Apologies all, but tonight's 'North Wind' has been postponed - apparently the moors road to Whitby is increasingly snowy with more forecast throughout the day/night! We're going to do it on Friday 6th March instead...

Featuring a great @bobfischer.bsky.social interview with my old mate/collaborator @keithseatman.bsky.social on p68

Wot Ste said! One of our absolute favourite venues to play - thanks to everyone who came along last night, you were great. #touchedbysatan

Top of the Pops!

Anybody around Whitby on Friday? 'At The Back Of The North Wind' is back in Flowergate Hall, and I'll be discussing the legendary Black Heart of Whorlton Castle before singing a song about my favourite gravestone. Come and join us for a full evening of folky, haunto fun - pay what you fancy.

Thanks for all the lovely comments about the latest radio show, and for the Ko-Fi donations - you're all very kind. If anyone would like to buy me a General Foods International coffee (Cafe Vienna flavour) then that helps a lot... I'm at ko-fi.com/hauntedgen

New Haunted Generation Radio Show! Honest! Music from Highly Likely, Elizabeth Parker, Renaissance, Roy Wood, more school assembly curios... plus I get put on trail in the Crown Court. Thanks to @soundliness.com @andreworton.bsky.social & Ross from The Futureheads... www.mixcloud.com/hauntedgener...

Looks much better like this

I keep gazing lovingly at this.

With @pablovich.bsky.social on Disneytime Rotadraw, @bobfischer.bsky.social and @georgyjamieson.bsky.social on Why Don't You...?, @gfrancie.bsky.social on Fruitopia, @whenisbirths.bsky.social on I Hate J.R. by The Wurzels and more... timworthington.org/2024/10/23/t...

I like how shops at bus stations still sell large, framed pictures of Elvis and Marilyn Monroe. Perfect impulse purchase for that long journey home on the X10.

Pure joy.

Had the Collector's Dream last night. Tesco had put their charity table in the car park, laden with Fighting Fantasy rarities. Ran to the car to get extra bags, but the car had been stolen. Ran back to the table to fill my pockets, but the books had all gone. Woke up with my blanket on the floor.

Thursday night!

Gigantic thanks to Bob @bobfischer.bsky.social for the lovely write up of ‘Rewilding’ in the latest @electronicsound.bsky.social edition…

Just found myself idly wondering if you can still dial 100 from a landline and speak to "the operator" but apparently you can't. At least not on my phone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfaR...

Childhood anxiety, the Brothers Grimm and a river monster called Tony Rossinger. Fresh on the Haunted Generation website, a Durham cafe chat with the charming @fjwords.bsky.social, written for @electronicsound.bsky.social. He's Alan Bennett with beats. hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2026/02/06/f...

I've just discovered, via BBC Radio Tees, that Boro striker Tommy Conway spends his spare time volunteering for a local charity, going out on Teesside and actually delivering children's beds to households that can't afford them. My God, that is a prince amongst men. I had a little moment.

One week to go till our Folk Horror show comes to Leeds! Join me and @bobfischer.bsky.social at @oldwoollen.bsky.social next Thursday (may contain witchcraft, Bagpuss, and suburban sex orgies) Tickets: bit.ly/483H8JA

A few more of my @electronicsound.bsky.social reviews, fresh on the Haunted Generation site. Hello @waysideandwoodland.bsky.social, @kaylapainter.bsky.social, Mordant Music @castlesinspace.bsky.social and @spongeboy23.bsky.social... hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2026/02/05/e...

You might think you've achieved a lot in 2026, but I've watched all seven series of 'Sorry!' since New Year's Day.

Vivid dream last night - Middlesbrough beat Sheffield Utd 1-0 on Monday. The goal came when an unknown Boro teenager called Jon William came off the bench and scored with a thunderous free kick. I can still see him getting mobbed by the away fans. He doesn't exist, but bookmark this anyway.

I'm a big Broken Veil fan, and I'll be interviewing Joel and Will onstage at this, so I'm a happy man. I'm told tickets are going fast...

We’re going to be at the Essex Podcast Festival on Feb 26th Tickets available now… www.chelmsfordforyou.co.uk/essexpodcast #brokenveil

I'm making a new Haunted Generation Radio Show. I'm actually doing it right now, as we speak. In the meantime, there are eight previous shows full of weird 1970s folk music, plinky synth jingles, school assembly hymns and stuff from Play Away albums... www.mixcloud.com/hauntedgener...

Fresh on the Haunted Generation site... the @electronicsound.bsky.social chat I had with synthpop legends Ralf Dörper & Michael Mertens, of Propaganda. About ZTT, A Secret Wish, Frankie, Mandy Smith's version of 'Duel' and their ace 2024 Propaganda album... hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2026/02/02/r...

ATTENTION YORKSHIRE WEIRDIES! Just two weeks to go till me and @bobfischer.bsky.social come back to one of our favourite venues!

