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Sarah Gail Brand Trombonist of Improvised Music. Also seen on Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle series 1 & 2 For more info, contact me on here.

Hello Bluesky.

If you like Improvised Music/ Free Jazz, you can hear and buy it on my records here:

sarahgailbrand.bandcamp.com

I haven't released a new record for a while - I'm benched as a trombone player while I recover from hand and arm surgery, but my music lives on!

#BandcampFriday

05.03.2026 22:19 👍 40 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 3

maybe McSweeney hasn’t actually left the building, we’ve just been told he has

05.03.2026 18:31 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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MARCH NOISE UPSTAIRS!

04.03.2026 11:34 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

it’s a good argument, & that’s probably what’s happening, but Labour’s right wing have Wes Streeting waiting in the wings, & it’ll be made impossible to stop him from becoming the next leader

27.02.2026 19:07 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

they’re not short of money, they just consider themselves to be. I think that’s often the way with the very rich

24.02.2026 07:44 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

great podcast, just listening now! Does help when we away…

22.02.2026 11:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

never mind; thx for getting back to me about that!

12.02.2026 17:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i had a look on your website & couldn’t see this book listed, is it for sale at kirkdale?

12.02.2026 12:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

dread to think what the concept behind epstein~ would be :-/

03.02.2026 21:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

…you’d have thought so

31.01.2026 17:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

that, as well as the team led by McSweeney that are propping up the govt

31.01.2026 09:16 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

(aha, then i can read it!) very curious author, just read that he worked for the stasi (with wife & mother…), that his son was imprisoned, & that it was illegal for him to write, let alone publish writings. He wrote this book by writing at 11am each day, no one knows what his job actually was :-/

29.01.2026 12:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

interesting, you’ve posted this up before, what is it about this book? very curious!!

29.01.2026 11:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

you’d have thought she’d have her prize rescinded

16.01.2026 08:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

that’s a fantastic idea!!
doubt it’ll happen :-/

31.12.2025 10:55 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

happy birthday, look forward to yet more improvisation at the noise upstairs in 2026 with you!! cheers!!

23.12.2025 21:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

eek, good point, i’d missed that…

22.12.2025 17:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

we raised a beer at 15.03 yesterday, happy solstice!!

22.12.2025 11:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ship them to australia, like in the good old days ;-) 😂

22.12.2025 11:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

& how long had Walliams’ behaviour been tolerated? Didn’t take the new CEO, Kate Elton long to sort him out, she was probably well aware of what had been happening

20.12.2025 11:22 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

this looks like wonderful news!!

15.12.2025 14:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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AMN Reviews: Boundaries Festival 21-22 November 2025 By Lauren Redhead Where should you go to look for contemporary music explosions in November? It used to be that there was no singular answer to this question, but in the last 5 years Boundaries Festival has begun to establish Sunderland as a locus for the experimental, the compelling, the weird and the unknown. While the city is perhaps more widely known for its long history of ship-building than of contemporary music, the festival finds itself amid the city council’s regeneration projects and offers its audiences a new experience and environment to enjoy music in, as well as the music itself.

AMN Reviews: Boundaries Festival 21-22 November 2025

By Lauren Redhead Where should you go to look for contemporary music explosions in November? It used to be that there was no singular answer to this question, but in the last 5 years Boundaries Festival has begun to establish Sunderland as a…

05.12.2025 15:42 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

friends of mine recognise a haunted pub when they see one, i’ve never been able to, what clues should i look out for?

30.11.2025 21:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Christ’s Hospital,
Most of the time I had no idea what I was doing there

16.11.2025 17:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just saw the author's name, I was at the same school as Merlin, & we were in the same year-group!

16.11.2025 14:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Kwaidan (1964) ⭐ 7.9 | Drama, Fantasy, Horror 3h 3m | Not Rated

joining in, this is a phenomenal film, all 4 short films are japanese folk tales, I was very taken by this film & still think of it, composer was Takemitsu in some of his best music: m.imdb.com/title/tt0058...

15.11.2025 14:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

30.10.2025 16:01 👍 39543 🔁 14911 💬 570 📌 665

‘electric bell ringers’
…why didn’t I think of that?

25.10.2025 06:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

great! what could possibly go wrong?

24.10.2025 14:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

fair enough, i disagree :-)

23.10.2025 18:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0