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No. 14: England's exotic islands Somewhere happened to me recently that restored my faith in the English people. I had started using my Italian or Russian passport since the war, so embarrassed was I of my British citizenship when tr...

How are we enjoying the little trip down memory lane from the world of #Gamine? Read this #ClaudiasColumn from 2003 to find out more about England's exotic islands from our intrepid explorer... @claudiabarton.bsky.social

www.gamine.net/post/no-14-e...

#musicsky #torchsongs #lullabies #ScillyIsles

Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown Touts, and ordinary consumers, will no longer be able to charge anything more than price at which they bought ticket

About bloody time!

www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...

Classical Wind Down - Wind down from the day with the most soothing classical music - BBC Sounds De-stress and wind down from your day with a mix of soothing and reflective music.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Lovely (surprise!) BBC Radio 3 broadcast of my composition The Only Marriage on Niall Breslin's Classical Wind Down. The awesome Gerard Cousins on the guitar, with the recording taken from his album Simple Truths.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Theatre of Hate on stage, red lighting with shafts of white.

Nice to see Theatre of Hate at the Electric Ballroom in Camden last night, a mere 44 years since I last saw them. Spaghetti Western punk rock, nice heavy sound, lovely!

Bargain!

Good idea: and the AA lets cyclists hire baseball bats to smash up the cars of “drivers” who jump red lights, barrel through zebra crossings, drive on the pavement etc. etc. etc.

Another one in the John Malkovich series. His thoughts on what makes good dialogue...

Advert by #Blinkk #SonyVaioJohnMalkovich #SonyVaio
Music by me.

Damn, that's early! Surely they could put a late bus on? Like you say, it would support the local venues too. Hope the campaign gets results!

Nice! I love the idea of making cyanotypes - are they hard to do, or similar to making standard prints?

Surely it can't be beyond the wit of a venue to know the times of the last public transport options in their neck of the woods, the time it takes to walk there, and work out an ideal schedule for the evening bearing everything relevant in mind, and then make that public...?

Yes, colour infrared. Sadly, not made since a long time, and now very expensive if you can find any on ebay...

Folkestone harbour, small boats on the sand, the tide is out. My mum's old flat, with a minaret roof at the top of a hill overlooking the harbour. Shot on Kodak Aerochrome colour infrared, which colour shifts green to red.

Detail of Folkestone harbour, small boats on the sand, the tide is out. Blow up of previous image to show extreme red film grain. Shot on Kodak Aerochrome colour infrared, which colour shifts green to red.

When my mum first arrived in Kent from Devon 1960ish, she lived at Shangri-La in Folkestone, overlooking the harbour, in a little minaret flat which is still there!
#filmphotography #photosky #kodak #aerochrome #expiredfilm #halfframe #fujicahalfフィルムカメラ #フィルム写真普及委員会 #フィルムに魅せられて #landscapephotography

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Moth Club Faces Second Building Planning Application

I was at the Moth Club the other night to see Spain. It's a great little venue, and within walking distance to me, so of course I'd like to see it protected... So, here's a handy petition if you feel likewise:
c.org/X8XdJ8fg6k

#musicsky #musicvenue #indiemusic #independentvenue

Some of the ideas here would be great to play with (sadly, I'm not really technically-minded enough to actually DIY). How long before this appears as a publicly available system? And does the Raspberry Pi angle mean it will be like an AI enhanced Norns setup, open source and community powered?

Monochrome photo of outdoor chairs and tables, after a shower. Dark shadows, bright highlights.

Chairs, King's Cross.

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #photosky #argentique #fujicahalf #halfframe
#analogphotography #analog #analogfilm
#フィルムカメラ
#フィルム写真普及委員会
#フィルムに魅せられて
#streetphotography #photographie #streetphoto #streetphotographers

Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much? Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protests

My beautiful laundrette
www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Coastal Electronauts 9th October 2025 livestream YouTube video by Coastal Electronauts

See it in action! Last month's Coastal Electronauts set in Whitstable...

#Bluebox, #Suzuki #taishogoto going through the #M-Vave #MiniUniverse pedal.

#synthsky #dawless #electronicmusic #EMOM #cinematic

www.youtube.com/live/btG4c4i...

Maybe too, people are more concerned about AI faking images because it COULD be their image, whereas most people don't make music themselves so aren't as bothered, especially as it only figures as a kind of background wallpaper to their lives...

You're right, it is harder to spot music made by AI. But, since music has been so devalued by streaming/piracy/free bundling with phones etc, maybe people don't care as much as they do about image. I'm wondering what effect the Poison Pill idea might have on spiking the guns of AI generated music...

My electronic music gear setup for live performance. A Bluebox mixer/recorder, Korg NTS1 and Volca Modular mini synths, an Arturia Keystep keyboard, A Suzuki taishogoto and an M-Vave Mini Universe FX pedal.

Thinking about minimalist live shows. This all fits in my bike panniers, so I’m eco-gig-friendly.

Based around the #Bluebox, #Korg #NTS1 and #VolcaModular, #Arturia #Keystep. My #Suzuki #taishogoto goes through the #M-Vave #MiniUniverse pedal.
#synthsky #dawless #electronicmusic #EMOM #cinematic

Fight the good fight - that's all any of us can do these days, no matter how overwhelming the odds. I don't know if you see any of those 1980s NME clippings that get posted, but the depth, variety and interest of the material is light years ahead of the current mainstream. Now, it's just churnalism.

No. 13: The Gamine regime Whatever next? The American army have invaded my palace in Baghdad and are, as we speak, traipsing their muddy boots all over my shiny marble floors. It seems the American military are under the impre...

Remember when America invaded Iraq (helped by UK et al)? #Gamine do. Read #ClaudiasColumn for more on this topic, as the latest lunatic in the White House is mulling over the joys of invading Nigeria...

@claudiabarton.bsky.social

www.gamine.net/post/no-13-t...
#musicsky #torchsongs #lullabies

Quite right. Even worse if it's a British person saying it. 6000 likes for this post.

London cranes and the edge of the London Eye, shot on expired Eastman 5245 EXR50D movie film with a purple and yellow colour cast.

#LondonEye, London cranes shot on expired Eastman 5245 #EXR50D movie film. #OlympusOM1.

#filmphotography #photosky #kodak #expiredfilm #35mm #35mmfilm #フィルムカメラ #フィルム写真普及委員会 #フィルムに魅せられて #landscapephotography

This post is art in itself.
Still life like pictures and thoughtful wording.
So true! 👍

Disappointed that we don't have the same size feet... those shoes!

Tress reflected in a river, shot on expired film with a yellow and purple colour cast.

Tress reflected in a river, shot on expired film with a yellow and purple colour cast.

A couple more from my roll of expired Eastman 5245 #EXR50D movie film. #OlympusOM1. Reflections in the River Lea, #London

#filmphotography #photosky #kodak #expiredfilm #35mm #35mmfilm #フィルムカメラ #フィルム写真普及委員会 #フィルムに魅せられて #landscapephotography

Blimey! Hope they didn't nick your cassette player.

Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.

Nice article - I'm really looking forward to seeing the film! He and his family have always come across as such lovely, compassionate people.