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Leeds via Leicester. Project Manager. Plays in bands. Ex-zine author. Too many 📚 and records. Cinema. Old stones. Big rocks. The Long Sixties. Punk. Modernism. Weird fiction. Noir. JG Ballard - you get the idea
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Change from usual posting but the punk band I’m in with @iamtheowwl.bsky.social just put a video out from our upcoming record. Do share on if you’re into this kind of thing. Watch ‘An Infinite Sphere’ - youtu.be/EYKgwt_V6h4 Band Instagram: www.instagram.com/mothernature... #hardcorepunk #punk

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This is great. Charlie Harper from UK Subs or Nigel Tufnel from Spinal Tap? Close your eyes and it’s impossible to tell them apart!

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Jo's Benches: The Bolt Thrower bassist travels the world comparing street furniture designs from different countries and highlighting some notable historical benches.

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Now reading - The Viaduct (1983) by David Wheldon It’s a short novel so I won’t post thoughts until I’m done, but it’s an irresistible premise: “A man, recently released from prison, is setting out on a journey, walking over the disused railway viaduct that spans his native city.” #booksky 📚

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Welcome to the biggest film obsessive I know @ronkirby.bsky.social Give him a follow!

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I used to love drawing but have never done it consistently But this eve I had an urge to sketch something inspired by one of my favourite novels, Patrick Hamilton’s Hangover Square, so I did and here it is Pen on paper sketch, just inverted colours #booksky #illustration

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In all my years of reading I’ve never come across a cigarette ad printed IN THE BOOK. Was this common practice!? #booksky

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I used to love drawing but have never done it consistently But this eve I had an urge to sketch something inspired by one of my favourite novels, Patrick Hamilton’s Hangover Square, so I did and here it is Pen on paper sketch, just inverted colours #booksky #illustration

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From my correspondence files: Nigel Kneale.

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Nice can of Mackeson stout - a classic ‘ghost brand’ (produced and sold but without advertising/promotion) Widely marketed to women as a less bitter alternative to Guinness, apparently the rise of lager led to its decline in the 70s? But there’s still clearly enough loyal fans to maintain sales

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Since going Vienna last year I’ve had a hankering for schnitzel with sauerkraut and erdäpfelsalat (Austrian style potato salad). All homemade and absolutely banging 🤷‍♂️

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This was a nice surprise - a 90s legal drama that felt like something Lumet might have made. More complex than surface appearance, Ebert’s assessment (“like John Grisham for grownups”) is pretty accurate. Also bleaker when watched in the contemporary climate… #filmsky

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A sight that will evoke memories of either joy or horror for Midlanders

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Our cat Hans looking very Jetsons / B52s #caturday

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The Royal Oak in Borough - maybe my single favourite Zone 1 pub

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Forget about the Oscars, only one award matters

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This is the future Wes Streeting wants

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Turns out “English eccentric” was always a euphemism for “quite annoying” The life of James "Jemmy" Hirst (1738–1829) from Rawcliffe, Yorkshire

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Kraftwerk looking like Angelic Upstarts

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Oh the indignity of it all

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Getting personalised recommendations via one of the best living film critics? 🤌🤌🤌👌👌👌 Will watch all these asap as I haven’t seen any - only vaguely aware of One Deadly Summer by its reputation

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