The finale to my Slacker Shakespeare season at @riocinema.bsky.social is Shakespeare in Love sponsored by @fivepointsbrew - is on Sunday 19 July 2pm - riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/What... spaces are limited so book now to avoid disappointment -

Hosting the launch of #CathiUnsworth's Dressed in Black compilation @thecolonyroom.bsky.social @acerecords.bsky.social

Do come! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dickon-edw...

Happy solstice all - the Rollright Stones

new show, up now!

My Slacker Shakespeare season at the @riocinema.bsky.social and sponsored by @fivepointsbrew - kicks off this Sunday 21 June at 2pm with @gus_van_sant My Own Private Idaho riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/What...

www.flickr.com/photos/mylif... From last Sunday's event at The Dublin Castle, Camden

In the company of @paulreesauthor.bsky.social's’ ‘Raised on Radio – Power Ballads, Cocaine & Payola’, Travis Elborough dips into the history of Adult Orientated Rock — the sound of a confident, car-driving North America www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/06/rais...

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@malcolmgarrett.bsky.social 70th!

My latest Elborough's Eye books column in the new issue of @idlermagazine

I am delighted to be curating this Slacker Shakespeare season at the @riocinema.bsky.social and sponsored by @fivepointsbrew - three classic bard-based 90s movie matinees - kicking off with @gus_van_sant My Own Private Idaho on Sunday 21 June 2pm riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/What...

I'll be tutoring a short Creative Non-Fiction course with Travis Elborough at the recently renovated Arvon Lumb Bank in Hebden Bridge Sept 21st -24th. Join us. www.adellestripe.co.uk/post/creativ...

Next Concrete Atlantis - Jodrell Atomic with James Fry, The New and Malcolm Garrett Plus on video Arthurian Alderley Edge Wednesday 10 June 2026 7:00pm – 10:00pm The Horse Hospital £10 advance tickets available now via HH website @beingmalcolmgarrett @jimfry77

Concrete Atlantis Sunday 10th May Matinee event - from 2pm @thehorsehospital £10 + booking free in advance featuring @grindrod.bsky.social @gmdarksky.bsky.social @opalxdome @microcorps @mira.aroyo @thehorsehospital.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/concrete-a...

Books, ideas, and actions - Words Change Things is a mini-festival in Margate this weekend. Robin Ince, Ellen Jones, Dougald Hine, John Grindrod, Travis Elborough, Emily Buchanan, Christopher Beanland ... mrdanthompson.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/w...

next Concrete Atlantis matinee event - Sunday 10 May 2pm @thehorsehospital.bsky.social With performance from Mira Aroyo (Ladytron), live version of Monstrosities Mon Amour with @grindrod.bsky.social and Gillian darley & music from Opal X & MICROCORPS www.thehorsehospital.com/events/concr...

My latest Elborough's Eye books column in the new issue of @idlermagazine out now www.idler.co.uk

Very sad to hear of the death of illustrator-artist and dandy Chris Price - my condolences to Del and the family. I interviewed them both for my Radio 4 series The Rise and Fall of the Antique -- link here to episode to hear them on junk hunting in Brum, and Biba et al www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

"Travis Elborough recalls how the Japan frontman's startling debut solo single ‘Red Guitar’ stood out among the rest of 1980s pop, and how his teenage love of David Sylvian introduced him to worlds beyond his everyday." The Devil in the Flesh: David Sylvian’s ‘Red Guitar’ at 40:

www.flickr.com/photos/mylif... snaps from the Laugharne Weekend 2026 @laugharneweekend.bsky.social

The Magic of Laugharne Here, a packed room at the Fountain Inn with Robin Ince - told at the last minute - to explore Nazism and the swastika in pop - a thrilling encounter! Pic: Travis Elborough

@laugharneweekend.bsky.social wonderful as ever

I’ve made a little one-off literary festival, just to prove something to myself. Robin Ince, John Grindrod, Travis Elborough, Ellen Jones, and a bunch more stuff being added still - but here’s the first bunch of listings. Margate, first weekend in May. mrdanthompson.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/w...

New episode up now - Concrete Atlantis with Travis Elborough and Stonecirclesampler uncannylandscapes.substack.com/p/concrete-a...

