New favourite article of clothing just dropped. #HeyMrSackWontYouFollowMeDown

Dominic Sandbrook's latest TV series will examine playground bullying in the seventies and eighties and is provisionally titled "Just Look At Me Now You Bastards"

Absolute Beginners is a magnificent book. Alexander Baron’s The Lowlife is another fine entry in the list of bleak postwar London books. From a slightly earlier period, I’d also recommend Patrick Hamilton’s Hangover Square.

Really enjoyed talking to @alexvont.bsky.social about the novel. Do have a listen. And if you’d like to hear my thoughts on the film I will also be on Front Row tonight to review it.

No one has ever been more wrong about a book than Dominic Sandbrook is about Absolute Beginners, in Never Had It So Good. And that’s all I have to say.

I've listened to this a few times now and it's really lovely...💙💙💙

This changes everything about the Penda's Fen discourse.

Oh, yes nice thread - do you mind if I add something I wrote nearly 20 years ago? boxd.it/8tNBvD

This thread about Edge of Darkness and the clever comments made politely by bright and funny people is what I always hope the social media experience will be like, but which happens oh so rarely. You're great. Thank you. Have a biscuit. x

I watched this series for the first time ever last month and was floored by it. Just found this background stuff/commentary on Youtube.

This thread about Edge of Darkness and the clever comments made politely by bright and funny people is what I always hope the social media experience will be like, but which happens oh so rarely. You're great. Thank you. Have a biscuit. x

WE GOT US A READER! A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. This week: Country and West Kirby, part one. Fabulous LPs by the likes of Liz Anderson, Moe Bandy, Dallas Frazier, Freddie Hart and (of course) Elvis Costello. www.patreon.com/backlisted

"It’s hard to imagine such an involved drama being so popular in the present day. Viewers’ expectations have changed; it would also be considered too slow, too wordy, too un-diverse for a contemporary audience" As lauded by our @benfinlay74.bsky.social👇 thelionandunicorn.com/2025/11/22/l...

Feeling distinctly under the weather today, so RM will have to manage without me. But I've watched two Baskervilles (Cushing and Rathbone) and read another marvellous, thoughtful and funny piece from @iammilliam.bsky.social which has made me feel better. Sign up immediately.

Great stuff from Andy. C&W is always a sensitive subject for Irish people. It's like lederhosen and oompah bands are for Bavarians. So it's good to see someone exploring the landscape with fresh eyes, finding the gems which not even the industrialisation of the genre can completely crush.

WE GOT US A READER! A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. This week: Country and West Kirby, part one. Fabulous LPs by the likes of Liz Anderson, Moe Bandy, Dallas Frazier, Freddie Hart and (of course) Elvis Costello. www.patreon.com/backlisted

We should say this.

Just finished watching Edge of Darkness for the first time since 1985 and now feel very melancholy. 40 years ago, I thought there would be more drama series like it in the future, the weirdness of cult TV spliced with the intelligence and depth of the best drama. Turned out there was only that one.

Yes please! (coming in April) monorailmusic.com/product/some...

For Backlisted to take an extended hiatus (at least) is almost too much to bear at this moment. The awfulness of the past 10 years can't be denied, and yet Backlisted has also existed during that time. A true boon and balm.

You could start here. And there is great grandeur in this episode. But you could also start anywhere. @backlisted.bsky.social is a real national treasure, I don't say that lightly. If you need inspiration to read, you'll always find it here. Bravo Andy, and all the team. Heroic, heroic stuff.

False modesty is bullshit. So this is an exceptional episode of the podcast I have poured my heart, soul and brain into for ten years. It was a privilege to discuss C.S. Lewis with Rowan Williams, knowing a) you'd get to hear it and b) nobody does it like we do. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/257...

That’s it for now. After ten years, we are taking a long break. But our Patreon is alive and well and full of great stuff. Join us there for new writing, chat and online events, plus 250 ad-free shows and 150 episodes of Locklisted. www.patreon.com/backlisted

New episode up now. Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis, with guest Doctor Rowan Williams. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/257...

One day, quite suddenly, when you're not expecting it, I'll take a hammer from the folds of my dark cloak and crack your little skull.

Keep your eyes peeled for a tour announcement from Peter Hook's Backlisted, restaging classic episodes with only one original member.

Tune in to @backlisted.bsky.social tomorrow everyone, the decade finale is magnificent.

Tomorrow we release the final episode of Backlisted for the foreseeable future.* After ten years, it's a very odd feeling. I am looking forward to spending more time with my books and fewer times on social media. * Boats against the current, we beat on via Patreon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmQK...

I’m writing about Julie Covington’s Only Women Bleed, a very fantastic record. It sounds quite like Hey Jude, Isn’t It a Pity (obviously) and Lou Reed’s Sad Song, which given that John Cale arranged it is veh amusing. What other stirring ballads have that 1st, 2nd, 5th chord sequence at the end?

What a joy, to have been even a small part of this! It’s all been a lark.

Tune in to @backlisted.bsky.social tomorrow everyone, the decade finale is magnificent.

End of an era. Backlisted is the good stuff. Well done, all.

Backlisted always pays guests.

“Ten years. 250 Podcasts. That was always the plan.” Well done Andy Miller. Much love. Hopefully see you soon.

Tomorrow we release the final episode of Backlisted for the foreseeable future.* After ten years, it's a very odd feeling. I am looking forward to spending more time with my books and fewer times on social media. * Boats against the current, we beat on via Patreon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmQK...

I have always depended on the cruelty of friends.

I have always depended on the cruelty of friends.

The last time I had a dust-up on Bluesky, I wound up in A&E. And as I waited to see a doctor, my phone was filling up with strangers telling me I'd been asking for it.

A little bit pleased with this one! 💚🩵💙

This is SO FUCKING GOOD. I am obsessed.

This version of The Move’s Brontosaurus, produced by Bob Ezrin and sung by Tim Curry, sounds exactly like The Move’s Brontosaurus produced by Bob Ezrin and sung by Tim Curry i.e. a Very Good Thing. 🦕 youtu.be/2WCXngx_MoM?...

It was my extreme honour to step in for Philip Larkin, who was unavailable, and speak a key line from This Be The Verse on the GREAT new single from @simonloverules.bsky.social. Preorder his new album safe in the knowledge that I appear only on one track. @backlisted.bsky.social

And further heartfelt thanks to @drlauravarnam.bsky.social for making me this beautiful blanket, which sets off Keith's book perfectly, looks stunning on the end of the bed AND is lovely and warm. It's a - yes! - design for life. 💚🙏💙

Finished 168 Songs of Hatred and Failure by @keithcameron2.bsky.social. Real, heartfelt thanks to him for giving the Manics back to me. I have picked up the conversation where I left off (Journal for Plague Lovers FWIW). If you are a lapsed fan, you need this book. 🙏

Once again, we have given new life to an old book. @backlisted.bsky.social @regretteruane.bsky.social

Tickets and info for the Jakefest celebrating Jake Thackray in London on 15th August now available. Spread the word! www.ticketsource.co.uk/jake-thackra...

Once again, we have given new life to an old book. @backlisted.bsky.social @regretteruane.bsky.social