Chris Porritt

@chrisporritt.bsky.social

Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans

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‘Most of it was the conga preset on Prince’s drum machine’: how Fine Young Cannibals made She Drives Me Crazy ‘Prince’s Purple Rain guitar was in the corner of the studio and his lava lamps were everywhere. You couldn’t help but be inspired’

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10.11.2025 20:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of comput...

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12.10.2025 13:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New film explores how Caribbean workers helped win second world war Commissioned by the Imperial War Museum, Cornwallis Cloth ends ‘archival silence’ around invaluable West Indian contribution to war effort

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09.10.2025 20:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Set Design - Black Narcissus ( 1947 )

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08.10.2025 16:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

‘It proves this can be done’: Berlin the blueprint to bring goshawks to UK cities Conservationist plans release of 15 each of the apex predators sourced as chicks into Chester and London

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03.10.2025 16:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The 8 essential non-single cuts from every Roxy Music album Boasting one of the most dazzling art rock catalogue's in pop, we take a look at each Roxy Music album and highlight the key non-single cut.

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26.09.2025 13:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It takes two: the best pop duets – ranked! As Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue’s Where the Wild Roses Grow turns 30, we count down pop’s finest two-handers, from career-revivers to celebrity meta-texts

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26.09.2025 08:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The late DJ Chris Hill galvanised funkateers, brought Black music to the clubs – and got Mick Jones dancing The legendary Essex DJ, who died earlier this month, was a cultural influencer before there was such a thing. He democratised the dancefloor, fearlessly blended genres and understood the power of pers...

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24.09.2025 22:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

From Kate Bush to Pentangle to T-Rex, the late Danny Thompson’s musical brilliance knew no bounds The bassist, who has died aged 86, was an extraordinary and wildly versatile presence in British music, bringing his personality into everything he played

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24.09.2025 22:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Guyana found huge oil reserves 10 years ago, so why are most people still poor? With a ‘one-sided’ deal handing vast profits to the world’s top oil firms, many Guyanese ask when the energy bonanza will benefit them

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17.09.2025 20:06 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Slickness, sarcasm and one-night stands: Supertramp’s 10 best recordings After the death of co-frontman Rick Davies, we survey the best of the songwriting partnership with Roger Hodgson that propelled them to mass success in the 70s

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09.09.2025 14:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Workhouses in England and Wales linked to transatlantic slave trade, study suggests Report highlights how British workhouses were funded and supported by those who profited from slave economy

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08.09.2025 12:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Best ’70s Albums Ever Made Eighteen flawless full-length statements from an era that could teach us a thing or two about how to party our way through general malaise.

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08.09.2025 12:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

‘The King Lear in I Am the Walrus? That came from John Cage’: Paul McCartney on the Beatles’ debt to great avant-garde composers In the mid-60s, the Beatles tuned in to the world’s most audacious experimental musicians. Paul McCartney reveals how many of the Fab Four’s ‘far-out’ masterpieces were inspired by their sonic breakth...

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26.08.2025 16:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Everything We Do Is Music by Elizabeth Alker review – how the classics shaped pop From Stravinsky to Donna Summer, the story of connections that enriched music – in both directions

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26.08.2025 16:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The strangest David Lynch facts – ranked! Ahead of a new biography of the late director (whose favourite number was seven), we rundown some of the most offbeat things about this most mysterious modern genius

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21.08.2025 14:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They’re among the best in British indie. So why have Field Music become a Doors cover band? Faced with ‘catastrophic financial doom’ in a difficult industry, the Sunderland outfit explain why imitating Jim Morrison is their way to survive

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20.08.2025 12:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Terence Stamp obituary Strikingly handsome British actor hailed for his film roles in Far from the Madding Crowd, Billy Budd and Superman

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18.08.2025 19:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Terence Stamp: a life in pictures The actor Terence Stamp, one of the key faces of the 1960s and later the star of The Limey, Superman and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, has died at the age of 87. We look back at hi...

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17.08.2025 22:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Terence Stamp, face of 60s British cinema and star of The Limey and Superman, dies at 87 Family says actor who worked with William Wyler, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Steven Soderbergh, ‘leaves behind an extraordinary body of work’

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17.08.2025 16:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, dies aged 97 Nasa hails Lovell for saving 1970 moon mission from ‘potential tragedy’ and safely returning crew to Earth

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09.08.2025 09:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ELO's songs: 11 of their greatest hits and the meanings behind them Legendary rock bank The Electric Light Orchestra have an incredible catalogue...

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20.07.2025 18:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Discover Funk's Finest Albums and Their Lasting Impact This article highlights the transition from R&B to funk, showcasing 25 essential albums that feature both iconic and lesser-known artists.

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12.07.2025 11:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Post Office execs 'should have known' Horizon was flawed : First volume of inquiry report focuses on the UKscandal's human impact

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09.07.2025 12:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Stevie Wonder review – a riotously joyful celebration The 75-year-old is in ageless voice and playful mood throughout a performance of as many of his greatest hits as can fit back-to-back in two and a half hours

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06.07.2025 14:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Erik Satie: The eccentric 20th century French composer who coined the idea of ambient or background music If his topics were strange, then his life in Paris was unconventional in the extreme

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03.07.2025 11:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

100 Years After His Death, Will We Ever Understand Satie? A century after the composer’s death, he is ubiquitous on relaxation playlists. Those just scratch the surface of a stranger, more complicated career.

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02.07.2025 21:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Poem of the week: Nest Box by Simon Armitage A drunk old man’s report of sighting an angel opens on to much broader mysteries

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30.06.2025 20:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Labour could find the money it wants without raising taxes. This is austerity by amnesia | Randeep Ramesh Starmer and Reeves need a fresh approach to enact their vision, and I have a plan for that, says Randeep Ramesh, the Guardian’s chief leader writer

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30.06.2025 10:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death Pianist Alexandre Tharaud performs previously lost material by experimental French composer on a new album

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26.06.2025 06:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@chrisporritt is following 7 prominent accounts

Tony Iommi
@iommi.com

The official BlueSky feed for Tony Iommi; founding member and guitarist for Black Sabbath.

Josh Fenton-Glynn MP
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Member of Parliament for Calder Valley, Health and Social Care Select Committee Member, mediocre fell runner - never knowingly on message.

European Court of Human Rights
@echr.coe.int

The European Court of Human Rights is an international court set up in 1959. It rules on individual or State applications alleging violations of the civil and political rights set out in the European Convention on Human Rights. www.echr.coe.int

Rick Files Photography
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David Bowie News
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Celebrating the Genius of David Bowie Blue, blue, electric blue That's the colour of my room Where I will live Linktree: https://linktr.ee/DavidBowieNews

David Bowie
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“Blue skies above, sun on your arms, strength in your stride, And hope in those squeaky clean eyes.” The OFFICIAL David Bowie Bluesky account with general announcements and promotions. Linktree here: https://linktr.ee/BowieOfficial

Bluesky
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