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September – December

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Photograph from Trust Your Artists Retreat workkshop Autumn 2025 (zine by Jean McEwan) Somewhere underground, a seed has cracked open, certain of the existence of light. @thetinyjoyproject Jasmine Wilder https://soundcloud.com/joe_holtaway/september-december/s-PTvVbrM24Hu?si=ccb57420aeb041a3a6ca33c2e50b1894&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Songs Return - Danny Nedelko and Asylum Hotels/Support Artists - Buy Direct - Fund Change/ Gaza EP and Artists Supporting Palestine/ Warmth of the Ages [...]

May to August

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5 minute read or listen (including image descriptions) https://soundcloud.com/joe_holtaway/may/s-bBEX5wDFn0s?si=24fe80c8d7fb4ad68dda420c4b6eb2b0&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj40M48e-as Palestine • Gigs & Performances • Warmth of the Ages • Press & Reviews • Looking Ahead I’m writing this post in my note book from an old graveyard in Newcastle— just a short walk from home. Fye’s in his sling beside me, drifting [...]

February to April

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https://soundcloud.com/joe_holtaway/february-april/s-m2132eFUr23?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing&si=9735642a8b21481db8e34290438546ae Karim/Warmth of the Ages responses, Podcast so far, Live Takes/ Palestine Fundraiser/So Hard To See It All + Grief workshop/Daily Antedote of song and... Fye. It never feels like you're quite ready to hear the news. I was just heading into the cinema to watch the new Dylan film; trying to make sense of [...]

November – January

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzgyqbMaUYA https://soundcloud.com/joe_holtaway/november-january/s-MGdCTAqPoEo?si=65b35a7ab9dd4a96870eefd1bff62296&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Warmth of the Ages release/Podcast/Sharing Spaces/Blogs and playlist shoutouts/School visit with Christa Awad/Relaxation/ The chairs were in a semi circle, Big Red Machine’s:  playing through Max’s speaker - there’s a couple of tracks on a playlist I have called “Who I’m listening to right now” one with Robin Pecknold from Fleet Foxes and [...]

Warmth of The Ages

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKEY0JICKDY https://soundcloud.com/joe_holtaway/intro-1/s-H0LpKFh0Y3v?si=ca2870a0da4f4dfea68e54ec094b22ca&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Warm welcome friends. Thank you for being here. Warmth of the Ages was recorded at friends places and my home studio over the last few years. The songs are about themes; personal and social and intertwined, from holding love and grief, looking at my racism and patriarchy, feeling the power of protest and [...]

April to June

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Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music. -- Herbie Hancock Of The Source/ Peace Sounds on the Green/Reverence for Life with Christa Awad/Wake Up Your Artist 24/Relaxation https://soundcloud.com/joe_holtaway/april-to-june/s-RwuwLYff0bU?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing&si=5c7e69e534af43308caa47f49518458f Thank you for reading wherever you are, however you are doing today. I appreciate your precious eyes [...]