@lukehaines.bsky.social Thanks again for a truly great gig, great album, and for taking the time to talk to me tonight. Just fab and fab again. All the best for the next endeavour! See you down the river!
Songwriter, Singer, Guitarist, Photographer. I write with Tim Buckley lyricist & poet Larry Beckett & producer Paul Walmsley https://stuartanthony.wixsite.com/stuartanthony Married. UK. 'There's Nazis in the bathroom just below the stairs' John Lennon
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@lukehaines.bsky.social Thanks again for a truly great gig, great album, and for taking the time to talk to me tonight. Just fab and fab again. All the best for the next endeavour! See you down the river!
Produced by the very talented Paul Walmsley.
From 15 years ago as song I wrote when I was in The Long Lost Band, called 'Refuge'. The band excelled. I still adore this song. Its a love song that rolls along just right. #music #lovesongs #ballads #thelonglostband #ukbands #guitars #piano #bouzouki youtu.be/-yIKQMuEoWE?...
There will be new recordings of material worked on with Larry Beckett released in due course for 2025. #music #songs #chansons #poetry More info to come......
No problem we'll be there early before doors, say 5 ish and pop in. Ps you earwormed the fuck out of me with Judy Chicago :)
Hi Luke, looking forward to last night of tour on Sunday at Preston. I believe Larry's wife/manager let Peter know we'll be there. Maybe catch you before or after show. Whatever suits :)
Fuck Netanyahu and his devils.
Alex James has trademarked the term Britpop for food and drink. Well there's a sentence for the ages. The horror, the horror.
Hating on Bono is more boring than Bono. Another stuck record.
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thelonglostband.bandcamp.com/album/one-mo... This album was released in 2015. The first of my collaborations with Larry Beckett, who wrote lyrics for Tim Buckley incl. 'Song to the Siren'. At the time I was frontman in The Long Lost Band. Great press reviews and radio play #music #nowplaying #songs
OH THEY COULD....
Why expect anything else from the BBC news? It went right wing years ago. It made Farage. There is no news channel on the side of ordinary people.
A click on @cherryredrecords.bsky.social manifests into 3D reality 24hrs later. The fab 'Going Down to The River To Blow My Mind' by @lukehaines.bsky.social and Peter Buck is ready to roll. Just need a VW Camper with a CD player to polish it off.
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Gonna see that there @lukehaines.bsky.social and Peter Buck at The Ferret in Preston on 31st August. I'll be going down to the River Ribble to blow my mind. The new album is fab and will reward waterside shenanigans as promised.
Link broken but here is the review : atthebarrier.com/2025/08/04/l... I've ordered the album form Cherry Red. Loving what I heard so far. See yo on 31st!
Um... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Faith in BBC news media vanished years ago. It is the State News. It is about what it doesn't say or include in reporting as much as what it does. The BBC news is a carefully selected content cartoon strip aimed at keeping power in the hands of our money masters. Farage is the new useful idiot.
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Just here to register my anger with the BBC reporting on Reform Uk as if they deserve the amount of coverage you give them. They are a Nazi party in waiting who would not be popular without your free PR service that they enjoy.1 Maybe the BBC are looking forward to UkNazis
Genocide in Gaza. A crushed and starved people in a crushed and starved enclave, while the big blood streaked muscular military ape bully of Israel's IDF beats its chest and claims to be the real victim in 2025. #gaza #genocide #farright #extremist #rightwing #demonic #antihuman
#totp
The track 'Legacy' was mixed by Fairport Convention's live engineer Mark Tucker. Paul Walmsley also plays piano on the track. It was also perfromed live in 2009 at The Nick Drake Tribute concert at The Cockpit Theatre in Marylebone with Harvey Lord on 2nd guitar. youtu.be/1XOAHs90b_U?...
I'm playing at the Nick Drake Gathering 26th July. I go every year & this will be my 18th visit and 17th performance. This year I am performing 'Introduction' & a song I wrote about Nick in 2009, called 'Legacy' produced by Paul Walmsley. #music #nickdrake www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2XX...
To keep orange god, all things said against orange god can be considered blasphemy and therefore dismissed. Its the ultimate shield. Now the courts have bowed to orange god, the lie doesn't need the truth.
Nothing will change. The excuses for Trump are for ANY transgression. They want their orange god at ANY price. It's cult, see?
#totp hyperspace lurch alert
I find the music lacking.
