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🫠 Joe Sparrow ⧖⃝

@joesparrow.bsky.social

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terelinck.com | Highly saturated artist; music biz word-vomiter; verbose bullshitter; furtive '93-'99 drum 'n' bass aficionado. Views “Я” mine.

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🫠 Joe Sparrow ⧖⃝ @joesparrow.bsky.social · Nov 18

Hello! I make art and portraiture that's over-saturated, under-complicated, and dreamlike. Here's some stuff:
🧽 Art: terelinck.com/art/
🪣 Portraiture: terelinck.com/portraits/
🩻 Artist Statements: terelinck.com/artist-state...
🧬 A Gif That Remains Relevant:

the words lol nothing matters are written in green on a white background

Alt: the words lol nothing matters are written in green on a white background

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🫠 Joe Sparrow ⧖⃝ @joesparrow.bsky.social · Apr 10

*UNLURKS* Hey it's a new ep of I Formed A Band with Dunstan Bruce from Chumbawamba! It's a good one! I accidentally compare Dunstan, an anarchist art prankster, to Kier Starmer! @eddieargos.bsky.social reveals that he's met 3 of the Wu-Tang! It's all going off, TBH open.spotify.com/episode/3dwD...

Dunstan Bruce formed a band! Chumbawamba, anarchy, and accidentally writing a global super-hit

I Formed A Band · Episode

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🫠 Joe Sparrow ⧖⃝ @joesparrow.bsky.social · Mar 13

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6GkL...

Website: iformedaband.com

RSS: feeds.zencastr.com/f/dr7K47o8.rss

The Argos Catalogue: Eddie answers listener's letters (and reveals his time as a traffic warden, his beef with Kele from Bloc Party and the glory days of Landfiull Indie)

I Formed A Band · Episode

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🫠 Joe Sparrow ⧖⃝ @joesparrow.bsky.social · Mar 13

Lordy it’s a new I Formed A Band episode format: The Argos Catalogue - in which we learn… how @eddieargos.bsky.social was a traffic warden and REFUSED to give Mel C parking tickets;
his karate-feud with Kele off of Bloc Party; the value of Landfill Indie and more podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

The Argos Catalogue: Eddie answers listener's letters (and reveals his time as a traffic warden, his beef with Kele from Bloc Party and the glory days of Landfiull Indie)

Podcast Episode · I Formed A Band · 13/03/2025 · 47m

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🫠 Joe Sparrow ⧖⃝ @joesparrow.bsky.social · Feb 28

I've just noticed i put the apostrophe in the wrong place in "Beastie Boys'"

a man in a suit and tie is smiling in front of a wooden screen .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is smiling in front of a wooden screen .

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🫠 Joe Sparrow ⧖⃝ @joesparrow.bsky.social · Feb 28

Also here's one of those "clips" that's suppose to "encourage virality"

🫠 Joe Sparrow ⧖⃝ @joesparrow.bsky.social · Feb 28

LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE

I Formed A Band: iformedaband.com

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

RSS: feeds.zencastr.com/f/dr7K47o8.rss

🫠 Joe Sparrow ⧖⃝ @joesparrow.bsky.social · Feb 28

Unlurking to RUTHLESSLY PROMOTE me & @eddieargos.bsky.social's new podcast about – what else? – forming bands. In Ep.1: the amazing @bistheband.bsky.social, who talk about how their fanzine got them signed to the
Beastie Boy's label. LISTEN HERE :) -> open.spotify.com/episode/0IJN...

Bis formed a band! Top of the Pops, writing the Powerpuff Girls theme, and hanging by the pool with the Beastie Boys

I Formed A Band · Episode

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🫠 Joe Sparrow ⧖⃝ @joesparrow.bsky.social · Dec 19

astonishing; agonising

Alistair Green @mralistairgreen.bsky.social · Dec 18

man on a first date

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🫠 Joe Sparrow ⧖⃝ @joesparrow.bsky.social · Dec 19

This has been completely great; having live shows from @gillespeterson.bsky.social and the gang every day has 100% helped me limp across the line before I stop for xmas. Listen now! worldwidefm.net

WorldwideFM @worldwidefm.bsky.social · Nov 29

ℂ𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕛𝕠𝕚𝕟 𝕦𝕤!

