? It sounds fantastic. www.screendaily.com/reviews/haml...

If you haven't read Nick's original piece - which I RT'd from @joemungus.bsky.social the other day - you must. It's brilliant and chilling.

Truly one of the greatest shows that's ever been on television anywhere, thanks Jude

Lovely piece by @juderogers.bsky.social on Edge of Darkness. thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

OK! Pan Amsterdam is live, and he takes us from dirt road blues to crypto hoes, Soulquarians to Iggy Pop, teenage talent shows with Destinys Child to drunkenly calling a beloved DJ “a McCauley Culkin-looking motherfuckerr”. This one is an absolute RIOT. GET INVOLVED.

This is a great piece - loved the final paragraph in particular which sums up why the best television happens.

Last Friday night and Saturday morning, Monmouthshire was hit by devastating floods. Monmouth’s high street, a place that I’ve barely known wet before, became a high roaring river (see the pictures of how it lies normally, as it did on Thursday, with the flooded Waitrose high above).

An utter masterpiece. It couldn’t be more different from our work, but it’s one of our great inspirations. It’s now on BBC iplayer and not to be missed!

Rewatching it this Christmas. Perfect festive viewing.

This is fascinating and if you have not yet watched Edge Of Darkness please do check it out. It is a really powerful drama and you’ll be surprised at how many well known character actors are in it.

And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

What makes the news... some great reporting from down the road inn south Wales

I must add our MP has been great but no national statement! I’m still shocked.

This is a great piece of reporting & writing

On the frontline of a deluge on the Welsh borders, @juderogers.bsky.social heard local stories of devastation and heroism – but incredibly, the disaster was barely referred to in Westminster and the national press www.thenerve.news/p/storm-clau...