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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New Substack post about music, dreams, music that feels likes dreams, imaginary pubs, and giant pizza robinallender.substack.com/p/music-is-d...

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Music is dreams

I actually don’t find it boring when people talk about their dreams

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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Reminder that I’m doing this next Sunday. Tickets actually selling pretty well! (Almost certainly due to @robinallender.bsky.social. But. Still.)

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I keep seeing this book in bookshops and I was going to buy it next time I was in a bookshop and I realised I had no idea what it was called or who wrote it. It’s got a blue cover and the title is bright pink or orange???

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ianarchie.bsky.social @ianarchie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Morning Mist Autumn, Isleworth: watercolour and pencil

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm not on here much at the moment for looking after my brain reasons. But I am also looking for freelance work! So if anybody needs proofreading, editorial services - including developmental editing - creative writing mentoring or anything adjacent thereof, I am available! stefmowords[at]gmail.com

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Other Services | Stefan Mohamed

Stefan Mohamed's creative writing services, from professional editing and proofreading to lecturing and tutoring.

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In the universe of The Social Reckoning did The Social Network film come out?

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New podcast out today! And it’s a chat with Anwen Crawford about her new book Morvern Callar, a study of Lynne Ramsay’s 2002 film of the same name pod.link/1765567936/e...

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Episode 25: Anwen Crawford

Listen to Episode 25: Anwen Crawford from The Allender Calendar wherever you get your podcasts!

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New podcast out today! And it’s a chat with Anwen Crawford about her new book Morvern Callar, a study of Lynne Ramsay’s 2002 film of the same name pod.link/1765567936/e...

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Episode 25: Anwen Crawford

Listen to Episode 25: Anwen Crawford from The Allender Calendar wherever you get your podcasts!

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Pitching an unreadably pretentious article about contemporary pop to The Wire with the title ‘you who were with me in the ships at Miley’

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sunday sonder & saudade crew assemble, time for the Highway of the Heart, Antiques Roadshow & undone homework of the soul. Let your spirit hurtle down a dale like elderly buffoons in a tin bath as nameless disquiet rises under your sternum like the plaintive oboes of the Watership Down soundtrack

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Waste Land is 433 lines long. Do you think that’s why the John Cage piece is 4'33" or is it coincidence? Am I the first person to notice that? Is it giro day?

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"It was like a fairy tale, in a way. I had to ask three times, sometimes, to gain admission to his mind." New fiction by Gwendoline Riley.

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Gwendoline Riley: "Two Sketches"

Short fiction by Gwendoline Riley, the author of "The Palm House."

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It’s Bandcamp Friday if anyone wishes to buy some music! robinallender.bandcamp.com/album/fragme...

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Fragment Hill, by Robin Allender

4 track album

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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Really looking forward to playing next month with @robinallender.bsky.social Trio at the very lovely Aces & Eights in Tufnell Park... www.acesandeightssaloonbar.com/events/robin...

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Robin Allender Trio + Down For You Is Up + Polly Jones. - Aces and Eights Saloon Bar

04/10/2026 @ 7:30 pm - 11:00 pm -

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El rey de los cuñaos @mrdanielbro.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

a wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom (sadly)

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Thanks to Sam Wisternoff for designing the poster!

Gig poster: drawing of four cats on a roof, advertising Robin Allender Trio/Down For You Is Up/Polly Jones gig at Aces and Eights 4 October

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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Am REALLY looking forward to this one...

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry should also be remembered for featuring in the best between takes photo of an actor in recorded history.

Tim Curry in full clown make up holding an umbrella between takes during the filming of the tv miniseries of It

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Don’t get me wrong, I’ll never stop listening to Radio 3 in the morning, but Tom McKinney was just going on about how much he likes wasps

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Why are classical music album covers like this

Andreas Scholl Vivaldi album cover with a close up of (presumably) Scholl’s face laughing

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

April: Reckon I might breed some lilacs out of the dead land. Eliot: Well now you’re just being cruel.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I recently saw a clip of Nuts In May in which Keith & Candice-Marie visit a castle, and as they spoke I thought 'oh dear that's my inner monologue'. Thanks @adellestripe.bsky.social for articulating this odd feeling & the genius of Mike Leigh's 1976 masterpiece: thequietus.com/culture/film...

