Mark Doyle
@markdoyle.bsky.social
Historian & writer. Britain, Ireland, empire, music. Latest book is on John Cale's Paris 1919 for 33 1/3. Next: histories of African people/music in Ireland. “Pipe-sucking radical”-Mail on Sunday. Views here are my own, not my employer's.
Ha! I'd quite like to read those essays, actually.
November 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Ha! I'd quite like to read those essays, actually.
Absolutely. The stakes are enormous.
November 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Absolutely. The stakes are enormous.
Of course, you can't go wrong playing most anything from @davidajaycock.bsky.social most any time of year.
November 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Of course, you can't go wrong playing most anything from @davidajaycock.bsky.social most any time of year.
Absolutely. I sometimes imagine an alternate universe where Cale doesn't exist and the whole musical landscape from 1965 forward looks very very different.
November 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Absolutely. I sometimes imagine an alternate universe where Cale doesn't exist and the whole musical landscape from 1965 forward looks very very different.
LKJ for the Nobel when?
October 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
LKJ for the Nobel when?
Ah, I've never read that one. Is it good?
October 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Ah, I've never read that one. Is it good?
Thanks, Pat! (And thanks, again, for your help when I was writing it.) I'm glad you like it--and insanely jealous that you're in Sicily right now.
October 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Thanks, Pat! (And thanks, again, for your help when I was writing it.) I'm glad you like it--and insanely jealous that you're in Sicily right now.
Sounds perfect - I'll bump it toward the top of my list.
October 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Sounds perfect - I'll bump it toward the top of my list.