MANCHESTER!
👇👇👇
www.coldwarsteve.com/2026/03/20/o...

Hugh O'Conor (b.1975 Dublin)
“Sinéad O'Connor - 8 Good Reasons” 2014

RON SINGS "SO FAR AWAY" WRITTEN BY CAROLE KING YouTube video by Rawnboy

Some Carole King for your Thursday RS
youtu.be/Nj_899pfaeo?...

Our pals The Mary Wallopers have just been pulled off stage and the PA shut down at VictoriousFest in Portsmouth for taking out a 🇵🇸 flag and saying Free Palestine

Speak up against genocide in England and you're treated like a criminal

Up the Mary Wallopers 💚🤍🧡

Free Palestine!
Free the 6 counties!

Ping! An email from the BBC Director General himself, Tim Davie. He wants my opinion* on the Future of the BBC.
'
Aha, I think, a chance to say; 'put the arts back on TV!'
But alas...
1/🧵

*(Not just mine, it's a mass email).

Great show. Great set list and Mark's voice as graceful and as beautiful as ever
🙏🏼🤍

The Fatima Mansions - Bertie's Brochures (Full Version With Intro) YouTube video by TabulaRasaFilm

Somehow not feeling the 'aren't we great entirely' at the moment....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAMw...

This film is on BBC4 tonight at 10.30 so may also be back on iPlayer 🙏🏼

#womenartists #photography #art

Tracks, 24th Jan 2025. Featuring new music from Pearl2, Y, Rosie Alena, medb, Johnny Sais Quoi and MIEN.

Wrote some words about the new singles from Rosie Alena, Pearl2 and MIEN.
hardofhearingmagazine.com/2025/01/24/t...

Loophole, by Rosie Alena 1 track album

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour

Rosie Alena:
🎵 Loophole

#6music #RosieAlena

▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Song on #Bandcamp:

Loophole, by Rosie Alena 1 track album

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour

Rosie Alena:
🎵 Loophole

#6music #RosieAlena

▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Song on #Bandcamp:

This Cultural Life - Tracey Emin (BBC) YouTube video by Culture Vulture Rises

Tracey Emin talks to John Wilson about the experiences that have shaped her life and career.

#art
youtu.be/2yLz_aGfqKY?...

Jeff Buckley New Year's Eve Prayer poem (Sin-e) - subs YouTube video by Sofia Noiti

Jeff Buckley
New Year's Eve Prayer

youtu.be/Dy2iSBSpcH4?...

These are outsiders, always. These stars—
these iron inklings of an Irish January,
whose light happened
thousands of years before
our pain did; they are, they have always been
outside history. They keep their distance. Under them remains
a place where you found
you were human …
Eavan Boland

RON SINGS "MAYBE THIS CHRISTMAS" WRITTEN BY RON SEXSMITH YouTube video by Rawnboy

Merry Christmas Everyone!
Ron sings his song "Maybe This Christmas" RS

youtu.be/c6E2p3cfK9w?...

Short letter to Irish Times, detailing the grief felt by the letter writer at Christmas, after the loss of his wife.

What a letter.

Sefton Park, Liverpool.

Remembering Sinéad on her birthday. Photo by Andrew Catlin

‘Eleven Fugues for Sodium Pentothal’ - Adam Wiltzie

His work with Stars of the Lid & A Winged Victory for the Sullen marks him out as one of the most respected artists of the ambient music genre.

This is another slow moving, glacial masterpiece.

If you haven't seen the film 'Tish' seek it out.
Despite her immense talent Tish struggled for much of her life. Her lack of recognition & support, rejection for an Arts Council grant meant she had to prioritize survival over pursuing her art.

www.tishmurtha.co.uk
©️ Ella Murtha
#womenartists

I'm listening to the new Cure album therapeutically, as recommended by the band's name.

You are enough♥️

"Return of The Native"
Paula Rego, 1993.

The title may have been borrowed, but a woman, no less has her experience of a story.

❛ Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.

Philip Larkin, who died #OTD in 1985. 🦔

Can not wait.

I know! He was probably apologising for the uncompromising and brutal honesty of both his presence and performance.
Which was what we'd come for... and the great tunes ☺️

Mark Eitzel - Superhits

There must be more of these floating around...
Mark did a personalised artwork on each one as we bought them after a London show, ‘00 I think.. don't remember the venue.
‘1000 Miles’ is on this 🖤

And of course the show was incredible.

I could listen to Aldous Harding sing Nick Drake songs all day and night.

Bridget Riley
Deny II, 1967

So much movement in this , almost disorientating

‘Deny II‘, Bridget Riley, 1967 | Tate
© Bridget Riley
#art