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Writer of fiction and fact. Spoken word woman. Features editor @godisinthetv Was trophy wife, now Andy's widow. cathbore @gmail (.)com.

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Cath Holland

4 years

It's one year today since my husband Andy died. (Yes it's been a year, and no, it hasn't flown. Not for me, anyway.) Big thanks to @godisinthetv for letting me write this little piece about us x

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Music And Grief: A Love Story With Inanimate Objects - God Is In The TV

Inside this tasteful, classy box there was a charm bracelet. The charms hanging from it were a pair of shoes coloured blue by plastic stones, a TCB (Taking

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7 years

@sianushka Passive aggressive stalker behaviour.

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7 years

@sianushka I hope he never gets a girlfriend ever again. This is beyond creepy.

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5 years

Hello everyone, I’m very sad to share the news that Andy my husband of 24yrs, died this weekend after a long illness. Love to those who made our lives more bearable whilst he was poorly & thanks to the kind souls who made it possible for him to die at home, it meant so much x

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3 years

Why does Nicholas Witchell think he's got the right to know the Queen's business. She's just lost her husband. Being widowed makes people physically and mentally poorly. Leave her alone, you absolute lemon.

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When we got married we invested our money in buying a house, so our wedding rings were budget ones. People have unfortunately made (rude, cruel) comments about them over the years; this week I got both combined to make a new ring, shiny & bigger but still ours and I love it x

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10 years

Oh, now this has cheered me up no end. (I always blame predictive text for this sort of thing too). http://t.co/dPRbfW0Sc1

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4 years

When I went on a date with a lad called Andy 26 yrs ago today, I didn't imagine we'd be married 6 months 7 days later. We all do crazy stuff when young but that was a good idea, I think. He can't join me this year but I'm still celebrating that first date, just differently x

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4 years

Dominic Raab's suggestion that Andy Burnham isn't working in Manchester's best interests will bite him on the arse by lunchtime. @BBCNews

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1 year

The Coral tonight playing their first show in Birkenhead for 20 years, and in a 350 cap venue to boot.

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10 years

Gove's new "British books only" GCSE Eng lit policy sounds positively UKIP-ian.. "immigrant novels, coming here, stealing our readers".

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2 years

Cried reading this. It's a good thing. #WorldBookDay @MarianKeyes

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9 years

Sandi Toksvig, an excellent choice! Stephen Fry has quit as the host of QI - and will be replaced by Sandi Toksvig http://t.co/4W9ojmR2Wi

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@dank_ackroyd A random bloke used to tweet me poems made of Elvis song titles strung together nothing more, and got angry when I didn't respond with thanks or encouragement.

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3 years

You don't have to be a royalist to feel empathy for what the Queen's going through, surely. A case of if you can't be nice, keep it zipped.

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4 years

It’s my silver wedding anniversary today. Or would be, if Andy's body hadn’t let him down. I’m celebrating in my own way as we’d have made the 25 years for sure - & the rest. Thanks/lots of love to those who helped make an otherwise bumpy December/ Xmas/NY/today easier for me x

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4 years

Last month I wrote a piece of creative non-fiction about existing, living as a widow during the pandemic - it's a bit melancholic but ultimately concludes comfortably enough. I'm pleased to receive confirmation today it's to be published in a 📚 book 📖 published in September❤️

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3 years

This Lidl £1.50 box is pretty much a ten.

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5 years

@Lunapads No, they are bloody well not.

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8 years

The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore 'Cos We Don't Buy It Here #jft96 #MakeASongOrFilmMoreLiverpool

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3 years

I went to New Brighton with @thecoralband . We sat a stone's throw from the sea, and talked about Del Shannon - and the new album Coral Island. Pick up a copy of @BidoLito , or read all about it online 👇👇👇

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1 year

@fesshole When Arthur Miller brought Marilyn Monroe to meet his parents, when she went to the loo she ran the tap so no one would hear. The day after, Miller asked his father what he thought of her. "Lovely girl, pisses like a horse"

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2 years

Rockin @kristinhersh at @JimmysLiverpool last night

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6 years

@Kevin_Maguire Esther McVey lost her seat in 2015 because of passionate campaigning by long term Labour Party activists & members.

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5 years

Lots of love to all the women who rode today x #RideForMurderedWomen ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Women ride and we rode ✊✊✊ #RideForMurderedWomen

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9 years

Pete Doherty goes missing, all the jokes start...so many people don't understand the nature of addiction. I so hope the lad's ok, bless him.

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4 years

Hey, Primark snarks. Maybe people are skint and need cheap clothes. Maybe women want to be with other women, be somewhere familiar, normal and enjoy cheery fabrics while they're at it. Good for you if you can do online shopping and it meets all your needs, mate. Good for you.

