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Slumberland Records @slumberlandrecords.com · 09/10/2026
Lovely review of The Cat's Miaow's "When You Smiled And Turned Away" in the new (Dec 2026) issue of Uncut. On newsstands now! “If the librarian from The Go-Betweens' Karen formed a band sparked by the whispers of Beat Happening and Galaxie 500, it might have been The Cat's Miaow." bit.ly/UncutDec26
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The TLS would you believe!
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I had a lovely chat with Giles Martin about the new edition of Rubber Soul - you can read an extended version here www.uncut.co.uk/features/los... (my full review, including appearances by Dr Who, Maureen Cleave and JS Bach is in the print mag still on newstands) @uncutmagazine.bsky.social
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Lost songs, forgotten tapes and studio secrets: the inside story of The Beatles' Rubber Soul - UNCUT
Lost songs, forgotten tapes and studio secrets: the inside story of The Beatles' Rubber Soul
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I hear Derek Nimmo.
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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#NYFF64 “The reemergence of [Paula Delsol’s] LA DÉRIVE [1964] is part of one of the most significant phenomena in contemporary film culture: an archive fever running high enough to inspire delirium.” Erika Balsom @nybooks.com — www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
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Sand Castles | Erika Balsom
To begin, a guessing game. The February 1967 issue of Cahiers du cinéma includes a “Dictionary of New French Cinema” comprising capsule commentaries on
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Two Gilberts a century ahead of their time, as usual www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPhS...
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The Two Gilberts 'Do Shrimps Make Good Mothers?' Acoustic 78 rpm
YouTube video by OldiesAL
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
RIP Annie Dillard - I don’t think I have ever loved a writer more.
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Awful news!
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I had some fun writing about Proust, Ian Rush and the staggeringly enjoyable @bunnymen.com lp for @uncutmagazine.bsky.social www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/echo...
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Echo & The Bunnymen’s Apples For Isaac Reviewed: a late-career triumph - UNCUT
Apples For Isaac finds Echo & The Bunnymen reconnecting with their wild, inventive roots in one of their strongest albums for decades
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
All crocs come from Croxteth
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Entrance to the Magritte Museum?
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I absolutely dug EVERYBODY DIGS BILL EVANS, Grant Gee's sublime new film in cinemas next week - my review is up at @uncutmagazine.bsky.social here www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/ever...
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Everybody Digs Bill Evans reviewed: the lost months of a jazz legend - UNCUT
Inventive jazz drama explores a little-known chapter in a legendary musician's life, turning loss, addiction and renewal into great cinema
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Sometimes The Outcome Changes, However Always Stays Tied To Inherent Chance
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19/08/2026
Michael Wood, who turns 90 today, has written 428 pieces for the 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 since 1983 – an average rate of ten pieces a year for four decades. You can read all of them here: www.lrb.co.uk/contributors...
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Michael Wood
Michael Wood is an emeritus professor at Princeton. He has written books on Yeats, Nabokov, Stendhal, Hitchcock and Empson, among other things.
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
You and James should be a regular team. Has the same screwball energy as Kate Hepburn casually demolishing Cary Grant's meticulously pieced together dinosaur skeleton in Bringing Up Baby.
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Annie is the greatest!
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"A piece of public policy that made money and was a source of national pride has been twisted into something nonsensical, cruel and, quite frankly, shameful." - very timely piece by the brilliant @annalisadinn.bsky.social 💥
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annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My Guardian op ed and the longer piece upon which it was based. I hope you’ll agree these cuts cannot be allowed to continue unchallenged. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... www.touretteshero.com/2026/08/17/i...
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Disabled creatives like me are behind many of your favourite shows – so why has our work support been withdrawn? | Annalisa Dinnella
Cuts to the Access to Work scheme will mean no more contributions to shows like Sex Education, Call the Midwife or The Hack. It will be devastating to lose such talent, says TV writer Annalisa Dinnell...
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Gerry Anderson supermarionettes for the 60s, Spitting Image grotesques for the 70s and 80s, Zig & Zag style aliens for the 90s.
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Includes me writing about this month’s films (including a wonderful new Bill Evans biopic by Grant Gee), books (the Clint Boon book has several cracking anecdotes) and the unexpectedly excellent Bunnymen LP 💥
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This morning's headline from the #Pynchonverse fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...
