Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Hay-fever season 2026

The Vertigo Trombone Quartet, Bird’s Eye Jazz Club, 5 February 2026

The values of Service (or Community), Patience, Craft, and Beauty: Adam Neely on “AI” music generation and the refusal of AI

From Terrible Maps through W. G. Sebald to “Finnegans Wake"

“Unsituated knowledge” and the lack of a “world model” in so-called “AI"

Protest songs by Bruce Springsteen, Billy Bragg, Neil Young, and Stephen Stills