Lauren Redhead
@laurenredhead.bsky.social
Music. Running. Dog walking. Vegetables.
I circle round the sun until some day I won’t.
I circle round the sun until some day I won’t.
I have so much work that I could be doing but I think my brain has shut down.
December 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I have so much work that I could be doing but I think my brain has shut down.
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AMN Reviews: Boundaries Festival 21-22 November 2025
By Lauren Redhead Where should you go to look for contemporary music explosions in November? It used to be that there was no singular answer to this question, but in the last 5 years Boundaries Festival has begun to establish Sunderland as a…
By Lauren Redhead Where should you go to look for contemporary music explosions in November? It used to be that there was no singular answer to this question, but in the last 5 years Boundaries Festival has begun to establish Sunderland as a…
AMN Reviews: Boundaries Festival 21-22 November 2025
By Lauren Redhead Where should you go to look for contemporary music explosions in November? It used to be that there was no singular answer to this question, but in the last 5 years Boundaries Festival has begun to establish Sunderland as a locus for the experimental, the compelling, the weird and the unknown. While the city is perhaps more widely known for its long history of ship-building than of contemporary music, the festival finds itself amid the city council’s regeneration projects and offers its audiences a new experience and environment to enjoy music in, as well as the music itself.
avantmusicnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
AMN Reviews: Boundaries Festival 21-22 November 2025
By Lauren Redhead Where should you go to look for contemporary music explosions in November? It used to be that there was no singular answer to this question, but in the last 5 years Boundaries Festival has begun to establish Sunderland as a…
By Lauren Redhead Where should you go to look for contemporary music explosions in November? It used to be that there was no singular answer to this question, but in the last 5 years Boundaries Festival has begun to establish Sunderland as a…
My review of Boundaries Festival for Avant Music News is now live:
avantmusicnews.com/2025/12/05/a...
avantmusicnews.com/2025/12/05/a...
avantmusicnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
My review of Boundaries Festival for Avant Music News is now live:
avantmusicnews.com/2025/12/05/a...
avantmusicnews.com/2025/12/05/a...
What would your snooker walk-on song be?
November 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
What would your snooker walk-on song be?
Sheet music!
This is a new piece by me called “the buried giant” for organ or ensemble. It’s an organum.
You can buy the score via Firehead Music.
fireheadorganworks.com/shop/ols/pro...
This is a new piece by me called “the buried giant” for organ or ensemble. It’s an organum.
You can buy the score via Firehead Music.
fireheadorganworks.com/shop/ols/pro...
FH453: the buried giant
By Lauren Redhead. Of this fascinating work, the composer writes: "I read Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2015 novel ‘The Buried Giant’ not long after my father had died from Alzheimer’s disease in January 2023. I w...
fireheadorganworks.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Sheet music!
This is a new piece by me called “the buried giant” for organ or ensemble. It’s an organum.
You can buy the score via Firehead Music.
fireheadorganworks.com/shop/ols/pro...
This is a new piece by me called “the buried giant” for organ or ensemble. It’s an organum.
You can buy the score via Firehead Music.
fireheadorganworks.com/shop/ols/pro...
How many people are employed by these institutions?
Not just academic staff but professional staff, security, catering, etc?
What is their contribution to their areas in terms of £, culture, services?
What access do their students actually have to other providers?
How does this compare to steel?
Not just academic staff but professional staff, security, catering, etc?
What is their contribution to their areas in terms of £, culture, services?
What access do their students actually have to other providers?
How does this compare to steel?
Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
Seven ‘large providers’ at risk of going under in the next year
Skills minister says no higher education institutions are at imminent risk of collapse this year but OfS confirms more than 20 providers are being closely monitored
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
How many people are employed by these institutions?
Not just academic staff but professional staff, security, catering, etc?
What is their contribution to their areas in terms of £, culture, services?
What access do their students actually have to other providers?
How does this compare to steel?
Not just academic staff but professional staff, security, catering, etc?
What is their contribution to their areas in terms of £, culture, services?
What access do their students actually have to other providers?
How does this compare to steel?
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The second problem with this — after the fact that it will bankrupt a bunch of institutions — is that the government doesn’t seem to know if it wants to a) raise lots of money from intentional students or b) discourage universities from relying on international students. You can’t have both!!
These are HEPI estimates of the 20 institutions affected: I think this illustrates the impact if the tariff is absorbed in full by institutions.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
November 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The second problem with this — after the fact that it will bankrupt a bunch of institutions — is that the government doesn’t seem to know if it wants to a) raise lots of money from intentional students or b) discourage universities from relying on international students. You can’t have both!!
Today’s question for the Blueskymind: what(tf) is emo?
