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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I always think I can do other stuff while printing something out. I never learn that something will always go wrong unless I'm giving the printer my 100% full attention the whole time.

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Proof copies of my two new books, with stunning artwork by Lisa Jayne Wylde. More info and how to buy at bleedingcheekpress.bigcartel.com - pre-order to get signed, hand numbered copies ahead of everyone else and, if you buy both books, use the discount code UNDERGROUND23 at checkout.

Proof copies of my two forthcoming novels, Electric Tibet and Savage Jubilee, showing off Lisa Jayne Wylde's hand-cut cover art.

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The Invisible College @jjstannard.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The Invisible College begins broadcasting via @slackcityradio.bsky.social this coming Tuesday at 9:30pm. Tune in and help us solve the problem of education.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A reminder that not all of us middle-aged (I prefer the term old) give a shit about Public Information Films.

Hadleigh Great Wood, one of the great play territories
of my life, became much darker when that nice lady from
Orchill Drive was brutally killed within it. Police cordons as
magic circle, detectives hidden in the undergrowth shout
ing at you when you accidentally discovered them, the new
2 When the four-minute warning system accidentally activates in your locality,
this fear was already greatly amplified without the Protect and Survive PIF or
any viewing of Threads.
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ghost zones a murder makes – all these were more powerful
a fear engine than any stranger danger PIF.
The long shadows of remembrance are different for every
one. What infects and inspires across time is not always
collective. While many of us children were co-parented by
the television screen, we did not all learn the same lessons.
We writers are always scratching out our haunted pasts
with crowds of black ink, but the seeds of our dread are
often ridiculously private and hyper-local. So yes, Lonely
Water is deeply, deliciously disturbing, but it really does
still have Jack All to do with Stay Belows

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The middle-aged "we are the haunted generation because we had scary public information films and serious stories about UFOs on the news" thing must seem pretty hollow to kids whose earliest memories are of lockdown and who now have headline news stories about how AI will probably wipe out humanity.

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I never hid behind the sofa from the Daleks, but I did worry about hearing that scary noise that meant the TARDIS was about to materialise in a room I was in, and not knowing where to stand so it didn't land on top of you.

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Either you like the idea of a novel about how the 1967 Human Be-In was an occult hypersigil to manifest the US Summer of Love or you don't. If the latter, I apologise in advance for banging on incessantly about my new book over the next few months. bleedingcheekpress.bigcartel.com/product/elec...

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Electric Tibet

An occult reimagining of the January 1967 Human Be-In in San Francisco that gave birth to the Summer of Love, Electric Tibet is the first book in the American Underground sequence of novels that toget...

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm self-publishing 2 novels on 1/14/27. Electric Tibet imagines the 1967 San Francisco Human Be-In as a magical act to manifest the Summer of Love. Savage Jubilee goes back a generation to explore the world of 1940s psychedelia. Pre-orders are now live at bleedingcheekpress.bigcartel.com

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Bleeding Cheek Press

Books, zines, and pamphlets by Ben Graham. Occasionally other things.

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My favourite film at age 20 was A Taste Of Honey, which came out 10 years before I was born.

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Introduce Yourself With 10 Acts You've Seen Live The Cannibal Swamp Rabbits Dandelion Adventure Stitched Back Foot Airman Gary Whitfield's Big Secret Truncated Spur Go Van Go They Came From The Stars I Saw Them Burning Idiot Noise The Blue Minkies The Shite Girls

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Every million-selling megahit from the 80s is basically a wildly overconfident singer who can do one note really well, a keyboard riff you can play with one finger and a drum machine / sequencer just running the preset factory demo straight out of the box.

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Buff Manilla has left the building.

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I've never seen a hummingbird hawk moth before, but saw two close-up while out and about in East Sussex yesterday. Beautiful creatures.

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Coming soon from Bleeding Cheek Press: the second book in the American Underground quartet. A novel of 1940s psychedelia.

Cover of forthcoming novel, Savage Jubilee, by Ben Graham, featuring an abstract mandala design.

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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

@bleeding-cheek.bsky.social occasionally of this parish came along to the Piper in St Leonards a couple of weeks ago and gave me this. Krumlin's legacy was well known to me at the time as the disaster festival's disaster festival, but cripes what a read. A How Not To guide par excellence.

A wonderful account of a festival in the West Yorkshire hills where everything that could go wrong did go wrong.

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

New issue of Shindig! out today with another cover story by me. I interviewed lovely Robyn Hitchcock about his new album, punk, psychedelia, family and his "write now, ask questions later" approach to lyrics.

Cover of Shindig magazine #176 with Robyn Hitchcock.

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Still disappointed that neither of Roger & Pete's 21st Century comeback albums was called 'Who New'

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The year I own the most albums from is the year I was born. I'm not sure if that says more about me or about music (as in, is it a coincidence that i was born in a peak year for the kind of music I like, or am I weirdly drawn to pop/rock that I'm just slightly too young to remember being released?)

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Election here a two-horse race between Lib Dems and Reform. Labour may as well not be standing: no leaflets, no posters, no presence at all. Same with Greens. Desultory Tory flyer appeared 2 days ago.

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Lord Jubalon Flux @lordflux.co.uk · 07/04/2026

Geographically specific unease

A small booklet I found in a charity shop entitled “Sussex After The Bomb”. It’s subtitle, above an image of the couple from When The Wind Blows, “What will happen to Newhaven, Lewes, the Ouse Valley, Seaford, Eastbourne and Brighton?”

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David Lance Callahan @davidlancecallahan.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Someone just uploaded this today. More folk-scifi than folk-horror, and featuring the ace Toni Arthur, ladies and gentlemen, Stargazy on Zummerdown in all its Dr Who meets the Archers, faux Shakespearian glory: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JPc...

