My head is spinning! From Captain Beefheart to Oklahoma by way of the influence of Tony Banks’ prog rock keyboard flourishes on the Fall!! Futures and Pasts and much wonderful stuff from Jim M!!! #thefall #futuresandpasts #jimmoir #vic #dizzy #wonderstuff @fallfuturepast @Lthanwordsfest @bandonthewall

City! – at Manchester, England

Definitive Gaze! #DaveFormula #Noko #Magazine #sothisisreallife #ManchesterAcademy2

The man with the most mellifluous fingers in the world! Poise and perfection from Sir Stephen this evening - with a lovely hat-tip to ‘Manchester the greatest city’ and learning his musical skills within a mile of the Bridgewater Hall at Chetham’s and the RNCM!!

Spring flourish! #spring #fletchermoss #gardens

A Lisztian dream of love for a delightful spring-like day in cheery Chester! With a packed and appreciative audience at the busy and wonderful Wesley Church Centre as part of their excellent lunchtime recital series. #Liszt #love #dream #spring #cheer #Chester #piano #recital #hwanheekim

One to know! #tim #charlatan #Worsley #Northwich

A Wonderland of magical musical delights at this lunchtime’s world class UK premiere of stellar Korean composer’s Unsuk Chin’s ‘Puzzles and Games’. A huge Manchester musical moment spectacularly delivered by members of the Hallé Orchestra and friends in the presence of Unsuk Chin herself! ‘Puzzles and Games’ is from Unsuk Chin’s opera ‘Alice in Wonderland’ - hopefully it won’t be long before the full opera is given a UK premiere in Manchester - with Alice popping up from Daresbury! Thrilling to have the chance to meet Unsuk Chin at the truly stunning Hallé St Peter's! #Wonderland #puzzlesandgames #unsukchin #opera #Hallé #HalléStPeters #Manchester #Korea #musical #magical #delights #premiere @the_halle @hallestpeters

A bright start! #meadowsmorning #merseyvalleymoments #mersey #valley

Sheen! #manchester

Albert’s Wheel!

All is for the best in the best of all possible Sheffields! A stainless steel wall of sound from the corruscating Cabs at their brutalist best!! #nagnagnag #steven #sheffield #steel #forgemasters #industrial #ericrandom

Saint Bob!

The man with the sax(es)! A bit of Marsalis magic on the corner of Oxford and Booth - divinely duetting with the jazz piano mastery of Julian Joseph!! #branford #julian #sax #saxophone #worldsaxophoneday #marsalis #magic #rncm #manchester @bmarsalis @rncmlive

On the way back from the fire! #wildboy

Sheldonian twilight! #conscienceanduncertainty #politicsandprofessors #oxfordevenings

Fortunately you! #kissandtell #sananda #ttd @SANANDAMAITREYA @O2RitzManc

Just dial my number! Practically perfect popsters with a huge chunk of definitive pop history writing thrown in!! #hesonthephone #pop #pophistory #letsdoit #yeahyeahyeah #sarah #bob #pete #saintetienne #international @PiccadillyRecs @bobpetesarah