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Little private gig yesterday went very well. People liked my playing and a few asked for my card -which doesn't mean anything but you never know. I hadn't done that in a long while, -should try to get more; shame that I'm so hopeless at 'selling the product' as, quite apart from the payment, it is an amazing feeling to play and get the vibe that people are enjoying what you're doing.

Sunday. Today, again, banjo lesson in Australia, then electric guitar lesson somewhere in East London -both on Zoom. Playing private gig in the evening. They asked for a Spanish theme so probably lots of Tárrega, etc (I do not play flamenco!).

#sunday #guitarlife

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Elvira at the Bats at Catacombs Club, The Waiting Room, Stoke Newington, London 20-06-25

#bands #alternativebands #postpunk #punk #goth #london

Singer of a post-punk band, performing on stage

Guitarist of a post-punk band, performing on stage

Bass player of a post-punk band, performing on stage

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Catacombs at Aces & Eights, Tufnell Park, Camden, London UK on 14=06-25 (and yes, here in UK we write the dates day-month-year. Makes sense). A little song and dance.
#londonalternativeclubs #london #tufnellpark #catacombsclub #acesandeights

Phone snaps of various scenes at a London alternative club.

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'Boris the Cat Lived here'

#boristhecatlivedhere #kentishtown #anglerslane #london #neighbourhood

Plaque in local street house stating that Boris the Cat lived there.

Doing my Sunday banjo lesson in Australia, the guitar lesson following this was cancelled by the pupil. Last night, very good couple of hours at Catacombs at Aces & Eights. Trying to avoid looking at the news, although the posts by people reporting on the #nokings protests were encouraging.

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From my table-top garden

#flower #tabletopgarden #london #kentishtown #flavhaus

A pink flower plant, probably a geranium.

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RIP Nitzer Ebb's Douglas McCarthy

#douglasmccarthy #nitzerebb #industrailmusic #ebm

Portrait of Douglas McCarthy performing onstage at Infest 2019

A fictional character reminding us: "There's a reason we separate military and the police: one fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." --Commander William Adama.

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A winter day on Leverton Street, Kentish Town

#tree #winter #kentishtown #northlondon

A bare tree on a winter foggy day in North London.

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My online guitar teaching set-up (pupil's face blurred to preserve privacy).

#guitarlessons #onlineguitarlessons #zoom

A view of my online teaching setup at home, with one screen for the Zoom session, another one with the music we are working on and finally a laptop screen where I take notes of the lesson which I email to the pupil.

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"VPN/Proxy Detected. To continue, turn off your VPN/Proxy. This will allow YouTube to locate the best content."

Oh, you mean the “best content” that’s geo-blocked, demonetized, and shoved 12 ads deep into an algorithmic abyss? 🤣

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All along the watchtower

#pigeons #roofs #kentishtown #london

Happy WGD to those who celebrate. Here's a snapshot of a few lovely people at Whitby Goth Weekend October 2005 -a few months ago...- Where are they now? I'm still in touch with some of them (like @SimonLandmine , in the picture)
others, alas, have disappeared off my radar; hope they are well... .

#WGD #WGW #2005

A group of young people in Goth attire at a goth music festival in Whitby, North East England, in 2005.

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Nightfall in Kentish Town

#dusk #kentishtown #london

The sky changes colour from blue to orange on the horizon, it is beginnig to get dark and there are lights in a silhouetted building in the distance.

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Cisne.

Swan on Regent's Canal, Kings Cross, London on a sunny day.

A swan swimming on a London canal, with ripples on the surface of the green/turquoise water.

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Scott Deathboy, performing at the Whitby Goth Weekend, sometime in 2004 or so.

#whitbygothweekend #wgw #2004 #longlongago #goth #postpunk #alternativemusic

Frontman of a goth band performing under red lights at a festival, many years ago.

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This is me during an online lesson, sometime ago. The set up is essentially the same: one monitor for the Zoom window, the other for the music which I keep as .pdfs, the laptop for typing lesson notes and comments which I will email to the pupil

#guitarlessons #zoomguitarlessons #teachingsetup #zoomguitarlessons #theseguitarlessons #

Me in the middle of the chaos that is my teaching environment, during an online guitar lesson.

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Some flowers, somewhere in Kentish Town

#flowers #kentishtown #northlondon

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