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Italy's $4.7 billion cheese economy is feeling the heat as climate change threatens its cheese banks that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral | Fortune
Extreme heat is straining the vaults that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral, and economists say the damage runs wider than the vault
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
To tie in with his homecoming gig, Uncut have published part 2 of the Nick Cave URC shop.kelsey.co.uk/product/ulti... to which I contributed a few biographical sketches. You can read one of them here: trousse.ghost.io/fairytales-a...
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Fairytales and lullabies
The old rock and roller with his two-seater stroller
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
What if Ballard wrote about 1970s ice cream innovations? Extraordinary stuff by Ruby Tandoh in Vittles. open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...
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The Golden Age of British Ice Cream
Cornetto to Magnum: How fifteen influential years changed British culture. Words by Ruby Tandoh. Illustration by Sing Yun Lee.
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
My abiding memory of 1976 is climbing into a dodgem in Mold, North Wales and finding that the floor of the car is a roiling, seething carpet of ladybirds.
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Beginning to suspect that Luke Kennard’s Black Bag is the greatest British comic novel of the 21st century
“On the other hand, sometimes intellectuals live in a state of actual decay in damp cottages surrounded by snails, grates overflowing with ashes, something more permanent than them growing between their teeth, swaying heaps of books to the ceiling, spines-inward, for some reason, even on the shelves. Their system of order exclusively whimsical; implements mixed on every surface – bellows, used cooking spatula, ink well – because they had to stir a stew before dribbling it down their shirt, and tend the fire, and then had an idea. They sit in the middle like a great, dusty mushroom, thinking deep thoughts. Holy fools, homeowners, with the right to choose exactly how revoltingly they live in pursuit of higher things.”

Excerpt From
BLACK BAG Luke Kennard
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
It's Friday, it's five to five, it's the only chart that counts: my top 10 for the last week in May 26 includes new writing on McCartney, McKellen and Köln 75. trousse.ghost.io/ankle-deep-i... You can sign up, if you're so inclined here: trousse.ghost.io
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Ankle-deep in ducks
McCartney, McKellen, Rohrwacher and Barthelme star in our top 10 for 29 May 2026
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
It's Friday, it's five to five, it's the only chart that counts: my top 10 for the last week in May 26 includes new writing on McCartney, McKellen and Köln 75. trousse.ghost.io/ankle-deep-i... You can sign up, if you're so inclined here: trousse.ghost.io
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Ankle-deep in ducks
McCartney, McKellen, Rohrwacher and Barthelme star in our top 10 for 29 May 2026
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Bizarrely, I suggested that Rohrwacher should film Baron in the Trees when I reviewed La Chimera for @uncutmagazine.bsky.social two years ago!
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Thanks to @tommckinney.bsky.social for enchanting the morning with a little Elizabeth Poston on #bbcradio3 just now
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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Somewhere Wes Streeting is weighing up whether the humiliation of being Prime Minister for four months is worth the prize of being on the board of six different private healthcare companies for the rest of his career.
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annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Delighted to be writing episode 4 of this beautiful beast 🐉 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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New BBC drama Dragon Slayers to explore the work of legendary newspaper editor
The six-part series stars Matthew Rhys as Harry Evans, whose team broke some of the biggest stories in UK history
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Something wonderfully Pynchonian, a couple of days before his birthday, about this article on the marshwort and dragonflies flourishing in an old V2 crater in Walthamstow 🚀 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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From V2 rocket-scarred London to Ukraine: how nature thrives in bomb craters
In the UK capital, Bomb Crater Pond is full of wildlife, while scientists studying land obliterated by recent Russian blasts 1,500 miles away have seen ‘how quickly nature begins to heal itself’
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Great work KEITH! Hope all is grand with you!
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Was not familiar with Joan Eardly’s art before but it is spectacular www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
"joy, caught unawares" 🍃
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Shane Parish @shaneparish.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Avril 14th by Aphex Twin. Cheers. Love u.
