Alan Pedder
@neverdoneing.bsky.social
Freelance hat stand
Writer/features ed @ thelineofbestfit.com
Newshound @ theneedledrop.com
Mostly found in rural Sweden
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Writer/features ed @ thelineofbestfit.com
Newshound @ theneedledrop.com
Mostly found in rural Sweden
alanthology.com // 🇸🇪🏳️🌈🐕🇵🇸🇱🇧 (he/him)
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November 13, 2025 at 9:08 AM
If you enjoyed some, all, or one bit of that then make sure you subscribe to our email newsletter The Tonic, to get the latest highlights from our Magazine, and some archive gems, direct to your inbox every month.
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Some recent pieces from the @southbankcentre.bsky.social Magazine that you might enjoy...
Firstly, for this month's long read, @neverdoneing.bsky.social spoke with one of our newest Resident Artists, Alisa Weilerstein about her very musical upbringing and expanding the cello repertoire
Firstly, for this month's long read, @neverdoneing.bsky.social spoke with one of our newest Resident Artists, Alisa Weilerstein about her very musical upbringing and expanding the cello repertoire
Alisa Weilerstein: 'We're taught that context is everything; why can't we just skip that and listen?' | Southbank Centre
Cellist Alisa Weilerstein discusses her musical upbringing, expanding the repertoire and the 'great equaliser' of classical music out of context.
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Some recent pieces from the @southbankcentre.bsky.social Magazine that you might enjoy...
Firstly, for this month's long read, @neverdoneing.bsky.social spoke with one of our newest Resident Artists, Alisa Weilerstein about her very musical upbringing and expanding the cello repertoire
Firstly, for this month's long read, @neverdoneing.bsky.social spoke with one of our newest Resident Artists, Alisa Weilerstein about her very musical upbringing and expanding the cello repertoire
I met up with Austra in Toronto recently to chat alter egos, heartbreak and being unhinged ahead of the new album Chin Up Buttercup, out tomorrow 🎈
Austra: "Being able to actually laugh at myself and my extreme emotions has been really fun to work with" | Interview
Katie Stelmanis tells BEST FIT how learning to laugh at herself was the key to making Chin Up Buttercup, a breakup album unlike any other.
www.thelineofbestfit.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I met up with Austra in Toronto recently to chat alter egos, heartbreak and being unhinged ahead of the new album Chin Up Buttercup, out tomorrow 🎈
I also wrote a longish read on the seriously impressive cellist Alisa Weilerstein for Southbank Centre Magazine 💛 Alisa is a Resident Artist for the season and her next performance is on 30th November.
Alisa Weilerstein: 'We're taught that context is everything; why can't we just skip that and listen?' | Southbank Centre
Cellist Alisa Weilerstein discusses her musical upbringing, expanding the repertoire and the 'great equaliser' of classical music out of context.
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I also wrote a longish read on the seriously impressive cellist Alisa Weilerstein for Southbank Centre Magazine 💛 Alisa is a Resident Artist for the season and her next performance is on 30th November.
This week’s @thelineofbestfit.com cover story is a deep dive from me into the life and work of bassoonist, composer, and producer Joy Guidry. She’s playing London Jazz Festival on the 19th, at Union Chapel, and it’s gonna be pure bliss 💙
Joy Guidry: "I can love music again, not just in my head but in reality" | Interview
Entering a new decade of life, bassoonist, composer, and producer Joy Guidry is pushing forward with unfiltered honesty and honouring how far she’s come.
www.thelineofbestfit.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
This week’s @thelineofbestfit.com cover story is a deep dive from me into the life and work of bassoonist, composer, and producer Joy Guidry. She’s playing London Jazz Festival on the 19th, at Union Chapel, and it’s gonna be pure bliss 💙
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Zohran Mamdani in New York
Catherine Connolly in Ireland
Rob Jetten in the Netherlands
Plaid Cymru in Caerphilly
The rise of the far right is not inevitable.
If we work together, we can dare to hope.
Catherine Connolly in Ireland
Rob Jetten in the Netherlands
Plaid Cymru in Caerphilly
The rise of the far right is not inevitable.
If we work together, we can dare to hope.
November 5, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Zohran Mamdani in New York
Catherine Connolly in Ireland
Rob Jetten in the Netherlands
Plaid Cymru in Caerphilly
The rise of the far right is not inevitable.
If we work together, we can dare to hope.
Catherine Connolly in Ireland
Rob Jetten in the Netherlands
Plaid Cymru in Caerphilly
The rise of the far right is not inevitable.
If we work together, we can dare to hope.
