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Bradford’s Best Kept Secret
@bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social
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An elusive, ephemeral, speakeasy that takes place in Bradford’s finest buildings.

A whisky, cocktails and jazz, masquerading under the name of “poetry club”

(warning contains poets)
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This🧵
not only explains why
AI
is unavoidably shit

But it also explains why
philosophers cannot define
chairs v stools

& it serves to remind,
us to spend more time
IN reality
[ideally in elusive “poetry clubs”]
& less time doing philosophy
or online

Don’t confuse means
with ends
End

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Proper machines, steampunk machines, with valves and dials and cogs pipes and wait has that guy in the background got a beer? A photographer, captures a photographer, seen through a Victorian fly wheel, looking at something that neither camera can see. In the middle a candle, on a late industrial fire sprinkler, a big tangled hulk of red metal, which is now a museum piece. On the left, stood in darkness is a man in a hat. On the right stood in the light are things the camera cannot see.
March 28, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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We’d love to see New Model Army playing Live in Bradford as part of City of Culture 🥷 #BradfordsBestKeptSecret

@newmodelarmy.bsky.social @joolzdenby.bsky.social @bradford2025.co.uk @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social @alexrossshaw.bsky.social @kerstenengland.bsky.social
A massive Flywheel in the foreground, pipework, another flywheel. A poet. Who also did the cover art for New Model Army. A black and white image of a ramp, at the bottom of which are two obscured people, with a New Model Army Connection.
March 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Oh ffs
Reposted pictures due to image upload errors
March 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Missing photos!
Alt text was on the previous post , just the photo didn’t appear Alt text was on the previous post , just the photo didn’t appear
March 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Industrial Jazz
Hashtag World Poetry Day
Poetry Club Three

@bradfordmuseums.bsky.social @bradford2025.co.uk @bfdcathedral.bsky.social @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social

#BradfordsBestKeptSecret #Bradford2025 #WorldPoetryDay
#Whisky #Jazz #Goth #Poetry #speakeasy
🤫🥃🎹🎷🍸😎
Industrial metalwork, painting red. Two men In fedoras stand back to back. Chains, gearing, metal pipe work, one of the pipes might be a saxophone Cogs, metalwork, industry a man with a hat has a beer.
March 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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But we really appreciate your diligence in checking your exhibits
Nothing to see here
March 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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What did I miss?
Industrial Jazz / Poetry / Ukrainian dark wave synth pop… obviously. #Bradford2025

#WorldPoetryDay #BradfordsBestKeptSecret
@bradfordmuseums.bsky.social @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social @bradford2025.co.uk @bfdcathedral.bsky.social @joolzdenby.bsky.social @drlaurenpadgett.bsky.social
Industrial things. No Jazz, honest… Candle lit engineering Machines, people, Whisky.
March 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Someone told the T&A!

But they didn’t tell them much…

www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/2502228...
An infographic of someone wearing an “access no areas” lanyard https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-club-3-the-industrial-revolution-tickets-1000014900487?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&_gl=1*1hgikn9*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTMzODYwNDg5MS4xNzQxMjc4MjEz*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*MTc0MTI3ODIxMy4xLjAuMTc0MTI3ODIxMy4wLjAuMA. Candlelit whisky, Clandestine Jazz
March 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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🤫🥃🎹🍸🎷😎🤫

Some people know the secret!
They’ve already got their tickets!
Have you?

#BradfordsBestKeptSecret
#WorldPoetryDay
#Bradford2025
@bradfordmuseums.bsky.social
A poet, in silhouette, in front of an amber lit stained glass window (Check eventbrite for tickets) A candlelit whisky cocktail Candlelight tinkles the grand piano’s ivories
March 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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I
Will only trust AI,
When it knows why,
to deliberately try...
to do things wrong-ly.

To think outside the cube
To brake the rules
To subvert the normal
To have a none formulayered response
To stimulAI

#BradfordsBestKeptSecret
#WorldPoetryDay
#StillNotSharingTheLinkToEvenbrite
#Marketing101
A jazz band… Should have cropped out the foreground blurry bit. Unlit candles The back of the head of a pianist, as she stares at a stained glass window, (for divine intervention?)
March 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Poetry Rules
1 Poems do not have to rhyme or scan
2 Poems must; wait… is that scan thing a separate rule? Is this infact rule 3?
3/4 Brevity
4? Let your words&ideas soar, like an eagle
5ish No cliches…
6.5 Meta-metaphors obscure clarity
7or8 Never use emojis
#BradfordsBestKeptSecret🥃🎷
Poetry Rules🤘
Jazz sax - grooovy. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-club-3-the-industrial-revolution-tickets-1000014900487?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&_gl=1*1hgikn9*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTMzODYwNDg5MS4xNzQxMjc4MjEz*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*MTc0MTI3ODIxMy4xLjAuMTc0MTI3ODIxMy4wLjAuMA. A wall inscribed in Latin, candles, a person wearing a t-shirt which says “Fight Evil with Poetry” 🤫🎹🍸🥃🎷🥷😎🤫
March 17, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Nothing to see here!

