Composer, writer, Emeritus Professor at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London.https://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3mddvl756bc2jThis winter's collection. Dedicated to Ghee Bowman, Sally Mackey and Brian Patten, each of whom passed during the making of it and each of whom left traces in the songs in one way or another. https://rossbrown.bandcamp.com/album/good-for-ghosts26 Jan 2026 18:43 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mddvl756bc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3m4einlpsx22nThe new poems I was working on with Brian Patten this winter are now out on Spotify and all the other streaming platform. So sad he didn't live to see their release https://open.spotify.com/album/0oLcYLtHGlKeFg479lDiBm?si=tJjhf1L6QkevFuVGf02kaw29 Oct 2025 22:28 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4einlpsx22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3m3v4v24uas2iThese four new tracks are from the album Brian Patten and I were working on over the winter of 2024–25. Sadly, Brian finally succumbed to his long illness at the end of September, making this a bittersweet listen. RIP Brian https://rossbrown.bandcamp.com/album/pipe-dream-poems-with-music23 Oct 2025 19:48 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3v4v24uas2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3lznjdmdmb22hThe Spotify link to my new single. Please share if you enjoy it. I'm hoping to earn enough royalties this month for a packet of guitar strings. https://open.spotify.com/album/3OsttwIffm5Hh6lwd6Dhx2?si=2jq73im4QluIhD9CjKqzWQ25 Sep 2025 08:19 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lznjdmdmb22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3lznj64tocc2hhttp://itunes.apple.com/album/id/184137689625 Sep 2025 08:16 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lznj64tocc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3lzkwx3lsj22dNew single out now on all your streamers24 Sep 2025 07:44 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzkwx3lsj22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3lvqfda36wk2cSally Mackey — dear friend and colleague for 30+ years. A driving force in Drama Ed and Applied Theatre and one of the architects of Central as a modern HE drama school that trains practitioners, educators and thinkers under one roof. I’ll miss the long calls, the wine, the cookery tips. RIP.06 Aug 2025 14:04 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvqfda36wk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3lkdeb3pzss2aBuy my new single This Winter in London in super stereo 24 bit sound for £1 on Bandcamp, and get my last single for free. Audition for free on MP3 https://rossbrown.bandcamp.com/album/this-winter-in-london14 Mar 2025 10:03 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkdeb3pzss2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3lkcavlfvfs2rNew song! Enjoy. https://rossbrown.bandcamp.com/album/this-winter-in-london-ep13 Mar 2025 23:31 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkcavlfvfs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3lihdwhz3rk2qFinally on Apple, Deezer,Qobuz,Tidal, Amazon, Spotify etc after apparently getting lost down the back of the sofa at TuneCore (the distributors). https://music.apple.com/gb/album/a-matsui-vcr/1796925098?i=179692510218 Feb 2025 13:18 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lihdwhz3rk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3lhjmufcyfc2cThe new one, now on Spotify06 Feb 2025 17:38 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhjmufcyfc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3lgxaa4tvqc2hStill streaming for free (limited number of plays) or to buy in better quality for a quid. Out on the commercial streaming sites in a week. https://rossbrown.bandcamp.com/track/a-matsui-vcr30 Jan 2025 10:04 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgxaa4tvqc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3lgpub5i67c2m New song https://rossbrown.bandcamp.com/track/a-matsui-vcr27 Jan 2025 11:41 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgpub5i67c2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3lfzzbb6m7s2g@jonathancoe.bsky.social Truss; death of her maj. Shady thinktanks, grudge / guilt harbouring university chums and poisonous academics in a ‘cosy’ murder mystery. Plus a cameo from the briefly successful author of ‘Quite the Mash-Up’. Fab. Suggestion: Coe bingo cards would only enhance the delight18 Jan 2025 19:12 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfzzbb6m7s2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3lcolo4tjdk2aGear nerd post. Indulge me. Richard Hawley tonight with his 1959 Watkins Scout ( right) and later WEM Dominator (left). My Mersey Super 15 is the Scout in a different casing commissioned by Hessys music shop in Liverpool during Beatlemania in 1963. It didn’t take off and they reputedly only made 18.07 Dec 2024 01:54 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcolo4tjdk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3lcodyco7ac2bI see a lot of great gigs, but Richard Hawley and guests English Teacher tonight at Hackney Church was special06 Dec 2024 23:36 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcodyco7ac2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3lckpjvaius2gWhitehall ‘comfortable in the tepid bath of managed decline.’ Nice line. Same might be said of the administrations of other sectors in the past ten years.05 Dec 2024 12:52 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lckpjvaius2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3lcbn6jmuyk2gJust finished The Listeners on iPlayer. Remarkable. Clever nods to 70s art house movies. Rebecca Hall is outstanding. For those interested auditory hallucination, the use of sound in meditation and relaxation practices, and the often cultish association between aurality and expanded consciousness.01 Dec 2024 22:16 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcbn6jmuyk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3lcb3qyqdqs22Just read the following in @msrachelcooke.bsky.social ‘s @newstatesman.com review of the Band Aid doc, which I haven’t seen, and I literally don’t know which one is which: ‘Simon Le Bon sits next to Bono, and it’s like the sixth form, the uncool kid laughing far too hard at the cooler kid’s jokes.’😂01 Dec 2024 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcb3qyqdqs22https://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3lc6llhbjyk2aExcited to be working with Brian Patten again, 25 years after our last collaboration. He was a hero of mine as a young man, and it’s a privilege to wake up to poems from him in my inbox, knowing I’m the first person to read them. Hoping to release some of the fruits of our endeavour by Easter.30 Nov 2024 17:10 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lc6llhbjyk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3lbv63n4r5c2kOut now for preorder. Foreword by yours truly (which you can read for free in the preview extract ). https://www.routledge.com/Music-and-Sound-in-European-Theatre-Practices-Performances-Perspectives/Roesner-Quick/p/book/978103267511426 Nov 2024 23:14 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbv63n4r5c2khttps://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3lb5ibwbp622jThe root causes of systemic problems are often technical and their solutions quite boring. https://app.theneweuropean.co.uk/2024/11/17/rip-it-up-and-start-again/content.html17 Nov 2024 13:13 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lb5ibwbp622jhttps://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3layvu3roek2v15 Nov 2024 17:32 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3layvu3roek2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3kpz3umsw3c2rMy music bots indicate that three of you still haven’t listened to Memory Foam yet. I’m not going to name and shame you at this stage but you know who you are. Now available on all your platforms. Even my wife says she likes it and she normally hates my stuff https://rossbrown.bandcamp.com/album/memory-foam13 Apr 2024 11:12 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3kpz3umsw3c2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3kpwbngkutm2iThis winters album now out on all your streaming sites https://open.spotify.com/album/3pcCFTByPAmGFPiS7nDyGt?si=BRZvAyDJTBye4Oqt9KaJHA12 Apr 2024 08:17 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3kpwbngkutm2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3klqv5qg2hm2yRemix compilation album out today. New album in a couple of weeks https://open.spotify.com/album/6zn14JAgilOATTD462yVp1?si=g2A_6kJGR2mrVhywJCdeoQ19 Feb 2024 07:09 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3klqv5qg2hm2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3kh4os5uzy323The annual stock pic22 Dec 2023 08:41 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3kh4os5uzy323https://bsky.app/profile/profrossbrown.bsky.social/post/3kgj6cqeykk22So far I’ve bought an ancient, busted-up German accordian and an African drum. Christmas presents, not so much. #christmasshopping14 Dec 2023 14:26 +0000at://did:plc:7cvi4lqdwcaaqfieqym7corl/app.bsky.feed.post/3kgj6cqeykk22