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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

An absolutely brilliant book, and no longer in print!

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Simon Love @simonloverules.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Awake from a dream where @robinallender.bsky.social finally released his version of “Lady In Red”

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Crows Labyrinth @crowslabyrinth.com · 02/10/2026

My #BandcampFriday purchases today are two EPs by @robinallender.bsky.social: Tape Dreams III and his latest, Fragment Hill. The first one has great ambient guitar tracks, and the second a couple of awesome, mellow singer-songwriter tracks.

Screenshot of two EPs by Robin Allender from my Bandcamp collection: Tape Dreams III and Fragment Hill.

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But by 68 the stereo mixes were loads better so, for me, remixing White Album and Abbey Road was pointless.

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Half agree, but the fact that the version almost everybody knows is the hard panned stereo version is a real shame. So it’s great to have the mono version available, and the new stereo mixes, which are panned in a much more sensible way (drums in the middle for example).

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ha no way! I think maybe it’s Paul being so moany.

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Unexpected highlight: What Goes On absolutely rips!

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rubber Soul sounding snappy and powerful. I’ve never ever liked You Won’t See Me. Never been able to put my finger on why.

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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

It was this! Praise the lord. I scrolled new books 2026 for about an hour.

Cover of I Want You to Be Happy by Jem Calder

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

No not that sadly. I’m going to have to go back to Foyles to find it.

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

It’s a novel, it came out this year

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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 · 19/09/2026

That’s a great reading of it. I remember Philip Pullman on Adam Buxton describing The Last Battle as ‘a wicked book’ (wicked meaning bad not cool haha)

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Haha not me sadly! My art teacher was a roadie for Cud (unrelated).

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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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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Bit of a mystery! Googling around tells me that it depends on the edition, sometimes it’s 433, sometimes 434! Not sure where the discrepancy comes from…

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

False alarm, The Waste Land is 434 lines long apparently (despite it being 433 in my edition?)

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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

I don’t often remember words or sentences from dreams but the other day I woke up and wrote down ‘was left in mash cups when a dimmer perimeter became available’. Couldn’t recall what it was that was left in mash cups though sadly.

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

Love this, always though the Bold Street time slip would make a brilliant Beatles film. They get their inspiration from aliens in the future for example.

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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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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Think you have your answer already but @christinamartin.bsky.social is good to follow for all things death (!), and her books are ace

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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

“I’ll take you out for a steak the size of a toilet seat”

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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

Yes! I also think classical albums look really cool on cassette.

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

This is superb. Last time I watched Nuts in May I was really struck by how it’s about different sets of rules. From campsite rules, to the policeman checking Keith’s tyres, but also unspoken rules about how to socialise, how to get along.

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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 · 18/08/2026

Yes! Once I discovered the M&S chino I could never go back to jeans

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