This is great: 8 works by Renaissance composer Nicolas Gombert, arranged for instruments rather than voices by James Weeks. The accompanying conversation on the AT website is illuminating too, criticising religion, colonialism & chill-out aesthetics. anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/g-o-m-...

A Nice Thing in the shop at the moment.

One final trip to 1995 for Middle-Aged Teenage Angst this year and its an all request special. Some hits, a few divebombs and all elixirs inbetween. Rule number one: pretend its fun. Tuesday, 8pm on noiseboxradio.com

Enjoying some pre-Christmas Statutory Right of Entry to My Home

Due to the irregular nature of the cuboids in this diagram, this game could only rotate on a single axis. Renderering it dull at best.

Rewatching the Thriller box set starting from disc 1? Including the weird American credit sequences? With cheese and wine and all the candles on? And no work tomorrow? Yes, sir.

Anna Själv Tredje - Mossen [Sweden, Abstract, Ambient]( 1977) https://redd.it/jj62xm https://youtu.be/bUaPLETVDgM

My favourite YouTube channel has made a new episode. British Cryptids are stylistic documentaries from the 70s on ghosts, monsters and folklore. Think Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World meets the first series of Look Around You. youtu.be/XTTw5jquP-k?...

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

I had no idea Billy Connolly was in the Christmas Worzel Gummidge. He gets to sing a song and later his head falls off (but it’s all good) #tptv

youtube.com/watch?v=WVwg... Pure bliss everyone .

Now available in paperback, just in time for Christmas.

This was incredible www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I’m officially old enough to identify a Max Bygraves impression #WhoDoYouDo

Two impressions in one - James Stewart through the body of Alan Partridge #WhoDoYouDo

TV Heaven attained #WhoDoYouDo

Watching the noncommittal “I’d never sell it” responses on #antiquesroadshow when their watch is valued at £1000 and that’s almost their monthly mortgage payment

If you're after suggestions for a short story or two to read for Halloween, here's the list I put together for A Personal Anthology a couple of years back. Not all horror or weird fiction, but mostly. open.substack.com/pub/apersona...

youtube.com/watch?v=qqL0... Churchill’s People is on YouTube! I’ve wanted to watch this since TV Hell in the early nineties. And I’m not holding my breath!

One of the most remarkable pieces of television of the 1970's has just been uploaded. Crown Court: Lola. You think you know where it's going. You think it will be of its time (and it kind of is). And then it blows you out the water. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzZX...

@jayrayner1.bsky.social I imagine you know this but in case not… youtu.be/liaaYHuQmf0

Years ago I wrote this piece about national treasure and dreadful old c**t Peter Blake. Have just dredged it up for my new best friend @typetheclouds.bsky.social who had the good sense to buy my fucking book™ at the Hastings book fair. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/ja...

A set of New Penguin Shakespeares with David Gentleman covers. In the shop now.

New in the online shop this weekend. knollysandsmartbooks.etsy.com

New anthology of all vintage Evergreen Review covers and articles- available in the UK via @turnaround

Today’s good news is that Peter Greenaway’s delightful documentary Act of God, about lightning strike survivors, made for Thames TV’s Take Six strand in 1980 is on YouTube youtu.be/Ruuxxdq4v4Y?...

I have just 10 DAYS to find, pay for & move into London accommodation where my young twins and I can stay during 10 weeks of radiotherapy cancer treatment & recovery. 👀 GoFundMe already helped me cover timely & super-precise radiotherapy - can you help me sort somewhere to stay? Link in bio. 😊👊❤🤘

New books in the shop! From avant garde architecture to Pagan Ireland.

New acquisitions.

Related - when I first watched this I literally nearly passed out from laughing. Highly recommended. youtu.be/o589CAu73UM

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

A digital box set of my Cantus Orbis mixes from the last decade are now available for download. Four albums that focus on drone heavy/repetitive music written between the 5th / 15th centuries. I don’t own any of this so encourage you to take the ‘free’ option: iamplinth.bandcamp.com/album/cantus...

Posters Look to the Future by James Adams, 1965

Would anyone like to buy a copy of Crittall’s 1953 window catalogue? A lovely artefact. £40 knollysandsmartbooks.etsy.com/listing/4325...

Plenty of new stock in the shop - were open from 10:30 to 5:00 so Come and have a look.

Wonderful to finally get hold of a copy of Ian Nairn’s ‘Outrage’. It’s in the shop now, sat on a little pedestal.

Just a few pictures of the new Knollys and Smart bookshop, open now at Arundel Emporium on Matilda Street, Sheffield. All manner of esoteric subjects catered for, please come and have a browse, we’re very clean.

The Creeping Flesh – is now up on Patreon! It’s got Peter Cushing, #BigChrisLee, and more dodgy Victorian science than you can shake a phallic fleshy finger at. Hear it early, ad-free, by supporting the show for a few quid. www.patreon.com/posts/126962...

Selling this lovely Penguin gothic horror box set in the shop.

Well, as I’m sure you all know, we mark something important today. Yes: happy 45th anniversary of the thrremony at tremony at the liremony at the libraremony to all who celebrate

We’re at the Not of this Wold festival in beautiful Louth this weekend. Come along and say ‘I’d like this one, please.’ I’m even bringing the pugs.

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Theme Dreaming, a series of extraordinary and inexplicable song and dance routines to covers of TV and film themes, roping in the likes of Clannad, Barbara Dickson and Gerard Kenny reclaiming I Could Be So Good For You.

Selling a copy of this in the shop if anyone’s interested. The novel that The Wicker Man is based on, reprinted by Finders Keepers Records in 2011.

Remember that ‘mystery’ episode of Picture Box where nobody was quite sure if there was an actual episode or not? Or, somehow they dreamed it happened but could’ve been abducted by Alan Rothwell.. Found it. youtu.be/JcmeqkEp_hc?...

Just sent this one to the printers! If you like old-fashioned British supernatural stories (M.R. James-type stuff), you'll surely enjoy this very literate collection of ghostly and macabre fiction. It's not too late to preorder and get yours before Amazon: www.valancourtbooks.com/the-islands-...

We're pleased to announce that @tobyhadoke.bsky.social's long-awaited history of the The Quatermass Experiment will be published in May in trade paperback, along with a limited edition hardback with special cover artwork by @roberthack.bsky.social. Order now from tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com

Coming up in the shop tomorrow…

knollysandsmartbooks.etsy.com New in the shop tonight! Zombies, Euro horror, Andy Mackay and the Wrenboys of Dingle.

The Street Markets of London by Mary Benedetta, incredible b&w photography by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. In the shop now!