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Stephen Wrench @urbanshep.bsky.social · Sep 9

‘Brighton Rock’ is always right. And I live here.

Stephen Wrench @urbanshep.bsky.social · Sep 6

Angela Rayner’s Hove apartment is - I think - just a few doors down from David Gilmour’s old house. Of course she’s the one on the dark side of the moon, now

#rayner #hove #pinkfloyd #starmer

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Stephen Wrench @urbanshep.bsky.social · Aug 11

Apocalyptic sky, with gull

#photography #heatwave #brighton

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Stephen Wrench @urbanshep.bsky.social · Aug 9

“You are beneath me”

#caturday #cats #photography

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Stephen Wrench @urbanshep.bsky.social · Aug 5

Doppelgänger

#catsofbluesky #cats #art #photography

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Stephen Wrench @urbanshep.bsky.social · Jul 12

“Now you will feed me. Feed me now.” Marlin, hypnotising his human.

#caturday #art #cats #catsofbluesky

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Stephen Wrench @urbanshep.bsky.social · Jul 8

Don’t care who you are, if you don’t love @kaetempest.bsky.social I can’t love you. Here he is - “in love and with love and for love” - at the brilliant @resident-music.com here in Brighton tonight

#lgbtq #power #love

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Stephen Wrench @urbanshep.bsky.social · Jun 30

Heatwave, lunchtime

#cats #catsofbuesky #heatwave #brighton

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Stephen Wrench @urbanshep.bsky.social · Jun 25

Ha! Turn their backs if lunch is late?

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Stephen Wrench @urbanshep.bsky.social · Jun 25

Sure, no payment needed. But if you do go ahead, I’d like to see the mural!

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Stephen Wrench @urbanshep.bsky.social · Jun 25

Portrait of a cat when his lunchtime snack is a whole nine minutes late

#cats #catsofbluesky #photography

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Stephen Wrench @urbanshep.bsky.social · Jun 19

While I loathe the not so coded racist intent of the original comment here, I’d say that in Brighton, where I live, such joke sharing would be easy, but maybe we’re all nutters here. We talk to bus drivers!

Stephen Wrench @urbanshep.bsky.social · Jun 16

Bus lookout

#gullswithjobs #birds #photography #brighton

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Stephen Wrench @urbanshep.bsky.social · Jun 14

Perfect Saturday view,
also featuring a blue horizon

#caturday #catsofbluesky

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Stephen Wrench @urbanshep.bsky.social · Jun 7

Allotment peony, after the rain

#photography #plants #flowers #allotmentlife

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Stephen Wrench @urbanshep.bsky.social · Jun 7

“You may now kiss my paw”

#caturday #cats #catsofbluesky

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The Tapeworm @tapeworm.org.uk · Jun 6

Nigel Wrench’s “Switch Off That Machine” is named one of @bandcamp.com’s best field recordings of May 2025: daily.bandcamp.com/best-field-r...

Limited quantities of the CD remaining: the-tapeworm.bandcamp.com/album/switch...

@urbanshep.bsky.social

Switch Off That Machine, by Nigel Wrench

1 track album

the-tapeworm.bandcamp.com

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Stephen Wrench @urbanshep.bsky.social · Jun 6

Thrilled that my latest archive work for @tapeworm.org.uk , ‘Switch Off That Machine’ is included in this. Thank you @bandcamp.com

Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · Jun 4

Here's a breakdown of May's Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp.

The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, May 2025

The latest roundup of intriguing sounds captured outside the studio.

daily.bandcamp.com

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Stephen Wrench @urbanshep.bsky.social · Jun 5

Three minutes and forty one seconds of pure genius

Stephen Wrench @urbanshep.bsky.social · Jun 5

Love

#pride #lgbt #edmundwhite #sound #art

stephenwrench1.bandcamp.com/track/edmund...

Edmund White reads: ‘A Sunday Outing’. February, 1993, by Stephen Wrench

track by Stephen Wrench

stephenwrench1.bandcamp.com

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Stephen Wrench @urbanshep.bsky.social · May 31

Ha! If only. Jo’burg studios including news were in the glamour of the Milpark shopping centre ..

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Stephen Wrench @urbanshep.bsky.social · May 31

Archive #caturday through the glass on my living room wall into the 1980s and my flat in Johannesburg presided over by Dexy, exiled queen of my university town, Makhanda

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Stephen Wrench @urbanshep.bsky.social · May 23

Germany, seen here from France

#photography #borders #eu #travel

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Stephen Wrench @urbanshep.bsky.social · May 17

Brighton street scene (with added gull)

#brighton #birds #photography #mclaren #cars

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Stephen Wrench @urbanshep.bsky.social · May 17

Football’s for all, always

@whitehawkfc.bsky.social #homophobiawesayno

Football v Homophobia @footballvhomophobia.com · May 17

🏳️‍🌈⚽🏳️‍⚧️ On May 17, Football v Homophobia marks the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, or #IDAHOBIT

This year, the theme of the global awareness day - which was first observed in 2004 - is “The Power of Communities”

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A graphic showing the logos of Football v Homophobia and IDAHOBIT

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