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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Anyway, I hope your town/city has a Rico, and if it does, show them some love. Oh and don't forget to thank the sound guy and the bar staff, bands. Yeah, it's all about you but it ain't happening without them. (5/5)

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Rico is not the only promoter in Preston who deserves some love and thanks, but today he gets the appreciation for his hard work and dedication. (4/5)

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

These aren't the corporate behemoths rinsing the people with "surge pricing", these are people who love live music and do what they can to make stuff happen. (3/5)

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

It's easy to appreciate bands, but you have to remember to appreciate the grassroots promoters who do insane things like this, often with little thanks and financial risk just because they love it. (2/5)

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Smashing gig last night at Vinyl Tap as part of Preston Pop Fest and mad props to Rico La Rocca who organised the whole shindig over multiple venues with an *insane* number of acts. (1/5)

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

One of our local venues, The Ferret has started doing a new thing where the desk mix from your gig is uploaded to the cloud and sent to you. What a time to be alive! So we have made a live album of last Saturday's gig and put it on Bandcamp! zvilnik.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...

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Live At The Ferret, by Zvilnik

10 track album

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I agree, this is good news. But the comments under the Facebook announcement by CGE make me despair.

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I forgot this was here, to be honest. So much social stuff it's hard to keep up. In other news, we have removed all of our music from Spotify. A pointless gesture, perhaps, but so was leaving our music on there. #byebyespotify

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Just picked up my saw for the first time in a while today - it's the clasping the handle between the knees. I'll look into rigging up some kind of clamp and try that! :)

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

If you're in the Preston area we'll be onstage at the ferret tonight! Come and join us!

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

"When I become an Audi driver, I'll be different, not like the rest of the" *Indicates, drives onto pavement nearly crushing a pram and a small dog to get around a temporary obstruction*

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

On the bright side, you're not an Audi driver

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I wish I was about a foot shorter Another foot broader I wish I didn't suffer from body dysmorphia

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

It's Billy Joel, Piano Man Also worth noting that blue/red voting is the other way round here in the UK!

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Being a musician is a tightrope between wanting people's attention but absolutely not wanting their god damned opinions.

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

You say that like it's a bad thing

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Hey man I don't write the news. Just write some Squid Game fanfic to keep you going. Sexy squid game fanfic.

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

NEXT SHOW! Saturday January 11th at The Ferret, Preston, in the company of Chimps Of The Future! Entry is free, to help beat the January blues! #preston #prestongigs #freeshow

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

At least they've accidentally released the air date - June 27th

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

First came the sock puppets, but what nobody knew was that the socks were just learning to talk for themselves

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

So here it is, 2025, a brand new year bursting with hope and opportunity - and with it here's a new video from us, bursting with the opposite. It's called HAPPY BIRTHDAY ME, recorded live in the Zvilnik Little Theatre. Let us know what you think! #unsigned #liveperformance #happybirthdayme

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I'm a frayed high wire, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY ME

YouTube video by Zvilnik

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

We got out of town and hit Lancaster, AND we released TWO EPs (check out Bandcamp) and set up the rehearsal room as the Zvilnik Little Theatre video studio! Thanks for everyone who supported us this year, and we're looking forward to MORE in 2025!

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

We've had quite a year! We started very much ON IT and we continued to be ON IT when Tom sadly left us - we've got to play a bunch of gigs... (including exciting support slots with my new favourite band Erotic Secrets Of Pompeii and The Scaramanga Six) ...

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

We've got a new live video to drop on YouTube, but we're going to hang fire until January 2nd because unlike our usual frothy fare about unnecessary surgery, we feel this reflects the emotional tone of the day you go back to work.

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Trying to find the words for the feeling when 70% into the game I realise I can do this, instead of going to the Chron-o-john every time. #dayofthetentacle #fml

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Playing Day Of The Tentacle and trying really hard to not Google what the fuck to do next. It's double fine though. #dayofthetentacle #doublefine #grimfandangonext

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I think that what bothers me about hot takes is that nobody has the humility to begin their hot take with "I think" or "in my opinion". Maybe I should infer it but missing it out lens this tone of arrogant superiority that really chaps my crack. Everyone presents their opinions as facts.

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

That's brilliant :) I did a little applaud and dropped my phone

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

What's up? We've only gone and booked our first show of 2025, that's what's up! It's at The Ferret in Preston, on January 11th, and we're going to be joined by lancastrian discordian oddballs Chimps Of The Future!

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

If anyone would like to subscribe to our YT channel, we're on 98 followers and I assume we get sent one of those fancy plaques when we hit 100... www.youtube.com/zvilnik

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Zvilnik

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Also, I must apologise to the whole #musicalsaw community for my original post, although it was partially a joke I now realise that I am dealing with real people who all have saws. ;)

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I read "50 something" and thought "fucking boomers" then remembered that I am 50 now.

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

That should be "live" video. We don't make "love videos".

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I just realised, I've already encountered you on YouTube while trying to learn how to play this thing!

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

For me, it's holding the thing between my legs causes no end of pain! I haven't given up yet though, loved the sound of the saw since I saw the movie Delicatessen. I'll be checking your Spotify out in the morning!

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

We did a love video last night in the Zvilnik Little Theatre, here's El Tango Del Señorita Moreau! youtu.be/RkSeMiKVWIU

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She took his heart, and she put it IN A JAR

YouTube video by Zvilnik

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

When I was about eight years old in primary school we had to stand on stage and turn our big card around when our gift came up in the song. I dropped my Five Gold Rings card off the stage and cried because I'd ruined the show. Every christmas, triggered again.

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

There ARE four planets, insofar as there are more than four planets

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Every single piece of the internet that claims that the musical saw is the easiest instrument you can learn to play is an outrageous lie

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Show me your bear. Here is my bear #showmeyourbear

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

"why does this one keep coming up on my feed?", asked Paddy for several days before realising he's an idiot who forgot about Bethany's ability to commit to a bit

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Erotic Secrets Of Pompeii and Hauspoints

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

We've been turning our rehearsal space into the Zvilnik Little Theatre for recording live videos!

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

My weekend plans were: record a video to go with releasing a christmas song about shitting my pants. So pretty standard really.

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Just released our 2024 Christmas Single, following up last year's "hit" The Turkey Song. Proud to present YULE LOG. #christmassong #mistletoeandwine #bristolstoolchart

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The worst christmas EVER? Ask me about my YULE LOG

YouTube video by Zvilnik

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

We've been busy seeing up our practice space for shooting some new videos, but does anyone else find that getting stuff done takes SO LONG? While we wait, here's an old video youtu.be/22FyV7EAMXQ

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DON'T put your FINGER in the HOLE

YouTube video by Zvilnik

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

An intro to Zvilnik. (band, NW England). We do sci-fi surf cabaret rock, which means whatever we want it to. We've been through many lineups over the last 14 yrs, made 2 albums and a ton of EPs (see bandcamp). We like songs about robots, dinosaurs, the inevitable collapse of western civilisation.

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Zvilnik @zvilnik.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

So I failed to ever make sense of Twitter/X. Facebook/Threads is a nightmare. Streaming services are disgusting parasites. Everything is designed to keep people in whatever they are currently in. Let's see if this is any different.

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