Good. Ineos Total Energy next. #sportwashing @ineos-grenadiers.bsky.social

Loved this interview with Briany on Off The Record this evening. He's an encyclopedia of great music - especially love the Rois and Fever Ray tracks! A great listen! www.rte.ie/radio/gold/f...

Patreon Exclusive : Revox Tape 1 www.patreon.com/posts/exclus...

Kidnaps.

Looking forward to the @nytimes.com Daily podcast about how Israel has illegally blocked a humanitarian mission in international waters and abducted several hundred parliamentarians, lawyers, doctors and activists to prevent food from getting to the children they, Israel, are starving.

Proper journalism! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLAp...

There can't be peace without accountability. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC0P...

“Final Solution”

Our former President Mary Robinson, told Channel 4 News that "the United States is complicit in this famine and unfolding genocide" of Palestinians in Gaza through its support of apartheid Israel. She's right, and shamefully the US uses Shannon Airport every day. #GazaGenocide Video Channel 4 News

“There’s a war in Ukraine, there are hostages in Gaza.” American people are so spectacularly misinformed by their media that the majority must be unaware that their own country is perpetrating genocide in Gaza. youtu.be/0hXqDBgU9rM?...

Sad to hear Danny Thompson has passed away, incredible musician rightly revered for his work on seminal folk records by John Martyn, Richard Thompson and Nick Drake but did you know he also played on this classic? youtu.be/HSfGvuiFOWI?...

I am honored to support the UK Together for Palestine concert

Tout à fait!

Aargh -just found a wrong note in the landmark #JulianBream recording of Frank Martin's Quatre Pièces Brèves! In bar 3, the second slur is an E# but Bream plays an E Natural. Really love this piece and Bream's recording. www. youtube.com/watch?v=fzqVh-4duc8

Also on @cyclingnews.com this article by Alasdair Fotheringham, putting the word "genocide" in inverted commas, platforming Israel's denial and characterising opposition to what is a widely acknowledged actual genocide as far-left populism is disingenuous at best www.cyclingnews.com/features/a-d...

A sample of the hate speech from the @cyclingnews.com comments section (there are plenty more like it.) " Whatever goodwill I once had for Palestine is long gone. Let the IDF bulldoze Gaza into the Mediterranean." You have to ask why any legitimate media site would allow this.

So impressed with the Spanish protestors who have blocked the @lavuelta.bsky.social from finishing and made any winner celebration impossible. The UCI could have expelled Team Israel, to avoid all this but they prefer to allow sportwashing of Israel's genocide. Fair play Spain!

National Concert Hall, Dublin 2025 is already 1 week old and it's still the Number 1 classical guitar album on Bandcalp which is so cool! Thanks for all the streams and downloads so far! joechester.bandcamp.com/album/nation...

Happy 90th birthday to #ArvoPÄrt. We are lucky to share the world with a composer whose music brings such deep solace. I named my first band after him and cherish the memory of meeting the man himself some twenty years ago after a performance of his mighty Credo. 1/2 www.arvopart.ee/en/arvo-part...

That Nasa #MarsLife press conference was an embarrassment. An object lesson in what happens when you defund science. www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

Watched the coverage of the #Vuelta yesterday - excellent commentary by @robhatch.bsky.social, @sportsorla.bsky.social et al, marred only by the equivication that the protests are a "complex issue." Since when is opposition to the forced starvation of a population complex? Where is the complexity?

Les militant·es n'auraient pas eu à risquer leur vie si les États avaient pris les mesures nécessaires pour permettre l'acheminement de l'aide humanitaire à Gaza. Les États doivent dénoncer cette attaque et agir maintenant !

National Concert Hall, Dublin 2025 had a wonderful first day of release - thank you to all who listened and bought the album, driving it to the top of the Contemporary Classical chart overnight! How wonderful! joechester.bandcamp.com/album/nation...

National Concert Hall, Dublin 2025 is OUT NOW! joechester.bandcamp.com/album/nation...

Released this Friday, high resolution 24-96k streaming and download exclusively on Bandcamp. This was a very special and meaningful evening for me and I'm delighted to have a document of it! Can't wait for you to hear it. Tracklist J.S. Bach Cello Suite No. 1 (Prelude)

This is what it's all about. Bob's best ever band and he knew it! Larry Campbell and Charlie Sexton, Tony Garnier, George Recelli. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vis...

Martin Carthy still showing us how it's done. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4a3...

A memory from 2017... www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HVb...

Please watch this www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pVb... And then, if you can, support the Stay Human Collective who are providing education, water and food to the community in Jabalia, Gaza. stayhumancollective.com/donate/

Delighted to announce a new live album, released next Friday September 5th NATIONAL CONCERT HALL, DUBLIN 2025 features ten tracks recorded live at this historic and special venue in Dublin on June 13th. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sdc...

Brodskys play Shostakovich - live now! www.brodskyquartet.co.uk/memoriam

August Newsletter!

Happy to share the final video from Au Revoir Tristesse, "Les yeux fermés, bonjour tristesse," featuring a little homage to Françoise Sagan, whose beautiful words inspired this album. Au Revoir Tristesse is available on Vinyl, CD and Digital from Bohemia Records. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gegb...

If you’ve been planning to pick up a copy of Au Revoir Tristesse on Vinyl or CD (or indeed any of my other albums!) today’s a good day as it’s Bandcamp Friday! joechester.bandcamp.com/album/au-rev...

Sharing this lovely little feature Sean Rocks made for RTÉ lyric fm on my album LUCIA, something which really meant a lot to me. on.soundcloud.com/fOFg7yUHnuC4...

Myself and Brian playing acoustic for this - Brian was very inspired by Marina’s By The Bog of Cats for the songs on the last album so this will be special. So happy that @fiachnaobraonain.bsky.social is moderating!

Looking forward to returning to @alltogethernow.bsky.social !

Lucia Joyce was born #OTD in 1907. You can learn about Lucia's extraordinary life and work in the James Joyce Centre. "Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity" by @dmulrooney.bsky.social is available for purchase in our giftshop.

A great night in the City of Tribes!

I just wish Bill Hicks were still alive.

This article in the @newyorker.com shares a common misapprehension, that it’s artists and labels tracking their rights online that means people can’t use their music on YouTube when It is big tech’s total refusal to pay royalties that is the real reason. www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...

I've always thought "I Can't Leave her Behind," was such a beautiful song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIaG...

After many years I’ve unsubscribed from @nytimes.com Daily podcast due to endless both sides-ism (on multiple issues) and presenting Israeli lies and propaganda as context for murdering Palestinian civilians. Report the facts.

***NEW VIDEO*** La peur qui donne la main au désir (The fear that takes the hand of desire) Filmed at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZUD...

Great article! www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/fre...

Ah yeah… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A big consignment of demos just posted on Patreon, including this unreleased instrumental, Don't Change Your Mind from 2008. Sign up for a fiver a month to access everything. www.patreon.com/posts/unrele...

"If you find that the farmer is suddenly getting off with his own daughter, it's just that I've mixed up the words!" 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FpH...