Indie-pop pals, are you heading to @walesgoespop.bsky.social this weekend? Me, too. It's a cracking line-up of bands... and @uncharteredstreets.bsky.social (aka Matt from Sarah Records) and me talking all things, err, Sarah Records at about 1pm on Saturday. Oh - and books and zines will be on sale.

Anyone looking forward to seeing Even As We Speak, Heavenly (and other @skepwax.bsky.social artistes...) et al at @walesgoespop.bsky.social this weekend might like to know that, on the Saturday, you can also hear me chatting to @janeduffus.bsky.social about Sarah Records. So if there’s [1/3]

Don’t forget we’ll be in Bristol on April 25th for the Independent Label Market: Bristol at Bristol Beacon (free entry), from midday! Then it’s down to The Louisiana for the evening for Nasser Bouzida’s Grimm Fairy Tales, plus Big Boss Man live (ticketed)! We’d love to see you at both!

A rare outing - I’m kind of amazed I (mostly) recalled the words and chords. (It was a request made by someone for their mum - and I’m soft).

Erm! @heavenlyamelia.bsky.social played 'Beatnik Boy' as a Heavenly encore tonight in Oxford. @skepwax.bsky.social These things NEVER happen! 🦋

My stalking of @heavenlyamelia.bsky.social and her Heavenly bandmates continues apace this weekend, when I will be following them to Oxford. Copies of my Heavenly zine will be on sale at the @skepwax.bsky.social merch stall tomorrow or you can buy from my website anytime x www.janeduffus.com/shop

A little news for anyone interested in seeing Heavenly in Oxford. The s01d out show is no longer s01d out, due to a change in venue.

Had a fun weekend at the Blandford Literary Festival, who put on a special day of talks for International Women's Day. Was great to share some stories about the mighty Tollemache women from my new booklet.

Excuse me! 🛎️🚲 Just me cycling home from town earlier, with my new Heavenly bell attached to my bike. I bet you wish your bike was as cool as mine. (Unless you have your own Heavenly bell, of course.) Get yours from @skepwax.bsky.social @heavenlyamelia.bsky.social

Love love love it! Xx

One of my favourite things I've done is create a 44-page fanzine about nothing but Heavenly @heavenlyamelia.bsky.social @skepwax.bsky.social - full of interviews, fact files, problem pages, recipes and all sorts of silliness from the band, including Mathew. Fortunately, the band love it, too - phew!

My publisher, Tangent Books, is offering 20% off all of their music books. This includes 'These Things Happen: The Sarah Records Story'. Just use the code 'bristolmusic' when checking out. Remember, the offer expires at midnight on 5 March. www.tangentbooks.co.uk/shop/p/these...

Delivery from @janeduffus.bsky.social

Just in time for International Women's Day, my bookette about the Tollemache family of suffragists/suffragettes has arrived back from the printers. There's also a matching greetings card. Click the link for more info and please help spread the word. Thank you! www.janeduffus.com/shop/vote-an...

News of a Heavenly fanzine… (need to read the whole thread)

When I wrote The Big Book of Sarah Records a few years ago, I really wanted to do a whole chapter just about Heavenly (@skepwax.bsky.social) - because they're my absolute favourite Sarah band. But it seemed a bit weird to single them out in a book that also celebrated a lot of other great bands.

Excuse Me, there's a new single out today by Heavenly on @skepwax.bsky.social. See if you can spot me at the 20 seconds mark in the video. Thank you to the band for inviting me to be involved :-) www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdAv...

C'mon everybody ... how's about having a Xmas Sunday matinee with us ? Get yer tickets here for a splendid afternoon ... with @peteastor.bsky.social @darrenhayman.bsky.social Lou Terry and a very special guest ... plus mince pies wegottickets.com/event/683400

I've been lucky enough to have an early listening copy of Heavenly's brand new album (out at the end of February) and I honestly can't stop playing it. You're gonna love it, pop fans. 100%.

I'm no photographer but I took some festive-ish photos of some of my books to try and persuade people that they would make excellent Christmas presents. Because they really would. Especially if they are signed and dedicated to that special person in your life. www.janeduffus.com/shop

🎁 “Gift the history of Bristol’s extraordinary women.” 🎁 “Ideal for your Bristol-loving mum, nan, best friend or colleague.” 🎁 “Perfect for readers of local history, feminism & inspiring true stories.” 'The Women Who Built Bristol' books will make your loved ones' Christmas! www.janeduffus.com/shop

🎁 “Gift the history of Bristol’s extraordinary women.” 🎁 “Ideal for your Bristol-loving mum, nan, best friend or colleague.” 🎁 “Perfect for readers of local history, feminism & inspiring true stories.” 'The Women Who Built Bristol' books will make your loved ones' Christmas! www.janeduffus.com/shop

My new fanzine Zine Things Happen is OUT NOW! Blueboy, Stephen Duffy and Josie interviews, plus features on Silkworm, Tulpa, i-nichi and much more. If jangly guitars, DIY spirit and cult bands are your thing, this is for you. www.janeduffus.com/shop/zinethi... #IndiePop #MusicZines #DIYCulture

Tomorrow (6 Dec) is Small Business Saturday - and hopefully you have some money left over from splurging with the mesomorphic titans (Amaz*n etc, I'm looking at you) to support the small businesses that Amaz*n etc are squeezing out of existence.

Just a heads up - I'm doing my biweekly post office trip tomorrow, so if you're after any music fanzines, indie-pop books or histories of amazing women... please get your orders in swiftly. Thank you for not shopping on Amaz*n! www.janeduffus.com/shop

Another thing I've been mostly doing today is reading the excellent new fanzine – cleverly titled Zine Things Happen - by @janeduffus.bsky.social I'd seriously consider getting a copy if I were you (despite my being in it) www.janeduffus.com/shop/zinethi...

