🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Introducing our panelists: Andy Murray @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social Andy is the author of Into the Unknown: The Fantastic Life of #NigelKneale and, perhaps unsurprisingly, he joins our Nigel Kneale panel! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

#topicalbrew (The work of @andydrewz.bsky.social)

They should do an arthouse remake of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? and call it Tericholia

Next up, The Chinny Cineaste.

Looking forward to appearing on a Nigel Kneale panel as part of this. Should be quite an event!

Les Dawson entertains the Good Old Days faithful (17th February 1977)

Suggestion: an option on iPlayer etc to replay the last ten minutes of the previous episode of the show you’re watching if you nodded off

Last year, I had the privilege of teaching a course on writing Gothic short fiction with @commapress.bsky.social, and you can now buy a digital anthology of my students’ wonderful work for just 99p! www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GGBB1QZR

For 2026. Big bundle of my BBC radio work releasing on Audible and most other audio platforms, June 18th. Essentially a boxed set, if downloads came in boxes. Eight Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramas.

On BBC 4 Extra at 4pm: a repeat of @tobyhadoke.bsky.social’s estimable and effective 2018 radio adaptation of The Road. Genuinely not to be missed if you’re a Nigel Kneale fan. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Seems harsh

Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.

If you like the sort of thing I like, you’ll love this. And indeed the whole Peter Fleming podcast back catalogue - why not blitz the lot over Christmas?

Very sorry to hear of the passing of the great Manchester scene guitarist John Scott - as heard on Jilted John and John Cooper Clarke’s albums, plus many projects with CP Lee, including Blue Monday antecedent Gerry and the Holograms. RIP, John.

You hum it, I’ll bling it. Festive music cards at www.8bitnorthxstitch.com or www.etsy.com/shop/8bitnorthxstitch There’s Slade, The Smiths, Wham! and John & Yoko…

Heading to Derby to introduce a screening of Quatermass and the Pit tomorrow as part of this fine day-long celebration, which also features @tobyhadoke.bsky.social, @accordingtojond.bsky.social and @bronteschiltz.bsky.social... Some tickets still available: www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/thequ...

Tonight! Includes @bronteschiltz.bsky.social reading a Nigel Kneale short story…

BOO! www.northernsoul.me.uk/interview-be...

It’s been a very good year for celebrations of Nigel Kneale, and @tobyhadoke.bsky.social, @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social, @accordingtojond.bsky.social and I are topping it off with a day of Quatermass at Derby QUAD on 6 December! 🎟️: www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/thequ...

To celebrate their birthday, Hammer Films are giving away a generous Quatermass bundle - both of the recent 4K collector’s edition box-sets, plus a t-shirt and a poster. Enter now, BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE! hammerfilms.com/pages/celebr...

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...