at some point during hour four of a call I had with @adactivity.bsky.social yesterday, we both just started shouting at each other about how good this John Hicklenton Nemesis page is. Every time I go to delete the png I sent to him, start looking at it again.

T'was a pleasure to discuss politics, culture & symbolism of the DM boot with @luketurner.bsky.social for tQ Podcast. Here is a picture of my favourite pair – vintage steelies – as modelled ten years ago by a handsome dude who is now exactly the same height as me 😪 thequietus.com/subscriber-a...

Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!

Ah, back when the internet was fun... 'JESUS CHRIST!!'

WHAT DO YOU WANT? (trailer) by Joshua Bridge commissioned as part of my project with Anna Phoebe for Manchester International Festival '25 see the Short Film in full: thequietus.com/news/joshua-...

The new edition of my folk music column has just come out on @thequietus.com! 10 of my favourite new releases, from abstract banjo freakouts to Japanese court music via Herefordshire hauntings, the King of Zulu Guitar, Occitan psychedelia and much much more! (this time with the correct link)

Bat Winter: Charli xcx drops ace new single with John Cale called House thequietus.com/news/charli-...

Music writers submitting end of year polls; just checking you've heard Destino Scifosi by FRANCE. standard-in-fi.bandcamp.com/album/destin...

Magic work by Darran here.

Super gutted not to be seeing aya later but - Judas H. Priest! - the remaining line up at @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social today slays hard… Mo Syfkhan, Sly & The Family Drone, Deathx3 etc.

Great profile of Roddy Bottum by the Chick Master: www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

Buying books to read books to write books to.

I’m Thinking Of Ending Things.

That’s it. Clocking off for the day. Had enough and this is begging to be listened to.

A great article about The Specials, and if you scroll back up the thread there's an interesting first performance of The Tide Is High.

If I had a gun to my head I could whittle my collection of Kate Bush records down to three albums... just... and Aerial would be one of them. Happy 20th birthday to Aerial... which only came out yesterday not 20 years ago. Surely. thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Crushing Death & Grief are to celebrate two decades of their “gigs in Cambridge, gigs in East Anglia. No messing" ethos by holding a multi-venue festival in Cambridge between Friday 7 and Sunday 9 November Find out more here: buff.ly/BWuGvnD

Happy 30th birthday to Ae's Tri Repetae and shout out to everyonegoing to see them live tonight in Bristol... wish I could be there. thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

I wrote about the new Armand Hammer for The Quietus, clocking up dangerous numbers without a miss now

CD&GXX // DIY noise wrecking crew Sly & The Family Drone have spent over a decade rejecting stages, exclusivity, and their own personal safety to create epiphinal noise experiences.

The words “pusillanimous” and “captured” come to mind “Norway has imposed a 56% "special tax" for oil & gas companies, alongside a 22% corporate tax rate. The proceeds..have been reinvested in its sovereign wealth fund, which is now the largest in the world” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

This is what I'm doing on Sunday. It'll be a belter.

Become a Quietus Subscriber Plus tier member to access a playlist of Richard Dawson's favourite music (amongst many other wonderful perks)... Sun Ra, Circle, Nina Simone, Mr Bungle... find out what else the Geordie bard picked here: buff.ly/lddHOqL

I can't believe how good the new Earthball album is. Just fucking phenomenal. upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/outsid...

Really chuffed that I got asked to contribute to this. Some great books here, some startling omissions (I feel like I have to personally apologise to Ramsey Campbell, but that's how these sorts of things go) and a huge backlog of stuff I need to get familiar with. Truly, the horror never ends.

The best Chelsea Hotel fact is that the last ever guest at the Chelsea Hotel before it closed was Reg Hollis off of The Bill. He refused to leave and called the cops

'The design of the novel is inextricable from its meaning: a visual analogue of the experience of those lost within the house’s potentially infinite walls.' Mark Z. Danielewski – House Of Leaves is No 6 in The Quietus 25 best pieces of #Horror Fiction of the 21st C buff.ly/C4B49ZM

The Quietus @thequietus.com & Freq @freqzine.bsky.social would be a good place to start

With singles, I can't remember but it was very likely one of these smashers.

Podcasts with #GazelleTwin on the Enfield Poltergeist and John & Luke on M.R. James. The long simmering debate over Disintegration vs Pornography comes to the boil & much more can be yours immediately Treat yourself to spooky culture with a Quietus Subscription this #Halloween buff.ly/82bu8FZ

Not gonna hold my breath waiting for the high blood pressure horror bro paladin vanguard to go into meltdown as with the half decade fuss about Hereditary being slightly odd for a genre film (& feature a strong female lead & have themes relating to maternity). www.indiewire.com/news/breakin...

This is great… and I have a fairly deep-coded unease about arachnids. If anything, this book helped me process this inherited phobia to a notable degree.

Don’t know anything about this paper but on the face of it this looks and reads like a solid investigation.

Psyched to announce my new novel, Boyhood, coming April 2026 @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social geni.us/Boyhood

First watch of Mulholland Drive in 20 years. No hay banda!

@jeres.bsky.social There should be a sitcom where these two guys live in a flat together doing loads of speed and lager, shouting about Prince and losing their minds.

Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer. If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat. Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Interesting LRB sketch/profile of the Greens in thraed. I disagree with the binary idea that the left has a (fatal?) weakness for hero worship. I have at least five mates who would do a better job than Kier Starmer but there is no way that millions of people would not for any of those meffs. 1/2

This is one of my albums of the month and ideal for a chill Saturday morning.

Deep Red though.

One Halloween film down… Don’t Torture A Duckling. Words to live by!

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One more before hiding the sweets from myself for another year…

Finally the correct occasion to play the new SunnO))) on @subpop.bsky.social Happy Hallo)))ween everyone!

State on Norbert Colon here. I have plenty of sweets and a sunny disposition. I might be playing SunnO))) but kids are more than welcome to knock on this door.

Is The Unutterable the best Fall album of the 21st century? Is it the best Fall LP full stop? Is it simply one of the best damn albums ever recorded? It's reissued today and Fergal Kinney looks beyond Pete Tong, ketamine and pumpkin soup to reveal its brilliance. thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

"Reaches transcendent chaos to crystalline electronic bliss.” The Quietus Today sees the release of 'You Run Through the World Like An Open Razor', the debut album by @bruiseblood.bsky.social. Sadly though, the vinyl will not be in the shops until the 7 Nov. rocketrecordings.com/products/you...

See @bruiseblood.bsky.social live in London next week: dice.fm/event/53nyqy...

Rest well Pete Knifton.