Jude Rogers
@juderogers.bsky.social
Arts journalist, author of The Sound Of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives, radio programme maker, public arts project leader. Join my Substack: juderogers dot substack dot com
I interviewed a Smith! About the band's rapid ascent (their hairdresser's sister was their audience in Feb 83; they sold out the Hacienda, and then some, in Nov), Sinead, Suede, his favourite Smiths cover, and the last time he saw Morrissey – in the last decade. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
The Smiths’ Mike Joyce: ‘I’m not on Morrissey’s Christmas card list’
The former bandmate of Morrissey and Johnny Marr has released his own memoir, ‘The Drums’, about the group’s giddy five-year lifespan. He speaks with Jude Rogers about the good times they had and thei...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I interviewed a Smith! About the band's rapid ascent (their hairdresser's sister was their audience in Feb 83; they sold out the Hacienda, and then some, in Nov), Sinead, Suede, his favourite Smiths cover, and the last time he saw Morrissey – in the last decade. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
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“Rude jokes cracking through the polite surface of people bring me joy”
In last week’s Q&A, @juderogers.bsky.social spoke to poet @holliemcnish.bsky.social about politics, parenthood and the enduring power of Dirty Dancing
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In last week’s Q&A, @juderogers.bsky.social spoke to poet @holliemcnish.bsky.social about politics, parenthood and the enduring power of Dirty Dancing
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October 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
“Rude jokes cracking through the polite surface of people bring me joy”
In last week’s Q&A, @juderogers.bsky.social spoke to poet @holliemcnish.bsky.social about politics, parenthood and the enduring power of Dirty Dancing
www.thenerve.news/p/poet-holli...
In last week’s Q&A, @juderogers.bsky.social spoke to poet @holliemcnish.bsky.social about politics, parenthood and the enduring power of Dirty Dancing
www.thenerve.news/p/poet-holli...
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#NowPlaying This is truly bizarre. For a very wet Monday. Mentioned by @juderogers.bsky.social, I think.
Stay Awake (Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films. 1988
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Stay Awake (Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films. 1988
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Stay Awake (Various Interpretations Of Music From Vintage Disney Films)
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October 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
#NowPlaying This is truly bizarre. For a very wet Monday. Mentioned by @juderogers.bsky.social, I think.
Stay Awake (Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films. 1988
open.spotify.com/album/48eR76...
Stay Awake (Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films. 1988
open.spotify.com/album/48eR76...
Folk and acoustic musicians! I'm excited to be part of a brilliant panel for this new folk album of the year prize, and am very heartened by everything @soundrootsuk.bsky.social are doing towards it. Entries are pouring in, but you can enter too. Read more here: www.soundroots.uk/folk-album-o...
Folk Album Of The Year Award 2025 | Sound Roots
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October 20, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Folk and acoustic musicians! I'm excited to be part of a brilliant panel for this new folk album of the year prize, and am very heartened by everything @soundrootsuk.bsky.social are doing towards it. Entries are pouring in, but you can enter too. Read more here: www.soundroots.uk/folk-album-o...
What's the best parent-child song of all time? Kathryn Williams' Sea Of Shadows, off her new LP, Mystery Park, is up there for me. A few others follow in the next post, as well as Michael Stipe & the Roches, Hollie McNish, Jerry Stiller taking his son to the Village Vanguard, Eno at 50 and more...
October 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM
What's the best parent-child song of all time? Kathryn Williams' Sea Of Shadows, off her new LP, Mystery Park, is up there for me. A few others follow in the next post, as well as Michael Stipe & the Roches, Hollie McNish, Jerry Stiller taking his son to the Village Vanguard, Eno at 50 and more...
Preach.
Why is this such a big deal in Wales? London has been 20 for ages and it's fine, a nice speed to drive at, you get used to it being the default so quickly & now I even find driving at 30 in other places too fast.
Caerphilly apparently. I honestly, honestly despise this stuff. They have nothing to offer, nothing to say, nothing to hope for, nothing to aspire to, no solutions, nothing. Just hate and lies.
October 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Preach.
This is incredible
The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
October 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This is incredible
Complicated Mercury Prize feelings as I love the winner (it made me weep on a mountain road in Powys the first time I heard it #perimenopause ) but am also full of the ire that MY FAVOURITE WAS ROBBED. (Also wish the show was live. We’re still on fka twigs.)
October 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Complicated Mercury Prize feelings as I love the winner (it made me weep on a mountain road in Powys the first time I heard it #perimenopause ) but am also full of the ire that MY FAVOURITE WAS ROBBED. (Also wish the show was live. We’re still on fka twigs.)
THIS
Indeed. How about a big expensive HB for those want them, PB published first — nowt worse than lugging a cumbersome brick-sized edition to bed/work/holiday. The most impractical format.
My strongest book-related belief is that the paperback should come first and then the hardback after for people who want a fancy edition.
October 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
THIS
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Look, subscribing to @thequietus.com is great thing made even better by @luketurner.bsky.social and @juderogers.bsky.social talking about Eno's Another Green World so entertainingly and eruditely. I'm going to listen to the album again today.
October 16, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Look, subscribing to @thequietus.com is great thing made even better by @luketurner.bsky.social and @juderogers.bsky.social talking about Eno's Another Green World so entertainingly and eruditely. I'm going to listen to the album again today.
Absolutely loved going deep on this gorgeous record for @thequietus.com with one of my favourite people, @luketurner.bsky.social – includes exciting chat about where the Oblique Strategies cards came from, being taught violin by John Cale's viola teacher & more thequietus.com/subscriber-a...
Low Culture Podcast: Brian Eno's Another Green World | The Quietus
In this week’s Low Culture Podcast, Luke Turner is once more joined by Jude Rogers for a chat about Brian Eno’s Another Green World. Released 50 years ago next month, this is the sound of Eno working ...
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October 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Absolutely loved going deep on this gorgeous record for @thequietus.com with one of my favourite people, @luketurner.bsky.social – includes exciting chat about where the Oblique Strategies cards came from, being taught violin by John Cale's viola teacher & more thequietus.com/subscriber-a...
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Brian Eno's Another Green World is a beautiful, tricksy album, summoning the wetlands of Suffolk and a playful yet melancholic childlike sensibility. A joy to speak to @juderogers.bsky.social about one of my favourite albums for tQ's Low Culture podcast:
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Low Culture Podcast: Brian Eno's Another Green World | The Quietus
In this week’s Low Culture Podcast, Luke Turner is once more joined by Jude Rogers for a chat about Brian Eno’s Another Green World. Released 50 years ago next month, this is the sound of Eno working ...
thequietus.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Brian Eno's Another Green World is a beautiful, tricksy album, summoning the wetlands of Suffolk and a playful yet melancholic childlike sensibility. A joy to speak to @juderogers.bsky.social about one of my favourite albums for tQ's Low Culture podcast:
thequietus.com/subscriber-a...
thequietus.com/subscriber-a...
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If you’re in or near Swansea, we’re doing this in Mumbles tomorrow night (Wed at 7pm, Mumbles Tabernacle). Come and see @juderogers.bsky.social talk to me about 80s pop history and my new book, #IntoTheGroove!
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October 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
If you’re in or near Swansea, we’re doing this in Mumbles tomorrow night (Wed at 7pm, Mumbles Tabernacle). Come and see @juderogers.bsky.social talk to me about 80s pop history and my new book, #IntoTheGroove!
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Sirom 5 star review in @theguardian.com and folk album of the month. You love to see it!
@juderogers.bsky.social being great as ever.
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@juderogers.bsky.social being great as ever.
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Širom: In the Wind of Night, Hard-Fallen Incantations Whisper review | Jude Rogers' folk album of the month
The Slovenian trio conjure strange beauty from a vast arsenal of global instruments in an album that hums, drones and dances with intense power
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October 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Sirom 5 star review in @theguardian.com and folk album of the month. You love to see it!
@juderogers.bsky.social being great as ever.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
@juderogers.bsky.social being great as ever.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
In this week’s Ten Sunday Spells: Gotham lullabies, typewriters through the ages, pub-side Sylvia Plath, rap, swearing and soaring in Cymraeg, and seeing yourself live online.
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10 Vocal Spells, 12 October 2025 (Wales and West Yorkshire edition)
Gotham lullabies, typewriters through the ages, pub-side Sylvia Plath, rap, swearing and soaring in Cymraeg, and seeing yourself live online
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October 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
In this week’s Ten Sunday Spells: Gotham lullabies, typewriters through the ages, pub-side Sylvia Plath, rap, swearing and soaring in Cymraeg, and seeing yourself live online.
juderogers.substack.com/p/10-vocal-s...
juderogers.substack.com/p/10-vocal-s...
Hi guys! Forgot to post this from the weekend, but you might find some interesting culture to entertain you here... juderogers.substack.com/p/10-cosy-sp...
10 Cosy Spells, 5 October 2025
Welsh music, a young Euros, Evan Griffith and Joanna, plus the magical combinations of Kathryn and Paul, Grace and Ciara, Kat and Lee, Marge and Barbara, Patricia and Alan
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October 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Hi guys! Forgot to post this from the weekend, but you might find some interesting culture to entertain you here... juderogers.substack.com/p/10-cosy-sp...
Danny Thompson pulling out pins, tales from a 1985 London Routemaster, Senator Redford, Weirdshire magic, Welsh girls and toddler poets in this week's Sbstck x
September 29, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Danny Thompson pulling out pins, tales from a 1985 London Routemaster, Senator Redford, Weirdshire magic, Welsh girls and toddler poets in this week's Sbstck x
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This week I need to speak to building safety experts about high rise development. Looking for a chat tomorrow morning, ideally. If that’s you, give me a shout #ukhousing #socialhousing #BSR
September 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This week I need to speak to building safety experts about high rise development. Looking for a chat tomorrow morning, ideally. If that’s you, give me a shout #ukhousing #socialhousing #BSR
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Tell. Me. Something. I. Didn’t. Know.
