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I am delighted to accept my new role as White House press husband. Er. Secretary. Venezuela. What? Oh heck.

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Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

MONSTER CAPITAL at BOOKMARKS! 🎉📘 📌 @bookmarksbookshop.bsky.social 📅 Oct 29 (6:30-8:30) 🎫 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/monster-ca... Join us for the launch of this new horror anthology inspired by the work of Mark Fisher... Ft @mrholness.bsky.social, Kiare Ladner, Jess Glaisher & @xenogothic.bsky.social

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

'Adrian Chiles' is an anagram of 'Acid Inhalers', 'Cranial Shied', 'Danish Eclair' and 'Anal Rice Dish'.

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Three years ago today, I bumped into Danny Boyle and a giant rabbit. I didn't take notes, but I think this is the rabbit.

Me looking lovingly at someone in a giant rabbit costume. The rabbit is wearing a brown coat and looking square into the camera.

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Surely I can't write a column all about Macromedia Flash?! In my latest column, I bang on about Weebl & Bob, Salad Fingers and Mr Potato Head. Issue 142 of Electronic Sound magazine is available now from all good internets. Pie.

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

No I hadn't. And now I have. The horror, the horror.

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

[writes script to generate agreement to this conversation in a tone that is good-natured yet weirdly non-specific]

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I still adore this album. DJ Python's Mas Amable (2020). Eight(?) shape-shifting tracks of trance-like electronic reggaeton. Has to be played in order, no skips, for THAT beat to worm its way into your underbelly.

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If you want to learn more about why her callisthenics teacher is prancing around a Portuguese ruin, check my interview with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith in issue 141 of Electronic Sound.

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

▶️ Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Ruin. Nature-loving LA experimentalist goes drum 'n' bass, to great effect. In the video, her callisthenics teacher does parkour in a Portuguese ruin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzlA...

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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - RUIN (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If Seal, through a fractal on a breaking wall, saw me my friend and touched my face again, I'd be furious.

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Here I am on the latest Picky Bastards podcast. We discussed the 2026 Mercury Prize. Apart from me refusing to listen to folk or jazz, and fantasising about being kidnapped, and boring people about harps, and enthusiastically supporting the concept of war, it went fine. pickybs.com/2026/10/11/p...

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Picky Bastards Podcast Episode 103 – Mercury Prize 2026 Special

Listen on Spotify Listen on Acast Listen on Apple Welcome to Episode 103 of the miserable music podcast: also known as the longest episode ever (maybe, I haven’t checked), or the Episode we d…

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

The new Troy Sivan album is very rude.

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

It used to be for a puffin you could get two hedgehogs, a marmoset, a family of beavers and a disgruntled shrew called Brian. AND wagon wheels used to be bigger.

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

"I was girls' leg wrestling champion of my school district." The Traitors is the Traitors that keeps on Traiting.

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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

I've just logged on to BlueSky for the first time in a couple of days and it appears that, yes, your royal-themed paper-crammed caboose reply was not, as it turns out, a dream.

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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 · 21/09/2026

(My own personal autocorrect bot can't spell levity)

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

I think it should be compulsory for everyone to have - and obey - their own personal chatbot, but the bot would be located in everyone's butts to add some levuty to an otherwise bleak situation.

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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

Is Uno just a piano with one key?

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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

Please read that post a couple of days ago to make it seem more on-trend and witty.

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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

I would perform that entirely with air horns. μ-Ziq for Music fo— 💥entire internet explodes💥

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

I'd write a tribute album to that idea and then adapt it for the West End. Music for Music for Airports in an airport in an airport, the musical.

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

As in Mack L'Amour? Eeeugh. Don't like it.

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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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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

But it's the MADring. Shame.

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A jammy dodger in Weymouth. Lass es dir schmecken!

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Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Is it even more boring than the Catalunya circuit?

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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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