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Adam Dawson

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"Pick a key, keep the same tempo, make no changes and stick with it for an hour or more." Strings & Drones and stuff.

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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Strong 9 track EP from cowboyy. One reference point would be an Australasia era Pelican / AdP brundlefly. Favourite track is collide, ridiculous rock anthem & perfect closer.
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Get the cheese to sickbay the doctor should look at it as soon as possible.
Get the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should look at it as soon as possible.
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bridget and Beatrix. youtu.be/5O2mvYXhXmA?...
youtu.be
Bridget St John - To B Without a Hitch
YouTube video by Clive Jones
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Featuring my mate's son (pictured), brave lad. Support the RNLI. Smash fascism.
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Things I was scared of as a child: - the dark - gristle and aspic - allosauruses roaming the neighbourhood & peering in windows for victims - italo house piano (not strictly true but some things transcend relativity)
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Jazz Record Requests taking it up a notch on a Sunday afternoon. A tune that could happily slot in for King Curtis' Whiter Shade of Pale on the Withnail soundtrack.
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Over the last week thanks to Night Tracks I've been spending a great deal of time with this album. A great sound, both diminishing and augmenting, and enveloping. jasminewood.bandcamp.com/album/piano-...
jasminewood.bandcamp.com
Piano Reverb, by Jasmine Wood
8 track album
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Make a band edible: Bananananaykroyd
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Now playing - Friday night's Late Junction with Milkweed & Raphael Roginski sessioning together, outstanding broadcasting.
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Hull City is the only football league club without letters you can colour in.
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
10 acts you’ve seen as support acts: James Mercury Rev Seasick Steve (for 65daysofstatic) Spiritualised Sam Grassie Pale Saints Franz Ferdinand Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Mike Watt These Arms Are Snakes
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 acts or bands you've seen live. Yeah. France Myriam Gendron Ryley Walker Wedding Present (many times) Sly & The Family Drone Stump Killing Joke Om Smiths Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I smell rain
Screenshot illustrating there has been no rain since god knows when.
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The first CD I owned, bought six months before I could afford anything to play it on
The Who Live at Leeds CD dating from 1989. Doesn't get played very often.
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The net negative of social media is to provide a platform to the crackpots at the end of the bar that everyone has previously been cheerfully able to avoid for years; amplified by 80% of the press. We are so overdue for media reform.
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
'My camera skills were always dope,’ says Davis on her early career music videos. Photograph: Madman Entertainment/Melbourne International Film Festival
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Lime hawk moth caterpillar, big feller.
Lime hawk moth caterpillar
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Enjoying the roses
Gordon the Vapourer moth caterpillar
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"A Reuters analysis found the image of the map included in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that ⁠signals it was made with OpenAI tools."
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Parts & Labour - Constant Future (2011) Swaggers from a temperate TOY/S.C.U.M./Horrors sound to Bastard Engine/[untitled] (NMH) and all other points of the compass. Love it. partsandlabor.bandcamp.com/album/consta...
partsandlabor.bandcamp.com
Constant Future, by Parts & Labor
12 track album
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A Jersey Tiger Moth
Jersey Tiger Moth, Euplagia quadripunctaria.
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Best film adaptation of The Odyssey, wrong answers only
static.klipy.com
Memory Defective
Alt: Pozzo in Waiting For Godot
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#FallFriday
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 in The Quietus - When the first few of us that moved out here to the east Bay and played our first couple of shows in local places like Gilman Street, people were saying ‘obviously you are fans of Swell Maps and The Fall’, neither of which I had heard of. I couldn’t believe some Fall music when I heard it, how much kinship I felt with it. Their use of breaking up songs. Like that track [‘Paint Work’] where MES goes ‘spoiling all the paintwork.’ Putting your fingerprints on it. To me that was perfect.”
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
NP: X-ray Music A Blood and Fire Dub Directory. Gold standard. May the gods bless you and keep you Steve Barrow
X-ray Music A Blood and Fire Dub Directory
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A visit from a Vapourer moth caterpillar
Vapourer moth caterpillarVapourer moth caterpillar
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Great show, and the segue from Temples to Through The Night was sublime.
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
If you're after a half hour of accompanied grounding & quiet reflection try Joanna Brouk's The Space Between followed by Sir Richard Bishop's Saraswati. joannabrouk.bandcamp.com/track/the-sp... sirrichardbishop.bandcamp.com/track/sarasw...
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Music for the afternoon road trip
