Alan Swain
@alanswain.bsky.social
Bass Trombone, WNO
Host of AS Music Show currently on Mixcloud.
Host of AS Music Show currently on Mixcloud.
Chatgpt Christmas cracker joke:
Why is Britain so good at Christmas queues?
Because we’ve had years of practice waiting for things we were promised and never received.
Why is Britain so good at Christmas queues?
Because we’ve had years of practice waiting for things we were promised and never received.
December 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Chatgpt Christmas cracker joke:
Why is Britain so good at Christmas queues?
Because we’ve had years of practice waiting for things we were promised and never received.
Why is Britain so good at Christmas queues?
Because we’ve had years of practice waiting for things we were promised and never received.
@emilywhite7676.bsky.social greetings and welcoming.
December 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
@emilywhite7676.bsky.social greetings and welcoming.
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Whatever embarrassing thing you’re afraid of—someone else has already done far worse. Whatever shame you think might end you socially—someone else has survived it, transgressed it, transfigured it into the stuff of personal growth.
Eating lobster at the library
You know your life is hilarious, right?
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Whatever embarrassing thing you’re afraid of—someone else has already done far worse. Whatever shame you think might end you socially—someone else has survived it, transgressed it, transfigured it into the stuff of personal growth.
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Many young people are offered antidepressants at their 1st appointment (against NICE guidelines) when it isn’t always the right path. Getting involved in community and in creativity can make a huge difference. We need to invest in hubs like The Music Works and expand social prescribing options.
Youth Mental Health & Creativity - The Music Works x Arts Council England
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Many young people are offered antidepressants at their 1st appointment (against NICE guidelines) when it isn’t always the right path. Getting involved in community and in creativity can make a huge difference. We need to invest in hubs like The Music Works and expand social prescribing options.
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Great to join The Music Works at their Creative Futures Day to talk about creative health and wellbeing.
Hearing directly from young people about how much The Music Works has supported their mental health is powerful proof that creative health works.
Hearing directly from young people about how much The Music Works has supported their mental health is powerful proof that creative health works.
November 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Great to join The Music Works at their Creative Futures Day to talk about creative health and wellbeing.
Hearing directly from young people about how much The Music Works has supported their mental health is powerful proof that creative health works.
Hearing directly from young people about how much The Music Works has supported their mental health is powerful proof that creative health works.
If this is truly rock bottom how do we get ourselves out of it?
November 16, 2025 at 12:47 AM
If this is truly rock bottom how do we get ourselves out of it?
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⚠️ BREAKING: BBC In Crisis - New Director General Picks Leaked.
🙏🏻 PLEASE like, share and kiss this latest #BrokenNews report.
youtu.be/P8kl2ETzH7k?...
🙏🏻 PLEASE like, share and kiss this latest #BrokenNews report.
youtu.be/P8kl2ETzH7k?...
LEAKED: BBC Director General Candidates - #BrokenNews
YouTube video by Larry & Paul
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
⚠️ BREAKING: BBC In Crisis - New Director General Picks Leaked.
🙏🏻 PLEASE like, share and kiss this latest #BrokenNews report.
youtu.be/P8kl2ETzH7k?...
🙏🏻 PLEASE like, share and kiss this latest #BrokenNews report.
youtu.be/P8kl2ETzH7k?...
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Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
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Iain Lee - Imposter Syndrome worked last night and I think it is something very special.
I play the Rondo Theatre in Bath in February but looking for more venues across teh country. Ideally holding between 80-120.
Do you work for a venue that would like to book me? Or know any?
iain@iainlee.com
I play the Rondo Theatre in Bath in February but looking for more venues across teh country. Ideally holding between 80-120.
Do you work for a venue that would like to book me? Or know any?
iain@iainlee.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Iain Lee - Imposter Syndrome worked last night and I think it is something very special.
I play the Rondo Theatre in Bath in February but looking for more venues across teh country. Ideally holding between 80-120.
Do you work for a venue that would like to book me? Or know any?
iain@iainlee.com
I play the Rondo Theatre in Bath in February but looking for more venues across teh country. Ideally holding between 80-120.
Do you work for a venue that would like to book me? Or know any?
iain@iainlee.com
Me to 19 year old just moved to London:
You will probably meet a Pearly Queen.
19yr old: What’s that?
Me: Google it.
19yr old:………Oh. Er. It’s just someone wearing loads of buttons.
Crikey. Where have all the Pearly Queens gone?
You will probably meet a Pearly Queen.
19yr old: What’s that?
Me: Google it.
19yr old:………Oh. Er. It’s just someone wearing loads of buttons.
Crikey. Where have all the Pearly Queens gone?
September 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Me to 19 year old just moved to London:
You will probably meet a Pearly Queen.
19yr old: What’s that?
Me: Google it.
19yr old:………Oh. Er. It’s just someone wearing loads of buttons.
Crikey. Where have all the Pearly Queens gone?
