Andrew Curry
@nextwavef.bsky.social
Futurist in London. Pessimistic and sceptical. See my Just Two Things newsletter, plus a folk music sideline at Salut! Live. New here, so still learning.
My Salut #Folk colleague Steve Peck writes at the blog on Natalie Wildgoose-“a mysterious and evocative artist who has since turned my musical world upside down. She’s not quite like anything I’ve heard before.”
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From the North: The Quiet Songs of Natalie Wildgoose - Salut! Folk
Steve Peck writes: A fleeting tip put me on the trail of North Yorkshire and London-based folk eccentric Natalie Wildgoose. Little did I know I would stumble
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December 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
My Salut #Folk colleague Steve Peck writes at the blog on Natalie Wildgoose-“a mysterious and evocative artist who has since turned my musical world upside down. She’s not quite like anything I’ve heard before.”
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December 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
@theguardian.com If I have a subscription—and you know I have a subscription—I should be able to use my subscription number to sign in, rather than you trawling for email addresses. Shockingly poor UI. Please fix it.
December 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
@theguardian.com If I have a subscription—and you know I have a subscription—I should be able to use my subscription number to sign in, rather than you trawling for email addresses. Shockingly poor UI. Please fix it.
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Not quite the ultimate accolade but the wonder that is @katherinepriddy.bsky.social has the Song of the Day at Salut! Folk.
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@nextwavef.bsky.social
Katherine Priddy just gets better and better. Matches, inspired by the witch-hunts and trials, is Salut! Folk's Song of the Day. Please read, listen and share!
@katherinepriddy.bsky.social
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Song of the Day: Katherine Priddy’s cauldron of controlled anger - Salut! Folk
Katherine Priddy's powerful single, Matches, inspired by witch-hunts and trials spanning three centuries, is Salut! Folk's Song of the Day
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December 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Not quite the ultimate accolade but the wonder that is @katherinepriddy.bsky.social has the Song of the Day at Salut! Folk.
@nextwavef.bsky.social
@nextwavef.bsky.social
It’s crazy that there’s no limit on how much an individual can donate to a political party in a single year. I just signed @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to put a cap on how much they can donate in the #ElectionsBill
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/179420/...
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Sign now to demand an end to big money in politics
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December 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
It’s crazy that there’s no limit on how much an individual can donate to a political party in a single year. I just signed @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to put a cap on how much they can donate in the #ElectionsBill
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/179420/...
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/179420/...
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At the small and imperfectly formed Salut! Folk site, Maggie Holland’s classic and classy compilation Bones is Album of the Month. Please share
@maggieholland.bsky.social
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Album of the month: Bones by Maggie Holland - Salut! Folk
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November 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
At the small and imperfectly formed Salut! Folk site, Maggie Holland’s classic and classy compilation Bones is Album of the Month. Please share
@maggieholland.bsky.social
@nextwavef.bsky.social
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@maggieholland.bsky.social
@nextwavef.bsky.social
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@gregsargent.bsky.social I used to work as a broadcast journalist in the UK, including for the BBC, where I was trained. As soon as you say the word “most”, as in Rutger Bregman’s script, there is a libel risk. If he had said “one of the most”, or “an openly corrupt President”, it’s defendable.
November 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
@gregsargent.bsky.social I used to work as a broadcast journalist in the UK, including for the BBC, where I was trained. As soon as you say the word “most”, as in Rutger Bregman’s script, there is a libel risk. If he had said “one of the most”, or “an openly corrupt President”, it’s defendable.
In which I discover that @microsoft.com has locked together in Word ‘suggest’ mode and Copilot. Result. Have downloaded a competitor. @microsoft.com may be desperate to get a return from its AI investment (fat chance) but I don’t need to help. #Enshittification
November 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
In which I discover that @microsoft.com has locked together in Word ‘suggest’ mode and Copilot. Result. Have downloaded a competitor. @microsoft.com may be desperate to get a return from its AI investment (fat chance) but I don’t need to help. #Enshittification
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Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
“Like a pair of large and powerful planets revolving in entirely separate solar systems, Bob #Dylan and Sam Shepard had slowly been gravitating towards each other.” They met on the Rolling Thunder Revue, and it all fell apart. New post at Salut #Folk.
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Bob Dylan, Sam Shepard, and the chaos of Rolling Thunder Revue – Salut! Folk
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November 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
“Like a pair of large and powerful planets revolving in entirely separate solar systems, Bob #Dylan and Sam Shepard had slowly been gravitating towards each other.” They met on the Rolling Thunder Revue, and it all fell apart. New post at Salut #Folk.
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Tribute to a great figure of Scottish folk music . RIP Archie Fisher @nextwavef.bsky.social
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November 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Tribute to a great figure of Scottish folk music . RIP Archie Fisher @nextwavef.bsky.social
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John Martyn’s classic album Grace and Danger was released 45 years old this month, after a year’s delay. It’s our Album of the Month at the new look Salut #Folk site on Wordpress. I like a lot of Martyn’s records, but I think this is probably his masterpiece.
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Album of the month: the story of John Martyn’s Grace and Danger – Salut! Folk
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October 22, 2025 at 8:35 AM
John Martyn’s classic album Grace and Danger was released 45 years old this month, after a year’s delay. It’s our Album of the Month at the new look Salut #Folk site on Wordpress. I like a lot of Martyn’s records, but I think this is probably his masterpiece.
