Ben Bell

Keyboard player, multi-instrumentalist, singer, photographer, techie, hobby-magpie.

[Ben Bell @benjamesbell]

Covering the first eleven years of Patchwork Studios, this "pay what you choose" (including nothing) sampler is an excellent place to discover the bands and albums released on the label: https://t.co/aqdX9NYyVZ
(Spoiler: they've all got me on keyboards at least in some form ;-)

[Patchwork Cacophony @PatchworkCacoph]

Happy #PianoDay2025!
To mark the occasion, here's a piano EP from Ben Bell:
https://t.co/sowjijhS30
Recorded at home with just a couple of microphones and an acoustic piano, this is stripped-back presentation of some familiar and some new melodies.

[Patchwork Cacophony @PatchworkCacoph]

Thanks to @StevePilkingto5 at @VT_rocks for this glowing review of Hourglass.
"...an exceptionally good album..."
"...a gloriously unashamed bout of controlled and structured pomp and bombast..."

https://t.co/zs9CH0NE7J

[Patchwork Cacophony @PatchworkCacoph]

Official release day for "Hourglass", available now on Bandcamp and at https://t.co/hnDhuHVYRP
https://t.co/DCP2eTyq3B

[Patchwork Cacophony @PatchworkCacoph]

This is the third single from Hourglass, "Castaway" . This is a radio edit version. The full length version is on the album available at Bandcamp and Patchwork Studios: https://t.co/PevfrRHncT and
https://t.co/D67liqykEg
https://t.co/5mb148VxS1

[Patchwork Cacophony @PatchworkCacoph]

New single from the upcoming album, "Hourglass"! This one's a radio edit and you'll have to wait a little longer to hear the full album version, but hopefully this should whet your appetites.

https://t.co/kqcnTi5pYG

[Patchwork Cacophony @PatchworkCacoph]

Eight years after the release of Five of Cups, the long-awaited follow up album Hourglass is slated for release on May 1st.
Pre-orders are open on https://t.co/UXm47dryKX
and https://t.co/g13P7RlMSk.

[Ben Bell @benjamesbell]

#TheAshes #TMS
There once was a bowler called Tufnell,
Whose selection was never a tough call,
With a flick of his finger,
No batsmen could linger,
When faced with his out-of-the-rough ball.

[Ben Bell @benjamesbell]

Dutifully filled out the customer service questionnaire.
It's not going very well is it? 🙄

[Ben Bell @benjamesbell]

Thinking this page could be a little more informative, @RoyalMail?
https://t.co/SHwSXQD24h

[Ben Bell @benjamesbell]

Last minute preparations for International Engineering Curry Day '22 in motion, courtesy of @thedishpatch and Empire Biryani.
#iecd2022 27-07-2022

[Ben Bell @benjamesbell]

@ctrlshifti @mekkaokereke Yup, it's all true. Fancy some pear programming?

[Ben Bell @benjamesbell]

The initial mistake isn't the problem. It's that the whole thing has not been about customer service, it has been about trying to justify not refunding the charges, no matter what the circumstances, even when they're clearly suspicious.

Never trust companies like that.

[Ben Bell @benjamesbell]

Hi @netflix, you're billing me for a subscription upgrade I don't recognise. It looks deeply suspicious (changed multiple times in a day) and after an hour with support all I get is:
"Once more, we cannot answer how or why it happened. But it did."
Really?

[Ben Bell @benjamesbell]

J*****e Netflix:
"Now, I understand you had not changed it personally too. But the plan was changed. That's all I'm saying."

I am the only user of this account. If you accept I didn't change it does that sound like a good basis for charging me?

[Ben Bell @benjamesbell]

@Behringer Done, but no reply to my DM either?

[Ben Bell @benjamesbell]

@Behringer DM'd with case number(s). Like I say, I understand there's a shortage of parts, but replying to tickets doesn't need parts. Scheduling repairs for when you've got parts in stock, or replacements to send out, should also be straightforward.

[Ben Bell @benjamesbell]

@jgrahamc @sheeraf @morpiggg @Cloudflare @eastdakota Stop press! We have routes. Confused routes, but routes. Congratulations everyone, we survived the great Facebook Outage of 2021!

[Ben Bell @benjamesbell]

@jgrahamc @sheeraf @morpiggg @Cloudflare @eastdakota But at its worst, you drive people over and you make phone calls.
This is an ugly problem, and people will be in meetings for weeks explaining how it went wrong and how to stop it happening again, but you'll have your kitten memes by the morning.
Probably.