Apr 18: Guest blogger Carl Lee #12: Brian Eno's ambient cover art The 12th in a series of posts from Carl Lee. The musical landscapes of Brian Eno’s cover art A close friend used to have all four-album cove...

Yesterday on the World of Music blog @drcarllee.bsky.social was talking about the ambient albums of Brian Eno worldlymusic.blogspot.com/2026/01/gues...

DOUNANA (without us) SIBA & MONKYMAN YouTube video by MONKyMAN

Anyone know anymore about Berlin based Siba? This is one righteously angry song that just dropped into my vision.
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David Byrne - Life During Wartime - Live at Coachella 2026 YouTube video by Coachella

Its good to be reminded that with Trump, MAGA and the World Cup that the USA is still a place of talent and innovation.
Aged 73 David Byrne and his brilliant band at Coachella. As he stated " "Love and Kindness are a form of resistance". www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn1v...

Went past the new Sheffield Forgemasters machining factory earlier. It is huge. A nationalised company investing doing what the private sector could not, investing in high tech manufacturing. A project that Nick Clegg & the Lib Dems in the coalition gov in 2010 -15 sank as "unaffordable".

A hugely overstated & simplistic position. Can you actually point to an example of a BBC journalist saying "Farage has a point" in response to a news story relating to him? I'll wait. Sure it has always been establishment & constantly criticised by both the right and left - so pretty centrist

In August 1979 I saw Zeppelin, in the far far distance, at Knebworth. The sound swirled in the wind but yes it did feel a bit like a religious experience. I write about it below in the 365 Geography & Music blog. And yes fantastic (Arabic infused) version

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44 years and not a penny?? I figure that is statisically unlikely. t £5 in 1982 is worth in real terms around £22 today & if it had been invested at base rate interest compounded it would be worth £75 today. Buy hey it is also a probability of also being true - unlucky but true.

I broadly agree. And of course it is easy to say all sorts of stuff when you haven't really have got the responsibility of government and negoiating a path with nation who post WW2 we've got emeshed with to such extent that unpicking it would be super diff'/problematic. Still it's slogans aint it!

Well Zack I'm not sure you think through the consequences of your words. You may want to unpick the UK's military dependency on the US, be more like France. Fine, but it is a hell of a job, v long-term & you'd probably propel us into it with no actual plan or functional relationship with the US.

Very concerning but World War I suspect not. What exactly would be the sides? China would probably sit it out with their wait and see approach. Russia is playing Trump like a violin and the US public may have finally reached the limits of its tolerance. US civil war more probable. But who knows?

Ah this is something I have debated with a whole host of folk over the years. The problem is the tendancy is to pick 8 tracks that are in someway autobiographic of the person & their life progression rather than the your absolute fav tracks (which TBF changes on a regular basis). I'll give it a go.

Jeez. I mean I drive through Eckington a fair bit and you think yeah I sort of understand that geographically but Fulwood!

Fulwood !!!!?

I'm not that sort of football fan Alan.

I actually have enjoyed watching them - a good team but even good teams unravel under pressure. Top performance from Southampton - kept going - didn't defend deep - took risks - had some luck as well which always helps.

Does the Mersey Beat? Is Seattle grungy? Now that the Arctic Monkey's are more New York than Rotherham are the Reyton's the authentic sound of South Yorkshire? Can a city have a sound? My latest blog on the 365 geography and music project.

Avarice, corruption, greed, rapacious, grafting, payola, venality, malfeasance, lying, mendacious, perfidious.
Yes I think FIFA have got all the bases covered
Love football, hate FIFA.

BREAKING: Andrew Milne has been arrested.

A spokesperson for South Yorkshire Police told The Tribune: "Detectives investigating allegations linked to the purchase and sale of freeholds in Sheffield have arrested a man on suspicion of fraud and blackmail."

Good work Jon although I see to recall only about 500 folk lived in central Manchester in 1990 - I remember the desolute evening streets well - so I guess displacement will be an interesting thing for the students to weigh up. Maybe they'd prefer that Manchester, maybe not.

‘Triangle of death’: will Italy finally tackle mafia’s toxic waste dumping? Cancer rates have soared in Casalnuovo di Napoli, Italy, where burying or burning of waste has poisoned water and land

It is widely documented in Italy as yet another strand of Mafia activity. Even in your own paper
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Bruce Springsteen - War - Live in Minneapolis 2026 YouTube video by Timeless Music Hits

I've become ground down by the arrogant exceptionalism and unbridled hate of US MAGA & Trump that I was beginning to forget that there remains so much that is good, great even, about the USA - thank you Bruce Springsteen for the timely reminder.
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Tactics wise it was a complete disaster - playing down the middle against an v well organised defence with a false 9 🤷- change it up at half time - but no. Play wide with players breaking into box & over the top to runners. Sure they can keep possesssion v well but actually do something with it.

Dreamies are cat crack.

Probably will not be the 'climate disaster' you imagine. We will need oil for energy, pharmaceuticals, fertilisers, materials for many decades yet. We will buy from everywhere else if not. Est 249–254 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalent We can still push towards net zero. Let's follow the China model

I've been in hospital recently & a nurse who looked after me told me about her access to HE course at Sheffield Col' that opened doors for her. In a long career teaching in schools, FE & HE (u-g &p-g) the Sheff Col' adult access to HE course was the most enjoyable & satisfying thing I taught.

My point is that such inequialities in earnings are one thing but that un earnt income through inter-generational equity transfer turbo-drives it. The housing market is the key battleground in this.

The Bottle YouTube video by Brian Jackson - Topic

Here is something possibily more academically appropriate for you and part of my current favourite album from Gill Scott Heron's old side kick Brian Jackson. A bit up-tempo for data wrangling I suspect.

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I heard them on Radcliffe and Maconi. You have a higher tolerance for aural weirdness than I, although I do have a soft spot for Sun Ra.

Fans and players from five African World Cup countries face $15,000 bond to enter US The US state department will expand the program on 2 April, which will require bonds from Algeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Tunisia, and Cape Verde travelers

The USA co-hosting the World Cup is a global disgrace which FIFA has enabled. It takes some doing to be even less attractive than Russia and Qatar(TBF I thought they did a good job). If only it could be moved just to Cnada & Mexico.
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