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Assessment type. Films, records, books, That Sort Of Thing. Wielder of guitars. Will write for Scampi Fries, or cash. I’m not like this because I’m in Van Halen, I’m in Van Halen because I’m like this. Letterboxd: boxd.it/jKip Croydonite.

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Well, I thought my favourite R.E.M. album seemed shorter than usual. What the hell, Apple Music?
The track listing of REM’s album Reckoning on Apple Music. Two tracks are greyed out (Camera and (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville)
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
How it’s going:
1. A sealed cardboard record mailer 
2. The record within: Suburban Light, by The Clientele
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Emerging as a clear favourite thus far - and not one of the couple I’d already heard #nowplaying
The sleeve for God Save The Clientele
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Music is not Huel.
Awful tech-bro tweet. nicksaraev @nicksaraev
X.com
I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Took some records I no longer wanted to the shop; came back with one I never, ever, dreamt of owning.
Scott Engel - Scott 4 LP

(peeking out from behind it: Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground LP)
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🎶 I wish I could sell / Some nice rugs as well / But I can’t 🎶
A shop sign reading Keith Harris Carpets & Flooring
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
jeffgoldblumyourscientistsetc.gif
A snip of a post by uk newest foods, showing
Sainsbury's Taste the  DIFFERENCE

MILK CHOCOLATE & MASCARPONE GIRASOLI LIMITED EDITION

free range egg pasta with an indulgent milk chocolate & creamy mascarpone filling
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Memorials were absolutely fantastic at Clwb Ifor Bach tonight; a real ‘like them a lot on record, but love them live’ and they were better then ever. Apply within, fans of heads-down multitasking motorik psych duos.
Two pictures of the duo Memorials, playing a multitude of instruments, pedals, and things that go bwomp/zzzt/whirrrr
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Still the greatest ever submission to Four Word Film Reviews:
A snip of a review of Kramer vs. Kramer on fwfr.com. It reads ‘I bet Kramer wins’
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#nowplaying
The sleeve for Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
FINALLY I’m a podcast guest; it was inevitable.
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Have guitar, will travel. En route to ‘rock’ Devonshire Road Nature Reserve, with an offshoot of London’s beloved (it says here) Chaps Choir.
An idiot with a guitar on his back, on the platform at Norwood Jn station.
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
More Silver Tears action: 21 Sep, Hope & Anchor, N1
A poster:

EXTERNAL DOUGHNUT PRESENTS:
GLOAMING KNAVE/ SLUSHY GUTS
SILVER TEARS FAD MAGGOTS
SPINMASTER PLANTPOT
Compered by SIMON BROMIDE
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 21ST
HOPE & ANCHOR, N11RL
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
💥💥💥
I’LL PUNCH A DONKEY IN THE STREETS OF GALWAY!
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A very successful post-work pop to Waterstones Croydon.
Two hardback books: Hermione Lee’s new Anita Brookner biog; and a half price copy of Sundog, the selected lyrics of Scott Walker.
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🙃
Your queue number: 22743
Number of users in queue ahead of you:
22727
Expected arrival time on the website: more than an hour
Your estimated wait time is: more than an hour
Status last updated: 10:00:45
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Happy ‘I’ve overpacked for @endoftheroadfestival.com as usual’ day to all who celebrate.
A lot of luggage and camping gear.
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
FINALLY.
The poster for
COYOTE VS.ACME
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Home now from Paris. Visited a fair few record shops, among much else, but managed to get away fairly lightly: Wilco’s self-titled LP (which doesn’t seem to turn up all that often), and a 1972 private press folk-rock-ish oddity…
LPs: Wilco (the album) and Illusions of the Maintenance Man by Virgin Insanity
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Je vais me cache ici
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Enfin, une bonne nouvelle!
Poster: Dix pour cent (Call My Agent) the film, coming soon to Netflix
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Il pleut.
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Lending some 🎸🎸🎸 to Silver Tears at this tonight, a warm-up for next month’s LP 2 launch. The Old Dispensary, Camberwell, 20.45-ish.
A gig poster:

scratchyrecords presents
SCRATHSTOCK
SAT
2208
The Old Dispensary 325, Camberwell New Rd

