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Enda Guinan

@endaguinan.com
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Does digital things in the third sector. Host of Let There Be Music. Expect plenty of #NowListening. ‘Joy is an act of resistance’ -Toi Derricotte, The Undertaker’s Daughter (2011) he/him Galwegian in London. linktr.ee/endaguinan

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 8h
Ahead of her new album which touches on the fear, power and ecstasy of childbirth, the Norwegian musician explains her fierce interest in a Medieval English anchoress Susanne Sundfør on Julian of Norwich buff.ly/Wuvop99
Colour head and shoulders photograph of Susanne Sundfør, in a raincoat with some tree foliage in the background.
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Iain McDermott @poprambler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Back to Now! New episode! 🎧 Join @rockingbob.bsky.social as we chat about the final @bobpetesarah.bsky.social tour, his fab @newmodernbooks.bsky.social & revisit the NOW Yearbook volume 1: 1960-62. Available to listen and subscribe at your favourite podcast place now. linktr.ee/poprambler
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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 29/09/2026
Not something I’m in the market for at all, but the 16 disc collection of Joy Division live performances gets a fascinating, well-written review by Marc Burrows over on @super-deluxe.bsky.social superdeluxeedition.com/reviews/revi...
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Review: Joy Division / Eternal (live)
There’s an enduring bit of Joy Division mythology, repeated by the surviving members almost any time the subject comes up. It goes like this: Joy Division were a punk band…
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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 29/09/2026
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Dog Meme
Alt: Dog Meme: dog looking a bit shifty.
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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 29/09/2026
Nile Rodgers: approaching Dolly levels of Nicest Person in Music. youtu.be/EQMN11hNdqU?...
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Testing Nile Rodgers's Music Knowledge | Track Star*
YouTube video by Track Star*
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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 28/09/2026
Here’s a treat! Four unreleased Stevie Wonder tracks from the Songs In The Key Of Life sessions. And they are ace. #MusicSky steviewonder.lnk.to/sitkoltheep
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Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life – The EP
Listen to content by Stevie Wonder.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
The before and after it's even more haunting.
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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 28/09/2026
"It's now 30 years since 'You Don't Love Me' became the sound of the summer of '94; the same amount of time it took to become a hit single in the first place." You Don’t Love Me (No No No) & Dawn Penn’s Three Decade Journey To The Top:
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You Don't Love Me (No No No) & Dawn Penn's Three Decade Journey To The Top | The Quietus
Charting the 30 year rise of Dawn Penn's reggae song You Don't Love Me (No No No) to become the sound of the summer in 1994
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Richard Shaw @richards7370.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well, that’s wrap! A huge thank you to everyone who took part in #5DebutAlbumsFinal Around 500 voted, fittingly making it one of the best supported polls for some time. The final top three were:- 1) The Stone Roses - S/T 2) Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures 3) The Velvet Underground & Nico - S/T..
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Pet Shop Boys @handle.invalid · 27/09/2026
Five days ahead of its official release, Pet Shop Boys' "A man from the future" will be made available to hear in full during two BBC global radio broadcasts on Sunday, 4th October.
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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 26/09/2026
Picked up The Sound of McAlmont & Butler vinyl. Finally on 2LP after years of being squished onto 1 disc. Sounds suitably EPIC.
A close-up of a vinyl record cover for "The Sound of McAlmont & Butler". A gold hype sticker on the shrink wrap reads: "Newly mastered version of the 1995 classic. On 2LPs for the first time Blue & Green Vinyl. Limited edition with print signed by David McAlmont and Bernard Butler. Contains the singles 'Yes' and 'You Do'."The album cover for "The Sound of McAlmont & Butler" featuring two men looking up towards the sky.
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 26/09/2026
Madness to have to choose, but: 1. The Blue Nile – A Walk Across the Rooftops 2. ABC – The Lexicon of Love 3. De La Soul – 3 Feet High and Rising 4. Air – Moon Safari 5. Portishead – Dummy #5DebutAlbumsFinal Thanks for all the worthwhile distractions, @richards7370.bsky.social 🙏🏼
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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 26/09/2026
The bit about four lesbians accidentally ripping the screen off a 65” tv… If you can see Catherine Bohart at @sohotheatre.bsky.social , just do. So sharp…
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Official Charts @officialcharts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
She’s electric! beabadoobee secures her second consecutive Number 1 album with Pylon 🔌⚡ www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/b…
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She’s electric! beabadoobee secures second consecutive Number 1 album with Pylon
Pulsating her way to Number 1 this week is beabadoobee, whose electric new LP Pylon storms straight to the summit.
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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 25/09/2026
"And for all that she laments the haters, she sure does write a lot of songs about them. The more dogshit like Cleveland! she releases, the more criticism it may garner, in turn generating inspiration for … more songs like this." www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore review – flashes of humanity and bafflingly vindictive love songs
This four-track addition to a critically maligned album works hard to remind fans what they love about Swift, with some sweet highs and galling lows
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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 25/09/2026
I hadn’t realised how serious Michael Kiwanuka’s stroke had been. Sounds like a very long road of recovery ahead for him. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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‘Everyone can relate to pain and struggle. So I’m sharing mine’: Michael Kiwanuka on life after his devastating stroke
The Mercury prize winner hasn’t been able to go home since falling ill last summer. In his only interview, he opens up about the ‘poignancy’ of finally releasing the new album his stroke shelved
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The best sign in the history of everything.
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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 24/09/2026
Bill Drummond on the KLF’s remix of Pet Shop Boys’ “So Hard”: “They actually sent us a 48-track mix, and all we had was our 12-track multitrack. We told them for various artistic reasons we had to start again.”
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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 24/09/2026
Every time. @mooseallain.bsky.social
Simple black-and-white cartoon of a man sitting in an armchair while a woman looks out of a window. She says, “I see the Renegade Master’s back once again with the ill behaviour.”
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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Apples sweeten in the dark... From the late Eavan Boland, for anyone who's ever walked a suburban street on an autumn evening.
Eavan Boland's poem - This Moment
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Treble @treblezine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Best Albums of the 21st Century: Digital Witness A survey of the most notable digital native, extremely online, paradigm changing, viral hit and cult sensation records of the past 26 years www.treblezine.com/the-best-alb...
