Naomi Colvin
@auerfeld
Interested in AI governance, renaissance music and pallas cats. Can probably still play a selection of Andy Mackay solos on request.
New addition to the fam! Have wanted one of Mollenhauer’s Kynseker instruments for a while and this one’s a G-alto dammit.
Heading back from the Lute Society’s Dowland 400 Festival and lowkey devastated that it’s all over.
Bit of an eccentric programme but there’s a reason they put Sorrow, Stay right at the centre of the Dowland selection
Back at the Proms (my third of the season!) for Thomas Dunford and his Jupiter Ensemble playing Dowland and Purcell. Not sure why they’re calling it late night baroque but - anyway! Down in the pit for this one
In other news, I’m watching this in a park in Bermondsey and now they’re singing happy birthday to someone and it is A1+
Starring the 3inch disk drive. (Date yourself with a photo of your first computer)
Back at @wigmore-hall.org.uk and this is the first time I’ve ever seen The Fall and Henry Purcell on the same setlist
Unnamed source demonstrated unfortunate US-isation of our body politic but other than that, lol.
Saw William Raban’s Thames Film at the ICA this weekend and bloody good it is too. The brown river was ever a dangerous place.
I'll leave the rest of the Mandelson stuff for others to comment on, but this (from Darren Jones) is the Wrong Thing. Why would you give the security services a veto on appointments? There shd be a place for political discretion - and being held to account if that judgement turns out to be wrong.
Just nabbed tickets for The Mad King (Game of Thrones) at RSC. Happy Friday to me!
Start of Dowland weekend at @wigmore-hall.org.uk. This about as good as it gets for me.
Finally saw The Secret Agent this week and it’s as fine a study into anticorruption activism and its consequences as you’re ever likely to see.
Getting all the Big Films out of the way asap. Jessie Buckley is brilliant in this, as you’ll have no doubt heard already
Absolutely bloody brilliant, loved it. Chalamet deserves all the prizes. A1+
Goblin Band at Grand Central - miraculous to be at a concert of Xmas songs that isn’t utterly hideous