Peter Quantrill
@peterquantrill.bsky.social
Writing and talking about music. Cricket tragic.
What interests me is - is that the road to the Isle of Sheppey in the opening credits?
December 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
What interests me is - is that the road to the Isle of Sheppey in the opening credits?
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The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.”
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
December 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.”
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
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Wife: why do you have 8 cubes filled with ink?
Me: for eggs
Wife: why are you only putting eggs in the eighth cube?
Me: I am ink cube eighting them
Wife: ok, I need to explain something to you...
Me: for eggs
Wife: why are you only putting eggs in the eighth cube?
Me: I am ink cube eighting them
Wife: ok, I need to explain something to you...
December 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Wife: why do you have 8 cubes filled with ink?
Me: for eggs
Wife: why are you only putting eggs in the eighth cube?
Me: I am ink cube eighting them
Wife: ok, I need to explain something to you...
Me: for eggs
Wife: why are you only putting eggs in the eighth cube?
Me: I am ink cube eighting them
Wife: ok, I need to explain something to you...
Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's... but we're paddling in the shallows of KB's ignorance here.
November 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's... but we're paddling in the shallows of KB's ignorance here.
And Aus Licht was 2019. Dates never my strong suit.
November 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
And Aus Licht was 2019. Dates never my strong suit.
Ah, they were all formative experiences. The Bach was broadcast live on R3, so can in theory be re-lived...
November 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Ah, they were all formative experiences. The Bach was broadcast live on R3, so can in theory be re-lived...
1991 - Berg: Wozzeck, English National Opera
1995 - Mahler 9, BPO/Abbado, Proms
2001 - Bach: St Matthew Passion, Gloucester Cathedral, cond Sir Colin Davis
2008 - Wagner: Parsifal, Bayreuth Festival, dir Herheim, cond Gatti
2022 - Stockhausen: Aus Licht, Amsterdam
1995 - Mahler 9, BPO/Abbado, Proms
2001 - Bach: St Matthew Passion, Gloucester Cathedral, cond Sir Colin Davis
2008 - Wagner: Parsifal, Bayreuth Festival, dir Herheim, cond Gatti
2022 - Stockhausen: Aus Licht, Amsterdam
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
(Gonna try to do this as one per decade)
Metallica
Nirvana
LCD Soundsystem
Three Trapped Tigers
AK/DK
(Gonna try to do this as one per decade)
Metallica
Nirvana
LCD Soundsystem
Three Trapped Tigers
AK/DK
Adam Ant (with Marco)
Peaches
Bo Ningen
Bjork
Savages
Peaches
Bo Ningen
Bjork
Savages
November 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
1991 - Berg: Wozzeck, English National Opera
1995 - Mahler 9, BPO/Abbado, Proms
2001 - Bach: St Matthew Passion, Gloucester Cathedral, cond Sir Colin Davis
2008 - Wagner: Parsifal, Bayreuth Festival, dir Herheim, cond Gatti
2022 - Stockhausen: Aus Licht, Amsterdam
1995 - Mahler 9, BPO/Abbado, Proms
2001 - Bach: St Matthew Passion, Gloucester Cathedral, cond Sir Colin Davis
2008 - Wagner: Parsifal, Bayreuth Festival, dir Herheim, cond Gatti
2022 - Stockhausen: Aus Licht, Amsterdam
97 (I think) out of 100 made in English.
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 AM
97 (I think) out of 100 made in English.
