If you'd like to know more about the #earlymodern alchemy featured in #SmallProphets, have a look at this thread. Spoiler warning - please only have a look if you're acquainted with the whole premise of the series. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Apparently I'm due to work in the London office for the rest of the week. Might phone up my boss and demand additions to my rider. Three bottles of decent tequila, 44 bottles of Czech pilsner and a large bowl of M&Ms with the yellow ones removed.

Don't mind me. I'm just going to get very, very drunk whilst listening to Bowie's Hunky Dory at a rather neighbour-unfriendly volume.

Tony Hart, who passed away in 2009. And again in 2011, 2015 and 2020. He's next due to pass away later this year.

Looking at the state of the world today, I definitely think it’s time that the Tufty Club grew a paramilitary wing. I’m in.

For all the first gig/venue folk: the Bournemouth Winter Gardens and Shakin' Stevens. I hated every second of it.

In a quiet pub in Earls Court that's giving off Patrick Hamilton vibes. It's drab. Gloomy outside. January cold. I'm reading a melancholic novel. Might try and start a wild west-style bar brawl.

Can we all come? It's sounds like a great deal more fun than *looks around* this.

Watching the BBC version of Tinker Tailor (love the book and the film; the TV version mysteriously passed me by), and General von Klinkerhoffen from Allo Allo has just turned up. Hope he helps Alec Gusiness to find the Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies.

New work🖤 shot on Ilford xp2 on my beloved Minolta 600si

Is the The Very Best of Brother Beyond? faroutmagazine.co.uk/what-is-the-...

Today, after a shitty week at work, I bought the Muppet's Chirstmas Carol soundtrack on vinyl, then sang along to it at top volume. A good day well spent. I'm 52.

Finally got around to buying Uncontrollable Thoughts, the new LP from Anushka Chkheidze + Robert Lippok (Album of the Month in @monorailmusic.bsky.social), and it’s absolutely stunning. 2025 has been a great year for music, but this is definitely up there.

I might join in the George Michael top five fun later, but in the meantime here's the hastily-prepared Wham! top ten I drunkenly made for @lazerguided.bsky.social what would appear to be twelve years ago. I'm afraid I don't have the energy to fix the broken links. share.google/fNzQweTHG662...

Eric Burdon (Newcastle) Alan Price (Newcastle) Chas Chandler (Newcastle) Hilton Valentine (Newcastle) John Steel (Newcastle)

Following multiple Irish media accounts, and my timeline be like “5 die in Meath horror crash”... “3 killed in car accident in Mayo”... “Tributes paid to West Cork mum who died in road smash”... and “This compact 2-bedroom Ballymun end terrace, yours for only €2,000,000”. #Speirgorm

@loudribs.bsky.social I suspect that my Bluesky timeline may have crossed streams.

Me: tired, work tomorrow, early start, had better crash. My brain: Look! Just found a 3 hour documentary on black holes! And there's loads of booze in the house! Including that bottle of moonshine that tastes like brake fluid!

Having just spent a great week off doing culture, fine food, fine drink, great company and lots of records, tomorrow I shall return to corporate gimcrack, email overdose and a boss ordering me to use AI to be more productive, because modern life.

Whilst I know that we're all supposed to play music/videos on our mobiles at top volume on trains these days, but kudos to the guy who's just played God Save The King followed by Boney M on this particular choo choo.

This week's Stewart Lee column in @thenerve.news has an absolute humdinger of a Reginald Bosanquet gag, and this is exactly the content I'm here for. www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

I know that England is a bit weird, but I'm currently in a town with England flags, Remembrance poppies and Halloween decorations all festooned from lampposts, and I don't know whether to deport immigrants, kill them or dress them up as a zombie.

In a bar with a young and very talented/intelligent colleague. He's 25, but has never heard of Mogwai. We're fucked, leaving the world in the hands of this generation, ain't we?

Very much enjoying working in London this morning despite going to a gig in Glasgow last night (memo to self: take the Caledonian Sleeper next time).

Just spotted a posh guy with a fake moustache and nose combo queuing outside Waterstones in Woking. Must be Andrew Windsor making sure he's first in line for a special new book tomorrow morning.

Catherine Connolly lifts her top up when visiting the Dublin Portal #Smearthebejaysus

This is a fantastic thread...

There's a guy in this boozer - can't be a day under 70 - who's rocking a 1980s, Limahl in his pomp coiffure, and I only hope I get to look like that if I make it to his vintage.

Hmm. Plenty of tricolours affixed to the lampposts of backstreet residential Dublin D2. I assume a celebration of welcoming, tolerance and solidarity, rather than racist flagshaggers at it again. #Speirghorm

As the UK is having another normal one again, I'm having my own state visit. To Ireland. Currently parading around Drumconda dressed as Melania Trump's hat creature.

Glasgow's at-risk, Category A listed Egyptian Halls looks so much better with the scaffolding wrapping torn off and a large advert for vapes added.

I do find it rather bizarre that the fash are back. A good punch in the face should sort them out (like what happened to Moseley).

In a bar and they're playing Heroin by the Velvet Underground, which isn't a sentence I thought I'd type.

New work🖤

Been busy with life stuff so haven't been keeping abreast of recent world events... but Jeez, this segmentation of people into 'right' and 'left' - both in a US context but also at home, abroad etc- is infantile and tedious as fuck.

This is such a good record. It's like they've remade the Wicker Man, but starring The Slits.

Just seen a chap in shorts with a tattoo that closely resembles the face of Ian Krankie, and that's the look I'm hoping to rock.

Just the 26 year wait for this rabble to release a new LP. That Prolapse finally have is delightfully awful (in all the best ways).

A review of of our new LP which is out this week. Thanks very to Martin Gray for the kind words.

Just out from seeing Weapons. A film that has its detractors, but I absolutely loved it. Rare for a horror film to play so deliberately with form.

Introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts you saw. Jive Bunny Sonia Shakin' Stevens Showaddywaddy GG Allin

Le sigh... ...today, an elderly person I know – a lifelong Labour voter – announced that they'd cancelled a trip to England because “you don’t know if your hotel will be full of migrants,” and it’s like… where do we even begin?

Having seen @prolapseband.bsky.social in Newcastle on Thursday, and Prolpase in Preston last night, today I’m going to do something very different and see Lankum in Glasgow… …with Prolpase also on the bill.

I don't have any skin in the game, but I do find it odd that they've combined Ireland's Fucknugget of the Year competition with the Presidential election would-be candidate race

Really enjoyed this. Plus great to see John Francis Flynn on prime time RTÉ.

Young ‘uns often ask me why my generation is so jaded, so I tell them that Erasure once did a cover of Gaudete, formerly of Steeleye Span, and it should have been amazing but it was rubbish. “Alright grandad” reply the young ‘uns.

Fujifilm 400 on the Minolta with the beloved lensbaby❤️

The sun appeared at just the right moment 🖤 #photography