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Colin Randall @salutsunderland.bsky.social · 4d

Please visit Salut! Folk if you have any liking for folk, folk-rock and related musical genres. Salutfolk.com @nextwavef.bsky.social

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Colin Randall @salutsunderland.bsky.social · 5d

Anyone for banjo music? Damien O’Kane and Ron Block explode the myth that it’s a joke instrument . Brilliant new album Banjovial reviewed salutfolk.com/2025/10/08/d...

Colin Randall @salutsunderland.bsky.social · 10d

Another look at Three Score and Ten, a great song we associate with the Watersons. salutfolk.com/2025/10/03/c...

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Colin Randall @salutsunderland.bsky.social · 11d

The new-look Salut! Folk - formerly Salut! Live - has risen from the ashes of Typepad and is revelling in its Wordpress home. Give it a try salutfolk.com @nextwavef.bsky.social

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Colin Randall @salutsunderland.bsky.social · 12d

It’s a great pic all the same

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Colin Randall @salutsunderland.bsky.social · 12d

Proud to honour - however modestly - Martin Carthy and @elizacarthy.bsky.social In this way

Andrew Curry @nextwavef.bsky.social · 12d

On the new Salut #Folk site—which looks a lot better than the old one!

Colin Randall @salutsunderland.bsky.social · 13d

Salut! Folk’s Artists of the Month: Martin and Eliza Carthy salutfolk.com/2025/10/01/a...
@elizacarthy.bsky.social @nextwavef.bsky.social

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Colin Randall @salutsunderland.bsky.social · 13d

Salut! Folk’s Artists of the Month: Martin and Eliza Carthy salutfolk.com/2025/10/01/a...
@elizacarthy.bsky.social @nextwavef.bsky.social

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Colin Randall @salutsunderland.bsky.social · 14d

And huge kudos to @nextwavef.bsky.social for his priceless work in making a success of the transition to Wordpress

Andrew Curry @nextwavef.bsky.social · 14d

Salut! Folk editor Colin Randall reviews #Altan’s gig at the Irish Cultural Centre on Saturday at the re-launched and re-designed blog now at Wordpress.

salutfolk.com/2025/09/29/a... @salutsunderland.bsky.social

Altan: the pride of Donegal

Colin Randall writes: 24 hours earlier, Altan were playing to a pleasantly rowdy crowd in Blacksod, a remote corner of Co Mayo. Hopping on a flight from Knock, they joined the bustling throng of Lo…

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Colin Randall @salutsunderland.bsky.social · 17d

Launching Salut! Folk with my appreciation of double bass maestro Danny Thompson #folk-rock #pentangle salutfolk.com/2025/09/26/d...

Danny Thompson RIP: farewell to a great musician, huge character

Introducing Salut! Folk and presenting an appreciation of Danny Thompson, the incomparable double bassist who does

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Colin Randall @salutsunderland.bsky.social · 19d

Over at the sinister Elon Musk’s place. I still have 2.6k followers though anything I post is lost in the deluge of far right demagoguery and lies.
So how do I go about climbing from my pathetic tally of 83 at Bluesky.social ?

Bluesky.social

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Colin Randall @salutsunderland.bsky.social · 20d

Let me present the final post to appear at my folk/folk-rock site Salut! Live. It dies with Typepad’s closure next week but is already settling into its new Wordpress home as salutfolk.com

#folkmusic #folkrock @elizacarthy.bsky.social @nextwavef.bsky.social

www.salutlive.com/2025/09/adie...

Adieu Salut! Live. Welcome Salut! Folk

Colin Randall, founder and editor of Salut! Live, presents the last post before the site relaunches as Salut! Folk. From next Wednesday, October 1 you will find us only at https://salutfolk.com/ and t...

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Colin Randall @salutsunderland.bsky.social · 21d

The nature of whataboutery in political and social debate discussed. Big Ben’s is only a walk- on role

#immigration #labour #tories #farage

francesalut.substack.com/p/what-about...

What about whataboutery?

