A banner week for @handiworkgames.bsky.social! First the physical copies of @fromthemorgue.bsky.social's brilliant FiveEvil going out, and now the completed pdf of Cold City 2nd Ed. heading to backers!

You can't beat a sunny autumn morning. Crisp. Gorgeous.

Wait... Is that Ralf (TV Conan) Moeller doing gardening tool ads for Lidl?

can anyone help i am trying to remember name of a show sjown last few years set in pennines or yorkshire small rural police station 2 uniforms & black CID woman (not ellis) abd there were monster attacks and a pollution backstory abd local baking factory was involved abd ended on a cliffhanger

Watch this great video of Peter Hammill going through the Charisma & Virgin Recordings boxset that came out yesterday - "this is a really well put together *product*" www.facebook.com/share/v/1ajr...

Hung over

And finally, I've been doing some therapeutic shopping this past couple of weeks and I'd forgotten I ordered this. Bonny though...

Second bit of ace mail from postie today... Fab work from @mulgraveaudio.bsky.social once again

Been a cracking mail day today, with the arrival of an overdue (but well worth the wait) Kickstarter - #Dolmenwood Gorgeous and a bloody bargain considering what I paid on backing it...

Remembering my Dad, Shem Arungu-Olende, on what would have been his birthday. Here we are newly arrived in London in the mid 1960s. Behind us is the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens (& Dad is the one with the cool hat) .

OK, Butthole Surfers film incoming! Watch the trailer for the Albini quote... www.youtube.com/watch?v=29dA... (screenshot not showing up for some reason...)

Was initially pleased to see that one of Bradford's oldest boozers, The Unicorn, has reopened after two plus decades shuttered and then... Oh... Oh no... Oh well. Went to to The Ginger Goose instead and ended playing Bingo with the old-timers* sort of by accident. £2.60 a pint though. Result!

Not sure if BlueSky friends realise, I also write crime fiction. This features my Australian equivalent of Parker, Gary Chance. Some of these books have, on occasion, been well reviewed. www.amazon.com/Gunshine-Sta...

There aren't many films I'd buy multiple fancy schmancy editions of, but having two The Keep UHD boxes is something I couldn't resist. I had no idea this one would be so bloody massive though (see Space 1999 hardcover for scale... )

Hammering the hell out of Memoriam's brutal, rifferific, face-smashing discography again. I can't think of a better five album run in my collection. I had the pleasure of talking to @willettsio.bsky.social about them and his time with Bolt Thrower a couple of years ago...

Simon of @podwithmadness.bsky.social and Miles of @casualtrek.bsky.social are back in Derry and Toms. We link arms in an epic team up for the ages to witness the multiversal smooshing together of champions in The King of the Swords Part 2 AKA The Vanishing Tower!

Patchwuff vinyl is finally here! Thankyou so much to everyone for being so patient... we've got a busy couple of days packing ahead, and we'll start shipping them out ASAP after the weekend. Phew, etc.

Simon of @podwithmadness.bsky.social and Miles of @casualtrek.bsky.social are back in Derry and Toms. We link arms in an epic team up for the ages to witness the multiversal smooshing together of champions in The King of the Swords Part 2 AKA The Vanishing Tower!

@podwithmadness.bsky.social has a Patreon! Join, and you could be lucky enough to receive the issue of Kerrang! that covered Tom Jones joining Black Sabbath #minertour

Did you know that Casual Trek may be a Star Trek podcast, but we have a show within a show about Space: 1999 which I’m watching for the first time. open.spotify.com/show/22vInew...

It’s 26 years today since the moon was blown out of its orbit. I hope the brave souls of Moonbase Alpha are safe, wherever they are now. I miss the moon…

Now 26 ACTUAL years since Moonbase Alpha commenced its odyssey..

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Moonglum(s) out next week. A few random fun things coming out the next few months. Wrapping a new album now but will sit on this for a bit. Perhaps there will be a fancy physical release of an older album being mentioned in the coming months?! Is it too soon to tease this?!? Yes is the answer.

Thinking of the size of the oven in which this baguette was baked. French woman with her baguette and six bottles of wine, Paris, France, 1945. (Photo by Branson Decou).

