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slidingseat.bsky.social
Old Rivers Grow Wilder Every Day
@slidingseat.bsky.social
AKA Peter Metalli.

20,000 roads I've been down down down and they all led me straight back to Ireland

Love cosmic American music, Ireland, good cheese & chocolate!

Currently learning to play the bodhrán (badly).

Often by a river watching boats go by!
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@andyparsons.net at #thenorthwalloxford
October 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The most nerve-wracking speech of my life…
October 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
September 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Prices are now so bad in that-there-London they you can genuinely rent a phone box…
September 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
@ralphmclean.bsky.social

In case you haven’t already thought of it I’ve just had an idea for your classic live LP one week…

#BobSeger
July 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Scott Bradlee’s PostModern Jukebox.

Audience mostly Mumsnet and middle-aged bald men.

In the land of the bald, the thinning man is King.
May 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Those moments when your taste in shirts matches the soft furnishings no. 199992298.
April 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Should have been 96 today.

Happy birthday mum, wherever your spirit now is...

Probably sitting down somewhere with a cigarette and a cuppa slagging off Thatcher. 😜
March 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
#fracturedfoods.

Barm Break.
February 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
February 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Clocks break, time goes by.
Hearts ache...

#RIPMarianneFaithfull.

One of the best to come out of Reading. 😢
January 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Kwik Fit, Shake n Vac and of course Cadbury's* Fruit and Nut...

(and yes they DID definitely go downhill when they became "Cadbury" without the apostrophe and s)
January 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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First gig if 2025 with @timobrien.bsky.social at @irishculturalcentr.bsky.social .

Thanks for another one @ralphmclean.bsky.social purely on the strength of “cup of sugar” and we are BOTH (yes even Mrs Sliding Seat too) loving it! 🙏🙏
January 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Buon Natale, Nollaig Shona and a Merry Christmas to you all.
December 24, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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Last gig of the year: PP Arnold. The original Soul Sister.

Now sit down ya buggers and switch off ya phones..🤬😉

Thanks to Eve Blair and @ralphmclean.bsky.social for introducing me to yet another great musician! Happy Christmas to you both!
December 22, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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@edbyrne.bsky.social

Now everybody switch the bloody phones off.😉🤣
December 4, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Post you from a different era:

Mid 1970s One of the Reading Festivals
November 30, 2024 at 11:33 PM
I WAS.

That was on the first trip across the water.

This was on the last one... 😜😂

#TriedAndTested. #BarrysBoy
November 29, 2024 at 11:31 PM
An idea, a cup and plenty of this...
November 28, 2024 at 10:09 PM
In my experience, bass players usually have the lovely fragrance of a combination of body odour and stale bitter.
November 28, 2024 at 1:38 PM
November 28, 2024 at 12:41 PM
I think the appropriate response is probably...

PHEW! 😥

#ROIGRE #IREGRE
November 14, 2024 at 9:49 PM
November 14, 2024 at 4:37 PM
(Part of) the history of #Americana #CountryRock #CosmicRock.

Courtesy of Pete Frame @rollingstone.com.web.brid.gy a while ago.
November 14, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Happy Monday everyone (well both of you ATM ;-) )

Enjoy your week.
November 27, 2023 at 11:33 AM