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Sid Smith
@sidsmith.bsky.social
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Freelancer writing about music & musicians in print & online. I share an office with a cat called The Bug. Contact me here or via [email protected]
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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · Nov 11
My King Crimson biog is available here:
burningshed.com/sid-smith_in...
“Vivid and incisive” Mojo
"Beautifully written and engaging" Classic Rock
“Properly indispensable” Record Collector
"The most compendious, exhaustive history of the band that anyone could want." Stuart Maconie BBC Radio 6.
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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · 48m
Slowly
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Peter Crocker @petercrockersvs.bsky.social · 3h
Soon you’ll be floating around like cinders in Spain.
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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · 3h
Deep dive, dear boy!
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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · 3h
Oh no, the Fungoid monsters from the planet Mechanus have me cornered…
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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · 9h
Earlier
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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · 7h
Debra with her head in the clouds
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Earlier
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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · 1d
Recumbent
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Recumbent
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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · 1d
Remembered Sky
Whitley Bay 2018
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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · 1d
Palm, erection and cloud
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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · 1d
Despite the branding we are in Menorca. After a day beaching about, this morning we are lazing about in the room reading. Out later. Bliss.
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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · 1d
And another…
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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · 1d
Remembered Sky
Whitley Bay 2018
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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · 2d
Look out
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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · 2d
Remembered Sky
Whitley Bay 2017
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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · 2d
The struggle continues
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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · 2d
This morning’s reading
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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · 3d
If I've told The Bug once, I've told him a thousand times NOT to bring his kills back home, but does he ever listen?
The Bug, a cat, stalks a patch of waste ground containing a human skull while looking guilty as fuck
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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · 3d
Remembered Sky
Alciston 2025
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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · 3d
If I've told The Bug once, I've told him a thousand times NOT to bring his kills back home, but does he ever listen?
The Bug, a cat, stalks a patch of waste ground containing a human skull while looking guilty as fuck
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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · 3d
Music so diaphanous I'm tempted to say it just wafted in here on a passing breeze rather than being delivered by our postie
The cover of After The Wildfire by Jan Bang & Arve Henriksen stands next to the turntable playing the LP
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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · 3d
Remembered Sky
Alciston 2025
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 3d
We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.
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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 3d
The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵
A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.
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