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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I’ve got one of these. Adjustable setting - never lets me down.

Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

London's beautiful brutalist Barbican Centre, snapped on film using an Agfa Optima Sensor 335. Gives these images a nice 1970s vibe. #believeinfilm #barbicancentre #brutalism

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I watched the new Celibidache biopic. It makes for amenable enough viewing but doesn't dig very deep. theartsdesk.com/film/yellow-... #bruckner #celibidache #johnmalkovich #seanbean

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Couldn’t resist this second hand LP. This early recording of Prokofiev 7 features the original quiet ending, which is a plus. #prokofiev #sviatoslavrichter #karelancerl #supraphon

1950s mono LP of Prokofiev’s 7th symphony and Piano Concerto No.1

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mahler 6 for piano duet! Just dipped into a preview copy, and it's really, really good. @deeplyclassical.bsky.social #mahler #zemlinsky #piano4hands

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Can’t believe that Petula is still alive and well. She appears in Powell and Pressburger’s lovely film ‘I Know Where I’m Going’. Tony Hatch was a brilliant producer.

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I picked up these two recently, both heavily discounted (probably because no one was buying them). Tiramisu flavour Bourbons and Rhubarb flavour Custard Creams. Both underwhelming.

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Looking forward to hearing this slab of French baroque goodness. Roy’s Soups! I love this repertoire…#baroque #lalande #herveniquet

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hunt for the Wilderpeople, in a 10th anniversary reissue. Lovely, funny film with a melancholy edge. Plus two charismatic dog actors. Read more: www.theartsdesk.com/film/blu-ray... #huntforthewilderpeople #samneill #newzealand

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

They have a plaque on the Newcastle quayside. Unmade films is a rabbit hole almost as deep as lost/missing ones.

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I grew up in SE London and used to visit the Crystal Palace dinosaurs regularly.

Inaccurate Victorian dinosaur models in Crystal Palace park

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A simple search for a stopping mute on eBay throws up some alarming things. If you're flogging a horn, why not check to see if what you're selling is set up correctly? These two listings are the stuff of nightmares.... #frenchhorn #valveslides #brassinstrument

Copy of a Reynolds full double horn, most of the tuning slides in the wrong place

Single F horn with 1st and 3rd slides reversed

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I used to think that John Schlesinger's 'Billy Liar' was a comedy, but his adaptation of Keith Waterhouse's novel gets darker and sadder each time I see it. A brilliant film: www.theartsdesk.com/film/blu-ray... @studiocanal.com #billyliar #tomcourtenay #juliechristie #leonardrossiter

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Here's my research for the main item in this week's column. "On Broadway" belonged to my grandad, who used to read a story from it every day. www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social #guysanddolls #johnwilson #mahler #brahms @jkaconductor.bsky.social

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I've been contributing to @theartsdesk.bsky.social since it began in 2009. All the arts coverage you'll ever need, on a single nifty website. Have a look at the site, and if you subscribe by midnight you'll pay just £40 per year FOR EVER!

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Then read this book and watch m.youtube.com/watch?v=CqP1...

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’ll pass that on to him - thank you.

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

New bike shed, installed (not by me) on time and on budget. Who says big infrastructure projects don't succeed in the UK? #shed #dog #backyard #timclad

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It’s a close thing, and I love Liverpool, but the compactness of Newcastle’s centre and its hilliness give it the slight edge.

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Newcastle - surely the UK's most photogenic city centre? Pics taken last week on 400ASA film with a Pen EE3. @ilfordphoto.com @halfframephotoday.bsky.social #halfframe @filmphotography.bsky.social

New castle City Centre and the Tyne Bridge

Old Tyne-Tees Steam Shipping Company sign

View of Newcastle from the Tyne Bridge, looking west

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Overstuffed and a tad overlong, but brilliant in places, an uncredited Len Deighton providing the screenplay. Read more: www.theartsdesk.com/film/blu-ray... #oh!whatalovelywa

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The building has been beautifully restored and is home to a community radio station and occasional gigs. I spend three days of my working week teaching in Seacroft and am really fond of the place.

