Mike Batt
@Mike_Batt
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Artist/Singer/Songwriter/Producer/Composer/Director etc. I've conducted more orchestras than you can shake a stick at. Memoir out now! https://t.co/UyLVfDp13R
UK
Joined February 2009
General info-dump: pin back your lug 'oles. I've just finished my 38 min "Ukraine" symphony and recorded it with the LSO. It will be released by Dramatico Records in the spring. I'm looking for orchestras (pro or am) who fancy performing it. In fact, watch this space, I may do a
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Fun fact: I wrote "I Dine Alone", for my musical "Men Who March Away" 10 years before I met @Katiemelua - the same show for which I wrote her 1st hit "The Closest Thing To Crazy". But the fun bit is Katie always told me she hated musicals! Personally I just think of them as
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In four years of war, Russia has not been able to take control of the highly strategic Donbas region - yet is demanding that Ukraine simply hand it over. Putin can bluster all he wants, but he isn't winning this war - and we shouldn't let him.
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"Ukraine is not just defending its own land; it is defending the idea of a free world against tyranny." - Garry Kasparov Russian dissident and world chess champion
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Here it is: the full feature documentary about Oleksandr Gordiienko. The farmer who was hunted in Kherson. The world needs to see what the russians did to him and countless other farmers. This film is dedicated to their legacy. Please share it far and wide. 🇺🇦
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A very ruffly put-together visual on another small bit of my UKRAINE symphony (1st movement). 'Scuse shakey camera on score and humour me for my "flashmob in Kyiv" stills! (Temporary graphics!)🤪
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@Mike_Batt Ok. I surrender Mike! 🙏. Arriving Thursday. 368 pages Of Musial madness. Not a phoned it in jobby. Great reviews. P. S. Please take me off the naughty list now. 😂❤️👍🎅🎄🎄.
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A very ruffly put-together visual on another small bit of my UKRAINE symphony (1st movement). 'Scuse shakey camera on score and humour me for my "flashmob in Kyiv" stills! (Temporary graphics!)🤪
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Finally an advertisement that doesn't mess around.
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Ben Hodges: Russia never lives up to any agreement. We must make Ukraine look like Finland - strong and indigestible. Putin again demands that Kyiv withdraw from occupied territories - that’s not peace, it’s surrender. Ukrainians won’t trade land Russia hasn’t even captured. 1/
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🇺🇸🔥 A Crisis of Leadership: When America Looks More Corrupt Than the Aggressor The U.S. should stand with a democracy being invaded by a dictator, not posture as a neutral broker chasing billion dollar deals with the aggressor. For eighty years America led the Free World
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Good job I had my pocket digital video camera with me everywhere we went (before phone cameras).
Looking back at this old footage, I'm reminded of how lucky I am to have seen so much of the world through making records.
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A plug for my book while Christmas is only a month a way and payday is only a few days ago! 😉
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