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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sometimes, I like to convert things to the format they're already in.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 15/07/2026

Last-Ever Global Warming Report Released For Posterity

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Having a rather wonderful time here doing some recording...

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Amazing and depressin in equal measures that, in this of all weathers, people complain about trees and the shade they bring. Maybe we shouldn't build houses so close to old, established trees in the first place?

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Unfortunately I, sometimes, despite my best efforts, catch some of the news. (I'm rather sad to have missed Kraftwerk this time - was at the Free Trade Hall to see them on the Computer World tour)

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I guess it all depends on whether you're appreciated by the ruling cockroaches, or whatever other species arises from our ruins.

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

That it's a process best not rushed. Once opinions are formed, people tend to defend them rather than consider whether they were formed in haste or with insufficient data. I think ditherers need more credit in general. Or do I?

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I haven't. Yet. I try and form opinions slowly and air them even more so.

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Urban planning here in Lancashire is a grim story of building firms fighting for every last green space and councils unable to do anything but feebly fight the obvious battles, which even if they somehow win, they eventually lose after - possibly multiple - appeals.

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The "redundant land that is not used" argument is used by many a council to justify excessive development on green sites that *are* actually in use - just by nature. I think we need to get away from the idea that land only matters if it's making money for someone.

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

For me the biggest shift was giving producers the tools and (somehow) the authority to replace bands and the old dynamic of trying and failing before an audience. So I guess once you've got a powerful enough DAW and the time to "perfect" every note, it's a downwards spiral.

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

A good friend of mine and proper film composer put some of my early tracks through an AI thing. They came out sounding slick, perfect, polished and in as many styles as you could dream up. It's like a gave the score to some LA MOR covers band. Gonna stick to my messy and imperfect noodles!

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

It's a good un! I guess some reviews are longer than that.

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

It's to make it easier for AI to justify itself. Personally, I'm making quite a bit of teal music :)

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

So all those "Ikea trees" were truly cut down for nothing.

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Makes you wonder what the police are up to - trying to drive prices fractionally upwards?

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Looks like this morning's activity is going to mainly involve waiting for the PRS website...

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Whitney Houston doing I Will Always Love You. Had that fired at me endlessly on a coach trip to France once. I still have nightmares about it...

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Continuing to trawl the back catalogue of carefully-restored cassette releases from the 80s, here is 1982's The Citadel. paulnagle.bandcamp.com/album/the-ci...

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The Citadel, by Paul Nagle

9 track album

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The joys of bandcamp! While searching for Alice Boyd and her harpist friend Rachel (they supported Yann Tiersen in Manchester on Tuesday), I discovered Rachael Boyd. She also produces wonderful music - so my cup overfloweth, as they say. Happy Friday!

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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

"I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense." - David Lynch #quote

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Mmmm lovely. Reckon it'd be a brilliant idea to build zillions more houses in Longridge and all along that road then. Later, someone will come up with the equally brilliant idea to slice and dice the remaining green spaces with more roads to fix everything.

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The GoT ending was quite believable and so disappointed the masses. Breaking Bad's ending was not at all believable but incredibly satisfying. So I guess, in these troubled times, we all want to suspend belief and get what we want or think should have happened. E.g. Trump having a stroke.

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Keith Seatman @keithseatman.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Really looking forward to Tonight’s Freak Zone . Featured album is Tangerine Dream’s Rubycon which is an absolute fav round here. @stuartmaconie.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 6 Music - Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone, Tangerine Dream - Rubycon

Stuart's featured album is Tangerine Dream's Rubycon.

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

The bridge is perfectly functional without lighting, why delay opening? Also, we have more than enough light pollution already.

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Relieved to hear it. My studio is in a perpetual state of imperfection and clutter, which is fine as it's a perfect mirror of my mind.

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

It's always a good sign when writers have to make up words to describe your work. Very cool. I shall purchase forthwith!

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I'm a big fan of hairdressers as wives. I have to say that or Pat'd kill me. ;)

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

She's doing a great job then! At some point I'm gonna cut my hair too but my own beard is too straggly to compensate. The problems we elder statesmen have to face, eh? ;)

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Totally digging your latest manifestation of beard. Proper wizardy!! And congrats on the album and write-up - well deserved.

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I love my Super 6 and would totally go for one of these too - but in matching blue please!

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Can you actually have a "crash" between a van and a pedestrian?

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

He'll be on the side of the rainforests ... right until the moment someone wants to build houses on it.

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Think I'm gonna take the plunge on an MPC Live III with mine. Then maybe I'll start making organised, structured music of precision and refinement...

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Most people seem to have forgotten that the National Front were the bad guys, still are even rebadged.

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smokyfrog (Paul Nagle, softroom, WilyEPeyote etc.) @softroom.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Delighted to be on this and it's a brilliant collection of tracks too, really top notch!

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