A lovely, warm spring day, ideal for a walk in the woods. And the temperature was just right for Ringo to wallow and cool off in a water-filled, muddy hole. Filthy beastie. #cockers #dogsky

Today, the ebook version of my book, SOME OTHER GUY, goes on sale! You don't need a Kindle; simply use the Kindle app to read the book on your phone or 'device'. Paperback readers will need to wait another week for the physical version to become available. #Beatles #booksky #writerscommunity #books

On the eve of my ebook, SOME OTHER GUY, which focuses on Stuart Sutcliffe during the early days of The Beatles, being released (with the paperback coming out next week on 15 March), here's us outside the President Hotel, where the Fabs stayed in '63, and where we stayed during a recent London trip.

Aftermath

I'm a Jeremy Brett man through and through, and I never much cared for the Guy Ritchie films, but this Young Sherlock series is energetic, stylish, and very enjoyable. Making Moriarty his sidekick adds a certain something. #TVSky

I'm currently in the early chapters of THE LAST KINGS OF HOLLYWOOD, and I already have a greater appreciation for George Lucas. He was always an unassuming innovator, consistently pushing for technical advancement, often facing opposition, even if, as he admitted, "I can't write!" #booksky #moviesky

Ooh, how delightful to receive a proof copy of a brand new book in the post. Who is the author of this wonderful book?? Oh, how embarrassing - it's me! #writersky #booksky #Beatles #StuartSutcliffe #indieauthors

Our narrowboat Airbnb

In London

The two views from our accommodation in London this weekend. One from a narrowboat in Limehouse marina, the other from our Bloomsbury hotel room.

The ebook version of my book, Some Other Guy, is available for preorder now. Once we resolve cover art issues, the paperback preorders should become available soon. The book will be published on Wed, 18th March (all going well) and available to order from Bookvault and Amazon. #booksky #Beatles

I would be remiss if I missed #WorldBookDay2026, especially since I have a book on the verge of publication. A roman à clef, a fictionalised account of Stuart Sutcliffe and the #TheBeatles heading to Hamburg in August 1960. Out in a couple of weeks, fingers x'd. Watch this space! #musicsky #booksky

Oh! what a morning to be bathed in the warm glow of the new Bill Callahan album, My Days of 58. Very much an album about and for 50-somethings (or thereabouts) and very much my tempo. #musicsky

Midweek, and this needs to be a Wonder Wednesday to power me through the rest #musicsky #vinyl

The Paul McCartney documentary, MAN ON THE RUN, might lack in-depth analysis, but it still importantly and commendably shows just how uniquely odd and singular Macca was and remains. #musicsky #ManOnTheRun #PaulMcCartney #Wings #theBeatles

So good to revisit PJ Harvey's To Bring You My Love LP around its - gasp - 30th anniversary. Following the stripped-bare confessionals of Dry and Rid of Me, this was a loose, louche Bad Seeds-y Delta blues and fuzzy garage rock. So spacious and diverse. #musicsky

Poster for Robert Eggers's highly anticipated gothic horror film, WERWULF. ... not VVERVVULF then?? #filmsky #moviesky

Green shoots are visible. Spring is coming. #GortonandDenton #GreenParty

#NowWatching WUTHERING HEIGHTS | 2026 "Too hot, too greedy"? An ambitious but flawed adaptation. #filmsky #moviesky

#NowListening Saint Etienne | Good Humor | 1998 An album of wistful hidden gems. Love the dry, woody, Scandi-pop sound. "Been So Long" "Mr. Donut" "Erica America". The b-sides around this time were also great. Reminds me of being on Barceloneta beach. Liner notes by Douglas Coupland! #musicsky

#NowWatching Mackenzie Crook’s Small Prophets on the BBC. A worthy successor to The Detectorists and Worzel Gummidge, this quiet, quirky slice of suburban magic realism delves into themes of loss and moving on, though its real focus is men and their sheds. Good stuff. #tvsky

Ever watch a YouTube video of a live performance from a million years ago and notice yourself in the audience? Babes in Toyland - "Bruise Violet" Reading festival, 1993. #musicsky

in the middle of a cloud, Yoko Ono turns 93.

No wonder self-publishing is booming when publishing houses promote this hopeless, self-defeating 'guitar bands are on the way out' type of idea. #booksky #writersky www.wsj.com/opinion/free...

