Some Melodious Plot
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Half time at The Clientele, the Holy Mother looking on, the drummer lost at the back.
November 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Half time at The Clientele, the Holy Mother looking on, the drummer lost at the back.
I took a pic … but it was all blurry! 😀
Cheers. Got a great seat (pew). In a church.
Cheers. Got a great seat (pew). In a church.
November 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I took a pic … but it was all blurry! 😀
Cheers. Got a great seat (pew). In a church.
Cheers. Got a great seat (pew). In a church.
And I jumped in two-footed! :-)
November 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
And I jumped in two-footed! :-)
Chocolate it was. And I only thought there were 6 and it turned out there was 8.
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Chocolate it was. And I only thought there were 6 and it turned out there was 8.
I'm nervous of the dentist and today's visit was going to be messy. The dentist invited me to bring music so I could relax. I thought Bach & the Goldberg Variations would be perfect, then got cold feet, not wanting it sullied by association.
So she chose the music. Florence & the bloody Machine! 😱
So she chose the music. Florence & the bloody Machine! 😱
November 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I'm nervous of the dentist and today's visit was going to be messy. The dentist invited me to bring music so I could relax. I thought Bach & the Goldberg Variations would be perfect, then got cold feet, not wanting it sullied by association.
So she chose the music. Florence & the bloody Machine! 😱
So she chose the music. Florence & the bloody Machine! 😱
Munch’s Madonna over the Scream any day! That might have much to do with the fact that I can no longer see The Scream without thinking of the pastiche with Beaker from the Muppets.
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Munch’s Madonna over the Scream any day! That might have much to do with the fact that I can no longer see The Scream without thinking of the pastiche with Beaker from the Muppets.
Another trip to see the Neo-Impressionism exhibition at the National Gallery. Wandering and listening to Vikingur Ólafsson’s new album as I looked on. Perfect!
Théo van Rysselberghe’s portrait of the musician Maria Sèthe. Very Quality Street!
Also, what’s Vikingur up to on the grass? Roly-polys?
Théo van Rysselberghe’s portrait of the musician Maria Sèthe. Very Quality Street!
Also, what’s Vikingur up to on the grass? Roly-polys?
November 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Another trip to see the Neo-Impressionism exhibition at the National Gallery. Wandering and listening to Vikingur Ólafsson’s new album as I looked on. Perfect!
Théo van Rysselberghe’s portrait of the musician Maria Sèthe. Very Quality Street!
Also, what’s Vikingur up to on the grass? Roly-polys?
Théo van Rysselberghe’s portrait of the musician Maria Sèthe. Very Quality Street!
Also, what’s Vikingur up to on the grass? Roly-polys?
Declan Ryan - new to me - and his poem in The New Yorker.
A stunner. The things it’s doing with time and longing and absence are extraordinary.
Had to read that final heartbreaking line - and the Berryman epigraph - quite closely to get the hint of what’s happening or rather has happened.
A stunner. The things it’s doing with time and longing and absence are extraordinary.
Had to read that final heartbreaking line - and the Berryman epigraph - quite closely to get the hint of what’s happening or rather has happened.
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Declan Ryan - new to me - and his poem in The New Yorker.
A stunner. The things it’s doing with time and longing and absence are extraordinary.
Had to read that final heartbreaking line - and the Berryman epigraph - quite closely to get the hint of what’s happening or rather has happened.
A stunner. The things it’s doing with time and longing and absence are extraordinary.
Had to read that final heartbreaking line - and the Berryman epigraph - quite closely to get the hint of what’s happening or rather has happened.
Reading about an exhibition of protest photography in Edinburgh and loving this shot of suffragettes Christabel Pankhurst, Flora Drummond & Emmeline Pankhurst in the dock. The photographer took the shot through a hole in his top hat. Nobody notices, except one woman to the right. Rumbled! @lrb.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Reading about an exhibition of protest photography in Edinburgh and loving this shot of suffragettes Christabel Pankhurst, Flora Drummond & Emmeline Pankhurst in the dock. The photographer took the shot through a hole in his top hat. Nobody notices, except one woman to the right. Rumbled! @lrb.co.uk
Post parents’ evening curry treat at the Jolly Butchers in Stoke Newington. So important to acknowledge a great achievement.
The boy did alright too! 😅
The boy did alright too! 😅
November 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Post parents’ evening curry treat at the Jolly Butchers in Stoke Newington. So important to acknowledge a great achievement.
The boy did alright too! 😅
The boy did alright too! 😅
Fantastic Admiral Fallow gig at One Ninety Four Piccadilly. Highlight: Squealing Pigs.
It's that sinking feeling of being alone
And it's the way it makes you screech
And pulls the skin off your bones
And I can't help but think, as I pick my mouth off the floor,
Will you still know me in a year?
It's that sinking feeling of being alone
And it's the way it makes you screech
And pulls the skin off your bones
And I can't help but think, as I pick my mouth off the floor,
Will you still know me in a year?
November 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Fantastic Admiral Fallow gig at One Ninety Four Piccadilly. Highlight: Squealing Pigs.
It's that sinking feeling of being alone
And it's the way it makes you screech
And pulls the skin off your bones
And I can't help but think, as I pick my mouth off the floor,
Will you still know me in a year?
It's that sinking feeling of being alone
And it's the way it makes you screech
And pulls the skin off your bones
And I can't help but think, as I pick my mouth off the floor,
Will you still know me in a year?
So I booked the Admiral Fallow ticket, but I’m clearly intent on ruining it with cake (and all the trimmings). Just scoffed this and now want to go home and have a lie down.
November 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
So I booked the Admiral Fallow ticket, but I’m clearly intent on ruining it with cake (and all the trimmings). Just scoffed this and now want to go home and have a lie down.
And the way that the moon, candles, fire, a blacksmith’s rod(?) - lights up faces.
November 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
And the way that the moon, candles, fire, a blacksmith’s rod(?) - lights up faces.
Back to Joseph Wright of Derby. If Caravaggio really worked harder at his science. :-)
November 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Back to Joseph Wright of Derby. If Caravaggio really worked harder at his science. :-)
And today, taking up @mblackledge.bsky.social’s recommendation and visiting The Michael Werner Gallery for an exhibition that is curated around the idea of Jean Rhys’s The Wide Sargasso Sea.
Celia Paul, Gwen John, Victor Man and Leon Kossoff.
Celia Paul, Gwen John, Victor Man and Leon Kossoff.
November 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
And today, taking up @mblackledge.bsky.social’s recommendation and visiting The Michael Werner Gallery for an exhibition that is curated around the idea of Jean Rhys’s The Wide Sargasso Sea.
Celia Paul, Gwen John, Victor Man and Leon Kossoff.
Celia Paul, Gwen John, Victor Man and Leon Kossoff.
Two small yet exquisite exhibitions last night and this afternoon. Joseph Wright of Derby was perfect for a dark evening. Coming at The Air Pump from a different view was really cool. That poor bird though, like Keats’ lovers on the Grecian urn, forever caught between two states.
November 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Two small yet exquisite exhibitions last night and this afternoon. Joseph Wright of Derby was perfect for a dark evening. Coming at The Air Pump from a different view was really cool. That poor bird though, like Keats’ lovers on the Grecian urn, forever caught between two states.
Not even a Christmas tree in November is going to ruin my Friday vibe. Chin Chin, shipmates!
November 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Not even a Christmas tree in November is going to ruin my Friday vibe. Chin Chin, shipmates!
Covers as spoilers.
November 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Covers as spoilers.
I've just popped into Slough House to take care of a bit of business. Come on, I'd make a great 'Joe'. :-) #SlowHorses
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I've just popped into Slough House to take care of a bit of business. Come on, I'd make a great 'Joe'. :-) #SlowHorses
Lacey the Cat (after Caravaggio). #Catascuro
November 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Lacey the Cat (after Caravaggio). #Catascuro
Dipping in and out of Patti Smith’s new memoir. Love that Simone Weil quote. Wish I could be more Weil … but the only thing we’ve got in common is we suffer from headaches. And the closest I’ll get to Patti Smith is my new barefoot trainers.
November 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Dipping in and out of Patti Smith’s new memoir. Love that Simone Weil quote. Wish I could be more Weil … but the only thing we’ve got in common is we suffer from headaches. And the closest I’ll get to Patti Smith is my new barefoot trainers.
It was indeed tiny. And awkwardly situated ... you've got to look at it obliquely because of the rope. But I loved the faint outlines of the spiderweb and the straw on the sill.
A strangely hopeful painting ...
A strangely hopeful painting ...
November 6, 2025 at 12:08 PM
It was indeed tiny. And awkwardly situated ... you've got to look at it obliquely because of the rope. But I loved the faint outlines of the spiderweb and the straw on the sill.
A strangely hopeful painting ...
A strangely hopeful painting ...
Twice now I’ve walked past this poster and queued The Pet Shop Boys rather than Lily Allen. I really ought to give her album a listen though.
November 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Twice now I’ve walked past this poster and queued The Pet Shop Boys rather than Lily Allen. I really ought to give her album a listen though.
Really enjoyed the Culture Club documentary at the IMAX. A kind of love story in a way. And Mikey Craig turned up for the Q&A.
November 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Really enjoyed the Culture Club documentary at the IMAX. A kind of love story in a way. And Mikey Craig turned up for the Q&A.