Today is the 449th Anniversary of Black Shuck crashing into the service at St. Mary's Bungay, killing some people and then leaving to scratch the door of Holy Trinity Church Blythburgh.
Mat Pringle
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Really enjoying Jeffrey Lewis smashing through his record collection and happily pointing out all the unnecessary chaff along the way. www.instagram.com/reel/Dbdcwk8...
Jeffrey Lewis on Instagram: "Electric Prunes and Blues Magoos, same pattern as MANY 60s bands: pot, then acid, then "back to roots"! With, errr, mixed results. BUT the occasional REALLY cool deep bit....
431 likes, 41 comments - jeffreylewisband on July 31, 2026: "Electric Prunes and Blues Magoos, same pattern as MANY 60s bands: pot, then acid, then "back to roots"! With, errr, mixed results. BUT the ...
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I’m not sure I want to write it but @wrongtom.bsky.social could probably do a cracking job.
Stop Calling Me Frank@stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 5d agoYou have a month to write a 33 1/3 book about the album of your choice. Which record are you going to write about? (No previously covered albums allowed; new shit must come to light: see below.) (For all books in the series: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_1/3) (H/t @monostich.bsky.social
Glad the stupid football eventually ended so I could watch films again. A Swedish silent film from 1917 was the pick of the bunch so I’m about ready to enter the Odyssey discourse.
Letterboxd@letterboxd.social · 5d agoHappy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched 🤳
A thread of the many beastie hand rests of Stowlangtoft Church
Cath Palug was a gigantic cat of Welsh folklore that is said to have terrorised King Arthur. In attempting to straddle animal folklore, political commentary and pet portraiture I've updated the fable for contemporary times where Kath Palug feasts on the nationalists with their Temu England flags...
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
‘Mary Toft’ linocut digital rework. In 1726 Mary Toft sent the medical profession agog when she claimed to be giving birth to rabbits. In 2019 Andrew Michael Hurley’s folk horror novel ‘Starve Acre’ was released…
The 82-year-old psychedelic folk singer Linda Perhacs has been reported missing
Linda Perhacs Reported Missing
Linda Perhacs, the 82-year-old psychedelic folk artist, has been reported missing. Yesterday, Perhacs’ former manager Laurel Stearns posted on Perhacs’ Instagram page, asking fans for help in finding ...
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Time to replace the original vinyl box set I sold for £16 on Discogs in around 2003 because I was indifferent to the music and didn’t like the way the box sat with the rest of my records?
The Quietus@thequietus.com · last wk.@warprecords.bsky.social has announced a 25th anniversary edition of @aphextwin.bsky.social's 2001 album Drukqs—in quadruple vinyl, double-CD, double-cassette and digital formats. There will also be a limited-edition remake of the ‘chocolate box’ four vinyl record box set buff.ly/B71Rc8J
‘Mary Toft’ linocut digital rework. In 1726 Mary Toft sent the medical profession agog when she claimed to be giving birth to rabbits. In 2019 Andrew Michael Hurley’s folk horror novel ‘Starve Acre’ was released…
We've just made our first donation - £26 - to The Outside Project (lgbtiqoutside.org) from sales of our 40th Colossive Cartography, You Are Safe Here by @rachaelhouse.bsky.social Rachael is donating all royalties - £1 per copy - to this important cause. Buy the #zine for £2 at bit.ly/colossive40
Wild Twin @littletollerbooks.bsky.social Winner of the TLS Ackerley Prize 2025 ‘This exceptional memoir…richly detailed and observant.’ Adelle Stripe, Tribune ‘A surging heart-song…’Iain Sinclair www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
Wild Twin by Jeff Young - Little Toller Books
Wild Twin is the new memoir by the Costa Prize shortlisted author of Ghost Town. In this new book Jeff leaves Liverpool for the Europe of his dreams.
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Goya rightly gets a lot of love for his Black Paintings, this slightly earlier work is another of my faves, The Burial of the Sardine (1812–1819). Love how it grows increasingly sinister the more details you pick out, the masked revellers surrounding the grinning 'King of the Carnival'...
1) Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works… 2) Massive Attack - Blue Lines 3) Wu-Tang Clan - Enter… 4) Big Star - #1 Record 5) Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation… #5debutalbumsSF2
If you'll allow me a Friday Shop Plug. 🦇 Haunted lino prints 🦇 Books professionally defaced (with or without gilding) Reposting this message will relieve you of the curse you've contracted from reading it. Thank you... 👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com
Watched Walter Hill’s ‘Hard Times’ (1975) last night which is a trawl through the seedy world of depression era bare knuckle boxing in New Orleans. Bronson’s drifting quiet cat guy is great and I’m ready to watch more cinematic cat guys. Suggestions please.
And the process video just for the ‘is it AI?’ dickheads.
Mat Pringle@matpringle.bsky.social · 2w agoA digital colour rework of a linocut illustration from my #folksongfebruary series, ‘False Knight on the Road’. The traditional folk song plays out like a proto rap battle between a precocious immovable child and the devil disguised as a knight.
