#NowPlaying in honour of the great Gary Mani Mounfield, the classic debut album by The Stone Roses 🌹

'The Universal' video now available in 4K. #blur #TheUniversal youtu.be/BrbxWOMpwfs

Next week, LYC Junior Boys join the choristers of St Paul’s Cathedral to sing evensong – a service which combines music with prayer to reflect on the day passed. The service is free; all are welcome to hear young voices from London sing together. www.londonyouthchoirs.com/st-pauls-eve...

Drummer, strike up. (Henry VI pt 3, 4.7) A short and sweet #ShakespeareSunday Sunday post in celebration of our extremely versatile drummer and his new book. #DaveRowntree #blur

Pierre #Boulez at the ondes Martenot in 1947. From the indispensable catalogue of Boulez’s works published earlier this year

Cupid & Psyche, by Benjamin West, 1808, 📸 via @V0LofTheWild

Released on this day in 1991, 'Leisure'. What's your favourite track? #blur #DamonAlbarn #GrahamCoxon #AlexJames #DaveRowntree #otd @stephenstreet60.bsky.social

Good morning.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end. Sonnet 60 #ShakespeareSunday 📸 by me, looking towards Bamburgh, Northumberland, last week

I strongly feel this for music too. I first encountered this brilliant attitude at the @blurfanclub.bsky.social and have replicated it across my choral singing sphere as it is often much needed there. (Image stolen from @snowythepyro.bsky.social on another platform)

Is there *any* evidence that presence on bsky contributes in any way to book sales? I’ll take anecdotes! Who here has bought a book bc they heard about it on bsky *alone*? Because I’m ready to bounce.

I like this place, And willingly could waste my time in it. AYLI 2.4 #ShakespeareSunday #Falassarna

What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord? Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 4 #ShakespeareSunday #holiday

It is well to have as many holds on happiness as possible. ~ Jane Austen

Steps in the right direction at last.

Turn down the lights, turn up the volume for a sublime moment. The words of Jackie Morris read by Jerome Flynn put together with music by Dougal Abbott. This is balm for the soul. (Stained glass by me!)

Dreaming times ....

anamorphic representation of London from the top of St Paul's Cathedral, c. 1845

just super stuff

Putting this one here too faroutmagazine.co.uk/massive-atta...

I think I need y'all to know that one of my most favorite photos of all time is this one of Damon Albarn & Seye Adelekan kissing onstage

BBC Radio 6 Music Huw Stephens Now Playing Africa Express Hacernos Asi (feat. Damon Albarn, Joan As Police Woman, Nick Zinner, Seye Adelekan, Luisa Almaguer & Mexican Institute of Sound)

From the forthcomimg Africa Express LP, hear the new singles “Soledad” (featuring Damon Albarn, Luisa Almaguer, Nick Zinner, Seye Adelekan, Joan As Police Woman, and the Mexican Institute Of Sound) and “Otim Hop” (with Otim Alpha, Bootie Brown, K.O.G., and Tom Excell)

Hat angle guide Stick one in your pocket, you'll never know when you might need it. www.worldofmoose.com/products/hat...

One photo to explain how my brain works...

What do you know about how singing works? How about female voice change? What have you been taught? How does knowing impact your singing? Working on the “impact of vocal education” section of my findings today in a writing retreat. @ioe.bsky.social

Daleks in Liverpool city centre today. They were chatting up that litter bin for over an hour but none of them got anywhere

Now THAT's a cease and desist letter

Fuck your favourite song. Tell me your least favourite song. The one that makes you die inside the moment you hear the first 3 seconds.

‘A room without books is like a body without a soul.’ ~ Cicero. @racheldeering.bsky.social here lending my ears to a day of Ancient Roman literature for #BookWormSat 🖼️ Antonio Sicurezza, 1957.

🚨 New music alert: 'Bahidorá', the new album by Africa Express, is out today! #AfricaExpress #DamonAlbarn @ianbirrell.bsky.social

"When you reach the heart, you reach a place where people understand values which are beyond competition, which are beyond difference." Theatre director Luqman Ali on what children really need in schools - recognition of their humanity.💛http://bit.ly/44hdXky #EduSky #InclusiveEducation #MusicEd

Music by Bach, Beethoven, Ireland, Spicer & Guilmant in St John the Baptist, Cardiff city centre 1:15pm this Friday, 11 July 2025. Full details here: www.paulcarr.co.uk/diary/herita... More about the historic Father Willis organ at St John’s here: sites.google.com/view/father-...

Putting this here www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Happy "piano" 🎹 birthday (88 😉) to the great pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, born 6th July 1937.

BBC will no longer broadcast 'high risk' performances.

Saturday nights BFC Summer Party - A Sold Out affair. Popscene smashed it with an epic Mile End setlist, possibly their best show yet! The fantastic audience was loud and up for it! Support came from @resigned.band , a band of huge #blur fans, who played a brilliant set of originals... 1/2

Paintings that have stayed with me No 6. I’m spotting a sea theme to several of these! Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer, Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1818 Never seen it irl: need to visit Hamburg!

The violin was stolen from a player in the Philharmonia. Police have now released images of the suspect. news.sky.com/story/violin...

And by good fortune I have lighted well On this young man; [...] well read in poetry And other books- good ones, I warrant ye. (Taming of the Shrew, 1.2) Happy #ShakespeareSunday to you all! #blur #DamonAlbarn

From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive: they sparkle still the right Promethean fire; they are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world. Love’s Labour’s Lost, 4:1 Give her effervescence, she needs a little sparkle End of a Century, #blur #ShakespeareSunday

Painfully to pore upon a book To seek the light of truth. Love's Labours Lost Act I Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday #BooksAndLibraries #Sherlock

"In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read." Antony and Cleopatra Act 1, Scene 2 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Books & Libraries

Pope about to drop the hottest synthwave album of 1982.

Paintings that have stayed with me No. 6 Winslow Homer, nuit d’ été, 1890 Pairs, Musée d’Orsay

RIP Brian Wilson. Here are our beach boys, Blur in Margate 1991. 📷 Tim Roney #blur