Excellent afternoon / evening in Newport to catch up with #MoragRose as she had a walk / book launch for her excellent The Feminist Art of Walking! Highly recommended! And so great to catch up with @aledsingleton.bsky.social too.

Excellent all round show - comedy (of course!), reminiscence & stories, memories & emotions - with @thefastshow.bsky.social in Swansea last night! Cheers gang!!

That @adrianchiles.bsky.social ‘hits the nail on the head’ in many ways yet again… Spot on! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Marvellous evening in the amazing #BushHouse in central #London where @philhubbard.bsky.social more than effectively launched his book #ListeningToLandscape that I shall certainly be purchasing… Music; discussion; great crowd!

Well, enjoyed #BobDylan here on Monday & he’s 84… & mighty #NeilYoung 80 today & also ‘still going strong’! Happy Birthday Neil!! s3.amazonaws.com/syndication....

Happy to say #BobDylan did not disappoint last night… His voice stronger than I feared &, of course, his band excellent. No banter with the crowd of course but you can’t expect miracles! Cheers Bob!!

With #BobDylan playing 3 - yes 3! - nights in #DylanThomas’s #Swansea - I’m off to see him round the corner tomorrow! 🙂 - I really hope he’s getting to #DylanThomasMuseum dylanthomas.com & to his Uplands house dylanthomasbirthplace.com Cheers Bob! :-)

Yesterday, Day 3 of #Swansea #music extended weekend superb! All day 1pm- #TŷTawe at this year’s @nawr-abertawe.bsky.social Festival. Fabulous range diverse music &, yet again, really liked it all. Company excellent too. Can’t wait until next year, of course including next chapter #RadioFreePonty!

My #musicweekend day 2 (Friday). Great evening in #Swansea #TaliesinArtsCentre where #Pulp’s guitarist #MarkWebber had his fine book (I’m With Pulp, Are You?) promotion. Good crowd with some coming a long way. And got my book signed!

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My weekend of #music has begun! 1. Angharad Jenkins and Huw Warren superb last night at All Saints Church in Mumbles. Great Welsh #folk material superbly performed! :-)) #AngharadJenkins #HuwWarren

After a day feeling horrid I’m happy to say totally enjoyed The Legend of Sleepy Hollow at #DylanThomasTheatre. Thanks everyone!! :-))

Absolutely excellent evening of mighty music as #GeoffandRosemary finely set up mighty @jonwilksmusic.bsky.social for mighty set! (Yes, he did do one of my favourite songs..) Superb! Ps yes, getting used to the accents now!

Fine choice @adrianchiles.bsky.social fine choice! :-)) Poetry in motion: the most joyous four hours I’ve ever spent on a train | Adrian Chiles www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Great PhD Human Geography *fully funded* opportunity here in Swansea! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Excellent evening entertained & made to think by the ever-superb #StewartLee at #SwanseaGrandTheatre. And the werewolf appeared! (Maybe some tickets left for tmrw here… *snap* them up!)

In my work I’ve published a lot over the years but this short entry in the just published - huge & highly recommended! - Billy Bragg A People’s History - made me very very pleased! Yep, been ‘with’ Mr Bragg since Christmas 1983! 😊 @billybragg.bsky.social

What amazing evening yesterday - 5+ hrs! - with Life & Songs of #MartinCarthy presented by so many famous names. Only Martin’s immense contribution to folk & skill of #JonWilkes & team could get so many top artists together - too many to list! Just few in this ‘pub stage’ picture

Time to visit mighty #NationalGallery today & see outstanding #Millet exhibition (free! But only on until 19 Oct) before my evening wrapped up in all things #MartinCarthy at #EarthTheatre this evening. #JonWilks #BillyBragg et al! :-)

Farrige gives the impression he doesn’t trust scientists, but was willing to believe a taxi driver in Buckinghamshire, that Sharia Law is coming to Britain. This guy wants to be PM?! You must be joking! Nice one @billybragg.bsky.social 👏 #bbcqt

Grabbing brekko at Coventry station on my way back from Question Time. Didn’t expect to see this stirring evocation of the defeat of fascism adorning the wall of Coffee #1 #AllYouFascistsBoundToLose

Caught up with another outstanding #LiveToYourLivingRoom concert tonight by the amazing @younguns.bsky.social Thanks all round! :-))

Paul & I thoroughly enjoyed mighty gig by mighty #BlindRiverScare at #RailwayInn this afternoon! Cold when out the sun but they still rocked! Or ‘countried’? Great stuff!

For the British #RobbJohnson… ;-)

Superb evening yesterday listening & watching #LeonRosselson & @robbjohnson.bsky.social #LiveToYourLivingRoom What a remarkable musical life Leon has led & still so sharp & clued up with politics! Robb, of course, a natural to pair with him! Thanks both & #LiveToYourLivingRoom for putting them on!

