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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 7d

Looking forward to it, see you there

Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 8d

I saw The Loft earlier this year and they were fantastic. Looking forward to seeing them again tomorrow with The Wedding Present as I am also doing 1985/6

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 13d

Also surprised and disappointed that 80s guitar band The Waltones did not for once and all explain Ophelia's death and the ambiguities of Hamlet's behaviour

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 13d

As they say, late to this, but I wanted to read the book before the review. So just to say that Ian P has been one of my favourite music writers since the 80s NME days and @jonathancoe.bsky.social a favourite novelist since What a Carve Up Neither disappoint here.Lovely review of a fantastic book

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Aug 27

‘Ian Penman is perhaps the first person to make a point of placing Erik Satie’s humour in context, and to locate him in a tradition which includes not only Rabelais and Spike Milligan but also the likes of Ken Dodd and Les Dawson.’

@jonathancoe.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Jonathan Coe · Don’t we all want to be happy? Satie against Solemnity

Erik Satie is the progenitor of torch songs and lounge music, systems music and minimalism, even (with his later...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 14d

My nephew is starting at Oxford any day now, my brother sent me this link a few weeks ago when they had to buy his 'sub fusc' www.ox.ac.uk/students/aca...
Not an expression anyone in our family had come across before...

Academic dress | University of Oxford

Full academic dress should be worn at all formal University ceremonies including matriculation and degree ceremonies. Sub fusc (from the Latin sub fuscus meaning very dark) should be worn beneath

www.ox.ac.uk

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 15d

I've got Busman's Honeymoon you are welcome to if you can cover the postage. I probably won't read it again, just keeping it for the sake of completism!

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks, i think it was 2000, but just remember being so surprised they were here!

Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 19d

I can't find any evidence online so can't say when it was, but it wàs at Nottingham University and they were supported by Appendix Out which says something about the mix of musics around at that time.

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 19d

Really enjoyed this piece. We were lucky enough to see Rachel's doing Music for Egon Schieie live, and I love the early records in particular

Alex @alexdeller.bsky.social · 19d

Dug into the history of post-rock / chamber music act Rachel's with Rachel Grimes, Christian Frederickson, Will Oldham and Corey Rusk.

If you only read one article referencing both Squirrel Bait and Arvo Pärt this year, make it THIS one.

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

‘People seemed deeply insulted’: how cult 90s band Rachel’s took chamber music out of the classical world

The graceful ensemble prefigured the neo-classical phenomenon and found surprising success in the post-Nirvana alt-rock boom. After the deaths of two members, reissuing their debut has proven bittersw...

www.theguardian.com

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 23d

Great record

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 27d

And also possibly that people think that the most important thing here is 'drama' on 'social media' of any kind

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 29d

By giving him an omnibus in the Blandings list it's like they spun him off from the Blandings universe like a minor super hero or something

Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · 29d

Is Uncle Dynamite the same person? I haven't read it I don't think but my Uncle Fred has them both in the Blandings list, as well as an omnibus

A list of Published and forthcoming in Penguin titles from the front of a copy of Uncle Fred in the Springtime. Sections of Jeeves and Wooster, Life at Blandings, On golf and Mike and Psmith titles. Also 'Also:.

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · Sep 16

Sorry to have to go all toilet humour but here they would either throw it over the side gate or leave it on the doorstep and take a photo...

Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · Sep 16

I really enjoyed this. Partly for S L explaining to MP that he (MP) does actually have an obligation to do his job properly, but mostly because it reminded me that I don't listen to enough Derek Bailey

Peter Lythgoe @pjlythgoe.net · Sep 15

Great Lives:
Towards the end Stewart Lee explains to Mathew Parris why Parris is an ignorant buffoon (my words, not Stew's). Priceless.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Great Lives - Comedian Stewart Lee on Derek Bailey - BBC Sounds

Stewart Lee chooses guitarist Derek Bailey.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · Sep 13

She literally looks right through me

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · Aug 30

I once bought a book in Oxfam in Sherwood and brought it home, telling my wife that I had wanted to read it for ages. After a few pages I realised that not only had I read it, I had them donated it to Oxfam in Sherwood

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · Aug 29

AOTY?

Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thank you for sharing, these are all great but, as you say, Song to the Siren is just remarkable. Goosepimples!

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · Aug 29

I would suggest EM Delafield's Provincial Lady in Wartime. The first book in the series is definitely the best but they are all worth a read and this should tick some of your boxes?

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · Aug 28

Strongly recommend this if you haven't read it. Lots on Joe Meek

The Secret Public, how LGBTQ performers shaped popular culture 1955-1979 by Jon Savage

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · Aug 26

It's been a long time but my memory is 'unpleasant older bloke who is presumably a stand-in for Williams gets it on with a younger fantasy figure. In 'beautiful prose''

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · Aug 26

Sorry, just seen Stoner comments below...

Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · Aug 26

Any thoughts on Stoner? I hated it

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Jimmy Dean @jamesdean278.bsky.social · Aug 23

This is our cat listening to The Golden Age of Baroque