David Marsden
@davidmarsden.info
Some sensible thoughts on what’s needed from the Left.
November 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Some sensible thoughts on what’s needed from the Left.
Who doesn’t love a bit of ?
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Who doesn’t love a bit of ?
“There’s a radiant darkness upon us”
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
“There’s a radiant darkness upon us”
Seems like a long time since I felt able to enjoy a morning walk. Almost three months to the day since I had my last COPD exacerbation.
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Seems like a long time since I felt able to enjoy a morning walk. Almost three months to the day since I had my last COPD exacerbation.
Well, we didn’t get a million, but £150,000 is still a very substantial grant!
"On the work front, which I haven’t forgotten about, before my recent illness, I developed a £1m+ funding application for a cross-borough youth project tha... https://davidmarsden.info/2025/11/07/well-we-didnt-get-a.html
"On the work front, which I haven’t forgotten about, before my recent illness, I developed a £1m+ funding application for a cross-borough youth project tha... https://davidmarsden.info/2025/11/07/well-we-didnt-get-a.html
Where You Been?
Mild-mannered administrator by day. Dad and personal butler, cook, dishwasher, driver and bedtime storyteller to two boys by night.
davidmarsden.info
November 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Well, we didn’t get a million, but £150,000 is still a very substantial grant!
"On the work front, which I haven’t forgotten about, before my recent illness, I developed a £1m+ funding application for a cross-borough youth project tha... https://davidmarsden.info/2025/11/07/well-we-didnt-get-a.html
"On the work front, which I haven’t forgotten about, before my recent illness, I developed a £1m+ funding application for a cross-borough youth project tha... https://davidmarsden.info/2025/11/07/well-we-didnt-get-a.html
Shaken Not Stirred now available on Bandcamp, if you’re that way inclined.*
*We promise not to spend any of the profits funding arms dealers or weapons manufacturers.
*We promise not to spend any of the profits funding arms dealers or weapons manufacturers.
Shaken Not Stirred on Bandcamp
Shaken Not Stirred by Hovercraft (UK)
hovercraft.band
November 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Shaken Not Stirred now available on Bandcamp, if you’re that way inclined.*
*We promise not to spend any of the profits funding arms dealers or weapons manufacturers.
*We promise not to spend any of the profits funding arms dealers or weapons manufacturers.
This is not a ceasefire.
Here’s Israel's strategy to continue the war on Gaza: find a pretext, no matter how baseless, use it to kill dozens of civilians and fighters, stop fire and claim you’re honoring the ceasefire. Then do it a... https://davidmarsden.info/2025/11/04/this-is-not-a-ceasefire.html
Here’s Israel's strategy to continue the war on Gaza: find a pretext, no matter how baseless, use it to kill dozens of civilians and fighters, stop fire and claim you’re honoring the ceasefire. Then do it a... https://davidmarsden.info/2025/11/04/this-is-not-a-ceasefire.html
Israel’s repeated ceasefire violations are part of its strategy to keep waging war on Gaza
Here’s Israel’s strategy to continue the war on Gaza: find a pretext, no matter how baseless, use it to kill dozens of civilians and fighters, stop fire and claim you’re honoring the ceasefire. Then do it again.
mondoweiss.net
November 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This is not a ceasefire.
Here’s Israel's strategy to continue the war on Gaza: find a pretext, no matter how baseless, use it to kill dozens of civilians and fighters, stop fire and claim you’re honoring the ceasefire. Then do it a... https://davidmarsden.info/2025/11/04/this-is-not-a-ceasefire.html
Here’s Israel's strategy to continue the war on Gaza: find a pretext, no matter how baseless, use it to kill dozens of civilians and fighters, stop fire and claim you’re honoring the ceasefire. Then do it a... https://davidmarsden.info/2025/11/04/this-is-not-a-ceasefire.html
For balance and transparency: I ate lamb biryani at my little Black African heritage kid’s friend’s Halloween party last week. I don’t know where or how the middle-eastern heritage parents sourced the meat, but their south-e... https://davidmarsden.info/2025/11/03/for-balance-and-transparency-i.html
November 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
For balance and transparency: I ate lamb biryani at my little Black African heritage kid’s friend’s Halloween party last week. I don’t know where or how the middle-eastern heritage parents sourced the meat, but their south-e... https://davidmarsden.info/2025/11/03/for-balance-and-transparency-i.html
I’d never heard of this guy before, and wish I hadn’t. Apparently he was deputy leader of the Green Party ten years ago. His illiberal rantings then forced his leader to quit, before he was given the boot. I don’t think he’s joined ... https://davidmarsden.info/2025/11/03/id-never-heard-of-this.html
November 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I’d never heard of this guy before, and wish I hadn’t. Apparently he was deputy leader of the Green Party ten years ago. His illiberal rantings then forced his leader to quit, before he was given the boot. I don’t think he’s joined ... https://davidmarsden.info/2025/11/03/id-never-heard-of-this.html
“Masked Israeli Settlers Torture Lambs in West Bank Livestock Raid”
November 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
“Masked Israeli Settlers Torture Lambs in West Bank Livestock Raid”
@[email protected] @thisness.micro.blog sarcasm fail, sorry. All the hacks seem to be reporting that three wins is enough. I haven’t seen anything other than highlights recently so can’t really comment.Although having a goalkeeper must be a big help.
