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this is mark sinker's professional account (trying since 2015 to be less unprofessional)
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London Review of Books
about 22 hours ago
‘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
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www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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Mark Sinker | Glitchcore Bosch
Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November a...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/december/glitchcore-bosch
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London Review of Books
3 days ago
‘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...
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Mark Sinker | Glitchcore Bosch
Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November a...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/december/glitchcore-bosch
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mark sinker
London Review of Books
4 days ago
‘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...
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Mark Sinker | Glitchcore Bosch
Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November a...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/december/glitchcore-bosch
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mark sinker
London Review of Books
5 days ago
‘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...
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Mark Sinker | Glitchcore Bosch
Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November a...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/december/glitchcore-bosch
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my LRB blog-post on the weird kingston mural:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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Mark Sinker | Glitchcore Bosch
Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November a...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/december/glitchcore-bosch
5 days ago
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mark sinker
🤯😇🎄blub wobs tree🎄😇🤯
10 months ago
rolling stones day: these lads were all p silly ppl* but the noise they made is good not bad *(maybe not charlie RIP)
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mark sinker
DJ Punctum
11 months ago
also
ogunrecords.blogspot.com
with which I am especially pleased thus far!
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KHANYA APHO UKHONA: OGUN RECORDS - A REVIEW
All the albums ever released on my favourite record label, reviewed by me (Marcello Carlin)
https://ogunrecords.blogspot.com
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🤯😇🎄blub wobs tree🎄😇🤯
11 months ago
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!)
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DEPECHE MODE: Ultra
(#569: 26 April 1997, 1 week) Track listing: Barrel Of A Gun/The Love Thieves/Home/It's No Good/Uselink/Useless/Sister Of Night/Jazz Thie...
https://nobilliards.blogspot.com/2025/01/depeche-mode-ultra.html
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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)
add a skeleton here at some point
11 months ago
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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!
11 months ago
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lol i wrote abt megacity one (here) vs the cursed earth (also here)
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/november/twitter-dispersed
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Mark Sinker | Twitter Dispersed
‘Thanks to the internet,’ the Bluesky user Bobby Bungus (...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/november/twitter-dispersed
about 2 years ago
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my @4_columns review of the science fiction show at the science museum is up :)
https://4columns.org/sinker-mark/science-fiction
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Science Fiction
4Columns arts criticism weekly.
https://4columns.org/sinker-mark/science-fiction
almost 3 years ago
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it me (writing abt tove)
https://4columns.org/sinker-mark/tove-jansson
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Tove Jansson
4Columns arts criticism weekly.
https://4columns.org/sinker-mark/tove-jansson
almost 3 years ago
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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
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Mark Sinker | Goblins’R’Us
In Revolution in the Head, his otherwise loving guide to ...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2022/november/goblins-r-us
about 3 years ago
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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
about 3 years ago
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time to bring back BIG EGGO:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/december/in-beanotown
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Mark Sinker | In Beanotown
Beano: The Art of Breaking the Rules consists of pages an...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/december/in-beanotown
almost 4 years ago
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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
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‘Children of the Revolution’: Glam Rock and the 70s
by Toby Manning // Glam, in all its queer, communal, prol...
http://newsocialist.org.uk/children-revolution-glam-rock-and-70s/
about 4 years ago
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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
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Mark Sinker | The Fifth Season
This evening, according to the Guardian, Nigel Kennedy wa...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/september/the-fifth-season
about 4 years ago
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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)
over 4 years ago
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my first piece for 4columns, on the V&A's alice show
https://4columns.org/sinker-mark/alice-curiouser-and-curiouser
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Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser
4Columns arts criticism weekly.
https://4columns.org/sinker-mark/alice-curiouser-and-curiouser
over 4 years ago
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My first piece for 4Columns (on the Alice show at the V&A); retweeting before it leaves the front-page:
https://4columns.org
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4Columns
4Columns arts criticism weekly.
https://4columns.org
over 4 years ago
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a direct link to my first piece for
https://4columns.org/sinker-mark/alice-curiouser-and-curiouser
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Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser
4Columns arts criticism weekly.
https://4columns.org/sinker-mark/alice-curiouser-and-curiouser
over 4 years ago
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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
over 4 years ago
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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
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https://x.com/ApplecoreServs
almost 5 years ago
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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...
almost 5 years ago
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Patreon reboot due very shortly! (apologies for the big gap, it's been a long weird and difficult year)
https://www.patreon.com/marksink3r
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Get more from mark sinker on Patreon
creating a history of the uk music press
https://www.patreon.com/marksink3r
almost 5 years ago
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new patreon entry: abut where it's been and where's it going
https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-is-back-44766063
about 5 years ago
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just updated my reviews page:
http://marksinker.co.uk/ahiddenlandscape.html
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A Hidden Landscape | Mark Sinker
http://marksinker.co.uk/ahiddenlandscape.html
about 6 years ago
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i wrote about writing about extreme metal:
http://freakytrigger.co.uk/hidden-landscapes/2019/10/how-not-to-write-about-extreme-metal-probably/
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how not to write about extreme metal, probably
[From October 2019] [This post originally went up at my P...
http://freakytrigger.co.uk/hidden-landscapes/2019/10/how-not-to-write-about-extreme-metal-probably/
about 6 years ago
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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
over 6 years ago
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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...
over 6 years ago
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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
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creating a history of the uk music press
https://www.patreon.com/marksink3r/posts
over 6 years ago
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I reviewed Michele Kirsch's book CLEAN (subs only):
https://www.patreon.com/posts/they-laugh-lot-26701753
over 6 years ago
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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
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over 6 years ago
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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
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Mark Sinker (with guests): A Hidden Landscape Once A Week
Мероприятие типа "Литература" в Город Норидж, Великобрита...
https://www.facebook.com/events/362116931057109/?active_tab=about
over 6 years ago
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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
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A Hidden Landscape Once a Week review: Between the lines ...
Mark Sinker on mind expansion and postcolonialism in UK m...
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/a-hidden-landscape-once-a-week-review-between-the-lines-of-uk-rock-journalism-1.3826039
over 6 years ago
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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/
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Strange Attractor Press : A Hidden Landscape Once A Week
Мероприятие типа "Музыка" в Город Лондон, Великобритания,...
https://www.facebook.com/events/358489934749708/
almost 7 years ago
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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...
almost 7 years ago
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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
almost 7 years ago
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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/
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‘Always about ideas’ | IT
http://internationaltimes.it/always-about-ideas/
almost 7 years ago
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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
almost 7 years ago
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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 :)
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A Hidden Landscape Once A Week - Strange Attractor
148mm x 210mm PB 392pp £15.99More →
http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/a-hidden-landscape-once-a-week/
almost 7 years ago
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new pod alert! @HSouthwellFE and @dubdobdee begin to pick apart the book itself
https://www.patreon.com/posts/23220189
about 7 years ago
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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
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A Hidden Landscape Once a Week
An anthology of conversations and essays, memories and co...
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/hidden-landscape-once-week
about 7 years ago
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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
about 7 years ago
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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
about 7 years ago
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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)
about 7 years ago
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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
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creating a history of the uk music press
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about 7 years ago
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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
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about 7 years ago
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