Adrian Porch
@adeporch.bsky.social
Husband, dad, scientist, socialist, stargazer, hill walker, gig goer, vinyl junkie, bus user, serious only occasionally.
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/emeritus/porcha
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=He0azMcAAAAJ&hl=en
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/emeritus/porcha
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=He0azMcAAAAJ&hl=en
Released 53 years ago today. What a debut album!
June 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Released 53 years ago today. What a debut album!
40 years old, bought on day of release in HMV Cardiff with free 12” of “Couldn’t Bear to be Special”, which clearly couldn’t have sold very well in 1984.
June 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
40 years old, bought on day of release in HMV Cardiff with free 12” of “Couldn’t Bear to be Special”, which clearly couldn’t have sold very well in 1984.
RIP Brian Wilson, you only know what you miss when it’s gone.
June 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
RIP Brian Wilson, you only know what you miss when it’s gone.
Unique. RIP David Thomas.
April 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Unique. RIP David Thomas.
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This is a terrible day for the staff and students of Cardiff University. Engineering has a proposed reduction of up to 20% staff and reduced student numbers. The UK needs more graduate Engineers, not less.
This is a terrible day for the staff and students of Cardiff University. Engineering has a proposed reduction of up to 20% staff and reduced student numbers. The UK needs more graduate Engineers, not less.
Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs
Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says
www.bbc.co.uk
January 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is a terrible day for the staff and students of Cardiff University. Engineering has a proposed reduction of up to 20% staff and reduced student numbers. The UK needs more graduate Engineers, not less.
This is a terrible day for the staff and students of Cardiff University. Engineering has a proposed reduction of up to 20% staff and reduced student numbers. The UK needs more graduate Engineers, not less.
Hear how our microwave technology for the rapid release of DNA from bacteria could transform the diagnosis and management of TB in humans and animals.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
December 16, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Hear how our microwave technology for the rapid release of DNA from bacteria could transform the diagnosis and management of TB in humans and animals.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Another 45th anniversary. I bought this in Debenhams in Gloucester the day after release, not very punk rock of me.
December 14, 2024 at 10:05 AM
Another 45th anniversary. I bought this in Debenhams in Gloucester the day after release, not very punk rock of me.
Fan Fawr catching the last rays of winter evening sunshine.
December 3, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Fan Fawr catching the last rays of winter evening sunshine.
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Olympus Mons - The tallest mountain of all planets and other rounded bodies in the Solar System
November 26, 2024 at 4:28 AM
Olympus Mons - The tallest mountain of all planets and other rounded bodies in the Solar System
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Fontaines D.C. played Cardiff venue the Moon to a crowd of just 40 people back in 2018...
Next week they play the city's Utilita Arena to a crowd of 5000.
The Moon shutdown without warning last week - without small venues, we're nothing.
www.clashmusic.com/features/car...
Next week they play the city's Utilita Arena to a crowd of 5000.
The Moon shutdown without warning last week - without small venues, we're nothing.
www.clashmusic.com/features/car...
November 26, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Fontaines D.C. played Cardiff venue the Moon to a crowd of just 40 people back in 2018...
Next week they play the city's Utilita Arena to a crowd of 5000.
The Moon shutdown without warning last week - without small venues, we're nothing.
www.clashmusic.com/features/car...
Next week they play the city's Utilita Arena to a crowd of 5000.
The Moon shutdown without warning last week - without small venues, we're nothing.
www.clashmusic.com/features/car...
Dragon’s breath over Pontypridd this morning.
November 26, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Dragon’s breath over Pontypridd this morning.
Another 45th anniversary, the start of a near peerless run of 5 albums. 1979 was such a great year for music.
November 26, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Another 45th anniversary, the start of a near peerless run of 5 albums. 1979 was such a great year for music.
45 years old. Still cantankerous in the ways it rolls off the record shelf and yields its contents but still sounding magnificent.
November 26, 2024 at 9:06 AM
45 years old. Still cantankerous in the ways it rolls off the record shelf and yields its contents but still sounding magnificent.
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#MyBloodyValentine have announced a one-off live show for late 2025, which will be their first concert since 2018. The band are set to play Dublin’s 3Arena on November 22
https://buff.ly/3CHj5mx
https://buff.ly/3CHj5mx
November 25, 2024 at 10:44 PM
#MyBloodyValentine have announced a one-off live show for late 2025, which will be their first concert since 2018. The band are set to play Dublin’s 3Arena on November 22
https://buff.ly/3CHj5mx
https://buff.ly/3CHj5mx
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Nick Drake - 50 yrs gone today - had a complex relationship with John Martyn. I wrote this piece for the Guardian a few years ago, adapted from my JM biography, Small Hours. Insights from Joe Boyd, Beverley Martyn, Linda Thompson, Danny Thompson, Paul Wheeler &tc
www.theguardian.com/music/2020/j...
www.theguardian.com/music/2020/j...
'Greek, without the sex': Nick Drake and John Martyn's folk bromance
A new book explores a musical friendship entailing joy, anger, ‘mountains of drugs’ … and tragedy. In this extract, the pair’s friends examine a complex rivalry
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Nick Drake - 50 yrs gone today - had a complex relationship with John Martyn. I wrote this piece for the Guardian a few years ago, adapted from my JM biography, Small Hours. Insights from Joe Boyd, Beverley Martyn, Linda Thompson, Danny Thompson, Paul Wheeler &tc
www.theguardian.com/music/2020/j...
www.theguardian.com/music/2020/j...
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Remembering Nick Drake, who died on this day in 1974, aged just 26 years old.
This song never fails to give me goosebumps.
youtu.be/BBBkFWXiL9Q?...
This song never fails to give me goosebumps.
youtu.be/BBBkFWXiL9Q?...
Northern Sky
YouTube video by Nick Drake - Topic
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November 25, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Remembering Nick Drake, who died on this day in 1974, aged just 26 years old.
This song never fails to give me goosebumps.
youtu.be/BBBkFWXiL9Q?...
This song never fails to give me goosebumps.
youtu.be/BBBkFWXiL9Q?...
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On this day 88 years ago, Robert Johnson was finishing his first recording session (he only managed two). Between Nov 23 and 25, 1936, in room 414 of the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio, he laid down 16 tunes, inc Terraplane Blues and Cross Road Blues. Rock n roll was born, history was made.
November 25, 2024 at 5:32 PM
On this day 88 years ago, Robert Johnson was finishing his first recording session (he only managed two). Between Nov 23 and 25, 1936, in room 414 of the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio, he laid down 16 tunes, inc Terraplane Blues and Cross Road Blues. Rock n roll was born, history was made.
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Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences
A leading scientist at the University of Oxford has resigned from the UK’s national academy of sciences over concerns about Elon Musk’s…
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
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Sunday evening's NowPlaying@6Music featured 2 hours in the company of #BryanFerry curating listeners' choices from his 50 year back catalogue live on #BBC6Music. Listen again at www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/....
November 25, 2024 at 11:28 AM
Sunday evening's NowPlaying@6Music featured 2 hours in the company of #BryanFerry curating listeners' choices from his 50 year back catalogue live on #BBC6Music. Listen again at www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/....
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⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed.
If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.
👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.
👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
Storyville Books Bookshop UK
Nestled in the rolling hills of the South Wales valleys, we are the only independent bookshop in Pontypridd, selling new books and more.
uk.bookshop.org
November 24, 2024 at 6:41 PM
⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed.
If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.
👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.
👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...