My mate, Summer Winos comrade and Mulgrave Audio oppo @andrewtsmith.bsky.social has spent the last couple of years quietly working on the biography of Roy Clarke, with the help of Roy himself. It's called 'Writing All Hours', it's being published by @tenacrebooks.bsky.social, and it'll be ace.

Our brand new podcast, Folklore Matters, launches today. David Clarke, Sophie Parkes-Nield, and Diane Rodgers speak to people working with or researching folklore to find out more about their work, how they discovered folklore, and to get their thoughts on the findings of the Survey.

A few thoughts on my beloved Penda's Fen. I wrote this last summer for the great @shindigmagazine.bsky.social, and it's now fresh on the Haunted Generation website... hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2026/01/28/s...

Apologies, as I know I've done this before and I can't remember the answer. On what day/time of the week was the Top 40 revealed in the 1980s? Was it something weird like a Tuesday lunchtime?

Little home-made homage to Nick Drake and Brian Protheroe.

A little while ago, I found a huge folder of lyrics I'd written in 1988/89 when I was 16 and utterly besotted with all things Beatles. 35 years on, I finally set one of them to music. It's called 'Penny For Me Thought'

Oh, god! Oh, Jesus Christ! Two and a half weeks to go till our Folk Horror show at Leeds @oldwoollen.bsky.social ! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social will be channeling our inner Lord Summerisles to bring you a bountiful harvest of rural horror. Tickets: bit.ly/483H8JA

Can we have a TV adaptation of the later Adrian Mole books please? Simon Bird and Eleanor Tomlinson.

Delighted to be doing this, alongside the ace @bobbeagrie.bsky.social and Nev Clay. I'm doing a spoken word piece called 'Dreams Of Freeborough Hill' that references King Arthur, Comet Hale Bopp, Blaises nightclub, the goddess Freya and the 1997 Boro squad. www.thewaitingroom.uk/event-detail...

2 page spread on Rupert Hine's experimental score to The Shout in the new issue of Electronic Sound thanks to @bobfischer.bsky.social @electronicsound.bsky.social for the interview - we're down to the last few CDs and a final box of LPs now buriedtreasure.bandcamp.com/album/the-sh...

"It's utterly beautiful" Many thanks to Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social for this ripsnorting review of Foster Neville's new album in @electronicsound.bsky.social 'Through Lands Of Ghosts' is a Bandcamp exclusive here: subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/throug...

Less than four weeks to go till me and @bobfischer.bsky.social ride into Leeds @oldwoollen.bsky.social for our Folk Horror show! We can't wait to come back to one of our favourite venues - we won't be burning a Wicker Man though, it's a health and safety nightmare! Tickets: bit.ly/483H8JA

Been thinking about my love of fantasy, and 1984 feels like a pivotal year: Fighting Fantasy, Robin of Sherwood, and (genuinely) an advert for Shell Grip where Tim Healy is chased through the woods by Herne the Hunter. I spent every ad break hoping to see it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1hM...

Listening to this literally as we speak, it's a lovely thing.

Office clear out! Last 10 copies of the SKY 10" vinyl (with Look-In poster + TV Times postcard) £17 each + post Last 10 copies of the SKY CD (+ TV Times postcard) £11 each + post buriedtreasure.bandcamp.com/album/sky-2

"I'd like to thank the academy, and I accept this 1970s breakfast cereal on behalf of..."

@bobfischer.bsky.social oh Bob the Chimehours record is a real joy. Thankyou for sharing that one in FT. For everyone else it’s here:

Come along! Pay what you like, and come and do a song or a reading or anything else you fancy. Or just bask in the weirdness...

Little nosegay of my @electronicsound.bsky.social reviews, fresh on the Haunted Generation website. Hello Beautify Junkyards, Ghostwriter @subexotic.bsky.social, @keithseatman.bsky.social, Dream Division, Katy J Pearson, @heronandcrane.bsky.social and more... hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2026/01/09/e...

Second Niche Question: is the edition of 'Take Two' from 23rd May 1984 on any of the Doctor Who DVDs or Blu-Rays? John Nathan-Turner answering questions in ther studio.

Very niche request: my 1984 diary records that I watched "The Two Ronnies with Dr Who in" at 8.10pm on 21st May 1984. But BBC Genome lists an episode of Panorama in that slot. Anyone know why Panorama was pulled, and which episode of The Two Ronnies might have replaced it? @davidbrunt.bsky.social?

I must have seen this video dozens of times over the last 35 years but I've only just realised that Chesney Hawkes spurns Lucy Alexander from Homes Under The Hammer and gets off with Saffron from Republica instead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvMs...

It was supposedly George's Gretsch Country Gentleman guitar that got smashed, but this article says otherwise: www.guitarplayer.com/news/the-mys...