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Arctic Circle
@arcticcircle.bsky.social
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Music, Tea & Cake in a welcoming space. An event for all ages across London & Kent. Established April 2009. Celebrating 15 Years of Presence in 2024. Created by (Freelance! Producer) Ben Eshmade.
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matthew @pahuski.com · 1d
Happy Columbo’s Day
Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.” “If the car’s gone,” “I’ll give you another cookie anyway” “because I love you.”
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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 7h
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Cartoon of a plesiosaur. Seen from the side, the top line of its shape is echoed in ripples up the page, reminiscent of the artwork for the Joy Division album Unknown Pleasure. Caption: Unknown Plesiosaurs
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Arctic Circle @arcticcircle.bsky.social · 7h
Yukiko Matsukura at Edition 397 11.10.25 by Paul Hudson at St Mary Magdelene in Islington.

[note for some reason JustGiving have replaced the Daylight image with a pair of runniung shoes!]
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Arctic Circle @arcticcircle.bsky.social · 7h
It's been a very bump few editions with audience numbers. An important part of our existence depends on the generosity of the PWYC entry. Our 2025 Crowdfunder closes on Saturday - any additional support at this stage would make a difference.

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Arctic Circle @arcticcircle.bsky.social · 1d
My partner and Daylight contributor has an exhibition near Barbican/Old Street this weekend. Should anyone fancy supporting or seeing her work. There will be biscuits!
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Kinell @sinistercinemastudios.art · 1d
LET'S FUCKING GO
International Day for Failure Date Mon, 13 Oct 2025 THE INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR FAILURE OCTOBER 13th
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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 1d
Morning!
The Fonz, with a thumb for a head and two heads where his thumbs should be.
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Arctic Circle @arcticcircle.bsky.social · 3d
Come to Daylight Music tomorrow so I can afford an haircut. End of promotional message.
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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 4d
Don’t you hate standing at gigs? I hate standing at gigs. At my gig on the 21st October you can sit in nice red chairs. It’s on a boat five minutes from Canary Wharf station. I play all of my record The Ship’s Piano.
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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 4d
Contents are as perfectly delightful as you’d imagine. Jill McDonald somehow managing to bring a colourful quality even to her monochromatic illustrations.
Very, very tempted to get a tattoo of that spectacularly sublime sickly cat
Page from a 1970s puffin post magazine, gorgeous cartoon pictures in black and white illustrate short texts about how to make a puppet theatre from a matchbox and instructions on creating a snake shaped draught excluder with a sickly looking cross eyed cat with a speech bubble reading yurck in capital letters, illustrating a short item on creating a recipe for deliberately disgusting food. The style of the illustration is a joyful junior psychedelia
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Arctic Circle @arcticcircle.bsky.social · 4d
Who should play Daylight's 400th Edition? Inspire me! www.daylightmusic.co.uk/eventarchive...
400: The Four Hundredth Edition — Arctic Circle
Somewhere in our sixteenth year we reach the unfathomable figures of the four hundredth edition of our series. How did that happen?
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Just going to assume the next Kraftwerk album is called Dynamische Preisgestaltung, or something.
A screenshot, pinched from @stevejvickers.bsky.social, showing ludicrously high ticket prices for a Kraftwerk gig.
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Arctic Circle @arcticcircle.bsky.social · 4d
It's the 397th Edition of Daylight Music on Saturday. Just mentioning. www.daylightmusic.co.uk/eventarchive...
397: Saori Miraku, Yukiko Matsukura + Michelle Hromin — Arctic Circle
This Saturday we invite you to listen in to three intimate solo performances. These shared moments will appear on the surface to be simply using instruments we are familiar with such as the piano, gui...
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HG2G Scrapbook @hg2g-scrapbook.bsky.social · 5d
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Arctic Circle @arcticcircle.bsky.social · 6d
OK I'm not sure you're getting all the emails then. Which is weird. Anyhow if interesting we're back 13th December in St Mary (Islington) for our 400th Edition. Ben
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Arctic Circle @arcticcircle.bsky.social · 6d
#returntoislington
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Arctic Circle @arcticcircle.bsky.social · 6d
This week? I haven't sent this weeks email yet. I have sent various ones about the whole season etc
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Arctic Circle @arcticcircle.bsky.social · 6d
Does anyone know of any #Islington listing sites, groups, pages etc where I should be posting Saturday's Daylight Music event on? Our 3rd back in Islington at St Mary Magdelene (Holloway Road), 5 mins walk from Highbury & Islington station. Or anywhere here, there or anywhere I can promote it?? Ellp
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Xenia Pestova Bennett @xeniapestova.bsky.social · 7d
Performance anxiety and managing negative thoughts: it’s easy to spiral into self-doubt and rush through what could be a precious and magical experience when we share our work with others… but maybe it doesn’t have to be that way! #performanceanxiety xeniapestovabennett.com/2025/10/07/p...
Performance Anxiety and Self-Sabotage: Five Tips for Working with Negative Thoughts - Xenia Pestova Bennett
Performance anxiety is a universal experience, a survival mechanism that is hard-wired. Symptoms vary, but many of us get shaky limbs, blurry vision, dry mouth, shallow fast breathing, rapid heart rat...
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Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 7d
#OTD 45 years ago (7 Oct 1980) according to my diary, I drew these images for the Hitchhiker's Guide BBC TV series. Douglas Adams as both the ad exec and as Paula, the worst poet in the universe. I was 19 years old and having fun.
Mindless Jerks artwork for Hitchhiker's Guide TV series drawn by KJD (c) Pearce Studios Ltd. 1980. Paula NM Jennings (Worst Poet) artwork for Hitchhiker's Guide TV series drawn by KJD (c) Pearce Studios Ltd. 1980.
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 7d
IMPORTANT

All freelancers, self-employed, creatives

This is the first I've heard of this, but the Department for Business and Trade is running a consultation on the scourge of late payments, they want to introduce new legislation to tackle poor practices

Deadline to respond is 23 October

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d
The Lemonheads’ Evan Dando: ‘Some people were supposed to take drugs – and one of them was me’
The Lemonheads’ Evan Dando: ‘Some people were supposed to take drugs – and one of them was me’
He was the darling of early-90s alt rock, but success came with the kind of rock’n’roll excess that many of his peers did not survive. Now, having finally quit heroin, he’s back with a new album, a memoir – and no regrets
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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 8d
At some point in 2017 I made this. The world just wasn’t ready…
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Arctic Circle @arcticcircle.bsky.social · 8d
HIRE ME! #freelancepenguin
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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 8d
Noted in the comments, this is possibly the funniest band picture ever taken, with the bloke on the left only managing to get his jeans and hand in shot, and the other one cropped out entirely apart from the tip of his ear.
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