Back in the day, music I like(d) was called variously rock/punk/grunge/(post) hardcore. Now those exact same bands are described as emo.
What are the properties of emo, that it seems to have swallowed up all these other genres?
Back in the day, music I like(d) was called variously rock/punk/grunge/(post) hardcore. Now those exact same bands are described as emo.
What are the properties of emo, that it seems to have swallowed up all these other genres?
November 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Today’s question for the Blueskymind: what(tf) is emo?
Back in the day, music I like(d) was called variously rock/punk/grunge/(post) hardcore. Now those exact same bands are described as emo.
What are the properties of emo, that it seems to have swallowed up all these other genres?
Back in the day, music I like(d) was called variously rock/punk/grunge/(post) hardcore. Now those exact same bands are described as emo.
What are the properties of emo, that it seems to have swallowed up all these other genres?
Today a PhD student passed their viva (hooray!).
It turned out neither they nor the examiners knew the thing about the snake.
Is the snake Very Online?
Does everyone not know of the snake?
It turned out neither they nor the examiners knew the thing about the snake.
Is the snake Very Online?
Does everyone not know of the snake?
November 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Today a PhD student passed their viva (hooray!).
It turned out neither they nor the examiners knew the thing about the snake.
Is the snake Very Online?
Does everyone not know of the snake?
It turned out neither they nor the examiners knew the thing about the snake.
Is the snake Very Online?
Does everyone not know of the snake?
If you are free in Manchester on 2nd December you may like to go to this concert!
There may be a surprise piece by me among all this other excellent music!
urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
There may be a surprise piece by me among all this other excellent music!
urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
Empty Dreaming: Contemporary Piano Nocturnes
Composer-improviser Henry McPherson premieres experimental works inspired by night and darkness. Music by Brown, Sappho, Cheung, and more.
urldefense.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:33 AM
If you are free in Manchester on 2nd December you may like to go to this concert!
There may be a surprise piece by me among all this other excellent music!
urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
There may be a surprise piece by me among all this other excellent music!
urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
I have quite a lot of questions about ghosts. 👻
I’ve decided to make them into a thread in case anyone who knows about ghosts can provide some information.
Thanks in advance.
I’ve decided to make them into a thread in case anyone who knows about ghosts can provide some information.
Thanks in advance.
November 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I have quite a lot of questions about ghosts. 👻
I’ve decided to make them into a thread in case anyone who knows about ghosts can provide some information.
Thanks in advance.
I’ve decided to make them into a thread in case anyone who knows about ghosts can provide some information.
Thanks in advance.
Really need new publicity photos! The ones I keep using are 12 years old.
So I also need someone to take the photos and ideally do this without my knowledge or I’ll look weird.
If anyone has come up with the answer to this dilemma please let me know.
So I also need someone to take the photos and ideally do this without my knowledge or I’ll look weird.
If anyone has come up with the answer to this dilemma please let me know.
November 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Really need new publicity photos! The ones I keep using are 12 years old.
So I also need someone to take the photos and ideally do this without my knowledge or I’ll look weird.
If anyone has come up with the answer to this dilemma please let me know.
So I also need someone to take the photos and ideally do this without my knowledge or I’ll look weird.
If anyone has come up with the answer to this dilemma please let me know.
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Seeing the Unseeable | Public discussion w/Rachel Bearon, Emily Howard, Elaine Chew, Marcus du Sautoy & Lauren Redhead
📆 Mon 24 Nov 2025
🕖 7-8:30pm
📍Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre KCL
🔗 marc.kcl.ac.uk/2025/11/seei...
@kingsnmes.bsky.social
@marcusdusautoy.bsky.social
@laurenredhead.bsky.social
📆 Mon 24 Nov 2025
🕖 7-8:30pm
📍Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre KCL
🔗 marc.kcl.ac.uk/2025/11/seei...
@kingsnmes.bsky.social
@marcusdusautoy.bsky.social
@laurenredhead.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Seeing the Unseeable | Public discussion w/Rachel Bearon, Emily Howard, Elaine Chew, Marcus du Sautoy & Lauren Redhead
📆 Mon 24 Nov 2025
🕖 7-8:30pm
📍Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre KCL
🔗 marc.kcl.ac.uk/2025/11/seei...
@kingsnmes.bsky.social
@marcusdusautoy.bsky.social
@laurenredhead.bsky.social
📆 Mon 24 Nov 2025
🕖 7-8:30pm
📍Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre KCL
🔗 marc.kcl.ac.uk/2025/11/seei...
@kingsnmes.bsky.social
@marcusdusautoy.bsky.social
@laurenredhead.bsky.social
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November Noise Upstairs This Thursday!
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
November Noise Upstairs This Thursday!
