★Tom Robinson★

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Recording artist & broadcaster at #BBC6Music. Offering free insider advice at Fresh On The Net with an open door for music submissions every Mon. My own views, not those of the BBC
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Today is #BandcampFriday and while I'm mixing new releases, here is my recent album "Drone Storm". #bandcamp #ambient #drone #music @synths https://wolfgangmerx.bandcamp.com/album/drone-storm
Drone Storm, by Wolfgang Merx

8 track album

Wolfgang Merx
ARTISTS! BANDS! MUSIC FANS! Can you lend us your ears & expertise this weekend to help some deserving artists find a wider audience? Please drop by our Listening Post & tell us your favourite tunes at https://freshonthenet.co.uk/batch475. Big love & warm thanks if you’re able to help x
Listening Post: Batch 475

Our moderators listened to every track we were sent this week and have picked their favourites for your listening pleasure - listed here in alphabetical order. Now it’s over to you. Why not take a listen through to these fine tunes between now and Sunday afternoon, then click the checkbox beside

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*TRB LIVE 2023*

Fri 03-Mar LONDON: Pizza Express
Sat 04-Mar LONDON: Pizza Express
Fri 10-Mar EVERGEM: CC
Sat 11-Mar LOKEREN: CC
Sun 12-Mar BEVEREN: CC
Mon 13-Mar BONN: Harmonie
Tue 14-Mar ERLENBACH/MAIN: Beavers
Thu 16-Mar TURNHOUT: CC
Fri 17-Mar HERENT: Hangar 3020
Sat 18-Mar OVERPELT: CC
Fri 28-Apr HUDDERSFIELD: Parish
Sat 29-Apr DURHAM: Northern Kin Fest
Thu 15-Jun BEDFORD: Esquires
Fri 16-Jun WORCESTER: Huntingdon Hall
Sat 17-Jun BISHOPS STORTFORD: Sign of the Times
https://tomrobinson.com/gigs

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THE BACKBONE OF BBC INTRODUCING... If you've appreciated our network of local BBC Introducing shows across England & The Channel Islands over the past 15 years, here's a chance to say so https://freshonthenet.co.uk/backbone. Wales, Scotland & N.I. have their own brilliant national/regional shows as well...
The Backbone of BBC Introducing

BBC Music Introducing is a network of radio shows across the UK supporting new and interesting music at grassroots level. The backbone of that network consists of 32 local shows on stations across England and the Channel Islands. They're supplemented by flagship programmes in Wales, Scotland and Nor

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Listening to the 30 day archive (still 26 to go) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001gbg0 from @TomRobinson 's BBC6 sitting in show of 30-12. Lot's of unexpected and interesting music.
Steve Lamacq - Tom Robinson sits in - BBC Sounds

Tom repeats sessions recorded for this programme from Yard Act and Hamish Hawk.

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Here are a dozen favourite F.K. Waechter cartoons on Flickr with (very approximate) English translations http://www.flickr.com/photos/feelingmyage/sets/72157627982268822/ They're taken from his 80s collection "Warscheinlich guckt wieder kein Schwein" - surreal, bone dry German humour at its best.
German Humour

From Wikipedia: Friedrich Karl Waechter (3 November 1937 in Danzig – 16 September 2005 in Frankfurt) was a renowned German cartoonist, author, and playwright. Life Waechter was born in Danzig as a son of a teacher. His family fled over the Baltic Sea after World War II and settled in Sahms (Schleswig-Holstein). Waechter attended the Lauenburg Scholar School in Ratzeburg, where his graphic talents became apparent. He then studied graphic art in Hamburg. In 1962, he moved to Frankfurt and took a job drawing cartoons in an advertisement magazine Die Zeit. His work attracted the attention of the editors of the soon-to-be satire magazine, Pardon. They gave Waechter a preliminary copy and asked for his suggestions. Waechter's constructive criticism earned him a job with the fledgling magazine. While at Pardon, he co-founded the New Frankfurt School, a group of eminent comic writers and cartoonists. The name was a play on the Frankfurt School of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer. The group included Robert Gernhardt, F.W. Bernstein, Bernd Eilert, Eckhard Henscheid, F.W. Ambers, Peter Gnarl, Hans Traxler, and Chlodwig Poth. Their work celebrated subversive nonsense, typified by Pardon's regular "Welt in Spiegel" ("In the Mirror") feature.

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Part 2 of our End Of Year Gift Selection is now available on #BBCSounds at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001gkft (Also permanenetly downloadable as a podcast at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrw4q/episodes/downloads). 16 more top tunes featured on the #BBCIntroducing Mixtape in 2022 by acts we hope to hear more from in 2023. Namely #HomeCounties #Dilettante #JahDigga #PostCoalPromQueen #BigSpecial #Cevanne #TheEarlyPurple #RachaelJeanHarris #HangLinton #AmeliaCoburn #BenAndDom #BOfBriz #YouthSector #FloPerlin #OwenDuff & #CharlotteHarding
The BBC Introducing Mixtape - 02/01/2023 - BBC Sounds

Tom Robinson presents a mixtape of his personal selection of tracks from BBC Introducing.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR, Mastochums! The brilliant Lau.ra (aka Laura Bettinson from Ultraísta) has just posted this lovely video collage on Instagram. A picture of her life in the past 12 months in all its hope, stress, joy, confusion, loss - and creation of life affirming music. Here's to more hope and less hate in 2023 https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cm2MlzsoA3x/
lau.ra on Instagram: "2022 was pretty major. We started and nearly completed on a massive home renovation project which nearly broke us and our marriage tbh. Got through it though. First food, first words, first steps. A few flights. Lost my Gran. Made a few tunes. Released my first vinyl record of true banging classics. Lived out of a microwave and a tent in our garden for a while. Moved in with my mum and dad for ages. Moved out again. Started the year playing at Circoloco Ibiza and I’m ending it in Helsinki, Finland. Lots of love to you all as we go into a new one. ❤️🔊"

lau.ra shared a post on Instagram: "2022 was pretty major. We started and nearly completed on a massive home renovation project which nearly broke us and our marriage tbh. Got through it though. First food, first words, first steps. A few flights. Lost my Gran. Made a few tunes. Released my first vinyl record of true banging classics. Lived out of a microwave and a tent in our garden for a while. Moved in with my mum and dad for ages. Moved out again. Started the year playing at Circoloco Ibiza and I’m ending it in Helsinki, Finland. Lots of love to you all as we go into a new one. ❤️🔊". Follow their account to see 419 posts.

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"Fumbling for his recline button, Ted unwittingly instigates a disaster..." still makes me laugh every time #GaryLarson
#WingsStayOn #WingsFallOff

Nearing 1,000 now.

Just 9,000 more before the government HAVE to respond - that is, give a justification as to WHY they should be exempt from class A drug testing.

When teachers, train drivers, military, offshore oil workers & so many more have to consent to random drug testing

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/619602

Petition: Introduce mandatory drug and alcohol testing for MPs.

Introduce mandatory drug and alcohol testing for MPs before they take part in debates or votes. The limits should be the same as for drink/drug driving.

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament