Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Trust me, lads. You can recreate the experience of performing with Andrea Bocelli without it costing a single penny: 1) Wear a dinner jacket. 2) Watch a multi-vehicle motorway pile-up from the nearest overhead gantry. 3) Listen to the ambulance siren and imagine it drenched in artificial reverb. 030
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 21/09/2026SOVIET PUBLISHER This new piece of yours... it's all in five-bar phrases, right? SOVIET COMPOSER No. Why would it be? Why do you always ask that? SOVIET PUBLISHER Sick. So rehearsal marks every five bars? SOVIET COMPOSER No, I said it *isn't* in-- SOVIET PUBLISHER Hey, that's great. 160
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026People who touch hearts: 1) Dr Gunther von Hagens 2) Ed Gein 3) 000
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Joining us now is Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy... 000
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Of all the things that are not culture, this is quite possibly the not-culturiest. 010
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Scheherazade Scheherazade 2: Scheherazader Scheherazade with a Vengeance 082
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Well, there it is. After 350+ years of concerts and tens of billions of possibilities, we finally have an official, undisputed, scientifically proven Worst Programme®. Congratulations to all those responsible; Centre Court at The Hague is booked for Thursday (roof open TBC). 040
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 10/08/2026BRITISH ORCHESTRAL MUSICIANS: We're so glad to see the back of that conductor. What a terrible five-year tenure that was. RUSSIAN ORCHESTRAL MUSICIANS: 010
Reposted by Gareth CeredigGareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Simon Heffer has written his classical music article again. 9202
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Tomorrow at 15.45, then forever after* on BBC Sounds. Decipher the secret hidden message to win BIG CASH PRIZES 💲💲💲, a guided tour of Broadcasting House, and your own 10-part podcast series with a convicted felon. *for one year 142
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 24/07/2026A new thing on R4 next Friday. It's a devastating exploration of grief and childhood traumahahahahaaa no, not really. It's about a bunch of idiots and a bridge. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 - Short Works, Take It to the BridgeA brand-new satirical comedy by Gareth Ceredig. Read by Rebecca Front. 170
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 21/07/2026TELEGRAPH EXCLUSIVE: "Vile and depraved" travel correspondent fails to condemn pun in cancer headline 030
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Good grief, but when Tom Wolfe was good he was ludicrously, luridly good. This line alone deserves its own UFC fight, but really the entire collection is brilliant; a cavalcade of queasy counter- (and counter-counter-) culture Americana. Vegas and demolition derbies and Phil Spector, oh my! 000
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Your occasional reminder that there's a dentist in Florida (of course) called Herbert C. Mantooth. That is all. Go in peace. 2112
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Incredible one-two punch from today's Telegraph feature columnists: 1) I am the stupidest man to have ever lived 2) I have given explosives to kids 2113
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 13/06/2026First time attending Trooping the Colour. Horse Guards Parade looking magnificent. #blessed #godsavetheking 010
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Your periodic reminder that the phrase "political columnist" derives from the Old Norse word "pjolkalmniisti", which translates as "child too stupid to fit fork in toaster". 000
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Nice try, The Telegraph, but this is quite clearly the same person. 000
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Thought about this again. Still utter cobblers. Still furious. 110
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 30/05/2026You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. 120
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Very pleasingly, this has won a gold thing for best documentary at the New York Festivals awards, despite not being (but also being) a documentary. Hard to explain, just go listen. Co-worded with the excellent @anc1entmarinade.bsky.social and @jonholmes.bsky.social. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukIlluminated - Fantasy Park: Fifty Years On - BBC SoundsThe greatest rock concert ever? Bob Harris hears the story. 171
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 20/05/2026FUTURE ADAM CURTIS: This is the last known photograph of HS2. It was taken in May 2026, shortly before Birmingham was plunged into eternal darkness beneath a trillion uncollected bin bags. The first train arrived in 2040, coinciding with the extinction of the last surviving German Christmas market. 020
