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
This! Fabulous time on the road.
Scarred For Life@scarredforlife.bsky.social · 2d agoHome at last! I had an amazing time with @bobfischer.bsky.social in Colchester and Bungay over the weekend for our Folk Horror shows. The Black Shuck Festival was one to remember! Stay tuned for news of more shows later this year...
18 tickets left for the Norfolk show on Friday...
Scarred For Life@scarredforlife.bsky.social · 2w agoOne week to go until the Scarred For Life Folk Horror show comes to Fisher Theatre, Bungay, as part of the Black Shuck Festival! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social couldn't be more excited to come down south at long last! Tickets: bit.ly/4oakXI4
Bill Oddie. Yes, he was a Goodie, how I first encountered him as a kid. But he's also the man behind this wonderfully atmospheric beat ballad I stumbled upon on 7" in 1990. For fans of Bowie's first album on Dream, or Scott Walker, or Dusty Springfield's Where Am I Going. youtu.be/SfSG8dP4Yzo?...
Bill Oddie - I Can't Get Through - Parlophone : R 5433 DJ (45s)
YouTube video by John Manship
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One week to go until the Scarred For Life Folk Horror show comes to Fisher Theatre, Bungay, as part of the Black Shuck Festival! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social couldn't be more excited to come down south at long last! Tickets: bit.ly/4oakXI4
What he said - Ste and me are live on BBC Essex just after 2pm! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Essex - Listen Live - BBC Sounds
Listen live to Essex on BBC Sounds
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Scarred For Life@scarredforlife.bsky.social · 2w agoMe and @bobfischer.bsky.social are on BBC Radio Essex at 2pm today to talk about next week's Folk Horror show at Colchester Arts Centre - twiddle your dials and listen in! Tickets: bit.ly/47E8zsY
Always a pleasure to interview @marghjenkin.bsky.social ... grab the new @electronicsound.bsky.social for our chat about his synth soundtracks and the formative experience of listening to the Inspiral Carpets live at G-Mex on Radio 1 in 1990. Check out his new film Rose of Nevada too, it's ace.
It's been 42 years, and it's only just struck me that 'The Magnificent Evans' is a pun on 'The Magnificent Seven'.
The Scarred For Life Folk Horror Show 2026 tour is underway! Two weeks from today me and @bobfischer.bsky.social will be in Colchester Arts Centre, followed by Bungay's Black Shuck Festival on the Friday (this one's heading for a sell-out)! Colchester: bit.ly/47E8zsY Bungay: bit.ly/4oakXI4
I feel duty bound to point out there are only 30 tickets left for the Black Shuck Bungay show, and they're selling at a fair old pace.
Scarred For Life@scarredforlife.bsky.social · last mo.SUMMER MINI-TOUR! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social are bringing the Scarred For Life Folk Horror show to Colchester Arts Centre on 30 July, and Black Shuck Festival in Bungay on 31 July (this one's headed for a sell-out!) (1/2) Box office links below!
Behold, our first-ever London show! The Scarred For Life Folk Horror show is coming darn sarf to Cryer Arts Centre, Carshalton, just in time for Halloween! Join me and @bobfischer.bsky.social for a fun evening packed with rural horrors. Tickets: bit.ly/4tGK9qS
News Media: "England have won the toughest game in the tournament! It's Easy Street from now on! All the way to the final. To the WORLD CUP! A doddle! Give us a Bank Holiday, Prime Minister! We've done all the hard work - what can possibly go wrong now?!?!?" Middlesbrough fans: "Hmmmmmmmm..."
If you are a library user in Co Durham it’s on Borrowbox (great CFF review on the next page)
Bob Fischer@bobfischer.bsky.social · last mo.Grab the new @forteantimes.bsky.social! It has my latest Haunted Generation column, with thoughts on work by @willmac23.bsky.social @waysideandwoodlandrecordings.bandcamp.com @goldensamphireband.bsky.social @heartwood9.bsky.social @famishedforblonds.bsky.social @gidouille.bsky.social and more...
