Well, had to be dragged to this by him indoors, but it was totally worth it. Some bio-series promise honesty, authenticity, blah & don't deliver, but this is the real thing - Scorcese the film-maker, husband, father, friend. Fascinating & surprising. On Apple. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWoK...

My solo exhibition is still open if you fancy going. Lots to see. @humberstgallery.bsky.social

Editing tip: Best to edit on paper, not screen. Hold a good old fashioned wooden ruler under each line as you read. Amazing how it focuses the eye.

#Onthisday in 1918, just days before end of #WW1, French poet Apollinaire (weakened by a shrapnel wound) died in the Spanish flu epidemic. Later that year Calligrammes: Poems of Peace & War was published, a collection of his concrete/visual poems publicdomainreview.org/collection/a... #OTD

My son just told me that in his dream last night I told him that as a young girl I used to hunt and eat large lizards and amphibians regularly in the caves of Yorkshire. Right....

My grandad George, Bradford War Hospital 1918. Such a fantastic picture of a malcontent. French new wave cinema would have loved him!

What are you all watching? Just finished Riot Women & Slow Horses. Waiting till Cemetery Road all there to start that on Apple. All the autumn faves are on of course - HIGNY, Norton & Strictly on the Beeb, Long Lost Family on ITV (sucker for anything DNA-related!) & PAOTY (Sky).

Friday tune Horace Andy - Skylarking Feeling happy and optimistic, so this beautiful song sing by one of my favourite ever voices is just perfect. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Really enjoyed the mudlarking exhibition at London Museum Docklands (Secrets of the Thames). (Images below from a book I bought whilst there). The randomness of the finds through so many ages really appeals to me. Almost glad I don't live in London as I'm sure I could be tempted to give it a go...

Painting created c.midC20th in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital in Surrey, by an individual who was compelled to live there, whose identity is currently unknown to us. This image is from art therapist Edward Adamson’s lecture slides: the original is missing, presumed lost

Cabaret Voltaire announce final UK tour for 2026: "It seems like a special, magical moment"

Loved this! Don't really understand the critical ambivalence. Sensitive & interesting. And that 1st Suicide album? You & me both Bruce. Especial applause for Jeremy Strong - from 'notice me' in Succession to 'I am just a support act' here really shows his range. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQXd...

1966, London. Pete Townshend visits his aunt's bric-a-brac shop📸Tony Gale

When I say I'm a man of substance I mean controlled.

Book 23 / 2025 Cathi Unsworth – Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth I went to the Batcave. I had vertical hair. I liked a lot of these bands. But I would never have called myself a Goth - most probably for the simple reason that I already called myself a punk. Cont'd/

Chicago's mayor Brandon Johnson is a one-man bulwark against racism. A real Mensch. #humanity

Friday tune Feel like a good Friday scream so what better.. Hole - Violet www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH_r...

15 Space Age Record Players via The Vinyl Factory www.thevinylfactory.com/features/spa...

On this day 1968 ....

Wayne Thiebaud at The Courtauld. Utterly delicious. More nostalgic than pure pop art, it reminds me of early Stephen Shore photos and even Burra’s American deli counter paintings.

More Patti - Break It Up (50th anniversary tour of ‘Horses’ - London Palladium Show) Loved the intro story - telling Tom Verlaine about a dream about Jim Morrison breaking out of a glass cage and flying away with wings, before writing the song together.

Good God, Patti was on FIRE tonight! The band were tight, taut and spare and Patti was raw and rocking and potent and magical. I swear we all levitate at moment. Very very special.

Horsesssss!!!

Watched 'The Ramones: The True Story' this wkend. It's interesting but a slightly strange affair - v much Tommy's PR exercise, saying all that he needs to get off his chest (mainly that it was all wonderful). The most interesting insights by far are from Arturo Vega, the band's Art Director. /cont'd

Friday tune Ann Peebles - I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyMs...

Didn't think I could love Roy Keane more, but apparently I can. Who needs fireworks, parties and smiling anyway? observer.co.uk/news/columni...

The Lee Miller show at Tate is so rammed it's hard to see. But as an alternative, a great exhibition at the Photographers' Gallery opens today on 100 years of photo booths.

A Kefalonia goodbye from a soaring eagle (sadly didn’t snap) and a perfect rainbow!

Friday tune Jacques Brel - Le Moribond Amazing how the English ‘version’ took all the bite out of the lyrics. The original is amazing. m.youtube.com/watch?v=7dEN...

Colours of Greece

Nowhere like Greece for restoring the soul.…

What is time anyway? Postcard from Greece

So good to read that @stephenking.bsky.social is such a fan of the oft- overlooked morbid, melancholy genius of Daphne du Maurier. What an imagination! Takes another fan of the curiously strange to recognise what literary snobs often haven’t! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Friday tune Been playing Bruce nonstop on my travels today. Struck by the beautiful sadness of this one m.youtube.com/watch?v=M3eu...

‘Spiritual puttering’

Oh yes, I think I will.... www.wired.com/story/the-on...

Extreme weather and extreme politics go hand in hand - billionaires like Musk are pushing both

Chrissie Hynde is selling her lime-green 1971 Pontiac Firebird LeMans T-37. It's a beaut. bid.omegaauctions.co.uk/auction/lot/...

Marigold Murder Club (Caroline Collett)

Love it when sports tournaments birth a bona fide star. The women's rugby world cup (so entertaining) has done just that with the Black Ferns' Braxton Sorensen-McGee. Not only does the 18 yo have the best name, but is SO exciting to watch as a player! Kiwis now out - so till the next time!

Friday tune Link Wray - Rumble And the weekend (and the story of The Cramps) starts here... www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFCp...

Thank you @andrewmale.bsky.social for bringing this to my attention. Ian Penman was one of my favourite music writers of my yoof. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

From the Arab Spring to the Asian Autumn.... Social media can also be a force for positive change. Go go Gen Z! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Morning all. Manorhamilton sheep fair. County Leitrim, Ireland October 1980. Photographer Martin Parr

‘This country’s gonna fall on its face. There’s nobody coming to save us’: Boston punks Dropkick Murphys take on Maga

Congratulations to Sadie Frost for directing this - a really good watch and so unbelievably nice to see some different footage from the 60s. The clip of Twigs and Bryan Ferry, both in school uniform, singing 'Wonderful World' is HILARIOUS - more, more! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Book 21 / 2025 Deborah Levy - The Position of Spoons A beautiful and hugely enjoyable collection of essays, musings and ruminations on women and creativity - particularly women writers. I now have a brand new book shopping list of new discoveries. Aargh!

Стук Бамбука В XI Часов - Мёд Снег [Russia, ambient/industrial] (1991) https://redd.it/62cxr5 https://youtu.be/zYk8Ln3Bs0U

Didn't do a Friday tune, so this will have to be a Sunday toon instead! Haven't listened to David Byrne or Talking Heads for years, but I LOVE DB's new single - sounds like the follow-up to 'Psycho Killer' - jarring and insistent... David Byrne - The Avant Garde www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z97d...