The police dogs training ground was behind Paul McCartney's house in Forthlin Road. I took Larry to the Church Hall and Church in 2015 :)
One for every date of the tour.
Yoker Sur-Mer, is just a short bus ride away.
Its not the Ferengi. Be happy.
The anti semitism headlines will come for her in their deeply unjust way, like they did for Corbyn. Have to overcome our propaganda machine media, which is designed to keep us all in our place, for the sake of the billionaires. I wish her well. She will need support from millions.
You're not figthing reasoned argument and rational thinking. You're fighting land money and power. Money doesn't talk, it swears. The truth doesn't matter to these types, only their wealth. They'll say anything to keep it. Anything.
Next week: Simon Armitage tells us how The Teletubbies influenced his poetry.
I saw you guys same year at Milton Keynes Bowl, England. A bit of a wild gig!
The fascist know there is no real, effective resistance coming. Your democracy has terminal cancer and people will not have solidarity with one another. Without solidarity you are lost. Protest marches do not worry the fascists. No unbridled fascists are voted out in history.
OTD in memory of the late, great Tim Buckley who left us today, 50 years ago. He and Larry wrote this beauty. youtu.be/J2GEzbg-YfU?... #timbuckley #larrybeckett #music #songs
Here for now. #greece #lefkada
How about understanding history and not deluding yourself. You don't vote fascism away. More will be required of you.
You have a fascist regime now. This is what happens. I can't see you having meaningful mid-terms under a fascist regime. I don't they'll hand power back, ever. Fascists are war hungry, despite any rhetoric to the contrary.
2/2 I performed the song onboard the replica ancient Greek ship 'Odysseia' captained by my good friend Gerasimos Ktenas who sails from Nidri during the Summer season. www.odysseia-lefkada.eu Lefkada is the best candidate to be Homeric Ithaca imho xxx
Eight years ago on the Summer Solstice, I took Tim Buckley's and Larry Beckett's 'Song to the Siren' to it's spiritual home. Namely, the island of Lefkada, which is regarded by myself & others as Homeric Ithaca, home of Odysseus. 1/2 youtu.be/n5lEiM7VC6c?... #music #musicsky #timbuckley #greekmyth
One of my performances. I' m on guitar youtu.be/QvbHJ0LmI_k?...
A little preview youtu.be/thXuw9PULc4?...
Half asleep me posted this, this morning. Of course to today is Nick's birthday. He died Nov 26 1974.
Guitars and campfire till the small hours at the campsite.
You'd be welcome. Its free (donations welcome). There is camping nearby at Umberslade Farm which isnt free. 2 concerts 2 nights. Village Hall and Church. Its very English and quite low key.
I've been playing Nick's songs at this event for 20 years. I've stood outside the house many times. nickdrakegathering.wixsite.com/ndgofficial
Yeah I know what you mean! Luckily had a birthday 3 days ago and asked for a contribution from my other half as my present. :) I'll actually be in Nick's home village on the day of release so wont get to it until late Sunday.
It comes with a 60 page book so its a bit pricey. I'm getting the CD version. I've got the albums on modern vinyl and have the 80s comp Heaven in a Wild Flower on original vinyl.
Nick was a Tim Buckley fan and saw Tim live in 1968. Happy Sad was in his record collection. Jeff had Pink Moon.
I'm looking forward to the Five Leaves Left special edition which is coming in July. Plus I am performing at The Nick Drake Gathering in Tanworth in Arden on 26th July :) youtu.be/5tVlCw9ueQI?...
Nick Drake left us 51 years ago today. Another poetic death OTD was the Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos who died in 1951. Very different but I was spinning Nick whilst reading Sikelianos and it was alright. #poetry #lefkada #fiveleavesleft #music
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Photography by Ian Tilton (Stone Roses, Nirvana). 10 years ago. My old group The Long Lost Band performimg Song to the Siren with the song's lyricist Larry Beckett. Video in comments. #songtothesiren #timbuckley #sixties #12string #acoustic #poetry #homer #greekmyth #odyssey #sirens
Was it the tights?
Privileged modern history academics tell unprivileged to flee fascist America, like they can. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
My work with poet and Tim Buckley lyricist, Larry Beckett appears on the music page of Larry's website. www.larrybeckettpoet.com/music #music #poetry #poet #musicsky #timbuckley #orpheus #apollinaire #ameliaearhart #songtothesiren
#totp I'M LOVING ANGLES INSTEAD - AND THROUGH IT ALL SHE OFFERS ME PROTRACTORS
Sorry to hear that. Have you tried the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine? archive.org
Yeah I understand that. A wise position. Although I meant your interview with Darian., if you have a link to it. No worries if not.
