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@filmsradiance.bsky.social Hi - I’ve sent a couple of emails to you about licensing Häxan for theatrical screenings but haven’t received a reply yet. Is [email protected] still the best email to get you on?

All set up to run live sound for the first time in Germany!

Hugely looking forward to this! Get your tickets now. :)

Day 1 at Casa Verde. Sophie is installing mosqueteras to keep the bugs out which the geckoes don’t catch. I’m sawing my way through the redundant roof beams in the lounge. Just paused for a cold beer and this is the view from the terrace. It’s a very manageable 34C (the weather not the beer..) 😁

My 2025 silent film tour is now on sale and it's shaping up to be my busiest yet! I'll be touring my new live scores to Nosferatu (1922) and The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920) this autumn. Dates and tickets: www.chrisgreenmusic.co.uk/silentcinema

We had 1600 people turn up at yesterday's Knights' Tournament at Kenilworth Castle - that's twice as many as the total number of right-wing nutters *nationwide* who turned out yesterday to protest outside hotels allegedly containing asylum seekers. Just sayin'..

Took me a minute..

7% of the population are privately educated. 93% of the population are state-educated. On that basis, surely the fairest and most representative way to regulate civil service internships is for the annual intake to be based proportionally on this? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ozzy Osborne has died, and the UK is building HS2. All in all, this is a good time to be a bat

The statue inspired the heroic statue of St Christopher in The Children of Green Knowe, which saved the day in the end by electrocuting a demonic tree called Green Noah. They don’t make kids TV like that nowadays, eh? Not since the woke BBC banned its staff from dropping acid during work hours..

Went up to the bar for third time due to delayed flight. BARMAN: Delayed? ME: ‘Fraid so. B: Who are you flying with? M: Ryanair B: Bandits. M: Well.. yes. But they’re very affordable bandits. B: (handing me drinks) That sounds like going to the loan shark cos he has a special offer this week…

All set up A Brief History of Music in Greenwich at the Old Royal Naval College’s chapel. We usually prefer to play in splendid and opulent spaces, but I suppose it’ll have to do..

First morning in Wizenhausen. It’s a pretty town!

The view from my hotel window after tonight’s Warleggan Village Band gig on the Isle of Wight..

Take 8 minutes and watch. It's the best summation I've seen of where the events of the last week leave us. The world of 2016 has vanished, we can no longer amuse ourselves with abstractions about "sovereignty" and "Global Britain". We need to strengthen ties with Europe. It's the only game in town..

The fundamental problem with this situation (and it’s not going to go away) is that navigating a way through it is entirely about sparing the feelings of someone who’s a) an utterly incompetent egomaniac and b) a simpleton. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I voted for them in 2024, but Labour have lost me for the next election. Refusing youth mobility; chasing a Reform vote that's never going to vote for them no matter how performatively nasty they are and now siding with the US over AI regulation. I can't support or justify this. They're a disgrace.

The problem with this analysis is that Trump, while being supremely self-confident is also demonstrably full of shit - and anyone vaguely sensible knows this. Boris Johnson tried this approach and that's largely why we're in the mess we're in now. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Spent a rather entertaining 15 minutes writing this when I should have been doing tour admin..

Wifi options at the Barge Inn, Honeystreet, Wiltshire…

There’s a missing r in this headline..

Tonight we're playing a venue which, it transpires, not only won't let visiting artists use a microwave to reheat food before a show but doesn't allow them to bring in any external food at all.

I’m rather enjoying writing these..

The Midwinter Revels section of our #christmas tour is now put to bed for this year - here's a photo of us at Leicester Guildhall last Sunday. But no rest for the wicked - it's now full steam ahead for our four-piece expanded line-up Gaudete!

Most streaming platforms pay a derisory amount to artists - it would take 5000 plays on Spotify to make the equivalent of a single CD sale. The sole exception to this is Bandcamp - and today is #bandcampfriday! Everything you spend with them today goes directly to us. greenmatthews.bandcamp.com

Last chance to book tickets for tonight's online performance of Midwinter Revels live via Zoom from our cosy lounge! The show starts at 8pm GMT - ticket sales stop at 6pm. Watch-again included with tix if you can't make it tonight! www.greenmatthews.co.uk/asp-products/midwinter-revels-live-online/

A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.

The biggest shock of the Haigh resignation is discovering that once upon a time the police actually investigated a stolen phone.

I've been thinking about doing this for a while and this morning I took the plunge and ponied up my £5 a month. My reason for doing so is that the EU, for all its flaws, is now the only global entity that mostly stands for progressive politics. www.europeanmovement.co.uk/membership

Tech rehearsal today for the Gaudete tour. This is a short snippet of the 14th-century Christmas carol that gave the band its name. Catch us on tour throughout the UK 9-23rd December.. www.greenmatthews.co.uk/christmas

3/3 It is therefore incumbent on any who would attend one of the remaining spectacles to purchase their billet of entry with the utmost haste and alacrity in order to evade the inevitable sense of disappointment and regret that such on omission would evoke.

2/3 GreenMatthews advise that several of their incipient festive appearances at cultural emporia are in the propinquity of being in a state of plenitude and indeed that a majority of these are already unable to accommodate further auditors.

Having had our last post of this type hijacked by fictitious accounts trying to sell fictitious tickets to our shows, we've drafted in Sir Humphrey Appleby to help draft this post. Let's see if he can beat the algorithms..

We're shortly taking to the road for our 2024 Christmas tour. This year we're touring two shows - our much-loved duo offering Midwinter Revels as well as our expanded line-up Gaudete. Catch us at the following cultural emporia.. www.greenmatthews.co.uk/christmas/

I have a ton of driving coming up between now and year's end - so I'm looking for interesting #podcasts to while away the miles. Music, history and current affairs are my chief interests but anything interesting grateful considered. Go!

An impeccably argued article from @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social in favour of youth mobility with the EU. Starmer has no reason to refuse other than worrying a tiny/bonkers % of the electorate. If Labour don't sort this , they can kiss goodbye to my vote next time. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I for one feel rather reassured that we finally have a PM who is so au fait with 1066 And All That that he can subconsciously quote the errata.. #sausages