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All of this is so deeply disgusting and wrong.
Nigel Newton, CEO of Bloomsbury, telling us why AI is good for publishing with this fun caveat: “We are programmed deep in our DNA to be comforted by the authority and the reliability of big brand names, & that applies more than ever to the names of big writers."
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief
Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
All of this is so deeply disgusting and wrong.
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Every once in a while I feel a little adrift—until I remember to check the extremely normal covers of My Life, My Way, a Japanese gay magazine published from 1977-1982.
October 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Every once in a while I feel a little adrift—until I remember to check the extremely normal covers of My Life, My Way, a Japanese gay magazine published from 1977-1982.
Me and my dog took the train to Gothenburg earlier this month to meet Anna von Hausswolff, and today our cover story is live 🖤
ICONOCLASTS out this Friday on @year0001.bsky.social
www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/int...
ICONOCLASTS out this Friday on @year0001.bsky.social
www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/int...
October 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Me and my dog took the train to Gothenburg earlier this month to meet Anna von Hausswolff, and today our cover story is live 🖤
ICONOCLASTS out this Friday on @year0001.bsky.social
www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/int...
ICONOCLASTS out this Friday on @year0001.bsky.social
www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/int...
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“Art should be allowed to not always play by the rules”: Swedish musician and composer Anna von Hausswolff found kindred spirits in rebels + disruptors to create her most urgent work yet, she tells @neverdoneing.bsky.social for this week's cover story.
Anna von Hausswolff: “Art should be allowed to not always play by the rules” | Interview
How Swedish musician and composer Anna von Hausswolff found kindred spirits in rebels and disruptors to create her most urgent work yet.
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October 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
“Art should be allowed to not always play by the rules”: Swedish musician and composer Anna von Hausswolff found kindred spirits in rebels + disruptors to create her most urgent work yet, she tells @neverdoneing.bsky.social for this week's cover story.
A bit of recent work for the Southbank Centre. Sean’s residency starts there this coming Saturday 🎸
Sean Shibe: 'Maybe there is a bit of clownery to what I'm doing, but I'm totally serious about it' | Southbank Centre
An in-depth interview with guitarist Sean Shibe who talks dedication, dignity, and weight of expectation as he becomes one of our Resident Artists.
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
A bit of recent work for the Southbank Centre. Sean’s residency starts there this coming Saturday 🎸
Michelangelo Dying is an AOTY contender for me so I’m thrilled to share this interview with Cate, with a brand new shoot by H.Hawkline ✨🏴✨
The ambiguous unburdening of Cate Le Bon | Interview
In surrendering reluctantly to heartache, Welsh artist and producer Cate Le Bon has struck a pearly and holistic balance between rupture and renewal.
www.thelineofbestfit.com
September 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Michelangelo Dying is an AOTY contender for me so I’m thrilled to share this interview with Cate, with a brand new shoot by H.Hawkline ✨🏴✨
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"You have to learn how to put painful things down in a way that's healing and nourishing": In surrendering to heartache, Welsh artist and producer Cate Le Bon has struck a pearly and holistic balance between rupture and renewal, she tells Best Fit for this week's cover feature.
The ambiguous unburdening of Cate Le Bon | Interview
In surrendering reluctantly to heartache, Welsh artist and producer Cate Le Bon has struck a pearly and holistic balance between rupture and renewal.
www.thelineofbestfit.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:06 AM
"You have to learn how to put painful things down in a way that's healing and nourishing": In surrendering to heartache, Welsh artist and producer Cate Le Bon has struck a pearly and holistic balance between rupture and renewal, she tells Best Fit for this week's cover feature.
Haven't been on here in a v long while. This post aged like milk as I had to fly back from Japan after just a week when my dog got sick. Same neurological disease as before, leaving him paralysed for almost 3 months. He's finally started to walk again 😍 Excited to get my life back too.
July 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Haven't been on here in a v long while. This post aged like milk as I had to fly back from Japan after just a week when my dog got sick. Same neurological disease as before, leaving him paralysed for almost 3 months. He's finally started to walk again 😍 Excited to get my life back too.
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Ane Brun (@anebrun.bsky.social) shares new single "Two in This Story" about a friend who "turned out to be a fraud"
Ane Brun shares new single "Two in This Story" about a friend who "turned out to be a fraud"
Scandinavian singer/songwriter Ane Brun deals with betrayal on "Two in This Story", the first look at her 11th studio album due later this year.
www.thelineofbestfit.com
May 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Trans. Men. Are. Not. A. Gotcha.