I was just lucky. I was mates with a Liverpool pop name and we went together and he could get into most places. The whole story is richer than I can tell here haha. But yes interviewing Brian was a gamble. Do you have a link to your interview?
It needs saying. Whether Newsom is your least fave politician or not, its not possible to dispute what he is saying.
Very cool! A very talented guy! I hung out with the band and director Paul Mertens and the late great Nicky Wonder, after the show in the hotel near the Philharmonic and spent some time with Nelson Bragg, the rhythm guy working on a charity painting the Beach Boys all contributed to. A wild night!
Thank you :) It was fun putting that one together. In solo mode.
Bought this on 12" in the UK when it came out. I'd just been introduced to Murmur the year before. This was fresh. Loved it.
Probably the greatest night of music I ever witnessed. Got to hang out with his band after. His music changed me. RIP Brian Wilson. Thanks man xxx
Thank you for the music Brian Wilson. Your songs lifted many a heart and you wrote so many greats. I was lucky enough to see you live in Liverpool back in 2016. Safe home good sir xxx Your music will live on. You'll find out what God knows xxxx
Yeah its Radio 4 News. It wants to be Farage Fascist News. Nick Robinson is a Tory bastard and the BBC have been over platforming a party with 5 MPs for some considerable time. Bias is in the DNA. Not worth your ear time anymore. They know how to word things, to appear to be benign to the unwary.
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Guillaume Apollinaire's poem 'Marie' translated into English and set to music: x stuartanthonyuk.bandcamp.com/track/marie
My pleasure. I had a hunch you'd dig it :)
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aklk... La dernière chanson. Tim est mort avant d'avoir pu écrire la musique.
Not Brel of course but the first thing Larry and I released. 10 years ago.
You're welcome. Lee Underwood, Tim's guitarist, wrote about it in his biography of Tim 'Blue Melody'. Larry is still active, writing poetry & songs. We were in Paris in 2022 & he asked me to work on the Jacques Brel album with his translations into English. Try this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aklk...
10 years ago, myself and The Long Lost Band had the great privilege of being asked by Larry Beckett, to come up with the music for he and Tim Buckley's last song 'On The Hook'. I guess, had he lived, Jeff would have taken it... youtu.be/AklkV-_JxwQ?...
10 years ago, myself and The Long Lost Band had the great privilege of being asked by Larry Beckett, to come up with the music for he and Tim Buckley's last song 'On The Hook'. youtu.be/AklkV-_JxwQ?...
Tim was admired by Jacques Brel and spoke to him once when Tim was in Paris doing a promo slot on French Radio. Brel phoned in and complimented Tim. In another strange twist, I and Larry Beckett, Tim's lyricist, have an album of English translated Jacques Brel songs to be released this year!
I remember BBC documentaries from 20 years ago that warned of ocean acidification and permafrost loss. I knew the we'd never do enough. The world is a slave to money, not good actions that benefit all. Money is our unbenevolent god.
1. Don't believe anyone telling you they know a way to fix it. Block those. Suspension happened to me this week too. Suspended for advertising and spam. I tagged friends in a public post. Made appeal & the mocking line "It usually takes us just over a day to review your information." is 5 days old.
Have you called your Senators to ask them to vote no on the Big attack on America! #Resist
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10 years ago, myself and The Long Lost Band had the great privilege of being asked by Larry Beckett, to come up with the music for he and Tim Buckley's last song 'On The Hook'. youtu.be/AklkV-_JxwQ?... #timbuckley #music #musicsky #songs #alt #acoustic #folkrock #songwriter #sixties
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Free games for May, although I'm listening in June. I dig it. 12 String FTW and mighty Volkswagen vox.
Use your brain. Fascism doesn't have to obey a Supreme Court, it becomes the Supreme Court. You have fascism like a national disease and you dont cure it with wishful thinking. Fascism is never voted out. Read some damn history.
This dumb reductionism. But it is the internet.
Cold War Steve has a pure vision.
Cultists have to deprogrammed, to even to understand any explainations of why they are lost to the cult. You can't use rational argument on them without it. Pointless.
Yes he was their Keyboard player for a bit.
Pretty sure its Robert.