Pith sketchbooks are really good, as are Leuchtturm further down this thread. My two go to brands. I don't get on with Moleskine's paper at all.

Post a film or an album you love using a gif. Don’t tell anyone what it is - the point isn’t to share good stuff, the point is to keep people online.

I find voice notes really handy when you've got a quick thing you want to tell your friend about that you know will make them laugh, but it's not an appropriate moment to have a conversation. When you just have to tell them before you forget. They're great for that.

I don’t know for certain of any film I’ve watched more than six times. Very probably Carry On Camping and Carry On Convenience (almost certainly), but I don’t keep a record of these things. My general system would be: seen once; seen a couple of times; seen loads.

I stand with Darren (mainly because he introduced them to me, I didn’t even know you could do such a thing). I have little else to say really, but they’re fine. Certainly not worthy of the performative vitriol I’m seeing on here.

Been drawing.

Been drawing.

NO TOP OF THE POPS????? NOOOOO!!!! Here's What No1 in the Hit Parade anyway! #totps

@monkeypicks.bsky.social Saw your Alice Coltrane book and thought of this.

Kensington Gardens, 22nd April, 2026.

Jump to 50 seconds in and listen to the music they use. Trust me. Your flabber will have never been so gasted.

From The Music Is Black at V&A East. This caption was over footage of The Specials performing Too Much Too Young.

With thanks to Danie Ware

I really enjoyed talking to Dr. Robert from The Blow Monkeys and digging into Digging Your Scene for MusicRadar: www.musicradar.com/artists/i-sa...

That is not wicker.

(Almost) everything I drew this week. Free to look at on my Patreon site.

Some warm-hearted Japanese TV shows I love (all on Netflix unless stated otherwise) Sunshine Sento Sake (no longer available sadly) Samurai Gourmet Japan’s No.1 Jerk Salaryman Soda Master And a couple of dramas that are a little more serious but still have a warm heart: Asura Vivant

Turn up your radio! This Sunday at 6.30pm, a new series -“Van Club”- with @ralphmclean.bsky.social and me, available on BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Sounds.

Walter and Donald.

GOOD MORNING! Here's our latest round up of news, nuggets and longreads, with notes on the Cumbrian beer scene, on a pub in a shopping centre beneath a flyover, and on how licensing laws were historically exploited to exclude women from brewing and pubs. 🍻🍺 boakandbailey.com/2026/04/news...

Andy Peebles meets Yoko Ono and John Lennon. With thanks to @simonloverules.bsky.social for sharing the original photo.

Delighted that one of my daft little videos has provided the inspiration for "15 stickers of Lionel Blair's entrance" - thank you Darren Riley @panchoballard.bsky.social for these, I will treasure them! 😄 adarrenrileypainting.com

A daft thing I wasted some time on. My partner pointed out that it'll have a 'Kids Club' screening at the weekend.

I've already put my @panchoballard.bsky.social sticker to good use. #artormentalbreakdown

Y'all need to see the latest addition to my "podcast studio" (bedside table) #byker Art by @panchoballard.bsky.social

COLIN GREGSON, bass player.

The linoprint section of my shop is looking nice at the moment. If I sometimes wonder what my artistic voice is, this page shouts at me loud and clear.

More and more I've been thinking that I could just stop selling my drawings and stuff and nothing would change. I'd still draw, probably still do my Patreon as long as people were there. This is one of the many reasons why I think these thoughts.

I have a new collection of stickers in my shop, under the tag of 'heta-uma', which roughly translates from Japanese to 'bad but good' or 'unskilled good'. It's one of my favourite art styles. adarrenrileypainting.com/search?q=het...

Paul Jones

McCartney: The Hunt for the Lost Voice

New profile pic from a painting by the genius @panchoballard.bsky.social, commissioned by extremely kind friends. I feel like my whole life has been building up to this.

Every now and then I make something and think, "This will fly out of the shop, I better make double the usual quantity." I'm usually wrong, and I certainly was in this case. adarrenrileypainting.com/products/cil...

Strange. I remember taking the photo but I don't remember this guy.

IT'S SATURDAY AND IT'S TIME FOR THE ELECTRIC KNICKERS! sorry it cuts off at 3min whole show here youtu.be/7w4sqWc6S1o?...

Wait no more! Your LIONEL BLAIR STICKER SHEET is here! adarrenrileypainting.com/products/lio...

@pipmadeley.bsky.social You might remember a few years back I drew every Lionel Blair from that great video you made. I've just got some sticker sheets made. Can I send you one?

This reminded me of a collection of slides I bought which depict, I think, part of the M25 being built. Something oddly poignant about their mix of optimism in progress & the fact that they are patinated with that particular trapped old light, cement dust in the sun & mould accrued over the decades

Wait no more! Your LIONEL BLAIR STICKER SHEET is here! adarrenrileypainting.com/products/lio...

Lovely Day for a picnic! @laurencerharvey.bsky.social

One of my all-time favourites. The Italian Connection features the greatest chase scene of all time. Also, his little moment of realisation towards the end of Milano Calibro 9 is wonderful, not to mention his intense performance right at the end of that film. Such a great presence.

Nowhere in this story is evidence offered that he isn't simply a very tiny pocket sized man passing off normal sized stuff as art.

Mundy on a Tuesday!

A very brief look at my new zine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH0o...

The Sad Face of Paul Simon.

The Oh Sees, in a tiny pub room in Bolton. I was going to say I was standing right next to them but we all were.

I don’t think he’d have been seen dead in these, frankly.

It's so strange how Chelsea have laboured their way into the three goal lead. They're barely being threatened, not really being roughed up like you might expect, but they just don't look dangerous despite still winning comfortably.

New post about my March reading. (April’s off to an interesting start with Discord by Jeremy Cooper and Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams - but more on them at a later date.) kieranstorieswriter.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/o...

I’ve made a collection of some black & white drawings I made a few years ago. Over 50 in one nice little A5 book. You can buy it here. It contains some of my strangest work. You’ll look at them and think, “I don’t know what he’s getting at.” It’s okay, I don’t always know either.