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Sunday, January 26th, 2025

Yesterday I watched Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Thunder Revue.

Today I’m watching Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz.

The highlight in both of them is when Joni Mitchell sings Coyote.

Saturday, January 25th, 2025

A four piece rock band on stage. A three piece rock band playing on stage.

Really enjoying Dreamytime Escorts + Patients at The Albert

Reading Short Stories In Irish by Olly Richards.

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Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025

Three fiddlers playing in a row. A fiddle on the table in front of a man playing accordion.

Wednesday session

Tuesday, January 21st, 2025

Anyone who doesn’t understand the old gods has never looked up at the sky.

Denise Wilton

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more, and far more hideous, crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

— C.P. Snow

Monday, January 20th, 2025

A man playing concertina, a woman playing concertina, and a man playing guitar at a table in a pub corner.

Monday session

Saturday, January 18th, 2025

Reading The Last Song Of Penelope by Claire North.

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Thursday, January 16th, 2025

A man playing bouzouki accompanying a man playing the uilleann pipes in a pub.

Thursday session

The new Salter Cane album is available on Spotify now:

https://open.spotify.com/album/3MeUNUs1EKdleklacQMaQB

Monday, January 13th, 2025

My hand holding the programme for Elektra which features a dour-looking shaven-headed Brie Larson.

At the thee-ah-tor!

Friday, January 10th, 2025

I can’t wait to play this song live!

https://saltercane.bandcamp.com/track/something-underwater

“There’s something in the water Like the holy face of God It’s out there on the borders And rising inside us”

The new Salter Cane album just dropped on Bandcamp!

https://saltercane.bandcamp.com/album/deep-black-water

Thursday, January 9th, 2025

If you want to watch me and Remy presenting live, join us here at 7:30pm

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XONerj4rE2I

Building the World Wide Web in Five Days! | ASYNC

People of Brighton—myself and Remy are giving a talk this evening at AsyncJS; you should come along!

https://asyncjs.com/built-www-in-5-days/

There will be pizza!

Wednesday, January 8th, 2025

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

— James Joyce, The Dead

Houses and cars on the street all covered in a layer of snow.

Brighton snow!

Withdrawing from a conference I was supposed to be speaking at later this year. The line-up currently shows that out of a total of 73 speakers, a grand total of 8 are women.

Tuesday, January 7th, 2025

A man playing guitar and another man playing tin whistle at a pub table.

Tuesday session

Monday, January 6th, 2025

Looking over the shoulder of a woman playing fiddle across the pub table to a row of musicians; a man playing tin whistle, a woman playing concertina and a man playing guitar.

Monday session

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