Jack Thorne's BBC adaptation of #LordoftheFlies is simply superb. Visual splendour that evokes Walkabout and Picnic at Hanging Rock, capturing the sun-dazed, hallucinogenic vibe of youths trapped in a landscape that appears a dreamlike idyll yet harbours a brutal, ominous, corrupting pulse. #tvsky

Music to write to. "And he curses his virtue like an unclean thing." #musicsky #writersky

The Rough Trade 50th anniversary albums look tempting and all that, but you can't help but wonder as to just what a bristling, spluttering Mark E Smith would have had to say about a £27.99 deluxe splatter vinyl edition of This Nation's Saving Grace. #musicsky #vinyls

Of all the theories circulating around the casting of the new #DoctorWho, the one involving Will Sharpe, who played Mozart in SkyTV's recent Amadeus, is a smart pick. It is almost definitely false and fake, but that doesn't erase the fact that Will Sharpe as the next Doctor is a v good idea. #tvsky

#NowWatching SEND HELP Seated for the new Sam Raimi #filmsky #moviesky

Artists and Models | 1955 #moviesky #filmsky

Cecil Beaton's Self-portrait as King Cnut An early masquerade. In a paper crown, Beaton poses as the 11th-century ruler of the North Sea Empire. Gelatin silver print, about 1915 The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive, London. #photographysky

You're never too young to enjoy Heneke! Turn the kids onto Funny Games and Benny's Video👍😁 #filmsky

Jeff Bezos financing the Melania docuganda and arranging its theatrical release instead of releasing it directly on Prime either indicates an incredible disconnect from reality, or... an incredibly costly strategy aimed at embarrassing her and Trump??

Watching the last eps of Game of Wool, the latest reality show to adopt the #BakeOff format. It doesn’t work since the lengthy process of knitting does not lend itself to the format, but it made me wonder if a show centred on ‘amateur’ writers could work... 1/2 #writing #writersky #indieauthors

Swimmer Norma Campbell met Lennon and McCartney in 1965 and got them to autograph her rubber diving suit... #TheBeatles #musicsky

#NowWatching SORRY, BABY | Eva Victor | 2025 A witty, naturalistic indie film, like a darker Fleabag, that tackles its challenging subject matter with maturity. #filmsky

#NowWatching BLUE MOON | Richard Linklater Such a funny, poignant, and bittersweet movie about writers and wounded, tender-hearted dreamers. Ethan Hawke a triumph as the troubled, legendary songwriter Lorenz Hart. #moviesky #filmsky

“Everything falls to dust anyway. And yet, you keep making things.” - Jonas Mekas.

The franchise is UK-bound, but the 28 Years Later movies, along with the society they depict, would resonate more now if set in the United States. #filmsky #moviesky

"The curiousness of your potential kiss Has got my mind and body aching" 35 years of Unfinished Sympathy come February. Time has not made a dent on this still immaculate, immortal classic. #musicsky

Ugh. Knowing I have things to do is like carrying a curse.

Despite myself ( to spite myself) I've watched a fan YouTube video of one of the concerts Morrissey has actually made it to this year. Grimly fascinating/fascinatingly grim. Of the Smiths songs he's doing,"Still Ill" is not among them. I thought he had a sense of humour!

"ELIMINATE" It looks as if a reboot of Blake's 7 is on the cards. Cautiously hopeful, yet will it maintain the bloody-minded, brutal oddity of the original? Who else is capable of being Avon, who else is capable of being Servalan? etc #tvsky #blakes7

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is quite something. As is Ralph Fiennes' character's record collection. #filmsky #moviesky #letterboxd

#NowWatching 28 Years Later 2 About to enter The Bone Temple. #filmsky #moviesky

Dead at 90: Erich von Däniken "They're falling out of the skies like flies... Chariots of the Gods, man." - Palmer, The Thing (1982) We had his books growing up. Bonkers bunk, but compelling stuff for a little kid. I still have Chariots of the Gods somewhere. And now he's in the stars. RIP

A decade without David, and the world has been far from hunky-dory. #NowPlaying #davidbowie #musicsky

Everything else aside* Morrissey's voice on his new single, and the production in general, is... Not good. And I'm one who thinks Moz can rescue a weak song with a good vocal. But this is a weak song with a weak vocal. So... *We hate it when our artists become reactionaries. Etcetera! Etcetera!