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

Tomorrow afternoon at the Betsey - @katlister.bsky.social and I listen to the post-Elvis, post-divorce, pre-God-ish album Street Legal from 1978 - doors 2pm

Alright Bobcats, just a little reminder that I will be joining Travis Elborough at my fave pub on Saturday to talk all things Street Legal, an album I've loved since I was 17. I will be bringing my Dylan encyclopedia! I may even recite some Sam Shepard! There will definitely be beer! Join us!

The delightful Billy Collins at the Cheltenham Literature Festival

Tomorrow at #cheltenhamliteraryfestival #geoffdyer

Delighted to be interviewing Budgie at @waterstones Gower St next month

Sound Gallery 30th tonight @ Century Club

www.flickr.com/photos/mylif... @danielrachel.bsky.social The Grapes, Limehouse

Travis Elborough & Stonecirclesampler aka The Double Act Dismal 1970s Transluscent Red Vinyl 7" Lathe Cut 50 Copies (Sleep Fuse SF 64) FINAL COPIES HERE : www.ebay.co.uk/itm/29759912...

The photo you see below was taken by the marvellous Travis Elborough in Bunhill Fields after Sinclair had walked us there. He had just climbed on top of the grave marking of John Bunyan seconds earlier. Sinclair is the real deal.

In 1995, 30 years ago, Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley provided a quote for the sleeve notes of The Sound Gallery Vol 1 compiled by Martin Green, Tris Penna, and Patrick Whitaker. On Fri 10th Oct - MG, TP & PW will be in conversation with Travis Elborough before DJ-ing at Century Soho.

On the fiftieth anniversary of his seminal 'book of the dead hamlets', author Iain Sinclair talks to Robert Davidson about London in the 70s, Hawksmoor churches and Arthur Machen A London Dreaming: #IainSinclair’s Lud Heat At 50 buff.ly/x4m4wMR

'As light-hearted social history, it slips down as easily as the first pint of a Sunday lunchtime, and it is packed with pub quiz-winning nuggets of information' Travis Elborough: Are Sundays what they used to be?

My piece on vanishing barbecue pitches for the @newstatesman.com summer special - feat. a great George Orwell essay that dedicates three paragraphs to park railings:

Roll up, Bobcats. I’ll be joining Travis Elborough on October 25 at the Betsey Trotwood for a Bob Dylan Record Club afternoon in the fine company of his 1978 album Street Legal, an album I hold very dear. Tickets are a bargain £5! I will be bringing my Dylan encyclopaedia! This is not a drill!

New issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social a @cabaretvoltaire.bsky.social special

Peter Astor Unsent Letters Album Launch @peteastor.bsky.social www.flickr.com/photos/mylif...

Travis Elborough: Telling better stories about the UK's least visited cities

Last night we went to the launch of the new album by Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars, produced by Sean Read & released by Loose Records. A great Q&A with Bonnie & Rich from the band with writer Travis Elborough followed by a very special performance…a night full of friendship, charm and love ❤️✌️💥😎

Quite a day Dennis Morris at The Photographers' Gallery Helen Bonham Carter & friends at The London Library & Masma Dream World at Café OTO

Modernist Soho and Mayfair: Walking in Ian Nairn's footsteps, led by Travis Elborough. Sunday 6 July, meet outside Blue Posts pub, W1F 0QA, 2.20 pm. Tickets: buff.ly/n1KyE41 Ian Nairn books: buff.ly/iHFz9Gi

'His attempts to escape into a state of grace are too often thwarted by Wigan Athletic fans swigging from oversized bottles of Super Bock.' Travis Elborough on what trains mean to Britons

Seen in the wild today. Travis was the most recent guest on my podcast Monstrosities Mon Amour, talking of his love for Worthing’s seafront car park… open.substack.com/pub/johngrin...

My latest guest, the brilliant Travis Elborough, takes us to a car park in Worthing via a prog-rock tribute to Lord of the Rings. It can only be a new episoide of Monstrosities Mon Amour open.substack.com/pub/johngrin...

9:30am TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra The Rise and Fall of the Antique Ep 3, Post-war Portobello Travis Elborough explores the 1960s antique trade when a nostalgia for Victoriana co-existed with modernising trends. From 2018.

At The Wire website, read an extract from 'Studio Electrophonique: The Sheffield Space Age From The Human League To Pulp'. In this extract, Jamie Taylor remembers his first visit Ken Patten’s studio, home to early iterations of The Human League, Heaven 17 & more. www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/b...

Space-age Sheffield redux: Stephen Mallinder and Adi Newton at the Horse Hospital last night on the 50th anniversary of Cabaret Voltaire's first gig.

Tomorrow! 2pm Clay Pipe Music film and music in the Church.https://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/04/times-and-happenings-caught-by-the-river-day-out/

A few more tickets have been made available for the launch of Dorothy Max Prior's 'Sex is No Emergency' at the Horse Hospital, London next Thursday 8 May. Signed books, stickers, rare films, sounds and images + Max in conversation with Travis Elborough! www.thehorsehospital.com/events/sine-...