With @bibilynch.bsky.social on Playbus, @regretteruane.bsky.social on Bric-A-Brac, @real-meaning.bsky.social on Press Gang, @iheartbigface.bsky.social on Ulysses 31 and @bobfischer.bsky.social on The Owl Service. timworthington.org/2025/01/06/t...

Patchwuff vinyl is finally here! Thankyou so much to everyone for being so patient... we've got a busy couple of days packing ahead, and we'll start shipping them out ASAP after the weekend. Phew, etc.

Privelige.

Just been told I have "name recognition in Glossop". Day made.

Goole Library! Wed 1st October! Come and join me for The Haunted Generation night...

BOO! Fancy sharing your spooky stories this Halloween? Join us and @bobfischer.bsky.social for the SCARRED FOR LIFE UNPLANNED GHOST STORY SPECIAL at Dukes Lancaster on Wednesday 29 October! We'll also have a natter about scary old telly programmes and the like... Tickets: bit.ly/3HK5duQ

Scholars of the Peak make an appearance in the latest edition of @electronicsound.bsky.social thanks to the wonderful @bobfischer.bsky.social review of Transmissions from Mother Hill 📡🏞️ Thanks so much Bob! #electronicsound

Really sad to hear the news about Stephen Luscombe over the weekend. I go back a long way with Blancmange.

I'm here for the gurning plonks.

Woke up this morning with this absolute belter in my head. Stockton's own one-man Sparks, a solitary but stunning Spider from Mars. I used to sometimes see him wandering around the High Street looking like a rogue New York Doll. unlovelymichaelcg.bandcamp.com/track/hindsi...

Jacket off after the interval. Them's the new rules.

Thanks to the great @bobfischer.bsky.social for one hell of a review of our album NEW LOW in the new issue of @electronicsound.bsky.social including an unprecedented Lee Van Cleef reference! 🔊 torpa.bandcamp.com/album/new-low

Tonight! A few tickets left in the stalls, and a few up in the circle if anyone wants to play Statler and Waldorf.

Tomorrow night!

ALL HAIL! There are only around 30 tickets left for next Wednesday's Folk Horror show with me and @bobfischer.bsky.social at @arcstockton.bsky.social. This one's selling like hot cakes at a Wicker Man, so if you're thinking of coming, don't delay!

Do football pools companies still take bets on Australian matches during the summer? I had an odd flashback this morning to my dad trying to decide if Mounties Wanderers FC would scrape a draw away at Campbelltown Rams.

I'm involved with loads of live stuff this autumn, so I've stuck it all here. Haunted Generation shows, @scarredforlife.bsky.social, hosting with Cud and @stephmcgovern.bsky.social, Switched On Whitby weekender, poetry with @bobbeagrie.bsky.social, Old Muggins... hauntedgeneration.co.uk/live-shows/

There's something oddly reassuring about young people dressing like it's 1982 again. I've just passed a twentysomething bloke in the street rocking the full Kevin Rowland. Perm and pencil moustache, flat cap and flappy denims. We are far too young and clever, etc

New issue on sale now! Uri Geller: shaman or showman?; angelic UFO encounters; aristocrats on acid; sea serpent scrapbook; Father Lionel Fanthorpe; top crop circles; Cthulhu's rabbits; cockroach shoots man; robot rebellion; rogue dentists; vibrator myths and more! shop.forteantimes.com/current-issue

By contrast, here's my 1988 Dungeons and Dragons alter ego. Every Sunday, at Neil Braithwaite's kitchen table, I became Glorfindel Silverbrow.

Recently-unearthed self-portrait from 1988. I was 15. I think it looks oddly like Graham Coxon from Blur.

Less than a week to go till our Folk Horror show in Stockton with me and @bobfischer.bsky.social! All for less than the price of a cursed artefact!

Everything else is filling up nicely, but Seat B13 remains worryingly unsold. Is there something we should know? What lies beneath it?

The @scarredforlife.bsky.social Folk Horror show comes to ARC in Stockton on Wed 10th Sep, and here's me and Ste discussing it on BBC Radio Tees...

You just can't beat proper Open University!

I'm very happy that Boro have finally signed a player who sounds like the hero of a 1960s spy thriller series. "His sights are set... on DANGER!"

Seat B13 is the only one left in the main front section for our @scarredforlife.bsky.social Folk Horror show at @arcstockton.bsky.social next Wednesday. Can somebody claim it please? I'm worried that if it stays empty something might manifest there during the show. arconline.co.uk/whats-on/sca...

Thanks to my old Beeb chum John Proudler for allowing me to gatecrash his Zetland FM show on Sunday... to discuss radio work, magazine writing, Haunted Generation, Scarred For Life, Public Information Films, Folk Horror and the rest! It's all at 1hr 21m here... www.mixcloud.com/zetlandfm/so...

I've just seen that Christopher H Bidmead has died, and it's made me very sad. I liked Doctor Who before 1981, but it was Logopolis and Castrovalva that absolutely turned me into an avowed fan - everything about them was perfect for me at the time. Such incredible collisions of ideas.

