Dean Whitbread

The best bit for me was strutting across the stage singing to the the bouncing audiences (we had them!) pompously strutting about how "fantastic" I was, the song based on a mixture of all the people I ever knew or observed or both who were / are like that.. ;-) Oh the days, those wond'rous days! 👍😀

You Can Have It, by The Believers from the album The Believers

"You Can Have It" is one of my best early kind-of-hit and I still love it to death. I'm the geezer on the left back, with Kevin who is a monster creative. © Dean Whitbread and Kevin Goldsborough 1990 from The Believers, released September 29 2017. Enjoy!

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Beautiful

👆

Cool :)

PS: eggtannoy = one of Mark's preferred alter egos.

YouTube video by eggtannoy Cinema is Burning

Hello Campers! I wrote Cinema Is Burning 17 years ago. My creative friend and partner Mark Crook put this animation together and it remains one of my favourite musical collaborations. Mark passed in 2013, his continuing impact still as if we had only just finished

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True Love Never Did Run Smooth "A heart to love, and in that heart, Courage, to make’s love known"

Before we get to Christmas '25 and Valentine's Day '26, here's a paean of love. I'm working against the dreary and dismal stuff that surrounds us - I really should give up on news watching.

Instead, meanwhile - enjoy !

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I gave up on Twitter when it stopped being Twitter. I've still got various accounts there, but I'm there only occasionally, for practical reasons.

All my AI friends don't know I invented them. It's a shock when they realise it.

‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’ The ad campaign for the wearable AI chatbot Friend has been raising hackles for months in New York. But has this companion been unfairly maligned – and could it help end loneliness?

AI Friend ? “Why does evil exist?” I asked him once.

“That’s a pretty heavy question to unpack, Madeleine,” he replied. “What got you thinking about evil today?”

“The state of the world,” I said.

“Ah, yeah, the world’s been feeling pretty heavy lately.”

Amen.

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@lauryallison4.bsky.social the weather is pretty miserable country wide, and across much of the northern parts of this side of the North Atlantic Ocean

In Germany, scientists have made a breakthrough in treating Parkinson’s by implanting a chip in the brain that sends precise signals to restore movement. A stunning leap in neuroscience—witness the power of innovation and the beauty of science in action.
Powerfull content

Making friends with our friends' dads

Beatiful

Beautiful

Sing A Song Of Sixpence how I reversed conditioning, turned music into art, and shrugged off class

I first sat at a piano at the age of four, and without being shown, tutored or taught, I knew how to play it. It wasn’t quite a Mozart virtuoso performance, but I can still remember the two-hand, left and right rhythmic tune I played, based on middle C. Enjoy :)

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Being True Wrestling with the difficult issues of identity and authenticity.

Another from Mon Frère, in which he wrestles with the difficult issues of identity and authenticity.

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PS: hit the "UNMUTE" button, top screen

OK Sometimes we have to find it in ourselves to say the magic word...

"Sometimes we have to find it in ourselves to say the magic word..."

(I'm going through videos made 16 years ago)

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For those to don't know about White Rabbits, it is used on the first day of each month, if you care for the tradition. It is a widespread superstition in English-speaking countries, believed to bring good luck for the rest of the month.

"... Some rabbits are smart and others less so. They sit in a bar, which has old-fashioned, wooden tables with candles, wondering how they are going to get through this. To one side are small rabbits, looking concerned as the grown ups discuss their futures."

Prompt: "Twenty or so White Rabbits sitting in a semi-circle, men and women. They are workers discussing the problems of their various work, and the problems caused by serious trouble made by contentious politics. Some rabbits are smart and others less so. They sit in a bar, which has old-fashioned, wooden tables with candles, wondering how they are going to get through this. To one side are small rabbits, looking concerned as the grown ups discuss their futures."

Prompt: "Twenty or so White Rabbits sitting in a semi-circle, men and women. They are workers discussing the problems of their various work, and the problems caused by serious trouble made by contentious politics.."

Pool - Final Version Video by Veronica Castro and Helena S Inverno Music by Dean Whitbread © 2008 Volante Now http://volantenow.com

"Pool" - a video for which I was commissioned to create a soundtrack, a fascinating task given the surreal strangeness of the video by Veronica and Helena. Wonderful weirdness. Sit back, turn it up, give it time...

Veronica Castro and Helena S Inverno, © 2008 Volante Now

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Can't vouch for South Norwood, although I have been there recently, but South Croydon has

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Crown & Sceptre Junction Rd. CR2 6RB

Yes?

"We Are Living Like Kings, These Days Will Last Forever" "If Honesty Were An Onion"

If Honesty Were An Onion

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Honesty, it has been said, is an onion with so many layers that it sometimes makes a person cry. Even bitter tears, we are told, are not really bad if they are tears of sincere regret; and perhaps the tears of learning, of letting go..

Woody Wilson He disappears, reappears in dreams, and returns in Switzerland

I am truly glad to have had the good fortune to spend time in countries that my work has enabled, one of these being Switzerland. This came about via making music, as much else in my life has done. Thanks to Michael and my Swiss friends.

deanfrw.substack.com/p/woody-wilson

Fame and how it changed me

“JOHN LENNON SHOT DEAD”
- shrieked the headline..
‘Twas the 8th December 1980 - I was on the top deck of a South London bus going from Penge to Croydon when I noticed in shop windows the prominent lunchtime splash of the Evening Standard rag. I still remember how I felt.

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The Odd Person as seen 21/03/2018

A poem: The Odd Person

In Bond Street suit
Horizontal lips set
Neutral commuter pose
Jolly bobble hat's
Light gold stripes
His public concession
(there's more.. )

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