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Andrew Curry
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Futurist in London. Pessimistic and sceptical. See my Just Two Things newsletter, plus a folk music sideline at Salut! Live. New here, so still learning.
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Happy new year from Salut!! Folk. Our last look at the Folk Album of the Year nominees
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@folkonfoot.com
@matthewbannister.bsky.social
@soundrootsuk.bsky.social

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Peggy Seeger, Joshua Burnside and Edith WeUtonga: faces of British and Irish folk and roots - Salut! Folk
Peggy Seeger’s final record, along with Joshua Burnside’s Teeth of Time and Edith WeUtonga’s Varipasi: the third in our three-part look at the Folk Albums of the Year.
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December 31, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Andrew Curry’s epic coverage of the Folk Albums of the Year nominees continues with
@poorcreaturemusic.bsky.social @spaffordcampbell.bsky.social
#gracestewart-skinner

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@folkonfoot.com
@soundrootsuk.bsky.social
@nextwavef.bsky.social

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Goth folk, folk noir and a portrait of a village. Folk Album of the Year, Part 2 - Salut! Folk
Part 2 of our review of the nine albums short-listed for Folk Album of the Year includes Poor Creature’s Goth folk, Spafford Campbell’s folk-noir, and Grace Stewart-Skinner’s portrait of her home vill...
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December 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Salut! Folk features @cynefinmusic.bsky.social
Gigspanner Big Band & Barry Kerr in the first of three looks at the Folk Albums of the Year nominees
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@johnspiers.bsky.social
@folkonfoot.com
@soundrootsuk.bsky.social

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Listening to the 2025 Folk Albums of the year contenders (Part 1) - Salut! Folk
The 2025 Folk Albums of the Years Awards are a new venture to showcase the best new folk music from Britain and Ireland. We’re going to showcase the nine records on the shortlist, starting with Cynefi...
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December 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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@matthewbannister.bsky.social you may like to know that Salut! Folk has published the first of three pieces showcasing the Folk Album of the Year nominees

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@soundrootsuk.bsky.social
@folkonfoot.com

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Listening to the 2025 Folk Albums of the year contenders (Part 1) - Salut! Folk
The 2025 Folk Albums of the Years Awards are a new venture to showcase the best new folk music from Britain and Ireland. We’re going to showcase the nine records on the shortlist, starting with Cynefi...
salutfolk.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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My Salut #Folk colleague Steve Peck writes at the blog on Natalie Wildgoose-“a mysterious and evocative artist who has since turned my musical world upside down. She’s not quite like anything I’ve heard before.”

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From the North: The Quiet Songs of Natalie Wildgoose - Salut! Folk
Steve Peck writes: A fleeting tip put me on the trail of North Yorkshire and London-based folk eccentric Natalie Wildgoose. Little did I know I would stumble
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December 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Be right back, just off to lick the crown jewels clean

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Four people have been arrested after custard and apple crumble were flung at a display case containing part of the Crown Jewels at the Tower of London.
December 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
nextwavef.bsky.social
@theguardian.com If I have a subscription—and you know I have a subscription—I should be able to use my subscription number to sign in, rather than you trawling for email addresses. Shockingly poor UI. Please fix it.
December 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Not quite the ultimate accolade but the wonder that is @katherinepriddy.bsky.social has the Song of the Day at Salut! Folk.
@nextwavef.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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It’s crazy that there’s no limit on how much an individual can donate to a political party in a single year. I just signed ‪@electoralreform.bsky.social‬'s call to put a cap on how much they can donate in the #ElectionsBill
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Sign now to demand an end to big money in politics
It takes 30 seconds
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December 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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At the small and imperfectly formed Salut! Folk site, Maggie Holland’s classic and classy compilation Bones is Album of the Month. Please share

@maggieholland.bsky.social
@nextwavef.bsky.social

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Album of the month: Bones by Maggie Holland - Salut! Folk
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November 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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@gregsargent.bsky.social I used to work as a broadcast journalist in the UK, including for the BBC, where I was trained. As soon as you say the word “most”, as in Rutger Bregman’s script, there is a libel risk. If he had said “one of the most”, or “an openly corrupt President”, it’s defendable.
November 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
nextwavef.bsky.social
In which I discover that @microsoft.com has locked together in Word ‘suggest’ mode and Copilot. Result. Have downloaded a competitor. @microsoft.com may be desperate to get a return from its AI investment (fat chance) but I don’t need to help. #Enshittification
November 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system

1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK

2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc

3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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“Like a pair of large and powerful planets revolving in entirely separate solar systems, Bob #Dylan and Sam Shepard had slowly been gravitating towards each other.” They met on the Rolling Thunder Revue, and it all fell apart. New post at Salut #Folk.
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Bob Dylan, Sam Shepard, and the chaos of Rolling Thunder Revue – Salut! Folk
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November 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Tribute to a great figure of Scottish folk music . RIP Archie Fisher @nextwavef.bsky.social

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November 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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John Martyn’s classic album Grace and Danger was released 45 years old this month, after a year’s delay. It’s our Album of the Month at the new look Salut #Folk site on Wordpress. I like a lot of Martyn’s records, but I think this is probably his masterpiece.

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Album of the month: the story of John Martyn’s Grace and Danger – Salut! Folk
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October 22, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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On my Just Two Things newsletter—living in a future biopunk world; and the future of global population is down, down, down. And an introduction to the Salut! Folk site, now hosted on Wordpress.

justtwothings.substack.com/p/9-october-...
An Indian women holds her young baby in the air. The photo is a background for a description of the two posts: Once the world's population starts to decline, it will keep on falling // 'No snitching, no pigs, no corpos': living the biopunk life. [J2T #651]
October 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Anyone who likes seriously good contemporary acoustic music drawing on folk influences should read this American admirer’s excellent piece on Katherine Priddy @nextwavef.bsky.social

@katherinepriddy.bsky.social
salutsunderland.bsky.social Colin Randall @salutsunderland.bsky.social · Oct 16
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hi Katherine. Salut! Folk’s admiring assessment of your career so far is live at salutfolk.com/2025/10/16/k...
October 16, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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If I’d just taken a beating at the hands of some judges I might just issue a short statement saying we were reviewing their comments. But there goes @ukhomeoffice.bsky.social , in a big hole and digging as fast as they can.
October 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Please visit Salut! Folk if you have any liking for folk, folk-rock and related musical genres. Salutfolk.com @nextwavef.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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On my Just Two Things newsletter—living in a future biopunk world; and the future of global population is down, down, down. And an introduction to the Salut! Folk site, now hosted on Wordpress.

justtwothings.substack.com/p/9-october-...
An Indian women holds her young baby in the air. The photo is a background for a description of the two posts: Once the world's population starts to decline, it will keep on falling // 'No snitching, no pigs, no corpos': living the biopunk life. [J2T #651]
October 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Campaigners walking from Skye to Glasgow are urging people to join their efforts to highlight 'land justice'
Land justice walking tour urges support as campaigners near end of route
www.thenational.scot
October 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
nextwavef.bsky.social
I think they are trying to gouge their customers to pay for some of their AI costs, since the product itself isn’t worth paying for.
nicktweet.bsky.social Nick Wray @nicktweet.bsky.social · Oct 7
A 42% increase in the price of #Microsoft 365 @microsoft.com ?! How on *earth* can you justify that. Linux beckons (free, better everything, hard to beat in Linux). And this on top of the appalling productivity and hardware wasting Win 11 'upgrade'. @adammacqueen.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
nextwavef.bsky.social
Shocking slug on this FT article—because this could also just as easily be “Civil rights in UK”. Or “Democracy in UK”. A sub-editor needs to take a long hard look at themselves.
October 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Your regular reminder that the @ukhomeoffice.bsky.social is feral and no longer fit for purpose:

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Police to get more anti-protest powers as Palestine Action ban opponents vow ‘escalation’
Home secretary says police can consider ‘cumulative impact’ of repeated demonstrations to restrict protests
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM