Adam Behr
@adambehrlive.bsky.social
Researcher, writer, lecturer - music, politics, popular culture. Does other things occasionally.
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TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
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Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
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November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
At last! (Need a new starter word now).
November 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
At last! (Need a new starter word now).
Quick chat on Tony Livesey show @bbc5live.bsky.social last night about Donald Trump, Jess Glynne and political uses of music (about 1hr20mins)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Tony Livesey - 31/07/2025 - BBC Sounds
Tony Livesey with late night conversation and in-depth interviews.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Quick chat on Tony Livesey show @bbc5live.bsky.social last night about Donald Trump, Jess Glynne and political uses of music (about 1hr20mins)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Graph of British Rivers
July 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Graph of British Rivers
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“synthesised disparate strands of American popular music into a unique melange… his mark was indelible.” A few words for @uk.theconversation.com on Sly Stone.
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theconversation.com/sly-stone-in...
Sly Stone: influential funk pioneer who embodied the contradictions at the heart of American life
Sly Stone and his band synthesised disparate strands of American popular music, tracking the musical and social shifts as the 1960s wore into the 1970s.
theconversation.com
June 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
“synthesised disparate strands of American popular music into a unique melange… his mark was indelible.” A few words for @uk.theconversation.com on Sly Stone.
theconversation.com/sly-stone-in...
theconversation.com/sly-stone-in...
“synthesised disparate strands of American popular music into a unique melange… his mark was indelible.” A few words for @uk.theconversation.com on Sly Stone.
theconversation.com/sly-stone-in...
theconversation.com/sly-stone-in...
Sly Stone: influential funk pioneer who embodied the contradictions at the heart of American life
Sly Stone and his band synthesised disparate strands of American popular music, tracking the musical and social shifts as the 1960s wore into the 1970s.
theconversation.com
June 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
“synthesised disparate strands of American popular music into a unique melange… his mark was indelible.” A few words for @uk.theconversation.com on Sly Stone.
theconversation.com/sly-stone-in...
theconversation.com/sly-stone-in...
New Fearless Flyers always a good start the weekend:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGur...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGur...
The Fearless Flyers // "Flyers Crusade"
YouTube video by Cory Wong
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April 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
New Fearless Flyers always a good start the weekend:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGur...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGur...
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Great comic timing from the Danes here.
April 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Great comic timing from the Danes here.
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Standards are slipping, in that there is a golden opportunity to have made a 'here's one we made earlier' gag in any of a) this tweet b) the headline c) the standfirst d) the intro all of them cruelly passed up.
End of an era as BBC axes live episodes of Blue Peter after decades
End of an era as BBC axes live episodes of Blue Peter after decades
Children’s magazine TV show, which first aired in 1958, will now be pre-recorded due to changing viewer habits
Blue Peter has recorded its final live episode as the show moves to a pre-recorded format, the BBC said.
Airing weekly on Fridays, the longest-running children’s show in the world began on 16 October 1958 with its intrepid presenters and characterful pets. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
March 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Standards are slipping, in that there is a golden opportunity to have made a 'here's one we made earlier' gag in any of a) this tweet b) the headline c) the standfirst d) the intro all of them cruelly passed up.
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UK arts sector is getting a £270 million funding boost – but there are winners and losers - @adambehrlive.bsky.social shares his thoughts in this blog with @uk.theconversation.com bit.ly/4hmZnLy
UK arts sector is getting a £270 million funding boost – but there are winners and losers
There has been a sea change in arts funding with the idea of intrinsic worth replaced by economic potential.
bit.ly
March 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
UK arts sector is getting a £270 million funding boost – but there are winners and losers - @adambehrlive.bsky.social shares his thoughts in this blog with @uk.theconversation.com bit.ly/4hmZnLy
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There has been a sea change in arts funding with the idea of intrinsic worth replaced by economic potential.
UK arts sector is getting a £270 million funding boost – but there are winners and losers
There has been a sea change in arts funding with the idea of intrinsic worth replaced by economic potential.
tcnv.link
March 5, 2025 at 9:33 AM
There has been a sea change in arts funding with the idea of intrinsic worth replaced by economic potential.
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Porous barriers between ‘high art’ and ‘popular culture’, state support, and uncertain environment. A few words for @uk.theconversation.com on recent govt arts funding announcement, Jennie Lee’s 60 year old culture white paper, and the distance still to travel.
theconversation.com/uk-arts-sect...
theconversation.com/uk-arts-sect...
