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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Garden Gutiar concert at Rustique went very well. We had a full house (that is not saying much since capacity must be around 25 to 30) and they seemed to enjoy it. Should do more of these....

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I forgot to mention here that I did play that concert at Café Palestina and it went very well, contrary to my usual fears about these things (i'll make a mess, forget the music, nobody will turn up, etc). Full house. Half th proceeds go to their charity. I was rel. happy with my playing. All good.

Me playing a guitar concert at Café Palestina here in Kentish Town.

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Playing at the @cafepalestina on Friday 22nd May 2026. Would be good to see some of you there. Details in bio. As always, it would be helpful if you bought tickets early so we have an idea re numbers, etc. #guitar #classicalguitar #flaviomatani #kentishtown #cafepalestina #yulongguoguitars #london

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Had very yummy dinner at @cafepalestina tonight. May play a concert again in their events room in the late spring, fingers crossed. More on this anon. Couldn't resist taking a few pictures of the ceramic and assorted stuff. #cafepalestina #kentishtown #neighbourhood

Olive oil and various things at Café Palestina.

Ceramics and various things at Café Palestina.

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid An immigrant from foreign, distant lands -probably not a good thing, in these dark times. (didn't quite end up like this one, but hey)

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I wasn't even aware that this cartoon by @tomgauld.bsky.social had generated a long stream of memes, like the one here. Topical and ever more relevant today. Wonder what he thinks about the phenomenon.

'Our Blessed Homeland' - 'Their Barbarous Wastes'

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Maybe I don't want 'intelligent' vacuum cleaners or fridges that tell me I'm low in milk... Excerpt From “Security News This Week: Area Man Accidentally Hacks 6,700 Camera-Enabled Robot Vacuums” Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman, Maddy Varner WIRED UK apple.news/A-fIK95UsQwK...

'Area man accidentally hacks 6,700 Camera-Enabled Robot Vacuums'

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Just in case: playing tomorrow (17th October) - it would be very good if you joined us. #guitar #classicalguitar #kentishtowncityfarm #kentishtown #neighbourhood

Just in case: playing tomorrow (17th October) at the @kentishtowncityfarm - it would be very good if you could be there with us.

An evening of Classical Guitar with music by J S Bach, F. Sor, A. de Mudarra, Diego Pisador, Antonio Lauro, M Drodzowski and Flavio Matani.

Date: Friday, 17 October 2025
Time: 7:00 pm

Kentish Town City Farm
Cressfield Close, London, NW5 4BN
Admission £10

#guitar #classicalguitar #kentishtowncityfarm #kentishtown #neighbourhood

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Hi. Playijng next Friday (17th October) at the @kentishtowncityfarm - it would be very good if you could be there with us. Kentish Town City Farm Cressfield Close, London, NW5 4BN Admission £10 #guitar #classicalguitar #kentishtowncityfarm #kentishtown #neighbourhood

Me sitting holding a guitar. Posting to let people know of my gig at Kentish Town City Farm on 17/10.

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Happy World Goth Day to you. Here, a little memory of a group of lovely people at the Whitby Goth Weekend festival in... Whitby, NE England, in 2005.

A group of young people in Goth attire at a goth music festival in Whitby, North East England, in 2005.

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Happy WGD to those who celebrate. Here's a snapshot of a few lovely people at Whitby Goth Weekend October 2005 -a few months ago...- Where are they now? I'm still in touch with some of them; others, alas, have disappeared off my radar; hope they are well... .

A group of young people in Goth attire at a goth festival in Whitby, North East England, in 2005.

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Age yourself with a popular shop as a kid Growing up in Caracas, Vz, with the distant glow of capitalism without down-payments ('sin inicial'). This, partof a US chain, was a popular shop in Vz at the time. For those who could afford it (many couldn't).

Black and white pictures of a shop building in Caracas in the '50s.

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Waiting for next pupil - a 60 y o lady preparing a Guitar Grade 6 and enjoying the journey. It is never too late! #guitarlessons #guitar #guitartuition #flaviomataniguitar

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Please state the nature of your national emergency…

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Me playing 'Yacambú', Venezuelan vals by Antonio Lauro, a quick take at home some time ago. A couple of slightly untidy notes, a low-rez 1 min edit. #guitar #classicalguitar #guitarlessons #vemezuelanguitarmusic #london #antoniolauro #rustique #tufnellpark #kentishtown #camden #northlondon

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Too early. Getting up before 6 is not my favourite..

Plant in the foreground, sky in the background just before sunrise.

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Wait. I was playing a concert out of doors, in January? Feels unreal this particular January.

Me, playing a guitar recital in a café garden in North London... in January.

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

From TikTok today. Which, may I remind you, will still work in this country after tomorrow.

"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all."

John Maynard Keynes, English economist and philosopher
(1883 - 1946)

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Street art in Wynwood (didn’t get to go in the actual Walls as it was closed in Xmas day but it was worth the while to wonder in the area) #streetart #wynwood #miami

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Looks like Santa has already had enough this year (as seen at George's Barber Rooms here in Kentish Town) #santa #christmas #georgesbarberroom #kentishtown #neighbourhood

A Santa figure slumped on a barber's chair next to a Christmas tree, as seen in local barbershop.