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The Best Albums of the 21st Century: Digital Witness - Treble
Albums of the Internet age: Message board cult classics, shifting business models, TikTok faves, anonymous Youtube channels and more
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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 23/09/2026
"Holding something…turning a page…being able to stuff that something into a rack with other somethings: these seemingly small gestures help give life meaning." The Rebirth of the Music Rag:
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The Rebirth of the Music Rag
"The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story."-Richard Powers
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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
But… this is excellent
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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 22/09/2026
Enjoying the skittery snare reminiscent of Todd Terry/Royal House. (Some Orb/Orbit vibes there too @froyster.bsky.social?) joshcaffe.bandcamp.com/track/basic-...
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Basic Instinct, by Josh Caffe
from the album The Velvet Hour
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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 21/09/2026
Badai Pasti Berlalu is a landmark of 1970s Indonesian pop: a film soundtrack that became bigger than the film. To Western ears it lands somewhere between lush art-pop, prog, soft rock and disco, with big keyboards, and slightly OTT dramatic arrangements. #Vinyl
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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 21/09/2026
Home from Indonesia with a few (!) records in my hand luggage. Bagged #1 and #2 in Rolling Stone Indonesia’s 2007 greatest-albums list: Badai Pasti Berlalu and Guruh Gipsy. Yanti Bersaudara isn’t on it, but look at that sleeve; how could it not contain a banger? #Vinyl
Vinyl copy of Badai Pasti Berlalu resting against the same green tote bag. The yellow-toned cover shows a woman running, with text crediting music director Eros Djarot and vocalists Chrisye and Berlian Hutauruk.Vinyl copy of Guruh Gipsy resting against the same green bag. The sleeve is dark brown and minimalist, with a small ornate gold figure in the centre and a cream information label in the upper left.Vinyl copy of Yanti Bersaudara propped against a bright green record-shop bag. The vivid blue sleeve features three circular portraits of the three women in the group, with the title in large pale-blue lettering.Bright green record-shop tote bag on a black leather seat, packed with several vinyl records bought in Indonesia.
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Blue Note Records @bluenoterecords.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Listen to the powerful closing track from Meshell Ndegeocello's forthcoming album “Synonym,” a riveting version of Bob Dylan’s “With God On Our Side” sung as a duet by Bill Callahan & Chris Thile: meshellndegeocello.lnk.to/WithGodOnOur...
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Mixmag @mixmag.net · 21/09/2026
A man from South London has been jailed for running the UK's "biggest-ever" vinyl counterfeit operation
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Mastermind behind UK's biggest-ever vinyl counterfeit operation sentenced to prison
Rehan Ahmed was found to have earned £2.4 million from the sale of fake vinyl releases from artists such as The Beatles, Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran
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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 21/09/2026
me when I’m ready for the new week
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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 19/09/2026
@petepaphides.bsky.social on Kate Bush’s The Sensual World. www.patreon.com/NeedleMythol...
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“It worked perfectly. It just scanned — the whole song.” The imperishable rapture of The Sensual World. | Pete Paphides
“Like trains of thought continually tumbling” is how Kate Bush described Molly Bloom’s soliloquy at the end of Ulysses. She first heard the
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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.
The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”
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posts by Cian™ @cianomahony.ie · 18/09/2026
2032 Olympic rowing is going to be exciting as FUCK.
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Paul at SuperDeluxeEdition.com @super-deluxe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
McAlmont & Butler - The SDE interview. @seanhannam.bsky.social talks to David and Bernard about their 1995 debut > bit.ly/4isQLaB
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It was one of the great joys of my recent life to know Bonnie Greer. A truly remarkable person who radiated such wisdom and intellect. And when she spoke the audience was rapt. A kind, generous, passionate and very funny human. Thank you for giving us you Bonnie. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Bonnie Greer, writer and cultural commentator, dies aged 77
The British-American novelist and playwright who regularly appeared on panel shows will be remembered for her ‘warmth, humour and generosity’, says her husband
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/09/2026
Bonnie Greer, writer and cultural commentator, dies aged 77
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Bonnie Greer, writer and cultural commentator, dies aged 77
The British-American novelist and playwright who regularly appeared on panel shows will be remembered for her ‘warmth, humour and generosity’, says her husband The British-American novelist, playwright and commentator Bonnie Greer has died aged 77. In a statement, her husband David Hutchins said that she died on Tuesday evening following a brief illness. Continue reading...
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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 16/09/2026
Macklemore’s Hind’s Hall currently no 3 on UK iTunes. The title comes from Hamilton Hall at Columbia University, which student protesters occupied and symbolically renamed after Hind Rajab, a six-year-old Palestinian girl killed in Gaza alongside relatives and the paramedics sent to rescue her.
Screenshot of the iTunes Store showing song search results, including “Movin’ To The Sun,” “Joseph,” “HIND’S HALL,” “Boston” and “Babydoll,” with prices or a Play button.
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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 16/09/2026
Using photography and video of women giving birth, the latest video and track from Susanne Sundfør is as beautiful as you would expect. youtu.be/k7mXmZw_npo?...
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Susanne Sundfør with Kit Downes - 'All Shall Be Well' (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Susanne Sundfør
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Nialler9 | Niall Byrne @nialler9.com · 16/09/2026
Every one of Ed Sheeran's opening acts and band have now quit in solidarity with Macklemore nialler9.com/every-one-of...
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Every one of Ed Sheeran's opening acts and band have now quit in solidarity with Macklemore | Nialler9
Four supporting acts, including all scheduled opening acts, quit Ed Sheeran's tour on Tuesday after the rapper Macklemore was removed for pro-Palestinian
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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 15/09/2026
In Indonesia and trying to get a sense of their pop history. Rolling Stone Indonesia listed the soundtrack of Badai Pasti Berlalu (1977) as the best Indonesian album of all time. It does sound ace. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Ost. Badai Pasti Berlalu (Good Quality) - YouTube
Album dengan sampul didominasi warna hijau dan menampilkan aktris Christine Hakim tengah berlari ini merupakan album yang tak pernah lekang ditelan zaman. Al...
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 13/09/2026
I’ll keep going on about how Soda Blonde are the full package: intelligent pop, well-developed visuals (even have done the Album-With-Orchestra thing). youtu.be/hAfAU19ZVwQ?...
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Soda Blonde - My Violence (Official Video)
YouTube video by Soda Blonde
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
@dril

