Robin Allender

I absolutely love the photos in this. www.londoncentric.media/p/oxford-str...

About halfway through this as life keeps interrupting my reading, but, it's sent me into a deep trawl of @theclientele.bsky.social Not that I'm ever far away from that anyway. And much like @robinallender.bsky.social's wonderful podcast, it's making me love them even more, if that's possible...💙

Trump Slams The Beauty Of A Lotus Flower In Scathing Truth Social Haiku

Sort of fascinated with Rick Beato’s descent into constant moaning about popular music, a man of constant sorrow because e.g. Drake isn’t making music that sound like Keith Jarrett’s European quartet

I feel like people say ‘midwest emo’ when they just mean ‘clean guitar tone’ these days

Haunted by two ghosts.

What's the consensus on using Logic Pro Drummer (and other session players) in your music? I feel like it's not AI, it's more algorithmic, something like a sophisticated sequencer. But it's a grey area. Interested in @gralefrit.bsky.social's thoughts on the matter!

A Jerusalem-esque serendipitous confluence (or just a coincidence) as I put on this month’s Allender Calendar podcast which is an interview with someone from Northampton and @robinallender.bsky.social’s first question is ‘you ever see Alan Moore knocking about?’

Just saw a poster in a barber’s window that said ‘What happens at the barbershop stays at the barbershop’ – does rather make it sound like you might end up shagging your barber

Three albums I’m really enjoying at the moment: Navigator - RAP Autosmile - @ Spacious Heart - Anthony Calonico Something dystopian, something strange, something smooth

Finally, a good news story.

A friend reminded me that Amol Rajan once did one of those ‘day in the life’ profiles for a weekend paper, and he said he liked to go to a local bar who did a good rum punch, and it turned out it was a branch of Turtle Bay

Imagine if the Ali G film is a poignant exploration of memory and loss

Fair play to the lads in front of me on this train, they’re making their way through a bottle of Jägermeister but they’re talking very quietly and politely

Today's mood music for writing was this by @robinallender.bsky.social robinallender.bandcamp.com/track/hawaii-2

a field guide to Skarsgårds: if silver fox he be, that's Stellan you see unsettling but hot, Alexander you've got only dread doth you fill, then behold, that is Bill

I thought I had at least passing familiarity with conspiracy theories until the man sitting next to me at the Lebanon, OH Skyline told me “space ain’t real.” “What do you think is between us and the moon?” an employee asked. The man seemed to think about this for a moment. “The moon…is with us.”

New podcast out today! And it’s a chat with Jake Crawford, singer and guitarist with the fantastic metal band unpeople, whose debut album, we are unpeople, is out today! podfollow.com/1765567936

Another John Piper scarecrow photograph.

Pitchfork review of the new Teenage Fanclub album mentions an ‘overdetermined major 7th to cue the final chorus’ on the first song. Just had a listen and it’s a dominant 7th. Tut tut!

I’m a bloke cycling down a quiet street with my mate. Are we having a shouted conversation? You bet your ass!!

Where I can watch that video someone made of a view out of a train window soundtracked by a Sandy Denny album? Not on YouTube, maybe it was a twitter thing? @andrewmale.bsky.social ?

New podcast out today! And it’s a chat with Jake Crawford, singer and guitarist with the fantastic metal band unpeople, whose debut album, we are unpeople, is out today! podfollow.com/1765567936

An absolutely brilliant book, and no longer in print!

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

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.

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

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

Morning Mist Autumn, Isleworth: watercolour and pencil

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

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...

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...

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

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

BLOG POST: It's about The Beatles. precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/09/05/t...

"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.

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