Plus: unspectacular statement and spectacular baby

francesalut.substack.com

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Colin Randall @salutsunderland.bsky.social · 25d

Finally I acknowledge the case for mass deportation. Those clamouring for it, however might not approve of my choice of candidates for expulsion.

I have in mind Robinson, Farage, Katie Hopkins and every other far right demagogue we can round up...’

francesalut.substack.com/p/yes-the-an...

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Colin Randall @salutsunderland.bsky.social · 25d

Finally I acknowledge the case for mass deportation. Those clamouring for it, however might not approve of my choice of candidates for expulsion.

I have in mind Robinson, Farage, Katie Hopkins and every other far right demagogue we can round up...’

francesalut.substack.com/p/yes-the-an...

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Colin Randall @salutsunderland.bsky.social · 25d

Supporting the case for mass deportation- but wait until you see which deportees i have in mind - and praising Max Hastings for demonstrating against the Trump visit. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @kevmag.bsky.social @elizacarthy.bsky.social

francesalut.substack.com/p/yes-the-an...

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Colin Randall @salutsunderland.bsky.social · 28d

Je m’oppose l’extrême gauche et droite. Pour la France et RU, à mon avis, on a besoin des partis forts comme avant, centre-gauche et centre-droite. J’ai aucun respect pour RN, Reconquête, Reform, Trump et leurs équivalents d’ailleurs , ni pour les révolutionnaires de la crèche

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Colin Randall @salutsunderland.bsky.social · 28d

Désolé! Didn’t see your reply to your reply

Colin Randall @salutsunderland.bsky.social · 28d

Now read what I said properly
It has become a far right rag
It wasn’t before

Colin Randall @salutsunderland.bsky.social · 28d

J'ai une solution intéressante. Expulser massivement toute l'extrême droite, c'est-à-dire Le Pen/Zemmour etc de France, Farage/Tommy Robinson/Katie Hopkins/Lucy Connolly etc d'Angleterre.
Ils pourraient tous demander l'asile dans un État trumpiste.

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Colin Randall @salutsunderland.bsky.social · Sep 9

End of a magical era: Mary Black, a wonderful ambassador for Ireland and its music, says her next tour will be her last
#irishmusic @irishmusic.bsky.social

www.salutlive.com/2025/09/mary...

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Colin Randall @salutsunderland.bsky.social · Sep 4

The far right rampant

francesalut.substack.com/p/the-normal...

The normalisation of the far right

Is the renaissance of xenophobic extremism too powerful to stop?

francesalut.substack.com

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Colin Randall @salutsunderland.bsky.social · Aug 30

Can’t we introduce mass deportation of the far right, starting with Farage , Tommy Robjnson and masked hoodlums who try to storm hotels ? They could seek asylum in Trump states
#nigelfarage #immigration #donaldtrump #farageriots #farright

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Andrew Curry @nextwavef.bsky.social · Aug 26

A lovely profile of the Irish singer Mary Black by Salut Live editor @salutsunderland.bsky.social. #folk #Ireland

www.salutlive.com/2025/08/arti...

Artist of the Month: Mary Black, not before time

Colin Randall writes: for a variety of reasons, Salut! Live has been quiet of late. The Facebook group has been updated rather more conscientiously than the site but not enough. This, my first posting...

www.salutlive.com

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Colin Randall @salutsunderland.bsky.social · Aug 22

I’m in France and it is inconceivable they she’d have gone to jail here . I did feel she deserved a custodial sentence but somewhat shorter

francesalut.substack.com/p/lucy-conno...

Lucy Connolly: freed correctly, but no free speech martyr

Her release is welcome but her inflammatory, racist tweet merited jail

francesalut.substack.com

Colin Randall @salutsunderland.bsky.social · Aug 22

Right/far right attempts to portray her as a free speech martyr are frankly disgusting francesalut.substack.com/p/lucy-conno...

Lucy Connolly: freed correctly, but no free speech martyr

Her release is welcome but her inflammatory, racist tweet merited jail

francesalut.substack.com

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