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On my Just Two Things newsletter—living in a future biopunk world; and the future of global population is down, down, down. And an introduction to the Salut! Folk site, now hosted on Wordpress.
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![An Indian women holds her young baby in the air. The photo is a background for a description of the two posts: Once the world's population starts to decline, it will keep on falling // 'No snitching, no pigs, no corpos': living the biopunk life. [J2T #651]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lbvlqosvyr4ekonivyjaoh77/bafkreig2tgwxmfppbo6vot5cebcqsbixruygb7gxnvdgq3r4qiy6nosi4q@jpeg)
October 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
On my Just Two Things newsletter—living in a future biopunk world; and the future of global population is down, down, down. And an introduction to the Salut! Folk site, now hosted on Wordpress.
justtwothings.substack.com/p/9-october-...
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Anyone who likes seriously good contemporary acoustic music drawing on folk influences should read this American admirer’s excellent piece on Katherine Priddy @nextwavef.bsky.social
@katherinepriddy.bsky.social
@katherinepriddy.bsky.social
@katherinepriddy.bsky.social
hi Katherine. Salut! Folk’s admiring assessment of your career so far is live at salutfolk.com/2025/10/16/k...
hi Katherine. Salut! Folk’s admiring assessment of your career so far is live at salutfolk.com/2025/10/16/k...
October 16, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Anyone who likes seriously good contemporary acoustic music drawing on folk influences should read this American admirer’s excellent piece on Katherine Priddy @nextwavef.bsky.social
@katherinepriddy.bsky.social
@katherinepriddy.bsky.social
If I’d just taken a beating at the hands of some judges I might just issue a short statement saying we were reviewing their comments. But there goes @ukhomeoffice.bsky.social , in a big hole and digging as fast as they can.
October 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
If I’d just taken a beating at the hands of some judges I might just issue a short statement saying we were reviewing their comments. But there goes @ukhomeoffice.bsky.social , in a big hole and digging as fast as they can.
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Please visit Salut! Folk if you have any liking for folk, folk-rock and related musical genres. Salutfolk.com @nextwavef.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Please visit Salut! Folk if you have any liking for folk, folk-rock and related musical genres. Salutfolk.com @nextwavef.bsky.social
On my Just Two Things newsletter—living in a future biopunk world; and the future of global population is down, down, down. And an introduction to the Salut! Folk site, now hosted on Wordpress.
justtwothings.substack.com/p/9-october-...
justtwothings.substack.com/p/9-october-...
October 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
On my Just Two Things newsletter—living in a future biopunk world; and the future of global population is down, down, down. And an introduction to the Salut! Folk site, now hosted on Wordpress.
justtwothings.substack.com/p/9-october-...
justtwothings.substack.com/p/9-october-...
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Campaigners walking from Skye to Glasgow are urging people to join their efforts to highlight 'land justice'
Land justice walking tour urges support as campaigners near end of route
www.thenational.scot
October 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Campaigners walking from Skye to Glasgow are urging people to join their efforts to highlight 'land justice'
I think they are trying to gouge their customers to pay for some of their AI costs, since the product itself isn’t worth paying for.
A 42% increase in the price of #Microsoft 365 @microsoft.com ?! How on *earth* can you justify that. Linux beckons (free, better everything, hard to beat in Linux). And this on top of the appalling productivity and hardware wasting Win 11 'upgrade'. @adammacqueen.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I think they are trying to gouge their customers to pay for some of their AI costs, since the product itself isn’t worth paying for.
Shocking slug on this FT article—because this could also just as easily be “Civil rights in UK”. Or “Democracy in UK”. A sub-editor needs to take a long hard look at themselves.
October 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Shocking slug on this FT article—because this could also just as easily be “Civil rights in UK”. Or “Democracy in UK”. A sub-editor needs to take a long hard look at themselves.
Your regular reminder that the @ukhomeoffice.bsky.social is feral and no longer fit for purpose:
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Police to get more anti-protest powers as Palestine Action ban opponents vow ‘escalation’
Home secretary says police can consider ‘cumulative impact’ of repeated demonstrations to restrict protests
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Your regular reminder that the @ukhomeoffice.bsky.social is feral and no longer fit for purpose:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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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
October 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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
On the new Salut #Folk site—which looks a lot better than the old one!
Salut! Folk’s Artists of the Month: Martin and Eliza Carthy salutfolk.com/2025/10/01/a...
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@elizacarthy.bsky.social @nextwavef.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
On the new Salut #Folk site—which looks a lot better than the old one!
Looking back at Danny Thompson’s career-a bass player who was at ease playing both folk and jazz—at the new look Salut! #Folk site on Wordpress.
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Danny Thompson: the best of both worlds
Andrew Curry writes: It’s hard to overstate how influential Danny Thompson was in the British folk scene, from his early days playing at Les Cousins with Alexis Korner, then Pentangle, to later pla…
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September 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Looking back at Danny Thompson’s career-a bass player who was at ease playing both folk and jazz—at the new look Salut! #Folk site on Wordpress.
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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.
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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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September 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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
salutfolk.com/2025/09/29/a... @salutsunderland.bsky.social