Before people learned music with 'do re mi', the sequence once began with 'ut' as the lowest note. The absolute lowest note recognised in medieval music was 'Γ ut', with the Greek letter gamma, and 'Γ ut' came to refer to the full range of possible notes. This is behind the phrase 'run the gamut'.

Tough job but I’m prepared to take it on.

Just booked this! Looks like it’s going to be fun. www.brightonandhovenews.org/2026/09/28/c...

Crikey! The Primitives announce intimate Brighton concert

Blimey! We never saw this one coming!  Premier power jangle and noise poppers The Primitives have announced an up-close-and-personal concert

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these are immortal basslines, defining basslines. listen to them and enjoy some truly great music. or just listen to the man himself here -- an important figure in musical history. thanks for making the world a brighter place, man, travel easy. youtu.be/CrZr_j8PArA

Jackie Jackson On Playing Bass On Majority Of The Hits During The Rock Steady Era Pt.4

YouTube video by I Never Knew Tv

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Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQ

Pressure Drop

YouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic

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So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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Nellie insists on helping with the Gardening FX recording session

“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this.

@samaritans.bsky.social are always here on 116 123. It's now 40 years since I first trained as a listening volunteer for Samaritans. So around this year's World Suicide Prevention Day, I'd like to suggest to anyone who's concerned about someone, to trust your gut and talk to them.

100% unintentional on my part but it turns out that if you search for “Nellie” on the ProductionExpert website you get a picture of my dog. www.production-expert.com/production-e...

One Person's Journey To Upgrade A Home Studio to Dolby Atmos On A Budget | Audio Production: News, Tutorials & Reviews

Sound designer David Thomas spent four years turning his studio into a 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos room using secondhand PMC and Quad gear. Here's how he did it on a budget.

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Flagging @bowiesongs.bsky.social and others to note this piece about the forthcoming early Bowie recordings comp, interviewing Alec Palao. (Gift link.)

How a Bay Area music sleuth unearthed unheard teenage David Bowie recordings

El Cerrito musician Alec Palao discovered unheard David Bowie recordings from 1965. Ten of the tracks are now being released for the first time.

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Bill Biggart died photographing the moments after the attack on the World Trade Centre on 9/11. Our Radio 4 documentary The Last Frames of Bill Biggart was the basis for this article. You can listen here. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Artworks - Last Frames: The Story of Bill Biggart - BBC Sounds

Cambridge Jones retraces the final shoot of the only photojournalist to die on 9/11.

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The Observer@theobserveruk.bsky.social · 4w ago

A photographer’s final moments on 9/11 – and the last shot he took Bill Biggart ran for his cameras when the first World Trade Center tower was hit; his shots were developed after his death. Twenty-five years later, they have been added to the Imperial War Museum collection https://bit.ly/46eiTXE

People are always trying to entice introverts out of their comfort zone and "let their hair down" a little. Why doesn't anyone ever ask extroverts to calm down and shut the fuck up for a few minutes?

The Zenith "Space Commander" was the 1st TV remote control and used no batteries. Each button cocked and fired a hammer into 1 of 4 calibrated metal rods of different lengths which generated an ultrasonic tone like a tuning fork. The TV had a microphone to listen for it.

I paid for my first computer, a ZX Spectrum by making hundreds of corn dollies for a woman in our village who dressed them and sold them on. That was a weird few months. £1/Hr and the computer was £129. I also washed up at an old people’s home and shovelled gravel also for £1/Hr.

Sorrel@sorrelish.bsky.social · last mo.

I want to make straw dollies but Google sucks so fucking much and I can’t find any decent tutorials so I was trying to find a book about it instead and in so doing found this BEAUTIFUL Web 1.0 page about straw work. We used to be a country. www.strawcraftsmen.co.uk/resource.php

Just look at this beautiful, unspoiled website from past times (2000) - no ads, no annoying pop-ups, no autoplaying videos *wistful sigh*

Sorrel@sorrelish.bsky.social · last mo.