Just poetry people,
in a poetry club,
doing the poetry things,
that poetry people do…
Er…
rhymes and stuff…
🥷

#BradfordsBestKeptSecret #WorldPoetryDay
🤫🎹🎷🍸🥃🤗🤫
@bradford2025.co.uk @bfdcathedral.bsky.social @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social
In the dim light, of what looks like a bookshop, a lady wearing glasses tries to take a photo of jazz. A candle lit table of cans and glasses in a room of people listening A poem, being read. In the darkness we can see books, and pillars and an audience, and instruments and a poet, poeting.
March 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Some clandestine #jazz
Add some candlelit #whisky
Poetic license…

#BradfordsBestKeptSecret #WorldPoetryDay
@bradfordlitfest.bsky.social @bfdcathedral.bsky.social @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social @bradford2025.co.uk @joolzdenby.bsky.social @bradfordagents.bsky.social
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Bottles of mysterious booze twinkle in the twilight https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-club-3-the-industrial-revolution-tickets-1000014900487?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&_gl=1*1hgikn9*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTMzODYwNDg5MS4xNzQxMjc4MjEz*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*MTc0MTI3ODIxMy4xLjAuMTc0MTI3ODIxMy4wLjAuMA. A dimly lit double bass, lies on its side, waiting… A candle, and a candle lit bottle of tonic water, jazz can be heard in the background A bookshop, arguably the finest bookstore in Britain, after hours, nothing is happening - honest…
March 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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You may have gathered some evidence, but can you use that evidence, without incriminating yourself… #BradfordsBestKeptSecret 🎷🥃🍸🎹😎🤫
A vicar, films something, somewhere, on his phone, but I can’t tell you what or wear. It’s a secret. A blonde haired lady films something, somewhere, on her phone, but I can’t tell you what, or where, it’s a secret.
March 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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“Poetry Club”? Niiiccee.

[Fast Show fans will really like the alt text on this one!]
A dimly lit keyboard, plays jazz, sweet. Dimly lit drums, playing jazzz, smooth. Dimly lit cymbals and keys…extra jazzzzy, mellow. A dimly lit double bass, double jazz; jazz jazz! groovy.
March 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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People often ask me, at “Poetry Club” will there be whisky?
“Of course!” I reply. It wouldn’t be much of a “Poetry Club” without Whisky, I mean Jazz, I mean poems… poems! poetry comes as standard. @bfdcathedral.bsky.social @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social @bradford2025.co.uk @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social
We look over the shoulder of a purple haired lady who is drinking a cocktail. Jazz plays in the background A whisky old fashioned cocktail, and a drinks menu We look over the shoulder of a blonde haired lady, who is filming something jazzy on her phone
March 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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What are your plans for #WorldPoetryDay?
Have you ever wondered what happens in @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social after they shut?
@bradford2025.co.uk #Bradford2025
#BradfordsBestKeptSecret
Film poster for “A Night at the Museum” half visible in the darkness are dinosaur bones, a monkey, a lion and models of soldiers
March 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Highly recommend following @bfdcathedral.bsky.social

All kinds of fabulous things happen inside their gothic arched walls… I’ve said too much! #BradfordsBestKeptSecret #FollowFriday @visitbradford.bsky.social @englishcathedrals.co.uk @bradford2025.co.uk @bradfordmusicscene.bsky.social
A glass of amber liquid is illuminated by a candle, in the background a chanteuse is just discernible in front of a stained glass window. Gothic arches… Amber sunset lighting streams through the upper windows of the Cathedral’s southern wall Candlelight catches reflections on grand piano keys
March 7, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Poetry Club, on World Poetry Day, will be in one of Bradford’s finest buildings.

The Secret Tickets are somewhere on Eventbrite (but sssh! Don’t tell anyone!) #Whisky #Jazz #poetry #bradfordsbestkeptsecret

@bradfordmuseums.bsky.social @bradford2025.co.uk @bradfordagents.bsky.social
A candle, a drink, a bottle of spritzer, an air of mystery. The Bradford Speakeasy https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-club-3-the-industrial-revolution-tickets-1000014900487?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&_gl=1*1hgikn9*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTMzODYwNDg5MS4xNzQxMjc4MjEz*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*MTc0MTI3ODIxMy4xLjAuMTc0MTI3ODIxMy4wLjAuMA.. The view over the shoulder, of someone taking a photograph of something. The sound of Jazz. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-club-3-the-industrial-revolution-tickets-1000014900487?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&_gl=1*1hgikn9*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTMzODYwNDg5MS4xNzQxMjc4MjEz*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*MTc0MTI3ODIxMy4xLjAuMTc0MTI3ODIxMy4wLjAuMA..
March 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Maybe it’s time for “Poetry Club 3”
Maybe it’s time to move to the Industrial Zone?
(I’ve said too much)

#Bradford2025 #Poetry #Jazz #Speakeasy
August 21, 2024 at 3:00 PM