Russ Chandler
@russchandlermusic.com
Banjo player.
Revolutionary Socialist.
Music Hall enthusiast.
Web dev.
Film buff.
He / Him.
Love Music, Hate Racism.
Drunkard.
Revolutionary Socialist.
Music Hall enthusiast.
Web dev.
Film buff.
He / Him.
Love Music, Hate Racism.
Drunkard.
Ripple in still water,
When there is no pebble tossed
Nor wind to blow.
You who choose to lead must follow,
But if you fall, you fall alone.
If you should stand, then who's to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home...
youtu.be/QmMjY6tXaEo
When there is no pebble tossed
Nor wind to blow.
You who choose to lead must follow,
But if you fall, you fall alone.
If you should stand, then who's to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home...
youtu.be/QmMjY6tXaEo
Grateful Dead - Ripple (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Grateful Dead
youtu.be
January 11, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Ripple in still water,
When there is no pebble tossed
Nor wind to blow.
You who choose to lead must follow,
But if you fall, you fall alone.
If you should stand, then who's to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home...
youtu.be/QmMjY6tXaEo
When there is no pebble tossed
Nor wind to blow.
You who choose to lead must follow,
But if you fall, you fall alone.
If you should stand, then who's to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home...
youtu.be/QmMjY6tXaEo
I used to do fundraising for Haven House. And in the last couple of years I have learnt what dying looks like.
I hate the Labour Party with every fibre of my being. I hope the bastards making these decisions die in fear and pain. They deserve it.
socialistworker.co.uk/news/lack-of...
I hate the Labour Party with every fibre of my being. I hope the bastards making these decisions die in fear and pain. They deserve it.
socialistworker.co.uk/news/lack-of...
Lack of funding devastates end of life care
Labour has caused a crisis in hospice care. And as hospices close down, it's a disaster for families which need them, like Nathan's.
socialistworker.co.uk
January 8, 2026 at 3:26 PM
I used to do fundraising for Haven House. And in the last couple of years I have learnt what dying looks like.
I hate the Labour Party with every fibre of my being. I hope the bastards making these decisions die in fear and pain. They deserve it.
socialistworker.co.uk/news/lack-of...
I hate the Labour Party with every fibre of my being. I hope the bastards making these decisions die in fear and pain. They deserve it.
socialistworker.co.uk/news/lack-of...
Reposted by Russ Chandler
Reposted by Russ Chandler
@alexcallinicos : US raid on #Venezuela exposes brutal lesson: socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...
Alex Callinicos: US raid on Venezuela exposes brutal lesson - Socialist Worker
This affirms the strategic priority that, as Trump put it last Saturday, “US dominance in the Western hemisphere will never be questioned again”
socialistworker.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 4:42 PM
@alexcallinicos : US raid on #Venezuela exposes brutal lesson: socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...
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On this day in 1890, writer and revolutionary Victor Serge was born. Originally an anarchist, Serge travelled to revolutionary Russia and became a Bolshevik and revolutionary socialist.
Read more about his life here: bit.ly/3n17r8G
Read more about his life here: bit.ly/3n17r8G
December 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
On this day in 1890, writer and revolutionary Victor Serge was born. Originally an anarchist, Serge travelled to revolutionary Russia and became a Bolshevik and revolutionary socialist.
Read more about his life here: bit.ly/3n17r8G
Read more about his life here: bit.ly/3n17r8G
"In a statement the International Guild of Pigs and Associated Farmyard Swine or the GPAS pointed out that they are sentient and show signs of self preservation but that doesn't seem to get them many rights."
I wonder what Claude tastes like barbecued?
I wonder what Claude tastes like barbecued?
December 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"In a statement the International Guild of Pigs and Associated Farmyard Swine or the GPAS pointed out that they are sentient and show signs of self preservation but that doesn't seem to get them many rights."
I wonder what Claude tastes like barbecued?
I wonder what Claude tastes like barbecued?
A glorious rendition of Joe Morley's "A Georgian Breeze" from Chris Sands with Alexis Rogerson on fortepiano.
Chris tells me this was one of the first banjo tunes he ever heard, it was played to him by the chap he bought his first banjo from!
#ClassicBanjo #Banjo #BanjoFeed
youtu.be/tQik4DcTckM
Chris tells me this was one of the first banjo tunes he ever heard, it was played to him by the chap he bought his first banjo from!
#ClassicBanjo #Banjo #BanjoFeed
youtu.be/tQik4DcTckM
A Georgian Breeze by Joe Morley - Ragtime Banjo with Fortepiano!
YouTube video by Chris Sands
youtu.be
December 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
A glorious rendition of Joe Morley's "A Georgian Breeze" from Chris Sands with Alexis Rogerson on fortepiano.
Chris tells me this was one of the first banjo tunes he ever heard, it was played to him by the chap he bought his first banjo from!
