Night Manager? Night Mangler more like. All the tension and menace of the first series vanished in series two. The lad in the vest looked about as threatening as a whelk.

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Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the wee donkey - it's Adrian Dunbar shouting at Inspector Morse's hair.

Rather enjoyed Pale Blue Eyes at the Grayston Unity last night. Spacey chugging - the best of chugging. A bit of Ride, a sniff of Future Islands, the Velves and a soupçon of New Fast Automatic Daffodils.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Sausage.

One of the best books about being in a band.

Happy birthday John Cooper Clarke! Barmcake interview, 2016.

West Yorkshire people! All being well post-surgery I’ll be appearing at Read Holmfirth for an event on March 7th to mark the publication of SCRATCH MOSS. Do come along! to-be-read.co.uk/books/an-eve...

Eeeh, remember Y2K? And where are the Kens now? Ken would be a good name for a serious terrier.

Startled speakers at the lovely Northern Quarter bar, Huddersfield. Blues night. I listened to a lot of blues as a woe-is-me youth. 'Love ain't nothing but a lot of misery.' I wallowed in all that stuff. Martyn Roper & Memphis D were mighty fine tonight.

I've collated all 23 parts of the Velvet Underground Press Myth into one post. From January 1966 each month has its own post with clippings from regional press: full of live reviews, plenty of reviews of the album, NIco and many strange and obscure VU things grantmcphee.substack.com/p/the-velvet...

Please get in touch if you are an illustrator who wants to get involved with our next zine - submission details all here - general-witchfinders.teemill.com/blog/call-fo...

Apart from my usual wedding speech services I’m also offering a ChatGPT Speech Fix for people who’ve gone to AI and are disappointed with the outcome. All the details are available on my recently updated website www.mathew-owen.co.uk/ai-speech-fix - thank you for reading, and please do share 👍

Foggy notion.

ENDS TODAY!

Went to the supermarket with a tea towel around my neck. Tried to style it out as an outré cravat as if I was in Duran Duran or summat.

Likely Lads pyjama action. I think I had those blue ones when I was a nipper

Always have to treble check rogue/rogue when I put them in a headline. Rouge traders (red-faced butchers, make-up artists or pantomime dame suppliers).

Yorkshire folk! The daughter of a friend's friend is making a film about the bands that played at Minsthorpe High School in the late 80s/early 90s – the likes of the Weddoes, Cud, House of Love etc. They're trying to track down the teachers who put the bands on – Mel and Trev. Anyone know them?

I don't normally go in for this clickbait thing or having adverts associated with my various online activities, but times are hard and we all have to make a living. ....

Molly in the Blackburne Arms, Liverpool, 1972, photo by Tricia Porter.

My favourite Bowie song - Where's My Sausages? Phil Cornwell's bob-on impression. m.youtube.com/watch?v=NEjc...

This film based on my story from Dance Move is now BAFTA longlisted. There was such an incredible group of people, all playing their parts, so that this project actually happened. Just brilliant.

Related to this I lost a lot of work in December because I was ill, and my diary is currently very empty. If you need some writing, research or a voice or anything else similar doing, please let me know! I'm very flexible (despite hurtling towards middle age at an alarming speed).

Before Keith Harris teamed up with Orville, there was his frankly terrifying rabbit sidekick Percy Picktooth

Chalamet's got a 'must-have windbreaker' apparently (The Observer). I must admit I thought windbreakers were jaunty nylon/wooden pole affairs to stop sand blowing onto sandwiches on beaches. Chalamat appears to be wearing a shell suit top or a skinny anorak.

Bad moon rising (430pm)

Single-track rail line at dusk. Strong Johnny Cash/Lonesome Whistle vibes with a soupçon of Arthur Askey/Ghost Train.

I've got a new collection coming out in 2026 (Thin Places in Hard Concrete) so you'd better crack on and read the previous two.

7 reasons why The Thing (1982) is a Christmas film: 1) snow 2) bearded men concealing surprises 3) compulsory party games 4) introverts shunning group activities 5) digestive issues 6) revellers bursting open to reveal partially assimilated canine lifeforms 7) knitwear

Merry Christmas chums! May your Yule be cool and your barms be bountiful. Peace, love, roast potatoes and gravy.

Rail replacement buses with Merry Christmas signs. What do you think Councillor Duxbury?

Reckon that's Egyptian Italic or similar, cast in metal, cos the A doesn't have the little serif at the top. precastreinforced.co.uk/2024/04/22/t...

Oof! Tremendous Slaithwaite Town Hall font action. Pleasingly retro. I think @raynewman.bsky.social identified this font on another building but I can never remember what it was called so I think of it as Ray Newman.

Argh! Fanny Cradock is putting mincemeat in an omelette on one of the minor channels - and then putting icing sugar on top. Double argh! Good spatula work to get the ommers out of the pan though.

The Crisps I Ate To Reduce The Palpitations Brought On By The Quality Street Have Given Me Reflux: A Memoir

Bought boxes of Elizabeth Shaw and Roses - covering all the Christmas chocolate bases. Shaws are very Margo Leadbetter (although she might be on the even posher Bendicks). Roses are Rigsby - 'Would you like to try my Golden Barrel Miss Jones?'

Gedging.

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

Is Die Hard a Christmas film? Huddersfield Pharmacy has the answer in an unexpected tribute. Yippee-ki-yay mother's foot ointment.

Encountered a proper ‘Cor blimey, guv’nor’ Cockerney on my street in North Yorkshire earlier (and it wasn’t even Nick Berry) The authorities have been alerted and are on their way with stout cudgels

Only a couple of days left to order Xmas cards. Gertcha! www.8bitnorthxstitch.com or www.etsy.com/shop/8bitnorthxstitch

The spikes! I bought a cabbage during a lunch break at my first paper and a colleague spiked it.

Wading into the depths of the Xmas Radio Times. Radio 3's Through The Night listings have details of every 'track' & exact time they will be played. Why? At 3.47am on Jan 3, you can hear Hildegard of Bingen's O Clarissima Mater (Clear Up Mother). Do fans get up especially for Hilda's big number?

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Theatregoers at a performance of Madame Butterfly, Bolton, 1937, photo by Humphrey Spender.

Hello all, There’s still time to order small prints, cards, wrap and slipmats for #Christmas www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

I'll have a Light Peter. 1970 price list in the mighty Big 6, Halifax.

where have all the fanzines gone? Well one of the very best is collected here www.nicktoczek.com/product-page...

Pretty infuriating: King Gizzard quit Spotify over ethical concerns -- and now Spotify is letting AI knockoffs of its music (with all the lyrics copied verbatim) proliferate on its platform futurism.com/future-socie...