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Nitin Sawhney @nitinsawhney.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I haven’t gigged for a while. The world has changed… In 2024 I was a #bookerprize judge. I had to read 156 books in 7 months. In our talks, one book stood out to all 5 of us... This is unlike anything I've ever done in a wonderful new venue. Please come. www.schwarzmancentre.ox.ac.uk/whats-on/nit...

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Nitin Sawhney: Orbiting Orbital

A new multi-disciplinary meditation on the value of humanity and our planet for reflection and performance. Award-winning composer and musician Nitin Sawhney joins forces with celebrated author Samant...

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Nitin Sawhney @nitinsawhney.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Good lord. I’m verified… I am actually me. Till today I wasn’t too sure so this is great news. Wonderful,.. Ok. As you were. Everybody calm down. To celebrate, I’m going to leave this here.

Celebrate immigrants… Ignore manipulative rhetoric… Racism and hate don’t care about our lives…

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Nitin Sawhney @nitinsawhney.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

So honoured to receive the #boisdale award for outstanding contribution to music.

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Nitin Sawhney @nitinsawhney.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

It’s around 4am… I rarely get a decent night’s sleep these days. Which is probably unwise as I had a heart attack last year. Yet sleeping comfortably seems to normalise a global reality born of Orwellian nightmares, where villains are lionised and victims vilified. I will be awake till dawn… again.

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Nitin Sawhney @nitinsawhney.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Looking forward to performing as a guest with amazing virtuoso duo #firl tomorrow evening :) Come if you can… royalalberthall.com/tickets/events… #Eos #Gayee #davidarnold

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Nitin Sawhney @nitinsawhney.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I prefer my taxes to be spent on saving lives and not killing vulnerable children. Hospitals and #nhs over arms and destruction abroad. Any country that has an issue with that that can go to hell. Please like if you agree. Thanks. 🙏🏾

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Nitin Sawhney @nitinsawhney.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

All you gullible, smug folk wearing your “anti-woke” views as a badge of honour because you feel oppressed when you’re not allowed to be openly hateful towards vulnerable people… remember you’re just one fascist bigot’s whim away from the wrong side of the wall… yep. Even you.

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Nitin Sawhney @nitinsawhney.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Time to change my strict diet to Ben and Jerry’s ice-cream…

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Nitin Sawhney @nitinsawhney.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

'We risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together.' Starmer jumps on a bandwagon driven by scumbags and racists. I’m so tired of dog whistle politics. This garbage should have ended long ago. Celebrate immigrants. They benefit our culture, economy and health.

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Nitin Sawhney @nitinsawhney.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Had a wonderful time last night at the @bafta.org nominees party :) Met the very cool fellow nominees in my category… I’m nominated for my score for a stunning wildlife documentary film called “Tiger”. I’ll be at the awards ceremony for tv arts and crafts this coming Sunday. 🙏🏾💫

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Nitin Sawhney @nitinsawhney.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I don’t really care what nationality or religion anyone is. There can never be any justification to slaughter a single child, let alone thousands. Anyone who thinks otherwise is either a monster or has been brainwashed and conditioned. Compassion is all we have over AI. Otherwise we are nothing.

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Nitin Sawhney @nitinsawhney.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

If you support a disgusting racist and misogynistic felon like the great orange clown then you have no values, no integrity and little or no capacity for rational thought. The fact that he was democratically chosen is an indictment of a country not of his opposition. Likewise for child-killers.

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Nitin Sawhney @nitinsawhney.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Told the shop assistant I would have a think about this jacket overnight… Not sure about it. 🤷🏾‍♂️ Oh yeah… and the world is falling to shit.

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Nitin Sawhney @nitinsawhney.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The Nazi technocrat’s algorithms are pushing “Tah-me!!” posts demanding freedom for the incarcerated repeat offending criminal to spread more racist bile. Marching en masse through London like brain dead zombies won’t change the English legal system to appease oligarchs surprisingly…

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Nitin Sawhney @nitinsawhney.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The world is now run by an international cartel of Hollywood movie villains posing as legitimate leaders. If it wasn’t so real the writer would be sacked, no studio would back the producers and they’d only cast bitter old men with delusions of grandeur stuck in bad hair time loops.

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a showtime cartoon of donald trump says ya try and try to be a good dictator

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Nitin Sawhney @nitinsawhney.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

When the world is spinning further into darkness, hate and despair we should walk towards light, compassion and hope. There is no “woke mind virus”… Only incessant propaganda designed to pollute impressionable hearts for the empowerment of greedy narcissists and oligarchs. It’s simply exhausting.

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linda2.bsky.social @linda2.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

If you follow Nitin, please report the impersonator copying his profile. There is only one Nitin. Thank you.

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Ben CG 🕊️ @bencgtravels.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

@nitinsawhney.bsky.social They say imitation is the greatest form of flattery..! Blocked and reported. ☺️

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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

This from @nitinsawhney.bsky.social is my #Saturdaymorningmusic. We saw him perform much of this at Womad a few years ago, and it was spellbinding

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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

So glad to hear @nitinsawhney.bsky.social ‘s voice on here. Impossibly difficult times ahead, watching events unfold with a deeply visceral sense of unease - the facts are not even hiding in plain sight and we ignore it at our peril.

