Derek Walmsley

@derekwalmsley.bsky.social

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I'm almost always trying to make the text flow better or reduce the number of words. Music writing in The Wire, Electronic Sound, The Quietus, LRB, elsewhere. slowmotion.blog

Richard Dawson talks about reverb in the music of the Fateh Ali Khan party in The Wire’s Invisible Jukebox feature.
BBC report on Iran conflict which posits “a long history of US combat search and rescue missions over decades”
AI overview of what the famous junglist phrase “31 seconds” supposedly refers to, with no reference at all to Origin Unknown’s “Valley Of The Shadows”
Entrance to TG Jones at Westfield Stratford
Review of Ukrainian Field Notes book in The Wire's Print Run section
Wendy Eisenberg on the cover of The Wire magazine 506
A Chat GPT response to a request for band names inspired by Brian Eno, presenting examples of Ultravox, Japan and China Crisis which are all false
Opening spread of Oneohtrix Point Never feature in the new Electronic Sound magazine
A screenshot from the Wayback Machine of the old Blood & Fire website from 2012, with cover notes downloadable in the Discography section of the website
Dana Andrews in Otto Preminger’s Laura (1944)
A glass and empty bottle of Timothy Taylor Landlord Dark
iPlayer watchlist with classic b&w films including Farewell My Lovely and Witness For The Prosecution
Selection of email subject lines form Photobucket including "we found photos your probably thought were gone" and "the past is calling (and it has photos)"
Natey Jones in the Matthew Xia production of The Harder They Come at Theatre Royal Stratford East
A piece of card from the 1960s reading “A World Cup without Scotland is like a pastoral without sheep” from Ian Hamilton Finlay exhibition at GSA
BBC London newscaster commenting on their yellow jumper’s similarity to Pudsey
The opening shot of Pink Floyd’s Live At Pompeii film with their equipment strewn across the floor of the auditorium and the cameras about to roll
December issue of The Wire with Mulatu Astatke on the cover
excerpt regarding Simon Pegg’s Hollywood career in the Mission Impossible franchise
Cover of the November issue of The Wire with image of claire rousay
Blurred photo of a stripy male cat looking angelic next to food bowls the morning after keeping us up all night
Luciano Berio in the 1970s, in a CC image from his Wiki page
Butch and Sundance running out to face the gunfire in the last frame of the film
Cover of new issue of Electronic Sound magazine with Eno & Wolfe on the cover
John Berger recalling the gifts he exchanged with his uncle Edgar
Vanessa Rossetto photographed in the September issue of The Wire magazine
Bender the robot smoking a cigar in a diner, from Futurama
Supernormal festival tea towel with artwork by Meg Woof
Unlimited Editions article on Ftarri label/shop/venue
Front cover of September issue of The Wire with Cabaret Voltaire on the cover
CD of Let’s Get Lost: Chet Baker Sings
Black baseball cap from the Wuhan Cymbals & Gongs company
Peter Shapiro writes on Black Sabbath in the first of The Wire’s Epiphanies columns
Keith Robinson’s posthumous memoir Take No Prisoners published by Velocity Press
Bill Orcutt on the cover of the August issue of The Wire magazine
New issue of Electronic Sound magazine with St Etienne on the cover
Blurb for Open Editions Togetherness essay collection: “23 innovators… from art, education, philosophy, curating, public health” etc
A spinning wheel that when clicked randomly picks an unusual sound or music from around the world to listen to, from Chernobyl frogs to the sound of the US/Mexico border
My holiday in Italy where we visited Pompeii, and its ampitheatres
Jock fishing on his plane in Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Guardian newsline declaring that No 10 source claims echoing of Enoch Powell was an accident
Book cover of Rivers Of Blood Rivers Of Gold
Cover of Wordsworth ed of Erskine Childers’s Riddle Of The Sands
Cover of June issue of When Saturday Comes Magazine
A picture of the keyboard of a ZX Spectrum computer, with the cyan key in the centre of the frame