Niney the Observer, OM/Current 93, John Mayer.
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
batfunk at its best youtu.be/YtsScJAUoEA?...
youtu.be
PLAY DEAD 'Sin Of Sins' (live from 'Into The Fire' video)
YouTube video by Jungle Records
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Psychic Lemon continue their impressive run of releases with the Ostara Offerings EP, now dropping in Iain Roddick on saxaphone. Closing track Attestupa hits like Major Force's Sax Hoodlum taken on an intergalactic expedition. psychiclemon.bandcamp.com/album/ostara...
psychiclemon.bandcamp.com
Ostara Offerings e.p., by Psychic Lemon
3 track album
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Each chapter's opening paragraph in Chekhov's The Black Monk works as a verse in Belle & Sebastian's If You're Feeling Sinister.
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This was good for the heat today, slowed the pulse. acousticstorm.bandcamp.com/album/on-the...
acousticstorm.bandcamp.com
On The Whole Universe In All Directions, by Elkhorn
4 track album
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This is a rare and perfect evening for kayaking. Absolutely still, no sailors, high tide, sea like a mirror, and you have it all to yourself.
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Sing, Muse, the son of Maia and of Jove, The Herald-child, king of Arcadia And all its pastoral hills, whom in sweet love observed the new single from Upper Wilds and cried out - 'A treasure!' upperwilds.bandcamp.com/track/mercury
upperwilds.bandcamp.com
Mercury, by Upper Wilds
from the album Mercury
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Cockchafer rescue mission.
A cockchafer, lovely little thing.  The UK's largest scarab beetle.
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guitar wrestler (eric arn) @guitarwrestler.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Tonight 28 May: two 'Over Maribor' listening parties 1st: 20:00 CEST (19:00 BST, 2pm EDT, 11am PDT) 2nd: 24:00 CEST (23:00 BST, 6pm EDT, 3pm PDT) ericarn.bandcamp.com/merch/over-maribor-listening-party-parties See you there! #ericarn #albumrelease #freeimprovisation #guitar
bandcamp listening parties for eric arn's new album 'over maribor'
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Highlight from yesterday's Wanderlust was Daphney at Heartbreakers, early up and set the scene. Cruised through all the broken strings.
Daphney at Heartbreakers, Wanderlust 2026
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I enjoyed how Pete articulates this point - "Marilyn Manson (a Munsters version of something that was once pure and new and British)".
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Dear god, day two of the tribute band festival in a local field has just started up. Last night's headliners, about whom it's Rather Hard Commenting Positively particularly sounded like the clanging of ill-tempered buckets.
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BBC Radio 3 Now Playing Bot (Unofficial) @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
BBC Radio 3 In Tune Now Playing Julian Lage, John Medeski, Jorge Roeder & Kenny Wollesen Opal
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Make a band out of two others Tonto's Expanding Head Band of Horses
Tonto's Expanding Head BandBand of Horses
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Repetition, repetition, repetition Repetition, repetition, Regal Zonophone There is no hesitation This is your situation
Pope Leo XIV Live at the Witch Trials
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
My youngest just requested Phoebe Bridgers, 'from the little office thing' youtu.be/-hLJNZSIwP8?...
youtu.be
Phoebe Bridgers: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
A confident robin helping out in the garden.
A confident robin helping out in the garden.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/04/2026
‘The folk scene is very middle class. The divide is huge’: Jim Ghedi, the Sheffield singer bringing his doomy music to the movies
theguardian.com
‘The folk scene is very middle class. The divide is huge’: Jim Ghedi, the Sheffield singer bringing his doomy music to the movies
Plucked from relative obscurity to score Hugh Jackman film The Death of Robin Hood, the skilled singer-songwriter explains how he conquered his impostor syndrome
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Congrats to @joinerslive.bsky.social officially Southampton's favourite building, well deserved.
Front view of the joiners
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Reminds me of David Owen's Temple of Love cover.
"I remember being sat in Claire’s Volvo outside the Faversham with Andrew in the back, in the car park, listening to a tape of the newly recorded Temple Of Love single. Andrew commented that he was worried it was too fast for people to dance to. He must have needed the sleeve sorting out quickly because he asked me to do the artwork over the weekend - this time he gave me a pile of cut-up pieces of card with various Letraset bits on and logos and other stuff written on paper for me to finish and sort out. The cover image, the sun burst, was a scrap of A4 paper with the design on in black ink - it was a bit tatty and rough and I had to clean it up quite a bit to make it look ok"

David Owen is a graphic designer and musician from Leeds. His artwork skills were employed by Andrew Eldritch at a crucial time in The Sisters of Mercy history, when he was struggling to manage all aspects of the band's affairs as they became more successful. 

From MyHeartland:

https://www.myheartland.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=695438&hilit=Temple+love+cover+art#p695438
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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Can't you come up with something better than that? Oh I think I'd be more angry If your answers weren't so daft! Oh you know I could But do you really think I would? When you go up to
A humourous riff on The Wedding Present's Granadaland with the Vauxhall/Opel Grandland motor vehicle.
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