‘Looking at the billboard, we don’t understand what we face: is it a gothic ironist’s forbidden craft or the malevolent bludge of a context-collapse machine?’ Mark Sinker (@hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social) on Kingston upon Thames’s divisive AI mural, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

‘Was this a commercial art blunder, lazily unpoliced, or an art prank, bad by trolling design? “There’s clearly something political about it,” the manager of a local restaurant said, “but nobody knows what it is.”‘ @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social on an unsettling mural: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

‘Was the mural in Kingston ever meant to be looked at carefully, even? Or was it a bogus inkblot test intended to be misread in multiple ways?’ Mark Sinker on a disturbing festive mural: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

‘Imagine a whole army wading ashore at you through the snowmelt, writhing fused limbs and non-Euclidean torsos, every zoomed-in detail a hideous AI patchwork. The chicken-dogs were even worse.’ Mark Sinker on Kingston upon Thames’s festive AI mural: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

my LRB blog-post on the weird kingston mural: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

rolling stones day: these lads were all p silly ppl* but the noise they made is good not bad *(maybe not charlie RIP)

also ogunrecords.blogspot.com with which I am especially pleased thus far!

many happy returns @djpunctum.bsky.social !! ppl shd all be reading all your BLOGS: nobilliards.blogspot.com/2025/01/depe... uncorrectedboundproof.blogspot.com funthirty.blogspot.com (this is only some of them!)

the 1976 bbc horror series BEASTS: specifically this episode (= "Baby") (@bat020.bsky.social posted this image on twitter last year and the hairs on my arms stood up in shock-memory)

toying with the notion of blocking no one at all on this my professional thread -- like those guys in CHERNOBYL (2019) who open a door and find themselves straight into the blue hellish heart of the core meltdown what happened to those guys? it wasnt good! they literally melted themselves!

lol i wrote abt megacity one (here) vs the cursed earth (also here) https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/november/twitter-dispersed

my @4_columns review of the science fiction show at the science museum is up :) https://4columns.org/sinker-mark/science-fiction

it me (writing abt tove) https://4columns.org/sinker-mark/tove-jansson

i wrote about twitter for the LRB (where i've also written about nigel kennedy and the beano, so a pattern is surely emerging) https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2022/november/goblins-r-us

Hallo @thamesandhudson, I emailed your press office about a book I am meant to be reviewing -- but have had no response yet. Name as per this account, DM me if that's easier. Thank you! x ms

time to bring back BIG EGGO: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/december/in-beanotown

reupping my 1998 S&S piece on glam alongside @TobyManning's recent piece in new socialist: http://newsocialist.org.uk/children-revolution-glam-rock-and-70s/ https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/features/velvet-goldmine-todd-haynes-thriving-70s-glam-scene

my blog for the LRB (abt nigel kennedy and the odd politics of crossover music): https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/september/the-fifth-season

rip alan lewis: at the time i was no fan of where he took nme (long story for another day) but respect to a great editor at a string of titles from 70s-90s: for the book i interviewed him about black music magazine (and with hindsight shd also have quizzed him more abt kerrang)

my first piece for 4columns, on the V&A's alice show https://4columns.org/sinker-mark/alice-curiouser-and-curiouser

My first piece for 4Columns (on the Alice show at the V&A); retweeting before it leaves the front-page: https://4columns.org

a direct link to my first piece for https://4columns.org/sinker-mark/alice-curiouser-and-curiouser

hi @royalmailhelp -- i am trying to locate a parcel that arrived at heathrow from the US that has gone missing: i have a USPS tracking number but all USPS seem to know is that it was picked up at heathrow on 8 feb

As a big thanks for excellent help and good (disinterested!) advice supplied when my laptop was in a parlous state last summer, may I recommend https://x.com/ApplecoreServs http://applecoreservices.com for all yr mac needs

my guardian piece on culture present and future, and where the machines are taking us: if you like it please retweet and subscribe to my Patreon...