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Spotted this plaque on the Newcastle quayside this afternoon and now need to find out which other local celebs are commemorated in similar fashion. #thelikelylads #newcastle

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This one still hasn’t forgiven me for taking him to get his check up and booster last Friday.

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

As a classical CD reviewer I’m in my comfort zone when listening to late romantic and 20th century orchestral music. But this box set amazed me - 21 discs of medieval and renaissance music, superbly performed. It’s wonderful. #davidmunrow #earlymusic #boxedset #medieval #recorder

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We watched the eclipse in suburban north Leeds. A memorable shared experience, surrounded by other groups and families. The dog was underwhelmed by it all, sadly. #eclipse #leeds #moorallerton #bordercollie

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Two films by Czech animator Jiří Trnka. They're sensational. Read more: www.theartsdesk.com/film/blu-ray... @secondrun.bsky.social #jiritrnka #animation #stopmotion #czechia #karelzeman #thehand

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Wonderful album, and a mellotron showcase. I'm always intrigued by the look of the band, and how a group of blokes resembling accountants produced such sublime music.

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I thought Edward Gorey too! These two are on the shelf behind me. The Helpless Doorknob is a series of cards that you shuffle and read in any order.

The Helpless Doorknob and The Treehorn Trilogy, both illustrated by Edward Gorey.

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Somewhere I have a copy of this book, written (I think) in the early 70s and full of enthusiasm for the changing city. And, tangentially related, listen to this: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My copy of this has just arrived, an enjoyable compilation of vintage motorway-themed library music, with Leeds's 'Motorway City' logo on the cover. @leedscivictrust.bsky.social @silverdraws.bsky.social #leeds #M1 @rockingbob.bsky.social

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This gem by the fabulous William Steig, has lots of similarities and was written many years before. Gorgeous book.

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I love a vintage board game (though can't stand Monopoly). There's a lot going here; like the French card game Mille Bornes, movement is governed by speed, not dice. Lots of calculating speed limits and gambling on whether to risk spinning off. My problems really began when I overshot the pits.

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Meanwhile, I’ve just received this. Can’t wait!

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Have just played Waddingtons’ Formula One, a 1960s board game which my brother and I would play obsessively. It’s more complicated than I remember. I drove like an idiot and suffered a fatal brake outage in the final sprint to the finish. #boardgames #waddingtons #formulaone

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

More Clerkenwell photos, taken last week with an Agfa Optima Sensor 335. The colours! It's as if I'm in the London of my 1970s childhood. #clerkenwell #agfaoptimasensor #analoguephotography #filmisbest

The garden belonging to the Museum of the Order of St John

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Yes! If you asked AI to create a hip and groovy late 60s film set in swinging London it would probably come up with ‘Toomorrow’. Best silly gag was ‘Johnson’ speaking in a deep male voice.

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It's too much. It's Toomorrow. Aliens, Wagner, Swinging London, hip lingo - all this and more in: www.theartsdesk.com/film/blu-ray... #bfi #olivianewtonjohn

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The dog’s toys on the washing line. He loves them all dearly. #dogs #bordercollie

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I've just watched Val Guest's loopy 1970 sci-fi 'Toomorrow'. It's insane, but what's not to like about a film which celebrates the cosmic healing powers of cheesy power pop? #toomorrow #bfi #olivianewtonjohn

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Lovely spot. Who needs Tate Modern or the Science Museum? London has scores of lovely small museums.

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There’s a WW2 shelter underneath the footie pitch in the park behind our house. The dry weather has made the outline really clear. Spooky! @leedstours.bsky.social #leeds #chapelallerton @leedscivictrust.bsky.social

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A love triangle set on an East German construction site, suppressed after its 1966 release and unseen until 1990. This is an unexpectedly enthralling film: www.theartsdesk.com/film/blu-ray... #eureka #ddr #eastgermany #manfredklug

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