Bob Fischer
@bobfischer.bsky.social
Writer and mumbler. Haunted Generation, Fortean Times, Electronic Sound, Doctor Who Magazine, Shindig, Mulgrave Audio, Wiffle Lever To Full, Scarred For Life and Summer Winos. Summat to do innit
We had a blast at Switched On 2026. Many, many thanks to @rebeccasubphotic.bsky.social, David, Violet and team at #FlowergateHall, the performers, audience and stellar compere @bobfischer.bsky.social. Here's our @soullessparty.bsky.social theme captured by my [Jez's] sister.
Only 30 odd tickets left for this little slice of festive oddness at ARC in Stockton...
Just under four weeks to go till the SCARRED FOR LIFE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL tour kicks off! All through December, me and @bobfischer.bsky.social will be talking about stuff like Ghost Stories for Christmas, Arthur Fowler's breakdown, festive PIFs, and much more! Tickets: bit.ly/4ibJ7PU
The SCARRED FOR LIFE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL tour kicks off at Bradford's National Science and Media Museum on Friday 4th December! Join me and Bob Fischer for a night of festive darkness... Slade, Wizzard, and Mariah Carey are barred at the door. Tickets: bit.ly/3UvQji9
Kim Hellberg needs to employ me as a "Typical Boro" consultant. He's relatively new to all this, but after 45 years of bitter experience I can see these results coming a bloody mile off.
West Yorkshire weirdies! The @scarredforlife.bsky.social Christmas mini-tour is racing towards us, and it starts at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford on Friday 4th December. Tickets here... www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/cinema/scarr...
Thinking wistfully about the days when the most prevalent form of hacking was adding 'POKE 35899,0' to Jet Set Willy.
The Scarred For Life Christmas Special is a brand-new live show about the dark side of the festive season: ghost stories! Bleak soap operas! Victorian cards! And Xmas carols with death metal lyrics! Join me and @bobfischer.bsky.social on our December tour... Tickets: bit.ly/4ibJ7PU
For you Bob.. From last years Patchwuff launch in Stockton ❤️
Heartbroken to hear about the loss of Sandra Kerr. In 2015, I tentatively contacted her to ask if she'd like to be a guest on my old radio show. I was hoping for a ten-minute phone interview about Bagpuss and the folk tradition, but she drove down to the studio in Middlesbrough...
What an amazing couple of days! A big ol' thank you from me and @bobfischer.bsky.social to everyone who came to our Folk Horror shows at Burton and Carshalton, you were wonderful! And thanks to the brilliant organisers and tech teams at both venues for making us look good 🙏🏽
Come to Whitby's Flowergate Hall for Halloween this Saturday! A full 'At The Back Of The North Wind' night of splendid weirdness, including my exclusive countdown of the country's current Top 40 Witches. Good midweek placings for all of those pictured below, but who will make the final cut? 7pm...
TWO DAYS TO GO till me and @bobfischer.bsky.social roll in to the Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton, with the Folk Horror show. It's a fun evening full of witchcraft, rural horror and ancient relics (don't worry, that bit's just me and Bob)! Tickets: bit.ly/3P5MT36
Fellow Teesside weirdies! We are bringing the all new @scarredforlife.bsky.social Christmas show to ARC in Stockton on Wed 16th December, it's only just gone onsale, and it's selling really quickly. Join Ste Brotherstone and me for a nostalgic festive ramble... arconline.co.uk/whats-on/sca...
Scarred For Life Christmas Special - ARC | Stockton Arts Centre
From the BBC’s Ghost Stories For Christmas to The Box of Delights, the festive periods of the 1970’s and 80s provided a flurry of creepy TV thrills. In this brand new show, Stephen Brotherstone – co-w...
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A few days left to grab the current @forteantimes.bsky.social! My Haunted Generation column nods to @ghostboxrecords.bsky.social @grahamthorpe.bsky.social @claypipemusic.bsky.social @portlandvows.bsky.social @englishheretic.bsky.social @waysideandwoodlandrecordings.bandcamp.com @fjwords.bsky.social
@bobfischer.bsky.social described it as 'gently beguiling' in a recent @forteantimes.bsky.social review. I like that. 😊 @trevlad.bsky.social called it 'Regional, weathered ambient with old-road character and gentle English texture. Nostalgic and grounded.' I like that too.
This is a lovely album. I gave it a little write-up in my Haunted Generation column in the current @forteantimes.bsky.social...
Graham Thorpe (gribbles)@grahamthorpe.bsky.social · 2w agoFollowing @gehegedrei.bsky.social's kind play of 'Hello' from my latest album last night, I thought I'd mention there's still some CDs of Agatewards available if anyone fancies 45 minutes of gentle electronica infused with 1960's readings of Lincolnshire dialect poetry written in the late 1800s.
THREE DAYS TO GO till me and @bobfischer.bsky.social come to Burton! Get your robes ready!
Scarred For Life Books@scarredforlife.bsky.social · 3w agoFive days to go till me and @bobfischer.bsky.social roll in to the Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton, with the Folk Horror show. It's going to be a fun night, so pop along! Warning: may contain Bagpuss. Tickets: bit.ly/3P5MT36
Roughly once a year I remember with incredulity that, within the 21st century, shopping centres had bowls of carnivorous fish and people would pay to put their bare feet in them and have the dead skin nibbled off while daytime shoppers stood around watching.
Here's me and @bobfischer.bsky.social on BBC Radio Derby yesterday afternoon, talking to the lovely Ian Skye about next week's Folk Horror show at the Brewhouse, Burton-on-Trent! Pop along if you fancy a fun evening about rural nightmares... Tickets: bit.ly/3P5MT36
BOINK! This means our only current Folk Horror show with tickets remianing is at The Brewhouse in Burton-on-Trent next Wednesday, 28th. Just saying...
Scarred For Life Books@scarredforlife.bsky.social · 3w agoNext week's Folk Horror show at Carshalton's Cryer Arts Centre is SOLD OUT! If you're popping along, me and @bobfischer.bsky.social will see you there!
What happened to pub quiz machines? Four blokes huddled around a bleeping cabinet, pints in hand, all shouting "D! D! It's D - MARTIN FUCKING PETERS!" then groaning in unison when the bloke on the buttons goes rogue and presses "C - BOBBY CHARLTON". It all seemed to vanish overnight in about 2009.
CHRISTMAS TOUR! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social have got December wrapped up - tickets now onsale for our brand-new festive show! It's a selection box of dark Yuletide pop culture, with Box of Delights, K-9 & Company, Christmas ghost stories, Blake's 7, EastEnders, and much more! bit.ly/4ibJ7PU
The Scarred For Life Christmas Special tour has a new date! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social will be at Bradford's National Science and Media Museum on 4 December, remembering the spooky, bleak pop culture of Christmas past! Warning: may contain Emmerdale. Tickets: bit.ly/3UvQji9
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Dr. Sausages M.D.@drsausagesmd.bsky.social · 3w agoCue "At The Sign of The Swinging Symbol" and then read the review of my newest album by the chocolate fuelled Bob 'Faff' Fischer in this month's Electronic Sound mag. There's even a big panel of The Iron Man cover art! Thanks Bob. You're a gent 😉
