Does anyone know anyone (ideally in the south of the UK) who builds instruments? either electro-acoustic experimental devices or arduino type things?
Thinking about trying to get some funding for a thing and someone like that would help a lot…
Engaging in ‘robust debate’ with right-wing types clearly isn’t working. If anything, all it seems to have done is make them think their opinions are valid in some way.
I’m going to move to a ‘embarrass them by highlighting their objective stupidity’ model from now on instead.
thanks!
Ok so @bandcamp.com STILL haven't fixed the issue. As a small entity with ZERO reserves, I can't express how much this sort of thing could be critical. It is likely I have already lost a significant portion of sales - and therefore won't break even. Genuinely don't know if can afford to carry on.
After three days of hell, someone actually managed to subscribe to MEANS!
Come join us! £3 a month to get a quarterly physical grassroots music/art mag deliver to your door! WW delivery available!
meansmag.bandcamp.com
Hello all!
It's Bandcamp friday and the new edition of MEASN just arrived from the printers! 76 pages of art, music and writing responding to theme of Dissonant Law!
meansmag.bandcamp.com/merch/means-...
probably can't do @bandcamp.com friday because they haven't fixed the MEANS / DAAM payments issues.
On the plus side, some glorious spreadsheet nerd made this absolute treasure:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
still broken. Bandcamp can't find an issue, but apparently no one can subscribe. After the postage issues throughout Jan/Feb, 2026 is looking to completely destroy what little reserves I have to support the label and magazine.
Yesterday, Bandcamp disconnected the MEANS + DAAM subs. They both should now be working.
If you were ever considering subscribing to the label or magazine, now would be a wonderful time because then I'll know its actually working!
meansmag.bandcamp.com/subscribe
difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com
If anyone is considering subscribing to MEANS (£3 a month, get a quarterly physical art mag sent to your door!), that would be awesome! I really need to find out if it's still broken!
Yesterday, Bandcamp disconnected the MEANS + DAAM subs. They both should now be working.
If you were ever considering subscribing to the label or magazine, now would be a wonderful time because then I'll know its actually working!
meansmag.bandcamp.com/subscribe
difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com
Sorry to anyone having issues purchasing from DAAM / MEANS bandcamp pages. Launching the new MEANS sub has messed up the connection between my Stripe account and my Bandcamp account, and in trying to fix it, Bandcamp have torpedoed the DAAM sub too.
Hopefully it will be fixed in the next 24 hours.
Read a press release about a great new experimental folk album so clicked the link. Was surprised to find it really was a great new experimental folk album.
Then discovered I had accidentally left some experimental music playing in a different browser and it was, in fact, just normal folk music.
Brighton / south-east folk: explore the wonders of a Saturday night with @bekindcadaver.bsky.social.
Thanks mate!
Everyone! I can't recommend @meansmagazine.bsky.social enough. It's one true grassrooty #DIY publication, just shouting out from its heart elaborate pieces on outsider art, society, music, and what else can bring people together. #artsky #musicsky
I'm not telling you what to do, but now you can subscribe to MEANS! Get a quarterly magazine of experimental/grassroots art, writing and music delivered to your door! Support artists to make new work! Be a good 'un!
meansmag.bandcamp.com
ah sorry to hear that :( yep, these things are no fun. Not really sure how you get jobs these days - I'm either vastly overqualified for 99% of things, or unqualified for the remaining 1%!
left train because it was weird, now at pub, writing:
"Her brother grunted, mouth quivering as he struggled between cognition and despondency, heavy eyelids flapping brazenly against his broad skull, mouth gaping open, then closed, the open once again, as if screaming, impotently, at nothing. "
I started to worry coz I am getting drunk on the train, and that’s not a look that screams ‘we really should have given this guy the job’, but now he’s started to get drunk on the train too, and he probably hadn’t turned himself down for a job today, so I don’t see what he has to get wasted about.
So now one of the people responsible for said rejection has boarded the train and sat in the seat in front of me. In London, which has like 8 billion people in it. This is incredibly unlikely. What the fuck is going on? We are steadfastly pretending not to have seen each other.
Firmly in the 'getting drunk on a train' phase now.
a couple of hours later and I'm now entering the 'sweary' phase of my post-rejection ritual.
The nature of putting yourself out there is that you face rejection.
Today was a big rejection, bigger than most and will have a bigger affect on my life/finances than many rejections.
But so it goes.
I'll commiserate with a pint this eve, then start making some new art/work/music tomorrow.
Because our sycophantic PM will probably walk this back later, let's all remember that a minister was on TV today saying "I don’t think that there’s a legal basis for for this action... they were not under imminent threat, and so it’s therefore difficult to to see what the legal justification is.”
At some point, if the human race really pulls together, really works at it, does a bit of planning, doubles-down on its homework, pulls out all the stops, then, we might, possibly, if we squint, get to have two consecutive days of moderately good news in a row.
Alas, today is not that day.
nothing says 'middle aged man' like a bleary-eyed commute whilst wear a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles t-shirt and listening to John carpenter.
The test pressings have been approved!
Moments like this really bring home the appeal of vinyl: the album sounds fantastic on wax, a huge, timbrally rich sound world.
We are still taking orders if you want to grab one of the first batch:
difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-ta...
Working on a new cover design. Any good?
2 of the next 5 incoming DAAM releases... a hive of label activity is about to begin :)
