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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 4h

Ah I really like that one too. Also partially about Winona Ryder

calicocatface.bsky.social @calicocatface.bsky.social · 6h

I love The Only Girl Who Would Ever Break My Heart. I figured it out on guitar.

Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 7h

The City of Gold and Lead

Inspired by the John Christopher book and living in London. The original CD came with a lovely paper cut sleeve.

Listen if you like: the sadboi stuff

Favorite songs: 10,000 Letters of Love, My Sensitive Feelings, Retrospectively

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 7h

The """""lead single""""" from this album, "10,000 letters of love", featured this paper cut/back projection video vimeo.com/66058110

(this was back when I was calling myself "The Sound of The Ladies", a phase that has passed)

10,000 Letters of Love

Video for the song "10,000 Letters of Love" by The Sound of The Ladies from their latest album "The City of Gold and Lead" - available as a…

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 7h

The City of Gold and Lead

Inspired by the John Christopher book and living in London. The original CD came with a lovely paper cut sleeve.

Listen if you like: the sadboi stuff

Favorite songs: 10,000 Letters of Love, My Sensitive Feelings, Retrospectively

palebird.bandcamp.com/album/the-ci...

The City of Gold and Lead [REMASTERED], by Pale Bird

11 track album

palebird.bandcamp.com

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 7h

One hundred promises of fire

This was written for my friend Dawn’s birthday. Some of it is about her, some is about Michael Gove.

Listen if you like: folk with a magic realist flavour
Favourite songs: Books Before Bros, Enemy of Promise

palebird.bandcamp.com/album/one-hu...

One Hundred Promises of Fire, by Pale Bird

6 track album

palebird.bandcamp.com

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 7h

Through Intermittent Rain

Written for: a live event in a museum, a programmer who wants to be a horse, a Brautigan Book Club, the oldest tree.

Listen if you like: that sort of thing
Favourite songs: Methuselah, You’re No More Than A Mile From The Beach

palebird.bandcamp.com/album/throug...

Through Intermittent Rain [Remastered], by Pale Bird

11 track album

palebird.bandcamp.com

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 7h

Ten things which aren’t love

My first album as “Pale Bird”; people seem to like this one.

Listen if you like: lyrically dense business, long song titles
Favourite songs: the bats and the bears, what do you think of when you don’t think of me?

palebird.bandcamp.com/album/ten-th...

Ten Things Which Aren't Love, by Pale Bird

12 track album

palebird.bandcamp.com

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 1d

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GW had £263M in annual profit but Uk fishing had profits of £337M last year. England only had £57M of that though. (These are 2024/2025 numbers)

UK’s fishing fleet nets over £1 billion but industry challenges remain | Seafish)

The latest Economics of the UK Fishing Fleet report from Seafish presents economic estimates at UK, home nation and fleet segment level for the UK fishing fleet.

www.seafish.org

Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 1d

Do Bolt Thrower count?

the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · Aug 14

People are always rightly pointing out that Warhammer contributes more to the British economy than the fishing industry, but the problem is that there just aren't very many folk songs about Warhammer

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 1d

I think Year of the Bird 4 is my favourite of the 4, and "Semi-prepared remarks for a surprise awards ceremony" is my favourite in the collection. But there's a few others that come close...

More bandcamp travels to come!

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 1d

Year of the Bird volume 4 was recorded on tour in the US in late 2018 - Austin, Minneapolis, Seattle, Boston...

Listen if you like: beats & pieces
Faves: At least we got some decent punk, Minnesota Sunrise, Semi-prepared remarks for a surprise awards ceremony

palebird.bandcamp.com/album/year-o...

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 1d

Year of the Bird volume 3 was recorded in Hobart, other parts of Tasmania and Australia, and the UK

Listen if you like: beats, the heavens, acrostics
Faves: snowmelt, I only see the moon, dental health

palebird.bandcamp.com/album/year-o...

Year of The Bird (Volume 2), by Pale Bird

11 track album

palebird.bandcamp.com

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 1d

Year of the Bird volume 2 was recorded in Japan, the American South, and Australia

Listen if you like: Beats, depression, Robocop, and medical anxiety
Faves: Passion, The Mountains Look Like Scotland

palebird.bandcamp.com/album/year-o...

Year of The Bird (Volume 2), by Pale Bird

11 track album

palebird.bandcamp.com

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 1d

Year of the Bird volume 1 was recorded in Oakland, Hawaii, Japan, and Hong Kong:

Listen if you like: songs about fascism, Ursula LeGuin, and Winona Ryder
Faves: Rusty Horse Bones, Footnote, Obliterate-Annihilite

palebird.bandcamp.com/album/year-o...

Year of the Bird (Volume 1), by Pale Bird

10 track album

palebird.bandcamp.com

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 1d

In 2018, I travelled to all sorts of places, writing and recording a song a week (with a few weeks off), using field recordings of freight trains, waffle makers, nightingale floors, coqui frogs, and more. The result is a four-album collection called Year of The Bird:

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 1d

Apple Tree

Written for the podcast The Family Tree, it uses the melody from The Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal, the oldest piece of written music, and paraphrases the Pirkei Avot.

Listen if you like: songs about deep time and trees
Favourite song: yep, a single

palebird.bandcamp.com/album/apple-...

Apple Tree, by Pale Bird

1 track album

palebird.bandcamp.com

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 1d

More Bandcamp!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 3d

I thought this was gravy and mash

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d

OnlyFlans

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 5d

O’Henry O’clock

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 5d

Shares please. You have been an incredible light to young dad H and his toddlers—keeping them housed for almost a year has saved them from deadly cold, exposure, shrapnel. For kids, this isn’t trivial. Sit with that impact and keep it going.

They still need that support.

18 hours left. 23/640

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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ceej @ceej.online · 5d

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 5d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 6d

A thousand things going on in this post.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 6d

In some ways this is the government now

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 6d

No, we settled in Vancouver, Canada, at least for now!

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Mary Epworth @maryepworth.bsky.social · 7d

In short season 10 of @withinthewires.bsky.social needs some music! It's the final season too, which is sad because @happierman.bsky.social and @j9andif.bsky.social are BRILLIANT colleagues and this has been a really wonderful world to be part of. <3

Mary Epworth @maryepworth.bsky.social · 7d

Once a year, the lesser-spotted Mary Epworth manages to drag herself into a Logic session, to actually record some new music. Today is that day.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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