The soprano Elizabeth Hilliard performs Christopher Fox’s ‘Truths and mysteries’ at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s University Belfast on Thursday @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social whatsnew.composersedition.com/hilliard-chr...

Champ du banc perdu

Ange Postecoglou, the Liz Truss of football management.

Dear Mr Trump, announcing something is not the same as it happening.

9 years ago a man came up to me outside Cologne Cathedral and told me that the Rothschilds had decided that George Osborne was the next UK Prime Minister.

Reassuring to see that the traditions of 70s socialism can still be revived. No mass movement is complete until its membership is reduced to a single person.

Gotta love a typo. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Researchers closing in on how to release microbrew IPA on cassette.

Shocking! 36% of all film fans are joyless cinephobes! Boo!

Like a well oiled machine www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...

This is a good way to greet a new month: m.youtube.com/watch?v=_oDI...

Music for a summer morning m.youtube.com/watch?v=nlaT...

Covering the small boats 'deal' without referencing Macron's irrefutably accurate observation that blame for the 'crisis' lies with Brexit involves contortions so violent that the people doing it should be in a circus.

Unless I’m missing something, Labour have done some pretty good things both at home and internationally in their first year - certainly the last year much better then prior 14 - so interesting how negative the media and commentary are

Centuries, minutes later, one might ask / How the hilt of a sword wandered so far from the smithy. / And somewhere they will sing: 'Like chaff we were borne / In the wind.' This is the wind in a field of corn. (Wind, James Fenton)

Happy Father’s Day! It’s not too late to gift a Private Eye subscription. ➡️ All subs options here: www.subsonline.co.uk

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

Well, so far the item is proving resistant to quantification, but I can say that it's without qualification an excellent thing and no mistaking #KateHarrisonLedger @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social @nmcrecordings.bsky.social

This time next week! www.gsmd.ac.uk/whats-on/exa...

A foolish question, I know, but where do the cardinals sleep? Who cooks their meals? Are there enough bathrooms?

Lake District, mid-20th century, by Joseph Hardman, 1893-1972 (Lakeland Arts). Photographer born in Radcliffe, Bury, but moved to Kendal in 1911.

Wise counsel from Andrew Rawnsley: observer.co.uk/news/columni...

All I will say on the matter is that Rotten Boroughs in Private Eye will make compelling reading for the rest of the year.

Percussionist Oded Geizhals will perform Christopher Fox’s vibraphone piece, ‘An extraordinary mildness’, in a water-tower in Kiryat Ti’von, Israel on Saturday @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social www.eventer.co.il/event/echo5/...

Astonishingly great set tonight by Michael Lentz, Marino Pialkas and Michael Wertmüller at FMP/Wolke Verlag Frühlingsfest! Dadathrashbop!!

Er ist ein Berliner Stadtfuchs, natürlich fährt er E-Scooter

In memory of a wonderful composer, Erhard Grosskopf (d. 17.04.25): youtu.be/THDikFrWg0M

I'm gripped by the ever-increasing bling in Trump’s Oval Office. What does it mean? Yes, Trump has bad taste. But also something else. Here’s an art historical view. 🧵 1/

Peter Ablinger died today. ‘Extraordinary’ is a much-used word in the arts but Peter really was extraordinary, fearless, thoughtful. He will be sorely missed.

Happy 50th birthday, Hat Hut Records!

‘I want to hear something extraordinary’, I hear you say. Well, hear this. ensembleklangartist.bandcamp.com/album/vanish...

Berlin tonight! Kate Ledger plays Linda C Smith, C Fox, Lauren Redhead and C Fox. KM28, 8pm!

Caroline Delume will perform Christopher Fox’s ‘Les Doigts du Soleil’ for solo theorbo at the Festival in situ, Reims on Saturday! @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social cesare-cncm.com/portfolio-it...

Kate Ledger premieres Christopher Fox’s ‘Figures of light’ at KM28, Berlin on Monday! @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social whatsnew.composersedition.com/christopher-...

Man sollte sich IMMER eine zweite Meinung geben lassen

This is the sort of post that annoys me. But I’ve been listening to Les Filles de Kilimanjaro all day and it’s the best Miles Davis record ever, probably because Tony Williams and Herbie Hancock are such incredible players.

Muriel Spark, Loitering with Intent! A meta-fictional tour de force, executed with a lightness of touch that seems to elude other novelists. store.virago.co.uk/products/loi...

On 7th April, the wonderful Kate Ledger (I don’t think she is on here) performs music by @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social Linda Caitlin Smith and Christian Wolff and a piece by me in a concert in Berlin: www.km28.de

Hey, @yorkadventurers.bsky.social, last time we visited you we dropped our Iron Age hoard. If you see it can you send it back to us? Thanks! 🤞🤞

Just finished the new piece. Can’t decide whether to act like a grown-up and proofread it properly or - much more exciting option - just send it off.

Grantham?

A big part of the problem is stupid people have been convinced by rich people that AI is God, when AI is closer to an automatic dog food dispenser.

Wonderful @lporchestra.bsky.social concert in Manchester tonight. Glorious Mahler 5 preceded by an astonishingly beautiful performance of Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto, Francesco Piemontesi the perfect soloist. Bravo!

Perfect pieces by Stravinsky - a long list, but this must be near the top.

Interesting to see Starmer turning on the arms length principle. I think The Arts Council has had its day. Could easily be taken into DCMS.

(Nicholas Cage voice) I’m going to pressure wash the Cologne Cathedral