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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 1h

This will be wonderful tomorrow down in Putney, albeit at a sadly timely moment.

Jo Kendall @jothekendall.bsky.social · 1h

Just a last few tix left for our Pentangle Listening Party with Jacqui McShee tomorrow afternoon at the Half Moon in Putney. Thanks to Jennie Bellestar for some promo at her fab Give Me Love vintage shop in Camden 💜

tickets.halfmoon.co.uk/events/2025-...

Jennie Bellestar in a hat and motorcycle jacket holding up a flyer for the camera

A great colourful pop art mural of George Harrison outside Jennie’s Give Me Love shop

A wider angle shot of the shop Give Me Love which has rails of clothes outside and more psychedelic decoration above the shop windows

Our Pentangle flyer on a table with a Solomon’s Seal button badge.

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 15h

Ah wow, how good does that look.

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 15h

Many of the tracks are way more mainstream than my tastes but I like the way they're straight down the line with it. They takes the music as seriously as the fans who’ve listened to it time after time

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 15h

Me too, even though many of the tracks are new to me. Still interesting to hear the musicians talk about how their music came to be.

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 15h

Really like those @djmag.com Making Of Dance Classics vids, give me that warm feeling of the old Classic Albums docs where the artists got a chance to reminisce and set the record straight

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAYp...

MJ Cole 'Sincere' | The Making Of A UK Garage Classic

YouTube video by DJ Mag

www.youtube.com

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 18h

Among all the good shit in the new issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social I got to write about the original don Horace Silver and his killer left hand

Cover of the November issue of The Wire with image of claire rousay

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 18h

Unless it's a folding bike, ebikes aren’t allowed on TFL.

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 18h

Blown away by prescient Delroy Williams track for Pablo circa 80s “Three Men In A Truck Back” – a dark encounter with JA forced labour – “no shackles around dem feet, but they no free... by the expression on dem face, let I know they are in no shape” – heavy indeed

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp_q...

Delroy Williams - Three Men In A Truck Back / Jah Bull - Free Jah Jah Children

YouTube video by Onlyroots “Onlyroots-reggae” Reggae

www.youtube.com

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 2d

Awesome

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 3d

Hiphop is unimaginable with those first two.

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe gamble on swinging by and seeing if any cancellations.

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 4d

Without question, Better Help bragging about how it's purchased an advert to help me unclench my jaw.

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 4d

I had not clocked that legit legend Martin Carthy is up for a Mercury Music prize in his mid eighties. Still one of the best gigs you can go and see, like touching the history of the music

www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/2545816...

Folk legend who inspired Bob Dylan to write a classic is up for Mercury Prize

Hampstead raised Martin Carthy is among 12 nominees for the Mercury Prize for his album released 60 years after his debut

www.hamhigh.co.uk

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 5d

Great to hear!

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 5d

I had a dig around on YouTube and the clips sounded bad but might well be very different source/provenance. Very curious now, thanks! Always been fascinated by that crazy ambitious tour

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 5d

they’ve had a shocker there.

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 5d

In two days I somehow swung by both Dialogue Cafes, where you order with BSL and it's staffed by d/Deaf or hearing impaired people, in London: in University of East London and Stratford. Great spots and fantastic ventures, super cool, go check 'em out

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