Take 2, this time wearing an artist T-Shirt for @bbc6music.bsky.social #TShirtDay. I saw #Brogeal play @ivwuk.bsky.social @fulfordarms.bsky.social in York. They tore the roof of the place. We're loving seeing everyone's posts today including those for #VenueTShirtDay

What a perfect T-Shirt to wear today for #VenueTShirtDay. Thanks & well done to @thegraystonunity.bsky.social for this outstanding T-Shirt. With our unwelcome visitor from the US, now more than ever we need to come together with positivity & love, something our venues offer year round #TShirtDay

I hope you're all getting geared up (literally) to get involved this Thursday for #TShirtDay with @bbc6music.bsky.social as well as #VenueTShirtDay with us here at @ivwuk.bsky.social. We want to hear your stories about great nights over the years - big up to the #livemusicecosystem

4 more sleeps until we all wear a T-shirt from our wider music comminutiy to show our live and support. Whether it's for #TShirtDay or #VenueTShirtDay, we hope you'll all join in and get involved on Thursday 18th Sept 👕

Best 1st episode of @taskmaster.tv ever #Taskmaster

A HUGE happy birthday to my wonderful, kind, very funny, knowledgeable and brilliant friend #BigJeff. I know he's not on Blue Sky (yet) but many of you know him. This picture captures our relationship perfectly. We met through our love of music, work together and have become great friends. Legend 🧡

This has got me so excited for #IVW26. We're in the thick of planning right now and can't wait to tell you all about it next month. In the meantime, we're excited to see you join in for ##VenueTShirtDay and #TShirtDay

Already thinking about which venue T-shirt I'll be wearing next Thursday. Hope you'll join in with ##VenueTShirtDay alongside @bbc6music.bsky.social #TShirtDay on Thu 18th Sept. A chance to support the whole #musicecosystem and celebrate those that give us such brilliant nights of music and culture

Why they aren't protesting outside New Scotland Yard?

Slow to post this but a bank holiday painting of one of my mums sunflower's in her garden. The sky colour almost looks too bright and unrealistic but it's just as it was, a stunning clear blue #art #painting #drawing #sketching

This. Needs to be amplified over and over. The truth doesn't sell papers or serve the agenda of the right. But the facts are there. And I have lived it. #sexualassault #sexualabuse #csa

A bit more #painting whilst on holiday with my mum. Again, not brilliant or perfect but such a wonderful escape and learning all the time #art #sketching

A trip to #Halifax yesterday for a meeting & had time to drop into @thegraystonunity.bsky.social for a catch up with Carl. Their new roof garden is magnificent (forgot to take a pic). The line up for their TownFestival is spectacular, if youve never been to Halifax, this is the perfect reason to go.

If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £232,000,000 she owes give this a RT. If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the £14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.

Took a couple of photos of great panels today and realised they're the first and only ones I've done while here at @bylinefestival.bsky.social (too engrossed in the discussions). @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social in conversation with @carolecadwalla.bsky.social....

This #Spectator feature, #bombGlastonbury, was discussed today @bylinefestival.bsky.social. The ongoing silence is deafening when the #bbc is being hung out to dry. Where's the proportionate outrage, at the very least? @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @kneecapceol.bsky.social #BobVylan #Glastonbury

On my way to @bylinefestival.bsky.social. Looking forward to a weekend of insight, honesty, inspiration and music with @peterjukes.bsky.social @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @carolvorders.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social #thefarm and many others #BylineFestival

White male privilege behaving exactly as expected in the face of #sexualassault and inappropriate behaviour revelations. "I'm the victim and it's someone else's fault". FFS - Own up. Grow up. Shut up. BBC News - #GreggWallace faces backlash over autism defence www.bbc.com/news/article...

Israel's genocidal Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting Donald Trump today in Washington. He is wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court. He shouldn't be globetrotting. He should be arrested and put on trial.

I would like to think of this as an allegory...

I actually thought this headline was made up by someone. But it's not. It's real. So, come one then, let's have an investigation and appropriate outrage at this call to violence...hello...anyone?? Thoughts @mrjamesob.bsky.social @kneecapceol.bsky.social #BobVylan www.spectator.co.uk/article/and-...

Did Pip, my sisters dog, on a bed on a fluffy rug #art #sketching #painting #drawing

Been sketching and painting some more. This is me sketching my mum, who is also sketching. I'm still teaching myself and ive so much still to learn. Really enjoying the serenity of being focused on one thing and not a screen in sight #art #painting #drawing #sketching.

Absolutely beautiful, erudite, compassionate and real.

Which #tank action and image has mattered more and had the most impact? #TrumpParade #Trump #NoKingsDay #NoKings #NoKingsInAmerica #TrumpBirthdayParade

"Fascinating" aka "Exhausting" and "Ridiculous". Hiding in plain sight. Money still speaks louder than integrity for so many people.

RIP Brian Wilson. Hard to pin down one track above all others but for tonight, right now, it has to be this. youtu.be/lpd4jzKA4SA?...

Further confirmation that @ivcuk.bsky.social is best placed to support creative opportunities in local communities with venues as the cultural hubs we have known them to be for decades #socialprescribing

RIP #SlyStone. More influence for far longer than I think we'll ever appreciate

Somehow I'm getting these vibes.....

Wonderful to relive the #IVCLaunch a couple of weeks ago. We'll be posting more clips in the coming weeks but you can see how it went on the day on the link below.

So, #Films & #TVShows you can't watch twice because of the #jeopardy. But you watch more than once, because they're just so good; #BreakingBad #ElCamino #CrazyStupidLove #TheTalentedMrRipley Any others I might have missed??

Thanks to @patrickhurley.bsky.social for brining our work and new charity to Parliament. Excited to chat with him tomorrow and follow up with so many others who have expressed their support and interest in collaborating with us after our launch.

This is appalling, heartbreaking & most of all outrageous. Please do read it. The lack of discussion, acknowledgement & support for children who are raped, still goes on. Because men in power still go unchecked & unchallenged. I've written here about this before. Tumbleweed. #CSA

I've now put my full and extended speech up from the #IVCLaunch on Monday. The day wasn't about me, it was about our community so I didn't want to take time with my words but you can read them now, in full, tinyurl.com/4c7ut6kc on our website.

A VERY happy birthday to the brilliant, kind and funny @philipselway.wastehq.social Hope you have a fantastic day.

Still buzzing from the incredible #IVCLaunch on Monday at the @houseofcommons.parliament.uk A full room of our delivery partners, funders, politicians, participants, venues, media & more. I've had over 35 messages from people saying how special it was & how representative the room was

We're almost there now. Tomorrow is a big day for @ivcuk.bsky.social and I'm excited to share what we've quietly been doing over the last few years. Community feels more important than ever and we have a plan to bring people together, through music, all across the UK #IVCLaunch

Over half way through our countdown now.....#IVCLaunch...

So much to share when Mondays comes....#IVCLaunch

Continuing the countdown....#IVCLaunch

I'm extremely excited about this, we'll tell you more next Monday. Do follow @ivcuk.bsky.social to hear what we're up to #IVCLaunch

The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.

#context #perspective but please stop giving any of them oxygen

To my #US friends

I've been doing #Sedocordle almost as long as #wordle. This morning's had some particularly challenging words in compared to the normal options. Chuffed to have done it with 2 lives to spare.

Not only is this utterly heartbreaking, but if it's come as a surprise, you're not paying attention. As survivors of sexual abuse and sexual assault, we are unseen and unheard. BBC News - Virginia Giuffre, Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein accuser, dies www.bbc.com/news/article...

Whilst looking for ideas for my sisters 30th wedding anniversary, I found this on a greeting card. It was one of many facts about 1995. Average House Price - £55,437 Average salary - £19k The days when 3x salary meant a home was affordable.

Absolutely loved this. The older generation are so often overlooked. But they come with a wealth of knowledge and experience and wonderful stories. We can, and should, listen more, learn from them and help them live out their best lives #oldergeneration