Great special from Dark Corners. I'd have Dark Eyes and The Return of the Vampire higher and much as I love Black Cat I'd go for Son of Frankenstein for #1, a sensational performance. Bela was a good leftie who had to leave Hungary for his part in the 1919 revolution. youtu.be/_EwZFIxT_0M?...

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

The new @socialistworker.bsky.social is out. #byebyestarmer

Not only is this fantastic in it's own right but it has absolutely enraged the hate filled waste of blood and organs that is Graham Linehan. Hope it doesn't aggravate his already problematic blood pressure to the point it does him a proper mischief. I really do. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

#MayDay2026 greetings to all workers of the world. "We have been nought. We shall be all. #HappyMayDay #InternationalWorkersDay #mayday #InternationalWorkersDay #MayDay2026 ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿✊

I am quite certain @zackpolanski.bsky.social is a better guardian of my Jewish values than Keir Starmer who said it was appropriate to cut off water from a people subject to genocide.

19/04/1943: The #WarsawGhettoUprising began, showing that even in the worst possible conditions, people can fight their oppressor. Glory to the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto. #NeverAgain Zog nit keyn mol performed by @russchandlermusic.com and Rachel Weston youtu.be/WGBxDQsLS9k?...

I feel desperately sorry for the folks who lost their jobs, but basically good riddance, BrewDog. Otherwise an encouraging article. wb.camra.org.uk/2026/04/10/d...

Is this the most "World holds it's breath" moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Is he gonna nuke them? #awholecivilizationwilldietonight

100+ anti-racists faced down 30 or so flag-shagging zeros in Sheffield today. Including a spontaneous song session from people going to the Session Festival. Now that's what I call folk music!

What a day - half a million strong! Yaxley-Lenon and Ketamine Elon and Trump and whats-her-name Badenoch and Farage and the rest of the sewer dwellers and flag-shaggers got no conspiracy theory to cover this - YOU are the ones who don't belong here. #TOGETHER we are DYNAMITE!

I'm playing a couple of sets at the Sheaf View this Saturday. Folks songs, protest songs, Music Hall, ragtime and all sorts of shenanigans. Kick-off is 8pm and it's free. The way I look at it is if you don't come you'll only end up wasting that time enjoying yourselves.

Had fun playing at the Together Alliance rally in Sheffield today. No messing about, everyone down to London for the 28th.

They'd bomb our cities and kill our leaders too if it suited them.

🏰 #SongSheetSaturday 🏰 "It's a Bit of a Ruin that Cromwell Knocked About a Bit" (1921) Performed by the incomparable Marie Lloyd, Queen of the Music Hall who brought this witty number to life, poking fun at England's crumbling historical sites with her trademark cheeky charm #MusicHall

Happy 100th birthday Kenny. I'm sorry you were so unhappy. You don't half cheer me up. youtube.com/watch?v=E86p...

You are incapable of feeling shame, Starmer so I'm not going to bother wishing it on you. Just go to Hell and take the rest of the Labour party with you. Respect to all the ordinary folks who put it on the line to challenge this disgusting law. socialistworker.co.uk/palestine-20...

Lots of Labour peeps furious that Lord Mandeldson did some insider dealing with Epstein over the 2008 financial crash. They'll livid when they find out Tony Blair lied through his teeth to get into a war that killed two million Iraqis in order to suck up to the US President.

I am currently reading Jane Eyre. I have never come across a fictional character I dislike more than St. John Rivers. More than Count Dracula or anyone from any Victor Serge novel I've read or anyone. What a KNOB.

Ripple in still water, When there is no pebble tossed Nor wind to blow. You who choose to lead must follow, But if you fall, you fall alone. If you should stand, then who's to guide you? If I knew the way I would take you home... youtu.be/QmMjY6tXaEo

I used to do fundraising for Haven House. And in the last couple of years I have learnt what dying looks like. I hate the Labour Party with every fibre of my being. I hope the bastards making these decisions die in fear and pain. They deserve it. socialistworker.co.uk/news/lack-of...

