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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"And yes, that’s Doctor Buttons, which is a better name that Fat Roland. I salute you, Doc Butt." ✍️ Read my new blog post: Surrealist horror acid from Isn’t Ours fatroland.blogspot.com/2026/10/surr...

A photo of a green-jacketed man standing in a street at night, duplicated into a tile pattern, with the caption "The picture was low res so I replicated it several times to fill the space"

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The finest truth serum known to humanity.

The actor Richard E Grant with a goblet of red wine, inside the Traitors castle

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

▶️ Andy Stott (ft.Elaine Howley): Songbird. Brand new from the Manchester dub twiddler. Expansive trip hop that sounds all very promising ahead of his new album, due at the end of October. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7FD...

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Andy Stott (ft.Elaine Howley) - Songbird

YouTube video by Modern Love

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

▶️ Erasure: Wings Of Love. The boys are back. Andy's giving his usual spangly dramatics. Highlight is the gorgeously flowing river of bittersweet synths from Andy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDEB...

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ERASURE - Wings Of Love (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Erasure (Official)

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sad to hear about the death of Vector Lovers. Girl + Robot was a regular part of my DJ set back in the olden days. What a beautiful tune. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UQt...

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Girl + Robot (2011 Remaster)

YouTube video by Vector Lovers - Topic

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Every time I pass a Five Guys, I count the number of guys behind the till. They have been right ONCE.

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

⬅️A–C D–G ➡️ Brian Eno's Music For Airports in an airport. A place of transience became transcendental in a moving and uplifting* performance by Manchester Camerata at Manchester Airport this afternoon. Thank you, Camerata, for letting me tag along. *Moving and uplifting is also what planes do

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I have lost confidence in this country and will immediately be relocating my yachts and supercars and my billion dollars to Epsei-- er, Isle of Mull, I meant the Isle of Mull.

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Macklemore? More like MackleLESS, hey, Ed? Huh? Ed? Hello? Hello?

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Apparently Macklemore is pronounced Macklemore and not Macklemore. Next you'll be telling me I'm getting hyperbole wrong.

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Fil @filmci.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Very happy to be introduced to The Refuge in Manchester by @fatroland.bsky.social Ornate, yet chilled (both the bar and the man).

Ornate bar area with pillars and large ceiling light.

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Butchers *are* butcher, aren't they.

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Buttercup is a terrible name for a flower. What's next? Margemug? Spreadbeaker? Gheeflask??!?

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Electronic Sound @electronicsound.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW! We have SOFT CELL on the cover of the latest Electronic Sound and a bumper Marc Almond interview inside, plus a blue vinyl seven-inch of two tracks from the band’s forthcoming final album to accompany the magazine. Get your copy now at electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Issue 141 of Electronic Sound is out in the world today. I talk about drum 'n' bass, ruination and extreme rollerblading with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, and my latest column covers Bez, Mr Men and blancmange. It's a giddy delight.

A brightly-lit black and white close-up of Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith shielding her face, with an inset of an Electronic Sound magazine cover featuring Soft Cell

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A camcorder whirs in a plant pot. "Take my buckets of cash," says Shady McDodgem. Nigel Farage unscrews his ears and tucks them into a pocket. "I didn't hear," says Farage. He glares into the lens poking out from the snake plant. "What even are buckets?" he says. He raises his glass. Affixes a grin.

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

🎣 Let's go fishing I'll buy a haddock I'll buy some schools I'll buy a sole I'll buy some jellyfish A perch in the sea A whole anchovy Carp declined

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"I was slowly bounced into the mosh pit epicentre, becoming one with a writhing mass of revellers muddied by a lightning storm... before losing my footing in a Jenga-style collapse of sodden bodies." ✍️ Read my review of the Prodigy and Carl Cox mega-gig: fatroland.blogspot.com/2026/09/prod...

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"That airy, uplifting loop that floats in whenever you're flying an aircraft way above Mount Chiliad? That music's by ambient royalty Tangerine Dream." ✍ Read my new blog post: Grand Theft Roland – Fingers and ears crossed for the new GTA VI soundtrack fatroland.blogspot.com/2026/08/gran...

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I'm really hungry. Can someone post me a block of lard or something?

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

For the LAST time, it's called LAKE FATROLANDIO.

