Customary empty stage photo no: 456545566 @andyparsons.net at #thenorthwalloxford

The most nerve-wracking speech of my life…

With @rosemet.bsky.social at @irishculturalcentr.bsky.social

Prices are now so bad in that-there-London they you can genuinely rent a phone box…

We all have our own journey. I actually discovered #WoodyGuthrie through his son Arlo and Alice's Restaurant but once I found him I've been a huge fan since (mid '70s). I hate (theft etc) and worry about many espects of AI but have to say this is a positive... www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Happy birthday to Folsom Prison Blues. #JohnnyCash recorded the original exactly 70 years' ago TODAY. 19 July 1955 Not a bad way to start your week. Enjoy. Altogether... "...just to watch him die..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeZR... #CountryMusic #Americana

Yeah Tipp!💪💪💪💪💪 💙💛 #UpTipp #GAA #Hurling

@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

So do we Seán. #SineadOConnor www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

Just did a quick blitz of music-liking Bsky accounts. Not a stalker - just trying to expand the bluesky sphere a little with #folk of a similar mind. Follow back if you want- don't if you don't. If you're still worried, just say so and I'll unfollow you again. #Music #Country #Americana #Rock

RIP Mick Ralphs. Genuinely wore this album out when I was a teenager - had to buy a second copy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XwK...

RIP Johnny Rodriguez. C'mon @ralphmclean.bsky.social @rickyaross.bsky.social please do what you do best... www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Customary empty stage photo no :64565455565543224556677554556776666.4 Scott Bradlee’s PostModern Jukebox. Audience mostly Mumsnet and middle-aged bald men. In the land of the bald, the thinning man is King.

Those moments when your taste in shirts matches the soft furnishings no. 199992298.

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. 😜

Live in or around Chester? Ever fancied trying out rowing? Grosvenor Rowing Club in Chester are taking registrations for their Learn To Row course. @shitchester.bsky.social www.grosvenor-rowingclub.org.uk/learn-to-row/

Tá na BAFTAs ar an talamh😅🇮🇪

#fracturedfoods. Barm Break.

I’ve got free shipping happening on my Bandcamp page for Blonde on the Tracks. Here’s the link if you’d like to pick up a copy on vinyl or CD 🧡 Love, E emmaswift.bandcamp.com/album/blonde...

"It's really fun" 🤩 "If you're a politician, come on the bike bus. It's great." Stella from Camden shouts out her #BikeBus + throws an invite to all politicians 🎉🥳🚍🚲 @camdencyclists.bsky.social All children should be able to cycle safely to school like Stella can.

Clocks break, time goes by. Hearts ache... #RIPMarianneFaithfull. One of the best to come out of Reading. 😢

We want to say a big congratulations to The Purple Turtle in Reading for their successful grant application to Arts Council's Audience Development fund! Securing this grant will allow the venue to fund upcoming shows and purchase equipment, making a massive difference.

WOW!! The number of @bsky.app users just hit the 30 MILLION milestone!! 👏 LETS KEEP GOING!

Thankyou to The Stage for printing my letter about the erasure of Sylvia Anderson from her own work..

Such sad news. Now they've ALL gone. My favourite band of all time. 😢 Feel privileged to have seen them in 1976 on my first trip to America. #TheBand @rickdankopage.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Obligatory empty stage photo no :?4666644 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! 🙏🙏

Ons Jabeur: ‘Kids are dying everywhere in Ukraine or Gaza. I have to speak out’

Buon Natale, Nollaig Shona and a Merry Christmas to you all.

Obligatory empty stage photo no 35654566: 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!

UK exported 8,500 tonnes of pesticides that are banned on British farms because of the dangers they pose to human health and nature. Profits prioritised over people, with full approval of the state. Today someone else, tomorrow it will happen to you. unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/12/08/u...

Catching up on @ralphmclean.bsky.social show on BBC Sounds and heard the first Vanilla Fudge song and thought "WTF is this? Ralph's finally lost it". By the end of the two hour show though I was hooked and that last version of Wheel's on Fire was awesome! Cap dop sir! You very very rarely fail! 👏

Obligatory empty stage photo no 46664433: @edbyrne.bsky.social Now everybody switch the bloody phones off.😉🤣

Ditto this.

@sarahmcquaidmusic.bsky.social Helly Sarah glad to see you here. (FYI We followed each other at the last place).

@deanowens1.bsky.social Hello Dean Great to see you here. (We followed each other at the other place).

Post you from a different era: Mid 1970s One of the Reading Festivals

Remembering Shane McGowan today on the anniversary of his passing. So missed still. Memory hear from the day of his funeral on the streets of Dublin. Sending love to all who loved him

You had me at Tiger.

You have to be Irish to get this.😁

In my experience, bass players usually have the lovely fragrance of a combination of body odour and stale bitter.

@rickyaross.bsky.social Glad to see you here. 👏 Now just need Eve Blair and my four sources of great music (@whisperingbob.bsky.social and @ralphmclean.bsky.social being the other two, obvs) are here and I can close my XTwitter account! 😉😊

The last five concerts you saw (going backwards): 1) Dom Martin 2) Lauren Housley/Bywater Call 3) Asleep at the Wheel/Ags Connolly/Jack Browning 4) Lindisfarne 5) Rhiannon Giddens SHOULD have been FOUR different but for COVID/M4 & A34 closures and one where I bought tickets for the wrong gig!🤦‍♂️

Not a single mention of Long Covid in the Get Britain Working White Paper. Govt still ignoring NHS staff & frontline workers, who put their lives on the line during the pandemic, now suffering with the condition. We urgently need to recognise Long Covid as an occupational disease.

#stainedglasssunday Life Boat Window, Christ Church North Shields.

🎶🪕🎶🎻🎶🪗🎶 TONIGHT at 8 See you there! #LiveMusic #FolkMusic #TheDing

Lowest level of plastic bottle litter in 35 years, and most bottles were older than the deposit return scheme. From a peak of 100 bottles per kilometre in 2010, it has dropped to just below eight bottles per kilometre in 2024 #spéirghrom #ireland www.rte.ie/news/2024/11...

So sad you could not have just last another week longer and made it to one more #Thanksgiving. #Alice'sRestaurant was the soundtrack to my teenage years. #RIPAlice wherever you may be.https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/arts/music/alice-brock-dead.html

In Swindon to see @markthomasinfo.bsky.social Given that we’ve dipped out of eight gigs and shows and left half-way through another this year, this is a major achievement for us!

Bluesky’s growth has exploded as people seek alternatives to X, Facebook and Threads. The social media site's 20 full-time employees have been working around the clock to deal with the issues that come with hyper-growth.