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David McLean
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Displaced Smoggie in the Great Wen. Worker, novelist, amateur #tradfolk singer and #folktronica muso. New book ‘Fox Silver’ out NOW! Fear no foe.
I can never get alongside this, try as I might. I know I should, it’s probably as great as everyone thinks, but we don’t gel. Dunno why, should be right up my street.

The way forward is to try again
November 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Tibet has (more or less convincingly) disowned his fash-adjacent former collaborators. Still makes me a bit queasy and unwilling to listen to his music. But his treatment of Shirley Collins is exemplary, and the album is produce is one of the greatest ever
October 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Went charity shop diving, got nothing except slightly grubby fingers and mild despair. Going again next week
October 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Reposted by David McLean
If you don’t bother writing it, why should I bother reading it?
September 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The bay of E is your friend
August 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
People mispronouncing my surname when I have literally just said it to them is the thing I loathe most in the universe, followed by spelling it incorrectly when I’ve written out for them
July 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM
… pears, different apples, hazelnuts 2/2
June 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
“Sir Attenborough?”
June 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
We were there - it was fantastic
June 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
My brother, I stan
May 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
You said the loud part quiet
May 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Kill it with fire
May 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Sounds like his plan had a small hole in it
May 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Tim Buckley wasn’t a lyricist, so probably he got someone else to ask someone to be his mountain, like Cyrano de Beregerac
May 23, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Uk must try harder to be no. 1
May 23, 2025 at 6:21 AM