James Perrett

I did a video for our next gig on November the 20th at Gallery No30 in Petersfield. If you turn the sound on you'll hear an excerpt from our next release which is happening on the same day.

Very heartening to see that not all US institutions have been muzzled. Though WHOI seems to be almost on its own amongst US institutions in currently telling the truth about climate.

This made me think - Americans are going to have to be prepared to endure more serious consequences and make sacrifices if they want to save their country. They don't seem to want to do that. Just the merest hint that funding will be withdrawn and they capitulate.

Tegan and I had a great afternoon playing at South Hill Park Art Centre in Bracknell with The Crayon Angels, Phelim Mader and John Stedman. Unfortunately we didn't get any pics but we did play this brand new song...

Really looking forward to playing at this with The Cutting Room. We had a rehearsal today and there are some amazing ideas coming out which might make an appearance on Sunday. #musicsky

We're playing at South Hill Park Arts Centre in Bracknell on Sunday afternoon.

Could AI have its own DNA? Possibly in the future according to this www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/atlasba...

I'm one of those without a podcast. They don't really appeal to me. But I have some good microphones, pop shields and a nice studio... Should I have a podcast?

Very excited to be played on Shoreditch Radio today ahead of our gig at The Star in Shoreditch on Saturday night. Doors 6pm, we're on stage at 7.15. Tickets: bit.ly/SleeptalkTSIS

I've kept an eye on my contributions but, seeing this article, I checked again this morning - only to find HMRC now saying that I've missed a year (which I haven't). Is this a glitch or am I going to have to fight my way through their systems to find someone to talk to?

It is worth reading the whole thread - but this came across as disturbing...

The last paragraph in the picture sums up what I'm thinking right now.

A last minute practice before our gig at the Newtown Pippin in Bracknell tomorrow. It is free entry for 5 great acts and the music starts at 7.30. #musicsky #musiciansky

If you can't make it to our Bracknell gig on Wednesday, we are returning to the South Hill Park Arts Centre in October. Or maybe come to both...

An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality?

Interesting reading - but it appears they weren't actually using Claude to develop the guidance algorithms as some of these have been in the public domain for many years. Claude was just adding the finishing touches and applying these algorithms to the particular platform.

rorycellanjones.substack.com/p/google-and... Google and Apple have a stranglehold over the mobile internet and complain bitterly about foreign governments trying to regulate them - but when Trump tells them to jump, their only question is how high?

Could this weight limit become the norm for all seagoers - or anyone else who might need a helicopter rescue?

Dolly Parton decided to cover "Stairway to Heaven" as a gospel song, and asked Robert Plant for permission to write a new verse for it, and Robert Plant basically said "of course you can, you're Dolly Parton" youtu.be/YhTvxVxXJLQ

It is interesting to see the thinking in this article - but isn't it 25 years too late?

I've not seen many journalists repost this - I wonder why? Perhaps because it exposes their laziness?

Bought at the same time as my first CD player. Now I could hear everything that the recording engineer wanted me to hear.

Looks like my old job is up for grabs... careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/auv-...

I really don't understand why people are celebrating this when it shows that around 100 million people still approve of him. How can that happen in any functional country?

While this may be Boaty's first adventure under a glacier, its predecessor, Autosub2 surveyed under ice in the same area over 20 years ago. www.bodc.ac.uk/resources/in...

Another lazy politician using the "rent a pensioner" lady. She's unlikely to be really struggling - but she has a good PR agent. Poverty is an important issue but please use real people to illustrate your story because using professional pundits won't help the cause.

Tegan and I are going to be playing at The Newtown Pippin Acoustic Cafe tonight. Also looking forward to seeing NUNK on the same bill.

The fridge that I inherited when I moved here seems to have turned into a freezer - just tried to cut up a melon and it was more like sorbet!

It was really interesting to read what one well known author thought about writing radio plays 100 years ago.

Can anyone make sense of this graph? Shouldn't the end point of one year line up with the start point for the following year?

I had a great night on Friday at the acoustic music night at Gallery No30 in Petersfield. I thought this James Brown classic went really well for us. youtu.be/mRl-KzIjUjA Thanks to Keith Burbidge for the video.

I have a working wind up gramophone that is nearly 100 years old although the 60 year old Garrard turntable sees more use. However, my son has a Britannia musical box with metal discs from the early 1900s which he plays regularly.

Indeed, and that is why we need everyone to pull together in working towards genuine climate mitigation and adaptation. Astronomically expensive techofantasy concepts are distractions, not solutions, and giving them free, unbalanced publicity is not helpful.

This is an excellent article that isn't behind a pay wall.

Latest gig announcement - we'll be playing at the South Hill Park Arts Centre in Bracknell in October.

Posts like this about the Belfast riots are really starting to annoy me. There seems to be no recognition from these left leaning commentators that we are coming up to the marching season where tensions are always hightened. I've fed up with facile takes on the situation.

Guildford area Bass player wanted for August gigs - battle of the bands coming up on 14th August (first prize £10k) and a warm up gig at the Fiery Bird in Woking on either 31st July or 7th August - TBC. Would ideally love someone whose bass style is inspired by the Pixies, New Dad, Wet Leg.

I've had a couple of fairly well known musicians tell me that I look like Albert Lee.

I'm finding it hard to take this @theguardian.com newsletter seriously these days. They seem obsessed by AI to the exclusion of almost everything else. Maybe it is just another example of the dumbed down state of journalism these days. www.theguardian.com/technology/s...

Less than 10 to go at the time of writing...

Today really shows how few music people there are here. Keith Morris died last night - not the photographer, but they keyboard player with The Green Hornets, promoter of 5 Bands for a Fiver at the Wedge and general all round good guy. There's nothing at all about him on Bluesky 😔 RIP Keith

Now only 2 days to go!

The last time I went to the cinema, to see the Bob Dylan movie, there was someone singing along with all the songs. Normally this would be disastrous, but she was actually really good.

This thread seems to confirm the recent decline that I've noticed - particularly in personal posts on Facebook. Nowadays social media seems to be about publicity rather than genuine connections.

Is this the end of the road for hydrogen powered vehicles? It seems like another dead-end technology promoted by the fossil fuel industry who are refusing to accept that their days are numbered.

As a 6 year old staying in hospital on my own, I found everything very daunting. So when a nurse asked me if I wanted to "spend a penny" I thought she wanted money.

It isn't just governments making the switch. My son and his teenage friends are using the same decentralised open source alternatives to the well known apps.

Our next gig is less than 2 weeks away in Bracknell. Get there early if you want to see us as we are on first and, as there are 5 artists playing that night, it will be starting on time.

I think Bruce possibly paints an over-romanticised view of America but how did no-one see those subtitles? Is this more AI crap because surely every sane person should know the words to that song.

Harry Grindell Matthews didn't only develop early wireless telephony - he was involved in the early talking pictures, rocketry and possibly even invented Gotham's Bat Signal! There's more at www.frenchaymuseumarchives.co.uk/Archives/Pag...