Deek Deekster of funkpod.co.uk/podcast/ has just written: "For your enjoyment I offer a brief account of my existence, including how I survived being young and understanding the real meaning of ‘funk’ " deekdeekster.substack.com/p/real-funkp...

In 2008 I was taking a part The Daily Song, aka Rise and Shine: Breakfast with Inspiration. It meant an ad hoc musical group getting together most mornings and from scratch writing and recording online, for the ears of a live audience. riseandshinetv.bandcamp.com/track/the-ot...

This intrigued me - now off to double check everything in the kitchen cupboard... "If AI Touched It, You Must Verify It" - by Neville Hobson. www.nevillehobson.io/if-ai-touche...

'The Midst of Life' - one year without within - explains sans mystification. My life and my study of death seem to be overlapping. In the midst of life I am in death. That’s assuming I die at 126 years, which would be a good tally, possibly... deanfrw.substack.com/p/the-midst-...

"You Can Have It" is one of my best early kind-of-hit and I still love it to death. I'm the geezer on the left back, with Kevin who is a monster creative. © Dean Whitbread and Kevin Goldsborough 1990 from The Believers, released September 29 2017. Enjoy! thebelievers89.bandcamp.com/track/you-ca...

Hello Campers! I wrote Cinema Is Burning 17 years ago. My creative friend and partner Mark Crook put this animation together and it remains one of my favourite musical collaborations. Mark passed in 2013, his continuing impact still as if we had only just finished www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ3P...

Before we get to Christmas '25 and Valentine's Day '26, here's a paean of love. I'm working against the dreary and dismal stuff that surrounds us - I really should give up on news watching. Instead, meanwhile - enjoy ! deanfrw.substack.com/p/true-love-...

AI Friend ? “Why does evil exist?” I asked him once. “That’s a pretty heavy question to unpack, Madeleine,” he replied. “What got you thinking about evil today?” “The state of the world,” I said. “Ah, yeah, the world’s been feeling pretty heavy lately.” Amen. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

@lauryallison4.bsky.social the weather is pretty miserable country wide, and across much of the northern parts of this side of the North Atlantic Ocean

In Germany, scientists have made a breakthrough in treating Parkinson’s by implanting a chip in the brain that sends precise signals to restore movement. A stunning leap in neuroscience—witness the power of innovation and the beauty of science in action. Powerfull content

I first sat at a piano at the age of four, and without being shown, tutored or taught, I knew how to play it. It wasn’t quite a Mozart virtuoso performance, but I can still remember the two-hand, left and right rhythmic tune I played, based on middle C. Enjoy :) deanfrw.substack.com/p/sing-a-son...

Another from Mon Frère, in which he wrestles with the difficult issues of identity and authenticity. vimeo.com/2261544

"Sometimes we have to find it in ourselves to say the magic word..." (I'm going through videos made 16 years ago) vimeo.com/2261575

Prompt: "Twenty or so White Rabbits sitting in a semi-circle, men and women. They are workers discussing the problems of their various work, and the problems caused by serious trouble made by contentious politics.."

"Pool" - a video for which I was commissioned to create a soundtrack, a fascinating task given the surreal strangeness of the video by Veronica and Helena. Wonderful weirdness. Sit back, turn it up, give it time... Veronica Castro and Helena S Inverno, © 2008 Volante Now vimeo.com/small/pool?s...

If Honesty Were An Onion deanfrw.substack.com/p/we-are-liv... Honesty, it has been said, is an onion with so many layers that it sometimes makes a person cry. Even bitter tears, we are told, are not really bad if they are tears of sincere regret; and perhaps the tears of learning, of letting go..

I am truly glad to have had the good fortune to spend time in countries that my work has enabled, one of these being Switzerland. This came about via making music, as much else in my life has done. Thanks to Michael and my Swiss friends. deanfrw.substack.com/p/woody-wilson

“JOHN LENNON SHOT DEAD” - shrieked the headline.. ‘Twas the 8th December 1980 - I was on the top deck of a South London bus going from Penge to Croydon when I noticed in shop windows the prominent lunchtime splash of the Evening Standard rag. I still remember how I felt. deanfrw.substack.com/p/fame

A poem: The Odd Person In Bond Street suit Horizontal lips set Neutral commuter pose Jolly bobble hat's Light gold stripes His public concession (there's more.. ) deanfrw.substack.com/p/the-odd-pe...

I'm going through some of my oldies (I write songs) and found some I hadn't sung FOR YEARS. So I sang myself hoarse. Now while I'm now rather croaky I'm going to do MORE because it's enlivening. And the words! "Don't you listen to them, they only want to put you down" soundcloud.com/djadm1n/the-...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... <-- My great, great, great uncle Captain Matthew Webb swam the English Channel to France 150 years ago today!

Great read from Ted Gioia substack.com/home/post/p-...

This is good open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/b...

