@juderogers
Journalist on culture and news, author of The Sound Of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives, radio programme maker, public arts project leader. Ten Sunday Spells for you every week on juderogers.substack.com
Early stroll. String tied around a streetlight. A pile of twigs like a fascinator museum. The simple beauty of a bus shelter. A yellow and green toy supermarket trolley in a garden. That fence is wearing a discarded jacket.
A much-needed music week: two lots of Will Oldham and Scott Walker, Manic energy, Savage love, Hedera, big bands and beyond juderogers.substack.com/p/10-song-sh...
Fucking hell, Scott 3. I think this might be my favourite album of all time. It also takes me back to a very specific place in Streatham, when I was 21, that I have never been to since. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhz8...
Quietus album of the year 2026
I am absolutely loving this fascinating, poignant, moving and often v funny book about LGBT+ lives in the suburbs by @grindrod.bsky.social & looking forward to interviewing him about it at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social in two weeks today – info here! Come along!
www.foyles.co.uk/events/tales...
The Simpsons do Hamlet, Donna Summer on ice, a mum and son whizz around London, staircases and fonts, and the reappearance of the past over on my 10 Spells juderogers.substack.com/p/10-half-te...
My favourite Talk Talk album. Had missed it was the fortieth anniversary! They're such a great February band. The new shoots of life. Looking forward to reading this (and seeing you tomorrow!)
I have seen it! I regret the tone of that column so much, written in the madness of youth.
hello, the weather’s grotty, why not lounge about/sort out a cupboard/make nice pasta while listening to one of the shows in my Observer audio review
observer.co.uk/culture/audi...
...weekly dose of ten good things. Which the algorithm here will kill but posting stuff like this weekly is good for my brain, and I hope a nice Sunday read for you. juderogers.substack.com/p/10-swansea...
Linder's scalpel-sharp artwork in Swansea's @glynnvivian.bsky.social! The new artwork in @theatrclwyd.bsky.social – worked on by Catrin James, @studiomothership.bsky.social and me! Plus Paul Mescal dancing, Will Arnett being introduced to horse-hair harps, and why you must see Sinners in my....
Fortunately @juderogers.bsky.social and @thequietus.com are here to put Edge of Darkness into perspective. 🙏 thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Ooh, yes please.
Not even a mention!
Thanks, Paul! I know, Television and Blondie in Glasgow...unbelievable.
Superb Suede review by @juderogers.bsky.social, can’t wait to see them on this tour. The bit where Brett Anderson does a turn completely unaccompanied is stunning - I saw footage online of the bit mentioned at the start here & there must have been something in my eye
Anyway, Peter told me about his love of Kate (and Talking Heads and Lou Reed and Pulp) for this Baker's Dozen interview, a slot in which a subject talks about 13 albums they love, for @thequietus.com. thequietus.com/interviews/b...
Am thinking of Peter Capaldi being in the same room as Kate Bush, at the exhibition of renowned Scottish painter John Byrne, and wondering how this could be turned into a Dr Who fantasy in which she's his new companion. Or he's *her* new companion. Imagine.
Genius!
Although I just typed this up sitting on a sofa in my pyjamas with a cardigan over them after a very long day, night and mornings of deadlines, so who's laughing now
^^ this ^^
(I now have these last three words in my head fixed to a Depeche Mode tune)
If a certain kind of jeans makes a grown woman sick, then I despair. I say enjoy the snugness!
You too! Mine won't be as manic this week...
Enjoying in a good way, I hope! :) I did an MA in *deep breath* Postmodernism, Literature and Contemporary Culture back in 99-00, when oiks like me could get funding, and that book took my back!
, @juderogers.bsky.social 's newsletter of super interesting things is a weekly treat. In a world rammed full of distractions it's always good to have a trusted voice point you in the direction of the good stuff.
Oh Mark, thank you so much x
Thank you so much! x
Picture of actor Michael Sheen smiling as he stands in front of the rest of the cast of Our Town
Review of the Week: Our Town (on tour)
@welshnattheatre.bsky.social’s first large-scale show, starring its artistic director Michael Sheen @mchshe.bsky.social, brings a shimmering Celtic quality to Wilder’s tale of smalltown America, writes @juderogers.bsky.social
www.thenerve.news/p/review-of-...
Was such a fun job - the languages I had to pronounce! And the unending joy of having to quote Nicky Wire swearing!