i pray my IQ forever remains in the "Sweet Spot" wherein its high enough to call out the BS but too low to recognize the Futility of Posting
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 09/09/2026
Had to include it in my summer mix first time I heard it, and now there’s a video for Meshell Ndegeochello and Cat Powers’ sultry version of Don’t You Want Me. youtu.be/mCqbBfI-l1I?...
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Meshell Ndegeocello, Cat Power - Don't You Want Me (Official Video)
YouTube video by MeshellNdegeVEVO
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
@badnetworker

1999: there are millions of websites all hyperlinked together

2019: there are four websites, each filled with screenshots of the other three.
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Albumism @albumism.com · 08/09/2026
The Magnetic Fields released ‘69 Love Songs’ 27 years ago on September 7, 1999 album.ink/TMF69LoveSongs
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Rediscover The Magnetic Fields’ ’69 Love Songs’ (1999) | Tribute
The most impressive facet of the three-hour, three-disc 69 Love Songs is not how many genres it covers, but how it manages to be both ironic and heartfelt at the same time.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Remember: it could be someone you know.
[Scene is a parody of a 1970s Public Information Film. A young girl is going home from school.] 

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[She leaves the school gates]. 

VOICEOVER:

The world today
is full of people.

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You meet lots of them every day. 

[The girl crosses the road with the help of a LOLLIPOP MAN]

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LOLLIPOP MAN says ’to camera’ [girl’s POV]:

Mind ‘ow you go, love.

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But every time you meet one,

[She gets on a bus]

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BUS DRIVER [also talking to camera]:

That’ll be 40p, please

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[She enters a sweet shop]

You must always think to yourself:

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[The kindly looking woman behind the counter hands her a bag of pick n mix]
 
KINDLY WOMAN:
There y’are, sweet’art...

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[Voiceover again]:

Could *they* be a person who leaves one-star reviews for things when they get sent the wrong item?

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[The woman picks up a smartphone to write something]

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[Cut to a view of her phone screen, it is an Amazon review page for Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro]: 
 
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
[one star]
THIS ISN’T A PRIT STICK

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[Woman looks ‘to camera’ at the girl, sinisterly]

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[Girl’s terrified face behind the ad’s final text line]:

Always have one-star-reviewers-of-things-for-not-being-other-things sense.

[Ends]
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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 02/09/2026
A nice reminder of the joy we experienced 5 years ago when we heard the first new ABBA songs in 40 years - and that they were bloody good.
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