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Say that bit again, Robbo, you big Doppler effect you. What utter dross being handed down by our nation's oh-so-sodding-esteemed fourth estate. A foghorn of nothing. A firehose of breathless bilge. A guesseract of droning womp-wompery. 020
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Had enough of the deluge of hyperventilating Westminster unjournalism? I'd recommend switching over to Birmingham University's live feed of nesting peregrine falcons for a more nuanced, restful and - let's be honest - no less factual viewing experience. www.youtube.com/live/4dsZIFf...youtube.comLive Peregrine Falcon BirdCam | University of BirminghamYouTube video by University of Birmingham 110
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 08/05/2026What an incredibly normal, functioning country. 120
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 02/05/2026This is a real treat - fascinating and beautifully put together. You'll enjoy it if you're a fan of one or more of the following: music, words, films, saxophones, taxis, drivers (the car kind, not the golf kind) and the American pronunciation of "Bernard". 📻 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukBetween the Ears - One Last Score - Bernard Herrmann and Taxi Driver - BBC SoundsThe story of Bernard Herrmann's final work for Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver. 010
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Hey, choral societies! Stop doing this sort of naff, anaemic, cut-price cowboy garbage. Most of you need *more* covering fire, not less. You've got 1000 years of music to choose from; pretty sure you can find something worth singing that's not a colossal kick in the nads to the original composer. 010
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Yes, happy birthday to the esteemed conductor, scholar, landowner, workplace bully and all-England, four-dimensional, tungsten-tipped c**t. Don't you go dying on me just yet, big guy. I'm saving up for a parade float and a skywriter. 110
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Let's stick Welsh National Opera's new season announcement through the ArtsSpeak Bullshit Translator®, because it's a belter... "bold new era" / "new chapter" = no money "powerful rebirth" = on life support "progressive" = part-time "reimagined" / "reshaped" = barely an opera company any more 130
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Easily the worst thing to ever happen there. 010
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 11/04/2026#TheNakedWeek clears off out of it for the summer with some rule-abiding foul-mouthery and some stuff that will probably make you quite angry, but at least that proves you're not *completely* dead inside. Shows what you know, sixth different therapist this year. 📻 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukThe Naked Week - Series 4 - Swearing, Steeplechase and Strikes - BBC SoundsFollowing Trump's tirade, The Naked Week team bleep the hell out of the bleeping news. 161
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 10/04/2026The first thing people see when they emerge from Birmingham New Street station is a cultural jewel, the UK's oldest working cinema... mothballed for over 2 years by a company called Glenbrook Property, who definitely are not waiting for it to very accidentally catch fire and have to be torn down. 170
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Your annual reminder that it's pronounced "Sinjin" Passion. 0364
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Oh I do love an original idea. Especially when it's so really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really good. Just really good. Really, really good. So great. Really, really great. Brilliant, even. Brilliant and great and good. Well done, broadcasting. You guys are amazing. 📻 011
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 27/03/2026#TheNakedWeek continues at pace. It's a sort of Reithian highway to hell, or "That's Life with nonce jokes", as one commenter so helpfully put it. Give it a listen. Maybe it'll drown out the noise of your appalling family. 📻 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukThe Naked Week - Series 4 - Who ya gonna call...? (Clue: It's Donald Trump) - BBC SoundsWho ya gonna call...? (Clue: it's Donald Trump) 0101
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Hire Sarah, for gawd's sake. She is the Funniest Person There Is®. 1133
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 07/03/2026#TheNakedWeek has returned to cover the series finale of civilisation (nice idea, too many kinks*, not enough irons**). Episode 1 includes journalism, jokes and some unusual shouting. 📻 *bombs **not bellends www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukThe Naked Week - Series 4 - War, Law, and Operation Amol Rajan - BBC SoundsWe go to war, flout the law, and launch Operation Amol Rajan. 020
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Terrible look for the paedophile community. Hard to see them recovering from this. 010
Gareth Ceredig @garethceredig.bsky.social · 20/02/2026ODE TO A RESTAURANT CHAIN Frankie & Benny's How I wonder Why you are What sustains you? It can't be The food You should be dead Dead, like your founders: General Franco and Benito Mussolini 020