Dan Paton
@danpatonmusic.bsky.social
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Musician, Educator, Music Journalist, Part Time Cinephile, Politics/News, Whingeing about TfL
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2025’s best music for me:
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2025 In Music Part 2: The Best Albums of 2025
In all honesty, 2025 has been quite a challenging year - but music has been a constant source of solace and inspiration in the midst of some...
https://inleaguewithpaton.blogspot.com/2025/12/2025-in-music-part-2-best-albums-of-2025.html?m=1
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Urgh I’ve been sleeping on the Cafe Oto programme and seem to have missed the boat for The Necks and Los Thuthanaka. Sigh.
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Tremendous song from an excellent album
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Walking With His Sleeves Down, by The Delines
from the album The Set Up
https://thedelines.bandcamp.com/track/walking-with-his-sleeves-down
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Sam Freedman
8 days ago
Really impressive to complain about "grievance politics based on religion" when *two sentences earlier* you've talked about "the monster of harversting muslim community bloc votes".
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Good record, this - even if it does come weirdly close to lifting Champage Supernova
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Gnarls Barkley – "Pictures" (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Gnarls Barkley Official
https://youtu.be/CFlVkte3oT4?si=T7KFWZwSCMPRF6qZ
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The BAFTA discourse has to be a new low for social media, particularly in the other place. People I beg that you accept that multiple things can be true at the same time!
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LostReelsUK
18 days ago
THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE I’m
@princecharlescinema.com
on April 23rd for an extremely rare screening of John Sayles’ groundbreaking second feature, LIANNA (1983) from an original 35mm print together with an online Q&A with John Sayles and Maggie Renzi! On sale now, don’t miss it:
tinyurl.com/33bfc63e
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As ever, I’m getting irrationally excited about a Bruce Springsteen tour taking place in a different continent, that there is zero chance of me being able to attend, and that is more than likely to be a direct repeat of the shows I saw in the UK and France last summer.
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I can only hope that Reform giving high profile roles to the most thoroughly discredited former Tories will be their downfall, but I’m probably being naive.
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
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Sight and Sound magazine
19 days ago
Across a filmmaking career spanning more than five decades, Frederick Wiseman – who has died at 96 – refined a uniquely austere, quietly radical form of documentary cinema
www.bfi.org.uk/features/fre...
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Frederick Wiseman obituary: towering figure of American documentary filmmaking
Across a filmmaking career spanning more than five decades, Wiseman – who has died at 96 – refined a uniquely austere, quietly radical form of documentary cinema. Working without narration, interviews...
https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/frederick-wiseman-obituary-towering-figure-american-documentary-filmmaking
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Frederick Wiseman - perhaps the very greatest documentary film maker, and tremendous value in a Q&A almost to the very end. What a life and what a body of work.
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"Everything is beautiful." --The last line spoken in Wiseman's final film, MENUS-PLASIRS LES TROISGROS.
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How about regulating this?
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Paul Bernal
19 days ago
I should also say, I fully expect the UK government to ban under 16s from social media, and to ban them from using VPNs. They'll do it, to get great headlines, but in the process ruin the lives of some marginalised teens and make most kids less safe.
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A bit of Love on Valentines Day (If You Know You Know)
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Glen O'Hara
25 days ago
I am sick, absolutely sick, of the retreat of civic society, the media and the other political parties in the face of Reform UK - one of the most existential threats the state structures have faced for decades.
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All this said, there are few better places to be than an Underworld show, so all is good.
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29 days ago
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I know there’s good reason for it, but the utter palaver of getting into a gig at Brixton Academy now has put me right off going.
29 days ago
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Getting things delivered is just becoming ridiculous now. Earlier this week, a book was left ‘behind the bins’ (actually not even behind but next to them in this case) in the pouring rain with only cardboard packaging.
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
https://youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?si=a48sBFnB8CTJoHXZ
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This is really sad news - Christoph was the first artist I worked with when I worked for Basho Records, and a really excellent musician.
www.srf.ch/kultur/musik...
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Christoph Stiefel: Eine wichtige Jazz-Stimme ist verstummt
Der Zürcher Jazzpianist Christoph Stiefel stirbt nach kurzer Krankheit im Alter von 64 Jahren.
https://www.srf.ch/kultur/musik/christoph-stiefel-gestorben-eine-wichtige-stimme-des-europaeischen-jazz-ist-verstummt
about 1 month ago
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What Kemi seems to mean here is ‘keep children off certain social media platforms so that adults can do whatever they like on them’.
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about 2 months ago
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What are we defining as social media here? Will it include messaging apps? What about video or audio sharing platforms with comment networks? It’s not simple Kemi.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Badenoch tells Starmer to ‘just get on’ with under-16s social media ban
Tory leader says delay will harm children’s mental health after No 10 said it would consult on policy by summer
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/21/kemi-badenoch-keir-starmer-under-16s-social-media-ban-uk
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New music! Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore Craig Taborn/Tomeka Reid/Ches Smith Courtney Marie Andrews Daniel Blumberg (soundtrack) Al Green (EP) Speedy J (EP) Jana Horn Imarhan They Might Be Giants Enrico Pieranunzi Anything else?
