Indie presses speaking at our publishing panel: Bearded Badger Publishing! 🦡 Their books: The Pachinko Parlour, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel and Step Forward, Harry Salt. 🧂🦩 Plus, poetry chapbooks from Midlands writers! Find out more about Bearded Badger and our panel HERE ⬇️⬇️⬇️ bit.ly/ARTPWEM

Home today from a fantastic 5 days and nights at Bearded Theory festival. Loads of bands I'd not seen before and some old favourites too. Blue skies galore.

One of the best books of the year! Buy it, read it, come to this!

Kick the Latch reads like dozens of short story snippets that gradually come together as a life story. A tough life it can be too. Sharp, restrained and pleasingly unclear on fact vs fiction. It made me read it quickly. #Booksky

Love this addition to the street name sign on Park Drive in the West End of Glasgow. It's by A Sign Of Humour, and should be read while doing your best Phil Daniels impression! #glasgow #streetart #blur #parklife #sign

Another cracking day out at Get Together festival yesterday. Monks were a standout and Pys Melyn among the good finds. Stealing Sheep were fun with almost chaotic choreography.

Looking forward to today's Sheffield trip for Get Together festival. A few must-sees but always an opportunity to stumble across some new stuff too

My #SOTW this week is by Walt Disco "A Coup de Foudre", which I now understand refers to love at first sight. youtu.be/I_YpiJHKAAQ?...

Really good small venue triple bill last night. Happy to catch Sylvies Head on one of their first few UK gigs.

Make a band out of two others? Inspiral Carpet Shop Boys Soul to Soulwax Spice Girls Aloud Bentley Rhythm Ace of Base Sadly, there's more where these came from!

Some #streetart in #Brussels because why not? It's always a good time to post pictures of quality street art.

Latest reading. This was more about character than plot twists, it's restrained and elegiac. There's a real sense of the importance of community in managing lifes ups and downs. #Booksky

My #SOTW this time is by Immersion "We Don't Need Your Validation" The duo features Colin Newman from Wire. youtu.be/mk_kxacpXeI?...

Manchester Popfest was already going to be excellent this year, and they've now added BMX Bandits. There are loads of new bands I'm looking forward to discovering as well as Gina Birch from Raincoats, Trash Kit making a welcome return, & The Cords. June 26th - 28th, well worth £66 for three days.

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You’re going to need something to wear when summer shows up… Organic cotton t-shirts, bold illustrated prints, designed by me in Manchester. Have a look www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/t-shirts

Not sure the pic and headline quite go together, bit maybe they do.

Red Cavalry - your favourite band that only you know Stream our new single Tonight right now Link in the thread

Latest library pick was a curious one. Raw fact-based fiction interpreting the final days of Richie Edwards. I'm not enough of a Manics fan to know what's true in here but it's an interesting premise. #Booksky

A late #SOTW for me- Kurt Vile "Chance to Bleed" youtu.be/FDq6YTeldcY?...

Stay whimsical!🐧 #StreetArt #southdakota

Not your standard dingy underpass. Colourful bit of official #streetart celebrating some of the musical heritage of #Birmingham (UK).

Inspiral Carpets " 96 Tears" Previously by ? and the Mysterians #5CoverSongsAndThe #MusicChallenge youtu.be/A9F0qOqg71U?...

Buzzcocks outside the Free Trade Hall, corner of Peter St and Southmill St. 1978. Photo by Fin Costello.

E 124 #streetphotography #photography #streetart

Brilliant new review of Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel on Amazon. ‘Blackly comic, trippy, inventive work of genius.’ I’ll take that! @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social A brand new edition is available here - www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...

Decent first announcement for @rockawaybeach.bsky.social a couple of days ago. Some new names for me to investigate too.

"The streets, backs, courts, and beaches are not just places to play; they’re the crucibles where football’s future is forged" Out 17 August via Pitch Publishing 'Street Football: The Real Grassroots of the Beautiful Game' stanchionbooks.com/products/str... 📸 Brian Barlow

Another unconventional tale from Rónán Hession, with a mountain being the catalyst for changing lives. Mystery and some dark humour here. All three of his novels hit the spot for me #Booksky

Contemporary #Nottingham in the spring sunshine

#SOTW Mouth Ulcers- Closer to You A bit of 'Modern goth', or maybe just goth youtu.be/MMzEwrMa2Sk?...

Keshed by @stuhennigan.bsky.social reviewed in @irishtimes.com by @andrewgallix.bsky.social 'Heartbreaking yet exhilarating ... Hennigan's unflinching fiction debut channels the entire history of British kitchen-sink realism.'

Is the Northern Premier League fit for purpose? nowtmuchtosay.wordpress.com/2026/04/18/i...

A matinee gig with a beer festival attached. Fine way to while away a Sunday afternoon. @thevelocettes.bsky.social rounded things off nicely.

Well it was a disappointing football day but things started well with Newcastle indie-noise sorts Baker Island @theoddies.bsky.social

#SOTW this wek is Gretel "Drunk on the Ballroom Floor". I was drawn in by the title initially youtu.be/JaWK49pRNuc?...

The past lives in Bergamo, Italy #AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOld #travelphotography #italia

Streets of Belfast Fujifilm X-T5 with Viltrox 27mm f1.2 Pro lens #fujifilm #viltrox #streetphotography #urbanphotography #blackandwhitephotography #lensculture #streetpic #photographersunited #photographersofbluesky #bnw #monochrome #belfast #streetart #graffiti

Howww much? Had a nosey at ticket prices for The Strokes. Bit high end!

This week in 1990. @rideox4official.bsky.social at the now defunct Derby Assembly Rooms. #TicketStubWed

Spot on review of a recentish gig "... a Daytime Easter Weekend Riot in Derby" share.google/2cdisCQxT9K4...

Happy birthday to the Peak District National Park, designated #otd 13 April 1951. Originally 555 square miles of moor and valley, the 'great north roof of England.' It would never have happened but for one woman... 1/4

The DIY scene, Inellan #Argyll

The KLF filming their 'Ancients of Mu' video on Islay in 1991. Pic: Andrew Catlin

🎫 wegottickets.com/f/15655/ #Leek #staffordshire #musicsky

Blonde sandstone tenement on Highburgh Road in the west end of Glasgow. Love those curved bay windows. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #tenement #hillhead

Welcome blue Clydeside skies on our short trip to #Argyll

My #SOTW this time is Liz Lawrence "Black Ulysses". A record about grief youtu.be/shP3ZpDxssY?...

If you see this, post a picture of someone who is all mouth and no trousers

Had an overnighter in the "worlds narrowest hotel" 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