April 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Trans. Men. Are. Not. A. Gotcha.
Leaving my little Swedish island for a month of backpacking around Asia. It’s been too long a time since I did something like this. Bonus that it’s a research trip, a birthday and a major career milestone all in one.
April 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Leaving my little Swedish island for a month of backpacking around Asia. It’s been too long a time since I did something like this. Bonus that it’s a research trip, a birthday and a major career milestone all in one.
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If you defend this or try and explain this away, you’re a monster and I don’t know how you sleep at night.
Fatima Hassouna, a Palestinian artist and photojournalist who is the protagonist of a documentary due to premiere in Cannes in May, has been killed in an Israeli air strike.
deadline.com/2025/04/gaza...
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Palestinian Photojournalist & Protagonist Of Cannes-Selected Doc Killed In Israeli Gaza Strike
Palestinian Photojournalist And Protagonist Of Cannes-Selected Doc Killed In Israeli Gaza Strike
deadline.com
April 18, 2025 at 9:14 AM
If you defend this or try and explain this away, you’re a monster and I don’t know how you sleep at night.
I was recently back in my beloved Tallinn for my first ever Tallinn Music Week and had quite a lot to say about it 👀
Tallinn Music Week 2025: The Estonian festival connects the dots like no other | Review
Best Fit heads to Estonia for Tallinn Music Week and finds the festival’s ethos of togetherness more relevant and urgent than ever.
www.thelineofbestfit.com
April 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I was recently back in my beloved Tallinn for my first ever Tallinn Music Week and had quite a lot to say about it 👀
If you happen to be in Seoul this weekend, Soundwalk Collective & Patti Smith's latest Correspondences exhibition opens at the Piknic gallery. I've got a super small part in it, having written some text for the four new site-specific artworks they're presenting 🖤 Life is wild.
April 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
If you happen to be in Seoul this weekend, Soundwalk Collective & Patti Smith's latest Correspondences exhibition opens at the Piknic gallery. I've got a super small part in it, having written some text for the four new site-specific artworks they're presenting 🖤 Life is wild.
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One week left until deadline to submit something! (April 10) Open call for essays, short memoirs and other forms of creative non-fiction for my next book: This Queer Arab Family.
As mentioned before: pen names can be used if you live somewhere where it’s risky for your personal safety.
Details👇
As mentioned before: pen names can be used if you live somewhere where it’s risky for your personal safety.
Details👇
I'm SO excited to be working on This Queer Arab Family, a new anthology with @saqibooks.bsky.social to be published Sept 2025🧿
Are you a queer Arab writer with something to say about family, community, safe spaces, etc? Submit something to our open call!
Guidelines: saqibooks.com/2025/02/open...
Are you a queer Arab writer with something to say about family, community, safe spaces, etc? Submit something to our open call!
Guidelines: saqibooks.com/2025/02/open...
April 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
One week left until deadline to submit something! (April 10) Open call for essays, short memoirs and other forms of creative non-fiction for my next book: This Queer Arab Family.
As mentioned before: pen names can be used if you live somewhere where it’s risky for your personal safety.
Details👇
As mentioned before: pen names can be used if you live somewhere where it’s risky for your personal safety.
Details👇
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Got to chat to Dan Bejar about some of his proudest moments within and outside of the Destroyer catalogue and about his dazzling new album Dan’s Boogie for @thelineofbestfit.com
www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/int...
www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/int...
Dan Bejar's best songs, as chosen by him | Interview
Destroyer's Dan Bejar talks to Best Fit about a kaleidoscopic career and his five favourite songs.
www.thelineofbestfit.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Got to chat to Dan Bejar about some of his proudest moments within and outside of the Destroyer catalogue and about his dazzling new album Dan’s Boogie for @thelineofbestfit.com
www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/int...
www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/int...
I interviewed Anoushka Shankar recently and have been wearing out her records since. Her power! 🎧⚡️
Anoushka Shankar's best songs, as chosen by her | Interview
Best Fit looks back with sitar master Anoushka Shankar on some of her personal favourites from a 30-year career.
www.thelineofbestfit.com
March 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I interviewed Anoushka Shankar recently and have been wearing out her records since. Her power! 🎧⚡️
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Sickening, evil, totally in line with everything in No Other Land. The final footage sees a settler shoot co-director Basel Adra's cousin point-blank in the stomach with a rifle. An Oscar can't stop hate crimes
March 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Sickening, evil, totally in line with everything in No Other Land. The final footage sees a settler shoot co-director Basel Adra's cousin point-blank in the stomach with a rifle. An Oscar can't stop hate crimes