Our vintage market line-up in south east London this winter, starting at Goldsmiths, University of London in just two weeks time. Details and tickets here buytickets.at/solastcentury/…

"‘Everybody comes from a place of mundanity’: northern gothic, the strange music scene rooted in small-town Yorkshire and Lancashire": www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

Today is publication day for Gillian Tindall's JOURNEY OF A MAN UNKNOWN and we are sending out copies with some freebies. Copies: shorturl.at/Q5rtg

I see the Sunday Observer Review has started to scale back its cultural coverage: one page each for visual art and telly, and TV listings just for channels 1-4! Thankfully the much-missed Stewart Lee column can now be found on @thenerve.news.

Grrr, I don't want to hear anything about this Radiohead tour. To see them on every tour, plus one-offs in places near and mostly far, since 1993, and then not even be able to *try* to buy tickets - not for the first time they've pushed the envelope off the edge of the table.

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Incredible new interpretation: m.youtube.com/watch?v=yKEP...

The fabulous Toyah, in support of Adam Ant at a packed Roundhouse. Great voice, along with absolutely the best hair in popular punk, then and now.

I am delighted to announce that we have reached the total in just 48 hours. The entire sewing, dressmaking and costume community rallied round to save our beloved Maureen Rose. Good job everybody!

About to start on Talking Pictures TV: the 1977 BBC Dracula that's actually true to the book.

Oh wow, how am I going to convince myself this isn't a sensible option for me?! So wonderful too, and most importantly, to see them planning gigs, with the last tour cancelled due to illness.

Index For Working Music playing the Velvet Underground, at The Old Blue Last's Halloween do last night. Also featured: Static Palm+ as Suicide and Jeanie and the White Boys as the Stooges - really impressive performances by all three (and tonally spot on for the venue and occasion).

On sale today: a one-off Damned show where they only play '60s covers, in support of their new covers album. Manchester Albert Hall, 28 Jan, be there - it'll be the Sixties with a rocket in their loons! www.aegpresents.co.uk/event/the-da...

Stopped outside this Fitzrovia Georgian house recently on a walk, due to the Dickens connection, and was amazed to see this little button shop operating inside! Endangered - I'm phobic of buttons but have donated, so hopefully you can, too. Please share.

So the one called Andrew isn't magic, after all? Next it'll turn out that none of them are!

Just in time for Halloween, There's a Ghost in The Damned's House: m.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Up... I've been a bit sceptical about this being the first single from the forthcoming covers album, for I think obvious reasons, but now I'm just so pleased to hear that gorgeous voice anew!

Please appreciate our mainly-black cats. Absolutely gorgeous, outside and in. #BlackCatAppreciationDay

Have I missed it, or has there not been a lot of other reaction to this?

I've forgotten to post about the new @thewytches.bsky.social album, which I've only managed to listen to once but really liked. Lots of beautiful melody alongside the distorted depths - looking forward to seeing them next week.

Shocked to see this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... via @jim.londoncentric.media, my experience of Buxton has been that it's full of hippies! Fear of something that hasn't happened seems a huge factor in the swing to Reform (yet it's so hard to get people to fear the climate change that is happening).

@coffinboffin.bsky.social You might like this (though not strictly Halloween...): spitalfieldslife.com/2025/10/27/m...

@johnrobbofficial.bsky.social Is Monty definitely on this? He isn't pictured, or mentioned in the official blurb. Not the first time since Rat rejoined, so possibly a marketing thing again, but...

A tribute to Brian James and out in Jan, with a covers-only gig in Manchester. But forget I told you that until I've got my ticket.

Ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh!

Dragged myself to Southend in the end to catch this today, and I'm glad I did. A group art show inspired by the town's music sites, with a whole installation on the Junk Club scene including The Horrors. (*Bluesky will not rotate the photos!)

Howling Bells announce their first album in over a decade, Strange Life, alongside the release of new single, "Heavy Lifting" buff.ly/twoklXv

Just one day I can visit the music exhibition at the Beescroft *SOUTHEND*, and I wake up with a migraine. Is anyone nearby who could grab me the exhibition map..? My The Horrors collection needs it! Ends this Sun (and I work weekends).

Thanks to Architects' Journal for listening to our concerns about a growing pattern of the Secretary of State refusing to add important historic buildings to the National Heritage List for England, even when formally recommended to do so by Historic England. Griff and our Director are quoted.

Interesting development. I have very fond memories of Ironbridge, and hope its heritage can be protected and kept accessible.

Saw La Grazia (Sorrentino) in the London Film Festival: exactly what you hope for, with a bit of what you could do without, so just as expected and mainly good. (Also saw an indie film that was so bad I will have to take the secret to my grave.)

I wrote about and presented on this subject during my MA Gothic, it's long been incredible to me that it's not more discussed. Will be interesting to read this - and yes, I know one of my own favourite bands is implicated.

North-westerners: if you too have spent your adult life wondering how Tommy Ball's shoe emporium was a massively successful day-out destination in your youth, here's where the family went next:

What musical artists do you associate with your coming of age or teen years? The Cure The Mission The Damned The Cure The Cure Suede

I'm publishing the weirdest story I've ever written tomorrow, for London Centric members only. So here's an one-off offer. Sign up for a year before midnight today and I'll give you 33% off. If the story doesn't live up to expectations, I'll refund you tomorrow. www.londoncentric.media/a21e85e7

Eric Idle is my favourite Python and he's very lovely on here, including at some length about his friend George Harrison: THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST | EP.259 - ERIC IDLE on Podbean www.podbean.com/ea/dir-hvbh6...

Spent last night in Stockport Travelodge, full of contractors, and it wasn't dissimilar to this.

@eggpod.bsky.social Not sure if I actually need to go, but here's the bigger picture: gagosian.com/exhibitions/...

Until the other night, I'd somehow never walked any distance down the Calendonian Road. For somewhere so central it still has a bit of spirit, doesn't it, as well as pure Paddington 2 moments like this.

Keep trying folks, these things actually do happen:

You might have heard of 'dark kitchens' when a row of sheds in a car park churn out food for Deliveroo. They're unpopular and low margin. So the next big thing in London food is 'host kitchens' where local pubs, restaurants and kebab shops cook for big brands. www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch...

Our new album is out today. Thank you for listening. shor.by/TalkingMachine

My pal @thelrm.bsky.social reading from her wonderful new book at Housman's. I may know her but I'd truly recommend it to all interested in walking freely and creatively in towns/cities; her personal stories are beautifully and compellingly interwoven w/ her and others' views, research and theories.

'London Bridge and the Monument from the South West' (first exhibited, 1791) by Joseph Farington (Private collection)

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No no no no no! Passed these on the way home from Derbyshire last month, they were stunning, and their form resonates with so many of us (pun unintended).

The Bootleg Beatles at the RAH - still got it, to an incredible degree.

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

News | National Trust cuts 500 full-time posts Charity says a third of job losses will come from compulsory redundancies.

The Ozzy and Sharon doc seemed to start badly but ended up being so sad. They must all be devastated but especially her - though she was clearly so glad that he fulfilled his wishes.