Blog post: Fonts and monsters. blog.clivemurray.com/of-fonts-and... #Fonts #Monsters #EricGill #SayNoToGillSans

New video - playthrough of “Panama” by Van Halen. It’s up on YouTube and PeerTube, whichever you prefer. YT: youtu.be/C6zxsDvtd2M PT: makertube.net/w/19CbQ4dVbH... Happy Friday! #Guitar #Guitarist #Ibanez #VanHalen #Music #Rock #EddieVanHalen #Panama

Another play through video! This time it’s a proper full length song, “Kalahari” off of my 2024 album Love and Painkillers. There’s a bit of waffle about it after the song too. Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWsN... #Music #Guitar #Video #Instrumental #Ibanez #IbanezJem

Tiny blog post: Resurrection playthrough. blog.clivemurray.com/resurrection...

Today is the day that Satan is skating to work. Ibanez 540PIII reissue. MIJ, 24fr, H/S. Perfect except for one crucial detail… 43mm neck width at the nut. The original (I have one from 1989) was 45mm. The ultra wide neck was one of the USPs. Still awesome though. www.ibanez.com/eu/products/...

New blog post: Clive’s Album of the Year, 2024. blog.clivemurray.com/clives-album... It’s very long. Sorry. #AlbumOfTheYear #AlbumOfTheYear2024 #Music #AlienAntFarm #TheCure #BillieEilish #Elbow #GreenDay #Gun #LinkinPark #LondonGrammar #TheOffspring #MaxRichter #DevinTownsend #Underworld

2026: Put the brakes on everything. 2028: Expand the Supreme Court, Medicare for All, regulate crypto up the wazoo, tax the bejeezus out the toolbags who made all this possible, electrify rail, nationalize SpaceX, abolish ICE, protect trans people, codify reproductive rights,

Completely forgot BlueSky existed.

Wow. A lot of interest in the whole pope-alooza going on. I kind of thought nobody gave a shit any more, like Eurovision or the Grand National.

🚨 New guitar challenge is live! 🚨 This time the Bros. tackle the solo section from Joe Satriani’s “Strange”. fiasco.quest/challenges/2... #Guitar #GuitarChallenge #GuitarSolo #FiascoBrothers #JoeSatriani

A little blog post about a thing I made recently. blog.clivemurray.com/guitar-chall...

🚨 New thing alert! 🚨 Guitar Challenges by the Fiasco Bros. In which a friend and I who have been playing guitar together for decades come up with guitar challenges for each other, video the evidence, and put it on the internet. challenge.clivemurray.com Enjoy! #Guitar #Guitarist #RockGuitar

Friday is not only Bandcamp Friday, it is also Rik Mayall day. #RikMayallDay #TheRikMayall #Woof

I’m streaming some Fallout 4 on Twitch. twitch.tv/tommistarr

CALL FOR VOTES! Hi. I might have a chance to open for the wonderful @jongomm.bsky.social in May this year. I would be hugely grateful if you would do me the favour of going here www.jongomm.com/supports and voting for me, Clive Murray. #LiveMusic #JonGomm #Guitarist #RockGuitar

New web toy I've been mucking about with in my downtime. flipper.clivemurray.com Inspired by the Apple album art screensaver initially. I wondered if I could get the same 3D flipping effect in a browser, and the answer was of course yes. 😀

Dear #Lazyweb I sometimes write things. Sometimes they are long, sometimes people enjoy them. I would like to do this more, and perhaps submit things to an occasional publication or two. I wondered how to go about this, so I spoke to a journalist friend.

This is my favourite bit of the song: The major to minor key change, the cascading harmonics, it feels like making trails with sparklers in the dark Check You're Still Breathing, recorded with the PowerTap Earth Pro from Fishman, no other mics or sources.

If anyone was wondering, I have been capturing numbers (in order) sporadically for a while. 500px.com/p/axemonkey/...

Seventy-six. 500px.com/photo/110792... #Consecutive #Numbers #SeventySix

Further to late night "not ok" post the other day... Sorry. I'm trying not to be a drama llama. But it doesn't always work. Sometimes I... don't feel "safe" in my own head. I know I should stay off the socials when that happens, but I am an idiot and I am weak. Thanks for your patience. 🙏

I’m voting we call this The Clod War.

Am not ok. Dammit.

To add: The below turns off Copilot in Word. You may still need to turn it off piecemeal elsewhere. To turn it off EVERYWHERE in Windows 11, here's a good set of instructions: www.tomsguide.com/computing/so... - note the first part depends on your Windows version; the gpedit steps work regardless.

What the actual fuck is going on?

Friday evening kitchen selfie. Cooking: bacon and spinach arrabiata with organic tricolour fusilli. Listening to: Pet Shop Boys - Nonetheless. Drinking: Cruzcampo.

Ah, oh hello new followers. Nice to see you. Um. Yes. I love what you’ve done with your hair. Both of them, actually. So yes. I shall attempt to post occasionally. Maybe even write something in the old blog. Yes. Ok. Great. Well, be seeing you then. Ta-ta.

Yeah, making our own corners of the world less dumb and terrible is definitely going to be a priority. Keep up with your local school boards and town, city and county councils--anywhere decisions that impact your community are being made!

No. I can’t.

Reminder to self: still in holiday ouch zone. Be patient with self.

WHAMMED! 2:50pm on Christmas Eve. I didn’t want to go to the shop, but wife said we needed a couple of stocking fillers. Should have stayed in the car. New PB though. #Whamageddon

Driving the 200-mile round trip to bring the mother-in-law round for Christmas. Flicked on Radio 1 to keep myself awake. Instant “Last Christmas”. BUT! Turned out it was a cover version! Still in! #Whamageddon

Fiona Shaw is bloody fantastic.

Blog post: K is for… KXM! blog.clivemurray.com/k-is-for/ #KXM #RockMusic #BlogPost

Blog post: Clive’s Album of the Year, 2023. blog.clivemurray.com/clives-album... Sorry it took so long. #AlbumOfTheYear #Music #BlackStoneCherry #Buckcherry #PeterGabriel #McRocklinAndHutch #Metallica #NuclearPowerTrio #Paramore #SleepToken #TheTotemist #Voyager #StevenWilson #YouMeAtSix

OK so yeah, BlueSky apparently. I'm still posting to Mastodon/Fediverse where I am @[email protected] But also now here. I will keep my Xitter account purely to keep my username and redirect folks to Masto and here. Hello BlueSky!

18M + 1. 💙, Mar🐫

Lols. #PiningForTheFjords