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🌌 Experimental Physicist📍Oxford
filmmaker, ♪ composer & linguist 🌍
🍴food, botanical & hiking stuff 🌱
🎬 @brxfilms 🎼 @serenesonority
🎓 ICL + EPFL

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🦎 Reptilia by The Strokes, 2-part ostinato on classical guitar, live from the garden @jbrookslondon

1st Aug 2026

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#thestrokes #reptilia #thevoidz #juliancasablancas #classicalguitar

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Come with us and explore the 🔺 UK's highest roof walk!

Just behind Alexandra Palace's iconic 'Angel of Plenty' statue lies a spectacular outdoor viewing platform overlooking the whole of London, 130m above the city with views stretching as far as 40km into the distance.

Want to experience it for yourself? Head over to @summitallypally and book your guided tour – currently 12.5% off this summer, as part of the Great British Summer Savings Scheme! ☀️

Thanks to 📸 @me.unseenarch for joining us – look out for her snaps from this visit, coming SOON.

🎙️ presented by: @jbrookslondon
🎥 video by: @brxfilms

[Note: in the video you see a private tour for the @crouch.end team – please see the Summit Ally Pally website for the details & rules on taking devices like phones 🤳 up to the viewpoint]

@yourallypally #allypally #alexandrapalace #viewpoint #crouchend #londonthingstodo

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Gone now are the old times ♪

So... My A string on my cello actually snapped just before this, so please enjoy this rendition of the outro solely on the D string :) 🎻🎶

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cellist: joey thomas brooks
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Song: ODE TO THE METS by The Strokes
(closing track on The New Abnormal, 2020)
@thestrokes #odetothemets #juliancasablancas #thestrokes #thevoidz #thenewabnormal

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Some brilliant raw pics taken by photographer 📸📸 @me.unseenarch on 30th April 2026 at our first trial run of the @crouch.end Spring Fiesta (Day 1 of 2 days of dancing, yoga, music, fun, food & games), held in both Alexandra Park and the Victoria Stakes Pub.

In future, we will be having more regular socials & events for activities like these – just join the specific WhatsApp groups in our community (link in bio) 💃🧘🏸♟️📀🏃🍽️

Until next time! 🫡☀️

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on a sun-soaked day in May, a mysterious man in a hat was spotted on the canal-lined streets of a Provençal town.

His mission?

To make a short film of this lesser-visited French gem, consisting of pensinsulas and islands, sandwiched between the Mediterranean sea and the Étang de Berre lagoon.

This short film is in fact the one you are watching now:
"The Man in Martigues", which opens with the iconic « Miroir aux Oiseaux » with its colourful houses and crystal clear waters, where boats bob gently in the breeze.

a brxfilms production
location: Martigues, Bouches-du-Rhône 🇫🇷
filmed on 19th May 2026
by jt brooks & ka brooks
@jbrookslondon @chervilbridge

edited 23rd June 2026

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⏪ 10 years ago, after the onset of a wave of compositional post-holiday inspiration, I wrote a few songs... Here you see a behind-the-scenes look at one of them entitled "Canigou" on 27th August 2016.

Since then – life, studies and work have all gotten in the way of recording these songs but, ⏩ fast-forward to 2026, now that I'm older, wiser + back home in London, I feel ready to get these down in the studio and perform them live...

▶️ In 2022, I released my first mixed full home demos (on YouTube) for 2 tracks: "Jour Férié" and "Brink of Night" – the latter a more gloomy post-punk adaptation of "Canigou".

📀 And so here we are, with quite a few new songs added along the way, in 2026 with my debut album ON THE OTHER SHORE taking shape.

The first concrete release from this record will be the single "It's Not Too Late", for which I released 1 second snippets of the intro in May 2025.

Other musicians reading this, maybe you relate to this tale of having to shelve your own music but, I suppose, like my upcoming single... it's not too late?

– joey thomas brooks
21st June 2026
(summer equinox)

♪ serenesonority records

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3 different bass guitars... which one would you choose? 🤔

Would like something very versatile to record and play live with, from post-punk, new wave & indie rock & to jazz, funk, soul, salsa & trip-hop.