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

(tip hat to author unknown)

Diagram describing pro and anti christmas and pro and anti capitalism
on Jesus, Santa, the Grinch and Scrooge

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The author of 'Silo' got it right: (to be clear, I do not wish death on anybody, but press and the media really are reading so very wrongly the mood of the many people who have turned the killer into a folk hero. There are very good reasons for this.

"Prosecutors are looking for 12 Americans and one alternate who have never been sick or injured and don't have any loved ones who have ever been sick or injured."

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

A quieter day than normal due to a couple of lesson cancellations so went to Elephant & Castle for some Venezuelan foodstuffs at the Colombian shops then a stroll around Borough Market (cheese... cheese...) and the South Bank. Here's a little video of part of 'Open Wound' by Mire Lee, Tate Modern.

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

A visit yesterday to @dotsmusiccamden . Really liking how they arranged this room. Trying out their guitars, as well, which was fun. Lovely friendly local music shop, may it long endure. #dotsmusiccamden #dotsmusic #musicshop #localmusicshop #camdentown #kentishtown #neighbourhood

Room in local music shop with an arrangement of instruments on display.

Instruments on display at local music shop.

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Breakfast at Rustique in Tufnell Park. A slightly different Saturday morning

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

As seen in @mondocatto.bsky.social 's FB timeline, from a post by Jess Sherman there. Alas, this is where we are, not just the US of A although they are, particularly now, the foremost exponent.

THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD
immediately. Not explaining science seems to me perverse.
When you're in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting my lifelong love affair with science.
But there's another reason: science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and
superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. As I write, the number one video cassette rental in America is the
ad Numhor
Reavis and Butthead remains popular

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Age yourself with your first computer

Atari ST computer with monochrome monitor, circa 1988

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

The 214 stopped at Kings Cross and I hesitated and eventually got on it. Hesitated because it was an old original Routemaster doing that route. Turns out it was a charity thing for Children in Need and the 'conductor' was a ten year old (or so) boy asking for donations. Almost nobody had change...

Old Routemaster London red bus doing the 214 route as a charity event. Oddly it was marked for route 73 rather than 214.

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Having relaxed breakfast at Rustique in Tufnell Park while the world seems to career towards the abyss.

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

People of Bluesky! Lets get to know each other better. What is your favourite movie? Quote share your answer only in GIF form 😁

The knight meets Death, in the beginning of Bergmann's 'The Seventh Seal'.

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

As seen on FB. I know, posting this here is just preaching to the converted but if it is useful to just one person, etc.

A teacher in Norman was evidently fired for sharing the QR code for the Brooklyn Public Library, which will allow students from other states to obtain a library card to check out e-books that may be banned in their own municipality or school.
Here is the offending QR code, for those who might be inclined to share it far and wide:

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

A friend posted this on FB and it is food for thought in these times.

The Paradox of Tolerance disappears
if you look at tolerance, not as a moral standard, but as a social contract.
If someone does not abide by the terms of the contract, then they are not covered by it.
In other words: The intolerant are not following the rules of the social contract of mutual tolerance.
Since they have broken the terms of the contract, they are no longer covered by the contract, and their intolerance should NOT be tolerated.

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

As seen on an FB timeline. www.facebook.com/jolefebour/p...?

POLITE NOTICE
Customers are reminded that these newspapers are merely the opinions of a small group of
billionaires desperate to influence public opinion and are not 100%
factually reflecting reality.
Please cross-reference everything you read
THANK YOU

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

A timely warning. From FB, author and photographers unknown.

Women in Afghanistan in the '70s, in skirts, hair uncovered, no male chaperones, strolling down a street and looking happy.

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

Feijoada at Kaipiras by Barraco in Kilburn with friend who is half-Serbian, half Brazilian. That was good but I now need not eat for a week.

Feijoada: typical Brazilian dish with black beans, pork & other things.

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

After some guitar practice and mucking about with electric guitars, now listening to www.facebook.com/DJmartinoldg... on Twitch tv with his thirteen13 - ep 38 (www.twitch.tv/martinoldgoth) . NP: 'En La Noche' / French Police.

Screen cap of a Twitch tv stream by Martin Oldgoth. On the screen, all in black and white with colour accents, Martin is DJ'ing and various bits of information about the stream appear.

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

Last lesson cancelled, went to the Heath, with guitar and iPad. Full of people so I felt a bit shy to practise there on the park bench, so was reading the music and practising it it in my head, trying to turn in my brain the written notes into both the sounds and the movements I need to learn.

iPad with the music I was 'practising' in my head. In the background, the greenery of Hampstead Heath,

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,134,058! So, I wasn't the first to arrive but by a long way not the last one either. Liking it here, now that the other place has gone to pot.

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fflavio @fflavio.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

Sources not verified but it rings true.

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