Thank you again to @michaelspicer.bsky.social and @bobfischer.bsky.social for being excellent sports! 🐴 🐝 ✉️ 🍷

Delighted for Aja, and I'm going to continue the trail of thanks... she was recommended to us by the great @jaymoussamann.bsky.social!

Ah, Kirsty MacColl. Just wonderful. I managed to see her live once, at the old Arena nightclub in Middlesbrough on 19th August 1992. And took these photos...

It's here! Joel Morris and I wrote a ghost story for the long winter nights, and Rosie Cavaliero, Carrie Quinlan, Josienne Clark and Victoria Moss breathed strange life into it. Turn off the lights and gather round the fire's glowing embers...

That is beautiful and quite the nostalgia rush. If I may add my own little contribution. Me on Christmas Day 1975, age 8, very much the 'Action Man' Christmas I remember.

FIVE GOLD RINGS Teesside style. Written for @mulgraveaudio.bsky.social again...

I'll add my annual Christmas pic of me in maybe '75 or '76?

Jer-jer-jer-jer-Jamaican ger-ger-ginger c-cake.

This is brilliant, Andy's lucky to have a trove like that. I don't think there are many pics of me opening presents, but there are snippets of cine film from 1977 - including the fleeting disappointment on my face when I realise someone had bought me an Action Man Dinghy before I had an Action Man!

One of my favourite things on the Haunted Generation website... a festive selection of the 20,000 photographs left to Andy Heggs by his Dad. Memories of some very 1970s Christmases: Basil Brush, Lego, Space 1999 and the Matchbox Cascade! Amazing pics. hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2022/12/24/t...

Was anyone else told urban myths about telephone boxes and weird phone numbers? Another 100-word horror story written for @mulgraveaudio.bsky.social

Tonight! This is lovely regular night in Whitby, and amidst all the singing and mummery I'll be giving a little talk about how my 1980s Christmases were infused with strange, snowy magic - and how a lot of it came from The Box of Delights.

100-word Christmas horror story. Written for @mulgraveaudio.bsky.social

I have a shambling, ridiculous band called Old Muggins and we are doing our first free Christmas gig at The Waiting Room in Eaglescliffe since 2019. And just confirmed as support... the mighty Rick Dobbing of Dressed Like Wolves. This is going to be jolly... Sunday 21st December, all welcome.

Also... I spoke to the mighty Alan Parsons for this issue. We started with 'I Robot' then moved onto Magic Alex and Pilot. Lovely bloke.

It's 45 years today since Flash Gordon was released in the UK. Here's me with Sam J Jones in Darlington, chanelling my inner Hans Zarkov.

Saw this show in Whitby last month, and it was terrific.

THE BRITISH STEREO COLLECTIVE 'Horizon 9' - Music Inspired by Blake's 7 and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Available to pre-order or download now, a month ahead of schedule due to the 'Marked to Kill' 12 inch single being released today #Blakes7 thebritishstereocollective.bandcamp.com/album/horizon-9

Tomorrow! Come for folklore, performance, stories about Christmas, and a genuinely spooky haunted raffle! Hosted by the fantastic @bobfischer.bsky.social, you won't want to miss this.

My first all-ages book. This one's special.

A few more of my @electronicsound.bsky.social reviews on the Haunted Generation site... hello Witchboard, Drew Mulholland, @gardengate.bsky.social, @subexotic.bsky.social, @martynaudio.bsky.social, Clevelode, @woodfordhalse.bsky.social hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/12/10/e...

Delighted to be MC-ing this again - early bird tickets on Eventbrite now.

As the tech bro, social media age hollows us all out from within, it’s reassuring to learn there are still around 3500 black and white TV licences issued in the UK each year

George Harrison meets Tony Sheridan again in Germany, 1977.

I do a lot of hosting at gorgeous Flowergate Hall in Whitby - home of the Switched On electronic weekender, the Back of the North Wind haunto club and a forthcoming Folklore weekender too. They've now got dedicated socials - please give 'em a follow if you're interested in all this stuff.

Had a nice little run on the Haunted Generation winter badges, but they're back in stock now - fill your (welly) boots. Ideal stocking filler, etc... artwork by the great @jaseheeley.bsky.social, as ever. bobfischer.bigcartel.com/category/bad...

Just a quick reminder that the Reboot sessions (1 to 5) are available for all audio receptors. Sessions 6 to 7 will be uploaded in the new year. If these prove popular I'll release them as an album with a few tweaks. sickrobot1980.bandcamp.com/track/reboot... @bobfischer.bsky.social

Judy Geeson is on Call My Bluff and she's SMERKIN TABS

This looks great, and we're very proud of Fellfoul's own Aja Dodd - she's gone straight from @mulgraveaudio.bsky.social to Radio 4 drama!

