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Tim Ashley

@timashash.bsky.social

880 followers 201 following 1K posts

Writer, critic, gay, likes decadent French, German and Italian literature, can sometimes be found slouching around in leather. I live in Sussex by the sea. #TeamRacine #TeamFlaubert #TeamFranzWerfel

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Immersing myself in Liszt's Dante Symphony for a new Collection piece for Gramophone. It's a work I so love, and it's a joy and a privilege to be spending time with it.

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Spending some time with one of my very favourite operas for an Explorations piece for Gramophone Magazine

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

My first Gramophone Magazine Icons piece on the great Eleanor Steber (well, it would be, wouldn't it) is in the May issue, where you'll also find me writing about Joan Sutherland and Sondra Radvanovsky

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

It's been a long day, so it's time to curl up with Proust

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Sex, violence and the Trojan War. I have been spending time in the company of Hugo Wolf and Kleist for a Gramophone Magazine Explorations piece on Penthesiliea.

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Still can't quite get over the thrill of finally seeing my Gramophone Collection piece on Debussy's Le martyre de Saint Sébastien in print.

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

After the most wonderful lunch yesterday, at Strada at the South Bank in London.

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

As today is World Book Day, I'm combining work with pleasure and looking at this.

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Back from London, tired and half asleep .......

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

World AIDS Day. Recalling friends, lovers and colleagues who died, and the struggles people faced in the 80s and 90s. Always remember. One day, we will eradicate it.

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

My lovely new stripy beanie has just arrived from @beaniesmasato.bsky.social! Just the thing to keep me warm on wintry coastal walks and trips out. If you buy one, you know, they will donate another to someone homeless to keep them warm in winter, too. So please give them your support!

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 06/07/2024

At work, listening to Verdi'a Aida .......... 🎶😊

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

"C'était a Mégara, faubourg de Carthage, dans les jardins d'Hamilcar" A quiet evening in, reading Flaubert's Salammbô for the umpteen time. God, how I love this novel.

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

Thinking of my mum, who died ten years ago today. I still miss her terribly, though there are so many happy memories. She and I, meanwhile, in a café in Oxford, one of her favourite places, some time around 1990.

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

Have just found this going through a filing cabinet. Me in 1987, looking like something from a film by Jean-Luc Godard .......

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

Attempt at a self-portrait

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

Though famously rubbish at tech, I've been working out how to do photos on my laptop. So here is an attempt at a self-portrait .......

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