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"Pick a key, keep the same tempo, make no changes and stick with it for an hour or more." Strings & Drones and stuff.
Crowd shot from last night's kneecap gig.
November 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Saw Sports Team in Pompey tonight, guitarist was wearing a 'Family Cat, all other bands are Dogshite' T Shirt, haven't seen one of those for many years. Impressed.
November 15, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Going on a road trip & taking these friends old & new along for the ride.
November 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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BBC Radio 3
Music Planet

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Širom
Wilted Superstition Engaged in Copulation
November 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Chosen by Billy Bragg this was an astonishing listen, couldn't work out from which religion it came.
BBC Radio 3
Earlier... with Jools Holland

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Trad., Donald MacLeod & Congregation of Stornoway Free Church
Stroudwater: Psalm 46
November 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The Quest by Alli Blois & The Orange County Shred Centre

Alli has a fine voice not dissimilar to Juni Habel, and closing track 'The Chalice Song' is an uplifting portmanteau paean to wine and celebratory sing along. This is grailcore.

halloweenonraspberryhillrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-qu...
The Quest, by Alli Blois & The Orange County Shred Center
5 track album
halloweenonraspberryhillrecords.bandcamp.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Still pinching myself at being invited to the most iconic music venue on the south coast to interview the man who makes it all tick, and what funding from the Music Venues Trust will mean for all involved.
Please share, not for my benefit, but for the sake of all small independent music venues.
June 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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It’s basically crap that the king has ‘private income’, which will now sustain the ghastly Andrew. He gets about £25m a year from the Duchies which were appropriated by the crown from previous owners and today not taxed. Basically theft or paid for by taxpayers like everything else they took.
October 31, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Saw this for the first time only quite recently.

"I'm taking the microphones to pay for the damage to my axe"

#FallFriday

youtu.be/1totDTfuMQg?...
Fall fans 'round table
YouTube video by BuyKurious
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October 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Interview with Dave Pearce of Flying Saucer Attack (by David Keenan for Bomb Magazine, 2015) taking about In Search of Spaces:
October 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
really enjoying this -
October 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Cooking the Sunday roast with this perfect accompaniment -
#recommNeds

2025.95

Toby Hay: New Music For The 6 String Guitar

If you believe that there can never be enough gorgeous meditative acoustic guitar music (and I'm personally of the opinion that there can never be enough gorgeous meditative acoustic guitar […]

[Original post on shakedown.social]
October 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
TWP, 40 years in the business.

I've Stockholm Syndromed my wife with a few bands, most successful of which has been The Wedding Present (gateway drug was Cinerama), to the extent that a few years ago she gave me this.
October 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
#strings&drones today.

Catching up with back issues of Late Junction and sometimes you hear a piece that just stops you in your tracks.

This is quite something. Thank you Jennifer Lucy Allan, great track selections on this show.

youtu.be/V9aJlC0Eueg?...
October 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Anyone else seen life affirming gigs this week?

Gwenifer Raymond at the Wight Bear in Southbourne last night.

Was looking forward to it but quite unprepared for the power, depth of sound, and the ragas! Absolutely stunning.
October 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
R3 has been great tonight, earlier on In Concert was the Jess Gillam Ensemble who covered Starman (and Sidney Bechet), mad and joyful it was.
BBC Radio 3
Night Tracks

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Žibuoklė Martinaitytė, Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras & Karolis Variakojis
Sielunmaisema: III. Summer
October 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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BBC Radio 3
Radio 3 in Concert

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Michael Nyman, Peter Riley & Jess Gillam Ensemble
Chasing Sheep Is Best Left To Shepherds
October 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
OTD 1986, John Peel Show:

(from the Peel Wiki)
October 13, 2025 at 8:41 AM
If you see this quote with yr favourite Pokémon
October 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Hug your favourite bass player
October 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Been thinking about the end game for the oligarchs pulling the strings in the US (and exporting their ideology). Cunning but uneducated people. They don't care about history or culture. The earth may end up as a smoking ruin but that's fine as long as they're rich and in charge.
October 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Five plays in and I'm still getting under the skin of this fascinating work. Hints at nuances, for me O'r Coed suggests Joanna Brouk; Carol Mynyddog, Current 93's Dilly Song. I've also had my Mum translating their lyrics.

Recommended listening, and they're currently on tour.
To mark the release of new album, Angel, Nation Cymru spoke with Cerys Hafana to gain further insight into one of this year’s most anticipated pieces of music, and to ask about their whereabouts one fateful day in 1979…
Interview: Cerys Hafana discusses new album Angel, Brittany and a denial of murder
Stephen Price This Friday saw the release of Cerys Hafana’s latest album, Angel – a bold, moving suite of music, voice and soundscape shaped by Wales, Brittany, and an approach perhaps influenced by t...
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October 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
October 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Quote with your profile header.

Kayak to the Isle of Wight, one pot supper before kipping on the beach.
September 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
September 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM