Sean Kaye-Smith
@seanks.bsky.social
Finished ‘Ulysses’ and Offa’s Dyke this year (2024), so feeling ‘Billy Goat chuffed.’
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Forget Lodger, Iggy Pop's The Idiot Is The Last Piece Of David Bowie's Berlin Trilogy #BrianEno thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
January 19, 2026 at 7:42 AM
Forget Lodger, Iggy Pop's The Idiot Is The Last Piece Of David Bowie's Berlin Trilogy #BrianEno thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
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They call them corpse roads, coffin paths. They call them wraith ways, lych lanes. Routes carved into the land by those grief-heavy feet coming from outlying places to distant churches for burial. Death as procession, death as ritual journey. A haunted hodology. – Dr. M. Benn
January 17, 2026 at 10:45 AM
They call them corpse roads, coffin paths. They call them wraith ways, lych lanes. Routes carved into the land by those grief-heavy feet coming from outlying places to distant churches for burial. Death as procession, death as ritual journey. A haunted hodology. – Dr. M. Benn
#Madonna remixes are always interesting and often brilliant. Would like to know the process(es). Does she say: get on with it/do your thing, or perhaps: I’d like this, this and this please? Or something else? Whatever, the results are usually terrific.
January 17, 2026 at 3:59 PM
#Madonna remixes are always interesting and often brilliant. Would like to know the process(es). Does she say: get on with it/do your thing, or perhaps: I’d like this, this and this please? Or something else? Whatever, the results are usually terrific.
Well, that was fun (sort of). #HermanHesse
January 13, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Well, that was fun (sort of). #HermanHesse
Never mind upcoming #Beatles films, someone should make one on this lot: how #SimonDupree didn’t exist, they hated their big hit, the Chinese actress who couldn’t speak Chinese, making a record as The Monks (which was thought was the Beatles), #EltonJohn & #DudleyMoore played piano for them, etc..
January 13, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Never mind upcoming #Beatles films, someone should make one on this lot: how #SimonDupree didn’t exist, they hated their big hit, the Chinese actress who couldn’t speak Chinese, making a record as The Monks (which was thought was the Beatles), #EltonJohn & #DudleyMoore played piano for them, etc..
I’ve just read this, by #RichardBrautighan (1935-84): a 7/10, but not as good as ‘In Watermelon Sugar’ (1968); but much better than Sombrero Fallout’ (1976).
December 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I’ve just read this, by #RichardBrautighan (1935-84): a 7/10, but not as good as ‘In Watermelon Sugar’ (1968); but much better than Sombrero Fallout’ (1976).
(Little) Solsbury Hill - as in the #PeterGabriel song - and Crossleaze Studios, in that very hilly area just north of #Bath, which the #CotswoldWay passes through, West of the A46 and East of Lansdown Hill. An area of undulating single-track roads which feels very remote, despite nearby Bath.
December 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
(Little) Solsbury Hill - as in the #PeterGabriel song - and Crossleaze Studios, in that very hilly area just north of #Bath, which the #CotswoldWay passes through, West of the A46 and East of Lansdown Hill. An area of undulating single-track roads which feels very remote, despite nearby Bath.
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"The Ox Drove" at Win Green. My photo with the equivalent artwork by @annadillon.bsky.social which I am lucky enough to own and have on my wall! This was displayed at Wessex Airscapes exhibition.
December 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"The Ox Drove" at Win Green. My photo with the equivalent artwork by @annadillon.bsky.social which I am lucky enough to own and have on my wall! This was displayed at Wessex Airscapes exhibition.
‘When #CannedHeat hit Liberty, the world changed.’
Has #JackieDeShannon written her memoirs? She definitely should do.
Has #JackieDeShannon written her memoirs? She definitely should do.
December 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
‘When #CannedHeat hit Liberty, the world changed.’
Has #JackieDeShannon written her memoirs? She definitely should do.
Has #JackieDeShannon written her memoirs? She definitely should do.
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I listened to All of Paul's wonderful episodes in the studio yesterday. His voice is wonderful, his words capture the spirit of a place & his last episode about Sycamore Gap made my eyes water.
Responding, with thanks, with my painting The Aerial Horse.
Responding, with thanks, with my painting The Aerial Horse.
December 13, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I listened to All of Paul's wonderful episodes in the studio yesterday. His voice is wonderful, his words capture the spirit of a place & his last episode about Sycamore Gap made my eyes water.
Responding, with thanks, with my painting The Aerial Horse.
Responding, with thanks, with my painting The Aerial Horse.
There are two routes through #WimborneMinster on the #StourValleyWay, the Northern route through the town, and the Southern route through the water meadows. They can be combined to make an excellent 4 mile circular walk. #Dorset
December 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
There are two routes through #WimborneMinster on the #StourValleyWay, the Northern route through the town, and the Southern route through the water meadows. They can be combined to make an excellent 4 mile circular walk. #Dorset
#BlackGrape at #Bristol #Electric last night. Great band, wonderful music…but #ShaunRyder barely took his eyes off Kermit all night. He even seemed to be singing to him rather than the audience; the body language was odd.
December 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
#BlackGrape at #Bristol #Electric last night. Great band, wonderful music…but #ShaunRyder barely took his eyes off Kermit all night. He even seemed to be singing to him rather than the audience; the body language was odd.
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The Goring Gap from Lardon Chase is a spectacular view of Streatley and Goring on Thames, which are picturesque villages on the borders of Berkshire and Oxfordshire.
The River Thames runs through the valley on its way to London and cuts between the Berkshire Downs and the Chilterns.
Oil on board.
The River Thames runs through the valley on its way to London and cuts between the Berkshire Downs and the Chilterns.
Oil on board.
December 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The Goring Gap from Lardon Chase is a spectacular view of Streatley and Goring on Thames, which are picturesque villages on the borders of Berkshire and Oxfordshire.
The River Thames runs through the valley on its way to London and cuts between the Berkshire Downs and the Chilterns.
Oil on board.
The River Thames runs through the valley on its way to London and cuts between the Berkshire Downs and the Chilterns.
Oil on board.
#WilliamBurroughs in ‘Naked Lunch’ mode. Oddly compelling, but his desire to shock seems a touch sad; no doubt it was more potent in 1961. At least a great band was - presumably - partly inspired by this one.
December 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
#WilliamBurroughs in ‘Naked Lunch’ mode. Oddly compelling, but his desire to shock seems a touch sad; no doubt it was more potent in 1961. At least a great band was - presumably - partly inspired by this one.
Home on Sunday is always #JSBach day, and today it’s been this gem. Awesome stuff. #JoshuaRifkin #TheBachEnsemble
November 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Home on Sunday is always #JSBach day, and today it’s been this gem. Awesome stuff. #JoshuaRifkin #TheBachEnsemble
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November 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
#Moonfleet (1895) J. Meade Faulkner’s great novel of smuggling and kidnap, and Moonfleet Manor now, much expanded and a very welcoming hotel, on the shores of the lagoon behind #ChesilBeach; a wonderful setting. Photos: 28.11.25
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
#Moonfleet (1895) J. Meade Faulkner’s great novel of smuggling and kidnap, and Moonfleet Manor now, much expanded and a very welcoming hotel, on the shores of the lagoon behind #ChesilBeach; a wonderful setting. Photos: 28.11.25
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love David Kynaston’s books and currently into this one. Turns out it was a very important year and not just because I was born during it. Superb read.
November 29, 2025 at 10:22 AM
love David Kynaston’s books and currently into this one. Turns out it was a very important year and not just because I was born during it. Superb read.
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Fan Frynych trig point (630m) in the western Brecon Beacons, with a cloud inversion blowing by to the South.
November 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Fan Frynych trig point (630m) in the western Brecon Beacons, with a cloud inversion blowing by to the South.
November 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
#SoftMachine at the #JamJar in #Bristol last night, now led by #JohnEtheridge and sounding as wonderful as ever. I last saw them in #Norwich in November 1972!
November 24, 2025 at 7:11 AM
#SoftMachine at the #JamJar in #Bristol last night, now led by #JohnEtheridge and sounding as wonderful as ever. I last saw them in #Norwich in November 1972!
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A British politician turns out to be a traitor … and to find the report on the Daily Mail’s website you have to scroll past 19 other stories first #nathangill
November 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
A British politician turns out to be a traitor … and to find the report on the Daily Mail’s website you have to scroll past 19 other stories first #nathangill