Tonight! Just ironing my vintage Boro scarf.

Bob Fischer@bobfischer.bsky.social · 4d ago

Whitby this Friday night, anyone? Regular haunto/folklore night At The Back of The North Wind returns, and I'm performing my psychedelic shaggy dog story Dreams Of Freeborough Hill. It features King Arthur, Comet Hale Bopp and the 1997 Boro team. Pay what you fancy!

Coming in 2027... #doctorwho #scarfolk

If you are a regional production company based in Wales who can knock up a proposal in two weeks, the job's in the bag. www.bbc.co.uk/commissionin...

New opportunity: Doctor Who invitation to tender

Deadline for initial submissions: 2 October

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What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you see it?

Alan Boon@wcba.bsky.social · 3d ago

What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you see it?

MIDLANDS WEIRDIES! The Scarred For Life Folk Horror show is rolling into Burton-on-Trent on Wednesday 28th October! Join me and @bobfischer.bsky.social for a fun evening full of rural nightmares and ancient gods. Goat masks optional. Box office: bit.ly/3P5MT36

Whitby this Friday night, anyone? Regular haunto/folklore night At The Back of The North Wind returns, and I'm performing my psychedelic shaggy dog story Dreams Of Freeborough Hill. It features King Arthur, Comet Hale Bopp and the 1997 Boro team. Pay what you fancy!

As a little bit of context of the passage of time in #70Up / #UpSeries, here's an overview of some of the television programmes that were around the time each one was broadcast. Seven Up! (5/5/64) was shown in the week of the penultimate ep of #DoctorWho's Keys of Marinus: Sentence of Death.

I don't want to brag, but you need to read @bobfischer.bsky.social review of Gilroy Mere's 'Furlongs' in @electronicsound.bsky.social Bob is a poet and the way he has written about the record is absolutely beautiful! www.electronicsound.co.uk/reviews/gilr...

We're thrilled to be appearing at Switched On 2026. Initial cracking lineup announced inc. @horrordwarf.bsky.social @eqp.bsky.social @scholarspeak.bsky.social and #Howlround M.C. @bobfischer.bsky.social ... with more acts to follow. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/switched-o...

NEW SEASON! If you're dreading your commute this morning, don't despair - here's @bobfischer.bsky.social and @georgyjamieson.bsky.social to take you through all the highlights you can look forward to on your TV this autumn. But where is The Kraken?? timworthington.org/2026/09/07/l...

Looks Unfamiliar’s New Season – Bob Fischer And Georgy Jamieson – The Kraken’s Big Night In

Bob Fischer and Georgy Jamieson are back for a chat about the NEW SEASON and all the exciting shows coming to your TV this autumn. But where is The Kraken??

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Grab your Kiss-Me-Quick hat and take a day trip to your nearest motorway service station as @bobfischer.bsky.social and @georgyjamieson.bsky.social join me for a Summertime Special. Rain, Radio 1 Roadshows and Roland Rat! timworthington.org/2024/08/16/t...

The Looks Unfamiliar Summertime Special: Bob Fischer And Georgy Jamieson – Why Would Anyone Want To Eat A Foot-Shaped Ice Cream?

In a special summer edition, Tim Worthington, Bob Fischer and Georgy Jamieson are all crowding into a sweltering local radio studio ready to take your calls and chat about some of the seaside tat a…

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In the new Radio Times... Screening 9 September on BBC Four.

Myself and @bobfischer.bsky.social are bringing the Scarred For Life Unplanned show to Burnley Library in September, and it's FREE! Bring your stories, memories and scars along to a lovely, big, unscripted group chat. Book in advance: bit.ly/4xAGTQg

NEW ON PATREON! A 28 page essay about the hauntology of Programmes for Schools and Colleges: the design aesthetic, the music, and more! And @richardlittler.bsky.social, @seanreynard.bsky.social and @bobfischer.bsky.social told me how these programmes influenced their work! Patreon link in bio.

Catching up with Clopper Episode 3, Through the Brown Window. Absolutely spot on👍👍 superb. “Fishermans acquaintance” @bobfischer.bsky.social @seanreynard.bsky.social @soullessparty.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...

Clopper Episode 3!