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3 years

Happy St George's Day, everyone.

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10 years

GCSE students are to study only British novels now? No "To Kill a Mockingbird", and other US classics. Michael Gove has gone quite mad.

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10 years

'Novel Reading' was grounds to be admitted into an asylum from 1864-1889. Thanks to @ScouserDivaD for this :-) http://t.co/V29ZeYi2L5

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3 years

Two years today since Andy died. Spending the day reflecting on our life together, and how my own life has changed so much since last August's anniversary ❤

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10 years

I've got my Cameron Card! http://t.co/JqxsaRrYnk

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6 years

@sneezysnooze @emmahdhughes I'd pay very good money to see footage of this!

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4 years

Happy International Men's Day to the good men out there, who support women & girls, and our rights. All men like pie, so this is for you. Dive in. To bad men who hurt or hate us, show us their body parts without consent, all that sort of thing - no pie for you. Make/buy your own.

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9 years

Oh dear, the big bully boy newspapers seem to be upset at @Ed_Miliband cos he's not doing that they want - again. #Milibrand 's a win, then.

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1 year

Grant Shapps getting a beautifully savage mauling by the Business Select Committee @BBCNews .

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Cath Holland

10 months

Four years today. Love this rare pic of Andy tending our garden, in the traditional gardening attire of chiffon paisley shirt, good jeans and best watch. I'm spending the day reflecting on what and who is important x

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5 years

Thank you to all who sent/posted/emailed kind messages about losing Andy. It is making a very difficult time easier to struggle through. I might not reply to each one, but rest assured I read and appreciate them all x

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6 years

Tonight I'm thinking of this quite beautiful portrait of Mark E Smith, by Michael Bracewell and John Wilde, on display at Liverpool's Serving Library last winter x

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9 years

Young women, being amazing. Telling it like it is. #milifandom

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2 years

Thanks @BBC6Music Festival for the opportunities and access this weekend in Cardiff, the positive vibes (sic) summed up in this image from Sunday by @bevunit for @godisinthetv - myself and Gruff Rhys, mid-interview flow.

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4 years

My name is May. I have just licked a tuna and cheese toastie I knew full well was not made for me. I am 17yo and a bit soft in the head but knew what I did was very wrong even as I was doing it. #toastiegate

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Cath Holland

5 years

Thanks everyone for lovely kind messages about Andy passing away. I wrote a little thing about him x

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Cath Holland

4 years

John Lennon loved tea. My husband loved a good cuppa tea, and he loved John Lennon. Happy birthday, John. Wherever you are there will be lots of love and tea today, just for you x

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2 years

I haven't written a posthumous tribute for a while, but it would be wrong to not do one about Janice Long - for @godisinthetv . Thanks to @welshmusicprize winners @adwaithband @ghbonello for valuable input re her support of contemporary Welsh music.

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Janice Long - A Tribute To A Broadcasting Pioneer - God Is In The TV

‘A true champion of Welsh music, who has touched so many hearts. She was truly a pioneer, an inspiration and will be really missed by many’ - Gwenllian

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1 year

@BookishChat When we first bought our place, a neighbour came out one day and said 'how many people live in your house, you're always carrying bags of shopping, you must eat well'. Walking to the shops and having no car is a crime now, to nosey people with no lives.

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4 years

@K_IngalaSmith @helenpidd I'd like to know about how she aims to ensure the preservation of biological women's spaces. She's been asked a few times yet still hasn't provided a satisfactory answer. A black and white slogan delivered to righteous cheers isn't an answer.

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3 years

27 years today since mine & Andy’s first date. We were so young, but didn’t think that at the time. Some nice things to have happened to me over the last days, one in particular I think he’d find v entertaining indeed. Maybe he had a hand in it somehow, who knows? Deciding yes ❤️

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Cath Holland

2 years

On Thursday night @Calderstones I lost this ring Andy bought me. I tried to put a brave face on things, but I was gutted. Tonight I was doing a little tidy up and it was playing hide and seek under the sofa cushions at home. So it wasn't lost at all, as it turns out ❤

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7 years

I wrote about @pastels_the for @GetintothisHQ . Thanks Sidonie @TheOrielles !