You will probably meet a Pearly Queen.
19yr old: What’s that?
Me: Google it.
19yr old:………Oh. Er. It’s just someone wearing loads of buttons.
Crikey. Where have all the Pearly Queens gone?
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What Is Ethnic Cleansing? - #BrokenNews Explains
YouTube video by Larry & Paul
youtu.be
September 16, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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The neoliberal con perpetrated against us ever since Thatcher is easy to state:
Privatise profit. Socialise debt.
In other words, heads we lose, tails we lose.
So entrenched now is this con that whoever is in power is likely to continue it.
Privatise profit. Socialise debt.
In other words, heads we lose, tails we lose.
So entrenched now is this con that whoever is in power is likely to continue it.
September 15, 2025 at 10:46 AM
The neoliberal con perpetrated against us ever since Thatcher is easy to state:
Privatise profit. Socialise debt.
In other words, heads we lose, tails we lose.
So entrenched now is this con that whoever is in power is likely to continue it.
Privatise profit. Socialise debt.
In other words, heads we lose, tails we lose.
So entrenched now is this con that whoever is in power is likely to continue it.
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Both. He was the hitler youth guy our oligarchs funded for youth outreach via turning point USA. He will not be missed.
September 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Both. He was the hitler youth guy our oligarchs funded for youth outreach via turning point USA. He will not be missed.
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Male Billionaires are busy with eugenics, cars in space and osculating Sweet Potato Stalin’s manbag to do anything helpful or human.
Melinda French Gates’ Pivotal Ventures and Wellcome Leap commit $100M to accelerate women’s health research and close long-overlooked gaps worldwide.
Melinda French Gates Backs $100 Million Bet On Women’s Health Breakthroughs
Melinda French Gates’ Pivotal Ventures and Wellcome Leap commit $100M to accelerate women’s health research and close long-overlooked gaps worldwide.
www.forbes.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Male Billionaires are busy with eugenics, cars in space and osculating Sweet Potato Stalin’s manbag to do anything helpful or human.
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The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
September 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
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Amazed it took 40 years to reach this conclusion. It was obvious in the 80s, if you bothered to look.
Thatcher used the working-classes' own money to bribe them into voting to destroy their futures, and the Tories have been worshipping her for it ever since.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Thatcher used the working-classes' own money to bribe them into voting to destroy their futures, and the Tories have been worshipping her for it ever since.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Right to buy in England ‘fuelled housing crisis and cost taxpayers £200bn’
Common Wealth report calls discounted sales of council homes one of the ‘largest giveaways in UK history’
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Amazed it took 40 years to reach this conclusion. It was obvious in the 80s, if you bothered to look.
Thatcher used the working-classes' own money to bribe them into voting to destroy their futures, and the Tories have been worshipping her for it ever since.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Thatcher used the working-classes' own money to bribe them into voting to destroy their futures, and the Tories have been worshipping her for it ever since.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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🚨BREAKING: Trump just totally lost it over Israel/Iran.
Wow.
Wow.
June 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
🚨BREAKING: Trump just totally lost it over Israel/Iran.
Wow.
Wow.
Want to size up my commitment to music education?
I’ve just come from a local secondary schools concert. Pretty good. Hope for the future etc. But they put me through a Pachabels Canon. Touch and go for a moment there.
I’ve just come from a local secondary schools concert. Pretty good. Hope for the future etc. But they put me through a Pachabels Canon. Touch and go for a moment there.
June 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Want to size up my commitment to music education?
I’ve just come from a local secondary schools concert. Pretty good. Hope for the future etc. But they put me through a Pachabels Canon. Touch and go for a moment there.
I’ve just come from a local secondary schools concert. Pretty good. Hope for the future etc. But they put me through a Pachabels Canon. Touch and go for a moment there.
If you’re anywhere near Gloucestershire this Sunday come and see Emily perform. Truly world class with a genuine humanity to all her performances. Not to be missed!
May 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
If you’re anywhere near Gloucestershire this Sunday come and see Emily perform. Truly world class with a genuine humanity to all her performances. Not to be missed!
Thinking of a new profile picture. This one is quite daft.
May 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Thinking of a new profile picture. This one is quite daft.
Margaret Thatcher still dead.
April 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Margaret Thatcher still dead.
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Yes, Jeremy Hunt did buy 7 flats and paid less stamp duty because of a Tory loophole introduced in 2011
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Jeremy Hunt got 'bulk discount' on seven flats from Tory donor
Health secretary now under investigation over purchase of luxury apartments on south coast
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Yes, Jeremy Hunt did buy 7 flats and paid less stamp duty because of a Tory loophole introduced in 2011
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
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How far the overton window has shifted?
March 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
How far the overton window has shifted?
Why don’t we just say that NOT taxing the mega wealthy is Antisemitic?
March 31, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Why don’t we just say that NOT taxing the mega wealthy is Antisemitic?
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