There is the risk that some events at London Climate Action Week will be cancelled this week because of an extraordinary heatwave. The @metoffice.gov.uk has just upgraded to red alert on Wedneday with London at 40°C. Previous June record was 35.6°C. This is an emergency.

It is extremely likely that: 2027: ~ 1.7C+ 2031: ~ 2.0C+ 2035-39: ~2.5C It’s time we stop making 15 year moving averages while we are in the fastest change our planet’s climate has experienced in millions of years.

A quick reaction to this amazing Politico story in which the head of Europe's biggest data centre lobby group just.............................................admits it www.politico.eu/article/euro... Longer version here w/ reckons on why GenAI ❤️ fossi lfuels so much youtu.be/FjfTm5NoOUY

The Earthlings, Exeter Making music outside & inside this solstice Sunday, Make Music Day, an annual celebration of music-making. Whether or not you wake up with the sun, make music with us 10.30-12.30. Bring your own instrument or play some of ours. Venue what3words.com/toys.minute.... All welcome.

Call for instrumentalists to create and perform a new piece of music telling the Salmon’s story. Performances Exmouth Festival Sun 12 July, SALMON RUN Sat 19 Sept. Any instrument welcome. Tidelines collaboration with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Participate & Exmouth Festival. Contact me for info.

Sadly, concert is cancelled.

Duo Tutti will play my piece 'Silver & Spruce (& Here)' this Friday in Bradninch, Devon, where it was recorded. Here's a little bit, a duet between piano and spruce seed sowing. St Disen’s Church, Friday 15th May, 7.30pm. Tickets www.bradninchguildhall.org.uk/box-office or £10 on the door.

If you're in Exeter & care about food culture, people, biodiversity, resilience, trees, climate change planting, art & community, join us this Thurs 30 April 5.30-7.30pm. Conversation with FLOW Orchard artists, guardians & arborists. Exeter Custom House. Free entry. @artworkexeter @floworchardexe

A dusk Sound Walk to FLOW orchard. Sun 26 April 7pm from Exeter Custom House Book exetersoundwalk.eventbrite.co.uk Part of FLOW orchard exhibition, Exeter Custom House 24th-30th April. Full info floworchardexeter.uk/events/flow-... @floworchardexe @artworkexeter @exetercustomhouse @soundwalksexeter

Congratulations, @sarahfinch.bsky.social . www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Near Lympstone? Come down to the beach tomorrow to learn about shellfish, shellfishing, shellfish farming and their relationship to the communities of the Exe. Art, music, science, history and oysters to sample. By @tidelines.bsky.social and @emmawelton.bsky.social tidelines.uk/blog/shellfi...

Equilux greetings, all Lovely sunset whistling session yesterday evening at Lympstone shoreline with @tidelines.bsky.social We're preparing our shellfish event on Sunday 11 - 4. The weather forecast looks glorious. Paintings of Lympstone shellfishers by Louise Banks. tidelines.uk/blog/shellfi...

This Sat, celebrate equinox & shellfish in Lympstone with @tidelines.bsky.social. Oyster pigment painting, Exe shellfish history, Jason Ingham's oyster tasters, a shellfish song by me, make shell musical instruments & more. Fill yr boots w shellfish! Some events bookable tidelines.uk/blog/shellfi...

Shellfish on the Exe participant call Coming up for Air equinox high tide Lympstone a moment of quiet estuary soundmaking honouring the Ama, whistling female oyster divers from Japan Rehearsal Tue 17 March 5.45-7.15pm Performance Sat 21 March 8.27am Contact me to join. tidelines.uk/blog/shellfi...

Rocks to Reef with @tidelines.bsky.social, Anne-Marie Culhane, Exe Estuary shellfishers. Learning about the delicate and ever-adjusting balance of estuary lives over centuries. I wrote about the early stages of our immersion. tidelines.uk/blog/a-toe-i...

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Concert: 'A response'. Wed 21st Jan 7pm St Nicholas Priory Exeter Sarah Small viola da gamba, Emma Welton violin Two cycling string players! www.ticketsource.co.uk/nicholasprio...

A little of Ruth Molins and Alex Wilson's performance of my new piece 'Silver & Spruce (& Here)' at Ashburton Arts Centre on Thursday night. For flute, piano and seed sowing. Such care. Catch it again this evening at St Luke's Chapel Exeter where Duo Tutti will be launching their new CD.

In our latest ClimateCultures blog post, researcher and writer @julespretty.bsky.social's climb to Bhutan's Taktstang mountain temple reveals a nation's story of hope and regeneration through its common focus on Gross National Happiness. climatecultures.net/cultural-cha...

Duo Tutti, Ruth Molins (flute) & Alex Wilson (piano), commissioned a new piece from me for their album Dances & Dreams. 'Silver & Spruce (& Here)' will be performed on 27th & 29th Nov in Ashburton Arts Centre and St Luke's Chapel Exeter. Flute & piano dream their origin stories. Come and listen.

Then they came for the talk show hosts and I was like yeah whatever... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

Exeter Sound Walks I’m thinking of leading Sound Walks in Exeter every couple of months from October. Listening together through the seasons is intriguing and revealing. I love it. If this appeals to you, please send me a sentence of support. This will help me raise some funds for the series.

