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Neil Brand
@neilkbrand.bsky.social
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Composer, writer, broadcaster, musician, into film, theatre, and all things entertainment - touring regularly. www.neilbrand.com #composer #filmmusic #writer #broadcast
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 1d
Day three at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto and it was full-on with "Pink Tea Talking" and "little mites of wonderment"...

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Electric Gypsy… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Day 3
Let’s start at the big finish shall we, let’s begin with the pure diva pomp and circumstance of Italia Almirante Manzini playing the Queen...
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Grant 📸 @granttorode.bsky.social · 2d
Lands edge
Pittenweem

📷 Olympus om10
🎞️ Ilford xp2

#photography #film #35mm #filmphotography #art #monochrome #blackandwhite #seascape #cliffs #scotland #analogphotography #believeinfilm
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Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · 2d
Day three of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto was packed with Drama with a capital D. For Diva. silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/06/l...
Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 3
Monday finished with a zinger. I mean a Zingari. Italia Almirante Manzini wowed the Verdi as Wilejka, a heavy-lidded beauty with great hair, but in this case as a heavy-lidded beautiful Gypsy sheph…
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Sheryl with an S @beachblond52.bsky.social · 2d
#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #Pinks
Thank you Steve Martin for reminding us of history. These atrocities should not be happening today, but here we are. Fascism in America. #Resist. Don’t let freedom die!
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The Light Music Society @lightmusicsociety.bsky.social · 1d
Our collections come from various major figures in Light Music. Join us in exploring the riches of the Frank Cantell collection! #lightmusicsociety #sheetmusiclibrary #lightmusic
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 4d
70 HOURS TO GO!!!!

The Lost Films of Hollywood Calendar 2026, via @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
The Lost Films of Hollywood Calendar 2026
The greatest movies never made – brought to life in glorious technicolour
www.kickstarter.com
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Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social · 4d
Always a great day when the .pdf of Pordenone, which begins today, is released:

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Jon.B @jonbright.bsky.social · 4d
As part of the next phase of funding, Yorkshire Water said it had secured £11.4m,with an additional £10m to be targeted through the wider partnership.The money would support work to open up 310 miles (500km) of river habitat across Yorkshire over the next five years.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Yorkshire rivers funding boost to help fish migration
Work is ongoing to clear Yorkshire's rivers of barriers that prevent fish from moving freely.
www.bbc.com
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 6d
About time consequences were faced for the PPE scandal…

But why only Michelle Mone?

£15b worth of contracts were flagged with a corruption risk

So where’s the rest of them?

And what about the Tory ministers who greenlit that institutionally corrupt VIP lane?
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Neil Brand @neilkbrand.bsky.social · 5d
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...
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Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · 7d
The Guardian's review of Silents Synced. Will you be giving it a go?

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror review – musical mash-up tries for new approach
This new approach to silent cinema is like trying to watch a movie while your next-door neighbour has their music on too loud
www.theguardian.com
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Neil Brand @neilkbrand.bsky.social · 8d
@bsky.app Nice piece on the Faber website about my score performances. www.fabermusic.com/news/new-eng...
New England Film Orchestra perform Brand’s Blackmail | Faber Music
Hitchcock's silent thriller in Lowell, MA
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 8d
Happy #SilentMovieDay to all who celebrate!! Five silent films just added to the "screening room" of the NFPF Website--including Clara Bow in POISONED PARADISE (1924), OAKLAND NEWSREELS (1914-1921), & a frozen north saga starring Corinne Griffith. 🎞️🎶🤩

www.filmpreservation.org/blog/2025/9/...
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Tallgirl6234 @tallgirl6234.bsky.social · 9d
This is America. Where we have turned golf violent. European players have vowed to never return to America to play the sport.
Footage shows moment Rory McIlroy's wife Erica is hit by can of beer by fan in shocking incident
Video footage of the shocking incident involving Rory McIlroy's wife Erica at the Ryder Cup has been shared online
www.ladbible.com
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 9d
Congrats to Moldova!!! Russia threw everything to destabilize the election and failed spectacularly.

Democracy won 🙌🏼
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GrumpyGirdle 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿〓〓🇪🇺🇫🇷🇺🇦🇵🇸🐈‍⬛📚🌊 @grumpygirdle.bsky.social · 9d
Pasta so yes, I look like a Jackson Pollock painting
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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 9d
Taurus: Today you will eat very badly. It will be excellent food, you'll just do a shit job of eating it.
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𝘼𝙡𝙚𝙭𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙈𝙘𝙆𝙞𝙣𝙡𝙚𝙮 @ajohmss1956.bsky.social · 10d
It's beginning to look more and more like Johnson himself might be in the Epstein files.
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Cory Laran @corylaran.bsky.social · 11d
Speaker Mike Johnson is delaying the swearing in of the new House Member because she’ll be the 218th vote to force the release of the Epstein Files.

He pretends to be a good Christian man while protecting violent child rapists.
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Film Noir UK @filmnoiruk.bsky.social · 10d
Caught up with the Plaza Cinema team in Weston-super-Mare yesterday, in ref to #FilmNoirFest. Very excited to say that we have been upgraded!

This year the festival will take place in Cinema 4 (like last year) and (new for 2025) Cinema 1. #FilmNoir Passes available here: ti.to/film-noir-uk...
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 11d
Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy
Ms. Halligan, who took over on Monday after her predecessor quit rather than prosecute James B. Comey with what he believed was insufficient evidence, had a little trouble with the first two tasks. At one point, she entered the wrong courtroom. When she found the right one, she stood on the wrong side of the judge, then appeared confused about the paperwork she just had signed.
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Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social · 10d
In Bradford for Widescreen Weekend and staying at the grand but somewhat faded Midland Hotel where, I am perversely delighted to discover, in 1905 Sir Henry Irving breathed his last on this staircase. His manager, Bram Stoker, was in attendance.
Photograph of grand staircase stretching away from the camera, with decorative metal handrails and a patterned carpet.
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Neil Brand @neilkbrand.bsky.social · 11d
11.55am Edinburgh Waverley today for BBC Radio 3!
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GrumpyGirdle 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿〓〓🇪🇺🇫🇷🇺🇦🇵🇸🐈‍⬛📚🌊 @grumpygirdle.bsky.social · 11d
Weird.
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Neuroscience finds musicians feel pain differently from the rest of us
Can musical training rewire the brain to resist pain?
theconversation.com
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Neil Brand @neilkbrand.bsky.social · 12d
I'm busking film music on Edinburgh Waverley station tomorrow morning for the BBC!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Train Tracks, Live from Edinburgh Waverley
A railway extravaganza celebrating 200 years of the birth of the modern railway
www.bbc.co.uk
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Steve Doherty @stevedoherty.bsky.social · 13d
Colostomy Bag. £5 each way.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 13d
"Least I saw off Boris"
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GrumpyGirdle 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿〓〓🇪🇺🇫🇷🇺🇦🇵🇸🐈‍⬛📚🌊 @grumpygirdle.bsky.social · 13d
I'm not a bird expert, but I do find them relaxing to watch and listen to. Nothing is more tranquil than watching birds by a river in the midst of a town, where everything stressful is buzzing behind you.
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