Obligatory post-gig tshirt selfie!

Sleeper were absolutely brilliant last night!

Liverpool and Manchester friends! If you like Shoegaze, or even just great guitar music, you owe it to yourself to check out the Swirlies later this month in Manchester! They’re playing at Gorilla on the 28th, it’s their first UK tour in foreeeeeever, and trust me you’re gonna want to be there!

Today on @outsideleft.bsky.social I’m writing about Spain’s The Blue Moods of Spain, one of the most beautiful and melancholy albums of the 90s outsideleft.com/main.php?sto...

Metal bands have much to teach other genres about badges

LP six of the next lot of records Al’s lent me Artist: The Rivits Album: Multiplay Date: 1980 Label: Island What I know about the record going in: absolutely nothing. Cool cover. Vaguely new wave-ish black and white photo of the band on the back.

Yes I got Obituary and Testament band tees!

Testament were bloody fantastic as well. Can’t hear a damn thing this morning

Obituary were absolutely phenomenal last night. A treat to hear the Cause Of Death material live

Very excited for my first metal gig in aaaages!

When There Are Wolves Again is out in the UK today! I wrote something about the book, and keeping going, and some personal stuff I dithered over but, well, it's been A Year. I'm so glad the book is out there and thank you so much to everyone who has supported it 🐺🤍 ejswift.co.uk/2025/10/09/w...

Today on @outsideleft.bsky.social I’m interviewing the wonderful Lorelle Meets The Obsolete about their brilliant new album Corporal! @soniccathedral.bsky.social outsideleft.com/main.php?sto...

10 horror movies to get to know me by 👫Possession 🥩Society 🩰Suspiria (1977) 📌Hellraiser 💥Tetsuo: The Iron Man 🧺The Wicker Man (1973) 🏠Hausu 💉The Substance 📼Videodrome 👁️The Beyond

Today in Jonathan Aesthetics #HuskerDu #10000Maniacs #Possession #UrsulaLeGuin #4AD

B and the neighbours no doubt delighted that I finally own this pinnacle of thrash metal on vinyl

Linked to the Voyager at 50 exhibition, I’ve written a piece on the manuscript of Ian Watson’s The Embedding! manuscriptsandmore.liverpool.ac.uk/voyager-at-5...

Thanks so much to @jonathanthornton.bsky.social and @thefantasyhive.bsky.social for this lovely review of Wolves 🐺🙏 fantasy-hive.co.uk/2025/10/when...

LP five of the next lot of records Al’s lent Artist: Judie Tzuke Album: Sports Car Date: 1980 Label: The Rocket Record Company What I know about the record going in: absolutely nothing. An unnerving record cover, on the back there’s a photo of a woman with a very 80s haircut

Today on @outsideleft.bsky.social it’s my absolute pleasure to interview one of my favourite bands, the Chameleons! outsideleft.com/main.php?sto...

Today on @thefantasyhive.bsky.social I’m reviewing EJ Swift’s wonderful new novel When There Are Wolves Again, a contender for novel of the year fantasy-hive.co.uk/2025/10/when...

A bumper Week In Music on @outsideleft.bsky.social today, I’m reviewing new singles from The New Eves, Whitelands and Dry Cleaning! outsideleft.com/main.php?sto...

I have ten of these PHYSICS FOR CATS pins to give away! Share the post below👇 for a chance to win one. (UK only: you can share from anywhere but I can't send you a pin).

My new book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS is out in a week! Order a copy today from you local bookshop or at one of the links here: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

My essay on @jennyhval.bsky.social ‘s books and music is now free on @typebarmagazine.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/a...

The new @whitelands.bsky.social single ‘Glance’ is out now. Here’s a clip from the video by Cameron Perry, starring @bafta.org Rising Star winner David Jonsson (currently in ‘The Long Walk’) and Honor Swinton Byrne (who appeared alongside her mother, Tilda Swinton, in ‘The Souvenir’).

Today on @thefantasyhive.bsky.social I’m interviewing the wonderful @dancoxon.bsky.social about his latest anthology Writing The Magic and more! fantasy-hive.co.uk/2025/09/inte...

40 and still rocking band T-shirts - my Belly shirt from Friday‘s gig!

Belly were amazing last night! Incredible gig

Today in Jonathan Aesthetics #UrsulaLeGuin #Society #TransvisionVamp #Belly #4AD

Last Wednesday I was lucky enough to interview the wonderful Atrocity Girl before their awesome Birkenhead gig! It’s up today on @outsideleft.bsky.social outsideleft.com/main.php?sto...

Brilliant news! A new @annecharnock.bsky.social book is always a cause for celebration

Today on @outsideleft.bsky.social I’m reviewing the Chameleons’ brilliant new album Arctic Moon! outsideleft.com/main.php?sto...

Saturday morning vibes - The Darling Buds’ classic Pop Said…

Obituary and Transvision Vamp badges. I contain multitudes

Me rocking my new Atrocity Girl Tshirt - plus they had badges!

Atrocity Girl from Seattle were incredible last night. Absolutely brilliant gig

Today on @outsideleft.bsky.social I’m interviewing Basque county post-genre punks Al Karpenter about their remarkable new album Greatest Heads outsideleft.com/main.php?sto...

Followed by Bird Wood Cage!

Sunday morning listening - The Wolfgang Press’ classic second album Standing Up Straight on vinyl!

I think, at the bare minimum, DC should: 1. Publicly apologize to Gretchen Felker-Martin. 2. Release completed issues of Red Hood. This is the absolute least they need to do to even start making things right.

Exciting news - the online exhibition I worked on this spring has gone live! It’s about the Voyager probe at 50, and how we’ve imagined communicating with aliens. I was given the brief but then I selected the items and wrote the blurbs about them digitalheritagelab.liverpool.ac.uk/voyager

Today on @thefantasyhive.bsky.social I’m reviewing Jordan Prosser’s brilliant debut novel Big Time! @deadinkbooks.bsky.social fantasy-hive.co.uk/2025/09/big-...

Gretchen is one of modern horror’s true geniuses. Read all her books!

Given the people who run this place are transphobic crypto fascists who kick trans women. Let’s promote Gretchen’s work on here for her. She has a new book out. It looks really cool, you should grab a copy and help her out, and also you’ll get to read a cool book bookshop.org/p/books/blac...

Happy birthday to peak cinema

Hadn’t got around to uploading my photos of the Suede gig from last Friday for the launch of their wonderful new album Antidepressants. The band were on fine form!

Amazing night at Rough Trade East with Audrey Golden and the Raincoats for the launch of Audrey’s incredible new book Shouting Out Loud!

On my way to London for the launch of Audrey Golden’s Raincoats book, so excited to meet her and Ana Da Silva and Gina Birch of the Raincoats! Absolute musical heroes of mine

Beautiful stacks of my Monks issue of Shindig! In WH Smiths!