The good people of @monorailmusic.bsky.social in Glasgow now have Zine Things Happen in stock in their beautiful shop... If that's something you'd like to know. They've even made it a Staff Pick, which is jolly nice of them. monorailmusic.com/product/zine...

My next (and final) trip to the post office this week will be on Thursday. So if you'd like a copy of Zine Things Happen #1 (or, indeed, anything else from my website), please order it before Thursday morning. Otherwise I'll be mailing it next week. Thank you :) www.janeduffus.com/shop

There's no other way to say this, but I've been asked to interview Blur's Dave Rowntree about his new photographic book on Sunday, Sunday 23 November. (Yes, the scare quotes around 'in conversation' worry me, too.)

International postage for the fanzine has been fixed and amended. And if it's not bloody right this time, well, I'm just going to come round to all your houses (even the houses in Greece and Singapore and Australia) and hand deliver the fanzines. Thank you! www.janeduffus.com/shop/zinethi...

People ask me what it is I have against bloody AI and why I'm so frustrated that these illiterate robots are putting me out of work. It's so hard to know what to tell them...

🍒 Book stockist in America 🍒 People in the US - this seems like something I should have known before, but I've just found out that @EndofanEar are stocking copies of my book 'These Things Happen: The Sarah Records Story' and they are doing mail order around the US.

Here's a piece about 'The Women Who Built 1960s Bristol', which I was commissioned to write for @andrewkelly.bsky.social ahead of the Bristol Ideas special screening of 'The Newcomers' this weekend, which I'm looking forward to attending. festivalofideas.substack.com/p/the-newcom...

... and five days before Heavenly's London gig, Blueboy are doing this. It’s almost like the last thirty years never happened. Um – they *did* happen, didn’t they? Absolutely all of them? In order? Because, if they didn’t, I’ve got some photos that really will need a bit of explaining... #Blueboy

Oh, hello. It's been a while. Just popping in to let you know that I've launched a new indie-pop fanzine - Zine Things Happen (see what I did there).

It's been a long time since M|A|R|R|S had a number one smash hit single (38 years to be precise), but I'm pleased to see that someone in Yeovil is still committed to putting correctly styled M|A|R|R|S graffiti on gateposts.

‘She changed the face of London’: statue to be unveiled of suffragist gardener www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

📣 TOMORROW Jane Duffus introduces her new book & more #Women who built Bristol 📖 Tuesday 29th April 7pm ( Doors open 6:45pm ) 📖 The Women Who Built Bristol : VOLUME THREE 📖 Jane Duffus 📖 #RedlandLibrary #Bristol 📖 £3 (pay at the door - cash only) #BristolHistory @janeduffus.bsky.social

Looking for something to do this afternoon? Come to Thornbury Library to hear my brand new talk about #TheWomenWhoBuiltBristol Volume Three. The talk is at 2pm and lasts one hour. £5 from EventBrite with all ticket money going straight to support the library. Books will be on sale & can be signed.

Looking for something to do this lunchtime? Come to Southmead Library to hear my brand new talk about #TheWomenWhoBuiltBristol Volume Three. The talk is at 2.30pm and lasts one hour. Entry is free, just turn up. Books will be on sale and can be signed.

Stealing the idea from someone else, I asked ChatGPT to put together everything it knew about me and create an 'action figure'. And here's what we ended up with. Of course, 'action' is not really the word I'd use to describe my writerly days spent faffing about on social media but... y'know.

I'm doing two library talks this week about some of the amazing but forgotten women in #TheWomenWhoBuiltBristol Volume Three. The second one will be at Thornbury Library this Saturday (12 April) at 2pm (lasting up to one hour). £5 via EventBrite and all money goes directly to the library.

I'm doing two library talks this week with my brand new talk about some of the amazing but forgotten women who are included in #TheWomenWhoBuiltBristol Volume Three. As such, you are invited to join me at Southmead Library this Friday (11 April) at 2.30pm for a FREE talk (lasting up to one hour).

So - fans of Sarah Records might recall that in the writing of 'These Things Happen' I got to speak to the elusive Christine Grant of Christine's Cat fame. Not only that but she gave me her first ever interview... I know!

Yes. This from @glosswitch.bsky.social sums up the feminist frustration at the response to 'Adolescence'. Feminists have been saying all this stuff for DECADES and we've been ignored because, urm, we're women. *face palm*

TODAY! For those in the Bristol area, today I'll be at the Makers' Market at the Hanham Community Centre, selling and signing copies of all three volumes of 'The Women Who Built Bristol'. There will also be lots of other stalls from local creatives. Entry is free, 10am to 2pm.

Tonight I'll be catching up with Simon Barber (The Chesterfields) and Nick Godfrey (@precrecs.bsky.social). Which reminds me I am long overdue to share this Precious 10" of The Chesties' 1987 Janice Long session (released last month)... for which I wrote the sleeve notes ❤️ Two of my fave gents.

Running until 29 March, check out 'Playfight' at Bristol Old Vic. It's got the thumbs up from no lesser mortal than Phoebe Waller-Bridge, which is surely a ringing endorsement.

Next Thursday I'll be giving a free talk at Bristol Central Library about 'The Women Who Built Bristol: Vol Three'. This is a brand new talk featuring only women from book three. Oh, and I'll have copies of all three volumes with me for sale (cash or card welcome) and will of course sign them.

This Thursday evening (March 20 - aka tomorrow!), I'll be joining Bristol Feminist Book Club where their book of the month is 'The Women Who Built Bristol: Volume Three'. More info in the pics here, and tickets available from this link. All welcome! share.thecliq.app/event/bfbc-m...