Andrew (Arfur) Clarke
apcrft.bsky.social
Andrew (Arfur) Clarke
@apcrft.bsky.social
We are where we are, because who could have imagined we would end up here?
#oracle ACE alumnus #PLSQL #music #books #films (but mainly music)
✝️ Mark 9:24
lapsed blogger https://radiofreetooting.blogspot.com
#TheTwen2ie5 day 32

1️⃣6️⃣ Loyle Carner | Nobody Knows (Ladas Road) | hugo | 2022 | UK

Just realised I should have posted this yesterday 🙄 Better late than never

youtu.be/kaDgT7w4dEg?...
Loyle Carner - Nobody Knows (Ladas Road)
YouTube video by LoyleCarnerVEVO
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 day 33

1️⃣5️⃣ The Comet Is Coming | CODE | Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam | 2022 | UK

The sort of jazz which defies you to say "Nice"

soundcloud.com/thecometisco...
CODE
The Comet Is Coming has possessed an air of inevitability almost from the word “Go”! Much like the trail-blazing name they originally lifted from a BBC Radio Workshop record, the trio has participated
soundcloud.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
With thanks to the son'n'heir who spotted today's pangram..
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 day 32

1️⃣7️⃣ High Vis | Mind's a Lie | Guided Tour | 2024 | UK

Pulsing bass and a pounding beat drives this post-punk belter.

highvis.bandcamp.com/track/minds-...
Mind's a Lie, by High Vis
from the album Guided Tour
highvis.bandcamp.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Reposted by Andrew (Arfur) Clarke
Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 day 33

1️⃣8️⃣ Lana Del Rey | White Dress | Chemtrails Over the Country Club | 2021 | USA

I'm sorry if this song makes a fitting soundtrack for your Saturday evening.

youtu.be/yJuV8PDwvC8?...
Lana Del Rey - White Dress (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by LanaDelReyVEVO
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Fins don't lie
sharkira, shakira: thread
November 8, 2025 at 11:49 AM
An ancient mariner writes
November 8, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Inflatable rack of ribs ahoy! #LordMayorsShow
November 8, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Unfortunately that *is* all the gold we have left in the Bank Of England's vaults #LordMayorsShow
November 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 day 32

1️⃣9️⃣ Ghostpoet | Concrete Pony | I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep | 2020 | UK

"There is no such things as experimental music now, there is just music." Discuss

ghostpoet.bandcamp.com/track/concre...
Concrete Pony, by Ghostpoet
from the album I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep
ghostpoet.bandcamp.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
November 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 day 31

2️⃣0️⃣ Kokoroko | Baba Ayoola | single | 2020 | UK

Uplifting London Afrobeat for what is a grey day here

kokoroko.bandcamp.com/album/baba-a...
Baba Ayoola, by Kokoroko
1 track album
kokoroko.bandcamp.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:33 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 day 30

2️⃣1️⃣ 4am Kru & Papa Levi | Ribena | single | 2024 | UK

One more thing those FB nostalgia whiners always forget: back in the old days we did not have the joy of a carton of blackcurrant cordial in our luncbox.

4amkru.bandcamp.com/album/ribena
Ribena, by 4am Kru & Papa Levi
2 track album
4amkru.bandcamp.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 day 29

2️⃣2️⃣ Yazz Ahmed | Ruby Bridges (DJ Plead Remix) | Polyhymnia Remixed EP | 2020 | UK/Bahrain (ft Australia)

One of the innovations of modern jazz is its embrace of other music forms: dance and breakbeat, the dub and the remix.

yazzahmed.bandcamp.com/track/yazz-a...
Yazz Ahmed - Ruby Bridges (DJ Plead Remix), by Yazz Ahmed
from the album Polyhymnia Remixed
yazzahmed.bandcamp.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 day 28

2️⃣3️⃣ Ibibio Sound Machine | Electricity | Electricity | 2021 | UK

HAve you ever wondered, what if Kraftwerk had hailed from Lagos rather than Düsseldorf?

ibibiosoundmachine.bandcamp.com/track/electr...
Electricity, by Ibibio Sound Machine
from the album Electricity
ibibiosoundmachine.bandcamp.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
November 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
To all those principled #FantasyFootball managers - like my son - who refuse to even put Haaland in their team, let alone make him captain: We salute your integrity even as we enjoy our higher league placings. Yours is the moral victory.
November 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Friends fear he is flexing again
November 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 day 27

2️⃣4️⃣ Lola Young | Messy | Messy EP | 2024 | UK

A tidy littel number

youtu.be/k-k2_Liofy8?...
Lola Young - Messy (Official Video)
YouTube video by LolaYoungVEVO
youtu.be
November 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Our target demographic is divorced wankers with a drink-driving conviction and low serotonin"
November 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 day 26

2️⃣5️⃣ Lady Blackbird | Black Acid Soul | Black Acid Soul | 2021 | USA

Is it perverse to pick a largely instrumental track from such a talented singer? Yes, yes it is. I don't know what I was thinking. Anyway, whole album is marvellous

iamladyblackbird.bandcamp.com/track/black-...
Black Acid Soul, by Lady Blackbird
from the album Black Acid Soul
iamladyblackbird.bandcamp.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
In 1990 me and a mate went Interrailing. It was right after the Berlin Wall came down, and we were among the first backpackers to travel to Czechoslovakia (as it was then), Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria.
Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.
November 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Remembering a talk on private browsing at Open Tech London back in the day. The speaker reported a survey in which people were perfectly happy to sell their private data to Google - until they found out that Google only valued their private data at £5.64 (give or take a few pennies).
November 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Obviously the weather deterred the trick-or-treaters, so we're working our way through a bag of spooky Swizzlers lollipops.

Although the spookiest thing about a Maslow Drumstick is deciding whether to leave some lolly on the stick, or have it all and coommit to eating some cardboard...
October 31, 2025 at 11:47 PM