‘Holmes transforms ancient terrors into endearing companions, questioning where folklore sits in sanitised modern times.’ Hanna Dhaimish reviews ‘Dale Holmes: Beenderman & Gytrash’ at South Square Centre, Thornton, on until 5 Oct 2025. corridor8.co.uk/article/dale...

on hometown solo shows, cultural assets that the owners don't want to look after anymore, memorialisation and ambivalence via pals, old bandmates and a big boat tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/what...

berwick got me on the xl bully sheep algo

there hasn’t been a song of the summer yet because we can’t hear it over the screaming

Really interesting talk from @timjerrome.bsky.social just now on finding queer histories in rural records, on the subject of a lack of northern representation it might be worth checking out the @nenature.bsky.social archive - could've said this in person but wandered off before I thought of it 🤪

How it always goes in wars, austerity, entire election campaigns and governments, this genocide. Everyone who matters unites in the period where the horrors might yet be averted to ensure they proceed unimpeded, and that anyone who says they should be is stomped into the earth. Later: silence.

who up chongin they salmons

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i'm going to go to this, i don't really know anyone else who's going though, have a pint with me

this was great, more cultural events with very good content but also an explicit call to hang out, please

getting in a fistfight because me and the boys can't decide if "making your robot talk like Hitler" is a Simpsons Homer & Mr Burns B-plot episode, a Community Pierce & Abed A-plot episode, a 30 Rock Jack & Pete C-plot episode, or a Data & Geordi 2-part cliffhanger TNG episode

having a classic 'public art in a whimsical small town' time at the moment getting passed back and forth between the town council and county council because nobody knows who's supposed to give permission relating to this www.gov.uk/government/p...

monkmode is over it's scriptorium girl summer (one of the projects i'm producing at work is a 'sci-fi scriptorium' and i'm making a mood board for the imaginationless)

just a bit of fun!

A second heartwarming story about Brits walking around has turned out to be a massive scam

having some absolutely atrocious work dreams at the moment, last night i was trying to interview 40 people simultaneously for a shit amorphous job that only paid 10k

there we r

i wrote about some of the strangeness from my life for the last ten years, working for arts organisations, universities and other institutions on temporary contracts all over the north of england, in the style of a terribly sincere personal essay, and that's VERY interesting

trying to get a trans pope chant going in newcastle

The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

'Not quite fifteen years ago, on a very cold morning, my friend called me over to marvel at a little stalactite that had formed on a water pipe in our studio...' April's newsletter comes from Merseyside with a confession from artist-led studios past 😱 corridor8.substack.com/p/march-apri...

Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm!

i saw a real seal the other day, i live in a town with seals now, chongin pure salmons

devastating to be making a 5 hour train journey from Berwick to Blackburn today in the UK after this one from Wrocław to Krakow last week 🥲

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On Substack our newest board member @alexniven.bsky.social reflects on how experiences of contemporary art from his childhood in Northumberland trouble our received ideas about where experimental and innovative creative work happens. Read & subscribe now: corridor8.substack.com/p/radical-ge...

I've been 'creative producing' this deeply silly artwork over the past few months and now it's happening - here's the Museums Northumberland volunteers as giant monks projected on the walls of Berwick Barracks in Berwick Parade by Matthew Rosier 🤪

posh people being exasperated is the worst sound in the world

one of the sort-of-friends i had in the last place i lived for a temporary contract has died, her partner just had to let people know on instagram, i'd quite often see them around huddersfield and say hello, they were really lovely, i feel very sad for him

last night in the pub one by one everyone's phone went off with an emergency warning, it was quite the thing!

Babe come over, we can make space age puppets & masks together

had a very broken britain stress dream in which i missed the train back from london twice and ended up spending £500 on tickets which then spiraled into homelessness

if you google my name one of the first image results is a photo of me on my 18th birthday being pissed and i don't care to do a damn thing about it!!

a good PDF will have a computer gasping for air when you open it

doing some artist expenses and delighted to find that flights to and from Berlin are cheaper than trains to and from London

Edinburgh is now my closest big city nice knowin ya Leeds cya l8r Newcastle. Was going to go and see the Women in Revolt show but couldn't cope with something so heavily designed & interpreted, so went to Everlyn Nicodemus instead and really really enjoyed being sumbsumed into her vision.

it's mad how, yes, these jobs should be paid more, but at the same time i've only just got to the point of earning this much for 'culture' jobs (outside of London, mind) and i now earn more than all but one person in my family, and he manages all the IT for a county council

just had to send my first 'not to directly tell you to fuck off and definitely actually fuck off' email of the year, we're so back

happy new year

lost in the sauce

posting log on main

pete's teaching his mam to do tequila slammers

went to Ireland for the first time

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Dogs as animals though

Harpreet Kaur interviews Karanjit Panesar about his exhibition Furnace Fruit, a Collections in Dialogue co-commission from the British Library and Leeds Art Gallery, on from 4 October 2024 to 15 June 2025 at Leeds Art Gallery. corridor8.co.uk/article/furn...

in my ongoing research project 'living in Berwick-upon-Tweed' i have made a breakthrough in discovering that the big Polish shop has the best and cheapest groceries, as well as a large selection of hams that they will slice for you

Abridged extract from a longer piece I wrote about Chartism in Yorkshire, The Skelmanthorpe (near Huddersfield) Flag of Freedom stands out as a rare and powerful symbol of the fight for electoral reform and suffrage. Crafted in 1819 the same year as the Peterloo Massacre, it is one of the