Could not stay until end - getting bus home but also ‘cos it was v cold & I had no warm coat… but great few hours at #PontardaweBeerFest #PontardaweInn with, yes, fine beer, music & company! Highlight for me: #BoatbarToHamburg…

Certainly don’t endorse killing of #CharlieKirk but wonder how many suffered at various levels of hurt in response to the gruesome nonsense he spouted…

Had moving afternoon #ExeterUniversity remembering #HenryBuller late Dept #Geography. Saw fine folks. Great family here too. To lose him 2yrs ago horrible shock but remembered him so positively today. Thanks all who arranged esp Nicola for heading it up. 🙂 #RuralGeography #AnimalGeographies

Here’s a quick shout out to anyone liking fine ale to #CAMRA multi award winning #SirWilliamPeel pub sandy in #Sandy. Super enthusiastic landlord & some mighty fine ales! Sadly, though, I won’t be there for imminent beer festival. Check it out! See also sirwilliampeelsandy.co.uk

Outstanding live gig in the amazing #HoxtonHall tonight by the amazing #IanNoe! So much great music around… just go out & enjoy it! And Ian more than ably supported by excellent #SammyHarrison! Cheers both (& Ian’s band of course)!

Back to that London today on my week off, to visit stepmum tmrw & #IanNoe concert. But today a walk around the capital’s ’centre’, which got me couple good pics, & fab #EdwardBurra exhibition in #TateBritain!

Okay, it may be Autumn now (brrr..) but mighty #Railway in #UpperKillay still have live music at weekends! So, walked up today in grim rain for another fine 2 hours of music… Cheers! (And it filled up big time when the rain stopped!)

Got mine already & it’s bloody good! protestfamily.com/2025/07/21/e... #SteveWhiteandtheProtestFamily

Another full day fantastic music at #moseleyfestival. Rain tried to spoil it again but less successful than yesterday! Recommend this festival big time. All ace but must note #LisaONeill for someone ace I’ve somehow missed before & #MercuryRev for being amazing still! Got up the front for them!! ;-)

A full day - 11 hours! - of fantastic music at #moseleyfestival from 13 diverse acts. Honestly loved them all - less welcome was the rain! - but the fantastic #fatherjohnmisty certainly merited the headline slot! :-))

Although our fine #Geography annual RGS-IBG conference didn’t finish until 6.30 so I couldn’t catch much at #MoseleyFestival today, #Waterboys headliners were more than up to it. Excellent stuff!!

Most excellent #SwanseaCamra evening with mighty beer ably supported by ace music by #CurrantsBand & most of all by such a great mixed group of positive people! There IS hope for this world… Thanks, I need that!!

And the big room filled up! So, how about joining us at #SwanseaBeerFestival 12-11 Friday or Saturday in #BrangwynHall for some mighty tastes (inc Cider!), cool people & music? tckty.camra.org.uk/e/405/swanse... #SwanseaCAMRA

Just to big up again #StewartLee’s superb #Counterculture series on Radio 4. Excellent overview with so many key figures covered. Fascinating! (And will feed into my Marginal Geographies lectures!) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Beginning to assemble the barrels for Swansea Campaign for Real Ale beer festival (& cider!) in Brangwyn Hall Thurs-Sat this week! ;-)

Well done #SwanseaAmplitudeFestival - only caught #WheresMolly today but mighty fine indie band! Cheers… www.visitswanseabay.com/event/amplit...

Superb! Thanks so much #MichaelWestonKing for so powerfully articulating the case against making offenders’ ethnicity public. As he says ‘propensity to commit crime happens in any ethnicity, nationality or race’! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We're 300 followers away from 70,000. 300 more would be really nice. But you know what would be even better? 300 plus 30,000. Bluesky: help a museum out

Awesome (thanks Larissa) afternoon - from walking up Clyne Valley with #Larissa to fine music from #JemmaKrysa at always awesome #RailwayInn with its mighty ales! Thanks all round!!

Fab day with #SwanseaCAMRA exploring the trainline to Whitland &, hmmm nearly forgot!, the pubs there and back (well, those that sell good beer anyhow!)… Cheers!

Had forgotten about this: on BBC4 talking about Counter Culture www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Excellent new series on #BBCRadio4 hosted by the mighty #StewartLee #WhatHappenedToCounterculture Highly recommended! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Well done @theguardian.com for this front page on 80th anniversary of #Hiroshima atom bomb… No words needed! 😔 😡

Yet again mighty afternoon #RailwayInnSwansea with excellent #beer & #music! This afternoon was excellent #DaveDarrell doing a superb diverse set with not least mighty version of Springsteen’s River but with much more too. Cheers!