Robin Allender
@robinallender.bsky.social
Unrelated but the strapline of this book is… curious
November 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Unrelated but the strapline of this book is… curious
Just trying to play along and wondering if they did it like this, sort of Hendrixing the bar chords with your thumb. The bass definitely sounds like it’s fretted and not using an open string. Curiously it’s quite a sharp Eb/flat E on the record.
November 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Just trying to play along and wondering if they did it like this, sort of Hendrixing the bar chords with your thumb. The bass definitely sounds like it’s fretted and not using an open string. Curiously it’s quite a sharp Eb/flat E on the record.
I suppose you could interpret this as an olive branch to Only Connect
October 27, 2025 at 8:10 AM
I suppose you could interpret this as an olive branch to Only Connect
It’s happening again!
October 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
It’s happening again!
The minstrel filled with visions sang to his love to look against the stormy sky
September 18, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The minstrel filled with visions sang to his love to look against the stormy sky
The new Big Thief is very global village coffeehouse
September 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The new Big Thief is very global village coffeehouse
Just going through some stand-up notes on my phone. Lots of potential here.
September 5, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Just going through some stand-up notes on my phone. Lots of potential here.
Ah! Weirdly the remastered Anthology 3 is there on Tidal. 1 and 2 are not remastered and are weirdly not linked to the artist profile (so when you go to Beatles they’re not there) but you can find them when you search? (Listening to Deftones)
September 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Ah! Weirdly the remastered Anthology 3 is there on Tidal. 1 and 2 are not remastered and are weirdly not linked to the artist profile (so when you go to Beatles they’re not there) but you can find them when you search? (Listening to Deftones)
Struggling to work out how a typo can slip into the first word of a new book but what doth I know
August 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Struggling to work out how a typo can slip into the first word of a new book but what doth I know
Seeing the same people in the pub every day and thinking ‘how can they afford to go to the pub every day’
August 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Seeing the same people in the pub every day and thinking ‘how can they afford to go to the pub every day’
We sell boxes. Who sells boxes? Maybe he sells boxes.
August 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
We sell boxes. Who sells boxes? Maybe he sells boxes.
Standing outside shouting what’s on disc 4
August 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Standing outside shouting what’s on disc 4
Little guitar cover of Missionary Bell from the new Cass McCombs album
August 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Little guitar cover of Missionary Bell from the new Cass McCombs album
The waiter just showed me to my table?
August 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The waiter just showed me to my table?
Excited to hear the Taylor Swift song about Elizabeth Taylor
August 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Excited to hear the Taylor Swift song about Elizabeth Taylor
Who gives an F about an Oxford comma
August 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Who gives an F about an Oxford comma
Now playing (by candlelight) (I’m freaking out by the way)
August 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Now playing (by candlelight) (I’m freaking out by the way)
I’m supporting Antony Hurley at his album launch at Servant Jazz Quarters on 27 August
August 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I’m supporting Antony Hurley at his album launch at Servant Jazz Quarters on 27 August
I know it doesn’t really matter but Attack the Block came out in 2011 and it’s Takeover TV not Takedown TV
August 7, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I know it doesn’t really matter but Attack the Block came out in 2011 and it’s Takeover TV not Takedown TV
Little clip of new song ‘Tupperware Without Lids’
August 7, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Little clip of new song ‘Tupperware Without Lids’
I always loved this suggestion for catching a fake ghost because it begs the question: who is pretending to be a fake ghost
August 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I always loved this suggestion for catching a fake ghost because it begs the question: who is pretending to be a fake ghost
Chris White from The Zombies has a look that simply says ‘allotment chic’
August 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Chris White from The Zombies has a look that simply says ‘allotment chic’
Willst thou visit my palace of weeds
August 1, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Willst thou visit my palace of weeds
The loaf awaits the bus
July 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The loaf awaits the bus