Andrew Male
@andrewmale.bsky.social
Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist. Cultivating the echo chamber since 2011.
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I persistently plug these because they take time to do, both for me and the guests, so do share and tell people about it if you like it. The aim is to make a quality long read each week. Thanks. #FirstLastAnything
NEW! #FirstLastAnything Ep 32: We are back each Sunday, till Christmas, and my guest today - versatile and fascinating music writer and musician Joanna Wyld (@joannawyld.bsky.social) - talks about bellringing, Queen, liner notes, Molly Drake and much more. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/09/f...
FLA 32: Joanna Wyld (09/11/2025)
Of all the guests I’ve had on First Last Anything so far, Kent-born Joanna Wyld might have worn the most musical hats. Writer, musician, composer, librettist, teacher and administrator, she’s playe…
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November 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I persistently plug these because they take time to do, both for me and the guests, so do share and tell people about it if you like it. The aim is to make a quality long read each week. Thanks. #FirstLastAnything
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Have you ever seen a cooler book?
November 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Have you ever seen a cooler book?
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I really loved making this episode and I am an Outline sceptic. Reading, researching, thinking, reconsidering and (especially) talking about Rachel Cusk, her work and the success of these novels, was educational, therapeutic and very enjoyable. Whether or not I changed my mind is largely irrelevant.
New episode up now. Transit by Rachel Cusk, and the Outline trilogy as a whole, discussed by Andy, Una and Nicky. @iammilliam.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @birchos.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1c43...
Transit and the Outline Trilogy by Rachel Cusk
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November 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
I really loved making this episode and I am an Outline sceptic. Reading, researching, thinking, reconsidering and (especially) talking about Rachel Cusk, her work and the success of these novels, was educational, therapeutic and very enjoyable. Whether or not I changed my mind is largely irrelevant.
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Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
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I think this is a US-only release, but the group was so poorly served album wise it’s clearly their greatest. My copy had marks I made next to each of the cuts: Clapton, Beck,Page.
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I think this is a US-only release, but the group was so poorly served album wise it’s clearly their greatest. My copy had marks I made next to each of the cuts: Clapton, Beck,Page.
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I've had people tell me they used to go to these, and I've been so envious.
Good God, someone's just uploaded to YouTube a nearly 2-hour long video of one of the original Vic Reeves Big Night Out live shows at the Albany Empire from 1989. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKPU...
Vic Reeves Big Night Out - 30 April 1989
YouTube video by Peter Brooke Turner
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November 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I've had people tell me they used to go to these, and I've been so envious.
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It’s Claude Rains’ birthday
Do yourself a favour and watch James Whale’s The Invisible Man.
The sfx still hold up admirably but the greatest special effect is Rains’ truly demented & disturbing performance as Jack Griffin, relying almost totally on that wonderful voice…
youtu.be/KXMOURHEMpY?...
Do yourself a favour and watch James Whale’s The Invisible Man.
The sfx still hold up admirably but the greatest special effect is Rains’ truly demented & disturbing performance as Jack Griffin, relying almost totally on that wonderful voice…
youtu.be/KXMOURHEMpY?...
The Invisible Man (1933) - I'll Show You Who I Am Scene (1/10) | Movieclips
YouTube video by Movieclips
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November 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
It’s Claude Rains’ birthday
Do yourself a favour and watch James Whale’s The Invisible Man.
The sfx still hold up admirably but the greatest special effect is Rains’ truly demented & disturbing performance as Jack Griffin, relying almost totally on that wonderful voice…
youtu.be/KXMOURHEMpY?...
Do yourself a favour and watch James Whale’s The Invisible Man.
The sfx still hold up admirably but the greatest special effect is Rains’ truly demented & disturbing performance as Jack Griffin, relying almost totally on that wonderful voice…
youtu.be/KXMOURHEMpY?...
This was a very enjoyable thread.
#NowPlaying Reply with a shoddy compilation that’s also the artist/group’s best album.
November 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This was a very enjoyable thread.
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TBH as usual the answer's probably The Beach Boys, heartbreaking music shoved onto cheap vinyl with a shonky cover
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
TBH as usual the answer's probably The Beach Boys, heartbreaking music shoved onto cheap vinyl with a shonky cover
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Two for the price of one in terms of shoddiness, especially the cover of the one on the right (at least the first one has a cool RSG photo) but together they have all the Kinks stuff you could possibly need. My mid-80s primers
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Two for the price of one in terms of shoddiness, especially the cover of the one on the right (at least the first one has a cool RSG photo) but together they have all the Kinks stuff you could possibly need. My mid-80s primers
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Just gonna leave this here.
*runs away and hides forever
*runs away and hides forever
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Just gonna leave this here.
*runs away and hides forever
*runs away and hides forever
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My introduction to the Kinks. Cheap as chips, all the hits.
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My introduction to the Kinks. Cheap as chips, all the hits.
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This one has merit, too. For a ling time the only way I could access the pre-pub version of the band.
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This one has merit, too. For a ling time the only way I could access the pre-pub version of the band.
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Definitely shoddy (hour-long on vinyl means sound quality challenged at times) but all the hits.
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Definitely shoddy (hour-long on vinyl means sound quality challenged at times) but all the hits.
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About 90% of Small Faces records are shoddy compliations, of course. But this was my first contact with them, age 16. It was a cassette. It was perfect.
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
About 90% of Small Faces records are shoddy compliations, of course. But this was my first contact with them, age 16. It was a cassette. It was perfect.
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Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
WASHINGTON—Having thus far caved on eliminating the filibuster, advancing an adequate climate change agenda, and protecting voting rights, congressional Democrats told reporters Wednesday they were si...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
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This weird (bootleg?) Spanish Velvet Underground comp has the most demented/brilliant track sequencing I have ever seen in my life.
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This weird (bootleg?) Spanish Velvet Underground comp has the most demented/brilliant track sequencing I have ever seen in my life.
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I mean, I don't know if shoddy's the word but how many singles comps come with an f-bomb laden live album
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I mean, I don't know if shoddy's the word but how many singles comps come with an f-bomb laden live album
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Minimal packaging. A tracklisting which makes perfect sense on the first side then appears to have been put together by throwing everything into the air for the other three sides. Somehow though... everything works. It's what I bought first, it's what I fell in love with.
November 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Minimal packaging. A tracklisting which makes perfect sense on the first side then appears to have been put together by throwing everything into the air for the other three sides. Somehow though... everything works. It's what I bought first, it's what I fell in love with.