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Keith Knight

@keithjknight.bsky.social
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Retired. Rejoiner. VdGG & Peter Hammill. Gigs, films, SF. Bath City FC and Somerset CCC. Reading Pepys’ diary daily.

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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And now I’ve rewatched KANAL and am pleased to report it’s as great as I remembered - and among the bleakest of WW2 films, perhaps only outstripped by COME AND SEE? Teresa Izewska in one of the great debut performances - but tragically thereafter banned from foreign travel, leading to her suicide.
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Visited the Warsaw Uprising Museum this morning and it reminded me how much I really need to rewatch Wajda’s KANAL.
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Peter Hammill - Warsaw 27/10/26 Don’t Tell Me Mirror Images Time to Burn Stranger Still The Descent The Habit of the Broken Heart Yoga Comfortable If I Could Time for a Change Modern The Lie So Much Water (world premiere) That Wasn’t What I Said Four Pails Street Life Again (a capella)
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Peter Hammill - Klub Krakow 26/9/26 My Room Curtains Easy to slip away Just Good Friends The Siren Song Comet Shingle Song Last Frame Driven Ophelia Patient A Better Time For a Rainy Day (world premiere) The Mercy A Way Out Traintime Refugees
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The splendid Fuzz Kitchen (formerly Hatfield and the Health) bringing the Canterbury Sound back at the Lexington in London.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17/09/2026
The new wild cat species is about the size of a domestic kitten and lives in Bolivia.
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New wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers say
A type of tiger cat, the animal is smaller than a house cat, slender and spotted. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Booking form for a Laibach gig at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1987 found in a book. Send it in with a Stamped Addressed Envelope and a cheque or credit card details (no security code then). £6.
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Turned up in Bath again on the weekend of the Jane Austen parade.
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
! Wow!
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Accompanied our daughter and two week old grandson to the town centre today and literally dozens of people stopped and cooed. The fascinating impact of the new born.
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Gulp…
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
First visit to Theatreship at Canary Wharf. For to see Marisa Anderson.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/09/2026
What if post-Trump America is even *worse*? 1/
A nuclear mushroom cloud wearing a giant Trump wig. A decaying American flag fills the sky behind it.
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I went back to watching Ski Sunday a few years ago after a long break. Now it’s been axed. Farewell to Wengen, Val d’Isere and the Mausefalle on the Hahnenkamm.
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BBC axes ‘iconic’ Ski Sunday winter sports show after nearly 50 years on TV
The BBC blamed changing viewing habits and financial concerns after dropping Ski Sunday, amid scrutiny over its approach to sports rights
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.
​Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O​’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Love how in the last episode of Beef s2 (Netflix) a character in Seoul shouts out of a car to a woman on the street named Hae-mi to distract attention - a clear reference to the woman who goes missing in Lee Chang-dong’s Burning.
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The take-over of Bath City FC has been approved. As a friend said, he has supported this team for 60 years and this is the most exciting development in all those years. At the very least, our future is assured but more is now within our grasp.
facebook.com
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Watching the video of Bath City FC’s Supporters Society SGM about the proposed takeover and supporter Ken Loach stands up to make some points, just like he was in one of his own films.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Brilliant bit of writing here. Treat yourself.
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Natural Information Society with Evan Parker at Café Oto. Magnificent.
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Home, to my John Crowley shelf, wondering how best to honour him.
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Liz Hand @elizabethhand.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
John Crowley has died, a much-loved friend & perhaps the most brilliant writer of our time. I recall the sense of immanence I felt upon reading Aegypt nearly 40 years ago, doors opening endlessly in front of me. We are blessed to have lived in his world & to have his work now that's he's left it.
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The meare at Thorpeness in Suffolk with the House in the Clouds poking up.
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jabbermaster.bsky.social @jabbermaster.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The best way to honor John Crowley, take a couple minutes and read aloud the last paragraph of Little, Big.
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I’ve just fired up the Kindle and re-read John Crowley’s great short story about death and memory, ‘Snow’. What a loss.
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Terrible news. John Crowley has been one of the great writers of my life. Such beautiful prose and storytelling.
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Ahem.
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
RIP Kjell Nilsson, the Humungus in Mad Max 2.
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Paul Craig @paulwcraig1.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
youtu.be/ptayWtW1So8?... No need to cry - perhaps his best live performance, and the one I love the most
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Glen Hansard and Lisa O'Neill Perform "Fairytale of New York" at Shane MacGowan's Funeral
YouTube video by Consequence
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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 29/07/2026
Lee Chang-dong's Possible Love will be released in theatres on October 23 and streaming on Netflix on November 6 💙 The film will have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and its North American premiere at TIFF. Add to your watchlist ➡️ boxd.it/V4WQ
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
“In 1971, 70 per cent of seven-year-olds walked to school by themselves, but by 1991 that number had fallen below 10 per cent, their parents citing traffic as the main reason for the change (‘stranger danger’ came second).”
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Oh no! What with I’m Sorry I’ll Read that Again, The Goodies and Springwatch he’s been there for a huge chunk of my life.
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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I’ve been standing stock still in this wood for about 10 minutes while I mess about with a photo on my phone. I look up, notice the shape, and slowly crouch down to film This has made me so happy I feel I could cry. It’s as close to magic as I hope to get.
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
After four days in Portmeirion, in perfect weather, I can only conclude that I have never been to a better British holiday destination in my life. It’s a real wrench to leave.
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A barn owl, passing by.
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Here for the next four nights. Be seeing you!
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Like the BBC backstage photo from the Prog Prom. Peter Hammill with the inevitable glass of red.
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The Sevenoaks train is still calling at Jude Bellingham.
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The Prog Prom tonight at the Royal Albert Hall was quite something. On BBC Four next Friday. Peter Hammill’s performance of Refugees was sensational
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Surreptitious works of art in the Gents toilet at the Hayward Gallery.
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Always happy to turn out for an Anish Kapoor exhibition (this one at the Hayward).
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 24/06/2026
Julia Holter is releasing a new album, titled Materia You can watch a video for lead single ‘Fantasy’ here: buff.ly/xsTjNPb
The cover of Julia Holter's new album, Materia. Black and white photograph of Holter crouching forwards with her head at an angle.
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“Verify your age” ‘Andy is waving goodbye, goodbye, goodbye…’
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Anxiety by Edvard Munch (1894) #NorEng
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Meg @roaringmeg.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The BBC cancelling Winterwatch is such a shame, especially when we need to be connecting with nature more than ever. If we want people to protect our wildlife, we have to show them it! Add your name to ask the BBC to reconsider. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
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Tell the BBC: Save Winterwatch!
The UK is losing its wildlife, and shows like Winterwatch are vital for connecting us to nature. The BBC's decision to cancel it makes no sense. Let's ask them to rethink this! Add your name here:
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Been out drinking with someone, now 79, who I Iast worked with 40 years ago. He appears to have spent that time drinking and watching every film at his local cinema. He is completely physically and mentally unchanged.
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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with
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Ryan Swen/孫天行/Sun Tien-hsing @swenryan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Rest in peace Tony Rayns, quite possibly the most consequential Western figure in spreading the worldwide recognition of East Asian cinema.
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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Swift screaming party over the street this morning, dropping below roof level. Thrilling to watch. Managed to capture four of them in this photo (plus another bird).
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