Yet another nail in the coffin for @bandcamp.com sellers and others in the UK and elsewhere from next week, as France introduces a €2 Tax on every parcel, ahead of the forthcoming EU wide €3 fixed customs duty. Thanks Brexit again, we love you so much!

Big day today! Nico is eight! Happy birthday to the loveliest dog in the world.

The launch concert for the ensemble Ear Transplant includes a performance of Laurence Crane’s ‘Sparling’. Wednesday at H15, Copenhagen @laurencecrane.bsky.social www.eartransplant.org/calendar/eve...

RIP Jonathan Powell - a great pianist, highly original composer and Russian music specialist. What a tragic loss. We came up together, and both from the West Midlands. I have a fond memory of a Black Country real ale pub crawl with him in c.1997. Here’s his ‘Saturnine’ for ensemble:

Had a good time at a concert by the @comanewmusic.bsky.social London ensemble

Ruben Mattia Santorsa will perform Laurence Crane‘s solo electric guitar work, ‘Bobby J’, at Unerhörte Musik Berlin on Tuesday @laurencecrane.bsky.social whatsnew.composersedition.com/santorsa-per...

@ianvine.com IAN VINE!!!!

The @libdems.org.uk and I have written to the Conservative leader urging her to condemn the comments by one of her MPs who said large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

@ianvine.com Ian Vine

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If this isn’t Nazism, I don’t know what Nazism is. (For anyone lucky enough not to know, this person was a Conservative, then UKIP MP.)

My piece 'Events' (actually composed in 1997) will be performed in London this Friday, at the first concert in this years Music We'd Like to Hear summer series.

Join us for Music We'd Like to Hear's 20th season which begins Friday this week and continues for the next two Fridays! Featuring a glittering array of brilliant music and musicians! Come and join the celebration! Tickets available here www.eventbrite.com/cc/music-wed...

Bananas are brilliant

It's about time these stories weren't accompanied by an image of someone frolicking in the water or eating an ice cream. It's not going to stop getting hotter, we really ought to fucking grow up and treat this seriously🤦🏻‍♂️

Music We'd Like To Hear. Very very important! www.eventbrite.com/cc/music-wed...

The always excellent Plus-Minus Ensemble are back at @edincollegeofart.bsky.social for their final concert as Reid School of Music's Ensemble in Residence featuring work by Stravinsky, Francesca Fargion, Natacha Diels, Alex Paxton and Peter Maxwell Davies. Free!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/plus-minus...

Toughening migration rules doesn’t challenge Reform. It validates them.

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HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY @apartment-house.bsky.social - loved the #Satie Socrate arrangement @wigmore-hall.org.uk

hello, I have a new radio show on @campradio.bsky.social called durations - it airs today Friday 25 April at 17:00 CET (it'll be archived on mixcloud). @laurencecrane.bsky.social @apartment-house.bsky.social @yokoono.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social @dense-pr.bsky.social