Colin Randall
@salutsunderland.bsky.social
Journalist, dual 🇬🇧/🇫🇷, folk music, anti-Brexit, pro-SAFC. Salutfolk.com francesalut.substack.com
Ten years after the Bataclan and Charlie Hebdo, nine after Nice … remembering the horror and honouring the dead
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Dark times in the City of Light: the Paris massacre 10 years on
The scourge of terror
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November 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Ten years after the Bataclan and Charlie Hebdo, nine after Nice … remembering the horror and honouring the dead
francesalut.substack.com/p/dark-times...
francesalut.substack.com/p/dark-times...
Forget the whinging Gooners.
They were not robbed, Sunderland didn’t cheat. The ref didn’t get it wrong. Arsenal ‘s first goal was lucky - a needless loss of the ball by Le Fée - and #safc were magnificent
They were not robbed, Sunderland didn’t cheat. The ref didn’t get it wrong. Arsenal ‘s first goal was lucky - a needless loss of the ball by Le Fée - and #safc were magnificent
Sunderland 2-2 Arsenal
A brilliant performance from Xhaka and the team. Now will people stop saying we’ve ´played no one yet’?
Four points from the top two. #safc
A brilliant performance from Xhaka and the team. Now will people stop saying we’ve ´played no one yet’?
Four points from the top two. #safc
November 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Forget the whinging Gooners.
They were not robbed, Sunderland didn’t cheat. The ref didn’t get it wrong. Arsenal ‘s first goal was lucky - a needless loss of the ball by Le Fée - and #safc were magnificent
They were not robbed, Sunderland didn’t cheat. The ref didn’t get it wrong. Arsenal ‘s first goal was lucky - a needless loss of the ball by Le Fée - and #safc were magnificent
Just the right time for a song about the glory, horror and sacrifice of war, one day after the moving display of poppies before Sunderland vs Arsenal salutfolk.com/2021/08/23/s...
November 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Just the right time for a song about the glory, horror and sacrifice of war, one day after the moving display of poppies before Sunderland vs Arsenal salutfolk.com/2021/08/23/s...
Sunderland 2-2 Arsenal
A brilliant performance from Xhaka and the team. Now will people stop saying we’ve ´played no one yet’?
Four points from the top two. #safc
A brilliant performance from Xhaka and the team. Now will people stop saying we’ve ´played no one yet’?
Four points from the top two. #safc
November 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Sunderland 2-2 Arsenal
A brilliant performance from Xhaka and the team. Now will people stop saying we’ve ´played no one yet’?
Four points from the top two. #safc
A brilliant performance from Xhaka and the team. Now will people stop saying we’ve ´played no one yet’?
Four points from the top two. #safc
@barbaradickson.bsky.social welcome to a fellow refugee from Elon Musk’s far right swamp
I share your great sadness at the death of Archie Fisher. My tribute salutfolk.com/2025/11/05/a...
I share your great sadness at the death of Archie Fisher. My tribute salutfolk.com/2025/11/05/a...
November 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
@barbaradickson.bsky.social welcome to a fellow refugee from Elon Musk’s far right swamp
I share your great sadness at the death of Archie Fisher. My tribute salutfolk.com/2025/11/05/a...
I share your great sadness at the death of Archie Fisher. My tribute salutfolk.com/2025/11/05/a...
Tribute to a great figure of Scottish folk music . RIP Archie Fisher @nextwavef.bsky.social
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November 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Tribute to a great figure of Scottish folk music . RIP Archie Fisher @nextwavef.bsky.social
salutfolk.com/2025/11/05/a...
salutfolk.com/2025/11/05/a...
Obscenity and suffering
America 2025: Trump throws a lavish Gatsby-themed party at Mar-a-Lago. Meanwhile...
November 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Obscenity and suffering
At least get me up to 100!
My search for followers continues… help me escape the clutches of Elon Musk, that well known champion of people like Lucy Connolly and Tommy Robinson…
In the far right hellhole now called X, there was Follow Back Friday
I don’t know whether it exists here but am trying to push my followers (and following ) stats higher than their current dismal level.
At Twitter I had - still have - 2.6k followers, here fewer than 100.
Help! I will follow back
I don’t know whether it exists here but am trying to push my followers (and following ) stats higher than their current dismal level.
At Twitter I had - still have - 2.6k followers, here fewer than 100.
Help! I will follow back
November 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
At least get me up to 100!
