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Mark Northfield
@marknorthfield.com
Pianist, composer, retropop/classical masher-upper, with occasional satire. One third of piano trio Cherry Mint Koala.

On Spotify, AppleMusic, YouTube etc.
Also Insta @cherrymintkoala

Fond of cycling, good beer, my man, our cat.
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We should try to bridge the gap, instead of picking on each other. Constantly arguing with folks on the same side effectively, (not just on EU-UK relations, but SO many issues) who agree on direction and destination, but suggest a different route or pace, while ACTUAL FASCISM is rising, is daft. 3/3
August 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The steady pace of the crescendo is certainly very effective.
August 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The full version will be on the forthcoming Cherry Mint Koala album 'Connections Drawn', which I had hoped to release at the start of August, but then stuff happened.*

So... Aiming for start of Sept now!

(*life, mostly)
July 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM
And here's a links page to streaming options, my Bandcamp store and a YouTube playlist:

marknorthfield.com/streaming-links
Mark Northfield / Cherry Mint Koala - Streaming Links
Streaming Links. Mark Northfield / Cherry Mint Koala, a composer group from Reading
marknorthfield.com
July 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM
It was choreographed by a marvellous work colleague Tierney Lawlor, and excellently filmed/edited by Adam Martin Media.

The music uses three themes from Beethoven's 'Waldstein' piano sonata to construct a flowing and emotive neoclassical epic. (The full version is over 7mins!)
July 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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I found @samfr.bsky.social's piece so interesting that I wrote a sort of companion piece on the role played by The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social in this radicalisation. Sam doesn't mention it in his piece but I think it's an important part of the story. open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...
Radicalisation and The Spectator
An analysis of the normalisation of racist language on the British right is incomplete without taking note of the role played by the leading political weekly
open.substack.com
July 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Cool. The additional fuck-ups were reliably enjoyable. Best of all tho was toggling between half speed (sleepy/drunk Ian) and double speed (pissed-off butch chipmunk Ian).

This may have slightly distracted from the text, but it was childishly entertaining.
July 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Very few broke ranks - @rolandmcs.bsky.social is a very honourable exception - and so, I'm sorry, but Hannan does not just deserve ridicule. What he, Owen Paterson, and many others of that ilk did to our country deserves condemnation and utter contempt. 8/8
June 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM