Good morning, everyone. It is #BandcampFriday. Don't stream it - buy it!

#OnThisDay in 1971 Montreux Casino burned down during a Frank Zappa show after someone fired a flare gun into the ceiling. Deep Purple were scheduled to record their next album there but "had to find another place". #SmokeOnTheWater #DeepPurple song.link/d/60840057

Remembering the squandered talent of #TommyBolin on the 49th anniversary of his passing. The young man should have been a huge star. song.link/d/2576868392

The Colonel has left the building...

Ohhhh, I enjoyed this. Enjoyed the whole series, actually. app.thestorygraph.com/books/36b759...

I think AI might have been a bit... overhyped. It's just Clippy on steroids and even more annoying.

Nature: Winter is a time of slowing down, resting, conserving energy and recovering for the year ahead Capitalism: NOW IS THE TIME TO SELL SELL SELL, EXTENDED OPENING HOURS, CHECK OUT OUR SALES, BUY EVERYTHING WE SAY YOU NEED FOR AN ELABORATE LABOUR-INTENSIVE FESTIVAL, WORK YOURSELF TO THE BONE

#DICallaghan has the #ghost conversation with DS Nokes.

Chanctonbury Ring: See how the LiDAR whizzes through all the trees so we can see what's underneath. #HillfortsWednesday Photos of Chanctonbury Ring including some from Miles Russell's excavation of 1990 are our page. More 1/

Good! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Labour MP Brian Leishman: "The Government has surrendered to... the vile rhetoric of Reform. Does the Home Secretary not see that removing the legal obligation to support asylum seekers who will be otherwise destitute, is as far away from Labour Party principles and values as we can get?"

"I know there are a lot of MPs who are deeply uncomfortable at the idea of frisking people at the border to see if we can remove their jewellery," says Stella Creasy. "That's not the way we want to manage somebody who is a victim of torture" www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/labo...

Never let the cynics and naysayers grind you down. You *can* have it all at once.

Thoroughly engaging and enjoyable evening with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Worth going out in the wind and rain for - and flying over from Ireland, of course.

#David Coverdale #Whitesnake

David Coverdale is retiring? Well from #DeepPurple to #Whitesnake and #CoverdalePage he leaves a legacy that few can match. Enjoy your downtime, sir. We wish you well.

Little girl in a red coat on the bus: Mum? Her mum: Yes? Little Girl: I wish we could tell everyone in the world to be nice to each other.

Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking".

Whatever happened to November? I like November. It’s autumn, a beautiful month of orange and brown, of cool days and mists, not of jingle bells and Santas. Please, can we have November back? I don’t want 2 months of Christmas.

Off to Glasgow for the weekend, including an evening with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social tomorrow.

On this day in 1970 this happened. #DeepPurple recorded live on 12th November 1970 at Konserthuset in Stockholm by Swedish National Radio for a radio show called Tonkraft. From 1969 to 1974 no-one could touch Purple, live.

GREAT presidential acceptance speech from Catherine Connolly, including a repeated focus on the threat of climate and environmental breakdown. She's clearly announcing that she'll be an activist president: *exactly* what's needed right now.

Y'know what I'd really like to see? The #BBC deciding to draw a line in the sand, take the gloves off, and *really* go after Farage, Trump, Musk, and all the new alt/far-right. It'll never happen but if they did I'd voluntarily send a licence fee over from here.

AI usually means Arseholes Involved. It’s a thieving, hollowing and unethical beast of a thing. It has no place in an ethical, decent society. It has no place in Hookland and never will.

Or, as we in Norfolk like to call it; Tuesday.

A gentle reminder that this is one of those generational good books which will still being read in 20 years time.

It's the 50th anniversary of this underrated and unfairly maligned album. Released on 7 November 1975, #DeepPurple without #RitchieBlackmore for the first time, #TommyBolin on guitar. #ComeTasteTheBand #AlbumOfTheDay

On this day in 1975, after a month delay "Come Taste The Band" was released. This is the only release by the short-lived Mark 4 lineup and the last Deep Purple release before reforming in 1984. What are your favorite tracks from this album? @davidcoverdale @glennhughes

Oh My GAZE 🫨😍😍😍🫨

This Friday! Come and join us at Tate Britain. Details here: www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...

Hey, UK FRIENDS, looks like GODS OF THE WYRDWOOD, is only 99p on Kindle and probably KOBO too so if DEEPLY WEIRD slowburn forest adventures are your thing jump on that. www.amazon.co.uk/Gods-Wyrdwoo...

Released today 4th November 1981 Black Sabbath "Mob Rules" The album peaked at No 12 in the UK album charts Album cover artwork from an original piece by Greg Hildebrandt #albumsyoumusthear #AlbumOfTheDay #blacksabbath #80smusic #ClassicRock #MusicSky #music

The mighty @bluenationmusic.bsky.social in #Cork tonight. Fantastic band and a lovely bunch of lads.

I have a print of this and it's beautiful.

Blessings for #Samhain everyone

Reform very unhappy with the coverage they got from Welsh media. The message is clear: the far-right can only succeed when they enjoy the fawning treatment that English media provide.

Coillte & SDCC have sought licenses to destroy all these trees & wild beauty for🚫 300 parking spaces & a €35M centre at the Hellfire? This isn't enhancement — it's erasure. Protect what makes this place special. #StopTheDestruction #NatureFirst #Review www.change.org/p/save-the-h...

28th October 1977 Queen released "News Of The World" The album peaked at No 4 in the UK album charts #AlbumOfTheDay #queen #70s #ClassicRock #MusicSky #music

If Twitter or X or whatever was launched today, with the kind of audience it primarily has now, those type of posts/replies, and the stuff its AI Grok spews out as "fact", none of us would be anywhere near it, so I can't for the life of me understand why anyone vaguely decent is still posting there

Released today 22nd October 1969 #LedZeppelin II #AlbumOfTheDay #60s #ClassicRock #MusicSky #music

“Rights for nature are a crucial step towards rethinking our place in the world.” Protecting nature’s rights means protecting ourselves. #RightsForNature #ClimateAction

Bafflingly there are still people out there in the world who think being passionate about nature is “kind of weird”. or “a niche interest”. These people have it all wrong. Nature isn’t some quirky sideline to the main business. It IS the main business.

See you at the After Party, Space Bear.

mastodon.ie/@abominabled... #JudieTzuke

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty. If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐 There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

"The 'problem' with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines." Dr Lucky Tran

Realeasd today, 13th October 1978 #ACDC "If You Want Blood". The only official live album to feature #BonScott on vocals , recorded at the Apollo Theatre, Glasgow, #AlbumOfTheDay #70s #bonscott #ClassicRock #MusicSky #music