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High performance: Kian Soltani on his Stradivari cello
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November 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
High performance: Kian Soltani on his Stradivari cello
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I know nothing about Dr Who, but, for Londoners, the phrase "Going For Dinner With Billie Piper" is the absolute best way to remember the order of the vertical streets running east to west in Soho (Greek, Frith, Dean, Wardour, Berwick, Poland) and has saved many a late night out
October 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I know nothing about Dr Who, but, for Londoners, the phrase "Going For Dinner With Billie Piper" is the absolute best way to remember the order of the vertical streets running east to west in Soho (Greek, Frith, Dean, Wardour, Berwick, Poland) and has saved many a late night out
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It is a little known fact that tonight's clock re-adjustment was pioneered by German-British artist Frank Auerbach, to the great dismay of the proponent of the original change, politician Konrad Adenauer
October 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
It is a little known fact that tonight's clock re-adjustment was pioneered by German-British artist Frank Auerbach, to the great dismay of the proponent of the original change, politician Konrad Adenauer
Two Nilssons for the price of one: my report @Bachtrack from the award of the Birgit Nilsson Prize to the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. 📸Maja Brandt
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October 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Two Nilssons for the price of one: my report @Bachtrack from the award of the Birgit Nilsson Prize to the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. 📸Maja Brandt
bachtrack.com/review-malkk...
bachtrack.com/review-malkk...
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October 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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STATLER; "This funeral is so boring, I'm jealous of the guy in the coffin! Ah ha ha ha ha!"
[Statler turns to the empty chair next to him and sheds one tear]
[Statler turns to the empty chair next to him and sheds one tear]
October 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
STATLER; "This funeral is so boring, I'm jealous of the guy in the coffin! Ah ha ha ha ha!"
[Statler turns to the empty chair next to him and sheds one tear]
[Statler turns to the empty chair next to him and sheds one tear]
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Choose life: Oramo's Mahler 9 leaves death for the last page
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October 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Choose life: Oramo's Mahler 9 leaves death for the last page
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Sakari Oramo guided the BBCSO through a life-affirming Mahler 9 at the Barbican on Saturday - my ★★★★ review for Bachtrack here:
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October 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Sakari Oramo guided the BBCSO through a life-affirming Mahler 9 at the Barbican on Saturday - my ★★★★ review for Bachtrack here:
bachtrack.com/22/296/view/...
bachtrack.com/22/296/view/...
But is it a constant? Feels like way more than 4% of people believe comparably crazy nonsense.
September 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
But is it a constant? Feels like way more than 4% of people believe comparably crazy nonsense.
Don't you think these replies fuse quite seamlessly with potential answers to the question, 'what's the most English-coded thing you actively love?' Now, as to why that is... [shuffles papers]
September 23, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Don't you think these replies fuse quite seamlessly with potential answers to the question, 'what's the most English-coded thing you actively love?' Now, as to why that is... [shuffles papers]
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September 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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After the rivers of blood speech, precisely no one in the major parties patted themselves on the back and declared free speech to be alive and well. They declared Powell a pariah, and he was only able to re-emerge in public life as the incongruous unionist MP for South Down.
Scale of ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march shows free speech ‘alive and well’ in UK, says minister – UK politics live
Scale of ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march shows free speech ‘alive and well’ in UK, says minister – UK politics live
Peter Kyle said he was not ‘disturbed’ by huge Tommy Robinson-organised far-right protest but condemns violence against the police
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September 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
After the rivers of blood speech, precisely no one in the major parties patted themselves on the back and declared free speech to be alive and well. They declared Powell a pariah, and he was only able to re-emerge in public life as the incongruous unionist MP for South Down.
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Bach on the street, Klimt in the forest: the Enescu Festival goes immersive
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September 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Bach on the street, Klimt in the forest: the Enescu Festival goes immersive
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In these sacred halls: a long Sunday at the George Enescu International Festival
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September 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
In these sacred halls: a long Sunday at the George Enescu International Festival
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Oliver Soden tried to get a copy of Virginia Woolf’s uncollected letters. It became a parable about money and the state of literary culture.
On not reviewing Virginia Woolf
Here’s what happened when I tried to get a copy of her uncollected letters. Consider it a parable about money and the state of literary culture
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August 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Oliver Soden tried to get a copy of Virginia Woolf’s uncollected letters. It became a parable about money and the state of literary culture.
I meet an old friend annually, and half the evening is occupied by quoting molesworth back to each other. the Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, mogley-howard one.
August 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I meet an old friend annually, and half the evening is occupied by quoting molesworth back to each other. the Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, mogley-howard one.