Duncan Parsons
@jefph.bsky.social
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A drummer who gets distracted. Making music as if the 80s never quite happened, music from nineteen seventy twelve or thirteen..
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A stomping frustrated end-of-love song, as one friend put it - "death by key change"!

If you like The Feeling, Pilot, Alan Parsons, The Alan Parsons Project, 70s pop.. you might like this from my first album, Abandoned Buildings :-)

#BandcampFriday

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Answerphone, by Duncan Parsons
from the album Abandoned Buildings
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Those near #Brighton #Hove, #JohnHackettBand are playing The Brunswick tonight (Sat 18th)!

I would note that new Rush drummer #AnikaNilles was on our guitarist #NickFletcher's last couple of albums
Steve Hackett calls Nick "the best jazz-rock guitarist in the country"

Do come!

#prog #livemusic
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Our governments should be focusing on better vaccine solutions, reusable plastic free masks which are already in existence and clean air. They are doing none of this because facial surveillance seems to be the priority.
Sat 4th Oct sees Angel Snow return to #Sheffield, this time to @thelanternsheff.bsky.social

Expect an evening of bluesy #Americana infused immersive songs <3

The evening will be opened with a set from Sheffield artist Teah Lewis

tix - ticketsource.co.uk/thelanternsh...
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I've just had to do one for this platform..
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Canada is on the verge of adopting a national standard requiring N95s in healthcare—and your voice can help make it happen.
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Having just watched a report on the increasing number of people turning to AI agents for relationship advice, we can't be far away (if not already there) from a significant slice of voters asking ChatGPT/Grok/Siri/Whatever to tell them for whom they should vote. Take a moment to think about that.
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The older you get, the more you realize it's not who has known you the longest, but who sees you, hears you, understands you, supports you, brings out your inner child, makes you laugh, brings you more peace, soothes your nervous system, relaxes you and gives you more energy.
Indeed.. Once Vance is POTUS, he should be impeached on evidence of just breathing.

Then over the course of the next few years just impeach the entire Republican party one by one as they step up..
..her mocking smile says it all..

#SuzanneVega
It just smiled enigmatically at me
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It’s obvious what Trump’s doing, the huge short, disaster capitalism on a big scale.

Why? Also obvious, huge profits for him and his billionaire associates.

How do I know? It’s happened here twice.

Meanwhile, CEOs build compounds because civil war is guaranteed.

youtu.be/BTSnojxvnEM
What Trump Is Doing and WHY. Heads Up, It’s Disaster Capitalism…
YouTube video by Supertanskiii
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Gen Z and Millennials: In ten years when we’re still without a cure and you’re caring for your parents, remember what he did.
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Do you know of the history of riots in the USA?

What's hampering them and why they are not happening now? The more I try to understand the what and the why, the more confused I am.
They are attacking civil rights from all sides, yet people only think of peaceful demonstrations.
Heather Findlay will be at @thelanternsheff.bsky.social #Sheffield on Fri 28th Mar for the launch of her new album, "Wildflower"

@robyngair.bsky.social will open the evening

An intimate show in the gorgeous setting of Sheffield's oldest working theatre!

See www.ticketsource.co.uk/thelanternsh...
Del Scott Miller will be at Sheffield's Lantern Theatre on Fri 4th April 2025 launching his new EP, "How The Night Gets In"
Songs of love, loss & the underdog, filtered through the gentle cynicism of his native Yorkshire

The night will be opened by Lofter

see www.ticketsource.co.uk/.../del-scot...
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Please will the opposition point out to Labour that there are over 3.1 million people suffering #Longcovid due to lack of airborne mitigations and UKHSA not following the WHO guidance. I feel this is morally wrong, failing to prevent and failing to even mention it. This has greatly increased the 🧵
I'm tech'ing a conference today, and very impressed that the refreshments table has milk jugs for both left- and right-handed folk

Literally catering for everyone
First John Hackett Band gig of the year..

I've added keys to the right, and a new chapeau for when we play bits of @stevehacketthq.bsky.social's Voyage Of The Acolyte - or when I need to impersonate a dome of St Basil's
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One of the lessons that I learned from Covid is that a lot of people really struggle with the fact that their reality has been upended. They long for what WAS and struggle with what IS and we're experiencing that right now with Trump.

Every moment litigating what could have been is denying what IS
Very pleased this is on its way now :-)

It was a fairly long road to get it finished, but lovely that it's being released with a gig on home turf!

We're playing around the UK through the year, so if you fancy an evening of the ol' progressive music, we'll probably be somewhere close..