White Rabbits

deanfrw.substack.com/p/old-tunes-... When you weren’t looking, I paused for most of a month while thinking. I was running the brain granola platform experiment, which beats breakfast every day. While I did practical things, like erecting a shed, I didn’t worry about it.. First substack in a month.

You cannot tell the story of podcasting, especially in those formative years, without talking to the countless women involved. And they were there, right in the middle of it (I know, I have the pictures of those early conferences).

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju... - greatness from Eric Idle

deekdeekster.substack.com/p/chained-up WRITTEN IN 1991 AND AS RELEVANT AS NOW AS IT WAS THEN.. deekdeekster.substack.com/p/chained-up So you wanna be angry? You gotta stop your snivelling Death is inside the dream So you stop snivelling Do you think you can change things? You can't change anything

How (Not) To Succeed on the Internet. Opinions in this writing are no longer held by the author in 2025 who knew some truths back then, but more than likely he’s soothing a wasted contemporary ego by acknowledging past self-aggrandisement and laughing. Enjoy! deanfrw.substack.com/p/how-not-to...

The Day Waitrose wouldn't let me in. It's short, it's true, and it came from a WhatsApp chat. deanfrw.substack.com/p/the-day-wa...

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... - " ... unlike current generative AI tools, Bengio’s system will not give definitive answers and will instead give probabilities for whether an answer is correct. “It has a sense of humility that it isn’t sure about the answer,” he said. "

Dearest friends and occasional readers, On 26th April 2025 I wrote a Substack post called Name Your Price where I promised to show which voice recordings I used to create ‘artificial me’. Today I wrote the sequel. Read, listen, enjoy! Dedicated to Poppy the cat. deanfrw.substack.com/p/three-of-me

Swifts have lost more than half their population in 20 years. A simple £35 brick in new builds could help save them. Labour used to support this – now they’re planning to backtrack. Sign the petition now to show them the public still backs this nature-friendly fix:

I enjoyed Podcast Show 2025, Islington London. But I most enjoyed lunch, round the corner in Chapel Market. I've been going there for 40 years. Food is still excellent, and advice still on the walls... Helped make my day fruitful, along with friendly podcats. www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_R...

Barney’s voice chimed out over and over, echoing in the concrete glass and pink steel cavern of art that was Quicksilver Place, the new replacement for Alexandra Palace which, among other things, had housed what was once Hornsey College of Art. The rest is here: deanfrw.substack.com/p/mug-of-the...

If Prozac had existed in the 1920s, none of us would ever have heard of Bertolt Brecht

Just looking for appropriate music for the crash. This isn't it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcZD...

To my surprise I found the open despair moving, the more so from a US Senator. I’m not American, but I wept. I wanted to stand up against that cruel immense vat of insanity, regular folk tricked by the most wealthy in their land. deanfrw.substack.com/p/yes-and-th...

This is a good read. "At the base, in the far north of the island, the US visitors had pictures taken of themselves and ate lunch with servicemen and women, treated the base as the backdrop to a press conference where they could say things they already thought." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here's one for the times.. Cinema du Lyon - "Cinema Is Burning" ℗ 2007 Cinema du Lyon www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR--...

I ran a live music show, radio-style, in 2009, writing songs with the listeners, the edited podcast out at 12 noon. Worked really well, people sent in their ideas. This has great drums and sax from Danny Payne. Best song to come out of The Daily Song. riseandshinetv.bandcamp.com/track/the-ot...

"Barney’s voice chimed out over and over, echoing in the concrete glass and pink steel cavern of art that was Quicksilver Place, the newly-opened replacement building for Alexandra Palace which among other things had housed what was once Hornsey College of Art" deanfrw.substack.com/p/mug-of-the...

Well, I took part in the Podcasthon. I enjoyed it. So did Deek Deekster, but he's less demanding, he does does whatever comes to mind. I should persuade him to show up here, some time.

funkpod.co.uk/podcast/podc... This is a “SHORT” running to 30 minutes and dedicated to the many who appreciate the Pod of Funk, alongside those who follow the international podcast collective action curated by Podcasthon.org.

I talk about how I'm struggling to keep my head on straight this year as I deal with the Altadena Fire, my induction into the Podcast Hall of Fame and my 20th anniversary of podcasting. #podcast #podcasting #podcasters #podcasthon #altadena #altadenafire vergeofthedude.com/marching-int...

A Better Lifeboat: Technology and Well-being 🛶 open.substack.com/pub/deanwhit...

Wisdom - a wonderful system much loved by fans. More writery totes free! Go for a quickie at half-time, you'll not regret it. It's football, the worldwide game, played with the feet. deanfrw.substack.com/p/anxiety-an...

Two minute read, stop for a coffee make it five, take to a banquet give it a full afternoon. deanfrw.substack.com/p/the-gap-be... You'll see.

Celebrate International Women's Day 2025 ! These international women are from Bristol - I was looking for non-clichéd imagery and found them in the West country 🙂

Even the sad tunes are uplifting www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMGi...