Tim Rutherford-Johnson
purlis.bsky.social
Tim Rutherford-Johnson
@purlis.bsky.social
Listener, CFer, wordmonger. Written books about new music; trying to write one about Schubert.
https://johnsonsrambler.wordpress.com/about/
Substack here: http://purlis.substack.com
A belated hat-tip too to @backlisted.bsky.social for the Ice Palace recommendation, which happened to come at just the right moment.
November 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Ignore. Was s/thing weird going on with my SpeakerAmp equalizer (which only Spot was running through). Not a fair comparison!
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Laugh loudly as if it is full of jokes. Make that book, say, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
With absolutely no break between. Like chain smoking.
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Rule 1 is a bit trickier when you're mostly writing about premieres!
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Gosh.
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Well that's my weekend sorted, thank you. (Also, fuck AI: Eddie Hazel was a genius.)
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
And if somewhere as popular and respected as Nottingham cannot sustain such a diversity of thought and learning, I fear for universities across the country.
November 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Music is obviously where my heart lies, but the proposed cuts touch the whole campus, from architecture to agriculture, biology to American studies. It is an absolute scouring of what makes an institution like Nottingham great.
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM