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#4: Listen: A Mountain of Flies, by Flake Brown
The Mountain of Flies, a track by Flake Brown. LISTEN HERE. This is a beautiful track, written by an old friend - Tony - that I recently reconnected with after a good 25 years - he's that special category of person that you still care about even when you haven't seen them for decades. He sent me this track and it set me remembering how much his musical talents inspired me back in Glasgow in the late 90s. I was lucky enough to spend a lot of time among several musicians of exc
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#3: Pedalling through time
For the last four years, I've gone on a bike trip with my dad and brothers. It's something that means a lot to me, and I cherish every year we get to keep doing it. What I love about cycling is this: I love the feeling of being one with the bike, a human-bike hybrid, whizzing downhill, choosing whether to soar in a straight line or whether to snake in a needless wobbly line. I love I only have to think of it and the bike seems to magically do what I think. I love the pace. It
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#2: My 16-million-great grandfather was a fish
When we look at the language of genomes - those endless lines of A's, G', T's and C's that make up the DNA of all living things - then compare those genomes to more ancient primitive forms - we can see that we share 'words', 'sentences' and even 'paragraphs' with them. There is a bit of those older beings at the core of us all you see. The more the words, sentences and paragraphs of our genome match up with another species, the more we share its characteristics. That's why
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Jan 33 min read
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'A Life Half Lived,' (working title), a new solo show for Winter 2026,
about life, death, love, loss, time, memory and family.
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