i barely post anywhere these days, much less about rare times i wheel myself out of rave retirement to do something musical, but just in case anyone here will be at wilderness, i'm opening the hustle stage tomorrow night 7-9pm, should it be of interest : )
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Posts by Alex McKeown
next week! @stedmundhall.bsky.social, 5.30-8.30pm on tuesday. talking ethics of BCIs, therapy / enhancement, neurotech governance etc, with roi cohen kadosh, andrew jackson, tom douglas, david lyreskog. if you'd like to come along, free tickets via the link :)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurotechn...
here's another for the list. as show opener at werchter 2019. playing the meanest song in your set first, in broad daylight. amazing π€π youtu.be/D7sZkYCpfgM?...
applications are open for the 2025 inaugural Oxford Winter Neuroethics School (www.owns.org.uk)! gain the practical skills needed for planning and delivering interdisciplinary research projects in neuroethics. run by @ox.ac.uk psychiatry NEUROSEC group. full details via website - please circulate!
seems benign enough habit to transfer from twitter-looking for the best ever live version of shake dog shake by the cure, i.e. indisputably now, i think, the greatest band ever to walk the earth. only seen em 23 times, so many more to find, but here's a good one, madrid 2022 youtu.be/_Tx5M7UhMgE?...
among the many tributes, we (i.e. the texas outlaw sound system - the name for the 99-01 leeds dj crew of the rig *that pete built* aged 19 with his dad) made a tribute mix from all the tunes that we used to play back then, to commemorate him & that time. r.i.p peteβ www.mixcloud.com/McQueen_/the...
π ok. sad way to start, but it's online for people to hear i guess. in december, we (i.e. people who knew him here e.g. @joemuggs.bsky.social, not here, round the world etc) tragically & suddenly lost a dear friend, a kind, inspirational, never say die rave absurdist & true genius - peter kirk (1/2)