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I dug into the budget sheets to have a look at the realities of modern day touring costs for a bunch of artists. Such is the struggle for many established acts to tour profitably, it’s been declared a cost of touring crisis. theguardian.com/music/2024/apr…

NEW 🧵: how Britain became gripped by the worst homelessness crisis in the developed world

historically, men in this situation used a folding canopy called an umbrella

Again - how dare a government that has cut funding for 16-19 education by 15%, cut youth services by 70%, whacked up student loan repayments, overseen record rises in rents, and cut unemployment/housing benefits say this stuff?

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Kudos to Musicians' Union for providing one-off grants to new parents. Every little helps in the UK, where self-employed fathers don’t get paternity leave at all; the UK ranks 40th/43 OECD countries on paternity pay overall. Just 2% of what the UK spends on parental leave goes to dads

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Finzi Clarinet Concerto and Stephen Dodgson’s ‘Last of the Leaves’ coming up! Sunday 13th October, 4pm at St Stephen’s South Dulwich with Lucy Goddard, Jon Stainsby & Concordium String Ensemble. See you for an autumnal pint at the Wood House afterwards stephendodgson.com/event/last-of-…

Come along to Chichester Cathedral on Tuesday to hear this and other great pieces by women composers played by me and Antonio Oyarzabal - Pianist

When you have a concert and your train is delayed. Anthony Friend Southern

Anthony Friend and I had a lovely time performing our programme of works for clarinet & 🎹 by female composers at Chichester Cathedral last Tuesday. People seemed to really enjoy learning about many composers they didn’t know & their great works. Next week we’ll be in Peterborough!

Tomorrow 15th Oct, Anthony Friend & I will be performing our programme of works for clarinet & 🎹 by all female composers at St John’s Peterborough, 1pm. Come along if you’re nearby!

Had a blast performing Finzi’s Clarinet Concerto and Stephen Dodgson’s Last of the Leaves on Sunday with Lucy Goddard, her wonderful Concordium String Ensemble and baritone Jon Stainsby. Photos by my very supportive duo partner Antonio Oyarzabal - Pianist who came to watch!

Went to M&S to get flowers and someone knocked over their entire stock trolley of eggs and I can’t even explain the amount of egg. Maybe 1000 eggs.

We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat. Some of those stories may even be true! But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇

I’m now here mostly and may even actually post something eventually bsky.app/profile/antoin…