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Chris Barrett
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Cameraman/Librarian/Music Lover
Cycling/Walking Everywhere
https://heathcoatstreet.blogspot.com/
Nottingham, UK
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 2d
This has taken far too long - the holiday was a while ago now. Anyway, here you go:
New Blog Post: Holiday Listening Part 2 - Bang On A Can Play Eno's Music For Airports
heathcoatstreet.blogspot.com/2025/11/holi...
Holiday Listening Part 2 - Bang On A Can play Eno's Music For Airports
David Lang, one of the founders of the new music collective Bang On A Can (BOAC), once described their repertoire as "too funky for the acad...
heathcoatstreet.blogspot.com
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Vivid feeling of what it would be like to explain this to younger colleagues for about 20 minutes.
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social
First time I've had something in common with this guy.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
Mike Johnson on the Republican healthcare plan: "We've got notebooks full of ideas."
November 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social
"Orville's let himself go."
eatmyhalo.bsky.social Halo @eatmyhalo.bsky.social · 4h
“Has he shit himself?”
Rod Stewart standing in front of an orchestra, legs wide apart, with an ‘oof’ expression on his face
November 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social
#np The Necks - Disquiet
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Not great fun working at both the BBC and University of Nottingham at the moment.
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social
This has taken far too long - the holiday was a while ago now. Anyway, here you go:
New Blog Post: Holiday Listening Part 2 - Bang On A Can Play Eno's Music For Airports
heathcoatstreet.blogspot.com/2025/11/holi...
Holiday Listening Part 2 - Bang On A Can play Eno's Music For Airports
David Lang, one of the founders of the new music collective Bang On A Can (BOAC), once described their repertoire as "too funky for the acad...
heathcoatstreet.blogspot.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social
Robbie Gibb, the GB Bee Gee.
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social
#np Grainger - The Warriors - CBSO/Rattle
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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evergreen
November 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Coming to Derby later this month...
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أحمد Ahmed - East Midlands Jazz
“Don’t think I’ve ever heard a more intense hour of music. Unbelievably great.” GEOFF DYER novelist and jazz writer.19th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll. 2024   10th AHMED Giant Beauty An international...
mjazz.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social
ooohh betty, the cat's shunned debussy
bbcradio3bot.bsky.social BBC Radio 3 Now Playing Bot (Unofficial) @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social · 13h
BBC Radio 3
Essential Classics

Now Playing
William Walton, Orchestra of Opera North & Paul Daniel
Orb and Sceptre - coronation march
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social
ooohh betty, the cat's shunned debussy
bbcradio3bot.bsky.social BBC Radio 3 Now Playing Bot (Unofficial) @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social · 13h
BBC Radio 3
Essential Classics

Now Playing
William Walton, Orchestra of Opera North & Paul Daniel
Orb and Sceptre - coronation march
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social
Mamdani is going to impose Pangaea law - 2 hours a day of compulsory electric Miles Davis listening for all schoolchildren.
bisonfish.bsky.social Mr. ‘Teasy Weasy’ Raymond, Stylist to the Stars @bisonfish.bsky.social · 1d
Mamdani is going to impose Shang-a-Lang Law, where everyone will be forced to rip it up, rock it up, roll it over & lay it down
mariabustillos.com Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 1d
Mamdani is going to impose Sha Na Na law. Everyone will be forced to wonder why
November 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social
Mamdani is going to impose Pangaea law - 2 hours a day of compulsory electric Miles Davis listening for all schoolchildren.
bisonfish.bsky.social Mr. ‘Teasy Weasy’ Raymond, Stylist to the Stars @bisonfish.bsky.social · 1d
Mamdani is going to impose Shang-a-Lang Law, where everyone will be forced to rip it up, rock it up, roll it over & lay it down
mariabustillos.com Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 1d
Mamdani is going to impose Sha Na Na law. Everyone will be forced to wonder why
November 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social
quite a lot of jazz-rock fusion
notthatmilo.bsky.social milo @notthatmilo.bsky.social · 1d
What do you like now that 16 year old you would hate you for?
November 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social
"We noticed you from across the bar, and wondered if you can make use of any free tickets for tonight..."
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“And what time do you call this to be rolling in? Look at your mother, she’s been worried sick”
November 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Our students get it. Why doesn't the administration?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Nottingham students fight 'insane' cull of courses
Traitors composer Sam Watts is among those against plans to cut University of Nottingham courses.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Devastated to share the news that was broken to colleagues in Music (and other departments) at the University of Nottingham yesterday. This is obviously a very difficult time for us and our students.

Please contact us on [email protected] if you would like to be involved.
On Wednesday 5 November, the very same day the Prime Minister publicly reaffirmed the importance of music education, staff in the Department of Music at the University of Nottingham were informed of the immediate suspension of recruitment to all undergraduate degree programmes. This announcement precedes proposed plans to permanently close all Music degrees at the University. This decision threatens to end over a century of music education in the East Midlands, offered continuously since the University opened in 1881. Across that time, the Department has educated thousands of composers, researchers, performers, educators and other creative professionals. Its graduates have taken up leadership roles within the country’s leading arts organisations, fostering creativity and growth within the UK’s dynamic creative industries. It remains a centre of world-leading research, using music to explore and address complex societal and global challenges. The Department is deeply embedded in the local community, working with schools, music hubs, community groups and venues. Its closure would not only dismantle a thriving academic and cultural institution but also severely diminish musical life and future opportunities across Nottingham, the wider East Midlands and the nation as a whole. As staff we are devastated, especially on behalf of our students, but also for the future of music education and research in the UK. We remain committed to advocating for the value of Music programmes at Nottingham and beyond. If you share our concern and wish to support efforts to protect music education at the University of Nottingham, please get in touch with protectuonmusic@gmail.com. Your voice can make a difference. Thursday 6 November 2025
November 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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This was a real pleasure, thanks Justin
November 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social
This has taken far too long - the holiday was a while ago now. Anyway, here you go:
New Blog Post: Holiday Listening Part 2 - Bang On A Can Play Eno's Music For Airports
heathcoatstreet.blogspot.com/2025/11/holi...
Holiday Listening Part 2 - Bang On A Can play Eno's Music For Airports
David Lang, one of the founders of the new music collective Bang On A Can (BOAC), once described their repertoire as "too funky for the acad...
heathcoatstreet.blogspot.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social
countryfile
me in a field
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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karenmca.bsky.social
I've got a voice - might as well use it! Standing up for music and modern language departments everywhere ...
#Nottingham karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/2025/11/08/u...
University of Nottingham, you cannot drop Music and Modern Languages!
The above screenshot is of the University of Nottingham Music Department homepage. A flourishing department, which sadly hit the news for all the wrong reasons a couple of days ago. BBC News:- Univ…
karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog
November 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Heartbroken to share the news that recruitment to Undergraduate Music courses at the University of Nottingham has been suspended.
Please do contact us on [email protected] if you would like to support us.
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM