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Chris Jones @chrisjonesprod.bsky.social Co-host of American Friction Pod. Former journo. Lover of chips and LOTR - unfortunate LCFC fan.
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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social Sunday Times Bestselling Author of GARTH MARENGHI’S TERRORTOME, INCARCERAT, THIS BURSTED EARTH. Also Possum, Darkplace. Agents: RCW Literary Agency/Sophie Chapman Talent/SueTerryVoices
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Simon Blackwell @simonblackwell.bsky.social Screenwriter/showrunner: Breeders, Back, Veep, The Thick Of It, Peep Show, In The Loop, The Personal History of David Copperfield, Four Lions
barney farmer @barneyfarmer.bsky.social Yūgen appreciation society. Writes Drunken bakers etc for Viz. Wrote this http://bit.ly/33iyIe8 this https://bit.ly/2PKjMRI and that https://bit.ly/3v32pj8 so…
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Both jobs death related
Ashes to Admin and Get Ahead of Being Dead out now
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Kramies @kramies.bsky.social Creator of dreamy folklore, crossing the boundaries between eerie sceneries and fairytale laden myths.
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Oliver Morris @dr-oli-morris.bsky.social Director of Education & Skills UK Music, crew Aberystwyth Lifeboat, occasional coppicer, cyclist, martial artist, musician. 🏴 
whiskas @whiskas9.bsky.social Music Local / Music:Leeds / Launchpad Director. Leeds Beckett Music Industries Lecturer. ex-¡Forward, Russia! / Dance To The Radio
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Featured Artists Coalition @featuredartists.bsky.social Founded in 2009 to represent the rights & interests of music artists.
Dan Gumble @dangumble.bsky.social Head of comms at UK Music. Former music and pro audio journalist. Broken Spurs fan.
Music Managers Forum @mmfuk.bsky.social We are the world's largest professional community of music managers.
Tom Watson @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social Culture, politics, coffee.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
Moon @moonband2025.bsky.social A new band from Liverpool. Our debut album will be released June 2025
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Loud In Libraries @loudinlibraries.bsky.social We put award winning gigs on in the nation’s libraries. Est. 2005. From Adele to Florence to IDLES and Fontaines DC. Supported by Arts Council England. Very loud. www.loudinlibraries.com
Lee Healey ✍🏻 @leehealey.bsky.social Cartoonist, illustrator, procrastinator, & massive movie nerd.
https://www.thecartoonist.co.uk/
Sole Rebel C.I.C @solerebel-cic.bsky.social 👣🎵Jazz tap dance company using dance & music to bring artists & communities together. Performances, dance classes & tap jams across the UK💟
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💃 All abilities
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Jazz North @jazznorth.bsky.social Development agency putting the Northern jazz scene on the map, developing audiences and partnerships for a more inclusive future.
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BOOKINGS: Rob @ https://progressiveartists.co.uk
FILM & TV: simon.ballard@mute.com
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Mary Epworth @maryepworth.bsky.social Write/produce/compose music Run Hand Of Glory Records. https://bsky.app/profile/handofglory.bsky.social
Also: glow worms, Czech, Prog, HI-NRG, zero covid zealot.
Perpetually exhausted
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She/her
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www.handofglory.co.uk
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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com Founded MoneySavingExpert, @moneyandmentalhealth.org, (ish) the Martin Lewis Money Show ITV & Martin Lewis Podcast
Tim Jonze @timjonze.bsky.social Guardian culture writer. Just trying to get through the day without cocking up, and drink as many hot drinks as possible in the process.
Jon Sopel @jonsopel1.bsky.social Host of daily podcast The News Agents. And author of Strangeland. Available at all good bookshops….
Jacob Jarvis @jacobjarvis.bsky.social Presenter of American Friction @americanfric.bsky.social and The Bunker. Excited to be on Cockwomble MySpace.
Anneliese Midgley MP @anneliesemidgleymp.bsky.social Labour MP for Knowsley. Government Chief Whip. For casework or to get in touch anneliese.midgley.mp@parliament.uk
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social CEO @bestforbritain.org
Podcaster @quietriotpod.bsky.social
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Christian C @chris.theblacklungclub.co.uk Head of Comms and Digital at @hopenothate.org.uk. Imps fan. Raised in the church of Joe Strummer.
Bill Ryder-Jones @billryderjones.bsky.social billryderjones.co.uk
DIY @diymag.com Bringing music alive.
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Musicians' Union (MU) @wearethemu.bsky.social The UK's only trade union for musicians
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Sybil Bell @sybilivw.bsky.social Founder & CEO @ivwuk.bsky.social, @ivcuk.bsky.social (charity) & our boutique marcomms agency @iltsot.bsky.social. My mum, music, dogs, swimming, Hampstead Heath, swimming on Hampstead Heath, cooking, records.
Will Morris @willmorris.bsky.social Comic artist (he/him). The collected edition of Gospel, from Image Comics, is available now at your local comic or book shop!
Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social Host C4N Fourcast Indicators pod, writing @Sunday Times, ex-BBC guy covering war & peace + sometime Newsnight presenter 1990-2024, IWM trustee, author Big Boys Rules, Generals, Rifles, Task Force Black, The Tank War, Skripal Files, Red Devils, Tank & more!
Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social BBC Russia Editor, Moscow
James Miller (Millermena) @jamesmiller.bsky.social The Casual Analyst: https://www.thecasualanalyst.com/
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social A career spent in government affairs & media. Now an interested eye on the news. Not always balanced; there aren’t two sides to fascism.
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Ex-Easter Island Head @eeih.bsky.social Liverpool, UK based ensemble, making music for prepared electric guitar percussion and other instruments
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"Some of the boldest experiments in British music"
- The Guardian
James Wright @jameswrighttv.bsky.social Documentary producer and director. BBC, Discovery, Sky, PBS and Permission To Know on YouTube
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
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Dave Haslam @davehaslam.bsky.social Hacienda DJ, journalist (Guardian, LRB, etc), writer (recent books about Sylvia Plath, Keith Haring, Picasso). “An exceptional writer” - Olivia Laing.
Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social Artist
Coldwarsteve.com
Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com Comedian, satirist, writer, actor
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Jude Rogers @juderogers.bsky.social Journalist on culture and news, author of The Sound Of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives, radio programme maker, public arts project leader. Ten Sunday Spells for you every week on juderogers.substack.com
Maitlis @maitlis.bsky.social Co host @thenewsagents .
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
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Simon Raymonde @mrsimonraymonde.bsky.social Musician with a label. Cocteau Twins/Lost Horizons. Producer, mixer. Some non-Cocteaus gig highlights? Playing bass with Midlake, on “The Rat” live with The Walkmen, and playing guitar on tour with Mercury Rev ❤️ Memoir “In One Ear” on Nine Eight Books now.
John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social Co-founder/Editor of theQuietus
Co-founder of Acid Horse
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Anti-Fascist
Listen to Nurse With Wound
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Music Ally @musically.com musically.com :) Knowledge and skills for the modern global music business.
Music Venue Trust @musicvenuetrust.bsky.social UK registered charity which acts to protect, secure and improve Grassroots Music Venues.
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Joe Frankland @joefrankland.bsky.social CEO, @prsfoundation.bsky.social - supporting new music and talent development through timely investment in music creators, professionals and organisations. And proudly involved in Keychange & Power Up
Drift Records @driftrecords.com 🏆 The current best independent record shop in the UK. We've been selling records in Totnes since 1994.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, New World, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Londoner. *Not* an American.
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Stewart Parsons @libraryfiend.bsky.social Founder of Get It Loud In Libraries www.loudinlibraries.com cool programme of doorstep library gigs with future BRIT & Grammy winners. Born to live in Scotland. Lover of music, books, libraries, radio, dogs, PNE & wife Elizabeth. A BEM, no less. 
So Young Magazine @soyoungmagazine.bsky.social A Fully Illustrated, New Music, Art and Culture Magazine.
New Issue Out Now!
Record Label - So Young Records.
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Sean | Drowned in Sound @drownedinsound.bsky.social Founder of Drowned in Sound (est. 2000).
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Rory Stewart @rory-stewart.bsky.social Author The Middleland linktr.ee/middleland, PlacesinBetween, Jackson/Yale. PoliticsOnTheEdge. @Restispolitics podcast w Alastair Campbell.
Parody
Anthony Scaramucci @scaramucci.bsky.social https://youtube.com/@restpoliticsus?si=jWe9uSTQSAWtk5dE
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics … love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump 
Ross Alexander @killerbees43.bsky.social Glasgow based enjoyer of music, singing, Homer Simpson
Greg Surmacz @gregsurmacz.bsky.social Woodwind, synths, noises (general). Jazz/beats/bass/vibes/whatever. Leeds.
gregsurmacz.bandcamp.com
https://linktr.ee/gregsurmacz
AnalogueTrash @analoguetrash.com AnalogueTrash is a new music blog and typo specialist based in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.
🔗 https://www.analoguetrash.com
Laura Kidd 💌 Penfriend @penfriendrocks.bsky.social 🎸 Sad songs to make you feel better.
🧶 Craft, music and adventure.
💌 Do Stuff ∴ Stuff Happens.
I love typewriters.
🧭 Nottingham, UK.
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mapmove @theredcase.com Investor - Startups - Music - Technology - Change.
#LivingInARevolution #Manchester #COYS
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The SuperSwell Collective @thesuperswell.bsky.social Home of the SuperSwell Podcast and The Delicates’ Lounge.
https://thesuperswellpodcast.buzzsprout.com
@zaneverdi.bsky.social @zaneverdi.bsky.social 
Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com UK-based songwriter and broadcaster (b.1950). Rock Against Racism, Glad To Be LGBT+, Sometime DJ on BBC Radio 6 Music https://linktr.ee/tomrobinson
🫠 Joe Sparrow ⧖⃝ @joesparrow.bsky.social terelinck.com | Highly saturated artist; music biz word-vomiter; verbose bullshitter; furtive '93-'99 drum 'n' bass aficionado. Views “Я” mine.
Alan Davey @armslengthal.bsky.social PhD researcher in Old Icelandic at Birkbeck College, University of London. Chair at Trinity Laban Conservatoire; Chair, Hall for Cornwall. Formerly Controller, BBC Radio 3, CEO Arts Council England, Director of Culture at DCMS. Great Art For Everyone.
Louis Barabbas @louisbarabbas.bsky.social Musical theatre composer-lyricist (Coraline, Jocasta, Wildfire Season). Firefighter.
Lives in Isle of Skye, rep’d by The Agency
He/Him
Jon Favreau @jonfavs.bsky.social The Other One. Crooked Media, Pod Save America, Obama alum. 
Jon Lovett @jonlovett.bsky.social Pod Save America, Lovett or Leave It, Vote Save America, Crooked Media, mostly water.