London: Monday, 13 April, I'm in-conversation with Travis Elborough at the legendary Colony Room (Green), Heddon Street, in the Mayfair/Soho borderlands, talking occult modernism in London, 1912, re my book Dead the Long Year! come ahhht!

London: Monday, 13 April, I'm in-conversation with Travis Elborough at the legendary Colony Room (Green), Heddon Street, in the Mayfair/Soho borderlands, talking occult modernism in London, 1912, re my book Dead the Long Year! come ahhht!

I can't believe a FIFA Peace Prize winner would do this

This is the president and he’s basically saying he’s going to order genocide against the people he told ‘help is on the way’ earlier this calendar year. He’s absolutely got to be removed from office. There is a mechanism and today is without any shadow of a doubt what it is there for.

I’m in a cafe by the highway and they’re playing the divine Bettye Swan. It’s been too long since I heard her voice. One of the greatest of the greats she must be.

New episode of Uncanny Landscapes is out now. On alls the platforms. Ben Tufnell discusses his new novel Paradise - a brilliant slice of pastoral-noir fiction inspired by his decades as a curator of contemporary landscape art in London.

New episode of Uncanny Landscapes is out now. On alls the platforms. Ben Tufnell discusses his new novel Paradise - a brilliant slice of pastoral-noir fiction inspired by his decades as a curator of contemporary landscape art in London.

Turns out there is a danger of extinction to indigenous inhabitants of the British isles, so maybe we ought to do something about it? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Today in Cronenberg.

Oh wow. Never seen that performed. This clip of @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social doing the aforementioned is something I wished I witnessed. youtu.be/f9RvZLXW5xg?...

London Irish in full force at Stansted airport - I assume going to the match? Cockney accents and Ireland football tops today’s top style. 💚

Is it a giant wooden horse

If there's one thing that everyone agrees on it's that I'm on the cutting edge of hip-hop culture. Which is why Rimas e Batidas - 'A cultura hip hop e sons emergentes em português' - has written about our event Thursday night in Lisbon... www.rimasebatidas.pt/damas-exibem...

Fifth 'cold' of 2026. Me 'n' Thomas are on the sofa watching One Piece... there are literally >1,000 episodes of it. 🫠 What's a movie I could stand that a 10-yr-old might be interested in?

Penny Rimbaud, later of Crass, receiving records as a prize from John Lennon on Ready Steady Go, 1964 🤯

Strong ‘battle of Stalingrad’ energy from A.Kiedis here. Gutting a horse to keep warm etc eaten his shoes; Pervitin running low.

Remembering Prince Far I who was born on this day in 1945. This 7" of Zion Call is on the same rhythm as Errol Holt's Gimmie Gimmie. Prince Far I later re-voiced it as Concrete Column on his Message From The King LP... youtu.be/gQqoCetRJ_g?... #reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky

LONDON & LISBON screenings of We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher Lisbon on Thurs. (26/3) at Damas plus João Kyron and I performing my Ghost Box Records stuff live for the first time! LONDON on Sat. (28/3) at RIO Cinema Dalston, 3pm with cast & crew attending! riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/What...

I have one edit to make to this Google Maps label.

Hauntological northern soul? Great mini-doc about Bruce Conner's film 'Breakaway' starring the impossibly talented Toni Basil. I like the idea that there's an American 60s-70s hauntology that runs thru Conner, Ken Jacobs, Rod Serling, Sherrie Levine... www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CHt...

EVENTS! Tickets available for Tales of the Suburbs events in Crystal Palace (tonight), Bath (Saturday), Edinburgh and Glasgow (next week), Manchester, Sheffield and Nottingham (the week after), plus Milton Keynes. More to follow! Please come along x www.johngrindrod.co.uk/events

Come to my book launch at Atlantis Books if you fancy it, March 25! How many people can fit inside an occult bookshop? We shall find out theatlantisbookshop.com/events/event...

Publication date 19th March! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

It's like you've been trying to collect all the Minder action figures as a kid, but your mum's got you three Are You Being Served ones because they were in a sale.

Happy Saint Patrick's Day ☘️ Couple of Irish breakbeats to banish the snakes 🐍🥳 Van Morrison - Naked in the jungle '75 Thin Lizzy - Johnny The Fox '76 Thin Lizzy - Half Caste '75 Them - She put a hex on you '68

Tonight in Oxford - Sharron Kraus and I will do some readings and music surrounding my latest book, the psychogeographic novella Dead The Long Year! Caper bookshop. Info here: checkout.square.site/merchant/ML2...

New episode up now - Concrete Atlantis with Travis Elborough and Stonecirclesampler uncannylandscapes.substack.com/p/concrete-a...

Why is the cork on the fork?

“I have zero introspection…400 years ago it would never have occurred to anyone to be introspective”. Andreessen’s combo of neurodivergence, vast wealth, airport book executive summary knowledge and intense white guy sense of personal centrality should be studied by future historians

Gotta say, renewing one’s club 50 Railcard is a minor but particular type of devastating activity…

New Uncanny Landscapes podcast ep is out with artists Daniel & Clara discussing their work in the realm of 'landscape imaginary', asking questions of how we might understand the human gaze upon, and relationship to, the natural world. uncannylandscapes.substack.com/p/landscape-...

'Owl and Crescent Moon' - Kozaki Kan, ca. 1990s. #OwlishMonday #JapaneseArt

If you have a 10 yr old you likely already know this, but… six hunters is out.

Making stir fry while enjoying straight bourbon and BBC Radio 3 Unwind muthaluvvaas.

Out in August! 💚 cup.columbia.edu/book/body-ho... #horror #bodyhorror

Original first line of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear And Loathing In South Wiltshire.

21st of March in Colchester - first North Essex gathering via the East Anglian Landscape Network, a new opportunity to hear from and meet people from a variety of landscape-related fields in the arts, sciences and community. Tix are free but filling up; info and signup: tinyurl.com/EALNCol

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

Stumbled across this excellent exhibition on my morning walk last week. Went back again for a second look and bumped into @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social who’s written this wonderful essay about the show...

We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher everywhere in March - England, Scotland, Europe, tour of Italy, more. I'll be in Lisbon to intro it & perform a set of my ghost box stuff with João of Beautify Junkyards 26 March! Rio in Dalston, London, on 28th! Links: www.closeandremote.net/portfolio/we...

love an incredibly niche supercut www.youtube.com/watch?v=drOk...

My latest @forteantimes.bsky.social Haunted Generation column now on the website... hello @simonavery.bsky.social @beckgoldsmith.bsky.social @jondixcomposer.bsky.social @buriedtreasure.bsky.social @subexotic.bsky.social @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social and more hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2026/02/25/t...

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

THE MEDIEVAL DRONE SOCIETY II is OUT TODAY 🎻 I have been obsessed / inspired by 14th century poet/composer Guillame de Machaut's music for at least 20 years! I have fragmented & explored the spaces between the notes & dreamt it into new music. Ltd Ed CD/DL brawlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-me...

There's a great episode of @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social's Uncanny Landscapes podcast that explores the rise of plotlands in the between wars period and Colin Ward's anarchism that I'd highly recommend 👍 substack.com/@uncannyland...

Dead the Long Year. Back in action thanks to a care package from #farwestpress in the spring-ish sunshine!

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

Any suggestions for recent ish creative-nonfiction books that tell reported and/or researched stories, removed from the author (as in they don’t have first-hand knowledge), in a cool & compelling, novelistic way?

Loved this book. Big recommend to folk-horror and/or weird-landscape fans. Ben will be on Uncanny Landscapes soon!