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Lucy Langley-Palmer

@lglpalmer.bsky.social
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Film & TV, Music, and Theatre librarian at Bristol University. Union type, writes stuff. Music/ culture writer often found at Bristol24/7 She/her.

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Lucy Langley-Palmer @lglpalmer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Stunning show at Kit Form, Jamaica Street Studios on Saturday, showcasing talent from women and non-binary artists in poetry, music and visual arts. Featuring Lucia Sellars, Annie Gardiner, PanOrama and Popon. My review for @bristol247.bsky.social www.bristol247.com/culture/musi...
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Review: Popon, Kit Form - 'Raw, joyful and luminous'
An evening of experimental music and film celebrated femme artists for IWD
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Lucy Langley-Palmer @lglpalmer.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
What a beautiful evening last week at the candle-lit Mount Without, seeing legends of the Bristol folk scene Hedera. Here's my review for @bristol247.bsky.social www.bristol247.com/culture/musi...
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Review: Hedera, the Mount Without - 'A certain bewitching power'
Chamber folk ensemble brings the elements in
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Lucy Langley-Palmer @lglpalmer.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I wrote about Richard Dawson’s Simple Things Festival set for @fateamagazine.bsky.social - one of my favourites in a day full of favourites. www.fatea-records.co.uk/magazine/liv...
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FATEA - Home
Fatea Magazine Home Of Acoustic Music
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Lucy Langley-Palmer @lglpalmer.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Here’s my inaugural review for @fateamagazine.bsky.social of the incomparable Ushti Baba’s album launch the other week. It was a wild and wonderful night! www.fatea-records.co.uk/magazine/liv...
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FATEA - Home
Fatea Magazine Home Of Acoustic Music
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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Do you compose or publish music in the UK? 'Call for composers and publishers to deposit digital scores' with the British Library and other legal deposit libraries? www.bl.uk/stories/blog... Please share with any musicians you know!
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Call for composers and publishers to deposit digital scores
Help us to collect digital scores from composers and independent publishers.
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Lucy Langley-Palmer @lglpalmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
“A group of shushing librarians is called a cliché.” And yet it persists.
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Lucy Langley-Palmer @lglpalmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
“Playgrounds, like libraries or other public services, shouldn’t depend on unpaid labour – they should be properly funded and run by local government.” Well said @robbryher.bsky.social www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...
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The politics of Bristol's playgrounds
Funding for parks and playgrounds in Bristol, some say, are subject to a postcode lottery
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Lucy Langley-Palmer @lglpalmer.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
My review of the incredible @stickinthewheel.bsky.social gig at Strange Brew last Monday. They were so good, I’m ruined for all other bands now! www.bristol247.com/culture/musi...
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Review: Stick in the Wheel, Strange Brew - 'One of the most original and exciting bands'
Are the London folk trio one of the best live acts out there?
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Lucy Langley-Palmer @lglpalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
If you’re looking for a cosy evening of folk as the nights draw in, you could do a lot worse than The Greenbank Folk Club. Here’s my write up for @bristol247.bsky.social of Malin Lewis upstairs at the Greenbank last week. www.bristol247.com/culture/musi...
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Review: Malin Lewis, Greenbank Folk Club - 'A gorgeous patchwork of European folk'
Malin Lewis will return to Bristol in 2026
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Lucy Langley-Palmer @lglpalmer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Yep, agree with this. What the left needs is unity, not further fragmentation and division. Why create a new party when there’s so little to differentiate their policies from the Greens’? C’mon let’s work together!
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Lucy Langley-Palmer @lglpalmer.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I was lucky enough to review @deerhoof.bsky.social for @bristol247.bsky.social at the wonderful Strange Brew in Bristol. Fantastic support from locals foot foot and a memorable night all round. www.bristol247.com/culture/musi...
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Review: Deerhoof, Strange Brew - 'A sound uniquely theirs'
The venue goes big guns with this superstar show, and it pays off
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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
”Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.” George Orwell, English novelist, journalist, critic, born #OTD 1903; author of Animal Farm (1945), Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). BBC Archive | UCL Special Collections @uclspeccoll.bsky.social
”Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.”