As we count down to Christmas, WorldwideFM will be broadcasting daily throughout December starting this Monday! @gillespeterson.bsky.social

Stay tuned and watch the schedule for more details!

🫠 Joe Sparrow ⧖⃝ @joesparrow.bsky.social · Dec 17

KRISTY

#collage #collageart #art @bsky.art

🫠 Joe Sparrow ⧖⃝ @joesparrow.bsky.social · Dec 13

"Mel's done a synergy"

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🫠 Joe Sparrow ⧖⃝ @joesparrow.bsky.social · Dec 13

I absolutely, absolutely, absolutely cannot wait for this Robbie Williams/monkey biopic www.theguardian.com/music/2024/d...

‘Fame is a drug like LSD’: Robbie Williams on success, sexuality and his simian movie alter ego

The former Take That star has made a biopic, Better Man, in which he’s played by a CGI chimpanzee. He talks about sex, drugs and the traumatic madness of 90s pop

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · Dec 8

A Brief History of Music Today Is Just Noise

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🫠 Joe Sparrow ⧖⃝ @joesparrow.bsky.social · Dec 11

Fame 4

#art
#collage

🫠 Joe Sparrow ⧖⃝ @joesparrow.bsky.social · Dec 11

This is great!

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🫠 Joe Sparrow ⧖⃝ @joesparrow.bsky.social · Dec 11

fast fashion ultra violence

#art #collage

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kottke.org @kottke.org · Dec 8

Jia Tolentino on the sometimes celebratory reaction to the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and what it says about business & violence in America. “A denied health-insurance claim can instantly bend the trajectory of a life toward bankruptcy and misery and death.” [newyorker.com]

A Man Was Murdered in Cold Blood and You’re Laughing?

What the death of a health-insurance C.E.O. means to America.

www.newyorker.com

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Andy Baio @andy.baio.net · Dec 4

In his latest video, @hankgreen.bsky.social talks about a phenomenon you may have noticed here: LLM-driven bots programmed to relentlessly disagree with anyone and everyone.

Who is Creating The Non-Human Army

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🫠 Joe Sparrow ⧖⃝ @joesparrow.bsky.social · Dec 4

Hey Darren, appreciate the reply. It’s absolutely good to hear your thoughts and we are all in the same boat (possibly literally) here I think!

🫠 Joe Sparrow ⧖⃝ @joesparrow.bsky.social · Dec 4

I am told by dozens of people all year - especially DIY/emerging artists - that they find it really useful. That pleases me. I’m equally happy to hear a dissenting opinion and treat both the same. And finally, like all lists, this is our opinion, and we all know the analogy about opinions :) Onward!

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🫠 Joe Sparrow ⧖⃝ @joesparrow.bsky.social · Dec 4

If those things make the list imperfect, then: you are correct. But if these lists pleased everyone they wouldn’t be doing their job. Music Ally endorses great work that isn’t submitted all year round: see the Behind the Campaign, Behind the Single, Sandbox case studies, & Pro Campaign Trackers.

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🫠 Joe Sparrow ⧖⃝ @joesparrow.bsky.social · Dec 4

Sometimes a nominating person leaves off the names of partners who helped make it happen or they are not entirely open about their strategy or KPIs etc. Here, we do our best to mitigate against these things but it’s a challenge that has no simple solution. We think the pros outweighs the cons.

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🫠 Joe Sparrow ⧖⃝ @joesparrow.bsky.social · Dec 4

Hi Darren, I’ve not got much to add to what Stu said but re its “problematic” nature: this is a necessarily finite, flawed end-of-year list. Lots of good stuff didn’t make the cut; we draw the line and move on. We are open about the fact that, like plenty of awards/lists, these are self-nominated.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Dec 3

Just a little reminder that the South Korean president who just declared martial law was elected two years ago on a wave of anti-feminist backlash. Misogyny is routinely part of the authoritarian package.

www.bbc.com/news/world-a...

Why misogyny is at the heart of South Korea's presidential elections

Disgruntled young men who resent feminism are the focus of candidates vying to be president.

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🫠 Joe Sparrow ⧖⃝ @joesparrow.bsky.social · Dec 3

I suddenly remembered the 1988 Pet Shop Boys annual I had as a kid and read from cover to cover a million times and then whoops, there goes my afternoon www.flickr.com/photos/57779...

Pet Shop Boys - 1988 Annual