@michaelcurates.bsky.social
I like music and museums | Digital Curator at Barnsley Museums | Museums Computer Group committee member | Barnsley Civic Trust committee member | Recently started writing for the MA journal.
#MusicalAdvent Day 11 Smith and Burrows - This Ain't New Jersey
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#MusicalAdvent Day 10: Probably the least festive song I'm sharing this month
Richard X and Jarvis Cocker and a cover of Mazzy Star's fade into you.
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#MusicalAdvent Day 9: Snow on the ground - Lew Furber
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More info: rocknloadmag.com/grape-alt-j-...
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One of my favourite things about #MusicalAdvent is that I always find bands one never listened to before Day 8: Grape - It's all right (it's Christmas)
Featuring members from Alt J, Gang of Youths and Tellison
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I never thought I would feature Olly Murs in my #MusicalAdvent but then he goes and records a Christmas song with The Ordinary Boys.
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What's this? A Futureheads Christmas album! #MusicalAdvent Day 6
I've already played this a lot since it was released, it's an album I didn't know I needed in my life!
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I'm so glad that me getting slightly sidetracked two years ago has now resulted in a new Christmas tradition ♥️
I'm looking forward to hearing more versions of The Barnsley Carol this year. The lyrics and the 'original' recording by @industrialteg.bsky.social are on the Barnsley Museums website
It's been an absolute pleasure to have been part of the MCG committee over the last three years. I've not felt that amazing lately so couldn't make it to Birmingham for #MuseTech25 but was watching along and laughed out loud at this point!
06.12.2025 07:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A decorated Christmas tree with lights and ornaments stands in a wood-paneled room, surrounded by wrapped gifts. A chair with a red plaid blanket is to the right, and a wooden balcony is visible above.
A close-up of a festive gingerbread village displays decorated cookie houses, snowy rooftops, and a small model pine tree, all set on a layer of artificial snow.
A cozy fireplace decorated with greenery, candles, and fairy lights sits beside a Christmas tree adorned with ornaments, ribbons, and a glowing star topper
A decorative wreath made of green pine branches, adorned with burlap bows, dried orange slices, red chili peppers, garlic bulbs, red ribbon,
🎄Get into the festive spirit with a trip to Cannon Hall - Open Thurs-Sun until Christmas with lots of events and our 12 Days of Christmas trail✨
Open Door 5 of the #BarnsleyMuseums advent calendar
bit.ly/BMAdventCalendar2025
#MusicalAdvent Day 5 - 'Tis the season for new Heathen And The Holy - Old Toboggan open.spotify.com/track/4haF98...
05.12.2025 21:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#MusicalAdvent Day 4: Sunturns - New Snow (live)
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#MusicalAdvent Day 3: "He's been locked up for sexual offences" Even though I'd already heard Home Counties - Better Last Year (Home Counties For Christmas) live in Sheffield on Monday it still made me laugh out loud! open.spotify.com/track/0ENShB...
03.12.2025 20:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#MusicalAdvent Day 2: Lottery Winners - Christmas (I won't be alone)
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#MusicalAdvent Day1 Tom A Smith - This Christmas Time
A song that passed me by last year, not to be confused with the other Tom Smith from Editors who I will no doubt be sharing a song by this month!
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#SpillTheBeans @tramlinesfestival.bsky.social #Tramlines2026
22.11.2025 13:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
And here's the background to its rediscovery while I was researching the history of Barnsley Town Hall
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The Christmas trees are up outside Barnsley town hall so I think it's acceptable to start sharing links to The Barnsley Carol again. Here's the 'original' recording by @industrialteg.bsky.social of the Arthur Godfrey carol that had been lost for 90 years
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"The darker nights have come again, quicker than the year before"
I've really got involved in the 20th anniversary of Maximo Park's A Certain Trigger by going to Limassol on my holiday earlier this month.
Currently listening to the album playback with @johnkennedydj.bsky.social on @radiox.co.uk
We have got a a couple of Grimshaw paintings in our collections
🎨 A Carter Passing a Mansion At Dusk
If you're looking for a distraction this afternoon have a go at this game (sorry if It leaves you craving pie)
@gamingnews-rt.bsky.social
#YouTube #game #BlueskyGaming
An archive photograph of a woman feeding a lamb with a bottle of milk. The woman is labelled Alan Carr, the bottle is labelled Mark and the lamb is labelled Faithful.
#CelebrityTraitors last night
23.10.2025 10:12 — 👍 104 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 3
It's been quite the week 😔 Fatigued by the latest bout of covid I've been trying to come to terms with two people I know dying quite suddenly. I tried to shrug it off as them not being close friends but it still hurts.
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I got weirdly emotional watching the Hollyoaks and #Brookside crossover. I suppose it was a reminder of simpler times. Dean Sullivan as Jimmy Corkhill was very much missed
22.10.2025 19:20 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Something I've been working on recently 👇
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Not a post we were expecting to make today. RIP Dickie Bird 💔
Arguably one of Barnsley's most famous sons
Harold Dennis "Dickie" Bird MBE OBE you will be missed by many from all over the world.
A poem about Dickie Bird by Ian McMillan which he read out on BBC Radio Sheffield earlier today:
It's the final over
Of the final test
And Time is bowling
The final ball;
And the innings that stretched To 92
Will end just here
'Cos it's umpire's call.
I felt more sad by this than I thought I would be 😔 I'll never forget the time that you were being interviewed for Look North and he was trying to get into the town hall.
23.09.2025 16:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A photo from the stage on the conference in 2024
Happy September!
We are excited to announce the programme for our conference this year, 'Seize The Tech' at The ThinkTank in Birmingham on 5 December.
🎟️A small amount of Earlybird tickets are available, visit our website for full details
museumscomputergroup.org.uk/events/mcg-m...