I'm very much a novice gardener, but I've had fun this summer building my own little dingly dell. My lillies have come up a treat.
If Donald Trump is overturning former Boro strikers' red cards, can he do Uwe Fuchs against Sheffield Utd in 1995? That was a nailed-on three points with Uwe on the pitch.
SUMMER MINI-TOUR! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social are bringing the Scarred For Life Folk Horror show to Colchester Arts Centre on 30 July, and Black Shuck Festival in Bungay on 31 July (this one's headed for a sell-out!) (1/2) Box office links below!
Found this weighty tome in a bus shelter book exchange in Middleton-One-Row, and it appears to have been signed by Stan Boardman (Buttons). The book is from 1978, so when did Stan Boardman play Buttons at (I'm guessing) Darlington Civic Theatre? Could be a mission for @pantosplaining.bsky.social
Fresh on the Haunted Generation website... some more of my older @electronicsound.bsky.social reviews, so hello @mikiberenyi.bsky.social @alisonodonnell.bsky.social @pefkin.bsky.social @bonfirehill.bsky.social @david-soulscorch.bsky.social and more.
Electronic Sound – Reviews (Issue 124)
“There used to be a song for every feeling / There used to be a lightbulb in the ceiling,” sings Miki Berenyi on lead single and opening track ‘8th Deadly Sin’. It’s ostensibly an ecological lament…
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Grab the new @forteantimes.bsky.social! It has my latest Haunted Generation column, with thoughts on work by @willmac23.bsky.social @waysideandwoodlandrecordings.bandcamp.com @goldensamphireband.bsky.social @heartwood9.bsky.social @famishedforblonds.bsky.social @gidouille.bsky.social and more...
I recommend anyone heading to the Edinburgh Fringe this year to check out Scott Turnbull's Surreally Good... I saw it at the Waiting Room in Eaglescliffe on Sunday and it's beautiful, strange, touching, funny and VERY Teesside. Chufty Badges all round. www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...
Today is the day for discovering that, in 1981, Tim Rice added lyrics to an instrumental track from the 'McCartney' album and gave it to Noosha Fox to sing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vmD...
NOOSHA FOX Hot As Sun
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Incoming August - the first Holmfirth Sound Society show! I’m putting on a gig with The Mistys and @pefkin.bsky.social both playing live. It’s at a very nice bar/gallery/restaurant where overlooking the river called Nowhere, and they’re very lovely indeed. Tickets here : linktr.ee/holmfirthsou...
Important historical question... after late-night BBC closedowns in the 1970s and 80s, what was actually shown on the TV screen overnight? Was a test card (with accompanying "light music") broadcast, or was it simply static and white noise until the following morning?
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a whopping 55% off in the Steam Summer Sale! 💀⛏️🩸 It's a great time to check out our folk horror adventure set on the moors of Northern England. The answers lie in the soil...
As an unreformed 80s/90s indie kid I'm thrilled to be the onstage MC for this Whitby weekender in October... Cud, The Wedding Present, The Primitives, Bis and more. It was brilliant fun last year, and it looks like this year's event is (checks notes, counts on fingers) 85% sold out!
I'd like to set up an Influential Think Tank, but all we think about is niche Beatles trivia, old episodes of Doctor Who and 1980s Middlesbrough matches. Which is pretty much all I do all day anyway, but it'd be good to put things on a formal footing.
My office for the afternoon. Agnes Hebbrom (1763 - 1825) will be around soon with the cake trolley.
I'm going to plug this again because I don't think enough people have heard an online radio show that has music from Basil Kirchin, Renaissance and members of the 1973 Girl Guides Association, plus Ross Millard from The Futureheads leading the jury in Crown Court. www.mixcloud.com/hauntedgener...
The Haunted Generation Radio Show #9
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