Dr Cath Annabel
@cathannabel.bsky.social
Independent researcher (Butor/Sebald). Chair @underthestarssheff.bsky.social. Blogger/feminist/humanist. Music, books, films. NFFC. BLM. Woke as owt. Sheffielder. Widow
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November 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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#MusicSky Music night - paying my respects to the late Gilson Lavis, with some classic Squeeze, East Side Story, always one of my fave albums. So many great songs.
November 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
#MusicSky Music night - paying my respects to the late Gilson Lavis, with some classic Squeeze, East Side Story, always one of my fave albums. So many great songs.
#MusicSky music night. Nigel Kennedy Quintet: Recital (NK violin & celeste, Rolf Bussalb acoustic guitar & 12 string, Yaron Stavi bass, Krzysztof Dziedzic drums; Barbara Dziewiecka 2nd violin, viola). 4 Fats Waller tunes, + Brubeck, Bach, Kennedy & others. Reliving his recent Sheff gig.
November 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
#MusicSky music night. Nigel Kennedy Quintet: Recital (NK violin & celeste, Rolf Bussalb acoustic guitar & 12 string, Yaron Stavi bass, Krzysztof Dziedzic drums; Barbara Dziewiecka 2nd violin, viola). 4 Fats Waller tunes, + Brubeck, Bach, Kennedy & others. Reliving his recent Sheff gig.
#MusicSky A wonderfully uplifting evening of music that ponders mortality, from the Doduk Qtet - Terra Memoria by Kaija Saariaho, pieces by Gesualdo, Mussorgsky & Liszt arranged for string qtet, & Schubert's Death & the Maiden. @musicintheround.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
#MusicSky A wonderfully uplifting evening of music that ponders mortality, from the Doduk Qtet - Terra Memoria by Kaija Saariaho, pieces by Gesualdo, Mussorgsky & Liszt arranged for string qtet, & Schubert's Death & the Maiden. @musicintheround.bsky.social
Music night. Re-listened to the Ravel String Qtet in F major that I heard the Piatti Qtet playing last week at @musicintheround.bsky.social. And have now put on a compilation of Bernard Herrmann Hitchcock scores, starting with the brilliant Psycho Suite which was on the same programme as the Ravel.
November 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Music night. Re-listened to the Ravel String Qtet in F major that I heard the Piatti Qtet playing last week at @musicintheround.bsky.social. And have now put on a compilation of Bernard Herrmann Hitchcock scores, starting with the brilliant Psycho Suite which was on the same programme as the Ravel.
Music night. Gong, in prep. for seeing them live at Crookes Social Club on Wednesday. Starting off, obviously, with Camembert Electrique, from 1971. Sold by Virgin Records for 59p, the price of a single. Tu veux le camembert?
November 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Music night. Gong, in prep. for seeing them live at Crookes Social Club on Wednesday. Starting off, obviously, with Camembert Electrique, from 1971. Sold by Virgin Records for 59p, the price of a single. Tu veux le camembert?
Music night. Laura Jurd's latest album, Rites & Revelations, following on from last night's gig. It's brilliant stuff - a great line-up of trumpet, accordion, viola, percussion & electric bass, with folk elements, a touch of klezmer, & definite Third Ear Band vibes, I'd venture to say.
November 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Music night. Laura Jurd's latest album, Rites & Revelations, following on from last night's gig. It's brilliant stuff - a great line-up of trumpet, accordion, viola, percussion & electric bass, with folk elements, a touch of klezmer, & definite Third Ear Band vibes, I'd venture to say.
Music night. Prompted by hearing a track on the wake playlist to listen to the vinyl copy of Working Week's Companeros, which I haven't heard for a very long time. It's their 2nd album, from 1986, songs perhaps not quite as strong as on Working Nights but lovely.
November 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Music night. Prompted by hearing a track on the wake playlist to listen to the vinyl copy of Working Week's Companeros, which I haven't heard for a very long time. It's their 2nd album, from 1986, songs perhaps not quite as strong as on Working Nights but lovely.
This time four years ago, M's funeral service was underway, & it was full of music. Beach Boys, Miles Davis, Ellington, Bowie (via Glass), Hendrix, the Beatles, Gerry Mulligan (My Funny Valentine). Then at the wake we heard just a few hours of the epic playlist that I've fired up again today.
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This time four years ago, M's funeral service was underway, & it was full of music. Beach Boys, Miles Davis, Ellington, Bowie (via Glass), Hendrix, the Beatles, Gerry Mulligan (My Funny Valentine). Then at the wake we heard just a few hours of the epic playlist that I've fired up again today.
Music afternoon - something to combat the dreary, rainsodden skies... Nigel Kennedy, who we saw live a few weeks ago, an early album of Bartok & Ellington, & now from 2003 with the Kroke Band. Taken together they give a real flavour of his musicianship & his eclecticism.
November 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Music afternoon - something to combat the dreary, rainsodden skies... Nigel Kennedy, who we saw live a few weeks ago, an early album of Bartok & Ellington, & now from 2003 with the Kroke Band. Taken together they give a real flavour of his musicianship & his eclecticism.
