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The Global Shorelines project

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Kevin J Healy is an Anglo-Irish artist and retired teacher, with over 30 years experience in arts education. He runs the Global Shorelines project for charity, collecting dramatic coastal landscape images from people all over the planet.

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The Global Shorelines project @comshorelines.bsky.social · Nov 16

For the last 5 years people have been sharing coastal landscape images with the Global Shorelines project. I mount exhibitions in aid of marine conservation charities.
Maybe send me an image of a coast you love with a sentence of commentary.
Reposts and follows appreciated. I am new here.

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The Global Shorelines project @comshorelines.bsky.social · 14h

I first visited Paris with some friends in the 70's. We found a little bar in Montmartre one night and the barman came out and started playing Piaf songs on the piano. Then his mum came out and sang Edith Piaf songs (just like her) all evening. It was magical.

Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 18h

FACT OF THE DAY. 10 October 1963. Édith Piaf died (aged 47). She became France’s national chanteuse and one of the country’s most widely known international singing stars. Her most well known song was No Regrets (Non, je ne regrette rien).

The Global Shorelines project @comshorelines.bsky.social · 15h

Sad to hear John Lodge has passed. My favourite Moody Blues album was Seventh Sojourn 1972, which included Isn't Life Strange (written with Hayward) and his song I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band).
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The Global Shorelines project @comshorelines.bsky.social · 17h

So the Riverdance 30th Anniversary show has all the original sections and excitement of the original. Well worth catching, if you are able to. Brought back great memories, as a cousin of mine sang in the original show.

#Riverdance #Ireland #Dancing #ConnexinHull

The Global Shorelines project @comshorelines.bsky.social · 20h

I am hearing the four bucketeer's singing the Bucket of Water song from TISWAS. Tarrant, Sally James, Bob Carolgees, John Gorman.

The Global Shorelines project @comshorelines.bsky.social · 1d

Quite a character, who had lots of mental struggles. Tragically died from a heart attack at only 43.
Saw him with HW and bought his concept album Captain Lockheed & The Starfighters.

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Ejection (2007 Remaster)

YouTube video by Robert Calvert - Topic

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Martin Rowson @martinrowson.bsky.social · 1d

Latest Morning Star cartoon

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The Global Shorelines project @comshorelines.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting that right wingers (MAGA, Reform, etc) have to invent 'enemies of the people', to mask the fact that they are the real enemy of normal, decent, ordinary people.

The Global Shorelines project @comshorelines.bsky.social · 1d

Helped unload the trucks (as a local student) for the Who gig at Brighton Centre UK in 81. Got free entry and a few £s. Kenney Clarke was a great replacement for Moonie, who had sadly left us in 78.
They also filmed sections of Quadrophenia in Brighton during 78.

The Global Shorelines project @comshorelines.bsky.social · 2d

Oh yes. Saw them at Southend Kursaal back in the 70's. Brilliant.

The Global Shorelines project @comshorelines.bsky.social · 2d

Unfortunately, only US shows so far. Hopefully they will make it to Europe eventually. Saw the Clockwork Angels tour in London way back in 2013. The addition of a string section was quite something.
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The Global Shorelines project @comshorelines.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greatest blues artists?
If you were able to ask the top five they would probably all name original, true delta blues artists. Son House, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin Wolf, etc, etc.

The Global Shorelines project @comshorelines.bsky.social · 3d

I was born in England, my wife is Scottish. My mum was an NHS nurse, who came here from Ireland. The NHS saved my wife’s life, delivered my children and grandchildren, and cared for all of us. That’s what we pay our taxes for over here; so people are not generally bankrupted by illness.

The Global Shorelines project @comshorelines.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, that’s tricky. Wonderful cast in Belfast. Particularly the great Ciarán Hinds and Dame Judi… and then Redford, Robards & Hoffman in ATPM….. but Mel, Zero & Gene (especially) just get it.

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The Global Shorelines project @comshorelines.bsky.social · 4d

I grew up listening to, and watching Bonham, Baker and Moon. Such massive characters (unfortunately also self-destructive). No wonder I bought a drum kit.

The Global Shorelines project @comshorelines.bsky.social · 4d

Saw the remains of Sweet, touring with the remains of Slade, a few years back. Still great songs, but never the same without Brian and Noddy.
I remember buying & playing the Blockbuster single when me and some mates briefly ran a mobile disco, back in 1973-5.

The Global Shorelines project @comshorelines.bsky.social · 4d

Carole Lombard Gable.
Tragically she and Clark Gable were only married for a few years before she died in a plane crash, at the age of only 33.

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The Global Shorelines project @comshorelines.bsky.social · 5d

Coastal rock formations and deep blue sea.

#Furteventura #CanaryIslands #CaletadeFuste #Coast

The Global Shorelines project @comshorelines.bsky.social · 5d

Rothesay Ferry, from the Isle of Bute towards Loch Striven.

#Ferry #Scotland #IsleofBute #Coast

The Global Shorelines project @comshorelines.bsky.social · 5d

Lovely artwork on The Last Pebble. Good luck with the sales.

The Global Shorelines project @comshorelines.bsky.social · 5d

The first visible Ernst Stavro Blofeld in You Only Live Twice (1967).

He was shot down and imprisoned in Stalag Luft 1 in WW2. A precursor to his later acting role in The Great Escape (1963).

The Global Shorelines project @comshorelines.bsky.social · 5d

Led Zep III is sometimes underrated, simply because it falls between the genius of II and IV... but it does have 7 and a half minutes of of the wonderful rock ballad 'Since I've Been Loving You', amongst other gems.

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The Global Shorelines project @comshorelines.bsky.social · 5d

Better than a slap in the face with a wet fish... or maybe not!

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Monty Python - The Fish Slapping Dance

YouTube video by ArmyTanksStudios

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The Global Shorelines project @comshorelines.bsky.social · 5d

I love the big, full E Street Band sound, but this stripped-back album is a work of genius from the Boss. Saw me through some challenging post-grad work, back in 1982.

#springsteen

Top10Nathan @top10nathan.bsky.social · 5d

#80sTop30

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🗣️ Bruce Springsteen
🎶 Johnny 99

I've learned to really enjoy a lot of Springsteen's work this year, but nothing can beat the darkness and sparseness of Nebraska.

Every single song belongs and adds to the feel of the record, and Johnny 99 is just about my favourite.

The Global Shorelines project @comshorelines.bsky.social · 6d

That's brilliant. My dad played the harmonica and accordion, mostly Irish traditional stuff and a bit of country. He would have been well impressed by this.

The Global Shorelines project @comshorelines.bsky.social · 6d

It's a drummer's special this weekend on @greatesthitsuk.bsky.social so they had to play a Led Zeppelin number (Immigrant Song), featuring the mighty John Bonham.
Just waiting for a Rush song now, with Neil Peart.

#LedZeppelin #JohnBonham #Drummer

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Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song (Live 1972) (Official Video)

YouTube video by Led Zeppelin

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