Ffredi Blino

@ffrediblino.bsky.social

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇦🇺 🎸 🚴 Indie thing from Wales. Part cangarŵ. Siaradwr newydd. Possibly more engaged with cryptic crosswords than with rock’n’roll. Sound & vision: https://youtube.com/@ffrediblino

A wasps’ nest the size of a large orange, around head height on a garage door jamb. A phone of roughly the same width is being held next to it.

A teabag tag dangling from a cup. The tag bears a supposedly motivational message which reads “You don’t experience what is real. You experience what you believe.” The image background contains a printout of a cryptic crossword and a window letting in morning light.

A White Stork walking on the grass at Knepp Estate, West Sussex

Three white male musicians with glasses in a room jamming out a punky tune while overlaid text informs of bands playing at KINGSfest, Llanidloes 22-24th May 2026. Acts mentioned include: Jimi & the G., LOT.V, Ffredi Blino, The Bumtones, The Kryptics, Black Market, Conductors, Falselight, Image of All, Son Capson and Candelas

A Lib Dem election letter showing a graph that represents something completely different from what the text claims. Page title reads “Election latest update - the Lib Dem’s are beating Reform UK”

A middle aged man in his garden talking about his new musical release. At the end he raises his binoculars to his eyes to watch a male blackbird, who obliged with a burst of song.

POV shot of afternoon sunlight falling on slipper-clad feet up on a coffee table with a packet of Tim Tam biscuits resting on the legs and a second person’s hand holding a copy of the cryptic crossword magazine Unch 3

A shop display of flowers, prominently labelled ‘Flora & Fauna’. There are no animals in sight.

A handsome young man in a recording studio waffling about bands

An artwork on the wall of a meeting room, possibly depicting Brian Eno

A phone usage chart dominated by blue columns of ‘social’ use, illustrating many hours in a day wasted on doom scrolling. The bars of the chart bear a passing resemblance to cigarettes stood on end.

A cassette of the Ffredi Blino album ‘The Dishwasher Tapes’ displayed next to its cover. In the background is part of a plain wood finish Gretsch drum kit and cymbals in a wood panelled studio.

A herbal tea bag tag with a supposedly inspirational message, which reads: You should develop mental strength.

Five delicate, tiny white mushrooms with extremely skinny dark stalks growing on a dead, brown holly leaf.

A copy of new cryptic crosswords magazine Unch on a table being inspected by a pet Corn Snake.

Headstone in Meifod, Powys for Robert Heaven who died March 8th 1884 aged 28, also his daughter Matilda Baskerville who died July 22th 1885 aged 5 months.

Gig poster advertising Ffredi Blino, Psychotic Fuzz and Lot.V at the Hanging Gardens, Llanidloes, 23rd May 2025.

Gig poster of an acoustic guitar with info about Ffredi Blino and Lot.V gig at the Bank Vault, Aberystwyth

A Tesco Clubcard vouchers envelope announcing “Big savings worth £9” with an accompanying picture of two eggs.

Ffredi Blino singing and playing an open D chord on an acoustic guitar on a stage with a nice backdrop of velvet curtains

Selfie of a man in a gilet, really digging what he’s hearing through his headphones and giving an emphatic thumbs-up.

Cover of The Robots of Babylon by Anthony Etherin, an anthology of constrained poetry.

No, you’re not going to trick me into revealing the answer here. This is a picture of an incomplete and mysterious Lego set.

Cameraman with a tripod, pointing his camera to a tall standing stone on a high moorland. An electric guitar and guitar case are strewn on the ground next to him.

A screen grab of the Bandcamp app showing search results for Ffredi Blino and his two albums: “The Dishwasher Tapes” and “Tarmac Roads and Fences”

A guitar pedal called “The Nothing” sitting on the floor in a jumble of guitar leads. It has a control labelled “zilch” and one called “bugger all”

Weather forecast showing light rain and sunny intervals, with a message that reads “about standard”

A mature lion’s mane mushroom coming out of a growing kit

The Welsh countryside looking snowy but sunny, with blue skies and just a little bit of cloud.

A bright orange, bobbly growth on a pine log. It might be a slime mould.

Two silly people who have both given each other Joni Mitchell’s Hejira album for Christmas.