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Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

1 discounted place remaining! 🎟️🔥 📧 commapublishing@yahoo.com to claim your spot! Tickets & Info in post 👇

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Royal Mail has this cute tracker which has me convinced that Postie is wending their red van along an actual dotty hairpin road.

Royal Mail tracker diagram showing a red van icon placed along a dotted delivery graph, with u-bend turns and little building icons at each end

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I drew a normal sheep. There is nothing unusual about this sheep.

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Nuthin' But A ChatGPT Thang.

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Top tip: Get six Pot Noodles, removed the pots' bottoms, stack them on top of each other = One really long Pot Noodle.

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

People don't get fired out of cannons anymore. We should get back to firing people out of cannons.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

Any machine can be a smoke machine if you operate it poorly enough

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Today, I will be mostly voguing before getting into the groove then 4 minutes later I'm going to, er, pink elephants and lemonade. Sorry. Ran out of Madonna songs.

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

📁 From the archive [April 2017]: My Electronic Sound interview with Soma Recordings, the Glasgow indie dance imprint who signed Daft Punk and unleashed ‘Da Funk’ into the world. www.electronicsound.co.uk/features/tim...

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I've been reorganising my CD collection. Why in the crusty hellpants have I got three copies of Levellers' Beautiful Day?!

Me looking confused / bamboozled while holding up three CD copies of Beautiful Day by the Levellers.

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Electronic Sound @electronicsound.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It’s the first weekend in UK shops for the new Electronic Sound, with TAPE LOOPS as this month’s cover story. You can also buy the mag bundled with an exclusive CD featuring two long loop tracks by the US tape music pioneer STEVE REICH direct from us at electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The Fat Roland alarm has gone off. THE FAT ROLAND ALARM HAS GONE OFF. Please do not remove your trousers, and stay away from anyone called Geoff.

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Nigel sees the winners' trophy. He salivates. Nigel hugs his winners' trophy and the base snaps off. He notices tiny writing: made in China. A tearful Nigel chucks the broken trophy into the bin. It lands with a thud; he shudders. He strokes the bin. "I wish I knew how to quit you," whispers Nigel.

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I have inherited this purring snowball from my mate Lee. He's called Winter and he likes cardboard boxes and violently rampaging until the universe explodes usually just after I've gone to bed. He's playing a dangerous game hanging out with someone who draws marker-pen cartoons on white canvases.

Two photographs of the same pure white cat, one looking at the camera, one lying on his side paws akimbo.

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today, I'll only be answering to the names Sweet Cheeks Malone, Chunky McBagel or Postbox 144A.

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I'm writing up my notes from The Black Lights festival for a long-overdue review. One line says the following, and I can't narrow down which performance it was about: 📝 Excoriating. Concrete. Pain. In a good way, of course. Spoiler: the festival was astonishingly good.

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I found my guest pass for Tribal Gathering 1996 along with some papers to, er, take notes on. What a line-up. The Chemicals, Underworld, Leftfield, Sven Vath, Sasha, Metalheadz, LTJ Bukem, Jeff Mills, The Advent, CJ Bolland, plus dozens of others. Black Grape. Daft Punk. It was endless. Oofta.

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Can commuters PLEASE stop jumping on the Rail Replacement Fat Roland. This service is for Fat Rolands only.

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

📁 From the archive: In 2017, I chatted to Gabe from Factory Floor and Chandrasonic from Asian Dub Foundation about alternative soundtracks. I squeeze in mentions of Blade Runner, A Clockwork Orange and Benny Hill. www.electronicsound.co.uk/features/lon...

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From the Other Side of the (Sound)Tracks – Electronic Sound

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Despite all my rage I'm still just

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Woah, I've just read about the J Dilla Workinonit sample chain, which links Dilla's 2006 track to Funk, Inc's Kool Is Back (1971) via Mantronix, Original Concept, Art of Noise and Yes.

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Utah Saints' What Can You Do For Me (1993) sampled the Bernard Sumner remix of Technotronic's Rockin' Over The Beat (1990) which sampled Dee-Lite's World Clique (1990) which in turn sampled Yellow Magic Orchestra's Hirake Kokoro-Jiseiki (1981). Four generations of sampling. Is there a longer chain?

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

5 words/phrases from my birth year and, co-incidentally, from my impending birthday party: Autoerotic asphyxiation Gender dysphoria Kneecapping Lube Yoga pants

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