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5 years

I'd like to say how much @macmillancancer supported myself and Andy while he was poorly, esp during his final months, and continue to help me now. So many difficult, unexpected things crop up after bereavement, these people are always, always there for me. Total megastars imho x

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4 years

Slow Summits the @pastels_the album from 2013 is an absolute favourite of mine, it never fails to cheer me up - and is on #Timslisteningparty tonight over on Twitter from 8pm! 😀

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2 years

Excellent night at @welshmusicprize , @adwaithmusic won for the SECOND time! It needs to be on the telly next year surely, so everyone can enjoy. Thanks @Beccca04 helping me find @theCentre and @BreichiauHir for taking me to the pub

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7 years

@sneezysnooze @sashadaisical @Dandeliongirl01 We can all learn from this woman.

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9 years

That's why big bully boy newspapers have shrinking circulation and we seek alternate sources for our information, ignoring them. #Milibrand

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7 years

@sashadaisical @Dandeliongirl01 Genius.

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2 years

Victor (2009 - today). I hate the 'fur baby' notion but I will miss my hairy son's reassuring presence, a dependable constant over the past three very difficult years ❤

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5 years

This weekend I was eaten alive by midges, saw Stella Donnelly play and it wiz great, learned it’s ok for a man I don’t know to shout ‘Cheer the fuck up luv’ at me in the street & I found a new charcoal drawing by my husband, of a tree. A mixed bag but I think positives outweigh?

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11 months

@dieworkwear This is beautiful writing, I never knew men's tailoring could be so interesting :)

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3 years

This morning I received my first press release proudly stating the release is suitable 'for fans of @adwaithband '. The first of many, I'm sure. The artist in question is not Welsh @LibertinoRecs

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2 years

@rebeccawinson The train drivers aren't the ones striking, she needs to do some research innit.

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4 years

@JeanHatchet They seem to think anyone with stage 4 cancer has to stay hospital full time, that's news to a lot of us, my husband was going for lunches washed down with a nice IPA and loitering around record shops, doesn't mean he wasn't sick. Lots of love to you, Jean x

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10 years

Anguish for the middle classes continues. When will it ever end? http://t.co/QWMUuITaf9

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2 years

Is it naff to wear a band t-shirt at one of their gigs, Y/N. Asking for a friend, obv.

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3 years

Extending the £20 Universal Credit uplift is absolutely the correct decision if true, but surely it is an acknowledgement that UC rates in 'normal times' is insufficient to live on with dignity.

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5 years

Bought Pepperberry dress from ebay for £6.50, congratulated self on mighty bargain + points re: saving the planet, only to find upon delivery that *whispers* ITS GOT POCKETS. All my adult life, I've never owned a dress with pockets x

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9 months

You have two albums from Wirral music royalty @thecoralband to love and cherish next Friday, and on Monday I have a top notch interview with @JamesSkellyBand telling all about them. Over at @godisinthetv

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9 years

Best sign ever? http://t.co/gnCywMh3fq

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4 years

"Widows a speciality"

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4 years

@K_IngalaSmith Domestic violence gone wrong...

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2 years

It's our wedding anniversary today. It will be marked and celebrated. Here is Andy on the morning of our wedding with my hat and flowers, gender nonconforming before it got trendy x

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10 months

Birkenhead Town centre. No one is talking to them.

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3 years

@BBCWomansHour James seems to believe no woman in 2021 had ever been the recipient of negative behaviour by men because it's socially unacceptable to be wolf whistled at. A woman is killed by a man they know every 3 days pal.

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5 years

The Ariana Grande show at Manchester Arena two years ago would have been the first gig for many of the girls in the audience. In solidarity, Merseyside women share stories of first concerts attended & celebrate their importance. READ:

Manchester Arena anniversary: women share first gig stories - Getintothis

It’s the first anniversary of the Manchester Arena attack on Tuesday, Getintothis’ Cath Bore hears personal stories from music-loving Merseyside women about the first gigs they attended and why they...

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3 years

I know the world feels a bit rubbish today, but I got a job offer this morn. Which is good. I might stop complaining about work now. Might. And I've got a new cat mug.

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8 months

Note to bands - don't play in my town then call it a shithole.

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2 years

Three years today since Andy died. Spending the morning sorting his jackets and jeans for the homeless men's mission - it is time. Also I think Andy would enjoy the thought of the down on their luck wearing his flashy threads around Birkenvegas x

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29yrs today since our first date. I love this pic of Andy in a swirly shirt w/ mug of tea in hand, random Phil Ochs photo on the door; we lived in a crappy flat, waiting for the mortgage for our house. Today I'm reflecting, & appreciating what's important in the here & now.

