Kat Five

I'm making my usual #BandcampFriday plea: if you love music, consider spending as much today on music at Bandcamp as you do every month on music streaming subs. One $10 sale can make an artist's day-- and put as much money in their pocket as ~5000 or more streams!

I'm on this @loudwomen.org compilation with a song ft @anitamaj.bsky.social, the album's a fundraiser for the wonderful @resonancefm.bsky.social. Check it out this #BandcampFriday, so many great artists!

Very excited to be one of the 50 more Artist testers @subvert.fm. If you're on there already as a member, come check my Kat Five page.

@idorisband.bsky.social @wherewesleep.bsky.social @mccookerybook.bsky.social @teletubbycustard.bsky.social Lilith AI on there too!

A promo image for a listening party on Bandcamp tonight at 7pm UK for the Loud Women compilation album of Resonance FM Sessions. It’s a fundraiser for the radio station and features artists such as Stealing Sheep, Deb Googe and Cara Tivey, Hot Wax, I Doris, and Kat Five and Anita Maj. The image includes the album cover of photos of some of the artists performing in the Resonance radio studio, along with a list of the artists. The album is available on pre-order and is released on 6 February which is a Bandcamp Friday where artists get more revenue.

Excited for the listening party tonight for the @loudwomen.org @resonancefm.bsky.social Sessions album I’m on. It’s a fundraiser for the station and features so many amazing artists like @stealingsheep.bsky.social & Hot Wax.

Join in @bandcamp.com at 7pm UK

loudwomen.bandcamp.com/album/loud-w...

Native Instruments GmbH is in preliminary insolvency - CDM Create Digital Music According to insolvency documents, Berlin-based Native Instruments GmbH (also parent to iZotope, Plugin Alliance, and Brainworx) is in preliminary insolvency proceedings. This is devastating news for ...

Unfortunately, this is confirmed news.

Not remotely what you want to see. Wishing everyone at NI the best in a tough time, and hoping that in the restructuring process, the tools find a good home. Details:

Same. I wouldn’t call them messages, more like a digital sledgehammer bringing platform usage to a complete halt.

Asked this question this morning got no replies!

Obviously would love to see everyone on here or even better a future collaboratively-owned platform, but we are where we are.

Was tempted to pay and try the opt out for a short time to see the results. But you have to pay for all your accounts, and I’m not confident from their info I’d be able to turn it off easily!

A screenshot of a Meta message blocking use of an Instagram account. Titled ‘Make a choice about your ads’ the info leads to options to pay money or agree to complex new terms and conditions.

Who’s looked into this new Meta socials account rule and the implications? I’m currently at do not pass go for my other socials until I cough up £ to opt out or agree to a hard to decode ‘everything’.

"What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity." - William S. Burroughs #quote

Ways of Listening - Cities & Memory | Field recordings, sound map, sound art

We’re proud to launch Ways of Listening, a new partnership with @evelynglenniefd.bsky.social that is open to everyone. This unique global project asks you to share your answer to one simple question - “What does listening mean to you?”
@dameevelynglennie.bsky.social
citiesandmemory.com/listening

Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires call for higher taxes on the super-rich: Mark Ruffalo, Brian Eno and Abigail Disney are among signatories of a letter timed for the WEF in Davos, saying the wealthy are buying political influence www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Where is this fabulousness?

Last night looking south in Alaska. Crazy stuff.

FUNKI PORCINI will be showing THE LASERIUM with friends DJ FOOD SDNA DR REEKIE MECHANISMO HENRY ROLLS SEETHEMUSIC 23 & 24 January LIMEHOUSE TH | E14 THA . 3pm till 12 TICKETS https://tickets.partyutility.uk/funkiporcini/

London friends - a rare chance to see Funki Porcini's amazing Laserium is coming up:

Do you want a better future for music blogs? Stop using platforms to read—visit their websites instead. The old way is the good way—and the better way.

A screenshot from Untidy Radio playing Kat Five’s single Switch live on air. The pink and black release cover art features, based on Kat’s photo of a black feather.

Thanks @untidyradio.com for spinning Switch, great to catch @melonyklein.bsky.social and @etherdiver.bsky.social after too. Tune in!

Such an amazing day, thanks Tim. Had a great time selling our Feral Five merch on the Rocklands @artbeat.bsky.social Collective table, and Mick even paid us a visit!

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Such a great idea! Support your music scene, share and subscribe.

Kat Five Kat Five creates glitched-up art pop anthems with bite. Featured on BBC 6 Music and Radio X, she’s also created the dazzling ‘Truth Is The New Gold’ album with her band Feral Five. "Techno-goth geniu...

Such a great idea, thanks! ❤️

Operating systems, browsers, web search, and CDNs are all infrastructure. Infrastructure should be publicly owned and run.

Between the BBC and open source software, the UK could be free from Microsoft and Google within this parliament

Now more than ever, the UK needs to build and protect its digital infrastructure.

A digital sovereignty strategy should prioritise Open Source software and interoperable systems for essential services and across government.

This would stimulate innovation and capacity in the domestic tech sector.

Cybersecurity Bill: ORG calls on MPs to reduce UK reliance on US tech companies Open Rights Group has called on MPs to implement a digital sovereignty strategy to reduce the UK’s reliance on US tech companies, such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Palantir, for its digital…

We need a Digital Sovereignty strategy to reduce our reliance on US tech companies.

The Cybersecurity Bill is in Parliament TODAY.

MPs must ensure our digital infrastructure isn't vulnerable to policies and actions of foreign powers like the US and China.

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I think the only way to sustain a scene in your region, whether it be small or large, is through simple kindness. Talk to your neighbors dude, if they’re gonna be a dick that’s their problem but it doesn’t need to be your default modus operandi as well.

Monochrome photograph featuring the upper half of a woman in a headscarf covering her face with her hands, with symbolic patterns on her bare arms

"Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance..." Shirin Neshat, Iranian artist #WomensArt

YouTube video by Helen McCookerybook Three Cheers for Toytown, Helen McCookerybook, The Lexington, 23rd Sept 2025

See us play 15th of January + Terry Edwards on trumpet Micro sets: Terry, Gina Birch, Lester Square, Robert Rotifer, Ruth Tidmarsh, Karina Townsend & Jack Hayter, then in different combos for songs from 'Showtunes from the Shadows' !
Tickets: wegottickets.com/f/14034
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On 15th January in Stoke Newington
With Special Guest Gina Birch
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