#ClassicBanjo #Banjo #BanjoFeed
youtu.be/tQik4DcTckM
Chris tells me this was one of the first banjo tunes he ever heard, it was played to him by the chap he bought his first banjo from!
#ClassicBanjo #Banjo #BanjoFeed
youtu.be/tQik4DcTckM
Reposted by Russ Chandler
Your grandad shot at nazis
taxed the rich and built the NHS
You mum fought for equality
and fairness, nonetheless
we sleepwalked into the arms
of bastard billionaires
Now you hang flags from lampposts
and mouth pantomime prayers
taxed the rich and built the NHS
You mum fought for equality
and fairness, nonetheless
we sleepwalked into the arms
of bastard billionaires
Now you hang flags from lampposts
and mouth pantomime prayers
December 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Your grandad shot at nazis
taxed the rich and built the NHS
You mum fought for equality
and fairness, nonetheless
we sleepwalked into the arms
of bastard billionaires
Now you hang flags from lampposts
and mouth pantomime prayers
taxed the rich and built the NHS
You mum fought for equality
and fairness, nonetheless
we sleepwalked into the arms
of bastard billionaires
Now you hang flags from lampposts
and mouth pantomime prayers
The best GSfC of the Gatis era? No arch winking at the camera or is it real or not Scooby Doo business. Atmosphere, character and chills. Nice one!
A Ghost Story for Christmas, The Room in the Tower: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002p1v6 via @bbciplayer
A Ghost Story for Christmas, The Room in the Tower: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002p1v6 via @bbciplayer
A Ghost Story for Christmas - The Room in the Tower
Roger has been haunted by a recurring dream, a mysterious house and an unseen terror. He becomes disturbed as they become reality. What is lurking in the room in the tower?
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The best GSfC of the Gatis era? No arch winking at the camera or is it real or not Scooby Doo business. Atmosphere, character and chills. Nice one!
A Ghost Story for Christmas, The Room in the Tower: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002p1v6 via @bbciplayer
A Ghost Story for Christmas, The Room in the Tower: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002p1v6 via @bbciplayer
Just had a chap in to fix my satellite dish.
"To be honest" I told him "there's only one channel watch on this."
His face split into a grin and he asked "Talking Pictures?" "Yes" I said to which he replied "I hear that all the time!"
#TrueStory @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
"To be honest" I told him "there's only one channel watch on this."
His face split into a grin and he asked "Talking Pictures?" "Yes" I said to which he replied "I hear that all the time!"
#TrueStory @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Just had a chap in to fix my satellite dish.
"To be honest" I told him "there's only one channel watch on this."
His face split into a grin and he asked "Talking Pictures?" "Yes" I said to which he replied "I hear that all the time!"
#TrueStory @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
"To be honest" I told him "there's only one channel watch on this."
His face split into a grin and he asked "Talking Pictures?" "Yes" I said to which he replied "I hear that all the time!"
#TrueStory @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
It's that day when I share this song I produced for an organisation called No Glory a few years back.
The donkeys are wearing poppies the lions should wear something else.
youtu.be/DaMhuefxiNw?...
The donkeys are wearing poppies the lions should wear something else.
youtu.be/DaMhuefxiNw?...
Remembrance Day: Why I'll wear a dandelion instead of a red poppy
YouTube video by nowarglory
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
It's that day when I share this song I produced for an organisation called No Glory a few years back.
The donkeys are wearing poppies the lions should wear something else.
youtu.be/DaMhuefxiNw?...
The donkeys are wearing poppies the lions should wear something else.
youtu.be/DaMhuefxiNw?...
I have a proper pub gig coming up in one of Sheffields best pubs. A banjo picking evening of folk songs, music hall, protest songs, ragtime, dreadful jokes and some truly enormous choruses to sing along with!
Saturday 29 November
The Sheaf View, Sheffield S2 3AA
Starts 8:30.
Saturday 29 November
The Sheaf View, Sheffield S2 3AA
Starts 8:30.
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I have a proper pub gig coming up in one of Sheffields best pubs. A banjo picking evening of folk songs, music hall, protest songs, ragtime, dreadful jokes and some truly enormous choruses to sing along with!
Saturday 29 November
The Sheaf View, Sheffield S2 3AA
Starts 8:30.
Saturday 29 November
The Sheaf View, Sheffield S2 3AA
Starts 8:30.
I hope the Devil waterboards you for all eternity.
November 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I hope the Devil waterboards you for all eternity.
You may be cool. But you will never be Pete Seeger in a suit playing long neck banjo against the New York skyline cool.
#BanjoFeed
#BanjoFeed
October 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
You may be cool. But you will never be Pete Seeger in a suit playing long neck banjo against the New York skyline cool.
