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
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.
buff.ly/wjVwAD6
buff.ly/wjVwAD6
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
Football is a strange land where one's moral compass is rendered inoperative. But even for a game that prizes a man like Gianni Infantino, the unconcerned shrugging that greets Man City's ownership is astonishing. A very necessary piece from Barney Ronay here www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?
Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protests
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Football is a strange land where one's moral compass is rendered inoperative. But even for a game that prizes a man like Gianni Infantino, the unconcerned shrugging that greets Man City's ownership is astonishing. A very necessary piece from Barney Ronay here www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Elon Musk’s legacy
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Elon Musk’s legacy
Popped along to the V&A East storehouse for a rummage through Bowie's stuff. Most jarring was the Who Inspires You? section where patrons are invited to answer the question and some numbnuts scrawled down "Weller & Farage".
November 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Popped along to the V&A East storehouse for a rummage through Bowie's stuff. Most jarring was the Who Inspires You? section where patrons are invited to answer the question and some numbnuts scrawled down "Weller & Farage".
Arise Sir David, who washed the Qataris' sins away with a multi-million endorsement deal. They've also spent untold billions on UK manufactured weapons so that OBE was never going to be sufficient.
November 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Arise Sir David, who washed the Qataris' sins away with a multi-million endorsement deal. They've also spent untold billions on UK manufactured weapons so that OBE was never going to be sufficient.
Woke up in a cold sweat this morning having dreamt I'd missed the ALCS* deadline. It's Nov 30th. Get ready, kids.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Woke up in a cold sweat this morning having dreamt I'd missed the ALCS* deadline. It's Nov 30th. Get ready, kids.
*This post was brought to you by freelance writers talking niche bollocks
*This post was brought to you by freelance writers talking niche bollocks
The heroic Roddy Bottum and me looking like the poster from Straw Dogs, after a fine natter at Resident Music in Brighton. His often eye-popping memoir The Royal We is out via Jawbone Nov 7
November 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The heroic Roddy Bottum and me looking like the poster from Straw Dogs, after a fine natter at Resident Music in Brighton. His often eye-popping memoir The Royal We is out via Jawbone Nov 7
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@jeres.bsky.social There should be a sitcom where these two guys live in a flat together doing loads of speed and lager, shouting about Prince and losing their minds.
November 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
@jeres.bsky.social There should be a sitcom where these two guys live in a flat together doing loads of speed and lager, shouting about Prince and losing their minds.
A Companion for the Spaces Between Dreams by Jamie Lidell and Luke Schneider is definitely one of my AOTY, and maybe one of the best ambient albums I've listened to in about five years #nowplaying
November 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
A Companion for the Spaces Between Dreams by Jamie Lidell and Luke Schneider is definitely one of my AOTY, and maybe one of the best ambient albums I've listened to in about five years #nowplaying
Has anyone here tried using their EE phone abroad lately? Seems like they couldn't have made it any more difficult or any less exploitative since Brexit. Absolute fuckers.
October 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Has anyone here tried using their EE phone abroad lately? Seems like they couldn't have made it any more difficult or any less exploitative since Brexit. Absolute fuckers.
Good to see a new film about an art heist. Such a rarity these days.
October 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Good to see a new film about an art heist. Such a rarity these days.
Duolingo's video call feature with a teenage girl is extremely weird. The AI Lily just terminated the conversation because I said I liked concerts. I looked at the transcript afterwards and it picked up "J'aime les cons" or I like dicks 🤦
October 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Duolingo's video call feature with a teenage girl is extremely weird. The AI Lily just terminated the conversation because I said I liked concerts. I looked at the transcript afterwards and it picked up "J'aime les cons" or I like dicks 🤦
The leaf blower, the toriest of all the garden tools
October 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
The leaf blower, the toriest of all the garden tools
We all got tickets then? I have to say I'm peeing my pants with excitement *pretends to be cool*
October 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
We all got tickets then? I have to say I'm peeing my pants with excitement *pretends to be cool*
It's National Album Day and I don't know what that means! But just in case, here's me holding up Peter Hammill's rollicking Fool's Mate as my 8yo son takes a wonky photograph
October 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
It's National Album Day and I don't know what that means! But just in case, here's me holding up Peter Hammill's rollicking Fool's Mate as my 8yo son takes a wonky photograph
Genuinely moving. Amidst the fetid discourse and insanity, Polanski really does appear to be a breath of fresh air.
October 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Genuinely moving. Amidst the fetid discourse and insanity, Polanski really does appear to be a breath of fresh air.