Patreon reboot due very shortly! (apologies for the big gap, it's been a long weird and difficult year) https://www.patreon.com/marksink3r

new patreon entry: abut where it's been and where's it going https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-is-back-44766063

just updated my reviews page: http://marksinker.co.uk/ahiddenlandscape.html

i wrote about writing about extreme metal: http://freakytrigger.co.uk/hidden-landscapes/2019/10/how-not-to-write-about-extreme-metal-probably/

It's been a while but here's the newest pod: in which @HSouthwellFE and @dubdobdee discuss @JonSavage1966's excellent chapter in the book, abt 60s teen beat mags and LSD: https://www.patreon.com/posts/take-drugs-kids-29508692

sad news abt andy gill and an upcoming ian penman collection reminded me how unmissable nme's silver screen film and TV section was in the early 80s, so i wrote about it (subs only for now: remember if you subscribe you help pay me to write more...

A reminder that by supporting this patreon you help support mark sinker's writing! So please do so if you can afford to :) https://www.patreon.com/marksink3r/posts

I reviewed Michele Kirsch's book CLEAN (subs only): https://www.patreon.com/posts/they-laugh-lot-26701753

Another book event: @owenhatherley will be asking me (=@dubdobdee) testing questions about topics arising at @HousmansBooks this coming Wed (3 April). Details here: https://buff.ly/2PnQwRM

Book event in Norwich this Tue (26 March), with @CharlesSMurray and Matt Worley, 6.30-8, crypt of the louis marchesi pub near the cathedral: https://www.facebook.com/events/362116931057109/?active_tab=about

a gratifyingly discursive review of A HIDDEN LANDSCAPE by eugene brennan in the irish times: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/a-hidden-landscape-once-a-week-review-between-the-lines-of-uk-rock-journalism-1.3826039

Big London launch party for the book: 19 March, Iklectic, SE1 7LG (nr waterloo), feat. me @dubdobdee, esteemed illustrator savage pencil & @rocking_bob: asking the questions = @HSouthwellFE https://www.facebook.com/events/358489934749708/

pod no. 7 unlocked! (but plz subscribe to the patreon all the same) it's @HSouthwellFE and me @dubdobdee talking abt music-writing (and motorsport) and money, a ticklish subject that will never not be important this side of the revolution...

we're back! @HSouthwellFE and @dubdobdee talk the precarities of music-writing (and motorsport) then and now: a nice long catch-up patreon podcast (subscription only) about what matters more than where the money's coming from: https://www.patreon.com/posts/why-do-we-do-if-24624209

v nice review by rupert loydell of hidden landscapes in IT online (an proud if uncapped print ancestor of which is discussed in said book): http://internationaltimes.it/always-about-ideas/

the book has been available in some places since early december, the official publication date is 7 feb, last night was the official launch, i don't make the rules ppl

I've been sending people to MIT to order my book -- i.e. the distributors -- but I think for the next couple of weeks you'll get hold of it quciker via the publishers: http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/a-hidden-landscape-once-a-week/ it is in some shops already! hunt around :)

new pod alert! @HSouthwellFE and @dubdobdee begin to pick apart the book itself https://www.patreon.com/posts/23220189

The book is out! Or anyway exists in book form, fingers x-ed in UK bookshops before xmas so hurry hurry hurry! or pre-purchase here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/hidden-landscape-once-week

the book is out any day now and here's a little piece by @dubdobdee to explain what's in it http://www.citypages.com/music/when-the-british-music-press-was-a-psychedelic-tunnel-to-another-world/501594062

i mentioned x.moore's 2-part nme piece on the miners' strike in my last patreon post -- and its unavailability -- and reader @RiverboatCapt kindly sent me a copy so here it is (subs only for the moment)! https://www.patreon.com/posts/x-moores-2-part-22373025

notes on militancy and collective thinking in the pop press in the 70s and 80s https://www.patreon.com/marksink3r/posts (no longer locked but subscribe if you like what you read)

Seven (long!) essays, 2 obits :( and five pods, with more to come shortly! Support the patreon: you know this is good content! https://www.patreon.com/marksink3r/posts

This has been up for a while but not enough of you have listened! @HSouthwellFE and me on how musicwriters deal with things that aren't rock or pop https://soundcloud.com/hazel-southwell-322745150/things-that-do-not-go-pop/s-yv8Gx