We are honoured to feature in @peteralanross.bsky.social’s superb new book UPON A WHITE HORSE - Tom spoke to the author about his favourite subjects of folklore and heavy metal before our show in Glasgow earlier in the year. Nice to see him listed in the index between Tacitus and Margaret Thatcher…!

there id a podcast which is the inside of my head podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

🌛 I am looking for work 🌜

There's a new issue of Prog magazine out, and guess what? They kindly asked me to write about Hawkwind again 😊, a relatively short but hopefully interesting piece about Hall Of The Mountain Grill ahead of the upcoming box, inc some words from remix king Stephen W Tayler... 1/2

Folk horror comes to Crown Court! This case from 1974 is inspired by the Lower Quinton ‘witchcraft murder’ of 1945 & written by David Pinner, whose novel Ritual inspired The Wicker Man m.youtube.com/watch?v=6O3r...

Do you want more weird horrory Crown Court? This is the INCREDIBLE one inspired by the Highgate Vampire case, featuring black magic paraphernalia galore and an exorcism in the courtroom! m.youtube.com/watch?v=dozh...

📚🪐🧐💙📚🖋️📚⏰ carterkaplan.blogspot.com/2013/08/stev...

When the muse is upon you, you have to write (even if it means sacrificing sleep!). #28YearsLaterNewport #TTRPG

September marks six years of bombarding the internet with the music that's swirling around my head that no one really asked for. It also marks two years of bombarding my body with exogenous hormones and feeling awesome. I intend on doing both of these things until I die.

🗣 "He wanted everybody to have fun and he wanted to entertain and he entertained people on the field, but he also entertained off it." 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Ian Francis, son of Roy Francis, has opened up about his father, the legendary player and coach who made history. ✍️ @johnnyddavidson.bsky.social 👇👇👇

The extreme right appropriate this flag as an emblem for a small-minded tribal concept of a mythological Britain that has never, nor will ever exist... ...except in their dreams. This flag is special. It represents our land, our people, our history, our culture. ALL our culture. ALL our people.

Your chat made me want to buy a copy, even though I’m not particularly interested in Space 1999, and would almost certainly never read it. I’m still holding you responsible for getting me into buying vintage paperbacks - often just for their covers. I mean, how could I resist this?

One of only a handful of podcasts l listen to with any regularity. And this is a particularly cracking episode, so get it into your ears.

If you missed it earlier this week, my latest Substack newsletter is live. An ode of sorts to James Coburn and celebrating the 30th anniversary of what is still the best true crime drama ever made in Australia, BLUE MURDER. Free to read at the link below. andrewnette.substack.com/p/james-cobu...

After a very (too) long run of self producing albums, I decided to have someone else to mix and master something. @structureedit.com did such an awesome job on this. I am so glad to have trusted them with these songs. Moonglum Out on September 19th. Released by @shiftctrlmusic.com

Really happy to have found this nice hardcover collection of a couple of Elric comics from the 70s. This larger format is so nice for showing off James Cawthorn and Philippe Druillet’s wonderful artwork.

To celebrate the fifty years (and one day) to the day that Space 1999 hit British telly screens and almost 26 years after Moonbase Alpha was flung from Earth's orbit, here is a Space 1999-flavoured podcast!

Sven Hassell was a ubiquitous presence in the newsagents of my childhood. Say what you will about them, they were huge sellers, partic in the UK, which was responsible for 15 million out of total 50 million global sales. An interesting doco about the man behind them www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HUj...

following on from yesterdays post on gamees i’d like to inckuding a multi geberation soviet supers gane @breakfastruins.bsky.social came up with this horror infused soviet super concept clarkythecruel.wordpress.com/2025/09/05/s...

Really thoughtful review here of Marion Lloyd-Langton's memoir of #Hawkwind Huw. Book review - the moving memoir of guitarist Huw Lloyd-Langton open.substack.com/pub/iansharp...

I (speaking as the James "I" and not Bryan!) just got interviewed by the amazing people at the @breakfastruins.bsky.social podcast! The interview will be online very soon and I have to give big thanks: its not often the webmaster gets interviewed - but then again the fanpage IS 29 years old!

New Pod! In depth with Ozzy, grave robbing with King Diamond and we lose our goddamn minds over Jive Bunny. podwithmadness.podbean.com/e/jive-bunny...

It was such a huge honour to be asked to write a foreword to the reprint of @guynsmith.bsky.social Crabs the human Sacrifice. This book broight me back to his work after many years. #pulphorror #horror #horrorfiction.