What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Father Ted wouldn’t get made today because the creator would’ve sacked off the pitch meeting to spend more time on mumsnet

Kunt & The Gang back in town

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keep the East Anglian Folklore Centre open

I just wrote my first song since last November, album 51 up your arse

I feel a spooky connection to Madge Gill because she lived and worked next door to my shop for decades, so my great-grandad must’ve known her; she was a spiritualist and never sold any work in her lifetime for fear of upsetting her spirit guide ‘Myrninerest’, under whose influence she made her art

Madge Gill’s surviving tapestries in Grayson Perry’s ‘Delusions of Grandeur’ exhibition

bandcamp friday - for £1 you can buy my 48th album SAD ACT (2024) which was largely ignored on release despite it being quite good. it’s a shit business! thetumbledryerbabies.bandcamp.com/album/sad-act

Modern Nature at South Records 02/09/25

read this if you haven’t already ffs

If the police think the Palestine flag could be reasonably interpreted to imply support for Palestine Action, then surely the union flag could reasonably be interpreted to imply support for the UDA and UVF?

5 years ago I put out this omnichord covers album. it’s me singing songs by Robyn, Sparks, Roky Erickson, Demis Roussos, Billy Joel, Pulp, Kermit The Frog etc backed by my OM-27. big lockdown energy. free download from bandcamp ✌️👽 thetumbledryerbabies.bandcamp.com/album/omnipop

our setlist from today

saturday

you’ve got to beat the clock they used to tell me

my latest album MY DINNER WITH ANDREW is still available (LP/CD/digital)! buy it here: thetumbledryerbabies.bandcamp.com/merch

I recommend reading Sly Stone’s 2023 autobiography THANK YOU (FALETTINME BE MICE ELF AGIN) if you haven’t already

sign up for my mailing list you plonker

little bit of ‘Thicko’ from Craftwerk 22/05/25 (📹 Leigh Curtis)

me and my band are playing at this year’s Leigh Folk Festival - 2pm on the saturday at the fishermen’s chapel, don’t miss it baby

setlist from tonight

tomorrow night! first tumbledryer gig to feature the wonderful Bryan Styles on drums! don’t miss it you twat wegottickets.com/event/656222/

why DIY? I read THE HOME RECORDING HANDBOOK by @cleanersfromvenus.bsky.social on home counties railways, as loosely intended maybe, to learn about both Martin Newell and The Process. I expect I’ll show my workings on yamaha MT-50 cassette 4-track soon enough

22/05 at Craftwerk Southend full band show, first one with Southend legend Bryan Styles on drums! tickets here:

don’t usually read science fiction but fuck me, if this isn’t one of the best books I’ve EVER read (spoiler alert: yet another nuclear holocaust warning from the 1950s that could have been written yesterday)

bandcamp friday, who cares, the world’s on fire thetumbledryerbabies.bandcamp.com

Attempting to ban trans women from using the women’s restroom isn’t about just making us use the men’s restroom—it’s about trying to make it so unsafe for us to use public restrooms that we disappear from public life.

03/05 saks (solo) 22/05 craftwerk (full band)

Cassie Ramone is the best

pedalboard stickers # 12 & 35

four weeks since my album launch! more full band action coming soon

Claire Welles never misses!

buy my album (LP/CD/DL) or stream it if you don’t have the bunce, link in bio

keep listening

another fucking album I expect

plug life

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This country is awash with money. The very rich are rich beyond imagination. So when Starmer wants to stay within his arbitrary fiscal rules, who does he decide to take money from? The very rich? No, from people with disabilities who depend on benefits for the bare minimum of a decent life.

barge graveyard, 21/02/25

15 years ago

joined letterboxd for Jeremy Corbyn reviewing The Wind That Shakes The Barley

“I crushed cans for charity in 1993 once”

you can buy my new album from my favourite record shop, SOUTH! shop local ffs www.southrecordshop.com/products/the...

it’s bandcamp friday! which means if you buy my new record online today, I trouser the percentage bandcamp usually takes! thetumbledryerbabies.bandcamp.com/merch

A fab Saturday evening at St Marks Church in Southend once again, with the @tumbledryerbaby.bsky.social‬ 50th (!) album launch, with TCBTBC & MelodieGroup #Sony #A6500 #CanonFD #100mm #gigs

my hearing is so shit that I lost my left earbud walking to the station and didn’t notice it was missing until I’d been on the train for 10 minutes