It's over 35 years since I left school, but I still get "that feeling" on the first Monday in September. A subtle chill in the air. Leaves and flowers suddenly looking limp and pallid. A deep feeling of foreboding about the frozen rugby pitches and impenetrable maths homework still to come.

My day has been brightened by watching Alan Parsons being chased around a car park by Eric Woolfson pretending to be a robot with a surgical stocking over his head. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOwF...

Two weeks to go till our Folk Horror show on Wednesday 10 September, at @arcstockton.bsky.social, with @bobfischer.bsky.social and me! A fun night of ancient curses, rural horror, and suburban sex orgies! Tickets: bit.ly/44Jh9EJ

NEW LIVE SHOW! Join me, Dave, and @bobfischer.bsky.social for the SCARRED FOR LIFE: UNPLANNED Halloween show at Dukes, Lancaster on Wednesday 29 October! We'll share real-life ghost stories, then talk about whatever spooky stuff takes our fancy! Tickets: bit.ly/3HK5duQ

Just spilt half a litre of white spirit on the kitchen floor and the smell is not unpleasant. Tempted to buy a job lot and do it in every room.

Peak District weirdies! My one-man Haunted Generation roadshow is coming to Glossop Labour Club, thanks @lowwintersun.bsky.social for the invite. Sat 25 Oct for a night of urban folklore, Fighting Fantasy, Zippy & Bungle and Fred Harris-related nightmares. Here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bob-fische...

The eagles didn't take the ring to Mount Doom because they would have been corrupted by its power and tried to claim it for Eaglekind, like pretty much everyone else. Only the stout-hearted hobbits can resist its allure - that's pretty much the whole point of the story. Anyway, as you were.

North East weirdies, tickets are still available for our Folk Horror show on Wednesday 10 September, at @arcstockton.bsky.social, with @bobfischer.bsky.social and me! Everything from film & TV to comics, music, and suburban sex orgies will be covered... Tickets: bit.ly/44Jh9EJ

Important research question here. Did 1970s newbuild houses come with TV aerials fitted as standard by the builders, or did you have to install one yourself when you moved in?

Are there still get GCSE grades in numbers? I got "1" in "Oral Communication". Not "A", but "1", and I've never been sure whether to count it as "A" or not. Or even whether "10" was the equivalent of "A" and I was actually terrible. Not that anyone gives a fig about my GCSE results any more. I'm 52.

@bobfischer.bsky.social Reading an American horror comic last night and this pops up! Even now, and in America, the horror is real...

Any folk-loving Bagpuss fans free on the morning of Sat 30th August? I'm teaming up with the ace Sandra Kerr again to host 'Bagpuss And Beyond' as part of Alnwick Playhouse's Folk Off festival. Gentle chat and a few singalongs - 11.25am, and it's only a fiver! alnwickplayhouse.co.uk/event/bagpus...

Yes, it's not Christmas, but we could do with a laugh right now so make sure you have a listen to Bob and Georgy being so hilarious they almost can't be stopped... timworthington.org/2023/12/24/t...

Never been to Goole before, but I'm putting that right on Wed 1st Oct with an evening of Haunted Generation readings at the East Riding Festival of Words! A gentle look at the weirder side of the 1970s and 80s childhood. Come and join me, it's only £7. www.eastridinglibraries.co.uk/whats-on/eve...

My mind has blown! An unaired pilot for Every Second Counts has surfaced. In a parallel universe, instead of Paul Daniels and the classic theme they had this version with Russell Grant!

A weekend of electronic music in the wonderfully autumnal surroundings atmospheric Whitby. Hosted by the equally atmospheric spectre known as @bobfischer.bsky.social Come along… oh I’ll be playing but don’t let that put you off! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/switched-o...

North East weirdies, @bobfischer.bsky.social and I will be bringing our Folk Horror show to @arcstockton.bsky.social on Wednesday 10 September! Everything from The Owl Service to Enys Men, and all points in-between. Robes and goat masks optional. Tickets: bit.ly/44Jh9EJ

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW! We have FAITHLESS on the cover of this month’s Electronic Sound and we’re bundling the magazine with a red vinyl seven-inch featuring two awesome and exclusive Sister Bliss remixes of tracks from the band’s new album. Get your copy at electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine

In the light of breaking Doomlord news, I feel like this is worth sharing again... I had a long chat a couple of years ago with actor Mike Mungarvan, who played heroic journalist Howard Harvey in Eagle's original 1982 Doomlord strip. He was great - it's here: hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2022/09/13/m...

Doomlord is on the way! After a few hints, Hibernia Comics has announced they will be reprinting the first very Doomlord photostory from the 1980s Eagle weekly

A rift in the fabric of reality somewhere near Chelmsford? It must be Broken Veil. I had a fascinating chat with @gralefrit.bsky.social and @willmac23.bsky.social about their brilliant podcast, written for (and with lots of love for) @forteantimes.bsky.social hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/08/12/w...