Eddie Robson
@eddierobson.bsky.social
Novelist, scriptwriter, journalist, incompetent guitarist. I span the genres.
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Eddie Robson
@eddierobson.bsky.social
· Feb 6
ANNOUNCEMENT! My next novel, The Heist Of Hollow London, will be published by Tor on 30 September 2025.
One of the world's largest corporations collapses. During the sale of its assets, five clone workers are bought to steal a large sum of money stashed an obscure facility in a near-abandoned city.
One of the world's largest corporations collapses. During the sale of its assets, five clone workers are bought to steal a large sum of money stashed an obscure facility in a near-abandoned city.
He's won 13 league titles with four clubs in three countries and he's still up for another trophy or two. I reckon this is the one he really wants, he's only got one Champions League medal.
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
He's won 13 league titles with four clubs in three countries and he's still up for another trophy or two. I reckon this is the one he really wants, he's only got one Champions League medal.
Lewandowski's a proper player isn't he. He's 37 years old and still no sign of him fucking off to a Mickey Mouse league for big money, no thanks, he'd rather be starting Champions League games for one of the biggest clubs in the world.
November 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Lewandowski's a proper player isn't he. He's 37 years old and still no sign of him fucking off to a Mickey Mouse league for big money, no thanks, he'd rather be starting Champions League games for one of the biggest clubs in the world.
He was a bit miffed that we insisted he wear the earplugs, but otherwise he was very into it.
November 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
He was a bit miffed that we insisted he wear the earplugs, but otherwise he was very into it.
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This week! Friday 28th November at 10:10pm THE STONE TAPE (1972) with #MichaelBryant #JaneAsher #IanCuthbertson sci-fi-horror #TPTVsubtitles Part of #TheCellarClub hosted by #CarolineMunro
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This week! Friday 28th November at 10:10pm THE STONE TAPE (1972) with #MichaelBryant #JaneAsher #IanCuthbertson sci-fi-horror #TPTVsubtitles Part of #TheCellarClub hosted by #CarolineMunro
I had no idea it had been reviewed anywhere!
November 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I had no idea it had been reviewed anywhere!
Oh. So yeah, they have done exactly that! I wonder if they've trimmed a lot of the performances and videos - when the videos came out a lot of those were unavailable elsewhere, so we all wanted them in full, but you can watch the Paperback Writer video on YouTube any time you like now.
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Oh. So yeah, they have done exactly that! I wonder if they've trimmed a lot of the performances and videos - when the videos came out a lot of those were unavailable elsewhere, so we all wanted them in full, but you can watch the Paperback Writer video on YouTube any time you like now.
Hmm. If they have cut them down to an hour, that's a very odd decision and will annoy people. (Though the 75-minute runtimes of the boxset versions are inconvenient, and only happened because George wanted there to be eight not ten episodes, because of the religious significance of eight)
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Hmm. If they have cut them down to an hour, that's a very odd decision and will annoy people. (Though the 75-minute runtimes of the boxset versions are inconvenient, and only happened because George wanted there to be eight not ten episodes, because of the religious significance of eight)
I dunno, they've made a big deal of there being unseen footage, it'd be pretty underwhelming if it's just the bonus disc material plus a couple of new bits.
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I dunno, they've made a big deal of there being unseen footage, it'd be pretty underwhelming if it's just the bonus disc material plus a couple of new bits.
I mean it'd have to be on there, but I have no idea if anything exists beyond the finished masters. From quite early on there was a rule of keeping everything the Beatles recorded, but that wouldn't automatically apply to something like the YS score.
November 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I mean it'd have to be on there, but I have no idea if anything exists beyond the finished masters. From quite early on there was a rule of keeping everything the Beatles recorded, but that wouldn't automatically apply to something like the YS score.
#THETWEN2IE5 Day 50
"God Turn Me Into A Flower" by Weyes Blood (2022)
DOUBLE BONUS. Natalie Mering sings three spare verses over near-ambient backing, then it ascends and dissolves into the most intensely beautiful noise. It's like music for your deathbed. Stunning.
tidal.com/track/247478...
"God Turn Me Into A Flower" by Weyes Blood (2022)
DOUBLE BONUS. Natalie Mering sings three spare verses over near-ambient backing, then it ascends and dissolves into the most intensely beautiful noise. It's like music for your deathbed. Stunning.
tidal.com/track/247478...
Weyes Blood - God Turn Me Into a Flower
Listen to God Turn Me Into a Flower on TIDAL
tidal.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
#THETWEN2IE5 Day 50
"God Turn Me Into A Flower" by Weyes Blood (2022)
DOUBLE BONUS. Natalie Mering sings three spare verses over near-ambient backing, then it ascends and dissolves into the most intensely beautiful noise. It's like music for your deathbed. Stunning.
tidal.com/track/247478...
"God Turn Me Into A Flower" by Weyes Blood (2022)
DOUBLE BONUS. Natalie Mering sings three spare verses over near-ambient backing, then it ascends and dissolves into the most intensely beautiful noise. It's like music for your deathbed. Stunning.
tidal.com/track/247478...
Huh. As I say, I don't see how you get 75 minutes out of that, and it doesn't feel of a piece with the rest of Anthology, so I think trailing it as "Episode 9" may be over-selling it. But I'm sure the footage is interesting.
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Huh. As I say, I don't see how you get 75 minutes out of that, and it doesn't feel of a piece with the rest of Anthology, so I think trailing it as "Episode 9" may be over-selling it. But I'm sure the footage is interesting.
If they ever do that, the combined approach would be best - I can't see there being anywhere near enough material for a Yellow Sub box, but there's basically a "missing" Beatles album from early '68 where all the tracks got diverted into non-LP projects, and it would be interesting to chart that.
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
If they ever do that, the combined approach would be best - I can't see there being anywhere near enough material for a Yellow Sub box, but there's basically a "missing" Beatles album from early '68 where all the tracks got diverted into non-LP projects, and it would be interesting to chart that.
If it was me, I'd do a brisk account of their solo careers, with a particular focus on moments when they came into each others' orbits, cover John and George's deaths, cover Now and Then, and end with Ringo guesting with Paul in December last year. But it probably won't be that.
November 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
If it was me, I'd do a brisk account of their solo careers, with a particular focus on moments when they came into each others' orbits, cover John and George's deaths, cover Now and Then, and end with Ringo guesting with Paul in December last year. But it probably won't be that.
It seems like the only thing they've announced is that it's got unseen footage from the reunion sessions, but if it's as long as the other episodes I'm assuming there's more to it than that? It surely can't be 75 minutes of them recording Free As A Bird and Real Love. But maybe it's only 20 minutes.
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
It seems like the only thing they've announced is that it's got unseen footage from the reunion sessions, but if it's as long as the other episodes I'm assuming there's more to it than that? It surely can't be 75 minutes of them recording Free As A Bird and Real Love. But maybe it's only 20 minutes.
Whereas I would have been "Oh, did you use the toll road?"
November 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Whereas I would have been "Oh, did you use the toll road?"
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At one point during the tribunal they asked “so how did you get to Brighton?” And I asked them to clear up what they meant and they said “how did you get to Brighton last time you went?” So I said “A6, M61, M60,M62, M6, M42, M40, M25, M23, A23” and they said “No, mentally; how did you cope”
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
At one point during the tribunal they asked “so how did you get to Brighton?” And I asked them to clear up what they meant and they said “how did you get to Brighton last time you went?” So I said “A6, M61, M60,M62, M6, M42, M40, M25, M23, A23” and they said “No, mentally; how did you cope”
6 Music is repeating CMAT's Artist In Residence this week, so they're coming back to Sounds. The Indie and Pop ones are really good, but the Euro and Country ones (coming later in the week) are MAGNIFICENT. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
6 Music Artist in Residence - CMAT - INDIE! - BBC Sounds
CMAT curates a playlist of her Indie obsessions!
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
6 Music is repeating CMAT's Artist In Residence this week, so they're coming back to Sounds. The Indie and Pop ones are really good, but the Euro and Country ones (coming later in the week) are MAGNIFICENT. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Yeah, sorry - I didn't mean to imply it was crowbarred into something that already existed, just that it clearly needed *something* to bring the idea to life.
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Yeah, sorry - I didn't mean to imply it was crowbarred into something that already existed, just that it clearly needed *something* to bring the idea to life.
It's grim isn't it. "Trans woman" is fewer words and perfectly clear, but it seems to be editorial policy to go out of their way to imply she's making it up.
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
It's grim isn't it. "Trans woman" is fewer words and perfectly clear, but it seems to be editorial policy to go out of their way to imply she's making it up.
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I don’t know enough about the situation with Lineham to opine on whether the judgement is valid or not, but everything about this paragraph in the BBC article makes me despair at how many institutions have been captured by the GC movement
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I don’t know enough about the situation with Lineham to opine on whether the judgement is valid or not, but everything about this paragraph in the BBC article makes me despair at how many institutions have been captured by the GC movement
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I read this out of context and only needed one guess who it was about.
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I read this out of context and only needed one guess who it was about.
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When Sam Cooke said we should "shake it like a bowl of soup" did he mean that, like a bowl of soup, we shouldn't shake it at all?
November 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
When Sam Cooke said we should "shake it like a bowl of soup" did he mean that, like a bowl of soup, we shouldn't shake it at all?
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This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
It is weird to imagine it with a standard Part Three where the Doctor goes "I have realised I am right and we have to stop the drilling or the world will end". The stakes are so much stronger for having already seen it happen.
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM
It is weird to imagine it with a standard Part Three where the Doctor goes "I have realised I am right and we have to stop the drilling or the world will end". The stakes are so much stronger for having already seen it happen.