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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just been to see The Tubs who were great. Proof again, if it's needed, that there is a lot to be said for two guitars, bass and drums. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Hard Life

Album • The Tubs

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This week's (re) reading. Why did no-one tell me how *pleasurable* reading Moby-Dick would be? (TBF some sentences take more than one go but I was expecting a bit of a slog. Not so). TTDC pure pleasure (contains language & attitudes of its time). Music theory in BM beats me but

Three books in a row, all with bookmarks part way through. A Penguin Classic Moby-Dick, a No Exit Press Jonathan Latimer (The Dead Don't Care) and a Norton edition of The Blue Moment by Richard Williams).

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

With apologies to all the contributors, this was the best thing I saw in the current @lrb.co.uk

'In the next issue: Ian Penman on Anthony Burgess '

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This week's reading. Obviously not the whole of Moby-Dick, that would be crazy. But I have started it and am finding it weirdly compulsive. Aim is to finish by Christmas. Also enjoyed two other very different books. @backlisted.bsky.social @simonreynolds.bsky.social

Still in a dream by Simon Reynolds. Chronologically a follow on from his excellent Rip it up and start again, but a very different book. Much more personal and very much about 'being there'.
The golden child by Penelope Fitzgerald. Her first book and quite fun. The blurb calls it a 'classically plotted British mystery ' and a 'minor comic masterpiece ', neither of which is true. But it's funny and sharp about workplaces.
A copy of Moby-Dick with a bookmark a short way through

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This week's reading (fewer reading hours than usual for various reasons, including watching the magisterial Colin From Accounts - but wisely spent). Excellent Backlisted episode on this as well. #neverenoughbrookner @backlisted.bsky.social

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New INVENTORY by Andy Miller, available now via our Patreon. This week - Miles Davis, Dark Magus: 10/10, No Wrong Notes. www.patreon.com/backlisted

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This week's (re)reading and buying. Not for the first time I bought more than I read @backlisted.bsky.social More in alt text

Re-read: Speedy Death by Gladys Mitchell. My favourite 'golden age' crime novelist. Agatha Christie plus psychoanalysis, witchcraft and, crucially, humour
Read: All the Devil's are here by David Seabrook. Starts like a fairly familiar literary travel book then goes dark quickly. Will re-read

Bought. 2 Penelope Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Costello by JM Coetzee following the recent @backlisted.bsky.social re-run and a nice Harvill trade Saramago

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

ACR Brotzmanm (Peter) Cocteau Twins David Bowie Echo and the Bunnymen Forster (Robert) George Michael Happy Mondays June Brides Kraftwerk (couldn't think of an I)

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This week's (re)reading. Disgrace for Posh Bingo with @backlisted.bsky.social. @jasonburke2.bsky.social 's history of 'terrorists' is fantastic and more relevant today than I expected. Just started Speedy Death again because I haven't read it for ages and it's great

Disgrace by JM Coetzee, The Revolutionists by Jason Burke, Speedy Death by Gladys Mitchell

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This week's reading. After finishing a long novel last week, quite short ones. @backlisted.bsky.social The Palm House is as good as everyone says, I read it twice in two days to be sure

The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley, The Night Always Comes by Willy Vlautin and The Sunken Land Begins to Rise by M John Harrison

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#nowplaying For some reason, which I am now ok with, I couldn't get this on CD so bought the vinyl. Love Buffalo Tom

Birdbrain by Buffalo Tom on my record player

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#nowplaying I know it's not a competition and we can have both, but I prefer John Cale's post VU career to Lou Reed's

Vintage Violence album on a record player

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

#nowplaying I love Albert Ayler. My wife just came in and said 'what is this? Are they on drugs?'

Love Cry by Albert Ayler on a record player

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

More hot weather music. 'Middle aged white man plays music of Jamaican origin when the temperature goes above 30' cliche alert

King Scratch, a Lee 'Scratch' Perry compilation

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Enjoying the Martin Stephenson and the Daintees reference just now on the BBC France v Paraguay #frapar

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I love The Triffids and The Black Swan always comes out when it's too hot. Fantastic playlist

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

#nowplaying A bit obvious maybe, but this comes out around now every year

The Black Swan by the Triffids. Side 1 track 1 is Too hot to move, too hot to think

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Limbering up for my backlisted.bsky.social posh bingo re-read with this which I just found at my mother-in-law's. Any thoughts on where it sits in the canon?

A table in a suburban garden. On it is a cup of tea ( in a mug with a David Shrigley cartoon of a person with their head in their hands and the text 'You are a bunch of twats and you are totally doing my head in ' which I usually use for work) and a hardback copy of Anita Brookner's Falling Slowly

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I hadn't seen The Lemon Twigs before last night so I don't know if this is always the case, but this is definitely the vibe they brought and it was a Very Good Thing (I could almost see them rehearsing in the basement to get ready for the school talent show where they have to get the girl)

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Thanks to everyone who replied to this. As a newcomer I made a playlist of everything I could see mentioned (plus one song) open.spotify.com/playlist/1o3...

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Francoise Hardy

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Inventory and Auditory work really well together, especially in this great piece on Julie Covington. My listening will always tend to Cramps rather than Covington but this is brilliantly done

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Now playing and very much enjoying

Swell Maps C21 album on my record player. 'The sleeve of this limited edition first vinyl pressing was silkscreened and hand-stamped by artisans at Spain's grooviest feminist printing cooperative '

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

#caturday One of the reasons I read less than I think I should

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen open.spotify.com/album/60LrVu...

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Spotify – Web Player

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Slightly embarrassed I have never listened to this before. Absolutely fantastic programme today

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Fantastic episode which I just listened to after finishing The Corner That Held Them this morning. One of the strangest novels I can remember remember reading and I mean that as a massive compliment, I loved it. Yes, it's about workplaces! (As well as other things).

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I love maps so I'm giving away TWO signed paperbacks of my psychedelic/folkloric novel Villager each with these fantastic maps my dad illustrated of the fictional village in the book.Just repost this/reply below for a chance to win. Here's an extract from the book: www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

As they say, late to this, but I wanted to read the book before the review. So just to say that Ian P has been one of my favourite music writers since the 80s NME days and @jonathancoe.bsky.social a favourite novelist since What a Carve Up Neither disappoint here.Lovely review of a fantastic book

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Really enjoyed this piece. We were lucky enough to see Rachel's doing Music for Egon Schieie live, and I love the early records in particular

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I really enjoyed this. Partly for S L explaining to MP that he (MP) does actually have an obligation to do his job properly, but mostly because it reminded me that I don't listen to enough Derek Bailey

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

My book of the year so far (I know it was published last year but I have read it this week)

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I didn't take photos at the JT Soar Nottingham gig by @theloftuk.bsky.social because it wasn't that kind of thing, but I would say that if you get a chance to see them please do and whether you do or not you should buy the 'new' album...

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