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Nighttime reading for an on-going piece. I never ever use this terminology - but WHH is truly one of Britain's genuine heroes.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 7h

Only truly love a few Fall songs, but this is really good. Will give it 4 spins. Not enough bands fill a bridge with maniacal laughter.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 7h

Heuvel is a beautiful word that means hill and has a perfect vocal parabola that sounds like a hill looks.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 8h

Was reading Tom Leclair's essay in the art of excess on GR today, and picked up another thread of how to read the book.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 11h

Tom McCarthy has a new book out soon? And it sounds even more willfully obscure? Oh hell yeah.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 18h

It was like France in Germany. Except everyone was very overweight and on the tear. The best of western Europe

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 18h

Thoughts on Saarbrucken? The Berlin of the west

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don't do the other socials, but when I am watching YouTube Shorts, it's pure unadulterated Patrick Bateman. And not in a shallow easy comparison way, in a deep rotting insidious way.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Coyote Vs Acme is pure cinema. Good stuff.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I absolutely need to get to more.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Gotcha! Yeah Trier was a lot of fun. And defo, won't get into Colditz, Lorrach, Fulda and the like

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yeah we drove back that way home from Switzerland. Around Trier, Karlsruhe, Heidelberg. Solid solid area.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ever been Saarbrucken Richard? Absolute madness. Average age was like 21. Everyone on the sesh. German town on French border.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yeah, my only visit was only possible because I took a 10 euro bus from Berlin back in 2010. Here's hoping to just payment!

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Kafka museum is also very good.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They're just Kasabian now. I didn't even like the second album.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's quite remarkable. Best debut in years and utter nothingness since. They're just a regular rock band now.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Never Mind, Behind Schedule

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of my favourite minor things in life is that if there's an American post-modernist novel over a thousand pages, that effectively ONLY Tom Leclair is allowed to review it.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Every time I listen, every time I remember. 10/10 album. Flawless. In Patrick Wolf's own lyrics in 'Teignmouth', "in skewed ascension, with no destination".

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Saw Dylan Moran live the other night. Part genius, part obscurity personified. Lots of jokes about the country itself integrated, always good sign. But man he went on some of the strangest tangents you'll ever hear. Almost TOO surreal. Recommended

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They really did up that part of the city nicely.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh hell yeah. I will say it again. The BEST new British artist there is.

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 01/10/2026

My cover wrap for Ghosts on the Cam. A tricky one because all the photo reference is partial views with conflicting perspectives. I scaled back some of the foliage which has grown a lot more over the past century. There may be a ghost in this picture.

A wide blue-tinted nocturnal view of the Bridge of Sighs which spans the River Cam in Cambridge. Spot the ghost.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are, put simply, too many books to read.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Been putting this off a long time - but going to start the Wessex novels. Known about Powys for years through Colin Wilson & Iain Sinclair but I only have the outline, not the centre.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah, my daughter tears up the aisles. I try to avoid collisions for her, but also don't see the supermarket as sacred. It's for the chaos a bit right? Asda is for the children.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I love those things. Totally get why you could hate them, but put matter-of-factly - they're good for the economy.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Listened to it at full blast on an empty motorway at night.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cut into the present & the future bleeds out etc etc.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One thing I've learnt from years of reading prescient futuristic literature (that turned out to indicate some verity) is that the infrastructure for the future is always being built and we bend ourselves to its construction. Bleak future.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Very much enjoyed this one. Looked up a lot of words, notably Purley.

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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 29/09/2026

New & Notable: The London artist refines his hard-edged synth punk through expanded production and a sharper, more streamlined songwriting approach.

thesickmanofeurope.bandcamp.com

The Intermittent Signal, by The Sick Man Of Europe

8 track album

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Listened to it at full blast on an empty motorway at night.

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just did my first (and so far only scheduled) interview for my upcoming book and had lots of fun. If any more of you media/pod/zine types want to hear me blab enthusiastically about Japanese indie music culture, contact me or Awai Books and we'd love to sort something: awaimedia.com/Tokyo_Doesnt...

awaimedia.com

Awai Books | Tokyo Doesn't Exist

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The multi-headed garlic to the right of the lamb is interesting

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I DARE you to read this Pochetinno quote without Adam Curtis voice in your head

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An absolute tour de force of riparian revelry. A sunken cathedral whose prayers are yearning to surface. Immediately slots near the very top of the Belgian school of the Strange.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tl,dr to all of the above incl. article is that hardcore punk act Gallows weren't 'scalable', who would have guessed.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And like all prediction models, it spikes and weights disproportionately to the loudest commotion.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And fully aware of bubbles, spending sprees, flavour of the month, etc in the past, but the business transformation taking place in early 21st century, Ie modelling risk based on historic performance and calculated future return (i.e. stock market ideology) was totally on overdrive.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Will share this one last time as I think it captures a moment of the early 21st century, where a combo of neoliberal economics penchant for repetition + the emergence of consumer big data started to guide decisions. Gallows were the real deal, but the waters they found themselves in are fascinating.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Er wow. I thought I was reading this incorrectly. Jeez. Pac to me was like Will Osprey is for a lot of British kids now. After Jody Fleisch & Jonny Storm made some impact in US, it was Pac who was the guy on British TV (The Wrestling Channel) who made it to WWE. RIP The Man Who Gravity Forgot.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The thing I recognise now reading Jack Kerouac isn't rapidity of prose or ecstasy of character, but the sheer vastness & depth of space. The USA as great unimpeded (psychic) zone. How easy it is to become entirely lost and how lost you become becomes how far you have to go to find yourself again

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