Shelf of war-themed library books with Men at War displayed between Army Girls and The Confidence Men.
Huddersfield library will make you happy then (just browsing Bsky while my kid's at coding club and remembered spotting it previously)!
R.I.P. Éliane Radigue, one of the most innovative and radical composers of our century- if you haven’t heard her music yet, prepare for something simultaneously delicate and oceanic. I don’t love the word “genius” but she deserves it.
Petite (3kg) cat, 2 x 100g pouches, supplemented by occasional treats and her insatiable appetite for local rodents (which she does actually eat). She would eat more and get fatter if we offered it.
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Still creeping out visitors to the @mediamuseum.bsky.social to this day!
📣NEW CALLOUT: YSWN Rewired
To celebrate YSWN turning 10 this year, we’re launching Rewired: artistic commissions for women and gender-diverse people working with electronic music and sound art in Yorks & the Humber.
We're offering:
• 3 micro-commissions of £750
• 1 main commission of £1,500
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🎉NEW CROWDFUNDER: We’re launching Rewired, a callout for Yorkshire-based women and gender-diverse musicians and sound artists to create and share new electronic work in early 2026.
And we’re asking for your support to make it bigger and better.
Find out more: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/yswn-rewired
Poor Humpty!
By 'eating', you mean making them into banana loaf, right? That's the only way I manage it...
This is going to be awesome, and did we mention it's FREE?
Evening performances (and Sunday's family workshop) open to all!
This'll be fun, and if it isn't, you can come heckle me on the correct pronunciation of Tago Mago, or something...
Slightly diminish a book
Spanner of the Gods
Just been on the A646 through Calderdale and there were some feeble attempts on the boarded-up windows of an ex-pub there.
Not to get too LinkedIn on here, but I have some spare freelance capacity this autumn so DM me if you're looking to hire a music writer, copywriter (certified actual human), editor, comms person or ultra-nerdy proofreader. Newsletters, festival brochures, hacking down words to fit, whatever!
Just added 12 paintings to my Big Cartel-
jakeblanchard.bigcartel.com
£40-£60 each.
I’ve been unable to work the last few weeks due to a wrist injury and my usual chronic pain situation so any support is greatly appreciated!
#paintings #artwork #acrylic #psychedelic #nature #illustration #posca
Front cover of September issue of The Wire with Cabaret Voltaire on the cover
Article on the Black industrialism of Black Audio Film Collective and their relationship with the music and ethos of the Cabs
Oh! New Wire arrived while I was on holiday. There’s a fantastic @abibliss.bsky.social interview with the two remaining Cabs unknotting much of their history plus I was psyched to talk to members of Black Audio Film Collective about their industrial relations
Dream interview chatting to Cabaret Voltaire and looking forward to reading all the other essays on them too!
Wainhouse tower, a tall Victorian stone chimney with an ornate top.
My partner and I looking rather warm at the top of the tower. Behind is a stone balustrade and a view out across Halifax.
Nice day to walk 369 steps up the world's (allegedly) tallest folly, the 'Tower of Spite' product of some impressively expensive Victorian landowner beef: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wainhou...
Thanks to Visit Calderdale volunteers for opening it all up!
I'm playing in this tomorrow but don't let that put you off!
Really enjoyed talking to Crystabel Efemena Riley for this about the spaces we find, make and lose, and the shared languages of free improvisation and makeup:
Poster for Oram Awards x YSWN event showing a red-tinted photo of a mini-Oramics machine on a purple-blue background. Text says: 31 May 2025, 5-10pm, Oram Awards x YSWN Changing Gear. Oram Awards and Yorkshire Sound Women Network team up for an evening at Gut Level. Workshop: Mini-Oramics Machine with Tom Richards Changing Gear Live: Helen Papaioannou, Cherry Seraph, Artists' Child Oram Awards Live: Lou Barnell
TOMORROW! Our @oramawards.bsky.social X YSWN event at Gut Level in Sheffield with @loubarnell.bsky.social performing her live dreamscape GINKO, tape loops from Helen Papaioannou, modular synth from @artistschild.bsky.social and ethereal alt-pop from Cherry Seraph.
Tickets: ra.co/events/2155976 🧵1/2
In truth, they all look a bit too optimistic to be waiting for a TPE service...
Venus in Fur Fabrics
First We Take The Manhattan Bus
Trans-Pennine Express
Nick The Paint Stripper
Would very much recommend a digital subscription if you don't have a creaking loft like me. 40+ years' worth of searchable issues and your roof beams will remain intact...
Looking forward to chatting with @elizabethalker.bsky.social about her new book and all things music when this comes around!
So did mine! Nestled between the Homepride book and The Bean Book, inevitably.
Cover of 'The Pauper's Cookbook' featuring a very '70s brown-tinged photo of a pork and bean stew in an earthenware pot.
True, but I've carried my copy of this around long after the bedsit days and it's served me well...
...However, I have never yet ventured into the chapter on budget dieting, as that's a whole new level of cabbage-salad grimness.
Drove past some horrible billboard ads for it today, too - one with a transphobic line about "men muscling in on women's sports" and its neighbour with some 'can't even say you're proud of your country' style nonsense. Weirdly non-Telegraph-buying (but possibly Reform-voting) area of Huddersfield.
Post a photo of yourself from a different era:
1) Home painted Op Art and a black velvet Desiderata poster (top right)... it's June 1980, but still 1973 somehow.
2) Chesil Beach, later in summer 1980, jacket handed down from sometime in the '70s.
