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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 10h

Not watching it, but good to see my TL filling up with anti-Rajan material. Do it every Friday night please.

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 10h

perhaps he is playing 4d chess, but he's just really shit at it

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 15h

when you're trying to come up with a palindrome live on stage

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Phil Gentry @pmgentry.bsky.social · 15h

I know that my students are zoning out on me because I referred to CPE Bach as an eighteenth-century softboi and nobody blinked an eye.

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 15h

when you're trying to come up with a palindrome live on stage

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 17h

because physical media is back bab.... oh

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dune 4: The Lancing

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 18h

"So the Producer said to me, he said 'Let's call it Breturn, Ronnie, he said."

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 19h

Daughter, freshly at university, texted for some washing machine advice. Told her a friend and I used to get cans, and watch the washing going round like it was TV. This was the 90s, though.

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 20h

I mean, I would have gone if I hadn't been on dream holiday.

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 21h

Dreamt I was in a bar in New York, eating small plates and drinking a crisp white wine, when my Mum called to see if I wanted to go to a "Pot Noodle Beetle Drive" in Ilkeston (Derbys.). I then had to explain all 3 elements of that to my companions, who, being hipsters, thought it sounded great.

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

amol rajan getting some much-needed airtime

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They're making it so that writing your own social media posts feels like a revolutionary act. Hats off to everyone creating anything. Good luck to you all. #ai

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Of all Trump's schtick, the "we're the hottest country in the world right now" bit might be the cringiest.

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

time to move on lads. we had a good run while it lasted.

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finally got round to the Pygmalion Monteverdi Vespers. Loving it. Joyous. One of those where I keep smiling at the choices being made.

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finally got round to the Pygmalion Monteverdi Vespers. Loving it. Joyous. One of those where I keep smiling at the choices being made.

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Literally and metaphorically getting back on the bike.

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just been sent a picture of me at around my daughter's age. Jeez.

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Back from a trip taking my daughter off to university. Naively thought it would be a fun weekend away with a short sad part, not one of the very worst weekends of my life, during which I kept bursting into tears every hour or so. Plus off the charts anxiety.

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theartsdesk @theartsdesk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

★★★★ #ThomasAdès @thomasades.bsky.social @wigmore-hall.org.uk - Clangorous #Bartók and visionary #Beethoven in a beautifully constructed programme that also included little-known #Stravinsky gem - review @bernardhughes.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

feel the fear and think nah fuck that mate

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Outing myself as a part-time Coltrane buff by marking the centenary with a mere 17 minute Favourite Things.

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have to be in the mood for Coltrane (which is paying him a compliment).

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Been trying to decide which Coltrane to stick on today, and I think I'm going for Newport '63 (the one w/ Roy Haynes in for Elvin Jones). Big favourite.

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#np Bill Evans Trio - Waltz for Debby

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Of all the things I see students doing now, I think it's the jogging that would have most mystified my contemporaries.

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just nose-blew too hard, and exploded one in my face, which was unpleasant. #trombonist

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

seen here patiently smiling at the 12th person who told him they came in through the out door

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

seen here patiently smiling at the 12th person who told him they came in through the out door

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Nose balloon" has already acquired illicit connotations. "You're not up there doing nose balloon, are you?"

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

guy who only loses patience with trump once petrol prices rise beyond a certain point

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm a big advocate of having leftovers for breakfast, but jesus today's gochujang pasta with loads of raw spring onions on has stayed with me. And not in a good way.

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#np Charles Lloyd & The Marvels + Lucinda Williams - Vanished Gardens

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Doctor thinks my hearing problem might be to do with the Eustachian tube, and now I have a special balloon to inflate with my nose, much to the amusement of everyone.

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just revisiting the Op. 109/110/111 sonatas yet again, and Beethoven was on to something when he left us, wasn't he?

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's a tradition here to say "they've got a good agent" about whoever is filling the Richard Osman seat on Pointless.

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#np Charles Lloyd and the Marvels - Tone Poem

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