Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It looks ugly. I hope it had the poor sales it deserved. 100
Reposted by Graham Elliott Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Mendelssohn and Beethoven on Saturday 19th in Highbury, London. Brilliant international violinist. www.ticketsource.com/islington-si...ticketsource.comIslington Sinfonia: Nathan Amaral plays Mendelssohn at St Augustine's Church,Tickets are now available for Islington Sinfonia: Nathan Amaral plays Mendelssohn at St Augustine's Church,, London on Sat 19 Sep 2026. Click the link for further information and to secure your ticket... 001
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It would be interesting to know just how slow the diesel was! 110
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Here’s some more from a podcast which aired this week podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...podcasts.apple.comJoanna Stern: A year living with botsPodcast Episode · Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda · 1 September · 37min 000
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Mendelssohn and Beethoven on Saturday 19th in Highbury, London. Brilliant international violinist. www.ticketsource.com/islington-si...ticketsource.comIslington Sinfonia: Nathan Amaral plays Mendelssohn at St Augustine's Church,Tickets are now available for Islington Sinfonia: Nathan Amaral plays Mendelssohn at St Augustine's Church,, London on Sat 19 Sep 2026. Click the link for further information and to secure your ticket... 001
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/campaignforthearts.orgPrime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the ArtsSign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere. 110
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Practice in Florida, and this would seem moderate. 010
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Next Saturday 11th in Islington: Dvorak, Brahms, and some hidden gems: 000
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Looking forward to playing in Cambridge this time tomorrow (Saturday) night in nonet chamber music - mixed string and wind. www.stjohntheevangelistcambridge.org/Calendar/Mon...stjohntheevangelistcambridge.orgSt John the Evangelist, Cambridge : July 2026 Calendar 000
Reposted by Graham Elliott Richard Asquith @richard-asquith.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Happy Brexit 10th anniversary #Prague 2 hours 041
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Well, that seems unlikely, as the Labour Party has a record of avoiding appointing women to the leadership role. No doubt there are a number of white men just out of sight who’ll be available and selectable in 15 months time. 030
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026A resonance from WW2 in the background, halfway through the video. Field Marshal Viscount Slim’s back is turned as he trains his binoculars on Whitehall. The war’s most effective military commander, but almost unknown, while braggart Montgomery’s image survives. The Slims don’t make it in politics. 010
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Andy Platitude’s policy agenda: 1. The devil isn’t in the detail. They’re one and the same thing. 2. People understand -isms. Andyism is my core policy. 3. Reform has persuaded people to fear foreigners. I can persuade people to fear southerners. 4. Make Work work, and the workers will work. 000
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Tomorrow belongs to Andy Platitude. But what about the day after tomorrow? 010
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Like “Do you need the Urtext, or will Kalmus do?” 000
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Monsieur Hulot m.youtube.com/watch?v=_G9x...m.youtube.comJacques Tati - M. Hulot`s HolidayYouTube video by steve new 000
Reposted by Graham Elliott Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026If you like American music you might enjoy this concert on Saturday afternoon in Croydon: www.fairfield.co.uk/events/kensi...fairfield.co.ukKensington Symphony Orchestra | Fairfield Halls | CroydonPhoto: © Sim Canetty-Clarke Kensington Symphony Orchestra returns to Fairfield Halls with an all-American programme of music featuring John Adams’s Harmoni 011
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I’ve just seen Burnham’s victory speech. He certainly isn’t basing his appeal on communication skills. Fairly cringeworthy stuff which suggests he would be shown up by all of Farage, Davey, and Badenoch. 100
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026If you like American music you might enjoy this concert on Saturday afternoon in Croydon: www.fairfield.co.uk/events/kensi...fairfield.co.ukKensington Symphony Orchestra | Fairfield Halls | CroydonPhoto: © Sim Canetty-Clarke Kensington Symphony Orchestra returns to Fairfield Halls with an all-American programme of music featuring John Adams’s Harmoni 011
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026There seems to be a good case for using driverless haulage vehicles once the technology is reliable. It’s likely to be safer. The lorries could travel slower but without rest breaks. They could be restricted to the inside lanes. 000
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I had to avoid the M25 today because two lorries had collided and caused a fire (no injuries or fatalities reported). This has closed one carriageway the whole day and resurfacing works are needed through the night. Imagine the furore if this had involved a driverless vehicle. 100