Gary Lachman talking about childhood reading, music scenes and discovering the occult. Props to Mayfair Library: plus, hosts Charlene Coleman and Travis Elborough were fabulous.

The 'Lost' Care LP from @needlemythology.bsky.social @petepaphides.bsky.social #paulsimpson #wildswans #ianbroudie

‘Here is a place of landlines, phone boxes and overhead pylons rather than wind farms, 5G masts and QR codes...’ Berris Conolly’s arresting photographs are proof that there is nothing so distant and strange as the recent past, writes Travis Elborough www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/03/trav...

www.flickr.com/photos/mylif... snap of Will Sergeant from recent stroll along the Thames

Launch of Touched by the Presence @garylachman.bsky.social @thecolonyroom.bsky.social

At the launch I'll be in conversation with pop culture savant Travis Elborough. I'll be showing the short film my son Max made to promote the book, and giving away copies of the rare "Amor Fati" CD, of tracks by my band The Know, with every book sold.

On Saturday 10 January 2026, Foyles Charing X Rd will be hosting a Bowie Day Festival to mark a decade since the death of David Bowie. I will be chairing a couple of events @foylesforbooks #bowie #davidbowie Book via www.foyles.co.uk/events/bowie...?

As festive season darts mania once again takes over the UK with the annual PDC World Darts Championship, Travis Elborough travels back to 1979 and John Samson's documentary about the rise of Eric Bristow Low Culture Essay: Travis Elborough on #EricBristow Darts Documentary, Arrows buff.ly/atfb6pn

Thanks again to The Balloonist & @hiddenbritain.bsky.social for their superb sets - at #thehorsehospital more #concretealtantis adventures planned for next year

20 years on 9th December - since the Routemaster left normal service Piece I did on their 70th anniversary for the Big Issue a while back www.bigissue.com/life/routema...

next Thurs 7pm, 11 December at The Horse Hospital, Bloomsbury wegottickets.com/event/678061/

Next Thursday 11 Dec at the Horse Hospital www.thehorsehospital.com/events/a-con...

'Lud Heat: A Book of the Dead Hamlets' 50th ltd ed of Iain Sinclair’s classic @swedenborghouse.bsky.social nborghouse.bsky.social photos by Anonymous Bosch + essays by Travis Elborough + Adolfo Barberá del Rosal. available online here £14.95 (PLUS P&P): www.swedenborg.org.uk/product/lud-...

The wonderful Budgie @waterstones.bsky.social Gower Street @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

A reminder that Budgie will be appearing at Waterstones Gower Street tomorrow night, in conversation with Travis Elborough about his acclaimed memoir The Absence. He'll be signing copies afterwards too, so come down and meet a legend... www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

On Wed 12 Nov - I'll be interviewing Budgie at Gower Street Waterstones book here www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev... @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social

Concrete Atlantis Autumnal #polaroids #expiredfilm @thehorsehospital @kempernorton.bsky.social #lauragraceford + #markopilkington #teleplasmiste @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social #polaroids #expirefilm

Interviewing #paulmorley about #davidbowie last night in Soho for Walthamstow Rock ‘n’ Roll Book Club snap thanks to David Simmon

Next outing for the Bob Dylan Record Club is from 2pm on Saturday 15th November @betseytrotwood.bsky.social @peteastor.bsky.social chooses Love and Theft Tickets here: wegottickets.com/event/672334

#iainsinclair Lud Heat 50th special ltd edition of just 200 with a piece by me in the appendix - available from @swedenborghouse.bsky.social now

For my fellow Iain Sinclair fanatics(?) an excellent 50th anniversary Lud Heat walk by John Rogers

Unhappy band of brothers: the Beach Boys’ story. ✍️ Travis Elborough

Paul Morley’s new book on Bowie is published a week today. Join us at the launch event at 21 Soho close to Bowie stomping grounds. In conversation with Travis Elborough #FarAboveTheWorld www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/paul-morle...

www.flickr.com/photos/mylif... snap @katlister.bsky.social from our Street Legal listening party @betseytrotwood.bsky.social

A lovely event - cheers to those came etc and, of course, to Kat