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Stargazy on Zummerdown.

YouTube video by Simon Berberian

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Q: Which Liverpool post-punk pop band were all sad-eyed former policemen? A: The Teardrop Explods

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

11 years into being a published author (20 years if you count my first anthologised-by-a-major publisher short story), I've finally signed up for public lending rights. Library-derived riches here I come!

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

New School Guidance announces: Full bathroom ban. Full PE ban. Full school trip accommodation ban. Trans kids will not go to the bathroom, do PE or go on any school trips. 1/

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I often think about Then Jericho and that Big Area they found.

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

"Hello, low-income couple in their fifties, you're using less energy than this time last year, but nevertheless you've clearly had the heating on this month. What were you thinking? To teach you a lesson we're increasing your direct debit by £20 a month starting immediately."

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Great piece on a favourite TV show. Doesn't hurt that Michael Praed always looks like he's just waiting to take up lead guitar duties for The Mission.

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Leigh Wright @wyrddaze.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

My wife is dead, I am disabled and I have nothing. If you can, please help me and my Charlie cat get back to the UK. Signal boosts would be most appreciated. Thank you. wyrddaze.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/m...

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

New Year's Eve visit to Pevensey to wander round the castle ruins at sunset. One beer in the Oak & Castle pub. Back home to watch The Quatermass Conclusion on DVD.

Ruined Norman tower at dusk with bridge over moat. Lisa stood on the bridge.

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Life is long in the short term but short in the long term.

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Dave Lee @dave23lee.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Know anyone who loves dogs & SF? But them DogWorld! A mysterious plague has given dogs (and cats) human language. Inspector Hound, the UK's first canine sleuth, is sniffing out where it came from. And helping run a dog cafe. Available from books.by/attractor and www.amazon.co.uk/DogWorld-Dav...

Dogs talk.
Dogs run cafés.
Dogs break the law.

Your dogfriend or bitchfriend has gone missing? For a modest fee, Inspector Hound can sniff them out. The stench of dirty business in high places? Hound is your dog. (Police-trained German Shepherd, fully enhanced to Home Office Standard EHA9 under the Enhanced Species Act).

Hound is one of a kind, England's first canine sleuth, gazing out at the capital's mean streets through a greasy café window. This is a world in which the e-virus has given millions of dogs human language.

Hound’s simple find-the-missing-bitchfriend case sets him on the trail of much bigger mysteries–- where did the e-virus come from? Who started it all? And why are humans so stupid?

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Not sure why The Omega Factor isn't more celebrated in the annals of weird, paranormal cult television. Watching it for the first time on Talking Pictures TV and it's tightly acted, intriguing, well researched and bloody terrifying.

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Stephen Bradbury @squidtempest.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

This year's Yuletide number from Black Tempest is now available, the 4th year we have done this - it's becoming a tradition! All proceeds from this track go to Psych Against Cancer - please give generously. Yuletide Greetings all! weirdbeardrecs.bandcamp.com/track/solsti...

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Solstice Fire Black Tempest, by The Weird Beard

track by The Weird Beard

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

When I'm writing fiction i find it's best to write first, research after. Then rewrite to fit the facts if necessary, but let your imagination and subconscious memory have its head before you start regurgitating big chunks of Wikipedia into your story.

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Tax return done, lounge hoovered, christmas cards posted, now listening to The Mission covering glam-rock hits in their 'Metal Gurus' guise on the flip of their wonderfully overblown 1990 single 'Deliverance (Sorcerer's mix), packed with uncleared Excalibur and Kate Bush samples #christmasgothboss

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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

"Eloquence is a rapier. A comedian’s cut and thrust. Words beguile, they deceive, they flaunt, flatter and flounce. They furnish a room with furniture and then whip the carpet from beneath you. At any given moment they can open you up with the precision of a surgeon’s scalpel". Coming January 1st.

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

When Sam Cooke said we should "shake it like a bowl of soup" did he mean that, like a bowl of soup, we shouldn't shake it at all?

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Record Store Day is all very well but when is it hardware store day?

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Be honest: who amongst us hasn't fancied playing a cheeky rear admiral while laying a wreath in Llandudno?

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

If you think you're making a sequel then you've got another thing coming.

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Just watched The Butthole Surfers: The Whole Truth And Nothing Butt. A great documentary on an amazing band that really captures their disturbing, hilarious, chaotic psychedelic punk spirit and is unexpectedly moving as well. Catch it if you can!

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Apart from everything else wrong with Musk's post, T*mmy R*bins*n isn't a "hard man", he's a soft Gollum constantly whimpering about his precious that he thinks was unfairly taken from him.

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

25 years ago today I was at Motorhead's 25th anniversary show in London. Is 2000 really as long ago as 1975 was from then?

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Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

1. mortal 2. lethal 3. venomous 4. virulent 5. baneful 6. murderous 7. fatal Seven deadly synonyms.

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Happy 68th birthday Julian Cope! The first part of my epic celebration / exploration of his transformation from psychedelic pop star to shamanic archdrude at the turn of the 90s, and what it meant to me, is in issue 4.1 of Undefined Boundary zine temporalboundary.bigcartel.com/product/unde...

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Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion Volume 4/Issue 1 PREORDER

PLEASE NOTE: This is a presale and copies will be posted when available in October. If you have other items included in this order they will be...

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

It's parkin season in Morrisons!

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The sad passing of the great Danny Thompson made me remember being at Way To Blue, the Nick Drake tribute concert at Brighton Dome in 2010, with Danny leading the house band and singers including Robyn Hitchcock, Vashti Bunyan & Green Gartside interpreting Nick's songs. Such an incredible night.

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