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@ckwisnotaname.bsky.social
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Book & music. Forever. •••••••••••••••••••••• Label: sounddevastation.bsky.social Writing: echoesanddust.bsky.social Work: Prestel Publishing.

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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I think it’s fascinating that despite this being a seemingly cool place, I’m just not really engaged with a new social media platform. And this suffers from the same fundamental issue I always had with Twitter… Anyway, thanks for being here if you are. Maybe I’ll find a place for this soon? Maybe.
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⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️ @fiadh.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Apolitical labels, it’s time to step up & support your femme, queer & minority artists. Music & art is inherently political, stop catering to the cosplaying trve kvlt chuds & start having uncomfortable conversations.
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EchoesAndDust @echoesanddust.com · 17/03/2025
Live Review | Spirit of the Beehive • Cryogeyser at the The Boston Music Room @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social was spirited away by two mesmerising bands making memorable London debuts. bit.ly/hive-live
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EchoesAndDust @echoesanddust.com · 16/03/2025
Live Review | @softblueshimmer.bsky.social • Cold Gawd at The Victoria Dalston "I’m so glad I went to this gig. What an evening. Support the underground music scene. Connect." @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social felt blissed and blessed by two "gawds" of Nu & Shoe. bit.ly/NuGaze @cheerlessband.bsky.social
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EchoesAndDust @echoesanddust.com · 10/03/2025
Review | @guiltlessband.bsky.social - Teeth to Sky by @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social "A bludgeoning debut from members of A Storm of Light, Intronaut, and Generation of Vipers." echoesanddust.com/2025/03/guil...
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EchoesAndDust @echoesanddust.com · 06/03/2025
Review | Délirant - Thoughteater by @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social "Thoughteater is one of the boldest raw black metal albums of the past two or three years." echoesanddust.com/2025/03/deli...
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EchoesAndDust @echoesanddust.com · 03/03/2025
Review | @maudthemoth.bsky.social - The Distaff by @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social "A career-defining dark neoclassical record, reckoning with womanhood, that breaches beyond its confines." echoesanddust.com/2025/03/maud...
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⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️ @fiadh.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I hope everyone is having a lovely evening except for people who separate the art from the artist
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
While one can focus on Labour’s macro faults - and I do - there’s also stuff like this, dear to my heart, that they’re also utterly failing us with.
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I am Eeyore. This is my truth.
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Sean | Drowned in Sound @drownedinsound.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
With the first day day of the year, are you going to put your money where your values are? That's how we fight back. Goto a media outlet or musician's website (or creator's Patreon) and find out how you can support them. More ideas here www.drownedinsound.org/25-ideas-to-...
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25 Ideas to Keep Your Music Scene Alive in 2025
A list of ways music fans can support the music we love and the grassroots ecosystem it relies upon.
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Gary Davidson @garydavidson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
If anyone has an interest in #post-metal / #postmetal I have started a wee playlist of new stuff out, or coming out 2025: open.spotify.com/playlist/58Y...
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Post-metal 2025
Playlist · garydavidson83 · 15 items
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Fantastic review! 🦌
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ᴍɪᴋᴀʏᴇʟ ᴍʏᴇʀs @chaclo.blacksky.app · 18/12/2024
When they used to put the lyrics inside the CD booklet >>>>>
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I’m ill and can’t sleep. Anyway, delete Spotify.
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
There’s a special place reserved in hell for anyone 6ft tall or more that stand at the front of the gig, stock still… This is ‘gig manspreading’.
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Exactly this. The generation between the ages of 50 and 80 need to, with all due respect (i.e., none), stfu… How about you being silent for once, eh?
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
My least favourite thing about the punk & metal scene are those people (typically men) who are that very specific loud, over-the-top gregarious, I’m-saying-much-of-this-ironically-maybe, type people. [i.e. 90% of the overall crowd]. I don’t only find it cringe & off-putting, but almost intimidating?
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Massive Brexiter says what now?
