First artists announced and tickets now on sale! Come join us 31 July - 7 August 2026. Line-up so far: sidmouthfolkfestival.co.uk/lineup/ Tickets: sidmouthfolkfestival.co.uk/tickets/

The Bad Pennies will be “Winter Wandering” in December. 6th - Otley / 7th - Coddington / 12 - Middlesbrough / 15 - Bishop Auckland / 17 - Cramlington / 18 - Embleton / 19 - Green Hammerton / 20 - Beetham / 21 - Gateshead (2 shows). Not many tickets left for most of them!

It's almost tour time! Tickets at www.janandjon.com/live

New #MATLAB Parallel Computing Onramp Launched! This free, one-hour self-paced course teaches the basics of running MATLAB code in parallel using multiple CPU cores, helping you speed up your code and write code that handles information efficiently. matlabacademy.mathworks.com/details/para...

A lot of our December gigs are almost sold out. More seats have been made available for the two Gateshead Glasshouse shows. Details on our website.

Some Northumbrian rants (and an air) from our recent @camusfolk.bsky.social gig in Weston Colville www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UoC...

Congratulations to England's Red Roses, the women's rugby world cup winners. A superb effort over six weeks and deserved winners.

Just booked in for Cambridge Junction 👌

#MATLAB R2025b has dropped - a quick intro to the new desktop. R2025b delivers quality and stability improvements, building on the new features introduced in R2025a. Thank you for all the feedback you provided to make R2025b possible. If you are using R2025a, you should switch to R2025b.

We're playing in Cambridge on October 8th at Newnham Croft club, together with The Doghouse Collective and The String Section.

Job alert! I know a lot of #HPC people follow me here so if any of you are looking for a new gig, maybe this one at MathWorks is for you. lnkd.in/efa8iPkZ You don't even need to know any MATLAB...we can teach you that. Your HPC/parallel chops are what we are looking for.

I deliver High Performance Computing workshops in MATLAB for free! If you are at a University in the UK and would like a similar session to the one Manchester had, let's talk.

Petrol stations should not be allowed to display any branding. Instead, like tobacco, they should be plastered in massive grim pictorial health warnings, and only show their company name in a small nondescript font underneath.

🚴‍♀️ London has done it. We’ve just been crowned Europe’s favourite city for cycling, a fantastic recognition of the progress we’ve made to make our city greener and more accessible for all. Our cycling boom is good for Londoners and is putting us on the map for cycle tourism.

Loved this band (at least until Mustaine went completely nuts).

MATLAB Online was updated to R2025a! My favorites - syntax highlighting and live preview of markdown. What's yours? blogs.mathworks.com/matlab/2025/...

We muddled through, missing our third piper (laid low with COVID - which traditionally one contracts during the festival, rather than before)

Please note: my pipes can get very _sharp_

Just seen the Red Man here in Sidmouth... dressed entirely in YELLOW! (Unless it is simply that he is approaching *extremely* quickly)

Just seen Donald WG Lindsay with his amazing extended range smallpipes. Managed to leg it down the hill in time to see Leveret.

Really successful Northumbrian piping workshop this pm @sidmouthfolkfest.bsky.social . Thanks to piping colleagues for extra hands: Polly Stirzaker, David Bush, Tim Pillinger.

Opening track on my new album “Oubliette“ - next stop Edinburgh Fringe on August 17th. youtu.be/qgEzHoK4Ufo

Here's what I'm going to be busy with at @sidmouthfolkfest.bsky.social next week: camusmusic.net/sidmouth-fol... .

Really looking forward to seeing Gadarene after we finish our @camusfolk.bsky.social set.

I've just been checking the sets of Northumbrian smallpipes that @camusfolk.bsky.social will be using at our @sidmouthfolkfest.bsky.social "try the pipes" session next week. Here's "A Mile to Ride".

We really enjoyed playing at the wonderfully-named Cambridge Champagne Fringe Festival today. Thanks to Brian and London Rd Studios sound. Great crowd and lusty singing.

Come and try Northumbrian smallpipes with me and the @camusfolk.bsky.social crew!

Looking forward to playing at the Cambridge Champagne Fringe Festival on Saturday - one of the local events plugging the gap left by the Cambridge folk festival this year.

Looking forward to our five events @sidmouthfolkfest.bsky.social - three Northumbrian workshops, a concert and a talk on children’s folklore! Come and unleash your inner Northumbrian!

Camus are playing at Bury St Edmunds Folk Festival tomorrow, main stage, due on at 17:35. Looking forward to playing some songs and Northumbrian tunes. www.buryfolkfestival.co.uk

Write-up of our Camus gig at St Neots folk festival from a couple of weeks back. www.fatea-records.co.uk/magazine/liv...

My band Camus are playing at the St Neots Folk Festival next Saturday 19:30, supporting @jezlowe.bsky.social . More info here www.stneotsfolkclub.co.uk/festival.html . Probably your best chance to see 3 sets of Northumbrian smallpipes deployed simultaneously!