Please.
(Ps: private school kids are not ‘middle class’, they’re from highly relatively wealthy backgrounds)
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Please.
(Ps: private school kids are not ‘middle class’, they’re from highly relatively wealthy backgrounds)
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Opinion | This news just in: we hoped the middle- and upper-class capture of the media would lessen. It’s got worse — The Guardian
Since our last survey, we find more columnists, podcasters and executives are from privileged backgrounds. That’s too narrow a segment of society, says Carl Cullinane, director of research and policy ...
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September 18, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Tell. Me. Something. I. Didn’t. Know.
Please.
(Ps: private school kids are not ‘middle class’, they’re from highly relatively wealthy backgrounds)
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Please.
(Ps: private school kids are not ‘middle class’, they’re from highly relatively wealthy backgrounds)
apple.news/A21X4S5iwROq...
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A joy to discuss Withnail & I with @juderogers.bsky.social for tQ's pod: masculinity, the complexity of Uncle Monty, the lie of the Nature Cure, the grim 90s & how the film is relevant today in our age of oomska, still "shat on by Tories, shovelled up by Labour..."
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Low Culture Podcast: Withnail & I | The Quietus
With John away, Luke gave tQ regular and all-round excellent scribe Jude Rogers a shout to see if she’d be up for coming on a special edition of the Low Culture podcast about Withnail & I, Bruce Robin...
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September 18, 2025 at 8:29 AM
A joy to discuss Withnail & I with @juderogers.bsky.social for tQ's pod: masculinity, the complexity of Uncle Monty, the lie of the Nature Cure, the grim 90s & how the film is relevant today in our age of oomska, still "shat on by Tories, shovelled up by Labour..."
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Jury announced for @soundrootsuk.bsky.social The Folk Album of the Year Award
@markradcliffe.bsky.social @juderogers.bsky.social Georgia Ruth, @robcowen.bsky.social John McCusker, @lynettefay.bsky.social Anna Massie, Philip King, Sam Hindley, Jo Frost, Alexandria Car and Becky Marshall-Potter.
@markradcliffe.bsky.social @juderogers.bsky.social Georgia Ruth, @robcowen.bsky.social John McCusker, @lynettefay.bsky.social Anna Massie, Philip King, Sam Hindley, Jo Frost, Alexandria Car and Becky Marshall-Potter.
September 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Jury announced for @soundrootsuk.bsky.social The Folk Album of the Year Award
@markradcliffe.bsky.social @juderogers.bsky.social Georgia Ruth, @robcowen.bsky.social John McCusker, @lynettefay.bsky.social Anna Massie, Philip King, Sam Hindley, Jo Frost, Alexandria Car and Becky Marshall-Potter.
@markradcliffe.bsky.social @juderogers.bsky.social Georgia Ruth, @robcowen.bsky.social John McCusker, @lynettefay.bsky.social Anna Massie, Philip King, Sam Hindley, Jo Frost, Alexandria Car and Becky Marshall-Potter.
Joan Bakewell in full tweeds, the best folk performance I've seen in years (it's from 1995), CMAT <3s Pentangle and Leonard Cohen book covers...I do this once a week to keep a diary of Nice Things and you might like it. juderogers.substack.com/p/10-returni...
10 Returning Spells
Joan Bakewell in full tweeds, the real Withnail on screen, CMAT loves Pentangle, Leonard Cohen's poetry designs and the joy of all-women Bandsplaining
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September 15, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Joan Bakewell in full tweeds, the best folk performance I've seen in years (it's from 1995), CMAT <3s Pentangle and Leonard Cohen book covers...I do this once a week to keep a diary of Nice Things and you might like it. juderogers.substack.com/p/10-returni...
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Sunday reading: the songwriting methods of the Manics, and @keithcameron2.bsky.social’s book on their back catalogue is a terrific achievement. A pleasure to see him and @juderogers.bsky.social in conversation in Swansea on Thursday. @covertocover.bsky.social
September 14, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Sunday reading: the songwriting methods of the Manics, and @keithcameron2.bsky.social’s book on their back catalogue is a terrific achievement. A pleasure to see him and @juderogers.bsky.social in conversation in Swansea on Thursday. @covertocover.bsky.social
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Just had a lovely hour speaking to @juderogers.bsky.social for the next Quietus Low Culture Podcast. Here's a clue as to the subject:
September 9, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Just had a lovely hour speaking to @juderogers.bsky.social for the next Quietus Low Culture Podcast. Here's a clue as to the subject:
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This is a great Sunday read from @juderogers.bsky.social #tigerbay 🫖
"We went away to the Forest Of Dean with a pile of folk records for a lyric-writing retreat. We thought we’d picked an obscure place, but there was a visitor’s book, and the last person who’d stayed was Bill Drummond."
‘Like A Motorway’ from Tiger Bay (1994) - #SaintEtienne
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‘Like A Motorway’ from Tiger Bay (1994) - #SaintEtienne
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September 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM
This is a great Sunday read from @juderogers.bsky.social #tigerbay 🫖