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Nitin Sawhney @nitinsawhney.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

To those saying they want context for his two back to back Nazi salutes, here are two facts - one for each salute… 1. His maternal grandparents were literally in the Canadian Nazi party according to his own father. 2. He supports the German AfD. Both facts easily verifiable online. 🤷🏾‍♂️

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Nitin Sawhney @nitinsawhney.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

My cousin found an old illustration of a horse I drew with a biro for my aunty when I was 17 years old. I used to love drawing. Very rarely pick up a pen now…

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Nitin Sawhney @nitinsawhney.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

The cyber toy car loon is probably the most dangerous man in the world right now. He has more wealth than the GDP of 140 respective countries and is proactively encouraging a revolution in the U.K. He should keep his public breakdown out of British politics. Extremist buffoons are not welcome here.

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Nitin Sawhney @nitinsawhney.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I have to admit… I find X increasingly toxic everyday. The exploding car megalomaniac is openly supporting and promoting a British, far right criminal. Isn’t it enough that he made an American, mentally unstable criminal president? All money, no conscience. X is just stupid, depressing and hateful.

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Nitin Sawhney @nitinsawhney.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Sitting in the dark looking out the window at city lights feeling happy to still be alive. My mum went through a lot too this year. The world seemed a cruel, confusing place in 2024… Yet… Christmas and the new year for me are about gratitude, compassion and hope. A new dawn brings promise.

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Danny Axford @dannyaxford.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Shocked and upset to hear of the loss of Zakir Hussein, given he was touring last just last year and Grammy winning. Lovely tributes on Giles Peterson's 6Music show, including @nitinsawhney.bsky.social citing the track that also introduced me & blew my mind #Music youtu.be/RZ3l_ml07Go?...

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La Danse Du Bonheur

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linda2.bsky.social @linda2.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I had no idea the Maestro Nitin Sawhney was on #BlueSky! I thought I would look him up as I am listening to his album, Identity. If you are not familiar you should be. 🎶 @gray710.bsky.social

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Mark Braund @markbraund.substack.com · 16/12/2024

It's especially poignant when we lose our heroes. Lovely tribute by Nitin.

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Nitin Sawhney @nitinsawhney.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I cannot even begin to express my deepest sorrow at the passing of Zakir-ji. He dazzled me as a teenager and inspired me throughout my adulthood. Some geniuses become musical greats and others transcend the limitations of their instrument to redefine music itself. That is just part of his legacy.

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Simon Hooton @simonhootonmcr.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Loved @nitinsawhney.bsky.social and Halle this week. First set of the big faves and then an incredibly evocative immersive musical retelling of your heart attack which felt like it brought up memories and fears for everyone present. So impressive.

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Eos Counsell @eoscounsell.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Playing in @nitinsawhney.bsky.social ‘s band with the Hallé Orchestra on Thursday at the beautiful Bridgewater hall. Feeling very lucky! Now to the Xmas shopping! 📷 by David Hughes

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lynbsky.bsky.social @lynbsky.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Thankyou @nitinsawhney.bsky.social for being a genius another awesome gig by you and your amazing band.. The Halle orchestra and@bridgewaterhall.bsky.social - I cried, smiled and was blown away..

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soofrankum.bsky.social @soofrankum.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Loved last night at the Bridgewater Hall. Old favourites plus your beautiful expression of your recent event. I couldn’t believe my luck. Worth travelling from Newcastle for. Please come to the Glass house sometime soon. We would love to see you perform there again

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

@nitinsawhney.bsky.social your show at the Bridgewater Hall was wonderful. Thank you so much to you and everyone who contributed. I first saw you on the Broken Skin tour, and many times since, and it’s always special. Wishing you the very best. 💙

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Kathryn Ingold FFPH @kathryningold.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I am so relieved you survived your heart attack. Adored everything about your show last night, incredible musicians and beautiful music. Thank you ❤️

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Ruth Rosselson @ruthrosselson.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Wonderful evening listening to @nitinsawhney.bsky.social with his amazing band, along with the Halle. Was moved and marvelled in equal measure. Thank you.

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Gemma Wrigley @gemmawrigley.com · 05/12/2024

Wow! Tonight I heard a transmutation of the experience of a heart attack into a magnificent orchestral suite, complete with pipe organ and siren-like strings. It was art as visceral communication. Thank you @nitinsawhney.bsky.social May the rhythm of your heart keep the music flowing ❤️

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Edlad @purseyboy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Was an excellent evening Nitin. Not sure who the sound engineer was but they did a great job….possibly the best sound quality I’ve ever heard at a venue. Musicianship was outstanding.

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Elizabeth Draper @draperel @draperel.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The most magnificent concert of music with @NitinSawhney.bsky.social & his amazing accompanying musicians @BridgewaterHall with the Hallé orchestra. Including incredible creation of ‘Heart Attack’ piece. Taking us through his scary experience earlier this year. Astonishing. 👏🏽👏🏽❤️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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bertieofthenorth.bsky.social @bertieofthenorth.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Bridgewater Hall tonight for @nitinsawhney.bsky.social spectacularly good!

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