Fascinating (and sad) Patreon post by @rockingbob.bsky.social on Count Binface's father. Turns out he was Tony Harvey from the 1960-61 lineup of Vince Taylor and the Playboys, who also played with lots of bands people who've heard my episodes on pre-Beatles UK pop will have heard of.

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Booking for free September tours of our #Forensics125 exhibition just opened and they're already selling like hot cakes. Have you got yours yet? #TrueCrime #Forensics #CSI #fingerprints

I made one of my first radio docs about the effect of that summer on writers. Ian McEwan was in south London imagining a family rotting into sibling incest in The Cement Garden. Stephen Poliakoff, spooked by the NF, wrote Strawberry Fields, imagining green fascists running guns up baking motorways.

Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's weird reading John L Williams' (v good) Heatwave, about the summer of 1976, and seeing temperatures over 32 described as so extreme that people lost their minds. At least it seems they invented road-building material that doesn't melt. And we don't have a ladybird plague.

Alonso out

Bloody hell, that looks like a Fallout 3 screenshot.

Richard J@preachypreach.bsky.social · 6d ago

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Blimey, Blackheath

Chelsea always like to maintain a surplus of mediocre French centre-backs, particularly important at a time when wildfires threaten supply

Nizaar Kinsella@nizaarkinsella.bsky.social · 6d ago

🚨Chelsea have announced the £52m signing of Maxence Lacroix from Crystal Palace. The centre-back, 26, signs a six year contract at Stamford Bridge. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Just trying to use a bathroom at a pub in Soho and someone has scrawled "flaneurs, flaneurs, flaneurs, flaneurs" over the tiles. It's freshly done so assume they write for the Daily Telegraph.

Join us for a talk about the radical London Local Government in 1980s London!

C20 Society@c20society.bsky.social · 2w ago

EVENT: Join C20 and author Hazel Atashroo as she introduces her new book ‘London’s Ours! Images From The Greater London Council 1981–1986’, in conversation with Rosamund Lily West. 🗓️ Wed 2 Sep 2026, 6.30pm 📍 Cowcross St Gallery, London + Online 🎟️ tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

I keep dreaming about rain.

Sad times as I take some old t-shirts down to the cloth recycling, some of which have seen little more than 20 years service. They fell too young.

Back in 1988 John Healy published his memoir The Grass Arena about his life as a wino turned chessmaster. This August the sequel, The Glass Cage, is published. To coincide with this @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social screen my 2011 documentary about Healy. Please share if you can ifi.ie/film/from-th...

First edition copy of Dracula, that belonged to Forrest J. Ackerman. Signed by Bram Stoker, Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, Vampira, Vincent Price, and many others. beladraculalugosi.wordpress.com/dracula/

Just realised that if you walk around holding your phone in front of your face, you can legitimately talk and sing to yourself without anybody thinking you are mad.

The ages of some “old” Scrooges: Albert Finney (Scrooge, 1970): 36 Alastair Sim (Scrooge, aka A Christmas Carol, 1951): 51 Michael Caine (The Muppet Christmas Carol, 1992): 59 Patrick Stewart (A Christmas Carol, 1999): 59 Johnny Depp, playing “young” Scrooge: 63.

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2w ago

First poster for ‘EBENEZER’, a new film based on ‘A Christmas Carol’ starring Johnny Depp. “Before he was Scrooge, he was Ebenezer”

Another cracker from Strange Attractor - International Freak: Robin Farquharson and the Dream of Psychedelic Revolt by Syd Rosen. www.strangeattractor.co.uk/publications...

International Freak — Strange Attractor

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Grudging admiration for the chap walking round Herne Hill in an Argentina shirt.

In 1938 Bill Brandt produced a fascinating book of photographs called A Night in London. These days you’d be hard pressed to find a copy for less than £2,000 as most copies were burned in a warehouse fire. Luckily there is a copy which can be viewed online here www.gorillasites.com/BillBrandt_A...

Andy Burnham claims to be northern, but is the first PM to have their name appear as a standalone word on the TfL map since Heath. So, trivia question, which is the only station in that map which is actually named after a prime minister?

I’m bored, when does the football season start?

Ffs missed the goal cos I was emptying the dishwasher.

America must be stopped

This is a wild piece of political trivia from the BBC about Burnham’s wife that I am shocked @popbitch.bsky.social hasn’t clocked yet…

Sad to hear this - Brian Case was the books editor at Time Out in his latter years, a legend who was generous with his time and experience, and very funny to boot.

Keiron Pim@keironpim.bsky.social · 3w ago

Me and my beloved Uncle Brian, c.1985. He sent me this pic a few years ago, explaining that it brought back fond memories of the day he first taught me how to light a crack pipe. Brian Case, 17.8.1937-13.7.2026. One of the UK's greatest writers on jazz and the funniest man I've ever known.

Me and my beloved Uncle Brian, c.1985. He sent me this pic a few years ago, explaining that it brought back fond memories of the day he first taught me how to light a crack pipe. Brian Case, 17.8.1937-13.7.2026. One of the UK's greatest writers on jazz and the funniest man I've ever known.

I wrote this cover story, talking to his colleagues and collaborators about the secrets behind Jack White's best albums from the White Stripes, Raconteurs and Dead Weather to last week's Frozen Charlotte. Great CD too.

Uncut Magazine@uncutmagazine.bsky.social · 3w ago

Shout it now! The new issue of Uncut celebrates “the honesty, the emotion… and the rawness” of Mr Jack White. Every print copy comes with a FREE art poster and 15-track Third Man Records CD. In shops Friday or pre-order now: bit.ly/UncutSept26 >>>

Me: why’s everybody posting Sam Neill anecdotes this morning? Oh.

Norway are fully hydrated

Farewell Ken Bates. Vivid memories of him coming on the pitch at Villa to try and quell a pitch invasion and getting picked up by the Chelsea fans who ran round the pitch with him on their shoulders before giving him the bumps.

My review of the really very good new Jack White LP, recorded with his outstanding current live band. www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/bibl...

Biblical visions, swaggering defiance and hard rock ramalam: Jack White's Frozen Charlotte reviewed! - UNCUT

Jack White's Frozen Charlotte blends hard-rock swagger and eccentric lyricism with the crackling chemistry of a seasoned live band

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