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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 21/08/2026

Facebook has just reminded me of the time I was tweeted by Mary Hopkin. Ah, those were the days, my friend...

Twitter exchange between myself and Mary Hopkin following a terribly witty case of deliberate mistaken identity regarding her band Oasis.

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 12/08/2026

Obligatory colander pic from earlier this evening.

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 07/08/2026

Bloody hell. RIP William Orbit. Need to dig this one out tonight then. (Plus Ray of Light of course)

Pieces in a modern style by William Orbit.

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 03/08/2026

The Munchkins Miniature Shetland Rescue summer fair always turns up some interesting finds, and this year it was these two @backlisted.bsky.social inspired beauties.

The Egg and I and The Plague and I, by Betty MacDonald

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 23/07/2026

Last night's badgers, scurrying hither...

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 08/07/2026

The lads were out in force last night

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 30/06/2026

If you're looking for recordings that you can listen to several thousand times and still find them funny, then this one surely qualifies, even if it's a bit on the short side.

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 30/06/2026

Been wondering about these two. There's some hilarious stuff on them, although there's also a streak of cruelty in VL-S's work that I've never been entirely comfortable with.

Victor Lewis-Smith Tested on humans for irritancy

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 23/06/2026

Ha. Archie and Pye back on top, seven and a half years after publication! Take that, Marcus du Sautoy!

Yes, Archie and Pye are back on top of the Kindle Mathematical Recreation & Games chart. Kinda specialised, but I'm taking everything I can.

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 18/06/2026

Now playing. And hasn't Annie Haslam got the most gorgeous voice?

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 17/06/2026

My theory that it's impossible to listen to ska without breaking out into a broad grin still holds

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 16/06/2026

Been tinkering with the short stories Wiki on my website (not finished yet - will let you know when it is) and I came across this magnificent quote from the long-deceased Necrotic Tissue magazine.

I was very sad when Necrotic Tissue closed, if only because of this wonderfully despairing note that appeared in one of their editorials:

Our guidelines are going through a minor tweak. We have received a large number of necrophilia stories, either because everyone in horror gets them or because in our original guidelines we had put in a line about accepting necrophilia if done tastefully. This might offend some people, but at the time, we thought it was funny. Now, three months and about 40 necrophilia stories later, it's not. We have received so many that ranged in level of detailed graphic description that we were actually trying to come up with criteria for what made an acceptable necrophilia story. I want you to stop and think about that for just a second and try to imagine the conversations. Finally it dawned on us that it would just be better to change our guidelines.

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 01/06/2026

Currently reading this wonderful book.

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 20/05/2026

NP The album I bought along with the Lord Berners one to make up the minimum amount that the Discogs bloke was asking for Sibelius 3 & 6. Good selection, all told.

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 20/05/2026

NP: "A Soviet artist's response to just criticism." I mean, it's not bad though.

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 17/05/2026

Been wondering if my current author photo is a bit unambitious.

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 15/05/2026

Now playing, including Pierre Phalèse's Schiarazula Marazzula, which is frankly the Renaissance banger to end all Renaissance bangers. And sadly Musica Aurea's version is not on YouTube, so you'll just have to buy the LP on Discogs.

Dances of the Renaissance by Musica Aurea

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 14/05/2026

Played this to death BITD. Such a shock when he died.

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 08/05/2026

Now playing. What a final movement, eh? And he knows how to end a thing.

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 06/05/2026

This is the kind of granular data that every author needs. 4741817 with a bullet.

A book I contributed to eons ago is up 623 spots since yesterday on Amazon and is now at 4741817 in the charts.

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 06/05/2026

Might be time to dig this out again…

Computer Power and Human Reason by Joseph Weizenbaum (creator of ELIZA)

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 28/04/2026

I like penguins, so there's that.

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 20/04/2026

Listening to the latest @mojomagazine.bsky.social Joni Mitchell tribute cover mount, I was wondering how many versions of Both Sides, Now I had. Turns out I have 4 (although only one has the comma in the title). Now very keen to hear what The Electronic Concept Orchestra do with it...

Four different versions of Both Sides, Now: Joni herself, Leonard Nimoy, Fairport Convention and... (drum roll please) The Electronic Concept Orchestra.

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 19/02/2026

Gosh. That's reminded me to dig this one for the first time in years. Weirdest bit is when someone rings the doorbell in the middle of the recording and he improvises along with it. First came across him on Fred Frith's Guitar Solos 2.

The Death of the Rare Bird Ymir by Hans Reichel

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 03/02/2026

Quick reminder for anyone who hasn't had a look...

The top of the Tartboard - who's been in which franchise, and who's the most profligate franchise tart.

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 26/01/2026

Neville Pinnock, 2011 - 2026. A true gent, always immaculately turned out, even if his interest in the local shrew population bordered on the psychotic. Happy hunting, old friend.

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 26/01/2026

Now playing. One of the greatest albums - if not THE greatest - of the 80s. Yeah, I know I'm completely on my own here.

Into The Gap by Thompson Twins. Yes, I know.

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 06/01/2026

Now playing. Hands up anyone else who's heard of this.

What's a nice chord like you doing in a place like this? by Juhani Nuorvala.

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 31/12/2025

Ouch. I remember reading his reviews in the early years of the Independent - I think the ONLY positive one was for Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking, which I obviously went out and bought immediately.

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 23/12/2025

Another classic just popped up on Facebook.

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