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Metal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 21h

Guy born in 1984 who dresses like he was born in 1954: "I think we all remember the winter of discontent, 1978: and that's why nothing can change obviously”

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Listen back to last night's show! www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/ro...

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Rockfort - 29 September 2026

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Incredible. Forever being reborn with a pristine, minty fresh mind.

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hello fellow Labour enthusiasts and Andy Burnham lovers, I know it's a hassle, but while the conference is going on, Andy has asked me to just pop round and make sure everything is in order with your wallets. I'm sure it is, but if you could have them ready for inspection that would be great.

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tonight's belter of a show on @resonancefm.bsky.social at 19.30 (BST) features Sourdure, Brama, Gaspar Claus, Omertà, Delphine Joussein and Antoine Bellanger. www.resonancefm.com

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 28/09/2026

I hope we’re all learning a lot about the ontology of terrorism and its function within domestic politics today. Schrödinger’s Plot.

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Two nights in a row? After all, why not?

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“There’s a feeling today that Britain really only found out about the Holocaust at the end of the war. But in 1942, the year in which most victims of the Holocaust were murdered, you couldn’t really escape this information in Britain. It was in every newspaper. It was on the BBC.”

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 26/09/2026

David McKenna goes deep with hurdy-gurdy powered drone giants France and the La Nòvia collective which has, for over a decade, been responsible for breathing new life into French folk music The Strange World Of… France, La Nòvia & Friends - #ThePortal buff.ly/dXJvqdx

France – Do Den Haag Church (2014) CD-R cover. Spiderwebs and an impossibly stretched human head repeating ears, mouth and nose. All in black against a white background.

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My wife got tickets to see Noam Shuster Eliassi for her mum's birthday yesterday. I didn't know much about her and was bracing myself for some 'liberal' Zionist nonsense but she's very good - funny but also very clear on the limits of 'dialogue' etc

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This was even better than the one on Monday - the 'pipes in particular were really punching through. Sourdure beforehand was also terrific. Surprise celebrity in the audience: comedian Frank Skinner.

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sorry to say that I'm not really sold on Furious. At least Paris Police (1910 this time) is back and still good.

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anyone have food/drink/culture recommendations for Pisa?

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Baba Yaga's Hut @babayagashut.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

TOMORROW! Saturday September 26th at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social Doors open at 7.30 Sourdure on stage at 8 La Tène at 9.10 Last tickets on sale now via Dice link.dice.fm/scfe1f4dec30

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The new Omertà album came through too late for the forthcoming column, but it'll be in the next one. It's a beauty, their dreamiest and most fluid to date. Features Jérémie Sauvage (France/La Tène) on bass and Société Étrange's Jonathan Grandcollot on drums. zamzamrec.bandcamp.com/album/mes-bl...

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Âmes Bleues, by Omertà

7 track album

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Great footage here of Occitan folk duo Cocanha with the also-terrific Edredon Sensible.

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David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around ‘free speech’ and ‘cancel culture’: whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thanks to the "legitimate concerns" paradigm, we have a national consensus that migrants (you know which specific ones) are a problem. More migrants = bad, fewer migrants = good. In that context, "anti-migrant protestor" isn't even neutral language to describe this fascist thug. It is *positive*.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is functionally what it means to proclaim the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state.

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#nowplaying. Got this on vinyl at La Tène on Monday. One of the best from La Nòvia, didn't fully grasp that in the moment. standard-in-fi.bandcamp.com/album/des-fa...

standard-in-fi.bandcamp.com

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A friend just sent me this, from a guide to Britain. Guess the year!

Sometimes, particularly in the more inward parts of industrial Britain, you might have to dig deeper for a welcome, especially in those no-nonsense pubs where something of the old division of the sexes still holds sway. In such places, the "spit and sawdust" public bar is where working men can bond over a pint or two; the plusher saloon bar, with a separate entrance, is the preferred haunt of couples and women. In many towns and cities, and especially in areas with a younger population, the traditional pub faces a challenge from the contemporary bar and café-bar.

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Have just come across a duo who describe their music as "liminal shrimp folk".

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm reading this at the moment, very much enjoying the way Anderson starts out saying that he's going to try to avoid rock autobiography clichés and then a few chapters later it's all 'fame, she is a mercurial mistress...'

Brett Anderson's Afternoons with the Blind's Drawn

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just noticed the building in the cover art for the fab new (and final) Odessey & Oracle album: Le Mabilay, built 1973, in Rennes. I took some pics several years back. It was originally a telecommunications research centre. odesseyandoracle.bandcamp.com/album/techni...

The cover art from the new album by Odessey & Oracle

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed.

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not trying to start a Hit 'Em thing here but I did have a dream last night that I was in a (British/American? Unclear) coastal town and the young people were all listening to two types of music. One of these was called 'Tô' and it featured quite slow, sparse breakbeats and lots of synth trumpet.

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Early draft translation of the first line of The Odyssey.

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is out now and it's pretty astonishing.

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tonight's Rockfort on @resonancefm.bsky.social at 19.30 (BST) features Odessey & Oracle, Elizabeth Vogler, Sébastien Forrester, Les Percussions de la Montage Verte and Les Rita Mitsouko (pictured) www.resonancefm.com

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Joyous session by La Tène at State51 - drums, bass, guitar, pipes, percussion, drone with brightness twinkling over the top, imagine Swans but French, psilocybin, rural, channeling dusty musical tradition into new. Try & see them in the UK this week if you can - Liverpool, Norwich, Oto in London

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Baba Yaga's Hut @babayagashut.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

La Tene coming on Saturday at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social !

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There are so many things wrong in this article, let me focus on two: on the perverse logic argument against sanctions, and on the betrayal of Israel's human rights and anti-occupation activists. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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This Israeli election could be the country’s last – this week I saw that for myself | Jonathan Freedland

Spend time on the ground and you see how high the stakes are for next month’s contest – for Israelis and Palestinians alike, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bleakly, grimly hilarious that people my age have been hearing this exact same tune on repeat for very literally our entire voting lives now. I'm 40. My daughter starts seconday school next year.

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One really cool thing about Dollar is Bazar learning the ropes by observing Trevor Horn and producing the rest of The Dollar Album herself. 'Pink and Blue' & 'The Second Time Around' are up there with the tracks Horn worked on.

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rich uncle skeleton @alexeptable.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Imagine working for the gambling industry and thinking “no, this isn’t quite evil enough”

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New single from Elizabeth Vogler is another stunner, album out in November editentites.bandcamp.com/track/le-car...

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Le Carnaval Perdu, by Elizabeth Vogler

from the album Le Carnaval Perdu

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You can catch up with the show here! www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/ro...

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Rockfort - 15 September 2026

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Sexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 16/09/2026

The arts industry in the UK: we contribute so much money to the economy but we are dying, please help Lisa Nandy: Village Parish Council: we held a pretend referendum Lisa Nandy: I'm listening

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm in one of the photos in the mailout but this is the one that should have been included.

Me at Acid Horse, surprised to find myself sharing a hay bale with Lord Spikeheart and holding a cup of something (coffee?) for him.

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yes the first two albums are real gems.

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