And disconcerting.

Reposting, on the 10th anniversary of Prince’s passing. He was one of the first loves of my life.

#Prince #Princecover #Princecovers #Princepianocover #Princepianocovers #pianocover #pianocovers

YASSS

Petition: Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills Apply energy intensive industry relief (Supercharger scheme) to the ceramics industry to help cut soaring industrial energy costs & support ceramics businesses, which are at the risk of imminent colla...

A City of Kilns overlooked for energy support!
petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

Or perhaps it’s just shop owners these days…

Oh no! I’m sorry (and surprised) to hear that 😔

A few from the opening of Kidsgrove’s ‘Blue Collar Record Shop’ (on Facebook & Instagram) on #RecordStoreDay last year.

See the rest at:

fionakonca.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/r...

#communityphotography #cratediggers #cratedigging #Stoke-on-Trent #vinyl #vinylcollecting #vinylcollectors

Thanks Graham :-)

Andy Gower’s latest album (and my first sleeve photography & design!) is now available at Blue Collar Record Shop, Sid’s Records and the Coachmakers Arms!

(If eating your dinner off it, clean with isopropyl alcohol before playing)

#newmusic #RecordStoreDay #RecordStoreDay2026 #Stoke-on-Trent

Fucking brilliant

VIRTUALITY “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception” – Aldous Huxley Screenshot Highlights from all of my photography/visual art e N i…

For #WorldArtDay, a link to some of my abstract and surreal visual art and poetry/writing.

fionakonca.wordpress.com/virtuality/

I did, yes

I adore his work, and was blown away by his exhibition at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery.

The View from Strange Street Screenshot The red pin above marks the location of Leonard Court sheltered housing scheme (on Strange Street in Leigh, Greater Manchester), which was my granddad’s (Mum’s dad) home during the late …

Memories of childhood visits to my Granddad’s home in Leigh (Greater Manchester), and the hypnotic view of Bickershaw Colliery’s pit head winding wheels.

fionakonca.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/t...

#coalmining #industrialheritage

Haha! Fantastic. Do keep me updated :-)

(For the record, I’m not actually sad and lonely - I’m alone and happy :-))

Am I up to the job? That remains to be seen. But the first (and only) time I held and fired a shotgun, I hit 3 out of 4 clay pigeons.

My favourite band are the best they’ve ever been. Unfortunately, my love for them cannot conquer my hatred of the online ticket buying process & those behind it. I missed the latest UK tour for that very reason (& donated to the Music Venue Trust instead). This whole situation sucks.

#NineInchNails

Sat 16th May
The Sugarmill, Stoke
Andy Gower’s Guns for Hire - album launch
Be there or be bounty hunted

Tickets: www.thesugarmill.co.uk/andy-gowers-...

📷: me

#albumrelease #gig #gigs #livemusic #newalbum #newmusic #Stoke-on-Trent

Fantastic!

Come to the gig!

www.thesugarmill.co.uk/andy-gowers-...

Andy Gower and his band ‘Guns for Hire’ - yesterday in the Coachmakers, Hanley.

I’d told Andy this week that I wasn’t going to make music videos anymore. These guys had other ideas though, and set about plying me with Guinness and appreciation.

Apparently, I am now also a gun for hire.

📷: me

Four young people overheard in Hanley yesterday:

“So this is the city centre?”

“What - it’s a CITY??”

“Yeah! Haven’t you heard of Stoke City?”

Welcome to Stoke-on-Trent.

Here, Sarah Chevolleau attempts to orientate the disorientated: thelead.uk/six-towns-on...

Melania Trump's speech propels Epstein crisis back to forefront She has now placed herself squarely into the Epstein story and at odds with the administration, which wants to end the investigation.

“With those words, the Epstein crisis that had plagued the president was once again front and centre thanks to his wife.”

Was that her intention?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#MelaniaTrump

A Statement by First Lady Melania Trump YouTube video by The White House

In terms of public speaking, there is more power in these six minutes than Donald Trump has managed to wield in five years of presidency.

www.youtube.com/live/vyn-_Ts...

#MelaniaTrump

“Trump was referenced numerous times throughout the Epstein files, and his former friendship with the disgraced financier and accused child sex trafficker is public record.”

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Wireless Festival cancellation costing Live Nation £30m in potential earnings? Good. Greedy, robbing twats.

#WirelessFestival #LiveNation #KanyeWest

If you buy me 4 pints of Guinness, I WILL sing Just a Gigolo on the karaoke.

Reni is the coolest as fuck Stone Rose.

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

“Early this year, the news broke that OpenAI’s president, Greg Brockman, donated $25m to Maga Inc, Donald Trump’s biggest Super Pac. This made him Trump’s largest donor of the last cycle”

Quit ChatGPT. In fact, quit generative AI altogether.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#boycottAI #QuitGPT