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TV pitch: First Dates but they're all eating crab 🦀

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I confess I initially read that as Prokofiev stipulated all the double basses physically removed the top G string. Which would have been AMAZING

And Ustvolskaya. Who had no reason to score giant wooden boxes, piccolo and tuba trios, massed bassoons and double basses, and encourage solo pianist to slam their entire forearm into the keys...but did it because she Just Wanted To.

It's even madder than you initially imagine. I'm a Soviet music nerd and had never heard of it till today

Lads: FOUR PIANOS AND EIGHT HARPS. DOUBLE BASSES WITH STRINGS MISSING. BELLS. Musically it's part film music, part grotesquerie, part official hymn, part circus polka. A gigantic mess, and a riveting one. And also: kind of grim.

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Steven Rajam @stevenrajam.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Everyone has a memorable day when they hear Prokofiev's utterly batshit Ode To The End Of The War for the first time. Today is mine. Let it soon be yours.

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What's an example of perfect casting?

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Steven Rajam @stevenrajam.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Everybody talk about / Rob Brydon

Steven Rajam @stevenrajam.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Yes, their name means "Ana Electric Chicken" 🐔

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Steven Rajam @stevenrajam.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Me, approx 45 mins ago: Oh, Ana Frango Eletrico look good, I should probably check them out Me, now: I WOULD DIE FOR THIS BAND #greenman26

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Steven Rajam @stevenrajam.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'd take John Williams'main theme of Superman over Star Wars any day (Not E.T. though)

Steven Rajam @stevenrajam.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Dances alarmingly close and past all eight, fires it in the top corner

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Steven Rajam @stevenrajam.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm still fond of a gag you made on Twitter years before we worked together, which had the punchline "look it up on KikiDeedia". When I retweeted it a year or two later you were flabbergasted and replied "that's a good joke. I need to remember that".

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Steven Rajam @stevenrajam.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Did I ever tell you about the early 80s episode of Wogan where - no word of a lie - Tippett is a guest alongside George Michael and at one point plucks GM's cowboy hat and puts it on? Glorious.

MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Reposted by Steven Rajam

It does make me laugh when I open a pdf invoice from, say, the window cleaner and I'm offered this option by Acrobat

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Steven Rajam @stevenrajam.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

How the heck has there been no good new recording of the Tippett Concerto for Double String Orchestra for the best part of three decades???

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Steven Rajam @stevenrajam.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Fun fact: the indie rocker Jake Bugg is actually a 17th century Genoese merchant called Jacopo Bugliardi

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Steven Rajam @stevenrajam.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Normal brain: Clicky Ponting Galaxy Brain: Angelo Snapthews

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Steven Rajam @stevenrajam.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I don't want to raise hopes, and I'm definitely not a Labour voter, but to be fair, the current MP in charge of AI, Kanishka Narayan, is a thoughtful, smart guy and he takes his brief really seriously; I certainly don't think he exists to be a cheerleader. Hoping he gets the role.

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Steven Rajam @stevenrajam.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

If what I think is happening, is happening (crash zoom) It better not be

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Steven Rajam @stevenrajam.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I see Arthur Fery won at #Wimbledon. Seems he was born in France and then moved to the UK. Spose you could call him a CROSS-CHANNEL ARTHUR

Steven Rajam @stevenrajam.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

One nip round the corner to get some photobooth pics done and I was sorted for another 10 years. Liberté, efficiencé, practicalité

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Steven Rajam @stevenrajam.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I recently went to the French consulate to get my daughter's done (we're dual nationals). Showing my own passport as ID, the guy said "oh, you know yours is expiring in December", to which I said "ah, yeah, I spotted that, never mind, I'll come back". "Don't be silly" he says, "I'll sort that now"

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Steven Rajam @stevenrajam.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

James's point about models and speed is really pertinent. I use ChatGPT pretty exclusively on 5.5 Thinking, and use the photo and voice tools a lot. It's a staggeringly useful realtime research tool. I'm not particularly interested in what it can create, but what it assists in is game-changing.

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Steven Rajam @stevenrajam.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Amidst all the "AI is unremittingly awful and unreliable and will eat our faces" takes on BlueSky, I enjoyed this a lot. It mirrors my experience pretty closely. takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/how-ai-has...

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk

How AI has made my life better

And why is my experience so different to everyone else?

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Steven Rajam @stevenrajam.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Ok what if we made Vozinha Prime Minister

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Steven Rajam @stevenrajam.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

An absolute joy to work with @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social, my old uni prof Marina Frolova-Walker and producer James on this fabulous series. Keep listening, it's ace.