George Orwell, English novelist, journalist, critic, born #OTD 1903; author of Animal Farm (1945), Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).
BBC Archive | UCL Special Collections @uclspeccoll.bsky.social
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Fire Draw Near @firedrawnear.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Thanks to @lglpalmer.bsky.social for this great review of the One Leg One Eye gig in the Cube Bristol last week! www.bristol247.com/culture/musi...
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Review: One Leg One Eye, the Cube - 'Eerie and electrifying'
Experimental doom folk from Lankum's Ian Lynch is a visceral experience
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Lucy Langley-Palmer @lglpalmer.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Another hot and brilliant night at the Cube last Wednesday for One Leg One Eye. Here’s my review for @bristol247.bsky.social www.bristol247.com/culture/musi...
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Review: One Leg One Eye, the Cube - 'Eerie and electrifying'
Experimental doom folk from Lankum's Ian Lynch is a visceral experience
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Gavin McNamara @tallfolk46.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
On a ridiculously hot evening @downendfolkroots.bsky.social, @caradillonsings.bsky.social was wonderfully cool. My @bristol247.bsky.social review is just here... www.bristol247.com/culture/musi...
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Review: Cara Dillon, Downend Folk & Roots - 'Languid grace, tenderness and enormous fun''
Acclaimed Irish singer Cara Dillon chose an oven-hot night to visit Bristol
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Lucy Langley-Palmer @lglpalmer.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Eric Chenaux and RÓIS at Cube Microplex on Friday was incredible. Reminded me just how good live music can be. Here’s my write up for @bristol247.bsky.social www.bristol247.com/culture/musi...
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Review: Eric Chenaux / RÓIS, the Cube - 'Channelling the celestial'
Two distinct artists converge to create an enchanting evening at the co-op run cinema-cum-venue
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 22/05/2025
The children of Gaza are starving to death | First Dog on the Moon
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The children of Gaza are starving to death | First Dog on the Moon
Time is running out * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 16/05/2025
Douglas Adams
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
As the UK and EU carve up fishing rights, I don't give a damn which party gets to trash our marine ecosystems by overexploiting fish populations, ripping up the seafloor and killing vast numbers of "non-target" animals. I just want this orgy of destruction to stop.
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Pip Burley @pipburley.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Well done to the co-op
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Lucy Langley-Palmer @lglpalmer.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
This is so disingenuous. Instead of “fighting” @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social on proposed cuts, perhaps Damien Egan could use his influence as an MP in the governing party to campaign for proper funding for local councils, so they wouldn’t have to implement cuts?
A photo of a local campaign leaflet from the Labour Party with a picture of local MP Damien Egan.
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Lucy Langley-Palmer @lglpalmer.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Beautiful words from @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen
The prime minister warns that immigration could turn Britain into an ‘island of strangers’. Author and poet Michael Rosen responds
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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🚨 Calling all UK-based creatives! 🚨 The Eccles Institute for the Americas and Oceania is launching two new fellowships for artists working in zines or photography. Dive into our rich Americas collections and fuel your next project. Applications close Monday 2 June: bit.ly/BLEcclesCrea...
A collection of pamphlets from America & Oceania collection
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
15 years on, 230,000 badgers dead, and no meaningful reduction in bTB in cattle. Lets end the cull now, not years down the line. Sign the petition govpetition.uk/700317
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Lucy Langley-Palmer @lglpalmer.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
A bit like that time people using libraries stopped being called “readers” and started being called “customers”.
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Lucy Langley-Palmer @lglpalmer.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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Lucy Langley-Palmer @lglpalmer.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Great review of Bristol Folk Festival here ⬇️Check out Gavin's new Substack.
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Lucy Langley-Palmer @lglpalmer.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
“It shouldn’t feel so radical, and yet it does.” Here’s my latest for @bristol247.bsky.social on daytime gigs and Sailing Stones album launch at St George’s, Bristol. www.bristol247.com/culture/musi...
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Review: Sailing Stones, St George’s - 'Why is it so radical?'
Daytime gigs have caregivers and children enthralled
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 06/05/2025
The claim that academics live lives free from the practicalities of ordinary life has been false for many decades. Even if it were true, the Education Secretary’s policy here is to force the universities least like ivory towers to close.
