Kim Gilchrist
@kimgilchrist.bsky.social
Teaches Early Modern Drama at Cardiff Uni. Writing a book about Mucedorus. Will probably post music when I don’t know what to say. he/him. New OWC Cymbeline: https://global.oup.com/ukhe/product/cymbeline-9780192882868?cc=gb&lang=en&
For the Dave in your life.
November 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
For the Dave in your life.
I may have left my drinking water to cool in the freezer a couple of minutes too long…
September 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I may have left my drinking water to cool in the freezer a couple of minutes too long…
Just the corner of our little flat glowing in the evening sunshine.
August 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Just the corner of our little flat glowing in the evening sunshine.
Really enjoyed Fantastic Four: First Steps.
But I wish I hadn’t known that the mile-tall Galactus, cosmic devourer or worlds, was played by Finchy from The Office.
It was a bit distracting.
But I wish I hadn’t known that the mile-tall Galactus, cosmic devourer or worlds, was played by Finchy from The Office.
It was a bit distracting.
July 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Really enjoyed Fantastic Four: First Steps.
But I wish I hadn’t known that the mile-tall Galactus, cosmic devourer or worlds, was played by Finchy from The Office.
It was a bit distracting.
But I wish I hadn’t known that the mile-tall Galactus, cosmic devourer or worlds, was played by Finchy from The Office.
It was a bit distracting.
This old post popped up in my FB memories.
It’s timely. I didn’t dream about bears last night, but I did hit send on my Mucedorus book this morning.
Thanks and apologies to anyone who’s heard me not shutting up about this play. I didn’t realise it’s been eleven years.
Also that might get worse.
It’s timely. I didn’t dream about bears last night, but I did hit send on my Mucedorus book this morning.
Thanks and apologies to anyone who’s heard me not shutting up about this play. I didn’t realise it’s been eleven years.
Also that might get worse.
July 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM
This old post popped up in my FB memories.
It’s timely. I didn’t dream about bears last night, but I did hit send on my Mucedorus book this morning.
Thanks and apologies to anyone who’s heard me not shutting up about this play. I didn’t realise it’s been eleven years.
Also that might get worse.
It’s timely. I didn’t dream about bears last night, but I did hit send on my Mucedorus book this morning.
Thanks and apologies to anyone who’s heard me not shutting up about this play. I didn’t realise it’s been eleven years.
Also that might get worse.
Haven’t shared a Friday Funk for a while!
1/2 Here’s some warped disco from P-Funk sister group Parlet.
It’s great, and ‘Booty Snatchers’ is just about slow enough to bop to in this heat. Uplifting, full of twinkling synths and undulating harmonies, plus a righteous conga break.
1/2 Here’s some warped disco from P-Funk sister group Parlet.
It’s great, and ‘Booty Snatchers’ is just about slow enough to bop to in this heat. Uplifting, full of twinkling synths and undulating harmonies, plus a righteous conga break.
July 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Haven’t shared a Friday Funk for a while!
1/2 Here’s some warped disco from P-Funk sister group Parlet.
It’s great, and ‘Booty Snatchers’ is just about slow enough to bop to in this heat. Uplifting, full of twinkling synths and undulating harmonies, plus a righteous conga break.
1/2 Here’s some warped disco from P-Funk sister group Parlet.
It’s great, and ‘Booty Snatchers’ is just about slow enough to bop to in this heat. Uplifting, full of twinkling synths and undulating harmonies, plus a righteous conga break.
In Bristol for #RenSoc25
For my phd/mono I wrote about these statues on St John’s Gate, but never saw them until today.
They are Belinus and Brennus, Bristol’s ancient Trojan founders.
In 1486 an actor playing Brennus met Henry VII at the gate, bemoaned the city’s ‘decaye’ and asked for cash.
For my phd/mono I wrote about these statues on St John’s Gate, but never saw them until today.
They are Belinus and Brennus, Bristol’s ancient Trojan founders.
In 1486 an actor playing Brennus met Henry VII at the gate, bemoaned the city’s ‘decaye’ and asked for cash.
July 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
In Bristol for #RenSoc25
For my phd/mono I wrote about these statues on St John’s Gate, but never saw them until today.
They are Belinus and Brennus, Bristol’s ancient Trojan founders.
In 1486 an actor playing Brennus met Henry VII at the gate, bemoaned the city’s ‘decaye’ and asked for cash.
For my phd/mono I wrote about these statues on St John’s Gate, but never saw them until today.
They are Belinus and Brennus, Bristol’s ancient Trojan founders.
In 1486 an actor playing Brennus met Henry VII at the gate, bemoaned the city’s ‘decaye’ and asked for cash.