Loved that Laura Jurd gig so much that I had to buy the album - they’d run out of CDs so bought the vinyl.
November 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Loved that Laura Jurd gig so much that I had to buy the album - they’d run out of CDs so bought the vinyl.
Absolutely loving the Laura Jurd Quintet live at Sheffield’s Firth Hall - another brilliant evening of music from Sheffield Jazz.
November 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Absolutely loving the Laura Jurd Quintet live at Sheffield’s Firth Hall - another brilliant evening of music from Sheffield Jazz.
A great evening with @musicintheround.bsky.social - this time cinematic music with the excellent @piattiquartet.bsky.social: Bernard Hermann's Psycho suite, a piece by Jonny Greenwood for There Will Be Blood, Glass's music for Mishima & Ravel's Qtet in F Major, used for Royal Tenenbaums. Fabulous.
November 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
A great evening with @musicintheround.bsky.social - this time cinematic music with the excellent @piattiquartet.bsky.social: Bernard Hermann's Psycho suite, a piece by Jonny Greenwood for There Will Be Blood, Glass's music for Mishima & Ravel's Qtet in F Major, used for Royal Tenenbaums. Fabulous.
Music night. Winding down with Pentangle, live at Berkeley Community Theatre in 1970, because it's gorgeous & in tribute to the late Danny Thompson, whose double bass skills are very much in evidence.
November 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Music night. Winding down with Pentangle, live at Berkeley Community Theatre in 1970, because it's gorgeous & in tribute to the late Danny Thompson, whose double bass skills are very much in evidence.
Music night. Quite a change of style & pace, Soft Cell - The Singles, in honour of the late David Ball. And what cracking singles they are.
November 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Music night. Quite a change of style & pace, Soft Cell - The Singles, in honour of the late David Ball. And what cracking singles they are.
Music night. Billy Marrows' chamber jazz collective Grande Familia with Penelope, and the album was created for Marrows' mum Penelope who had pancreatic cancer, & completed & released after her death, in 2024. Thx to @thestubbseffect.bsky.social for the gift, & to Grande Familia for the music.
November 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Music night. Billy Marrows' chamber jazz collective Grande Familia with Penelope, and the album was created for Marrows' mum Penelope who had pancreatic cancer, & completed & released after her death, in 2024. Thx to @thestubbseffect.bsky.social for the gift, & to Grande Familia for the music.
Music afternoon. An old favourite, Egberto Gismonti - Danca das Cabecas, from 1977. With percussionist Naná Vasconcelos.
November 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Music afternoon. An old favourite, Egberto Gismonti - Danca das Cabecas, from 1977. With percussionist Naná Vasconcelos.
Music afternoon. More Jarrett & DeJohnette, this time + Gary Peacock on bass - My Foolish Heart, live at Montreux, from 2001. A 2 CD set of tunes from Miles, Monk, Mulligan, Rodgers & Hart, Hammerstein & Kern, Waller & more...
November 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Music afternoon. More Jarrett & DeJohnette, this time + Gary Peacock on bass - My Foolish Heart, live at Montreux, from 2001. A 2 CD set of tunes from Miles, Monk, Mulligan, Rodgers & Hart, Hammerstein & Kern, Waller & more...
Music afternoon. Ruta & Daitya - Keith Jarrett & Jack DeJohnette, from 1973. I wanted to play some Jarrett, having heard some short pieces played by Shani Diluka the other day, but also obvs to pay respects to the late Jack DeJohnette. Jarrett is on electric piano, which is apparently quite rare.
November 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Music afternoon. Ruta & Daitya - Keith Jarrett & Jack DeJohnette, from 1973. I wanted to play some Jarrett, having heard some short pieces played by Shani Diluka the other day, but also obvs to pay respects to the late Jack DeJohnette. Jarrett is on electric piano, which is apparently quite rare.
Music afternoon. Moondog, eponymous album from 1969 (not to be confused with his epon. 1956 album). Fascinating composer - this is a sort of classical/jazz minimalist fusion. Heard Shani Diluka playing his Canon VIII and Barn Dance in a programme linking Bach with US minimalism the other night.
November 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Music afternoon. Moondog, eponymous album from 1969 (not to be confused with his epon. 1956 album). Fascinating composer - this is a sort of classical/jazz minimalist fusion. Heard Shani Diluka playing his Canon VIII and Barn Dance in a programme linking Bach with US minimalism the other night.
Another stunning @musicintheround.bsky.social last night - Messiaen's Qtet for the End of Time, without doubt one of the greatest pieces of music of the 20th c., played by the brilliant Ensemble 360. Beauty and ferocity, overwhelming intensity - however often I hear it, it never becomes familiar.
November 2, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Another stunning @musicintheround.bsky.social last night - Messiaen's Qtet for the End of Time, without doubt one of the greatest pieces of music of the 20th c., played by the brilliant Ensemble 360. Beauty and ferocity, overwhelming intensity - however often I hear it, it never becomes familiar.