Simon Bromide and The Bromides
MEU Joe Wikes
Silver Tears

FREE
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Slice Return
Advert: The Bluetones
Acoustic
PizzaExpress Live (Holborn)
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Update: I merched successfully, and both Liam Parsons (half of Good Morning, and also playing with the headliners) & Way Dynamic were *wonderful*. Also: gigs that finish before 22.00 are good gigs.
Three pictures of Liam Parsons and Way Dynamic onstage, along with one of the third Way Dynamic LP, Massive Shoe.
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Came to Brighton, in news that will not surprise regular viewers.
‘Welcome to Brighton’
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I could do without this cursed train journey home, but that was just A BIT LIFE-AFFIRMINGLY GOOD
Some pictures of Wilco live, earlier
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Tonight! (once I’d put all my layers on, slid an Anita Brookner up the back of my shirt, and shoved a tote and all my other possessions into this pack-a-mac-pack. I scoff at your draconian bag policy.)
The outside of the Apollo Hammersmith, bearing the name Wilco on its marquee.A small red pouch.
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
What HAVE I let myself in for?
The bottom of the escalator at a cinema, advertising the screening I’m heading to: The End of Oak Street
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Having to get a cab home from Elephant & Castle because of melting train madness
The Dexter’s Laboratory/Martin Lewis ‘I have failed you’ meme
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
#nowplaying Still the Best One.
It’s an LP of See You on the Other Side by Mercury Rev.
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Very much back on my bullshit in Snoopers, Brighton.
Two books: Anita Brookner - Altered States & Marcel Proust - Albertine Gone
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Thank you, Letterboxd.
The first half or so of an epic Letterboxd review detailing many of the cinematic homages in the mighty Minions & Monsters
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I will be taking no further questions.
YOUR TICKET
Minions & Monsters
VENUE
Croydon Purley Way
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Not many set openings can beat One Step Beyond, Embarrassment and The Prince
Madness on the beach, Brighton
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Rattling the Discogs app sent me here for Sunday morning. Thanks, app. Thapp. #nowplaying
Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band - Adiós Señor Pussycat
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
PULP. That is all.
PULP
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Well, there was A LOT of that.
The interior of the bfi IMAX prior to a screening of The Odyssey
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Better warn Dracua
Two containers bearing the logo Garic
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Utter joy from The Divine Comedy tonight.
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
#hydrationbreak
A can of Beavertown’s Rumble, an 8.0% DIPA
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
#nowplaying
case/lang/veirs
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I knew they’d brought in a new drummer, and a keyboard player, but this latest move has really come from nowhere
FT headline: Rush to fire quote deadwood unquote executives
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
It’s Coming Home
A blu-ray of Hal Ashby’s Coming Home
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Finally found my drag name.
A takeaway dish called ‘Sexy Chips’. It is not immediately clear why they are particularly sexy.
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A blurred early‑morning London street scene viewed from the center of the road, with soft sunlight casting long shadows. Two men are passing each other in the middle-distance, their legs slightly blurred with motion.
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Not. Even. Four. Hours.
A sleep tracker screenshot.
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Saturday. Use your Freedom of Choice.
Two distant snaps of the mighty Devo at the O2
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Rehearsal evenings are good evenings.
A rehearsal space, with a whatever the collective noun for Marshall amps is, a guitar, a pedalboard and a large (and heavy) Roland Jazz Chorus amp.
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Spent my birthday book token wisely.
Two books: SIMON WILLIAMS
UP THE PACKET
ONE MAN'S CRISP ODYSSEY
and THE SMITHS
a novella
MICHAEL BRACEWELL
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