Slow Ways for everyone who🚶🏃🏾‍♀️👩🏻‍🦽🚴‍🏇🏾! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways?u...

If you can watch this and then think ‘I won’t share because that might be putting myself on the line’ then you know what you’d have done if you were in Germany when your Jewish neighbours were being loaded into to cattle trucks. Nothing. Please share - it’s our ‘I’m Spartacus moments

It gets worse - apparently some people have been adding comments like this when explaining their reason for proposing #StormBP, #StormEquinor, #StormExxon, #StormShell and #StormBigOil on this Met Office form: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...

So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms. And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell... This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...

The Earthlings Family Orchestra has been creating music to, with & about the accompanying ambiences of Exeter's Lower Hoopern Valley. It's been interesting and surprising. I'll write it up soon. In the meantime, these silent pics show a little of the space we shared & the space we made.

I'll never tire of reading about what Sarah Finch and her colleagues have achieved with unshowy commitment, care & tenacity.

Hugh Nankivell brings 'Fallow' to Lost and Found (keyboards revoiced) with Exeter Contemporary Sounds tomorrow 2.30 Exeter Library #ECSLostandFound #artweekexeter25 'Fallow' is formed of duets between electric pipe organ and pianet, harmonium & melodica. Book via artworkexeter.org.uk/projects/art...

the final piece of the jigsaw. The #peppapig drone machine. Want to hear what it sounds like? Come to our concert on Saturday 14th @exeterlibrary tinyurl.com/mrp9hyu2 #JuneBoom #Exeter #InExeter #VisitExeter #artweekexeter @involvingmusic.bsky.social #experimentalmusic

ON OUR RADAR // Lost and Found (Keyboards Revoiced) 🎹🎶 Exeter Contemporary Sounds and Ian Summers perform works on rescued, repurposed and reimagined instruments. 🗓️ Sat 14 June 🕝 2.30pm 📍 Exeter Library exeterobserver.org/2025/05/27/l...

Little update on Facebook's decision to shut my account.

‘Fallow requires things to emerge in their own time’ says Hugh Nankivell whose ‘Fallow’ duets between pipe organ and pianet, harmonium and melodica. The pianet, a poor-man’s Fender rhodes, is small but heavy, and all but obsolete. Sat 14 June. #ECSLostandFound artworkexeter.org.uk/event/lost-a...

Happy #WildSalmonDay! You can help us put on the Salmon Run to raise awareness of the plight of wild salmon in the River Exe - AND fund habitat improvements in their spawning grounds - with a donation to our appeal. Aviva will double all donations. www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/salmon-run...

ORGANS! clavichord, bon tempi organ, pipe organ, Venta organ, stylophone - Simon Belshaw has been 'converting pieces written to be played by a computer into pieces playable by musicians.' for our ECS concert 14/6. #ECSLostandFound #artweekexeter #artweekexeter25 #awe25 substack.com/home/post/p-...

'...the keys of the organs become worn with the finger fall of those who have played them like the wear of footsteps on stone steps over centuries or the cutting of desire paths... a record of the use of the instrument over several hundred years...' Paul Whitty about his music for ECS on 14th June.

Calling people who love rivers! Please help us put on the Salmon Run! to tell communities along the Exe about the plight of the Salmon, and fund river restoration projects. www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/salmon-run... @tweedpipe.bsky.social ‬ @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @sophiepavs.bsky.social

My Wet & Dry Musical Life mussels, sea lamprey, pipe organs, fiddles… and an actual concert from Exeter Contemporary Sounds on Sat 14th June emmawelton.net/news/

You forgot 'lost and found (keyboards revoiced)' concert, Sat 14th June Rougemont Room! Giving new life to rescued organs, dusty keyboards, salvaged circuits. Music by Simon Belshaw, Hugh Nankivell, Emma Welton, Paul Whitty with voices of Jez Winship and Alison Sweatman. #ECSLostandFound

Don’t let this fly past you! The early bird catches the worm! 🕊️ Have you started your Lark Music-Making Competition entry yet? The Competition is open to all amateur instrumentalists (18+). There are three age categories,18–24, 25-39 and 40 plus.

With this funding we aim to make a real difference in Devon - watch this space! www.librariesunlimited.org.uk/libraries-un...

Tickets are now available for lost and found (keyboards revoiced) at Exeter Library, Exeter. www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/exe... #experimentalmusic #contemporarymusic #noisemusic #musicsky #electronicmusic #coding #music

Lost & Found, keyboards revoiced. Dusty organs, salvaged circuitry...Exeter Contemporary Sounds, Saturday 14th June, 2.30, Exeter Central Library. Part of Art Week Exeter. Music by @simonbelshaw.bsky.social, Hugh Nankivell, Emma Welton, @paul-whitty.bsky.social. #ECSLostandFound @artworkexeter

The @tyndallcentre.bsky.social report re: the super low carbon footprint of the band Massive Attack's Bristol 2024 show is #Music4Climate #ClimateInfluence. What IF more events, film productions, corporate and city policies followed their exciting lead? documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx...

Calling all scientists, science postgrads & anyone who’s ever worked in a scientific discipline! Can you spare even just half an hour next Tues 12pm to join me, Chris Packham & 100+ scientists to urge for government policy to be informed by science? Let’s fill Parliament Square with scientists! 💪

You really wouldn't know it...