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 05/04/2026
“This poem was written when my father was very ill, dying of cancer, & I was coming home from the hospital. Suddenly this line ‘I am the resurrection & the life’ came into my head & then the poem began to emerge from the line.” —Edwin Morgan on “Message Clear” #Easter #poetry #concretepoetry 1/3
“Message Clear”, by Edwin Morgan. A concrete poem where the lines are created by taking the phrase “i am the resurrection and the life” and, by selectively deleting letters from each line, building up the following text:  

am i
if
i am he
hero
hurt
there and
here and
here and
there
i am rife
in sion and
i die
a mere sect
a mere section
of
the life
of
men
sure
the die
is set and
i am the surd
at rest
o life
i am here
i act
i run
i meet
i tie
i stand
i am thoth
i am ra
i am the sun
i am the son
i am the erect one if
i am rent
i am safe
i am sent
i heed
i test
i read
a thread
a stone
a tread
a throne
i resurrect
a life
i am in life
i am resurrection
i am the resurrection and
i am
i am the resurrection and the life
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Love this dreamy French indie rap + video - feels like spring arriving after a long winter www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1At...
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miki - ça pik un peu quand même
YouTube video by Miki
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The best music writing I have read this year www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
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The Docteur Is In | David Beal
In January 1960 Brussels hosted a “Round Table” conference of Congolese and European leaders to negotiate the future of the Belgian Congo. Anticolonial
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Pure easy listening, settle down
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
“… She has outlasted tyrants’ speeches, felt the bejesus they squeeze out from the organs of appetite that keep us running like a business.” Loved the metaphysical warp, woof & weft of this little review poem by Timothy Donnelly (scroll down a fair bit) open.substack.com/pub/thelittl...
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Submissions: Why we reject Writers
Like a klatch of backslapping gerbils
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Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Here she is in 2026! This neatly bobbed, elegantly coutured lady in her 60s, steps forward in the manner of someone who might just as easily address an international conference held to improve the efficacy of PPE rollouts in future pandemics. And then she sings: “It’s a fine day/People open windows”
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This neatly bobbed, elegantly coutured lady in her 60s, steps forward in the manner of someone who might just as easily address an international conference held to improve the efficacy of PPE rollouts...
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annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I have also just had my grant cut. We, as a community, are in shock, picking up the pieces and trying to work out what to do next. These callous, devastating and nonsensical cuts cannot and must not be allowed to continue.
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Uncut Magazine @uncutmagazine.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Morrissey: live in London. He appears crooning the opening lines of Foreigner’s “I Want to Know What Love Is” in a pink shirt, unbuttoned to the waist, like a Quorn beefcake Tom Jones, his collar extravagantly popped à la Eric Cantona, with perhaps a hint of Ming the Merciless and Dick Emery.
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10 things we learned from Morrissey's London O2 Arena show
10 things we learned from attending Morrissey's show at London's The O2 Arena on Saturday, February 28, 2026
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Loved this superb essay on the tango of perplexity and burstiness in post-LLM poetry open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
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Metrics: Machine-Tooling a New Human Poetry
NSP Guest Post! Joey Connolly on perplexity, burstiness and the strange new light AI is turning on our all-too-human art form
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Graeae Theatre Company @graeaetheatre.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Graeae has been informed that our artistic director, faces swingeing cuts to Access to Work support on the same day we close our survey asking for feedback on the scheme. Read the full story on our website with a statement from Jenny Sealey: graeae.org/resource/acc...
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Access to Work cuts - Statement from Jenny Sealey - Graeae
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Outstanding @piercepenniless.bsky.social LRBpod with @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @ethanshone.bsky.social on scale of political capture - with a passing mention of Oborne's MacIntyre namedrop on last week's @secondcaptains.bsky.social #ultimatecrossoverevent podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
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On Politics: Mandelson and the Private Life of Power
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 02/11/2026 · 1h 7m
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Uncut Magazine @uncutmagazine.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
It's a crash course for the readers: the 20 best books about David Bowie Comic books, illuminating analyses, worthy biographies… Bowie continues to contain multitudes for authors to draw on www.uncut.co.uk/features/lis...
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The 20 best David Bowie books
Comic books, illuminating analyses, worthy biographies… Bowie continues to contain multitudes for authors to draw on
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Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
My Uncut review of Marty Supreme - an irresistible epic of screwball chutzpah www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/mart...
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Marty Supreme reviewed: Timothée Chalomet's street-smart hustler leads screwball caper
Marty Supreme reviewed: Timothée Chalomet brings it all back home again as a street-smart hustler in Josh Safdie's screwball caper
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