Micro.blog - @[email protected]
micro.blog
October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
@[email protected] @thisness.micro.blog sarcasm fail, sorry. All the hacks seem to be reporting that three wins is enough. I haven’t seen anything other than highlights recently so can’t really comment.Although having a goalkeeper must be a big help.
Time to eat humble pie and admit I was wrong about Amorim. After winning three games on the bounce it’s clear his system is finally now working and understood by his players, who are fully committed to it and to him.
David Marsden
Mild-mannered administrator by day. Dad and personal butler, cook, dishwasher, driver and bedtime storyteller to two boys by night.
davidmarsden.info
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Time to eat humble pie and admit I was wrong about Amorim. After winning three games on the bounce it’s clear his system is finally now working and understood by his players, who are fully committed to it and to him.
This a is a really impressive review of my resurrected old band’s debut album.
“The way Shaken Not Stirred seamlessly merges the essence of the 60s all the way through the decades to today with contemporary sounds is nothing short of m... https://davidmarsden.info/2025/10/28/this-a-is-a-really.html
“The way Shaken Not Stirred seamlessly merges the essence of the 60s all the way through the decades to today with contemporary sounds is nothing short of m... https://davidmarsden.info/2025/10/28/this-a-is-a-really.html
Shaken Not Stirred by Hovercraft Redefines Indie Brilliance with a Perfect Blend of Soul and Sophistication
“Shaken Not Stirred by Hovercraft is an album that brilliantly resurrects raw emotional power with cutting-edge innovation.
www.cageriot.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
This a is a really impressive review of my resurrected old band’s debut album.
“The way Shaken Not Stirred seamlessly merges the essence of the 60s all the way through the decades to today with contemporary sounds is nothing short of m... https://davidmarsden.info/2025/10/28/this-a-is-a-really.html
“The way Shaken Not Stirred seamlessly merges the essence of the 60s all the way through the decades to today with contemporary sounds is nothing short of m... https://davidmarsden.info/2025/10/28/this-a-is-a-really.html
Ah, now it all starts to make sense.
David Marsden
Mild-mannered administrator by day. Dad and personal butler, cook, dishwasher, driver and bedtime storyteller to two boys by night.
davidmarsden.info
October 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Ah, now it all starts to make sense.
Cracking review!
A Hidden Gem
“Shaken Not Stirred sounds like something that falls into our world through a crack in time. It’s haunting, retro, and yet, not overly nostalgic. It feels like an album that doesn’t belong in this century, or perhaps it’s just ahead of its time. Hovercraft’s 2025 album is elegant and sensitive, passionate but melancholy. A hidden gem that’s haunting and powerful.”
Punk Head
hovercraft.band
October 18, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Cracking review!
Reminds me of when Ofcom censured the BBC for not declaring the status of the interviewees on the “Is Labour Anti-Semitic?” Panorama programme, oh wait…
BREAKING: The BBC has been sanctioned by the broadcasting regulator over a do... https://davidmarsden.info/2025/10/17/reminds-me-of-when-ofcom.html
BREAKING: The BBC has been sanctioned by the broadcasting regulator over a do... https://davidmarsden.info/2025/10/17/reminds-me-of-when-ofcom.html
BBC sanctioned by broadcast watchdog over pulled Gaza documentary
THE BBC has been sanctioned by the broadcasting regulator over a documentary about Gaza.
www.thenational.scot
October 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Reminds me of when Ofcom censured the BBC for not declaring the status of the interviewees on the “Is Labour Anti-Semitic?” Panorama programme, oh wait…
BREAKING: The BBC has been sanctioned by the broadcasting regulator over a do... https://davidmarsden.info/2025/10/17/reminds-me-of-when-ofcom.html
BREAKING: The BBC has been sanctioned by the broadcasting regulator over a do... https://davidmarsden.info/2025/10/17/reminds-me-of-when-ofcom.html
“Shaken Not Stirred is more than an album—it’s resurrection art.”
October 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
“Shaken Not Stirred is more than an album—it’s resurrection art.”
Album: Shaken Not Stirred
hovercraft.band
October 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Finished watching: 24 Hour Party People 📺
23 years after it was made, in two sittings (watching it all in one go would have meant staying up too late).
23 years after it was made, in two sittings (watching it all in one go would have meant staying up too late).
24 Hour Party People
Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.
www.themoviedb.org
October 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Finished watching: 24 Hour Party People 📺
23 years after it was made, in two sittings (watching it all in one go would have meant staying up too late).
23 years after it was made, in two sittings (watching it all in one go would have meant staying up too late).
Reposted by David Marsden
New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.
This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
September 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.
This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
New single released, only thirty years after we first recorded it.
Mr Tooting Brown
90’s Grimsby indie band uses AI to resurrect their lost catalog, but discovers that their most important song - written by their mysterious songwriter who disappeared a decade ago - can only be brought back through the alchemy of human memory and artificial intelligence working together.
hovercraft.band
September 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM
New single released, only thirty years after we first recorded it.
New fact-based polemic on local matters to me.
Southall Stories â Digging the dirt, unearthing the truth
Digging the dirt, unearthing the truth
southallstories.uk
September 29, 2025 at 8:56 AM
New fact-based polemic on local matters to me.
Autumn Fair today at little kid’s school. I was supposed to be there helping out, but not feeling well enough. Seven weeks since I felt better that suboptimal.
September 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Autumn Fair today at little kid’s school. I was supposed to be there helping out, but not feeling well enough. Seven weeks since I felt better that suboptimal.
Help me find my old bandmate and songwriter.
September 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Help me find my old bandmate and songwriter.