Mulgraves Assemble! L-R: @andrewtsmith.bsky.social, Ethan Warren, Sandra Kerr (with Patchwuff), Aja Dodd, @andreworton.bsky.social and @bobfischer.bsky.social. Thanks to all who came to yesterday's Patchwuff launch at the Who-Ray shop, and to @pinkpopple.bsky.social for the brilliant pic.

Patchwoof met our old Rupert today at the official launch of Patchwoof’s @mulgraveaudio.bsky.social audio drama in Who-ray in Stockton this afternoon. Wonderful stuff!😃

Had a lovely few hours with @bobfischer.bsky.social , the @mulgraveaudio.bsky.social crew and the beautiful Sandra Kerr in Who Ray in Stockton. Picked up a signed LP of Patchwuff, which I strongly recommend you purchase right away (also available as digital download). Bob, Patchwuff merch please.

Lovely Sunday afternoon at Who-Ray in Stockton celebrating the launch of @mulgraveaudio.bsky.social's latest play, #Patchwuff 🐶✨️

Today at 2pm! Join the full @mulgraveaudio.bsky.social team, Aja from Fellfoul, Ethan from Simon Perkins' Lurgy and folk legend SANDRA KERR! We're all at the Who-Ray shop in Stockton-on-Tees to launch our new play Patchwuff, it's completely free and Sandra might even sing a Bagpuss song...

Patchwuff is on his way to Stockton... join him, the full Mulgrave Audio team, Ethan from Simon Perkins' Lurgy, Aja from Fellfoul and folk legend SANDRA KERR for a free Christmas bash and Patchwuff launch at the Who-Ray shop at 2pm today!

Patchwuff has been networking all week with his London media friends, but he's just setting off for the Who-Ray shop in Stockton! Come and join us all at 2pm tomorrow for our free Christmas meet-up?

It's Bandcamp Friday! If you're of a Fortean inclination then maybe check out my music, inspired by classic strange cases like the Hexham Heads, Black Monk of Pontefract, Welsh Triangle, Enfield poltergeist, Alan Godfrey's UFO abduction, Ilkley Moor alien, Owlman of Mawnan and Mince Pie Martians...

It's the final Bandcamp Friday of the year & to wrap things up for what has been a truly great 2025, I've made added some fresh goodies to my Bandcamp page. Thank you to everyone who has supported Scholars of the Peak this year. #electronicmusic

It's #bandcampfriday, when Bandcamp waive their fees to artists. So if anyone fancies checking out our @mulgraveaudio.bsky.social dramas today, we'd be so grateful. Retro weirdness ahoy - contributions from Valerie Singleton, Sandra Kerr, Ghost Box Records, @12hrfoundation.bsky.social and more!

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party is opened by Reeves & Mortimer covering Hawkwind's Silver Machine. No explanation, no lyrical changes unless a cameo by the riff from Day Tripper counts, never released, and they weren't hosting it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGeb...

The Birds In The Brickwork 2026 calendar and album are now up for sale on Bandcamp! digital.waysideandwoodland.com/album/a-coll...

To celebrate the 4th anniversary of our album IN ACTION it is now FREE / PAY WHAT YOU WANT until 12 December. torpa.bandcamp.com/album/in-action Happy listening. @electronicsound.bsky.social @bobfischer.bsky.social @moonbuilding.bsky.social

I've just discovered @chroniclelive.co.uk have run a feature on our Paper Lads reunion video! Very grateful... this was such a lovely film to make. The cast of the 1977 Tyne Tees kids' drama back together for the first time in 50 years. www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/history...

My rotten band Old Muggins are back, and we're playing our first Waiting Room Christmas gig since 2019! Completely free on Sun 21 Dec, just come down to Eaglescliffe and be subjected to rockabilly-synth anthems about giant conkers and heavy petting in the local swimming baths.

Need a present for the 1980s fantasy fan in your life? Give our @mulgraveaudio.bsky.social play 'Fellfoul' a go... written by @andreworton.bsky.social, starring Aja Dodd and with music by Belbury Poly, it's a love letter to classic swords and sorcery. 10" vinyl comes with John Ridgway comic artwork!

Leeds and West Yorkshire weirdies! Stuck for Christmas pressie ideas? Why not buy a ticket or two for our Folk Horror show with me and @bobfischer.bsky.social at @oldwoollen.bsky.social Leeds in February? We can't wait to haunt one of our favourite venues again... Tickets: bit.ly/483H8JA

Join me and the weird Whitby lot for a very festive Back Of The North Wind! These nights have been an absolute delight all year - songs, stories and all kinds of impromptu oddness with such a nice vibe. Be lovely to see anyone and everyone on Fri 12th Dec, when I'll be opening my Box of Delights...

A week on Sunday! Free! Come join our little @mulgraveaudio.bsky.social party at the Who-Ray shop in Stockton. Sandra Kerr singing songs from Patchwuff and Bagpuss, Fellfoul's Aja Dodd, Simon Perkins star Ethan Warren and all three head Mulgraves being seasonably jolly. Ho ho and - indeed - ho.