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Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band: This isn’t straightforward for me as my parents took me to lots of live music as a child but I tend to go with the first gig I went to without them specifically because I wanted to go.
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about 2 months ago
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Belated new music post from last Friday: Pullman, Kris Davis, Robert Stillman, Adam O’ Farrill, Winged Wheel, Sault, Dry Cleaning, Zach Bryan - anything else? (Pretty good start to the year!)
about 2 months ago
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For the love of all that is holy, *stop* leaving packages ‘behind the wheelie bins’ where they will get soaking wet in today’s weather, and leave them in the place I have specifically requested them to be left about 700 times. Jesus wept.
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
Properly funding the court system would clear the backlog even more quickly.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Slashing jury trials could clear courts backlog within a decade, says Lammy
Exclusive: Lord chancellor urges MPs to back judge-only trials in thousands of criminal cases in England and Wales
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/11/slashing-jury-trials-could-clear-courts-backlog-within-a-decade-says-lammy
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New Iron & Wine!
ironandwine.bandcamp.com/album/hens-t...
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Hen's Teeth, by Iron & Wine
10 track album
https://ironandwine.bandcamp.com/album/hens-teeth
about 2 months ago
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RIP Bela Tarr. I came to Satantango later (not least because of its foreboding length) but getting lost in Werckmeister Harmonies at the then Arts Picturehouse in Cambridge was a milestone in my appreciation of a cinema beyond the mainstream.
2 months ago
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Happy new year everyone! Quite glad to see the back of 2025 if I’m honest. Onwards!
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2025 reading: I have completed my challenge of 30 books!
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2025 Reading Challenge
https://www.goodreads.com/readingchallenges/gr/annual/2025/QTFGQldaS0NZWTVCTVYMjAyNQ
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I’ve also hastily written something about 2025 in film, but I don’t really feel I kept up well this year and I’m likely not the best person to write this:
patonstango.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/2...
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2025 In Film
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, this has been a challenging year, and I do not feel I have either succeeded in keeping up with developments in cinema, or even been all that motivated to put in the eff…
https://patonstango.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/2025-in-film/
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Regrettably, this is now going to drag on beyond the end of the year - but here is part 1 of my epic look at reissues, compilations, box sets and rediscoveries of 2025:
inleaguewithpaton.blogspot.com/2025/12/2025...
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2025 In Music Part 3: Reissues, Box Sets, Compilations and Rediscoveries Part 1
There is so much of this, I’ve had to split it into (at least) two parts, with hopefully the rest being ready tomorrow. There is an incredib...
https://inleaguewithpaton.blogspot.com/2025/12/2025-in-music-part-3-reissues-box-sets.html?m=1
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2 months ago
I already agree with this in principle - citizenship is an untouchable status or it is nothing - but also for reasons of prudence. “The Home Sec can revoke citizenship when he/she deems someone’s online output sufficiently offensive” is a v dangerous precedent to set with Reform leading all polls.
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2025’s best music for me:
inleaguewithpaton.blogspot.com/2025/12/2025...
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2025 In Music Part 2: The Best Albums of 2025
In all honesty, 2025 has been quite a challenging year - but music has been a constant source of solace and inspiration in the midst of some...
https://inleaguewithpaton.blogspot.com/2025/12/2025-in-music-part-2-best-albums-of-2025.html?m=1
2 months ago
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Merry Christmas!
2 months ago
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I’ve started my review of 2025 with the new music long list - more than 450 works I’ve listened to and at least partially enjoyed in 2025.
inleaguewithpaton.blogspot.com/2025/12/2025...
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2025 In Music Part 1: New Music Longlist
Here are more than 460 works (not all of them albums) that I listened to and at least partially appreciated in 2025 (Talkin’ to the Trees i...
https://inleaguewithpaton.blogspot.com/2025/12/2025-in-music-part-1-new-music-longlist.html?m=1
2 months ago
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Drink The Sea at the Jazz Cafe tonight - a very special evening and a fantastic final gig of 2025.
3 months ago
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OK a load of stuff I still need to check out here (plus much I know and like)
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I’ve been rubbish with new releases these past few weeks, so here’s a thread working backwards. Feel free to suggest anything I’ve missed over the last few weeks. 5/12 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Voices From The Lake Melody’s Echo Chamber Cortex and Hedvig Mollestad Richard Youngs Dove Ellis
3 months ago
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Shack were incredible tonight. So relieved to have seen Mick on much much better form. Lovely to get Byrds Turn To Stone this time too. Lots of love for John in the room as well, which is great to see.
3 months ago
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Lawrence!
3 months ago
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Belatedly joining the chorus to say yes it is really good that Los Thuthanaka got album of the year from Pitchfork - exactly the kind of innovative and creative record that deserves recognition. Also you can find it very easily on Bandcamp!
losthuthanaka.bandcamp.com/album/los-th...
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Los Thuthanaka, by Los Thuthanaka
8 track album
https://losthuthanaka.bandcamp.com/album/los-thuthanaka-2
3 months ago
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Haters are gonna hate but I thought that was pretty damn great
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Tonight: Cameron Winter at The Roundhouse
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