‘Ardent Brexiteer’ James Dyson describing the last budget as an ‘egregious act of self-harm’ in the Telegraph.
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
And this is exactly why I do my ridiculously long AOTY list in mid-January. What Sean says plus, y’know, albums get released in December (and way more than those who have PR advances)!
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Is there anything worse than seeing people getting on and chatting on public transport? Stare forward and be silent, or buried in your phone, like any other “normal” poorly adjusted wage-slave…
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
It’s coming. Promise.
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
BlueSky is reminding me why I wasn’t very good on Twitter (now X). I’d sort of given up way before it became a cesspool. My mind just goes blank… So: *something witty*
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Sean | Drowned in Sound @drownedinsound.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
What are you doing to save music? It’s a simple question and one that every artist should be asked in promo interviews and on a red carpets. The silence from big names (especially very financially secure rich ones), whilst Kate Nash does every media slot going, is baffling. Where is everyone?
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
There’s a new series of ‘Chef’s Table’ and no one informed me… *squints and side-eyes everyone*
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Premise - rhythm of a joke - hahaha
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Weird how it’s December. How did that happen? (Yes, it’s the 2nd, but yesterday was reserved for denial).
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
To sleep or allow my mind to wander until darling existential dread swoops in to save the night?
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Eaten too much and rubbing my tum making disapproving noises at myself. Classic solo ‘bants’…
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
My favourite genre of TV show is Sci-Fi with fuck all budget.
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theneedledrop @afantano.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
i’m thankful for 2024 being such an insane year for music.
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Currently listening to: my inner critic.
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Mark Davyd @markdavyd.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This is a graph of the Live Nation share price. The less access people have to live music, and the more unaffordable it becomes, the higher their share price goes. Their success is directly inverse to the actual availability of live music.
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Sean | Drowned in Sound @drownedinsound.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Lots of people seem confused by comments that live music is in crisis Live Nation keeps having record profits. Taylor Swift is now a billionaire. But peek beneath the surface and there are venue closures, club closures, festivals ending… and posts like this from @laurajanegrace.bsky.social 😳
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Outbreak presenting quite the scheduling and logistical conundrum… (and financial, come to think of it…)
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
And just like that, Donald Trump gets away with his insurrection. Something that would have never happened in any other democratic country on earth. Astonishing.
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Made it to Joey Valence & Brae at the Electric Ballroom. Somehow don’t feel four billion years old. A super diverse crowd. Cannot be doing with the “hype” DJ, though… thus resigning myself to three billion years old.
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Mark Davyd @markdavyd.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Kate Nash is a f***ing legend.
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
So, while I appreciate the weather has been bad today, I’m not sure I quite understand the complete break down of the bus, tube and train network around where I live. Missing an amazing (and pretty expensive) gig because of it! *grumble grumble*
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
borders should not exist but for now, there should be an open-ended global visa that lets you just roll up and futz around somewhere for awhile without a specific leave date. like you’ll go home eventually, but you wanna keep it loose
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I am treating building my BlueSky following with all due seriousness.
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I wanted to eat a selection of American pies this afternoon that I saw featured on a YouTube channel. Perfect for this weather. Unfortunately, it involved me having to leave my sofa and this proved too much of a significant hurdle to overcome. Still… my tummy longs for sweet treats.
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
New Roadburn announcement had me gasp. Very happy right now. Genuinely can’t wait.
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Diana @inksterium.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
If places had soundtracks the Barbican would be Ingurgitating Oblivion.
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
All that work, finally paying off! 🙌🏼
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
You can also follow my label on Bluesky - sounddevastation.bsky.social
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CKW @ckwisnotaname.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I abandoned X/Twitter long, long ago, so you probably don’t know me from there (@theglossolalia), but rather from Instagram (@ckwisnotaname) or from my record label, Sound Devastation (Amenra, Nadja, Ehnahre, Fall of Efrafa, The Pirate Ship Quintet, and more…). Say Hi!
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