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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 1d

Loving the graffitti art at Canterbury Cathedral. Great lettering! To those sad at the change to the grey purity, worth remembering that before the Reformation churches and cathedrals were a Dulux catalogue of colours and images from which visitors learned church teachings.

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 1d

I have to say, we rocked hard at the 100 Club! What a blast!

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 3d

... The Damned, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Buzzcocks, The Stranglers, The Jam, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The UK Subs, Metallica, Primal Scream, St Etienne, Suede, Blur, Oasis, Kings of Leon?
Hard to believe we will be playing it tomorrow!
Onstage at 8.40pm.
If you are coming, see you there!

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 3d

Which London stage has hosted Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Scott, BB King, Chuck Berry, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Who, Eddie Grant, Alice Cooper, The New York Dolls ...

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 7d

Brilliant trip down memory lane in the @guardian's article on Tipper Gore and the PMRC in the 1980s. An entirely absurd moral panic over rock music lyrics. Naturally the stickers became badges of approval guaranteeing zillions of sales.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 7d

Sounds fun! What's that?

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 7d

The Bible is an unusual anthology. Certain passages are very familiar, others not so much. Especially the Old Testament. I loaded Ezekiel’s description of a cherub (and a few directions on style, lighting, etc.) into AI. Pretty pleased with the result!

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 13d

The beautiful Parthenon, with all its many traumas, records millennia of history. Left = c19th Parthenon before reconstruction. Right = Selene's horses from East Pediment. Top is cast of horse in British Museum. Middle and bottom are original sculptures in Akropolis Museum.

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 13d

Good people! Psychopomp hit the legendary 100 Club stage at 8.40 pm on 9 October, a week and half away! All the bands look amazing, and it's going to be a fabulous evening! As Worzel Gummidge would say: "Screw your Rock head on!".

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 13d

Yep! I can totally come up with some branding that screams 'mega cool sunglasses emporium'. Trust me I've got this.

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 13d

European Heritage day here in Athens, and free entry to the Akropolis Museum means it is heaving! What a fabulous sight (and site)!

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 16d

Don't know why people are down on London. Glorious blend of old and new. Woken this morning by a soundscape of the clacking hooves of a trotting horse and, in the background, the persistent warble of a police siren ascending an unfeasibly long hill. #UKDoingFine

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 19d

If you are in Athens a week today, do come to the Old Parliament House where we shall be debating this very topic with the evening kicked off by an address from the President of Greece!

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 19d

‘The Marbles’ is out. It is a film made to support the case for the UK Parliament to return the Elgin Marbles to Greece. The director — a super guy — kindly allowed space for me to put a contrary point of view.

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 22d

Today I shall be mostly reading about a suffragette called Nelippy Hay. Please can Nelippy be one of those cool names you never heard and then suddenly it's everywhere?

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 28d

In suitably Spinal Tap style I managed to get my finger over the lens ... 🤘🏽

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · Sep 10

The most prolific killer after Mao, Stalin, Hitler (in that order) was likely Genghis Khan (C12-13th). Do listen for a quick immersion in his life, worldview and Mongol domination. Me in conversation with Iain Dale. Civilian-slaughtering maniacs are always with us.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/2...

219. Genghis Khan – Mongolia (1206-1227)

Podcast Episode · Presidents, Prime Ministers, Monarchs & Dictators · 07/09/2025 · 27m

podcasts.apple.com

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · Sep 10

Delighted and privileged to be debating at the glorious Old Parliament House in Athens on 29 Sep. “Who Owns History” and the Parthenon Sculptures The questions for me are: does the C21st want to nationalize history, and what education does the world want from its museums.

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · Sep 9

Once is a misfortune. Twice is carelessness. Is Mandelson going to make the hatrick?

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · Sep 5

Is "die" dying and are we witnesses to the death of "died". As all things pass will the Missa pro defunctis and the Officium defunctorum soon be the Mass for the Passed and the Office of the Passed?

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · Sep 5

Day 1 of Reform conference. BBC is broadcasting their line "freedom of speech" and similar “rights going back to Magna Carta” are in peril. As you didn't challenge it, @BBC, please share where this right is in Magna Carta? Or does your policy just allow weaponizing ahistorical tosh.

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · Sep 5

Just five weeks to go until "Sustainabiltiy Rocks" at Oxford Street's legendary 100 Club! We are fired up and ready to röck with all the other amazing bands playing!

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · Aug 23

Don't think anything is going to top that today! (Letter in the FT)

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · Aug 20

The chief engineer has announced being approached to work on moving the Kremlin to Washington DC. www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
Stunning drone and timelapse footage captures 113-year-old church’s journey to new home - BBC News

Stunning drone and timelapse footage captures 113-year-old church’s journey to new home - BBC News

100-year-old church moved across Swedish city of Kiruna

www.bbc.co.uk

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · Aug 17

Sigh

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