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 06/05/2025
Labour’s HE policy is stupid, based on false culture-wars talking points, deeply harmful to the country, and utterly incoherent.
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29
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Not In Our Name - Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out - with signatures
To co-sign the statement, fill in this form: https://forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiScaMEt5 Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia We are non-trans feminist academics...
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madison @beastlibrarian.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
bring this back you cowards
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Gavin McNamara @tallfolk46.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
@hannahscottuk.bsky.social and @corujajones.bsky.social on Friday at @downendfolkroots.bsky.social - yet another great Downend gig. @bristol247.bsky.social www.bristol247.com/culture/musi...
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Review: Hannah Scott, Downend Folk & Roots - 'It is everything that makes life worth contemplating'
Music and entertainment runs in the family for Hannah
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Gabriel Siles-Brügge @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
It's really saddening to have to post this about my own institution, but the University of Bristol is planning to embark on a cost-cutting exercise that threatens the viability of scholarship in the arts, humanities and social sciences: www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...
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'The University of Bristol has embarked on a path like a death spiral'
UCU members are opposed to academic departments across the university having to make at least a 50% operating surplus
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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 07/04/2025
Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. Anne Herbert
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I am begging my fellow librarians to just stop. Stop it. ChatGPT isn't our friend, it is making you worse at your job, and patrons are going to lose faith in us if this doesn't stop.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 14/04/2025
"CANCER: Water is your element, Cancer. This is the week to embrace it by picturing holding a patron’s head under a faucet after he asks you to find a book based on his description, "It has words, pictures, and a ‘V’ in the title.”
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Horoscopes for Librarians
Aquarius Prepare to attract a lot of attention this week, when you are left crushed and screaming in the stacks on the 3rd floor. Remember that the...
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Lucy Langley-Palmer @lglpalmer.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The Guardian coverage of the first all-female Jeff Bezos vanity space flight for the super-rich is hilariously snarky
Screenshot from the Guardian live space flight coverage
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister
Let us not submit to the vile doctrine of the nineteenth century that every enterprise must justify itself in pounds, shillings and pence of cash income … Why should we not add in every substantial city the dignity of an ancient university or a European capital … an ample theater, a concert hall, a dance hall, a gallery, cafes, and so forth. Assuredly we can afford this and so much more. Anything we can actually do, we can afford… We are immeasurably richer than our predecessors. Is it not evident that some sophistry, some fallacy, governs our collective action if we are forced to be so much meaner than they in the embellishments of life? …
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Lucy Langley-Palmer @lglpalmer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Booker shortlist day, y’all! #booksky
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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘
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Lucy Langley-Palmer @lglpalmer.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
My latest article for @bristol247.bsky.social www.bristol247.com/culture/musi...
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Review: London Symphony Orchestra, Bristol Beacon - 'A glittering occasion'
Nicola Benedetti was in the hotseat for this concert that served up some special classical treats
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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
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FairLibraryJobs @fairlibraryjobs.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
PCS Union @pcsunion.bsky.social have been calling out low pay at the British Library for years, including strike action in 2023. If you care about working conditions in heritage institutions support their workers' trade unions where you can! www.pcs.org.uk/employers/br...
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British Library | Public and Commercial Services Union
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Lucy Langley-Palmer @lglpalmer.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
My Laurie Lee haul has arrived! I love his writing - so simple and earthy, steeped in folklore. The way he conjures up ancient rites and brings them to live another life with us, soothes and excites me in equal measure. #booksky
Four books by author Laurie Lee on a table, all Penguin editions with black and white photos on their covers.
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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Everything you need to know, right here.
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University of York Library @uoylibrary.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Join us for an analogy thread on academic publishing, #AcademicSky: Cows make milk. They milk themselves. Other cows check the milk (for free). Cows - get this - sometimes PAY THE FARMER to take the milk away. Then the farmer (you won't believe this, honestly) sells the milk *back to the cows.*
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Lucy Langley-Palmer @lglpalmer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
@sluginkpress.bsky.social hurray, you’re here!
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