UK arts sector is getting a £270 million funding boost – but there are winners and losers
There has been a sea change in arts funding with the idea of intrinsic worth replaced by economic potential.
theconversation.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Porous barriers between ‘high art’ and ‘popular culture’, state support, and uncertain environment. A few words for @uk.theconversation.com on recent govt arts funding announcement, Jennie Lee’s 60 year old culture white paper, and the distance still to travel.
theconversation.com/uk-arts-sect...
theconversation.com/uk-arts-sect...
Porous barriers between ‘high art’ and ‘popular culture’, state support, and uncertain environment. A few words for @uk.theconversation.com on recent govt arts funding announcement, Jennie Lee’s 60 year old culture white paper, and the distance still to travel.
theconversation.com/uk-arts-sect...
theconversation.com/uk-arts-sect...
UK arts sector is getting a £270 million funding boost – but there are winners and losers
There has been a sea change in arts funding with the idea of intrinsic worth replaced by economic potential.
theconversation.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Porous barriers between ‘high art’ and ‘popular culture’, state support, and uncertain environment. A few words for @uk.theconversation.com on recent govt arts funding announcement, Jennie Lee’s 60 year old culture white paper, and the distance still to travel.
theconversation.com/uk-arts-sect...
theconversation.com/uk-arts-sect...
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Epic subtweet of JD Vance as Starmer opens PMQs by naming some of the British soldiers killed fighting in Afghanistan.
March 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Epic subtweet of JD Vance as Starmer opens PMQs by naming some of the British soldiers killed fighting in Afghanistan.
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One on my favourite examples remains the drawings made by Onfim, a little 6 or 7 year old boy living in Medieval Novgorod. They could have been done today.
And we think he know his name because he wrote it next to a knight on a horse (the hero) stabbing another knight with a lance on the ground
And we think he know his name because he wrote it next to a knight on a horse (the hero) stabbing another knight with a lance on the ground
February 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
One on my favourite examples remains the drawings made by Onfim, a little 6 or 7 year old boy living in Medieval Novgorod. They could have been done today.
And we think he know his name because he wrote it next to a knight on a horse (the hero) stabbing another knight with a lance on the ground
And we think he know his name because he wrote it next to a knight on a horse (the hero) stabbing another knight with a lance on the ground
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Back on the road with the live music mapping team. Looking forward to @ntiaofficial.bsky.social summit day two tomorrow.
February 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Back on the road with the live music mapping team. Looking forward to @ntiaofficial.bsky.social summit day two tomorrow.
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British Tories: the mainstream conservative party has never been able to beat the populist right by copying them...
January 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
British Tories: the mainstream conservative party has never been able to beat the populist right by copying them...
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Scooby Doo prequel: Young Man Withers sets up an amusement park. Four kids, thrown out for being too small to go on the rides, vow revenge.
January 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Scooby Doo prequel: Young Man Withers sets up an amusement park. Four kids, thrown out for being too small to go on the rides, vow revenge.
A few words today with 2GB Radio Sydney on changes in the music industry over the years.
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The evolution of the music industry - 2GB Afternoons with Michael McLaren
Adam Behr, Senior Lecturer in Popular and Contemporary Music at Newcastle University, chats with Trevor.
omny.fm
December 20, 2024 at 7:20 PM
A few words today with 2GB Radio Sydney on changes in the music industry over the years.
omny.fm/shows/2gb-af...
omny.fm/shows/2gb-af...
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Massive away win for the little fella.
December 2, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Massive away win for the little fella.
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Working with Liverpool and Aston Universities, co-lead by @adambehrlive.bsky.social we're going to be part of a first-of-its-kind project to advance live music mapping technology to transform how live music ecosystems are understood. 🎵
www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...
#WeAreNCL
www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...
#WeAreNCL
Live Music Mapping Project 2.0
Newcastle University to be part of a first-of-its-kind project to advance live music mapping technology.
www.ncl.ac.uk
November 25, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Working with Liverpool and Aston Universities, co-lead by @adambehrlive.bsky.social we're going to be part of a first-of-its-kind project to advance live music mapping technology to transform how live music ecosystems are understood. 🎵
www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...
#WeAreNCL
www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...
#WeAreNCL