When we want to strike Italian poses, we go for Fernet-Branca and coke ;-)

My co-write with the Clarence Bekker Band, "Natural", is a featured track on Music2Deal. By the way, if you run a festival, they are a very tight soul machine on stage. >> music2deal.com/benelux/_9Lx... #musicsky #reggae #soulmusic

Fun album from Massilia Sound System #Musicsky

For those that don't get that far, here is the audience participation part:

Paul McCartney's photo exhibition "Eye of the Storm", charting a few months in 1963 and 1964 has opened in the French town of Aix-en-Provence. Turns out Macca was/is a nimble photographer as well as everything else: www.museegranet-aixenprovence.fr/expositions/... #beatles

I usually enjoy Bruno Mars, but dude "you smell better than a barbecue"? Huh? :-D #songwriting #lyrics #songlyrics #BBQ

Welcome to the age of active listening. Easy to use mix function on this track. Play around with it and share www.shibuyaaa.com/stacks?scene... #musicsky #rap

Hands up who knew about this on #YouTube, and who uses it? www.youtube.com/@Alyric-now #indiemusic #Musicpromotion

Next up: Nik West who is funky AF. Great night of TV. Wasn't expecting this. #funk

Not my usual cup of tea, but enjoying the musical lyricism of Marcus Miller on @artefr.bsky.social #jazz

After giving a beautiful rendition of a piece by #Grieg last night, a musician friend was still wringing her hands about her performance this morning. So I sent her a note (suitable for other life events generally, I have found):

French #freestyle rapper M'Tiss is dumping some of his 365 videos on Instagram www.instagram.com/reel/DZCdqPE... #musicsky #rapfrançais

Yes, m'lady...

Nah, come on. They can't be that incompetent. But...

Mastroianni

The indie music biz platform Music2Deal has just had an update. Labels and managers are free to connect with me there: music2deal.com/site/registe...

Oops. Sorry about that. Not what I was hoping for when I co-wrote it 30 years ago. youtu.be/DsiBAeq3M9k?... #musicsky #eurodance

Better link. Skip the ads at the beginning www.rtve.es/play/videos/...

Oh look, a new platform. This one is like a co-operative Bandcamp. Check it out. www.subvert.fm #musicbiz

Someone just nicked my song title! How dare they? #songwriting a-lyric.com/2026/04/ben-...

I actually saw them live - it was something else. "Don't Touch Me There" - hah! Intresting that they never formally stopped. Members drifted in and out and a few died in their seventies. There's a project to compile their copious video recordings and releases. We haven't heard the last of them.

Story of my life...

My protest song with Herman Martin, "In the Shadows", is a featured track on Music2Deal for the Benelux. The video is pretty raw (skip to 1 minute) music2deal.com/benelux/_9Lx... #musicsky

Is this new material from Joe Jackson? www.revieew.music/album/851590... #musicsky

Wow. Sting playing in the Paris Pantheon. Brilliant visually and musically. Look for it on @artefr.bsky.social

In case you missed the link:

Getting there:

Lol, gotta love the randomness of @artefr.bsky.social It's Friday night and I'm here watching Jean-Michel Jarre in concert. Not my style but he knows what he's doing