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Get Back to your Tenements! The Modern Relevance of Nuts In May | The Quietus

I must have seen Nuts In May over 20 times since first watching it as a film student back in my late teens. Back then, I was an outsider trying to understand where I fitted in. Mike Leigh’s films help...

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The Strange Brew @strangebrewpod.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Two 'lost' Kinks recordings have surfaced after 57 years. Ray Davies wrote five songs for BBC's Where Was Spring? before the BBC wiped the tapes. 'Let's Take Off Our Clothes' has never been heard until now #thekinks thestrangebrew.co.uk/two-lost-kin...

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Two Lost Kinks Recordings From BBC's Where Was Spring? Resurface After 57 Years - The Strange Brew

Two recordings by the Kinks, have surfaced . "Let's Take Off Our Clothes" and "Darling, I Respect You" were taped off-air from Where Was Spring?, the 1969 sketch show for which Ray Davies composed fiv...

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Just got a guitar valued and it’s exactly the same price as when I bought it which is good actually because I was looking for a metaphor for the stagnation of my life and career!!!

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

That doesn’t look like a Tommy Nutter suit, it looks like my M&S one

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Intrigued by Alfred Lord Tennyson's chaotic business decisions

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It’s been very odd biting the bullet & revealing details only my closest friends knew about was going on around monkey cage over last few years - and now I wait for the next lot of attacks but I also know there will be solidarity www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po... www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po...

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The Gaslight Years - part one | Robin Ince

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to dea

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

In conversation with a fellow writer recently they characterised literary fiction as “A man goes to a place he visited once before and thinks about the time he visited once before.”

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A lot of mystical literature seems to be: I can’t describe this so I’m going to spend ages talking about how I can’t describe it

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Two months ago today, on Bloomsday, I took part in Robin Allender's podcast 'The Allender Calendar' to celebrate the publication of Guillermo Stitch's magnificent novel 'The Coast of Everything' (with readings by the author). Join us here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

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Episode 22: Guillermo Stitch's The Coast of Everything with David Collard

Podcast Episode · The Allender Calendar · 16 June · 1hr 3min

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Feel the Telegraph is just going to double down on this, expect some of the worst journalism you’ve ever seen in the next few days

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I don’t think there’s ever been a clearer example of the British media bullying someone, who was so clearly vulnerable, to death so shamelessly in my lifetime for engagement and clicks And now we’ll have to watch the people that did it claim they’re shocked, and horrified Revolting

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'd never heard of this vocal group until this morning. I have no idea of where they come from. All I know is that I am floored, astonished, enthralled by what I have just heard for the first time. www.deezer.com/en/album/293...

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Ni un Minuto Más de Dolor

Travesía - album - 1983 - 12 songs

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Always been a huge fan of Mike Oldfield’s gently understated bass playing on May I? youtu.be/smVIHvV2a9o?...

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May I? (2003 Remaster)

YouTube video by Kevin Ayers - Topic

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

While we’re talking about Rachel Cusk, here’s when I imagined her writing about crisps

Frazzles or Bacon Wheat Crunchies?
Frazzles resembled bacon and she had even heard that the pink stripes which were individually painted on each crisp to make them look more rasher-like had nothing to do with the flavour. Was verisimilitude that important? Did our snacks need to resemble the foods whose flavour they imitated?
Bacon Wheat Crunchies on the other hand tasted more of bacon. Or did they taste more like her idea of what a bacon crisp should taste like? Was the flavour she desired even bacon, or was it the ersatz imitation of bacon that the crisps provided?

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It’s Bandcamp Friday, so if you fancy getting hold of my new EP, now’s a good time!! robinallender.bandcamp.com/album/fragme...

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Fragment Hill, by Robin Allender

4 track album

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Heard this song for the first time in about twenty years the other day and realised it’s based on a Go-Betweens sample. Also discovered Paul and Linda McCartney have a writing credit because it uses a melody from ‘Listen to What the Man Said’! youtu.be/QZGsGB7cX3g?...

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Milky - Just The Way You Are (Official 4K Video)

YouTube video by MilkyOfficialVEVO

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 06/08/2026

Tyler Wilcox points us to a treasure trove of Beatles studio sessions, and you don't have to break the bank on any super deluxe box set to get 'em (I'll probably still get the Rubber Soul thing tho) doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/8242088...