Filmed 30th October 2022 at Wunjo Bass on Denmark Street in London 🎣🎸 @wunjobass

#rockmusic #bassguitar #bassplayer #bass #londonmusicscene

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@crouch.end Local Spotlight ep. 1 – BRYDE ♪

During our Spring Fiesta in April, we had a chat with the immensely talented local singer-songwriter Sarah Howells, A.K.A @brydeofficial / @sarahhowellsofficial in sunny Alexandra Park 🌳☀️

In addition to her many music projects, Sarah is also a somatic coach for musicians @sarahhowells.somatic has supported unpaid carers for a charity and has done mental health peer-coaching for the NHS.

Interview filmed 30th April 2026 in London, N8
🎬 video edited by @brxfilms
📸 cover photo taken by @me.unseenarch

Stay tuned for the next episode of Crouch End Local Spotlight! 🎞️

♪📺 a music show brought to you by → @serenesonority

#crouchend #allypally #londonmusicscene #indierock #musicinterview

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@yhwhnailgun what a performance. Free show in London's Hyde Park in a disused pit next to the Marble Arch organised by @nts_radio @4ad @drabl

Lolina +
YHWH Nailgun
live in London
14th June 2026

videos by 🎬 @brxfilms (me)

#experimentalrock
#undergroundmusicscene
@relaxinrecords

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♪ Analysis of a few passages from Fryderyk Chopin's Revolutionary Étude in C minor (published in 1831).

🎞️ Recording is from 6th March 2018 on a Yamaha Grand Piano in London, played by me, joey thomas brooks 🎹 @jbrookslondon

One of the coolest aspects of playing any Chopin work, I'd say would be the variations & embellishments – it's almost as if he's riffing off a previous passage and then just writing down this elaborate improvisation. I guess back in the day he'd play it differently every single time himself.

@chopinpiano @thechopinsocietyuk @chopininstitute #chopin #piano #classicalpiano #revolutionaryetude
#classicalmusic

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I think I know what you mean but watch what you say, 'cause they'll be trying to knock you down in some way...

last slide, instead of a price tag, it looked like the t-shirt just had my name on it... 10€, so guess it was mine the whole time ☄️👀

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♪📸📸 February 2026, in summary, ft. some very cool musicians & filmmakers 🎶🎬 London + some Manchester 📍

1. Paraic Morrissey 🎶 @ll_burns 🎬 @ccwadeprod
2. George Bass 🥁 @geoffreyhaddock (King Krule, LL Burns, Horsey)
3. LL Burns live @earthackney
4. Jerkcurb live @earthackney
5. Jacob Read 🎸🎙️ @jerkcurb (@horseyband)
6. Ian Curtis @officialjoydivision mural by @akse_p19 outside Manchester Piccadilly 🛤️
7. Manchester, UK
8. Al Aldous Robinson 🎸🎷🎹 @al_aldous (@findom_org @fiscal.harm)
9. NYSSA @thisisnyssa 🪈 (@findom_org)
10. Canary Wharf, London 🌃
11. Ignacio Salvadores 🎷@gal.go (King Krule, GAL GO, Findom) live-scoring "L'Inferno" at Theatreship with Findom
12. 🎶 Theatreship, Canary Wharf ⛵ @theatreship
13-14. Archy Marshall a.k.a King Krule ☄️ @edgar_the_breathtaker
15. Wrapping up the music video 🎬 "Whatever The Weather" @mylesmorganuk 🎙️ with crew @wallstreetmedia.uk
+ @_.wild.flower.___ 🎥🎥
16. Wall Street 🎹🎙️👾 @wallstreetmedia.uk
17. 🎞️ Opening shot of "Whatever the Weather" – my directorial/editorial debut, go watch on YouTube (link in bio)
18. Credits 🍿
19. go follow @brxfilms 🎬 :)

#indiemusicscene #londonmusicscene #llburns #jerkcurb #kingkrule

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