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c.org/qZcXBxHHGG Sign to show your anger and disappointment in the decisions taken at the University of Nottingham, where Music and Modern Languages are being cut.
Sign the Petition
Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham
c.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
c.org/qZcXBxHHGG Sign to show your anger and disappointment in the decisions taken at the University of Nottingham, where Music and Modern Languages are being cut.
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Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The news about Nottingham Music is awful. I hope the means to resist this can be found. I feel like every day in HE we’re dealing with some decision or other that is part of this whole picture. What will be left when everything is cut? It’s impossible.
November 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The news about Nottingham Music is awful. I hope the means to resist this can be found. I feel like every day in HE we’re dealing with some decision or other that is part of this whole picture. What will be left when everything is cut? It’s impossible.
This petition has nearly 10,000 signatures:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
You could help this by signing, if you aren’t a terrible person who hates animals
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
You could help this by signing, if you aren’t a terrible person who hates animals
Petition: Limit the sale of fireworks to those running local council approved events only
Ban the sale of fireworks to the general public to minimise the harm caused to vulnerable people and animals. Defenceless animals can die from the distress caused by fireworks.
I believe that permitt...
petition.parliament.uk
October 31, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This petition has nearly 10,000 signatures:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
You could help this by signing, if you aren’t a terrible person who hates animals
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
You could help this by signing, if you aren’t a terrible person who hates animals
It’s the time of year where for weeks on end I get to spend my evening calming down the dog who is beside himself at every loud bang.
Yes, we have every single ****ing thing marketed to calm down dogs.
The thing that would work is banning fireworks.
There’s no argument in their favour.
Yes, we have every single ****ing thing marketed to calm down dogs.
The thing that would work is banning fireworks.
There’s no argument in their favour.
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 PM
It’s the time of year where for weeks on end I get to spend my evening calming down the dog who is beside himself at every loud bang.
Yes, we have every single ****ing thing marketed to calm down dogs.
The thing that would work is banning fireworks.
There’s no argument in their favour.
Yes, we have every single ****ing thing marketed to calm down dogs.
The thing that would work is banning fireworks.
There’s no argument in their favour.
Reposted by Lauren Redhead
Statement on the Proposed Cancellation of the Initial Teacher Training Bursary for Music
https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/10/31/statement-on-the-proposed-cancellation-of-the-initial-teacher-training-bursary-for-music/
https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/10/31/statement-on-the-proposed-cancellation-of-the-initial-teacher-training-bursary-for-music/
October 31, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Statement on the Proposed Cancellation of the Initial Teacher Training Bursary for Music
https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/10/31/statement-on-the-proposed-cancellation-of-the-initial-teacher-training-bursary-for-music/
https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/10/31/statement-on-the-proposed-cancellation-of-the-initial-teacher-training-bursary-for-music/
this Ozymandias thing: do I want to understand or should I not ask?
October 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
this Ozymandias thing: do I want to understand or should I not ask?
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Big thanks to The Quietus for the support and kind words.
Here's a little interview and feature preview of Boundaries...Share it if you can.
Cheers
G
Here's a little interview and feature preview of Boundaries...Share it if you can.
Cheers
G
A preview for next month's Boundaries Festival, run as "a labour of love" by @grassi.bsky.social with cheap tickets and the desire to introduce lovers of experimental music to the delights of Sunderland and the North East
thequietus.com/news/boundar...
thequietus.com/news/boundar...
Boundaries Festival Unveils Full Line-Up | The Quietus
Over the past few years, Sunderland’s Boundaries Festival has quickly gained a justified reputation as one of the best places at which to encounter the UK’s DIY underground – the best of New Weird Bri...
thequietus.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Big thanks to The Quietus for the support and kind words.
Here's a little interview and feature preview of Boundaries...Share it if you can.
Cheers
G
Here's a little interview and feature preview of Boundaries...Share it if you can.
Cheers
G
Since allowing the dog to sleep in the bedroom I’ve discovered that the reason he spends his whole day sleeping in different dog beds is that he definitely doesn’t spend the night sleeping.
And now he goes in the bedroom at night it’s going to be work to make him go back in his dog bedroom.
And now he goes in the bedroom at night it’s going to be work to make him go back in his dog bedroom.
October 24, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Since allowing the dog to sleep in the bedroom I’ve discovered that the reason he spends his whole day sleeping in different dog beds is that he definitely doesn’t spend the night sleeping.
And now he goes in the bedroom at night it’s going to be work to make him go back in his dog bedroom.
And now he goes in the bedroom at night it’s going to be work to make him go back in his dog bedroom.
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NOVEMBER NOISE UPSTAIRS!
October 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
NOVEMBER NOISE UPSTAIRS!