Watched the final of University Challenge and left wondering if there was a "Bertrand Russell Super Silver" hidden under Kai Madgwick's hat...
#UniversityChallenge #MontyPython

Could do with a few more signatures here: cmis.essex.gov.uk/essexcmis5/P...

Live in Essex? Sick to death of the flaccid flags hanging from every lampost, put there by your local Nazis? Then sign here: cmis.essex.gov.uk/essexcmis5/P...

A CC with a backbone. Excellent.

Two old 3.5" floppy disks for early internet use.

I guess it's about time I threw these away... 10 whole hours, in which time you could probably download a couple of files 🙄
BTW, the Wh@tnet disk is missing it's disk, I removed it to experiment with making infrared filters for photography.
#compuserve #demon #whatnet #retro

A favourite of Radio Caroline DJs on board the Ross Revenge back in the 80s...

Fran Carlyon

Laughing Stock (Rich Chapman)

Pat Lyons, beat poet

Tea Vision (Tim Keech)

Great to have the return of Tea & Oranges on Saturday night, now at the Fickle Pickle in Westcliff, with @francarlyon.bandcamp.com, Pat Lyons, Laughing Stock and Tea Vision.
FWIW, a few of my photos, many more available on FB.
#SonyA6500 #CanonFD #100mm #gig #photography #Southend

PCB Poetry #935:

Thats right... horribly glitchy distortion, wibbly noise and existential theological enlightenment all in one place.

Circuitbenders delivers it all. 😉

Latest transcription, Goldfrapp's "Clay", from their "Tales of Us" album. I'd originally done a lead sheet version back in 2013, but thought it was time to have a more complete version.

Song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz6x...
Sheets available here: www.sheetmusicplus.com/en/product/c...

#Goldfrapp

It's awful here too (Canvey Island), I've tried to think of easy ways to remove them, extendable lopper, high-power laser, stilt walking classes.... but just ended up writing a song

Lovely Head - Inner Marshland (Goldfrapp cover) YouTube video by Inner Marshland

It's beer money time! ;) 13 newly released sheet music transcriptions by me, from David Bowie, Goldfrapp, Delia Derbyshire, The Korgis, Chris Rainbow, Earth and Fire, and Virginia Astley.
FWIW, here's my cover of Lovely Head, with links to the sheet music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhCO...
#sheetmusic

@tumbledryerbaby.bsky.social CD's just arrived, thanks for the freebie!

It's fine here (Firefox browser)

FWIW, my latest ditty, sing along with Nancy...
innermarshland.bandcamp.com/track/flacci...

#pop #protest

So sorry to hear that Lois. Seeing them fitting is so distressing.

Good grief! :(

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

Miles and Miles - One Jazz One Jazz presents Miles and Miles, a centenary celebration.

For those of you who are not aware, to mark his centenary, One Jazz is playing an hour of his music every day in 2026, 6 p.m. UK time.
www.onejazz.net/news/miles-a...

#MilesDavis #jazz #onejazz

A Short History of Electric Shocks This talk is about our delight, awe and fear of electricity and its effects on the human body. It charts our changing relationship with i...

From EMF2024, a Tim Hunkin talk. Contains chuckles.
media.ccc.de/v/emf2024-31...
Sadly the only Van der Graaff generator in my school was the band name scrawled on my school case.
#VDGG #Hunkin #electricity

The Lords Of Creation, by Mike Johnson from the album The Gardens Of Loss [HD 24/96]

A track from his new album by Mike Johnson, of Thinking Plague. Should appeal to any Rock in Opposition/art rock/Lost Crowns fans.
cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-lo...
#RIO #ThinkingPlague #prog

The Portsdown main menu. Operation can be from 70 MHz to 3.4 GHz, in the allocated bands. As you can see, the cut-out for the touchscreen isn't my best work; sadly I don't have a 3D printer, which would've made things cosmetically better. Not essential, but it could do with a grille over the loudspeaker cut-out, I've yet to find anything suitable.

A web stream of a DATV repeater, GB3JT, being tested.

My latest project, a Portsdown 4 DATV RF transceiver, which also doubles as a Langstone multimode RF transceiver, using a Raspberry Pi 4. This is the control/display/interface circuitry, it requires an external ADALM Pluto SDR for the RF side.

#BATC #tech #DATV #Portsdown #Pluto

There’s a reason you usually see 4’33 done with a piano. It doesn’t work on guitar. After 10 seconds the performer would start trying to check that their strings are still in tune before moving on to absentmindedly playing Wonderwall.

Thinking about the song "No Plan" by David Bowie YouTube video by Leah Kardos

As usual, an excellent video from Leah Kardos on Bowie's "No Plan": www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iub7...
#Bowie #ontology #musicology

And, if you need it, here's my published sheet music of the song:
www.sheetmusicplus.com/en/product/n...

My first time back at Southend's Railway Hotel since it reopened, there for the Tuppenny Bunters NYE extravaganza. Great to see them play back at their old home and be surrounded by plenty of the old regulars, amongst some newcomers
#Southend #RailwayHotel #gig #photography #SonyA6500 #CanonFD #50mm

Bizarre - perhaps they think it's a, um, pie?

Oh. Turns out Snoopy piano just needed new batteries ⭐️

A few of my photos from this year's excellent Beatles Convention at the Fickle Pickle Club in Westcliff. Many more can be found on my FB page of course.

#photography #sony #A6500 #CanonFD #100mm #gigphotography #Beatles #Essex

San Francisco Sketches (2009 Remaster) YouTube video by Blodwyn Pig - Topic

RIP Mick Abrahams. What a track this is, with Jack Lancaster on sax: www.youtube.com/watch?v=klOC...

#BlodwynPig #blues #jazz #Abrahams #Lancaster

new yorker cartoon by bernstein. watercolor of a middle aged white dad holding a cord up from the cord box in a heavenly light in triumph. title reads THE BEST DAY OF MY FATHER'S LIFE. caption reads “Did you say you needed a six-pin-to-eight-pin FireWire for a 2006 MacBook?"

this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member

Pedestal, by Inner Marshland track by Inner Marshland

FWIW, my latest song, which, you'll no doubt be relieved to hear, is not about Xmas...
innermarshland.bandcamp.com/track/pedestal
#ditty #pop #alternative