Jeremy Allen
@jeres.bsky.social
Record Collector, Prog, Electronic Sound, the Quietus, Classic Pop... others.
Author of Relax Baby Be Cool: the Artistry and Audacity of Serge Gainsbourg - out now on Jawbone Press
Author of Relax Baby Be Cool: the Artistry and Audacity of Serge Gainsbourg - out now on Jawbone Press
Introduce yourself with five apocalyptic horsemen:
War
Famine
Pestilence
Death
David Walliams
War
Famine
Pestilence
Death
David Walliams
November 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Introduce yourself with five apocalyptic horsemen:
War
Famine
Pestilence
Death
David Walliams
War
Famine
Pestilence
Death
David Walliams
The absolute relentlessness of Black Friday. Can I get an injunction? I'm being stalked by capitalism.
November 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The absolute relentlessness of Black Friday. Can I get an injunction? I'm being stalked by capitalism.
New research claims you don't have an adult brain until you're 32. Zarah Sultana turned 32 in October so they probably mean 32 and a bit.
November 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
New research claims you don't have an adult brain until you're 32. Zarah Sultana turned 32 in October so they probably mean 32 and a bit.
Introducing yourself with five gigs feels inadequate. In the early to mid 2000s I had a job at a music website and I pretty much went to see everything I could for three years and it was so hectic and so drunken that I can barely fucking remember any of it.
November 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Introducing yourself with five gigs feels inadequate. In the early to mid 2000s I had a job at a music website and I pretty much went to see everything I could for three years and it was so hectic and so drunken that I can barely fucking remember any of it.
Less discussed is the fact that François Ozon's films have a habit of being ponderous and underwelming or is it just me?
New film adaptation of Camus’s L’Étranger opens old colonial wounds
New film adaptation of Camus’s L’Étranger opens old colonial wounds
François Ozon’s handling of classic novel draws both praise and criticism, including from the author’s daughter
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Less discussed is the fact that François Ozon's films have a habit of being ponderous and underwelming or is it just me?
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Annual reminder to writers not to miss the end of November deadline to submit 2025 works to ALCS. Money for nothing, folks, the best sort.
November 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Annual reminder to writers not to miss the end of November deadline to submit 2025 works to ALCS. Money for nothing, folks, the best sort.
Hype is a funny thing isn't it? I put the Geese album on expecting to feel something though it's not necessarily Geese's fault that I didn't *grinds teeth and backlashes*
November 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Hype is a funny thing isn't it? I put the Geese album on expecting to feel something though it's not necessarily Geese's fault that I didn't *grinds teeth and backlashes*
I interviewed The Strokes by mistake after contacted them via their humble website at the time (PR? What's PR?)
November 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I interviewed The Strokes by mistake after contacted them via their humble website at the time (PR? What's PR?)
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'Before Aksak Maboul feels like the discovery of a residual tail, an essential part of the story that you didn’t even know existed, an extension of the label #Crammed as well'
Reissue of the Week: Before #AksakMaboul (Documents & Experiments 1969-1977)
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Reissue of the Week: Before #AksakMaboul (Documents & Experiments 1969-1977)
buff.ly/Q3LBS0Y
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
'Before Aksak Maboul feels like the discovery of a residual tail, an essential part of the story that you didn’t even know existed, an extension of the label #Crammed as well'
Reissue of the Week: Before #AksakMaboul (Documents & Experiments 1969-1977)
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Reissue of the Week: Before #AksakMaboul (Documents & Experiments 1969-1977)
buff.ly/Q3LBS0Y
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Jeremy Allen talks to Stephen Mallinder about The Cabs' first decade, the eternal struggle to find the right drum machine and inventing anti-fascist dance routines.
The Strange World Of… Early #CabaretVoltaire
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The Strange World Of… Early #CabaretVoltaire
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November 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Jeremy Allen talks to Stephen Mallinder about The Cabs' first decade, the eternal struggle to find the right drum machine and inventing anti-fascist dance routines.
The Strange World Of… Early #CabaretVoltaire
buff.ly/GphQnBX
The Strange World Of… Early #CabaretVoltaire
buff.ly/GphQnBX
Talking tracks with Stephen 'Mal' Mallinder for this Strange World piece for the Quietus. Can't wait to see them in Brighton on Saturday! thequietus.com/interviews/s...
The Strange World Of... Early Cabaret Voltaire | The Quietus
Stephen Mallinder on the first decade of the Cabs, creating anti-fascist dance routines and the search for the ultimate drum machine.
thequietus.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Talking tracks with Stephen 'Mal' Mallinder for this Strange World piece for the Quietus. Can't wait to see them in Brighton on Saturday! thequietus.com/interviews/s...
Amazing really that that AI-generated hit that everyone is getting worried about is basically a more shite Rag'n'Bone Man
November 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Amazing really that that AI-generated hit that everyone is getting worried about is basically a more shite Rag'n'Bone Man
This is an interesting idea. Always been a, erm, Macca backer, but Lennon is in the form of his life on The White Album and I'm not surprised it works together. The drugs did work (for a while at least).
Finally made separate playlists for Paul & John’s White Album songs. Result: I’m amazed anyone, including myself, was ever surprised by McCartney’s 70s LPs, because his WA songs are clearly a Wings album: bangers, pastiches, ballads, throwaways. As for Lennon’s, they make for his greatest LP ever.
November 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This is an interesting idea. Always been a, erm, Macca backer, but Lennon is in the form of his life on The White Album and I'm not surprised it works together. The drugs did work (for a while at least).
Finally got around to listening to Rosalía's new album and it's pretty special so far. Weird that it's been hyped as a classical album because it clearly isn't.
November 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Finally got around to listening to Rosalía's new album and it's pretty special so far. Weird that it's been hyped as a classical album because it clearly isn't.
The thing that's most vivid for me when remembering the events of Nov 13th 2015 is how dry my mouth was as we made our way home through the 11eme. I couldn't run as I'd just finished cancer treatment and each time we turned a corner we hoped we wouldn't come into contact with a kalashankof
November 13, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The thing that's most vivid for me when remembering the events of Nov 13th 2015 is how dry my mouth was as we made our way home through the 11eme. I couldn't run as I'd just finished cancer treatment and each time we turned a corner we hoped we wouldn't come into contact with a kalashankof
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I interviewed the awesome Roddy Bottum www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘I was the only out queer guy in rock’: Faith No More’s Roddy Bottum
The keyboard player on his heroin overdose, how Kurt Cobain wanted to be gay and why his memoir will ruin his Christian relatives’ Thanksgiving dinner
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I interviewed the awesome Roddy Bottum www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Weird how Keir Starmer used to be quite fit but now looks like an abscess in a shirt
November 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Weird how Keir Starmer used to be quite fit but now looks like an abscess in a shirt
#nowplaying Couldn't find this wonderful record when I was in France recently but I've managed to get hold of a reasonably priced one from Japan. Thanks Japan!
November 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
#nowplaying Couldn't find this wonderful record when I was in France recently but I've managed to get hold of a reasonably priced one from Japan. Thanks Japan!
The eldest used to be the world's biggest Dog Man fan. We just put the brand new book under his nose to surprise him and he grunted and went back to his video game 😭💔
November 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The eldest used to be the world's biggest Dog Man fan. We just put the brand new book under his nose to surprise him and he grunted and went back to his video game 😭💔
2025's biggest time killer is that new Instagram genre which started with footballers rating players against other players and has now descended to minor celebrities like Matt Forde rating their turds from the last fortnight. Utterly vapid and impossible not to watch to the end
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
2025's biggest time killer is that new Instagram genre which started with footballers rating players against other players and has now descended to minor celebrities like Matt Forde rating their turds from the last fortnight. Utterly vapid and impossible not to watch to the end
Can't beat a bit of Mick McCarthy's Bootleg Series
♪ #nowplaying Went To See The Gypsy (Alternate Version, New Morning) - Bob Dylan (Another Self Portrait (1969-1971) - The Bootleg Series/Vol.10 - 1970) https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Can't beat a bit of Mick McCarthy's Bootleg Series
I feel shaken. God I love it when music does that to you.
#CharliXCX and #JohnCale have released a video for gothic pop dirge belter ‘House’, written to appear on the soundtrack for Emerald Fennell’s forthcoming adaptation of Emily Brontē’s novel Wuthering Heights.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I feel shaken. God I love it when music does that to you.
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I don’t even think Otto is OTT in saying this. Farage consistently works against British interests, whether Brexit, Russia and praising Putin (including his mate being bribed by them) or now conspiring with a proto-fascist foreign moron to destroy a flawed yet still vital national institution
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I don’t even think Otto is OTT in saying this. Farage consistently works against British interests, whether Brexit, Russia and praising Putin (including his mate being bribed by them) or now conspiring with a proto-fascist foreign moron to destroy a flawed yet still vital national institution
Tosh Lines don’t do it
Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill
November 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Tosh Lines don’t do it