#BanjoFeed
#BanjoFeed
"Not every exasperated petty bourgeois could have become Hitler, but a particle of Hitler is lodged in every exasperated petty bourgeois..."
Trotsky.
www.thestar.co.uk/news/politic...
Trotsky.
www.thestar.co.uk/news/politic...
Massive Union Jack flag placed on side of former council building
A defiant property boss has draped a massive Union Jack flag across a former council HQ – after officials ordered him to tear down a smaller version for breaking planning rules.
www.thestar.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
"Not every exasperated petty bourgeois could have become Hitler, but a particle of Hitler is lodged in every exasperated petty bourgeois..."
Trotsky.
www.thestar.co.uk/news/politic...
Trotsky.
www.thestar.co.uk/news/politic...
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Douglass Crockwell, American (1904-1968), Machinists, 1932, oil on canvas, 121.9 x 91.8 cm, private collection
October 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Douglass Crockwell, American (1904-1968), Machinists, 1932, oil on canvas, 121.9 x 91.8 cm, private collection
"Reform councillor Alan Preest, from the Forest of Dean District Council, branded the letters "childish" and "silly".
"Russ Chandler, a banjo player resident in Sheffield branded Cllr Preest a "knob head..."
Total respect to whoever is behind this!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"Russ Chandler, a banjo player resident in Sheffield branded Cllr Preest a "knob head..."
Total respect to whoever is behind this!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Warning as spoof refugee housing letters posted through letterboxes
Residents living on streets with St George's flags were told they could soon be housing refugees.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"Reform councillor Alan Preest, from the Forest of Dean District Council, branded the letters "childish" and "silly".
"Russ Chandler, a banjo player resident in Sheffield branded Cllr Preest a "knob head..."
Total respect to whoever is behind this!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"Russ Chandler, a banjo player resident in Sheffield branded Cllr Preest a "knob head..."
Total respect to whoever is behind this!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Here's a treat - a brilliant new arrangement of Habanera from the opera Carnen by the classic banjo guvnor Chris Sands...
#banjofeed
youtu.be/-V8zeIhIlYk?...
#banjofeed
youtu.be/-V8zeIhIlYk?...
"Habanera" from Carmen played on solo 5-string banjo by Chris Sands
YouTube video by Chris Sands
youtu.be
October 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Here's a treat - a brilliant new arrangement of Habanera from the opera Carnen by the classic banjo guvnor Chris Sands...
#banjofeed
youtu.be/-V8zeIhIlYk?...
#banjofeed
youtu.be/-V8zeIhIlYk?...
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God he gives more than his scripts deserve. #TheFilmCrowd
October 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
God he gives more than his scripts deserve. #TheFilmCrowd
A wonderful canter through the films of Britain's first domestic horror star, the glorious Todd Slaughter from @darkcorners3.bsky.social A great revivalist of Victorian melodrama too.
"Hammer Horror is his unofficial legacy" - I like that.
Polish it off..!
youtu.be/KdaFx2We_Gc
"Hammer Horror is his unofficial legacy" - I like that.
Polish it off..!
youtu.be/KdaFx2We_Gc
Brit Horror before Hammer: The Murderous World of Tod Slaughter
YouTube video by Dark Corners Reviews
youtu.be
October 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
A wonderful canter through the films of Britain's first domestic horror star, the glorious Todd Slaughter from @darkcorners3.bsky.social A great revivalist of Victorian melodrama too.
"Hammer Horror is his unofficial legacy" - I like that.
Polish it off..!
youtu.be/KdaFx2We_Gc
"Hammer Horror is his unofficial legacy" - I like that.
Polish it off..!
youtu.be/KdaFx2We_Gc
'The Drums of the Fore and Aft, and Other Stories' by Rudyard Kipling illustrated by Sarah Noble in 1912 #BanjoFeed
October 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
'The Drums of the Fore and Aft, and Other Stories' by Rudyard Kipling illustrated by Sarah Noble in 1912 #BanjoFeed
October 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Having used Spotify for years have decided to pivot over to Tidal
Not just because Spotify are evil but I am astonished at how much better the sound quality is.
I didn't think I'd really notice but It's got so much more space and depth.
Not just because Spotify are evil but I am astonished at how much better the sound quality is.
I didn't think I'd really notice but It's got so much more space and depth.
September 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Having used Spotify for years have decided to pivot over to Tidal
Not just because Spotify are evil but I am astonished at how much better the sound quality is.
I didn't think I'd really notice but It's got so much more space and depth.
Not just because Spotify are evil but I am astonished at how much better the sound quality is.
I didn't think I'd really notice but It's got so much more space and depth.
You may be cool but you will never be Lon Chaney Jnr in Wolfman makeup having a nap on an alsatian cool...
September 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
You may be cool but you will never be Lon Chaney Jnr in Wolfman makeup having a nap on an alsatian cool...