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The amazing Italian bass player Giovanni Crescenzi will be joining me on stage at the the Piano Smithfield on 19 November, bringing superb musicianship and great vibes. It's going to be a good evening...
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October 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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I'm really looking forward to playing at the Piano Smithfield - just down the road from the Barbican - on 19th November. Tickets now on sale here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/terence-bl...
October 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Countdown to Thursday's show at the Fisher theatre, Bungay, with the great Kath Tait. Songs - offbeat, funny, sometimes slightly strange - from New Zealand to Norfolk. Tickets here: fishertheatre.org/FisherTheatr...
September 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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'Hang on, what was going on here? Where had Glasto Girl gone? Was she somewhere else, enjoying a happy glass of wine, or smoking a happy spliff, or strumming a happy guitar by a happy campfire, or making happy love wh=ith her partner in her tent?'
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When happiness gets kneecapped - Terence-Blacker
There’s a face which appears on our screens at this time of the year, and it so unusual as to be startling. It is that of a girl   –  pretty, young, joyful  –  sitting on someone’s shoulders  in a cro...
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June 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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So sad to hear that the great, strange and utterly unique genius that was Brian Wilson is no longer with us. He was one of the great songwriters of the twentieth century.

'Love and mercy, that's what we need tonight...'

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Love and Mercy - Brian Wilson
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June 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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'Here then is the government’s message: the best way to save the big, important Environment is to be prepared to trash the small, local environment.'

My Blog:
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Does the government really hate the countryside? - Terence-Blacker
Several days after George Monbiot wrote an op-ed piece in the Guardian about the government’s  planning reform. I have been unable to shift it from my mind. The legislation about to go through parliam...
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May 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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April 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Another review for my forthcoming album Misfits' Jubilee. More at my Bandcamp page terenceblacker.bandcamp.com/album/misfit...

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Misfits Jamboree reviews 2
YouTube video by Terence Blacker
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April 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Next Thursday, I'm returning to the great Uxbridge Folk Club with my show The Shock of the Old. 'Great entertainment, storytelling, humour and brilliant musicality,' said Phil Irwin of the Rolleston Club.

Support by The Larks. Can't wait!
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Uxbridge Folk Club
8:00 pm, Thursday, March 27th, 2025 Terence Blacker Tickets £15.00, members £12.50
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March 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Spring has sprung, and I'm getting ready for a mini-tour of my show Old Enough To Know Better - I'm really looking forward to it.

Just a few tickets left.

7 March - Bonsall, Derbyshire
8 March, Greatford, Lincs,
9 March, Rolleston-on-Dove, Staffs

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OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER - Terence-Blacker
NOTE: This show, OLD  ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER, previously toured under the name The Shock of the Old. * “Musically wonderful. Just a fantastic evening.” “A cracking show.” “He speaks the truth. And he’s...
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March 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Here's a superb piece by Boyd Tonkin in Prospect about the faith of Ronald Blythe, full of doubt and love, in the context of today's anguished C of E. #RonaldBlythe #Akenfield #IanCollins #BlytheSpirit

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/6911...
The religion of Ronald Blythe
The writer’s holy communion with the natural world was—is—an inspiration for believers and nonbelievers alike
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February 3, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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There are probably not many blogs which bring together the creators of How Sweet To Be an Idiot and Akenfield - but here's one.
Memories of two great East Anglians who died in 2024, Neil Innes and Ronald Blythe. They had more in common than you'd think.
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January 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Happy Christmas from the Waveney Valley to all my new friends on this happy little platform. Here's to an unexpectedly positive 2025.
December 25, 2024 at 8:52 AM
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There are probably not too many blogs in which Ronald Blythe (Akenfield, The Age of Illusion, Word From Wormingford) and Neil Innes (How Sweet to Be an Idiot, Urban Spaceman, Shangri-La) appear together. But here's one.
#RonaldBlythe #NeilInnes #Akenfield #Rutles

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Ronnie and Neil: a couple of blithe spirits dipped in joy - Terence-Blacker
It is an odd business, reaching a stage in life when people you know are having books written about them. One moment they are there,  a part (large or small) of your life, the next they are gone and b...
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December 21, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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'You can keep your virtuosos,
Your shining, glittering star.
I can find my heroes
In this crowded little bar...'

A new song...
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Singers' Night
YouTube video by Terence Blacker
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December 20, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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oddthisday.bsky.social
Happy 78th anniversary to this diary entry from Evelyn Waugh, in which he drinks enough to hospitalise at least three of me:
Thursday 19 December 1946 I went to London by the early train. I have now reached an age when any disturbance of routine is disagreeable, and I sat misanthropic, smoking cigars, while the train lost more and more time until it halted for three-quarters of an hour in a snowstorm just outside the Paddington station. I had time to try on a suit which has taken six months to make and then went to luncheon at the Beefsteak where I talked to Harold Nicolson and Clive Bell and drank enough wine to fuddle me slightly. In that condition I went to Duckworth and signed sixteen copies of When the Going was Good for Christmas presents. Also to the travel agency who are sending me to Hollywood. At 5 o’clock there was the Beefsteak committee meeting. My candidates Maurice Bowra, Ran Antrim and Randolph Churchill all got in the latter after long discussion in which 1 Hugh Sherwood made a spirited defence and overbore two men who had come with the firm purpose of blackballing him. During the meeting I drank a lot of whisky and went rather drunk to a cocktail party given by John Murray’ where I got very drunk. Rose Macaulay attempted a serious conversation in which I did not shine. I spent most of the time with Hermione Ranfurly jeering at people who were introduced to me and ended by bearing off a diminutive man called Gibbings to White’s for champagne cocktails. From then my memory is vague but I went to bed early I think at the Hyde Park Hotel.
December 19, 2024 at 8:24 AM
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robertashton.bsky.social
This biography of Ronald Blythe is one of the best books I've read. One Suffolk writer, telling the story of another. Sound familiar @unbounders.bsky.social? unbound.com/books/where-...
November 22, 2024 at 8:15 AM
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I'm extremely grateful to say I have been awarded a grant by the Royal Literary Fund. 🙏❤️📖

It’s not something I would've thought I'd need, or thought existed, if it weren’t for a Brittle Paper article in June.

Gentle support, with a clear goal. Keep writing!

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October 7, 2024 at 6:03 AM
terenceblacker.bsky.social
Yippee! I'm off to the great Harrison Pub to play tonight at 8 with the hilarious and heart-breaking songwriter Kath Tait. Tickets here or (if available) on the door. It's going to be a great night.

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Some Songs For Misfits
Gigaholics presents: SOME SONGS FOR MISFITS Born on opposite sides of the world, Kath Tait and Terence Blacker share a love for the offbeat, the unspoken truths that lurk below the surface of everyda...
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November 17, 2024 at 12:58 PM
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I am part the great Xodus from the wreck of what used to be Twitter. What's it like over here?
November 15, 2024 at 12:17 PM