My latest Haunted Generation column is in the new @forteantimes.bsky.social ... Issue 466. Thoughts on work by @simonavery.bsky.social, Chimehours, @btlabel.bsky.social, Sister Irene O'Connor, Drew Mulholland, Maps, @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social and more... out now!

Thank you to everyone who has supported, shared, bought records, or simply taken the time to listen to the music I’ve released this year. Plenty planned for next year!

Are Gen X’ers from outside the US aware that Ayn Rand was required reading in many 1980s American high schools? I often feel like this is an undervalued dot on the current radical-capitalist history.

London tomorrow, 2nd Dec. - Dr Hope Wolf and I in conversation for me new book, talking around ghosts, modernist art, psychogeography, Bohemians in London 1912, Arthur Machen, Ione de Forest, Aleister Crowley, Nina Hamnett, Spencer Gore, the New River and lots more. www.tinyurl.com/DTLYLondon

Massive thank-you to the guy in this cafe who just quoted Ice Cube's verse from Straight Outta Compton in his magnificently posh accent. made my day.

London: A week from today, book event thingy with me and Dr Hope Wolf talking ghosts, psychogeography, modernist art, Edwardian London hipsters, the Cave of the Golden Calf, magick, poetry, people trapped in ice (I should think), quicksand, more... tinyurl.com/DTLYLondon for info/tix!

Client assessing if a freelancer is well enough to work or not. Oil on wood. Michael Sweerts c1660.

Great evening last night discussing all things Hauntological that tied in with the book launch of Listening to Landscape: Hauntology and the Echoes of Albion. @ghostboxrecords.bsky.social @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social #hauntologymusic #hauntology #hauntología #hauntological #landscape #soundscape

Dead The Long Year is published today in the US and the UK by Far West Books! Short enough to read in an afternoon and have time to email and ask me 'why?' - check it out if you like art, magick, Bohemian London in 1912, self-mockery, authors with imposter syndrome and plenty more!

Mona Limerick was a very famous actress who appeared in a production of Sogno d'un tramonto d'autunno in 1912 at the legendary Cave of the Golden Calf in Haddon Street, London. This production serves as the centrepiece of Dead The Long Year - my ikkle historical-novella that COMES OUT TOMORROW!

Things and stuff going on.

Concrete Atlantis Autumnal #polaroids #expiredfilm @thehorsehospital @kempernorton.bsky.social #lauragraceford + #markopilkington #teleplasmiste @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social #polaroids #expirefilm

London Book launch thingy for my ickle novella Dead The Long Year, a ghost story for Xmas; art and magick in bohemian London 1912. burleyfisherbooks.com/products/dea...

Genius at work - watch Lee “Scratch” Perry in his Black Ark Studio youtu.be/BjZAnrIoZKc

It's now a real thing. Hardback and expensive but hopefully in time floppy and cheap. Join us at the launch on 21st Nov in London - see Eventbrite for free tickets www.eventbrite.com/e/listening-... @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social @claypipemusic.bsky.social @ghostboxrecords.bsky.social

RIP. What a talent.

And there I was thinking Thomas Pynchon was an aburdist novelist. Turns out he was documentarian all along.

Ipswich: free ticket to Sir Richard Bishop tonight to anyone who messages me... I'm unable to attend and hate for it to go to waste! (Yes I recognise that the venn diagram of 'wants to see richard bishop', 'can go tonight', 'follows my bluesky' and 'near ipswich' is miniscule...)

LOL better.

I've re-posted this piece on the late, great filmmaker Ken Jacobs' masterpiece Tom, Tom the Piper's Son. RIP Ken Jacobs 1933-2025. open.substack.com/pub/uncannyl...

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Anyone have access to this? Is it satire? www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2...

Is it just me or is archive.org down?

This is huge:

SIgn up now for our forthcoming campaign to publish the lost books of Victor Neuburg! tinyurl.com/vinepress

Highlight of Lonely is an Eyesore. Dif Juz - No Motion. I spent years seeking their records after hearing this. youtu.be/zR5ud3UMGik?...

Jean Carn - Was That All It Was on at the cafe. My pick for all-time #1 space-laser song. (Also a total jam worthy of any dj's emergency playbox...)

My baby's so vain she is almost a mirror.

Book Launch for Listening to Landscape, King's College 21 Nov 1900. Hauntology/psychogeography/music: free event with music from The Hardy Tree @claypipemusic.bsky.social & Stonecirclesampler with @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social plus Jim Jupp & Oliver Cherer. Grab tickets from Eventbrite, going fast!

September in london VERY different from august tourist season.

Calling all American folklorists, pop culture critics, historians, and artists! Please take a look at the call for proposals for Crossroads, a magazine dedicated exclusively to folk horror in the United States. Our first issue will be dedicated to the 1970s.

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

Last day to buy one of the seven remaining copies of this book! jackdawshivers.bandcamp.com/merch/a-sanc...

A junk shop roll of found photos so old the text from the backing paper has etched in over the years. Kodacolor II was made from 1973 to the early 80s and the clothes/space-age garden furniture seem to say 70s. Transmissions from a lost world.

Del Boy Trotter says people without the Inframax Deep Penetration Massager will be at a disadvantage in the future.

Had a great time chatting to Justin a little while ago…

I’ve got so many gigs coming up; if I had an agent they’d be looking at upwards of £20/month right now.

Charles Extradition Cheese

Lally MacBeth (Folk Archive, Stone Club) discusses her new book The Lost Folk on the latest Uncanny Landscapes Podcast uncannylandscapes.substack.com/p/the-lost-f...

Lally MacBeth (Folk Archive, Stone Club) discusses her new book The Lost Folk on the latest Uncanny Landscapes Podcast uncannylandscapes.substack.com/p/the-lost-f...

The Great Satanic Swindle at Black Shuck Festival in Bungay, Suffolk, on the 1st of August. #Folkhorror #truecrime #blackshuck #folktale #tellinstories #urbanfolktale tinyurl.com/satanicswindleblackshuck

Fantastic new record from Pneumatic Tubes - Jesse from Midlake, Mercury Rev & Belbury Poly. Order now from Belbury Music. Includes guest slots from Meg Baird, Joao Kyron, Tim Midlake, Belbury Poly & more (plus my liner notes…) belburymusic.greedbag.com/buy/runners-...

Iron Sheik and Hulk Hogan at the Coldplay gig.

Landscape is made of names and numbers as much as shapes and lines. (printed aluminium panel, 2009)

There's a great discussion in this about the distinction between being legally *allowed* to walk on an area of land and feeling confident in your right to do so, and/or welcome.

enjoyed listening to this on a rainy afternoon....

'What a book! Walking-writing as a collective act, as it should be.' Robert Macfarlane 'A beautiful new anthology; poems of walking & landscape and the synergy between the two.' Ian McMillan One-day offer: pick up our walking-themed hardback anthology 'The Footing' for £10 thefooting.wordpress.com

Everybody gettin pranged amidships.

This was so much fun! Coming soon!