Alan Burns
@alanburns.bsky.social
Kilmarnock-born Edinburgher, civil servant who likes a lot of music, niche trivia and funny stuff
I have experienced my first Festival-time bus stop of the year - FOUR queues at one stop, chaos every time a bus came - and have officially entered my annual favouring of the most authoritarian state possible, for this issue only. I will be the bus stop cop who tazers anyone not following the law
I'm Kemi... ...and I'm Zach... And welcome to the first episode of
Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · 6h agojust had a horrific vision of the future in which Zack Polanski and Kemi Badenoch have a podcast and now I need a lie down
@mole9.bsky.social @mrmarches.bsky.social @disgwylfa.bsky.social ecmrecords.com/product/samu...
Samuel Beckett, Trevor Bača: Stirrings Still - ECM Records
Stirrings Still was Samuel Beckett’s last message in prose, completed in 1987, and first published the following year. More monologue than story, it comes from a narrator on the edge between life and ...
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Now revisiting my favourite album of 2019 for the first time in a while, with a heartfelt plea to the now-reactivated Ostgut Ton to please start doing CDs again. More people are actually buying them now than when you kept the flag flying for the format all through the 2010s!
If you would like to pay me to go experience weird niche events and write about them that is my dream job so please do!
Emily Herring@emilyherring.bsky.social · 24h agoI'm in Halberstadt where I have been sent by the lovely folk over at Orbital Studies to witness and write about the 17th chord change of John Cage's "As Slow as possible" which has been playing on an organ here since 2001 and is projected to keep playing until the 2600s.
I'm in Halberstadt where I have been sent by the lovely folk over at Orbital Studies to witness and write about the 17th chord change of John Cage's "As Slow as possible" which has been playing on an organ here since 2001 and is projected to keep playing until the 2600s.
Emily Herring@emilyherring.bsky.social · yesterdayI'm in Germany for mysterious reasons
Happy note change day in 70 year long Part 1 of 639 year long John Cage organ piece to all who celebrate. The next change will be in October 2027
As Slow as Possible - Wikipedia
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Best Bond villain, wrong answers only.
Foxton Rox@foxtonrox.bsky.social · 18h agoBest Bond villain, wrong answers only.
Boomkat I am begging you to stop tempting me with all these box sets at reasonable prices, massive chunks of Radigue or Parmegiani should be something I just fantasise about one day owning rather than things I could easily have in the next two months if I had a tiny bit more self discipline
boomkat.com@boomkat.com · yesterdayBernard Parmegiani L'Œuvre Musicale pound for pound, the greatest of all time??!! boomkat.com/products/l-o...
It's poor old Leviticus I feel sorry for.
Professor Darkness@professordarkness.bsky.social · yesterday
Benny Goodman and his Orchestra live at Carnegie Hall 1938 rocks harder than 80% of all the music that came after, at least up till the MC5. youtu.be/zQ_C9aOKJ-8?...
Benny Goodman & His Orchestra 1/16/1938 "Sing Sing Sing" Gene Krupa, Harry James | Carnegie Hall
YouTube video by thecrippledrummer
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Ned Raggett@nedraggett.bsky.social · 5d agoThe way the history of pop was warped by boomer criticism/historiography into a hard dividing line between a supposed glop past and Elvis-and-everything-after with a rock focus was a massive reductive mistake that is still playing out.
Just realising that enough time has passed since I last read this that I've once again forgotten what age the English "year ten" refers to. Can someone refresh my memory please, so that I can be properly appraised of the lower age limit for Rod Liddle's now decomposing cock
Ash@queerash.bsky.social · 2d agoOh Rod Liddle has died? RIP playing his best hits:
Eliane Radigue Electronic Works (1971-2000) the 14 CD motherlode, back in print boomkat.com/products/ele...
Drizzly piano morning continues, retreats to the threshold of audibility
Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England by the Pound
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d agoWhat's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
It's Edinburgh Fringe Festival o'clock. Let's play bingo.
This stately, historic LP of Tibetan Buddhist Rites from the Monasteries of Bhutan, featuring chanting monks, long trumpets and oboe-like shawms, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2026/07/bhut... #Bhutan #music #Buddhist Rites
Watching this, for possibly the first time since it came out. Five minutes in, and realising it looks as dated as Singles or Reality Bites. We are also, preposterously, asked to believe that Michael Cera fucks
