Pic of Nichola with headphones on
“Deeply immersive listening experience of Scenes from the Blue encourages reflection”
I really appreciate these thoughtful words from @eyalh.bsky.social in Percorsi Musicali. Thanks so much!
🎧 nicholascrutton.bandcamp.com/album/scenes...
#listening #newmusic #cinematic #soundart
Walz: The president said it's a bunch of radicals. You're damn right we've been radicalized. Radicalized by compassion, radicalized by decency, radicalized by due process, radicalized by democracy.
Hard to know which is more shocking - the dire warnings of the potential collapse of our food system in the UK or the fact that governments have tried to cover it up. Their complacency is off the scale. We urgently need to switch to growing more food domestically & to restore nature now
Every minister should read this from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social: “The global food system is systemically fragile in the same way that the global financial system was before the 2008 crash…the same factors that would have brought down the financial system….now threaten to bring down the food system”.
FRETS Concerts presentations at the Glad Cafe/the Strathaven Hotel. Lots of events on sale (more announcements shortly) inc. Callum Easter, Bubbles, The Port Sulphur Group, Horse, The Countess of Fife, The Bathers, Constant Follower, Thrum - TIX: www.fretsconcerts.com
There are no tickets remaining for the Callum Easter concert at the Glad Cafe next Sat. That makes it 5 sold out FRETS so far this year, with events by The Countess of Fife, The Bathers, Constant Follower, Thrum, plus FRETS MOBILE DISCO (with DJ Bobby Bluebell), on sale at www.fretsconcerts.com
Nichola, your abum took me to the most beautiful places I could imagine. A tonic for these times
Hi!😊 In addition to Bandcamp, where the album is available to buy (CD & DD) - Scenes from the Blue is out today across all platforms. Choose your preferred service. #album #sound #soundart #release #soundscape #fieldrecordings #electroacoustic #experimentalmusic #sounddesign
ffm.to/nicholascrut...
I am just a poor boy
Though my story's seldom told
I have squandered my resistance
For a pocketful of mumbles
Such are promises
All lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest
A wee heads up that, in addition to Scenes from the Blue being available to buy on Bandcamp (good for artists), the album will release on all platforms from 20th March.
Pre-save at:
ffm.to/nicholascrut...
#experimental #ambient #soundart #music #album #release
If you’ve been feeling more depressed lately, know that you are not alone.
You are not broken.
It’s the world that’s broken.
The Countess of Fife release their new album - NEW PHONE, NEW CAR, NEW MAN, on LNFG (1st May). They will be appearing in concert to launch the album in Glasgow at The Glad Cafe on Saturday 23rd May. Tickets available at this link:
wegottickets.com/f/16720
PHOTO: Ronnie McGuigan
The Countess of Fife are delighted to be on this Bill! Getting the Band Back Together Supporting Scottish Arts in the Scottish Independence Movement at Oran Mor, 14 March 2026, Come along! #artistsforindy
Loads happening for The Countess! NEW PHONE, NEW CAR, NEW MAN - our 2nd album - is out on May 1st (on LNFG) with 2 singles already streaming, "I Want to Live Again" and "Sweet Beneath the Wishing Tree". Seek and enjoy!
Exciting news @countessoffife.bsky.social
This delicious new single, Sweet Beneath the Wishing Tree from The Countess of Fife's new album New Phone, New Car, New Man dropped today. Sweet Beneath The Wishing Tree - Single by The Countess of Fife | Spotify share.google/KnhieE6OGRF4...
Just had one of those emails where someone's asked me (very nicely) to work for free, so here's a thread of completely unasked-for advice for creative freelancers on working for free 🧵
The Countess of Fife are playing 6 nights (12 - 17 Aug) at Voodoo Rooms/Edinburgh Festival Fringe check them out here
thecountessoffife.bandcamp.com
Yes, looking great! Who are the others?
New on The Noise of Art…
The Perfect Film to Reopen Filmhouse
In which a 35-year-old afternoon matinee inspires today’s big opening. @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social
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Can't say it enough . "Put Down Your Weapons" by Juanita & Juan #antiwar #music youtu.be/38LcTC6g1fI?...
Writers: before you sign a contract with a publisher, make sure AI isn't replacing your illustrator, your translator, your editor, your jacket designer. Readers: if you're thinking of buying a book, do the same. Refuse. Resist. If AI garbage doesn't sell, people will stop making it.
A sunlit scene of an old blue upholstered wing chair sitting on a doorstep (stoop) planted up with dozens of pretty little succulant plants and cactus. They embellish the chair like jewels. 2 large spikey aloes dominate the seat. Another planter of similar plants sits to the right and front with a simple carved head painted white, protruding on a stick. Its long white hair perhaps made of string or straw. Its eyes, one blue. Picasso like... uneven. Full pouty lips. A huge and strikingly blue planter (with more aloes in it) and a brown wicker armchair behind the wingchair give it definition. Parlour palms, a piece of trellis, glass side windows, brass plate, and wrought iron railings typical of architecture in Edinburgh's Newtown provide an opulent backdrop
Come on up and grab a seat! A much photo'd wingchair on an Edinburgh stoop. Henderson Row
white circle in a blue background and the words "It's Monday! What are you reading?" in the circle
It's Monday again and today I'm reading Art on My Mind by bell hooks
What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
Finding Dora Maar: an artist, an address book, a life. Brigitte Benkemoun. An incredible coincidence turned into the most exquisite detective story
Just started The Reader on the 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent. At page three and boding well 🙂
Tweet from user '@quadcarl_carl' reads, "Imagine being afraid of diversity but not a dictatorship."
Here is where MAGA has gotten us to.
UNAMERICAN BROADCASTING - EP174 was full of intrigue, plot twists, red herrings & more than the odd banger...
Listen/hear here: strangerradio.mixlr.com/recordings/2...
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