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More of London threatened by greedy money men. Please sign... you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

More of London threatened by greedy money men. Please sign... you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Great news - and what about freedom of movement for touring musicians, actors and others who lost their freedom to live and work in Europe?

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

These people are your enemies

submitted 106 days ago • 417 comments

Drummer Roy McCurdy & his wife need a place to stay due to the fires. He played with the Cannonball Adderley Quintet, the Jazztet, & so many others. His email was posted to FB. If you can help, please reach out to me & I will share.

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

“Will pay any amount.” Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.

submitted 110 days ago • 2473 comments

It’s a fraught time for professional musicians in the US, both financially and culturally. (Thanks a lot, broligarchs.) This era is especially tough on those of us who are disinterested in cultivating celebrity status, allergic to hierarchy, or unwilling to treat fellow creatives like shit to “win”.

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

Circus Artists, Cologne August Sander, 1926. collections.artsmia.org/art/21495/ci...

submitted 119 days ago • 8 comments

'It remains incredibly influential – the BBC Radiophonic Workshop being an endless mother lode for hauntological projects like Ghost Box.' White Noise - An Electric Storm is No 78 in tQ’s Reissues Etc. of 2024 http://buff.ly/4f4psxL #tQCharts

submitted 133 days ago • 2 comments

Why turkeys don't vote for Christmas www.ft.com/content/0fa6...

submitted 133 days ago • 12 comments

Big record labels are trying to destroy @archive.org and claiming they’re doing it to help musicians. Musicians are telling the big record labels to fuck right off www.rollingstone.com/music/music-... Great letter organized by @fightforthefuture.org @liaholland.bsky.social

submitted 137 days ago • 4 comments

Since 2017, arts funding from national bodies, including for drama, has been cut by 16% in real terms across the UK. In 2024, 41% of schools no longer enter any pupils for Drama GCSE.

submitted 140 days ago • 8 comments

Posting this for anyone who hasn't seen this masterpiece from Irish artist Bobby Fingers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RIE...

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Which means it's nearly ten years since I read Morrissey's execrable novel 'List Of The Lost' and was so stunned by its contents that I wrote a review that was longer than my dissertation. www.balls.ie/the-rewind/m...

submitted 144 days ago • 20 comments

I've just donated to the Gabrieli Roar Big Give campaign, as they do amazing work providing professional standard music-making opportunities for thousands of children and young people. It feels a very worthwhile thing to support donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments

George Orwell, from “Homage To Catalonia”, on why, during combat in the Spanish Civil War, he opted not to shoot a fleeing enemy soldier who was struggling with both hands to hold up his trousers:

submitted 145 days ago • 29 comments

Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵 How can you support us? SHARE our posts WRITE to [email protected] JOIN US - there's cake!

submitted 145 days ago • 78 comments

I recently watched the documentary, TITANIC: BAND OF COURAGE, on PBS. What struck me most was that the families of the musicians couldn't claim compensation from the White Star Line as they were independently employed by an agency that then billed families for the lost uniforms after the sinking.

submitted 146 days ago • 29 comments

Currently nosing through this astonishing book, a present from my brother, Kevin. Marie was looking with me, seeing Killip’s photos for the first time - the working classes as figures of power, defiance and a weird heroic dignity - and quite accurately described him as “the anti Martin Parr”.

submitted 149 days ago • 9 comments

Fantastic review of P21 (REV IT UP) ⚡️Big thanks to @welshjb.bsky.social @intocreative.bsky.social ⚡️💙

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments

The rabbit funeral procession from the Gorleston Psalter. The rabbits have a processional cross and a series of wax tapers to light the way. The rabbit priest sprinkles holy water on the coffin. Two dogs carry the bier. 14th cent. Add 49622 @britishlibrary.bsky.social #skystorians #medieval

submitted 155 days ago • 19 comments

Tired dog, Rue de l'Ouest, Paris, 1974 - by Richard Kalvar

submitted 152 days ago • 2 comments

Alternative TV number 3 in an ongoing series. Today's pick is this film of the Reading Rock 78 festival featuring The Jam, Sham 69, Ultravox, Penetration and The Pirates youtu.be/-wbbXkL1onM

submitted 154 days ago • 7 comments

Fab TV footage of Jimmy Campbell singing ‘In My Room’ and ‘Closing Down The Shop’ on BBC’s ‘Disco 2’, October 19 1970. youtu.be/p-QKkBntCHE?...

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Here are the first dates of my tour in Europe!

submitted 159 days ago • 5 comments

Leading up to Christmas is a time that indie businesses make the majority of their income for the whole year If you want to support indie bookshops there's a growing list/directory at www.indiebookshops.com

submitted 160 days ago • 22 comments

For those who don't know this story, which I first shared six years ago today.... This one time I got my days wrong at work and ended up alone in a room with my boss and the President of Ireland while I was on ketamine. 🧵

submitted 360 days ago • 90 comments

Great drummers who should be remembered..... www.theguardian.com/music/2024/n...

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Music for Youth 🎵 Join us in celebrating the incredible music teachers who inspire, guide, and empower young musicians every day! 🎶 Nominate your music teacher in our #ThankYourMusicTeacher campaign via: mfy.org.uk/get-involved... #MusicForYouth #Gratitude #MusicEducation

submitted 185 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump's nominations may seem like a joke - but the joke is on the electorate. www.salon.com/2024/11/14/s...

submitted 165 days ago • 15 comments

people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙

submitted 166 days ago • 1541 comments

Let me state this is bluntly as I can, as a biographer of both Donald Trump and Elon Musk: Vladimir Putin is now inside the U.S. government, with visibility into absolutely everything. He has that access through Trump, Musk, and David Sacks. We are fully infiltrated. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/u...

submitted 166 days ago • 652 comments