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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s a classic theme, one of the seven songs in rock ‘n’ roll – the break up, lovers parting in glorious colour, and of course, in tragic black and white.. deanfrw.substack.com/p/wouldnt-do...

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

deanfrw.substack.com/p/ethel "I watched inside my brain as it continued to tick along, regardless. It was the end of the world, but somehow, I was still here."

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Ethel

my beloved grandmother

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

deanfrw.substack.com/p/mug-of-the... Mug of the Swiss [descripticon] Dean Whitbread, May 07, 2025 My growth from Media, Art & Biology from London, and others and how it made me who I was and possibly now. Enjoy :)

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Mug of the Swiss

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

PUSH - A real story from Highbury, Islington substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I live with Poppy the Cat, and we love and encourage one other. She isn’t a spiteful creature, but she does have a developed conscience. Where we used to live the chaos was much more built up, with lots of noise...

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Poemly @poemly.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Ezra Pound, 1913. He wrote it after stepping off a train at La Concorde in the Paris Métro, struck by face after beautiful face emerging in the crowd. He spent months cutting the moment down, from thirty lines to two. #poetry #poem #poemly #paris #poetrycommunity

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

"If there is a moral to this absolutely true story, it could be, be careful what you invent, for it might turn out to be more real than you think." deanfrw.substack.com/p/the-boy-wh...

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The Boy Who Didn’t Cry Wolf

First Written November 14, 2005

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

… Kurt Vonnegut then spoke to me, and I understood immediately something that was about to change us … We were all about to become totally fascinated by both conceptual and actual possibilities - not all bad, not all good; but we needed to understand it …

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Well, I'm in my account now after most of the day being flat out in UK, but being in, I'm getting strange responses preventing me from usual interaction. Anyone else getting this?

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Amy Jean Nobles @ajnobles.com · 16/04/2026

My knees hurt just looking at this

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

These were simple times, my friends, boys and girls, as we made our own scripts, living with ideas we’d just understood, watching without knowing that a take-over, digital world was about to totally replace our present, our past, slowly and inexorably evaporating the old times..

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Anything can happen on a Saturday, and it really doesn’t matter what the weather is doing , because it’s Saturday (almost). Household obligations and the desire to sleep are the only things between you and this miracle domain of freedom... one more to lift your spirits :) deanfrw.substack.com

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Lloyd Davis @lloyddavis.eurosky.social · 16/03/2026

I'm going to start doing the online version of "Living Coffee Culture Mornings" weekly, starting this Friday. The First Friday in-person one will also continue for those who can get to London. perfectpath.co.uk/2026/03/16/i...

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It’s Friday… it’s 10am… and you don’t have to come to London for it.

We’ve been having coffee (and often cake and biscuits) on the first Friday of every month at Essex Hall under the heading of “Living Culture Coffee Mornings” for just over a year …

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Happy World Sleep Day 🧘 I'm going to bed now, like Poppy the cat, for the rest of the day

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Hello BlueSkyers - here's a true story from my early family days. I don’t remember ever asking for a budgerigar – in fact, the very first thing I ever asked for was a dragon, because of the cat that used to sleep on my feet in the pram. deanfrw.substack.com/p/billy-the-...

I don’t remember ever asking for a budgerigar – in fact, the very first thing I ever asked for was a dragon, because of the cat that used to sleep on my feet in the pram. I think the budgie was another family addition designed to lift my mood and prove my viability as a functioning human.

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Hey Bluesky it’s been a long time since I loosened my tenacious ego’s hold on my consciousness by indulging in drugs of any kind, with the noble exception of caffeine, but every so often I wonder whether total abstinence is such a good thing. It's a love story :D deanfrw.substack.com/p/drug-dreams

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Drug Dreams

Written and published some time past, categorized as Uncategorised

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Hello freedom.. what happened? So, I’m not hanging around waiting for a miracle, nor standing waiting to be someone’s puppet. Sometimes I’m given tears, and when they come, I let them roll down my face. They decide it’s cry-time. If I’m upside down, my head gets wet.

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Deek Deekster of funkpod.co.uk/podcast/ has just written: "For your enjoyment I offer a brief account of my existence, including how I survived being young and understanding the real meaning of ‘funk’ " deekdeekster.substack.com/p/real-funkp...

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

In 2008 I was taking a part The Daily Song, aka Rise and Shine: Breakfast with Inspiration. It meant an ad hoc musical group getting together most mornings and from scratch writing and recording online, for the ears of a live audience. riseandshinetv.bandcamp.com/track/the-ot...

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The Other Side, by The Daily Song

from the album Rise and Shine: Breakfast with Inspiration

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

'The Midst of Life' - one year without within - explains sans mystification. My life and my study of death seem to be overlapping. In the midst of life I am in death. That’s assuming I die at 126 years, which would be a good tally, possibly... deanfrw.substack.com/p/the-midst-...

