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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Thanks. Catching up with daughter in Brighton and friends from Manchester university (late 80s vintage). But still a trek!

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I've just read this, partly because of this review. It's a remarkable piece of work. I don't know how many minds it will change, but it's definitely making me re-think some things. I wish I was as optimistic about the future

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'm on the train now from Nottingham to see them in Lewes tonight! Looking forward to it!

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

85 and 87 for me. Possibly my favourite band of my late teens and early twenties, still love them

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Postman's been! #nowplaying. I missed Liberty Belle on vinyl as I didn't have a record player for a while. The live album is from around the time I saw them for the 2nd (and last) time. The two classic Go-Betweens line ups

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Errm because they want to make their products seem more important than they really are?

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As good as you would hope; Ian Penman on Anthony Burgess. Not all about that one book...

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Seeing things on here about the Bayeux Tapestry and queues etc just makes me think of this. 1: sort the queueing out. 2: are you sure that really is the Bayeux Tapestry? (See the alt text)

The Golden Child by Penelope Fitzgerald is partly at least about the British Museum's queueing policies and about what you do if you find your major exhibit is a fake

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My 9 albums #my9albums my9albums.org/s/c3e2644ce3ad The 9 albums I bought when I was at school which I still listen to most

Singles going steady Marquee moon VU and Nico Spring hill fair New day rising Murmur Forever changes The only fun in town

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This week's reading and re-reading. A mixed selection! Finished the first two, carried on with the third and read some bits of Arthur Machen prompted by mentions on the @backlisted.bsky.social chat.

The Blue Moment by Richard Williams (the second half is an interesting but slightly eccentric run through music influenced by Kind of Blue from Terry Riley and La Monte Young to My life in the bush of ghosts).
The Dead Don't Care by Jonathan Latimer (No Exit brilliantly published some semi-forgotten hardboiled crime in the late 80s. Jonathan Latimer is probably my favourite as a sense of humour goes a long way).
Moby-Dick
The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#nowplaying I know everyone says it, but this really is an autumn great

The North Star Grassman and the Ravens by Sandy Denny

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

200 absolute tops here I think, I was really surprised to get a ticket last week. I don't quite know why but hope to see them get the audience they deserve

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

Thoroughly recommend, they really should be playing bigger places

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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...

music.youtube.com

Hard Life

Album • The Tubs

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For me they are all about moving on from the 'freak folk' to embrace other kinds of psychedelic music including dance. And proper pop songs in there too.

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can we have Prospect Hummer please? Also Merriweather Post Pavilion, Feels and especially Person Pitch

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

it's made me listen to more 50s Miles which is good. Looking forward to the second half, more about Kind of Blue's influence

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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 · 25/09/2026

Sadly I am pretty sure nothing will happen of any consequence. They have the money and the influence, that's the point

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There was a piece in the NYRB by Miranda Seymour which I enjoyed and which was partly at least about why The Palm House is not as good as some of Riley's earlier books (which I now obviously feel the need to read).

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It really is. Worth looking out for.

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

i.ebayimg.com/images/g/THY... Do you know this compilation? Highly recommended

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

Literally the question I think of with them is not ' who sounds like this' but 'who does this sound like'

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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 · 18/09/2026

I saw what they chose, but not the answers, but I think I was nailed on for winning with Nancy Mitford novels (not even joking)

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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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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Me too, courtesy of this which I started reading (and very much enjoying) today @simonreynolds.bsky.social

Still in a Dream (shoegaze, slackers and the reinvention of rock 1984-1994)

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think your review is spot on, but for me no matter how good IM was (and he was great) he really didn't make up for the film's shortcomings. MC was very good too, but apart from them and the lovely houses (how much were they worth??) I didn't think much of it

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I know I have recently succumbed to Brooknerphilia, but that seems quite reasonable!

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Apparently his dad was the station master and yes, this is getting more spooky with each detail

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ha! I just showed this to my wife and she said 'my brother's friend used to live there '!!

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

This is one of the best yet, can't wait for the Auditory

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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 · 07/09/2026

I hope you enjoy! I haven't read that one (there are a LOT of titles). If you do like Mrs Bradley, I would suggest going back to Speedy Death (no spoilers)

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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 · 02/09/2026

As the most middle class English white indie snob you will ever meet, can I just say this is only partly correct

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Blood and chocolate is one of my favourite records. You can hear the anger without the words

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I assume this is still the case but might be wrong!

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Back in the day it would have been paid for, either as a fee or as a bigger discount. This isn't necessarily a problem as long as people don't pretend it doesn't happen (in my opinion)

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thank you. Apologies to John for seemingly criticising his work, that was absolutely not my intention. My experience of working for Waterstones in Daunt times was not the best and I'm probably overly cynical now

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

We saw Brotzmanm in I think 2003 I'm a tiny theatre in Nottingham suburbs. I really don't think most of the audience were prepared!

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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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