I want to make straw dollies but Google sucks so fucking much and I can’t find any decent tutorials so I was trying to find a book about it instead and in so doing found this BEAUTIFUL Web 1.0 page about straw work. We used to be a country. www.strawcraftsmen.co.uk/resource.php

Literally just learned this now at Bristol's MShed museum. This must be what the nursery rhyme Pop Goes the Weasel is about.

Already on BBC Sounds. I’ve got a few hours of soldering this morning so this is what I’ll be listening to first.

Greg Jenner (Historian)@gregjenner.bsky.social · last mo.

Today is Norman Day on Radio 4, with a series of different programmes about the Norman Conquest and Bayeux Tapestry At 4pm there’s a special episode of You’re Dead To Me about 1066

@hotdogsladies.bsky.social A Stewart Lee interview here you might be interested in www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

‘I was miserable for a lot of this century’: Stewart Lee on divorce, his adoption and the twisted children’s poem that explains his life

After a rocky few decades, the standup is nearing 60 – and finding contentment at last. But what does his grotesque retelling of The Owl and the Pussy-cat tell us about his inability to connect with p...

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Oh no. Eugene used show off by reading a line of the shipping forecast, close his mic, press the talkback and tell the studio manager a line of a dirty joke, open his mic and do the next line of the shipping forecast etc etc. and finish both the forecast and the joke to end on the first of the pips.

RadioJottings@radiojottings.bsky.social · last mo.

Sadly I report the news of the death of a familiar voice to BBC Radio 4 listeners in the 1970s/80s/90s, that of newsreader/announcer Eugene Fraser. Eugene started broadcasting in New Zealand and also worked on Radios 1 & 2 and Radio Victory. A few audio clips by way of tribute

Any machine can be a smoke machine if you operate it poorly enough

The first half of 2 part “Midnight Cowboy” is out. Colin Bytheway’s adaptation is from the book rather than the movie so we see more of Joe Buck’s origin story I mixed original 1970s New York backgrounds into Dolby Atmos for extra depth and realism once we hit the city www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Midnight Cowboy

Joe Buck, a naïve young Texan, leaves his dead-end job to be a hustler in 1960s New York.

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Professional wordsmiths at the BBC are mixing up their modal auxiliary verbs, accidentally positioning Reform as a government in waiting. The use of 'will' signals the future tense carrying implied certainty, rather than the hypothetical scenario suggested by 'would.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform says it will prioritise British-born young workers for social housing

Labour called the plan "unserious and unworkable" and accused Reform of pushing "gimmicks and division".

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10 years old today this article. It’s worth a read and a re-read. Everything we do has the potential to be significant. www.theguardian.com/global/2016/...

The tragic story of Sheffield’s Park Hill bridge

A lover’s plea, scrawled high above Sheffield, was brazenly co-opted by property developers. Frances Byrnes reveals how it happened

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Lewes people. I just drove past Cooksbridge station and they’ve begun lifting the train carriages from the derailment onto the back of a truck. Quite impressive with a huge crane and loads of floodlights in the dark.

Crybabies are great. Probably the most complex BBC audience show I’ve worked on but worth it. Two shows per night, 7 people on stage, 6 audience mics and and 120 sound effects play-ins per 27 min show with only one quick runthrough . That focuses the mind a bit. www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/a...

Crybabies: The Scaring review – chills and laughs abound in twisty tale of demonic possession

This fantastic comic play from the Radio 4 trio unleashes a torrent of great gags and illusions

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Ok. I’ve now laughed

One year ago today, and the reason I checked out one area of the field yesterday. An Iron Age Gold Quarter Stater of the Iceni Irstead Smiler type.

This makes me fucking mad. Generations of people have made it their life’s work to ensure a politically independent BBC. These bastards throw it away for a cheap game of politics.

Captain Haddock@realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The BBC has now had to revise this headline 3 times to try and get something approaching impartiality I am incredulous as to what is going on there