A bit of a labour of love, this: the remarkable story of Salford band The Montgolfier Brothers and the phenomenal success of their song Between Two Points. www.northernsoul.me.uk/roger-quigle...

Alien Autopsy of the first LP by QUATERMASS III. **arrived on this Planet today** Just look at this little beauty's gleaming body and glossy innards. You can ensure you have one of our U.S.O.s (Unidentified Spinning Objects) in your own home, by pre-ordering here: lnk.to/QuatermassIII 🛸🛸🛸

Had a marvellous night seeing @mrholness.bsky.social's oppo Garth Marenghi at The Lowry, in a show which very much answers the pre-performance question 'Hang on, is that a guitar on stage?'

If you're stuck for a film this Halloween, Hammer's YouTube channel will be live streaming their 4K restoration of Quatermass 2 this evening. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOdy...

It's Halloween! @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social and I stagger painfully through post war London before ramming the gates at Hammer's secret base to uncover what monstrous conspiracies it took to get the first two Quatermass film classics out on Blu Ray/UHD. With Steve Rogers and @0tralala.bsky.social.

🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween... #halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster

End of an era today in Manchester: last day of work at HOME for my pal Garry Watson, who started as a projectionist at Cornerhouse just over forty years ago - the last man standing from the opening of the original venue. Cheers, Garry!

Top action shots of @dannyrobins.bsky.social, as taken by my pal Garry Watson on the first night of the current Uncanny tour!

TOMATO CAIN by Nigel Kneale 🍅 📘 commapress.co.uk/books/tomato... In 22' we brought horror legend Nigel Kneale's short fiction back into print for the first time in decades, uniting stories from US & UK editions & ft unseen work specially dug up for this edition.

Presumably from the makers of TRON: FEKC and TRON: GIRSL

If it’s not Marti Pellow I’m not interested

Last few tickets remaining for the screening of Berberian Sound Studio at @cpxmcr.bsky.social in Manchester tomorrow night (Saturday 4th), complete with Peter Strickland in Q&A, chaired by me - part of Cultplex's October-long STAB season! cultplex.co.uk/Cultplex.dll...

A Mancunian cultural milestone: it was forty years ago today that the late, lamented Cornerhouse arts centre officially opened its doors.

Just 5 days until the start of @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social's fan-favourite Horror short story course at Chorlton Library! 👻✍️ Only a few places left, so don't delay! 🎟️🔥 🎟️Book Here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/horror-sho...

Still time to sign up for this - join me as we unpick the techniques used in classic horror stories and explore how they can inspire you and your own work...

MANCUNIANS! We've got some local previews of our dark comedy JURASSIC before we descend into the dingy depths of Soho. Ticket links in the message below. Dinosaurs + Disinformation = Fun Night Out.

So nearly the Jamie Oliver / Fall collab we’ve all been waiting for

I've missed making the 'Hobbs Lane' signs (Quatermass And The Pit, 1958) so have made 25 available to pre-order, to ship in Nov. I've slightly improved on the original version with rounded corners, and thinner board to make it more in keeping with the original prop sign. hiddenbritain.bigcartel.com

If you’re near Manchester and you like what I like (archive TV, comedy), you’d have to be daft to miss this opportunity to be in the presence of Peter Fleming aka @nottomburgess.bsky.social on Sunday night. wegottickets.com/event/673651

A marvellous night for a great cause courtesy of @alovelytime.bsky.social - hats off to @chriscantrill.bsky.social, @amygledhill.bsky.social and co. Fair warms yer cockles, it does.

Just realised that a 1983 Alas Smith & Jones sketch, which I haven't seen since, didn't refer to Art Garfunkel the way I always thought it did. This might be my equivalent of Deep Thought working out the meaning of life (etc).

Had a sneaky listen to Series 2 of The Delightful Sausage's radio series Icklewick FM. Big laughs, a killer guest cast and plenty of chaotic mayhem, but altogether more refined and effective than Series 1. Goes out on BBC Radio 4 from Saturday 30 August. Splendid!

The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain has created a free online guide for non-fiction authors working with factual material, covering themes such as copyright, defamation and ensuring good relationships with interviewees 👇 #BookSky

Another chance to catch this at 7pm…

Looking forward to this starting shortly - a (free) online Kneale talk by the estimable Brontë!