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4 years

LOVE this shot of @adwaithband - from now on, all Welsh artists visiting Liverpool in a personal or professional capacity MUST have their photo taken at the @welshstreets

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Bido Lito! Magazine

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MUSICAL TRANSLATION Picking up from Welsh Language Music day, @cathholland01 traces the growing popularity of Welsh language music by speaking to those at the heart of its latest resurgence. Featuring: @adwaithband @alffa_band @HANA2Kmusic

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9 years

#ThankYouEd and @twcuddleston for standing up against the bullies. We could all learn a lot, from both of you. #milifandomforever

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5 years

HUGE congrats to all w/ stories in this year's @TheBIFFY50 , announced today. Also giving a big shout out to Laura Black @FictiveDream , a gold standard editor who supports her authors both personally and professionally, top class.

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8 months

Awesomeness from @Andybebop 's GLOK at @future_yard

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5 years

Last night I submitted my first piece of fiction since my bereavement. Had a bottle of beer at an in-store, then did a double spin class – not a wise combination - I subbed after all that – again, not THE wisest approach, but we’ll see.

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8 years

Very delighted to have a short story accepted for the Women’s Stories, Women’s Voices, a book out in January 2017.

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7 years

Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class from @DeadInkBooks is out!

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3 years

Girl at bus stop being sick cos of a long night in Wetherspoons. One woman gives her a bobble to keep her hair back, another gives her water 'to get it all out love'. Sisterhood in action.

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3 years

I knew he was a man whore but the dv stuff is jaw dropping. Squeaky bum time as #metoo cleans up Britpop, maybe? >> Bluetones frontman Mark Morriss denies allegations of physical and emotional abuse

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Bluetones frontman Mark Morriss denies allegations of physical and emotional abuse

Anna Wharton, the ex-wife of the Britpop singer, said he had ‘throttled’ her and lied to her about alleged repeat infidelities

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8 years

This grand gent (12yo) finds himself between residences at the moment, so will live out the rest of his days with us

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5 years

Thrilled to be shortlisted & invited to attend the David Higham Associates @DHAbooks #DHAOpenDay for under represented writers. Congrats fellow winners @franny5000 @_MaeveClarke Lea Getzic-Davis Elizabeth Hopkinson @LouKramskoy Nasrin Parvaz @mich_sanderson @AmelieSkoda 📒📚📖

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4 years

MUSICAL Translation - my feature on the Welsh language music scene looks very pretty in @BidoLito pink, I think.

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7 years

Jenny died today. (No rainbow bridge nonsense, she's going under the rose bush in our garden X )

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4 years

The very wonderful @adwaithband are playing Liverpool at the Cunard Building this Friday 1pm for Welsh Language Music Day. I'll be in a good mood & I'm told that's always quite entertaining in itself so yeah come, twice the joy and it's free so no excuses.

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Liverpool to celebrate Welsh Language Music Day with free gig at Pier Head - YM Liverpool

Three-piece female folk-punk band Adwaith will bring the noise to Liverpool on Friday 7 February in a free lunchtime gig to celebrate Welsh Language Music Day.

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4 years

In the new @bidolito is a double page spread written by me about the booming contemporary Welsh language music scene. THANKS @adwaithband @alffa_band @colorama_sound @huwstephens @ynysmusic @hana2kmusic @papurwal Read digitally/pick up physical copy

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2 years

Tough day, but thanks for the parcel of dreams @LibertinoRecs

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5 years

I wrote about Scott Walker’s Scott 4 with the help of ex @WildBeasts now @1trupairing Tom Fleming, The Bluetones’ @TheQuill , Welsh newbie on the block @YnysMusic , @TemplesOfficial , Merseyside chanteuse @iamBeijaFlo , Philip Quinn of @gross_net

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Scott Walker's Scott 4 at 50: what relevance today? - Getintothis

As Scott 4 gets a reissue for its half century birthday, Getintothis’ Cath Holland talks to musicians about the album’s role in 2019. The story is often retold of Scott 4, the fifth of Scott Walker’s...

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1 year

How these records are displayed is stressing me out.

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5 years

My short story The Second Brain was published by @RetreatWest in feminist anthology A Word For Freedom last year. At a spoken word event, a woman started crying - empathy re theme, not despair- but some menz found it offensive apparently. Though none said owt to me #MyRetreatWest

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9 months

Very sad to hear Geoff Davies has died. He put out two albums by Andy via Probe Plus, but more valuable to us personally, during Andy's final weeks he made him laugh, comparing their respective ailments, in great detail. And chatted to him about music, ever the painkiller x

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5 years

Reading the new issue @Mslexia and nodding, nodding at @AuthorSaraGrant 's article on writerly kindness - being a recipient of such this year, the notion of paying it forward is an aim for me.

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3 years

Man in the pub last night introduced himself with 'some people call me a space cowboy some call me the gangster of love woo woo' and reminded me why I don't really go the the pub that much

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