Podcast Episode · Listen Through the Brown Window · 19 August · 24min

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NEW ON PATREON! A 28 page essay about the hauntology of Programmes for Schools and Colleges: the design aesthetic, the music, and more! I had help with this one: @richardlittler.bsky.social, @seanreynard.bsky.social and @bobfischer.bsky.social told me how these programmes influenced their work (1/2)

Thanks @electronicsound.bsky.social @velomatic.bsky.social @bobfischer.bsky.social for including Revbjelde in their feature on 30 current tape manglers - what an honour! It's a fab new issue covering the evolution of tape looping with a Steve Reich cd + Laptop flexi disc inside subscriber copies

NEW SHOW! Myself and @bobfischer.bsky.social are bringing the Scarred For Life Unplanned show to Burnley Library in September, and it's FREE! Bring your anecdotes, memories and scars for an unscripted group chat with the Scarred For Life support group! Book here: bit.ly/4xAGTQg

Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social are bringing the Scarred For Life Folk Horror show to the Strange Days Festival of Forteana on Saturday 5 September! No tickets on sale specifically for our show, I'm afraid, but if you're at the festival, we'll see you there!

Currently fascinated by the Stones' Satanic Majesties period, and how you can judge by their expressions on the cover which of the band had already seen enough of the psyche-fuckin-delic revolution to last them a bloody lifetime. In order of make it stop-ness: Wyman, Richards, Watts, Jagger, Jones.

Trendy indie kids! I'm told this is dangerously close to selling out... Cud, The Wedding Present, The Primitives, Young Knives, Bis, Slime City and Mt Misery all playing an October weekender in Whitby. I'm MC-ing, but don't let that put you off. www.seetickets.com/event/only-a...

Been listening to a lot of R.E.M. recently. This is lovely, but I can't hear the refrain without imagining Jim Bowen at the end of Bullseye. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EHB...

R.E.M. - Country Feedback (Official Music Video) [This Film Is On Video Version]

YouTube video by remhq

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Don't suppose anyone has a physical copy of the Christmas Radio Times from 2001 and could send over a pic of one of the features, please? Asking for a friend.

I wake up today to find scientists are using sentient software to invent new viruses, and maverick tycoons are crashing rockets into the moon. The entire world has turned into Pertwee-era Doctor Who. I'm just waiting for that bloody spider to come out of the bathroom before I regenerate.

THE OLDEST WINGER IN TOWN. Come on headline writers, do I have to do ALL your work for you? I'm here for all your Fred Wedlock-related needs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Gloucestershire woman, 97, breaks record for oldest wingwalker

She has carried out six charity wing walks over the past decade.

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New issue on sale now! Blackpool's Gypsy queens; art of the Golden Dawn; golden age of flying saucer movies; Andy Burnham’s Holy Hand; Hackney goat sacrifice; when GPS goes bad; BuzzBallz booze bird; wheelie bin mysteries; Chillingham Castle; science of farts; Adolf the Swedish Dwarf and much more!

I’ve been making music with synthesizers for ten years, but next month I’m putting out an album with no synthesizers on it whatsoever. Wildlife is out on 7th August via @auralcanyon.bsky.social , on cassette tape and digital.

Found a spider in the bathroom last night, the size of my palm with legs like tree branches. Tried to capture it under a pint glass but it escaped into a previously-unseen hole in the skirting board that I assume it bored out itself. I'm now having every wee wearing Elton John-style platform boots.

I hope Christian Karembeu makes a sentimenal return to the Eaglescliffe Tesco, where he was frequently spotted in the early 2000s. I also once saw Alen Boksic in there, wearing double denim and buying a bunch of bananas.

Scott Wilson@scottwilsonecho.bsky.social · last mo.

🔴 ICYMI: A host of former #Boro players have been confirmed for the club's Legacy Game at the Riverside in October as part of the 150th Anniversary celebrations. Shaping up to be quite some afternoon... Read here...⬇️

Sad to hear that Raleigh is in trouble. Here's my Chopper, pictured in 1984. I bought it from my best mate Doug for £15 (he'd just got a BMX) and painted it dark blue, ruining most of my mum's best towels in the process. Dog: model's own.