One Solution- #revolution

@alexcallinicos : US raid on #Venezuela exposes brutal lesson: socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...

On this day in 1890, writer and revolutionary Victor Serge was born. Originally an anarchist, Serge travelled to revolutionary Russia and became a Bolshevik and revolutionary socialist. Read more about his life here: bit.ly/3n17r8G

"In a statement the International Guild of Pigs and Associated Farmyard Swine or the GPAS pointed out that they are sentient and show signs of self preservation but that doesn't seem to get them many rights." I wonder what Claude tastes like barbecued?

A glorious rendition of Joe Morley's "A Georgian Breeze" from Chris Sands with Alexis Rogerson on fortepiano. Chris tells me this was one of the first banjo tunes he ever heard, it was played to him by the chap he bought his first banjo from! #ClassicBanjo #Banjo #BanjoFeed youtu.be/tQik4DcTckM

Your grandad shot at nazis taxed the rich and built the NHS You mum fought for equality and fairness, nonetheless we sleepwalked into the arms of bastard billionaires Now you hang flags from lampposts and mouth pantomime prayers

The best GSfC of the Gatis era? No arch winking at the camera or is it real or not Scooby Doo business. Atmosphere, character and chills. Nice one! A Ghost Story for Christmas, The Room in the Tower: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002p1v6 via @bbciplayer

Just had a chap in to fix my satellite dish. "To be honest" I told him "there's only one channel watch on this." His face split into a grin and he asked "Talking Pictures?" "Yes" I said to which he replied "I hear that all the time!" #TrueStory @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

It's that day when I share this song I produced for an organisation called No Glory a few years back. The donkeys are wearing poppies the lions should wear something else. youtu.be/DaMhuefxiNw?...

I have a proper pub gig coming up in one of Sheffields best pubs. A banjo picking evening of folk songs, music hall, protest songs, ragtime, dreadful jokes and some truly enormous choruses to sing along with! Saturday 29 November The Sheaf View, Sheffield S2 3AA Starts 8:30.

I hope the Devil waterboards you for all eternity.

You may be cool. But you will never be Pete Seeger in a suit playing long neck banjo against the New York skyline cool. #BanjoFeed

"Not every exasperated petty bourgeois could have become Hitler, but a particle of Hitler is lodged in every exasperated petty bourgeois..." Trotsky. www.thestar.co.uk/news/politic...

Douglass Crockwell, American (1904-1968), Machinists, 1932, oil on canvas, 121.9 x 91.8 cm, private collection

"Reform councillor Alan Preest, from the Forest of Dean District Council, branded the letters "childish" and "silly". "Russ Chandler, a banjo player resident in Sheffield branded Cllr Preest a "knob head..." Total respect to whoever is behind this! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Here's a treat - a brilliant new arrangement of Habanera from the opera Carnen by the classic banjo guvnor Chris Sands... #banjofeed youtu.be/-V8zeIhIlYk?...

God he gives more than his scripts deserve. #TheFilmCrowd

A wonderful canter through the films of Britain's first domestic horror star, the glorious Todd Slaughter from @darkcorners3.bsky.social A great revivalist of Victorian melodrama too. "Hammer Horror is his unofficial legacy" - I like that. Polish it off..! youtu.be/KdaFx2We_Gc

'The Drums of the Fore and Aft, and Other Stories' by Rudyard Kipling illustrated by Sarah Noble in 1912 #BanjoFeed

DAMN YOU @indicator.bsky.social FLASH SALES ON PAYDAY!!! DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!!

Having used Spotify for years have decided to pivot over to Tidal Not just because Spotify are evil but I am astonished at how much better the sound quality is. I didn't think I'd really notice but It's got so much more space and depth.

You may be cool but you will never be Lon Chaney Jnr in Wolfman makeup having a nap on an alsatian cool...

Blimey, what with Mandelson and Kirk my schadenfreude meter is off the chart today!

Hitler and his mob wouldn't have stood a chance if only we'd had sneering AI generated art back then.