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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our most inventive, most engaging and most under appreciated composer is back with a new one. klein1997.bandcamp.com/album/my-own...

klein1997.bandcamp.com

my own fairytale, by Klein

12 track album

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This beats the classic John Napier dismayed at the lack of calculator app on his new iPhone.

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’ll never forgive the recorder for hours of primary school torture and the ukulele, which appears to be the recorder of the 21st century, is a close second.

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Are you coming any further north?

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Not sure about theatre but in qualitative research people often use the Jefferson system where you align overlapping text with square brackets.

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

So, 10 acts you’ve seen that boast how great your tastes are 😉: Peter Brotzmann The Shop Assistants The Fall Tricky billy woods Sun Ra Arkestra Sonic Youth Slint Autechre Thomas Koner

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Never seen that Spiritualised cover before. Not a patch on the original!

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The ballet itself was stunning.

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

After a necessary and lengthy break, I’m back to my The Fall listen through, picking up with Fall Heads Roll which, I can report, despite a rather unnecessarily long opening track, is a rather fine addition to the cannon.

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

So sad. Few artists have brought and entangled so much joy and profundity.

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I tried to do a listen along to You Must Get Them All but got MES fatigue around Unutterable … just getting back to it now.

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

That’s a fine way to discover Coltrane!

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Bob Mould’s Black Sheets of Rain - won it in a Rock on Scotland competition. Didn’t have a cd players for a few years.

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Wasn’t really expecting Still in a Dream to be primarily about @simonreynolds.bsky.social . Took me a bit of getting used to but I think it works. It is strange to read the current thoughts of the writer who led you to so much life changing music on the writing that first brought you to that music.

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi @ahakram-lodhi.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Emel Memiş, a highly respected feminist economist at Ankara University, has been arrested along with 105 other Turkish activists on terrorism-related charges ahead of a forthcoming NATO summit in Turkey. I stand with Emil. Show that you do as well. www.straitstimes.com/world/europe...

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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Time to end the contract with Palantir “From my investigations, it looks like the UK sovereign solution [using their own data systems] in places like Greater Manchester are producing better results with faster systems and happier medics” @martinwrigley.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/9348...

ft.com

NHS England admits key data does not prove Palantir’s effectiveness

Health service adds caveat saying that performance improvements cannot be attributed to £330mn contract

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I moved to Iasi, in north eastern Romania, in the early ‘90s. On my first day I stepped off the trolley bus on the way to work and an old man, out of nowhere, attacked me with a cabbage in a string bag. I have been deeply suspicious of cabbages ever since.

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Gaijin Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Ghanian poster for FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF (1986)

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

This was my introduction to Beefheart and truly a life changing encounter it was.

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It is amazing but the enormous sunset crowds don’t help the ambience.

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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

c.org/JGxvMV2MPq Please sign this petition to save Philosophy and our wonderful colleagues under threat at the University of Dundee.

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Sign the Petition

Save the Philosophy Programme at Dundee University

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Absolutely blown away by this new Dewa Alit album. Hypnotic, gripping, immersive. Piano gamelan. dewaalit.bandcamp.com/album/baur-b...

dewaalit.bandcamp.com

Baur Bentur, by Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat

2 track album

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

My favourite piano album of all time. ottoatotland.bandcamp.com/album/pin

ottoatotland.bandcamp.com

Pinô, by Otto A Totland

18 track album

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I’ve run out of 18ths of November until the 5th of November.

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Finally got round to playing Inferno at home. Sounds fantastic.

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

And it comes with a free tiny cat!

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Equally, Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

To be fair, it’s a poorly written review regardless of his perspective.

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Sounds like blonde on blonde era Dylan.

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Maybe: Sinan @maybenansi.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Delighted to be delivering Trinity College Dublin’s Annual Lecture in French History and Political Ideas 2026 on Wednesday 20th May at 4pm in the Máirtín Uí Chadhain Theatre, Arts Building, TCD. Please do come along if you’re around! ☀️

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I’ve no idea who Tommy Hendricksen is but his pointy witch’s hat is hilarious.

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

All the dismissals of the Guardian book list aside, I’d be delighted if my son was doing any of these at school. He’s in S2 and they’ve not done one novel all year.

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I want to see a Guardian style list of the greatest 100 drone records (but not done by the Guardian, obviously).

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Werckmeister Harmonies was my accidental introduction to Tarr (and I guess Krasznahorkai). It’s an astounding film.

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