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Tomorrow (Sunday) 3pm. Air conditioned concert hall. Lovely music. Tickets available. 010
Reposted by Graham Elliott Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Elgar, Strauss, and Sibelius coming this weekend to Southbank in London. Bring a clean hanky to dab your tears during the slow movement of the Elgar symphony. www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/cor...southbankcentre.co.ukCorinthian Orchestra: Passion & Transcendence | Southbank Centre 001
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Elgar, Strauss, and Sibelius coming this weekend to Southbank in London. Bring a clean hanky to dab your tears during the slow movement of the Elgar symphony. www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/cor...southbankcentre.co.ukCorinthian Orchestra: Passion & Transcendence | Southbank Centre 001
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 16/04/2026A fictional realisation of the career of one of the earliest and most influential archbishops in England: Theodore of Canterbury (AKA Theodore of Tarsus). Based on the sources, with references to back the assumptions made in telling the story. (Free to read) www.calameo.com/books/008054...calameo.comTheodore Of CanterburyTheodore was born in Tarsus but achieved fame and recognition in his role as the last overseas-born Archbishop of Canterbury. He was appointed aged sixty-six, and served until he died at eighty-eight.... 000
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 31/03/2026The Wyrds of Esla (free to read) www.calameo.com/books/008054...calameo.comThe Wyrds Of Esla By Graham Paul ElliottI wrote this in the mid 1980s, and only minor stylistic amendments have been made since. This is a purely fictional account of events set in the early stages of Anglo-Saxon England, which suggests a way in which the Germanic immigrants... 000
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 26/03/2026I’ve had this LP for decades. Must be the loveliest violin sound ever made. 010
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 15/03/2026And now part 2 which gives the conclusions of their research: youtu.be/JVW53wmo-04?...youtu.beHeadphone measurements are about to change - We turned our heads into microphones!YouTube video by The Headphone Show 011
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026The sort of thing an undeveloped AI bot might have concluded. 000
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 07/03/2026I was a bit shocked by this programme, because I can’t understand how anyone could follow his beat, and it is obvious that the Hallé couldn’t (in the Bruckner). He also has nothing to say about the skill of conducting apart from “you’ve either got it or you haven’t”. 000
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 07/03/2026This video is brilliant. Loads of comment from Davis, and Ollie Knussen as a child conductor! 110
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Particularly lovely woodwind playing in the Lark, too. The singing, later in the album, leaves me cold, however. 100
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Headphone design/technology gets more and more involved and fascinating. Here’s part 1 of an investigation into Imperial College research into hearing characteristics, and impacts on headphones. Published this afternoon. Part 2 forthcoming youtu.be/W9gWIu3EP84?...youtu.beWe measured our HRTF to try PERFECT headphone soundYouTube video by The Headphone Show 110
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026What is referred to as ‘tactical voting’ is the new normal. We vote against the party we like the least, and scarcely consider which party we like the most. That’s partly because we don’t like any of them anymore, and partly because the question, framed that way, has become redundant. 130
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Which one composer would you recommend for Ozawa? 110
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 08/02/2026The publisher of this piece refuses to sell the parts, and will only rent it for over £100 for just one month, and demands to be given the address where it will be played. Disgraceful conduct. Music publishers too often focus on profit and not on art. 000
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Violin Concerto Symphony 6 Symphony 7 Symphony 4 En Saga 040
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Unless I missed it in Hurwitz’s canter, this box seems to lack both Rach symphonies 2&3 and his Shos 6, and Mahler 1. But don’t doubt it’s a treasure trove. 000
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Lots of good points in this power test of a Citroen GSA. My first car was a Citroen GS 1222cc, and I seem to recall that the book power was 58hp. The GSA was a later model. It would be good to see whether a GS would do well in this test @upndown.bsky.social 000
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Several hours of delays on a railway line because a lorry collided with a level crossing gate. What does that say about the safety of such a lorry driver on the road in general? I have driven for nearly 50 years and have never hit a gate, barrier, or bridge. 000
Graham Elliott @grenadilladaddy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Happy Birthday to wonderful Alan Alda. 90 today, and still producing hugely informative podcasts. www.alanalda.comalanalda.comAlan Alda actor, author, podcast host, advocate for science communication 030
