Herbie Hancock showing Quincy Jones how to use the Fairlight CMI synthesizer - one of the first commercially available digital samplers Herbie was an early adopter, using the $80,000 machine to compose and arrange, "Rockit," his classic work of early hip-hop/electro/jazz fusion.

@chuckbad.bsky.social ✨ Midnight Greetings from Regina, Saskatchewan 🍁 #StressBreak Rob 😊 ✌️

My Eurovision cartoon for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social.

Juliet. Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day: It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear; Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate-tree: Believe me, love, it was the nightingale. #BookWormSat 📸 Olivia Hussey (RIP) as Juliet

Friday afternoon listening. Blue men sing the whites.

Cannes First Look review: The Match – Maradona, Lineker and the ‘hand of God’ goal

#NowPlaying #vinylcommunity An album which requires your complete attention.

After an absence last week, I’m back at the market, treating myself to a slice of gur cake, a favourite of my Dublin childhood. #coffeeandcakefriday

For all the dog people of Bluesky

Morning magic on Carlingford Lough from this time last year. Moonset behind Haulbowline Lighthouse, captured from Cranfield Beach, Co. Down, looking towards Ballagan Point, Co. Louth. You can see one of the old WWII lookout posts - Lookout Post #1 of the 83 stations once dotted along the coastline.

Remembering Ian Dury on his birthday. Here he is with The Blockheads performing a great version of Sweet Gene Vincent in Paris in 1978

Disappointed watching a video called "If You Haven't Found the Perfect Carry On Yet, Watch This Video" not to see Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques but instead a load of little suitcases.

Which of the following attractions would you like to see at The Beatles' 3 Savile Row? - Sit in Derek Taylor's wicker peacock chair - Delay a policeman at the front door - Dress as Santa and chat to a Hell's Angel - Play in the "Magic Alex Room" …or suggest your own!

#RainbowMap 2026 is live! Spain breaks Malta's decade-long hold on top spot. As the rules-based international order fractures and democracy is under pressure, Spain's No’1 ranking stands as proof that political courage remains the most powerful answer. Find out more at rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org!

A very happy birthday to Steve Winwood.

I wrote the notes for this splendid 50th anniversary edition of ‘Kaleidoscope Of Rainbows’ by Neil Ardley. It’s out 12th June on Esoteric.

Remembering Bob Marley today on the 45th anniversary of his passing (May 11, 1981) | Explore his musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: album.ink/BobMarleyRIP

It’s Donovan’s 80th today! Sharing my top ten that I did for @toppermost.bsky.social a while back. Everyone go listen to some Donovan today. www.toppermost.co.uk/donovan/

Happy 80th to Donovan, whose Sunshine Superman and Mellow Yellow LPs are pure 60s classics! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmoz... #punk #punks #punkrock #punkrockhistory #womenofpunk #IndieMusic #ProgRock #ElectricGuitarForAll #Bandcamp #MyDailyEarworm #goth

Time to take the temperature down, as evening shadows fall.

Paint peeling off the walls as I type.

Welcome back, Hungary 🇭🇺! Happy Europe Day 🇪🇺 ❤️

mrsmmch has just driven off to Athlone, on official business, for the final night of the drama festival. On the home front, to no one’s surprise, things are quickly going to hell in a bucket.

The greatest football movie never made! All Star Cast! ⭐️ #Italia90 #speirgorm #SpéirGhorm #LFC

For thirty years," he said, "I've sailed the seas and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions running out, knives going, and what not. Well, now I tell you, I never seen good come o' goodness yet. Him as strikes first is my fancy -RL Stevenson. #BookWormSat

Happy 49th birthday, blues/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter Joe Bonamassa. 🎂 #BluesSky

On the immortal magic of Rory Gallagher and why Irish Tour '74 is the greatest rock movie ever made. open.substack.com/pub/saturday...

Commencing countdown. Engines on…

After the endless journey in airless heat you emerge at last from the underground and here at the newsagent’s next to the station are bunches of sweet peas, wrapped in pink tissue… —Elizabeth Burns, “This Life” published in HELD (Polygon, 2010) #BookWormSat #poem #poetry

Now playing. Prompted to put it on because I nominated the title track for the Mystery Jukebox. What an album; the rhythmic grooves, the guitar playing and above all, the singing. Float away on a Saturday morning.

Yeah, time we stopped being performative and who we actually are. The north i think copped on faster as we didnt get as much investment ( less charming perhaps lol) ( Angelone btw must be a scion of the Angelone's who ran the beloved Victors in Castle St. Iykyk) www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Here's flowers for you: Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram, The marigold, that goes to bed wi th' sun And with him rises weeping. These are flowers Of middle summer. Perdita-The Winters Tale #BookWormSat 📸 Rehearsal shot-Dublin Shakespeare Society-Perdita and The Shepherd (me)

Friday night, red wine music.

The legendary mrsmmch and myself, on the loose last night, in Athlone, for the first night of the RTE Drama Festival.

Slightly delayed trip to the market, but got there on a beautiful May morning, before everything sold out. #coffeeandcakefriday

Féile na Bealtaine! The Irish year is divided into 4 parts: Bealtaine - Lads, time for cans in the park Lughnasa - Enjoy those cans while you can, lads. Samhain - The ghosts are demanding cans! Imbolc - The women are demanding cans!!

White privilege is having the most deranged fantasies of inflicting violence on those less fortunate & less white than you treated as the musings of an overactive far right imagination rather than a reason to be hauled in front of the counter terrorism police .

I’m not going to pretend this doesn’t exist.

The first time I spoke to Beverley. An interview for the Guardian, from 2014 www.theguardian.com/music/2014/a...

Happy Perfect Date Day, everyone

Quite by chance this was played by George Hamilton on Lyric FM a few minutes ago. In my far from expert opinion, some of the greatest noise ever made by humans.

"All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat." Walter De La Mare. #BookWormSat

A magical and mysterious moon.

I’m going in!

The Blue Window, Issy-les-Moulineaux, summer 1913 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/1135199

Artist: Anna Neumann

I’ve been up before seven, to Dublin and back with no breakfast, so I’m treating myself and I make no apologies. #coffeeandcakefriday

Just been reminded by Marty Whelan on Lyric FM, that today is Sandy Denny’s anniversary. Here she is, singing Fotheringay, with a beautiful short film by her daughter Georgia, who does so much good work to keep her mother’s memory fresh.

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