Reposted by Colin Randall
My latest Substack post has a change of heart about #London, a disappointing end to a supposed link between whale poo, Sir David Attenborough and #ReformUK and some whimsy about crisp-flavoured crisps. Free to view at open.substack.com/pub/francesa...
The joys of London
Plus: whale poo and Reform
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October 31, 2025 at 4:24 PM
My latest Substack post has a change of heart about #London, a disappointing end to a supposed link between whale poo, Sir David Attenborough and #ReformUK and some whimsy about crisp-flavoured crisps. Free to view at open.substack.com/pub/francesa...
My search for followers continues… help me escape the clutches of Elon Musk, that well known champion of people like Lucy Connolly and Tommy Robinson…
In the far right hellhole now called X, there was Follow Back Friday
I don’t know whether it exists here but am trying to push my followers (and following ) stats higher than their current dismal level.
At Twitter I had - still have - 2.6k followers, here fewer than 100.
Help! I will follow back
I don’t know whether it exists here but am trying to push my followers (and following ) stats higher than their current dismal level.
At Twitter I had - still have - 2.6k followers, here fewer than 100.
Help! I will follow back
November 1, 2025 at 12:17 AM
My search for followers continues… help me escape the clutches of Elon Musk, that well known champion of people like Lucy Connolly and Tommy Robinson…
In the far right hellhole now called X, there was Follow Back Friday
I don’t know whether it exists here but am trying to push my followers (and following ) stats higher than their current dismal level.
At Twitter I had - still have - 2.6k followers, here fewer than 100.
Help! I will follow back
I don’t know whether it exists here but am trying to push my followers (and following ) stats higher than their current dismal level.
At Twitter I had - still have - 2.6k followers, here fewer than 100.
Help! I will follow back
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
In the far right hellhole now called X, there was Follow Back Friday
I don’t know whether it exists here but am trying to push my followers (and following ) stats higher than their current dismal level.
At Twitter I had - still have - 2.6k followers, here fewer than 100.
Help! I will follow back
I don’t know whether it exists here but am trying to push my followers (and following ) stats higher than their current dismal level.
At Twitter I had - still have - 2.6k followers, here fewer than 100.
Help! I will follow back
My latest Substack post has a change of heart about #London, a disappointing end to a supposed link between whale poo, Sir David Attenborough and #ReformUK and some whimsy about crisp-flavoured crisps. Free to view at open.substack.com/pub/francesa...
The joys of London
Plus: whale poo and Reform
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:24 PM
My latest Substack post has a change of heart about #London, a disappointing end to a supposed link between whale poo, Sir David Attenborough and #ReformUK and some whimsy about crisp-flavoured crisps. Free to view at open.substack.com/pub/francesa...
The French are at last cracking down on political corruption. Sarkozy becomes La Santé prison’s latest resident.
My Substack piece is free to view
open.substack.com/pub/francesa...
My Substack piece is free to view
open.substack.com/pub/francesa...
Sarkozy behind bars
From presidency to solitary
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October 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The French are at last cracking down on political corruption. Sarkozy becomes La Santé prison’s latest resident.
My Substack piece is free to view
open.substack.com/pub/francesa...
My Substack piece is free to view
open.substack.com/pub/francesa...
Anyone for tea? According to @london.frenchmorning.com the English are obsessed with their cuppa and its supposed curative qualities
Plus more on the excellent @katherinepriddy.bsky.
francesalut.substack.com/p/for-all-th...
Plus more on the excellent @katherinepriddy.bsky.
francesalut.substack.com/p/for-all-th...
October 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Anyone for tea? According to @london.frenchmorning.com the English are obsessed with their cuppa and its supposed curative qualities
Plus more on the excellent @katherinepriddy.bsky.
francesalut.substack.com/p/for-all-th...
Plus more on the excellent @katherinepriddy.bsky.
francesalut.substack.com/p/for-all-th...
@london.frenchmorning.com Les anglais et leurs tasses de thé
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francesalut.substack.com/p/for-all-th...
For all the tea in England
An American acclaims Brummie songbird Katherine Priddy
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October 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
@london.frenchmorning.com Les anglais et leurs tasses de thé
francesalut.substack.com/p/for-all-th...
francesalut.substack.com/p/for-all-th...
Anyone who likes seriously good contemporary acoustic music drawing on folk influences should read this American admirer’s excellent piece on Katherine Priddy @nextwavef.bsky.social
@katherinepriddy.bsky.social
@katherinepriddy.bsky.social
@katherinepriddy.bsky.social
hi Katherine. Salut! Folk’s admiring assessment of your career so far is live at salutfolk.com/2025/10/16/k...
hi Katherine. Salut! Folk’s admiring assessment of your career so far is live at salutfolk.com/2025/10/16/k...
