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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Never been happier about the superfluous "u" in my surname.

Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Ragnarok is back! My personal dream project performing one night only in Edinburgh, 23rd May. Micro-cinema, hundreds of tiny puppets, mask-work and a live score (by me) telling the story of a sister and brother navigating the end of the world. www.capitaltheatres.com/shows/ragnar...

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Ragnarok - Capital Theatres

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Don't know if anyone here remembers a show called 'Beulah', but that small thing led to a lifelong friendship, and here I am marrying my friends Edward and Serena together.

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

In that case, thanks for your work too!!

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I did, but I was cheeky to ask - I was the composer. So pleased you enjoyed it!!

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

That's nothing. Mine came in at 93.

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Yeah, I can't ascribe. Without wanting to sound like a cliché dispenser, I feel like it was easier for our parents' generation. Parties offered different solutions. Now they offer basically nothing, just different formulations of the same basic aphorisms. Hard to align with such a void.

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

This can't be an original thought, but an authoritarian's most hated enemies are not foreign but domestic. Not sure that's always been true, but it seems so now.

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Ronaldo Poacher. Flogs stolen deer to the ref at halftime. His game is sublime. Right, I'm done now I think. Thanks for this superb distraction.

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Gary Translucent/in between games it's unclear where he goes. Nobody knows.

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

[V.A.]Aaaaaaaaaaa[r], look at all the offside strikers. [Do do do do do do do do]

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Barry O'Plimsoll/he never played in a league or a cup/I made him up.

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I couldn't believe it when I heard the Taliban question. Nigh-on choked on my coffee. The "fighting-age males" thing really stuck out as well. That's a pretty insidious dog-whistle, and colossal irony considering how many British "fighting-age males" died fighting the people they want to pay.

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

So, interview on R4 Today, Reform intend to spend £2bn as an incentive for countries to take their asylum seekers back. Does that mean they're going to pay the Taliban (for example)? How would that go down with their base? Have they forgotten all the British soldiers lost? What fresh hell is this?!

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

This is the perfect encapsulated, distilled version. Basically, one learns to accept other people's idiocy, lest it drive you mad.

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I have a cult if people want to join. All it involves is sitting still, listening to 'Canto Ostinato' by Simeon Ten Holt once a week. Tuesdays, 9-11pm. There isn't much opportunity to exploit people, so if you're interested in cultist stuff for those reasons, this won't be for you. Get in touch.

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Right. Sci-fi/fantasy theatre. Plays that just straight-up do SFF. Any examples? I absolutely LOVED 'The Beautiful Future is Coming' at the @traversetheatre.bsky.social. Of course it had climate themes, but it clearly took pleasure in the setting of the future storyline. The doors went wooosh.

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Literally just availability. I would COMMAND this look.

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

How does one cope when the show you've just seen has 4* reviews but you think it verges on being disrespectfully bad? Or vice-versa? Anyone else made their way home RANTING about a show only to realise that [insert respected publication] thought it was great?

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

2025 looking a little thin. Not surprising considering the financial uncertainty in Scottish Theatre - but if anyone would like to chat to a composer/sound designer for their projects in the UK, I'd love to meet new people and make new things! jimharbourne.com

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Congratulations to all who finally got their Creative Scotland funding today. But particular commiserations to those who didn't - a very long wait for disappointing news.

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Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

4 pieces by RUTH WOLF-REHFELDT (1932-2024). Wolf-Rehfeldt's typewritten poetry set the bar for excellence. Seek her work out, every piece is architectural marvel.

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Well, I have "The Myth of the Singular Moment" - a two-hander play with songs about parallel worlds, impossible choices and quantum immortality... the songs are on Spotify. It'd be lovely to take it about the place! open.spotify.com/album/7KkVNA...

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The Myth of the Singular Moment (Deluxe Edition)

Jim Harbourne · Album · 2018 · 12 songs

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I would love such a thing to exist! (Don't have a theatre, but do have stuff to put in 'em!)

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Pantheon by Hamish Steele is a very enjoyable graphic-novel romp through the Egyptian creation myths. Light-hearted but puts the stories across really well.

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Despite X's best efforts, it is in fact Bluesky that owns the libs.

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

As a Canto Ostinato obsessive, I completely understand this piece and love it.

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Who does your favourite version?!

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I am here! I've been pretty quiet over on the other one for a while now, but dipping my toe in here feels warm and familiar. Like the other one used to!

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

May I humbly request an add? Thanks!

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Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Finally got round to moving! Thanks for doing this!

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