Want to learn the art of horror writing & get published in an eBook like this? Join @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social's fan-favourite horror course starting 30 Sep at Chorlton Library! ✉️DM for bursaries & to avoid fees! 🎫 Book here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/horror-sho... www.amazon.co.uk/Horror-2024-...

Frankie Monroe - currently killing it at the Edinburgh Fringe, with a Cats Does Countdown appearance under his belt and a big UK tour just announced - what's on Earth's it all about? Get the whole story here.... www.northernsoul.me.uk/joe-kent-wal...

Billie Piper would be the first Doctor Who to have had three Number 1 singles. Take that, Troughton.

I’ve booked for this mighty fine charity comedy night in Manchester - why don’t you? www.seetickets.com/event/a-love...

On this day in history from the age of romance

It's the 72nd anniversary of TV landmark The Quatermass Experiment, and if you only buy two books this year about Quatermass and Nigel Kneale, buy @tobyhadoke.bsky.social's (and mine, obviously). headpress.com/product/into... tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/the-...

Manchester folk: I'll be leading a horror short story course at Chorlton Library this Autumn...

NEW BERGCAST! Me and @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social are joined by @gralefrit.bsky.social to discuss how Nigel Kneale infected the world by infecting the world. bergcast.room207press.com/2025/07/epis...

The face I'm submitting to Bluesky for verification.

Next week - Monday 14 July - I’ll be introducing a screening of the sparkling new 4K remaster of Quatermass 2 with @tobyhadoke.bsky.social at HOME in Manchester. Be there or be infiltrated by aliens at the highest level! homemcr.org/whats-on/qua...

As good a time as any to remind London-based media that the Gallagher brothers never say 'fook'. They pronounce it 'fuck', which is correct. Trouble is, you lot pronounce it 'fack', which isn't.

I've got a joke about Doomsday but it goes all sad at the end.

We go again! The glorious 4K remaster of Quatermass 2 is heading to HOME in Manchester on 14 July, with an introduction by me and @tobyhadoke.bsky.social. Book now! homemcr.org/whats-on/494...

Oh yeah, and I suppose I should plug my book about Kneale’s The Quatermass Experiment : currently on offer in the latest edition of the Radio Times. I’m very proud of it: lots of work went into it and it was a labour of love. Everything you need to know & some gorgeous photos. #stonetapelive

If you'd like to know even more about the life and work of Nigel Kneale (with no character limit), there's a book that can help... headpress.com/product/into... #stonetapelive

The end of a perfect day, eh? Hope you enjoyed watching The Stone Tape – and hats off to @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social for showing it. #stonetapelive

In 2019, the full score of The Stone Tape was released on green vinyl as part of Record Store Day. #stonetapelive

The serving girl's scream that's been shredding your nerves throughout The Stone Tape? That was Glynis Jones. #stonetapelive

The distinctive score for The Stone Tape – sound and recording being key to the whole play, of course – was created by the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop, specifically Glynis Jones in collaboration with Workshop head Desmond Briscoe. #stonetapelive

The projected TV remake of The Stone Tape fell apart, but re-emerged in revised form as a BBC Radio 4 version by Graham and Strickland in October 2015. Jane Asher made a cameo appearance as the mother of Jill Greeley, the character she'd played in the original. #stonetapelive

A remake of The Stone Tape for BBC2 was planned in 2012, to be written by Matthew Graham (Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes) and directed by Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio, In Fabric, Flux Gourmet). #stonetapelive

The Stone Tape first aired on Christmas Day 1972. It's an odd coincidence that, 12 years later, Christopher Morahan's son Andrew, by then a successful 26 year-old pop promo director, made the memorable video for Wham!'s Last Christmas. #stonetapelive

The Stone Tape (working title: Breakthrough), was commissioned by Christopher Morahan in his capacity as the BBC's Head of Plays. He'd worked with Kneale before, having directed The Road in 1963 and a remake of Kneale's adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1965. #stonetapelive

Kneale's lost 1963 TV play The Road was another precursor to The Stone Tape. Set in 1770, it centres on the supposed haunting of woods in England. #stonetapelive

There's plenty to mark Quatermass and the Pit out as a precursor to The Stone Tape, not least a psychically-sensitive female scientist and a revealing search through ancient parish records. #stonetapelive