October 16, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Anyone who likes seriously good contemporary acoustic music drawing on folk influences should read this American admirer’s excellent piece on Katherine Priddy @nextwavef.bsky.social
@katherinepriddy.bsky.social
@katherinepriddy.bsky.social
@katherinepriddy.bsky.social
hi Katherine. Salut! Folk’s admiring assessment of your career so far is live at salutfolk.com/2025/10/16/k...
hi Katherine. Salut! Folk’s admiring assessment of your career so far is live at salutfolk.com/2025/10/16/k...
October 16, 2025 at 8:03 AM
@katherinepriddy.bsky.social
hi Katherine. Salut! Folk’s admiring assessment of your career so far is live at salutfolk.com/2025/10/16/k...
hi Katherine. Salut! Folk’s admiring assessment of your career so far is live at salutfolk.com/2025/10/16/k...
Please visit Salut! Folk if you have any liking for folk, folk-rock and related musical genres. Salutfolk.com @nextwavef.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Please visit Salut! Folk if you have any liking for folk, folk-rock and related musical genres. Salutfolk.com @nextwavef.bsky.social
Anyone for banjo music? Damien O’Kane and Ron Block explode the myth that it’s a joke instrument . Brilliant new album Banjovial reviewed salutfolk.com/2025/10/08/d...
October 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Anyone for banjo music? Damien O’Kane and Ron Block explode the myth that it’s a joke instrument . Brilliant new album Banjovial reviewed salutfolk.com/2025/10/08/d...
Another look at Three Score and Ten, a great song we associate with the Watersons. salutfolk.com/2025/10/03/c...
October 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Another look at Three Score and Ten, a great song we associate with the Watersons. salutfolk.com/2025/10/03/c...
The new-look Salut! Folk - formerly Salut! Live - has risen from the ashes of Typepad and is revelling in its Wordpress home. Give it a try salutfolk.com @nextwavef.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The new-look Salut! Folk - formerly Salut! Live - has risen from the ashes of Typepad and is revelling in its Wordpress home. Give it a try salutfolk.com @nextwavef.bsky.social
Proud to honour - however modestly - Martin Carthy and @elizacarthy.bsky.social In this way
On the new Salut #Folk site—which looks a lot better than the old one!
Salut! Folk’s Artists of the Month: Martin and Eliza Carthy salutfolk.com/2025/10/01/a...
@elizacarthy.bsky.social @nextwavef.bsky.social
@elizacarthy.bsky.social @nextwavef.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Proud to honour - however modestly - Martin Carthy and @elizacarthy.bsky.social In this way
Salut! Folk’s Artists of the Month: Martin and Eliza Carthy salutfolk.com/2025/10/01/a...
@elizacarthy.bsky.social @nextwavef.bsky.social
@elizacarthy.bsky.social @nextwavef.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Salut! Folk’s Artists of the Month: Martin and Eliza Carthy salutfolk.com/2025/10/01/a...
@elizacarthy.bsky.social @nextwavef.bsky.social
@elizacarthy.bsky.social @nextwavef.bsky.social
And huge kudos to @nextwavef.bsky.social for his priceless work in making a success of the transition to Wordpress
Salut! Folk editor Colin Randall reviews #Altan’s gig at the Irish Cultural Centre on Saturday at the re-launched and re-designed blog now at Wordpress.
salutfolk.com/2025/09/29/a... @salutsunderland.bsky.social
salutfolk.com/2025/09/29/a... @salutsunderland.bsky.social
Altan: the pride of Donegal
Colin Randall writes: 24 hours earlier, Altan were playing to a pleasantly rowdy crowd in Blacksod, a remote corner of Co Mayo. Hopping on a flight from Knock, they joined the bustling throng of Lo…
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September 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
And huge kudos to @nextwavef.bsky.social for his priceless work in making a success of the transition to Wordpress
Launching Salut! Folk with my appreciation of double bass maestro Danny Thompson #folk-rock #pentangle salutfolk.com/2025/09/26/d...
Danny Thompson RIP: farewell to a great musician, huge character
Introducing Salut! Folk and presenting an appreciation of Danny Thompson, the incomparable double bassist who does
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September 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Launching Salut! Folk with my appreciation of double bass maestro Danny Thompson #folk-rock #pentangle salutfolk.com/2025/09/26/d...