Never would have known the name Ruby Flipper if I wasn’t a PCY, but it popped up on a 90s Wilde Club gig flyer from Norwich on an FB group recently. Hope the ‘shit hot polished popsters’ honoured the name.
May 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Never would have known the name Ruby Flipper if I wasn’t a PCY, but it popped up on a 90s Wilde Club gig flyer from Norwich on an FB group recently. Hope the ‘shit hot polished popsters’ honoured the name.
I have a copy of Capell’s Shakespeare that he felt compelled to correct, in red pen, before giving it to his friend John Frere (at least, that’s Frere’s story):
May 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I have a copy of Capell’s Shakespeare that he felt compelled to correct, in red pen, before giving it to his friend John Frere (at least, that’s Frere’s story):
8 out of 10 playbook customers say that it’s…
May 7, 2025 at 6:50 AM
8 out of 10 playbook customers say that it’s…
Good Friday Funk! Jackie Shane, ‘Money’ (live, 1967).
1/2 Shane was an openly trans r&b singer. Her blistering performance includes a six-minute, hilarious and defiant monologue:
‘This is the closest to Jesus Christ some of you will ever get. You should travel with me, baby.’
Link in replies.
1/2 Shane was an openly trans r&b singer. Her blistering performance includes a six-minute, hilarious and defiant monologue:
‘This is the closest to Jesus Christ some of you will ever get. You should travel with me, baby.’
Link in replies.
April 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Good Friday Funk! Jackie Shane, ‘Money’ (live, 1967).
1/2 Shane was an openly trans r&b singer. Her blistering performance includes a six-minute, hilarious and defiant monologue:
‘This is the closest to Jesus Christ some of you will ever get. You should travel with me, baby.’
Link in replies.
1/2 Shane was an openly trans r&b singer. Her blistering performance includes a six-minute, hilarious and defiant monologue:
‘This is the closest to Jesus Christ some of you will ever get. You should travel with me, baby.’
Link in replies.
All in favour of congestion charges in London, but the penalties have got a bit harsh.
April 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
All in favour of congestion charges in London, but the penalties have got a bit harsh.
When you know you’re ready to stop teaching for the year
April 12, 2025 at 9:46 AM
When you know you’re ready to stop teaching for the year
Friday Funk!
Milton Wright: ‘Po Man’.
Taking it to the bench for the US judges pushing back. This has a synthy Florida glide, but it’s an eerie, enigmatic fable about (I think) a captive king failing to bribe his followers.
Wright later became a judge on the Boston Municipal Court. Link below.
Milton Wright: ‘Po Man’.
Taking it to the bench for the US judges pushing back. This has a synthy Florida glide, but it’s an eerie, enigmatic fable about (I think) a captive king failing to bribe his followers.
Wright later became a judge on the Boston Municipal Court. Link below.
April 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Friday Funk!
Milton Wright: ‘Po Man’.
Taking it to the bench for the US judges pushing back. This has a synthy Florida glide, but it’s an eerie, enigmatic fable about (I think) a captive king failing to bribe his followers.
Wright later became a judge on the Boston Municipal Court. Link below.
Milton Wright: ‘Po Man’.
Taking it to the bench for the US judges pushing back. This has a synthy Florida glide, but it’s an eerie, enigmatic fable about (I think) a captive king failing to bribe his followers.
Wright later became a judge on the Boston Municipal Court. Link below.
Bike handle shadow dragon
March 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Bike handle shadow dragon
From the mental health charity Mind, for those affected by the benefit cuts:
March 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
From the mental health charity Mind, for those affected by the benefit cuts:
Friday Funk: no time for vinyl tonight so just a snapshot of some cd essentials kept close and handy to the (40-yr-old-still-blasting) stereo.
Take your pick.
Take your pick.
March 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Friday Funk: no time for vinyl tonight so just a snapshot of some cd essentials kept close and handy to the (40-yr-old-still-blasting) stereo.
Take your pick.
Take your pick.
Friday Funk: ‘Fight the Power (Part 1 & 2)’ by the Isley Brothers.
Because it doesn’t seem there’s anywhere right now where there isn’t a power worth fighting, and because it’s one of those albums with a fast side and a slow side. So after 17mins of fighting you can flip it and relax (for 20mins).
Because it doesn’t seem there’s anywhere right now where there isn’t a power worth fighting, and because it’s one of those albums with a fast side and a slow side. So after 17mins of fighting you can flip it and relax (for 20mins).
March 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Friday Funk: ‘Fight the Power (Part 1 & 2)’ by the Isley Brothers.