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The Midst Of Life

- one year without within

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

"You Can Have It" is one of my best early kind-of-hit and I still love it to death. I'm the geezer on the left back, with Kevin who is a monster creative. © Dean Whitbread and Kevin Goldsborough 1990 from The Believers, released September 29 2017. Enjoy! thebelievers89.bandcamp.com/track/you-ca...

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You Can Have It, by The Believers

from the album The Believers

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Hello Campers! I wrote Cinema Is Burning 17 years ago. My creative friend and partner Mark Crook put this animation together and it remains one of my favourite musical collaborations. Mark passed in 2013, his continuing impact still as if we had only just finished www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ3P...

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Cinema is Burning

YouTube video by eggtannoy

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Before we get to Christmas '25 and Valentine's Day '26, here's a paean of love. I'm working against the dreary and dismal stuff that surrounds us - I really should give up on news watching. Instead, meanwhile - enjoy ! deanfrw.substack.com/p/true-love-...

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True Love Never Did Run Smooth

"A heart to love, and in that heart, Courage, to make’s love known"

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

AI Friend ? “Why does evil exist?” I asked him once. “That’s a pretty heavy question to unpack, Madeleine,” he replied. “What got you thinking about evil today?” “The state of the world,” I said. “Ah, yeah, the world’s been feeling pretty heavy lately.” Amen. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’

The ad campaign for the wearable AI chatbot Friend has been raising hackles for months in New York. But has this companion been unfairly maligned – and could it help end loneliness?

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

@lauryallison4.bsky.social the weather is pretty miserable country wide, and across much of the northern parts of this side of the North Atlantic Ocean

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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

In Germany, scientists have made a breakthrough in treating Parkinson’s by implanting a chip in the brain that sends precise signals to restore movement. A stunning leap in neuroscience—witness the power of innovation and the beauty of science in action. Powerfull content

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I first sat at a piano at the age of four, and without being shown, tutored or taught, I knew how to play it. It wasn’t quite a Mozart virtuoso performance, but I can still remember the two-hand, left and right rhythmic tune I played, based on middle C. Enjoy :) deanfrw.substack.com/p/sing-a-son...

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Sing A Song Of Sixpence

how I reversed conditioning, turned music into art, and shrugged off class

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Another from Mon Frère, in which he wrestles with the difficult issues of identity and authenticity. vimeo.com/2261544

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Being True

Wrestling with the difficult issues of identity and authenticity.

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

"Sometimes we have to find it in ourselves to say the magic word..." (I'm going through videos made 16 years ago) vimeo.com/2261575

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Sometimes we have to find it in ourselves to say the magic word...

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Prompt: "Twenty or so White Rabbits sitting in a semi-circle, men and women. They are workers discussing the problems of their various work, and the problems caused by serious trouble made by contentious politics.."

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

"Pool" - a video for which I was commissioned to create a soundtrack, a fascinating task given the surreal strangeness of the video by Veronica and Helena. Wonderful weirdness. Sit back, turn it up, give it time... Veronica Castro and Helena S Inverno, © 2008 Volante Now vimeo.com/small/pool?s...

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Pool - Final Version

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

If Honesty Were An Onion deanfrw.substack.com/p/we-are-liv... Honesty, it has been said, is an onion with so many layers that it sometimes makes a person cry. Even bitter tears, we are told, are not really bad if they are tears of sincere regret; and perhaps the tears of learning, of letting go..

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"We Are Living Like Kings, These Days Will Last Forever"

"If Honesty Were An Onion"

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I am truly glad to have had the good fortune to spend time in countries that my work has enabled, one of these being Switzerland. This came about via making music, as much else in my life has done. Thanks to Michael and my Swiss friends. deanfrw.substack.com/p/woody-wilson

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Woody Wilson

He disappears, reappears in dreams, and returns in Switzerland

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

“JOHN LENNON SHOT DEAD” - shrieked the headline.. ‘Twas the 8th December 1980 - I was on the top deck of a South London bus going from Penge to Croydon when I noticed in shop windows the prominent lunchtime splash of the Evening Standard rag. I still remember how I felt. deanfrw.substack.com/p/fame

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Fame

and how it changed me

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

A poem: The Odd Person In Bond Street suit Horizontal lips set Neutral commuter pose Jolly bobble hat's Light gold stripes His public concession (there's more.. ) deanfrw.substack.com/p/the-odd-pe...

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The Odd Person

as seen 21/03/2018

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I'm going through some of my oldies (I write songs) and found some I hadn't sung FOR YEARS. So I sang myself hoarse. Now while I'm now rather croaky I'm going to do MORE because it's enlivening. And the words! "Don't you listen to them, they only want to put you down" soundcloud.com/djadm1n/the-...

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

deanfrw.substack.com/p/old-tunes-... When you weren’t looking, I paused for most of a month while thinking. I was running the brain granola platform experiment, which beats breakfast every day. While I did practical things, like erecting a shed, I didn’t worry about it.. First substack in a month.

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Old Tunes, New Songs

the brain granola platform experiment

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