Andrew Howie
@andrewhowie.bsky.social
Musician, songwriter, teacher. Current: Andrew Howie, slow_the_tape, Acorn Shed Music Past: Calamateur, Oldsolar, The Trufflehunters, Anna & The Turtles, Milton Arts Project, The Grand Gestures https://www.andrew-howie.com
I don’t believe there is apolitical music (cause it’s made with and for people) but if there is, surely it is as meaningless as Ed Sheeran’s
My latest #improv #guitar slow_the_tape album is now up on @subvert.fm for £0/PWYW. This one was inspired by creative prompts in @ashcooke.bsky.social's book 'Ascension to Detail. www.subvert.fm/slowthetape/... #musicsky
Subvert - The Collectively Owned Music Marketplace
subvert.fm
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
Nick L@agnolotti.bsky.social · 2w agoRT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
Moved one twin into student halls yesterday, then moved the other in today. They're already back home for their 18th birthday tomorrow (which they share with me), then they disappear on Monday. Needless to say, I'm knackered.
Arrest and jail them for 3 years. Just like you did with the 'disruptive' Pro Palestinian protestors. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Masked protesters block access at Port of Dover
Images appear to show hundreds of protesters, all dressed in black and wearing face coverings.
bbc.co.uk
It's not Bandcamp Day any more, but both my musical gift and discounted first album are still available – go go go!
Laura Kidd 💌 Penfriend@penfriendrocks.bsky.social · 2w agoIt’s Bandcamp Friday! Share links to your music below and if you’d like to hear mine I have two special things today: 1. FREE 10 track song pack penfriendrocks.bandcamp.com/album/monstr...
"Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat." - John Cage #quote
And this! *buys another hard drive*
Marc Masters 🌵@marcissist.bsky.social · 2w agoI really love the work of @cinchel.com, his new one "The 4 Stages of Long Phase" is great, and his whole discog on Bandcamp (64 releases) is just $1.70?!?!?! On this BC Friday I suggest you grab it all and pay more for it, you'll be glad you did. cinchel.bandcamp.com/album/the-4-...
Today's #bandcampfriday purchases (titles in alt text). Album links here: bandcamp.com/andrewhowie
New album of improvised guitar/pedals music out today ⬇️⬇️🔥🔥
Andrew Howie@andrewhowie.bsky.social · 2w agoHere's my latest solo-guitar offering, out today for #bandcampfriday: Each track was inspired by an exercise idea from the book 'Ascension to Detail - A Toolkit for Exploratory Free Improvisation' by @ashcooke.bsky.social. Get it for free/PWYW here: slowthetape.bandcamp.com/album/what-i...
It’s Bandcamp Friday! Share links to your music below and if you’d like to hear mine I have two special things today: 1. FREE 10 track song pack penfriendrocks.bandcamp.com/album/monstr...
Monstrous Exotic Monsters Song Pack, by Penfriend
10 track album
penfriendrocks.bandcamp.com
Here's my latest solo-guitar offering, out today for #bandcampfriday: Each track was inspired by an exercise idea from the book 'Ascension to Detail - A Toolkit for Exploratory Free Improvisation' by @ashcooke.bsky.social. Get it for free/PWYW here: slowthetape.bandcamp.com/album/what-i...
what i think i thought then, by slow_the_tape
5 track album
slowthetape.bandcamp.com
Hi folks, Here's 3 bits of news about my solo guitar side-hustle: 1. All slow_the_tape releases are now Name-Your-Price. 2. I've just added 5 new tracks to 'everything must have a name' - an album I originally released in May. 3. I'm releasing a new album this Friday. slowthetape.bandcamp.com
slow_the_tape
solo-guitar side-hustle on-the-fly sonic chronicles getting stranger by the day -- all photography by eon hetherton
slowthetape.bandcamp.com
Hi folks, Here's 3 bits of news about my solo guitar side-hustle: 1. All slow_the_tape releases are now Name-Your-Price. 2. I've just added 5 new tracks to 'everything must have a name' - an album I originally released in May. 3. I'm releasing a new album this Friday. slowthetape.bandcamp.com
slow_the_tape
solo-guitar side-hustle on-the-fly sonic chronicles getting stranger by the day -- all photography by eon hetherton
slowthetape.bandcamp.com
“And so I go into the woods. As I go in under the trees... things fall into place. I enter an order that does not exist outside, in the human spaces. My life take its place among the lives that go and have gone to make the life of the earth.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
Wendell Berry, US author, farmer and environmentalist, dies aged 92
Author and Kentucky native, who celebrated the farming world of his home state and warned of the excesses of industrial society, died at home
theguardian.com
Very tempted by the new plug-ins by Fruitless Research / TW Walsh. You can get Clew (a spring reverb) for free here: fruitlessresearch.com/plugins/clew/
fruitlessresearch.com
Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live Sparklehorse Jeff Buckley Juliana Hatfield Beastie Boys Gillian Welch & David Rawlings Portishead American Music Club The Blue Nile Flying Saucer Attack Victoria Williams
Memorial Device@memorialdevice.bsky.social · 3w agoIntroduce yourself with 10 acts you’ve seen live Be Bop Deluxe House of Love Joy Division The Chameleons Kitchens of Distinction Verve Spiritualized Television Stranger than Fiction Magazine
10 acts you've seen live in about the last year Ratboys Bill Orcutt Earthball Kankawa Nagarra Duke Special L Seth Bennett & Semay Wu Quitter Simone Seales Iain Morrison
Tracey Thorn@traceythorn.bsky.social · 3w ago10 acts you've seen live in about the last year Anohni Geese Sam Amidon Cameron Winter Family Stereo Paul Simon Fred Hersch Ray Bull Justin Vivian Bond Lily Allen
This seems like good, welcome news for writers, musicians, playwrights and visual artists in Scotland. The £15,000-a-year "minimum income" scheme that could transform the careers of Scotland's artists #Arts #Writing #Poetry #Music www.heraldscotland.com/news/2650315...
The £15,000-a-year scheme that could transform the careers of Scotland's artists
The Scottish Government is developing a pilot based on a scheme which is currently supporting 2,000 artists and creatives in Ireland.
heraldscotland.com
Something else incredible that Dolly Parton's life reveals: that it's possible to have something like a socialist-feminist worldview (though I doubt she'd have put it that way) and corresponding professional standards and life practice, and be universally beloved in America. Feels mad but it's true.
Jesus is up at the front gate, waiting for his chance to finally meet her.