Because it doesn’t seem there’s anywhere right now where there isn’t a power worth fighting, and because it’s one of those albums with a fast side and a slow side. So after 17mins of fighting you can flip it and relax (for 20mins).
Because it doesn’t seem there’s anywhere right now where there isn’t a power worth fighting, and because it’s one of those albums with a fast side and a slow side. So after 17mins of fighting you can flip it and relax (for 20mins).
Strolling home down Whitehall and history passes by in an entourage. Had an inkling and the news confirmed it.
March 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Strolling home down Whitehall and history passes by in an entourage. Had an inkling and the news confirmed it.
Friday Funk: Just Don’t Want to Be Lonely, Blue Magic.
1/2 Super-smooth enough to get a sarky shout-out from Parliament on Mothership Connection, this album was my gateway to Philly soul. ‘Sideshow’ was apparently the big hit but the proto-disco Welcome to the Club and Look Me Up really sold me.
1/2 Super-smooth enough to get a sarky shout-out from Parliament on Mothership Connection, this album was my gateway to Philly soul. ‘Sideshow’ was apparently the big hit but the proto-disco Welcome to the Club and Look Me Up really sold me.
February 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Friday Funk: Just Don’t Want to Be Lonely, Blue Magic.
1/2 Super-smooth enough to get a sarky shout-out from Parliament on Mothership Connection, this album was my gateway to Philly soul. ‘Sideshow’ was apparently the big hit but the proto-disco Welcome to the Club and Look Me Up really sold me.
1/2 Super-smooth enough to get a sarky shout-out from Parliament on Mothership Connection, this album was my gateway to Philly soul. ‘Sideshow’ was apparently the big hit but the proto-disco Welcome to the Club and Look Me Up really sold me.
1/2 Romance plays are all about strange coincidences. As I was leaving yesterday to see the Globe’s wonderful new Cymbeline my copies of the new OWC edition (for which I wrote the intro) arrived at the door. I sneaked into the SWP and grabbed a pit pic after the show…
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February 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
1/2 Romance plays are all about strange coincidences. As I was leaving yesterday to see the Globe’s wonderful new Cymbeline my copies of the new OWC edition (for which I wrote the intro) arrived at the door. I sneaked into the SWP and grabbed a pit pic after the show…
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Friday Funk: why, it’s the greatest rnb band of the 70s!
February 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Friday Funk: why, it’s the greatest rnb band of the 70s!
Friday Funk… Live!
It’s been a horrible week, so I’m over the moon (or Mars…) to be catching Philadelphia International legend Dexter Wansel at the Jazz Cafe.
Check out the celestial space-funk opus Life on Mars (link below). For the record Wansel is the ONLY person I’d trust to get us there rn.
It’s been a horrible week, so I’m over the moon (or Mars…) to be catching Philadelphia International legend Dexter Wansel at the Jazz Cafe.
Check out the celestial space-funk opus Life on Mars (link below). For the record Wansel is the ONLY person I’d trust to get us there rn.
February 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Friday Funk… Live!
It’s been a horrible week, so I’m over the moon (or Mars…) to be catching Philadelphia International legend Dexter Wansel at the Jazz Cafe.
Check out the celestial space-funk opus Life on Mars (link below). For the record Wansel is the ONLY person I’d trust to get us there rn.
It’s been a horrible week, so I’m over the moon (or Mars…) to be catching Philadelphia International legend Dexter Wansel at the Jazz Cafe.
Check out the celestial space-funk opus Life on Mars (link below). For the record Wansel is the ONLY person I’d trust to get us there rn.
Friday funk: ‘What am I Gonna Do?,’ Gloria Scott
1/2 The question of the moment for many. From Scott’s sublime and, unforgivably, only album until ‘22. It glides and aches, her voice restrained and desperate.
The next song, the glacial ‘It’s Better to Have No Love,’ is deep soul via Philly.
1/2 The question of the moment for many. From Scott’s sublime and, unforgivably, only album until ‘22. It glides and aches, her voice restrained and desperate.
The next song, the glacial ‘It’s Better to Have No Love,’ is deep soul via Philly.
January 31, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Friday funk: ‘What am I Gonna Do?,’ Gloria Scott
1/2 The question of the moment for many. From Scott’s sublime and, unforgivably, only album until ‘22. It glides and aches, her voice restrained and desperate.
The next song, the glacial ‘It’s Better to Have No Love,’ is deep soul via Philly.
1/2 The question of the moment for many. From Scott’s sublime and, unforgivably, only album until ‘22. It glides and aches, her voice restrained and desperate.
The next song, the glacial ‘It’s Better to Have No Love,’ is deep soul via Philly.