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Ben Graham

@bleeding-cheek.bsky.social

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Writer & arts journalist in East Sussex. Shindig! The Quietus. Author of A Gathering Of Promises, Scatological Alchemy, Amorphous Albion, Pink Floyd Are Fogbound in Paris, etc. Discordian poet. www.bleedingcheek.wordpress.com ko-fi.com/bengraham23

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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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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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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 · 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 · 31/05/2025

Turns out Eastbourne is a great place to be a tea-drinking magical anarchist discordian after all

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

"Like, Primal Scream need to totally apologise for telling people to 'Kill All Hippies' man. It's like a really heavy vibe to lay on us all and totally uncool, alright?"

Nigel Planer as 'Neil' in The Young Ones, playing guitar in the bath.

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

At Lewes Psych Fest last weekend, looking like an extra from the club scene in Coogan's Bluff

Photo of the author with psychedelic lightshow

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I must not buy as many old records this year / I just bought my first old record this year. Found in a Polegate charity shop that was otherwise pure Jim Reeves and Jack Jones gear. Includes Tiny Tim backed by The Band, the original version of 'My Friend Jack' and much Head-style montage freakery.

You Are What You Eat 1968 soundtrack LP sleeve

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

Went up to Yorkshire to visit my mum. Village now has a small 2nd hand record shop. Had a browse, got lucky.

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

Victorian artist and Golden Dawn occultist Moina Mathers (1865-1928) looking like she's just dropped a run of killer post-punk 7"s

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

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Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

The Orange Album. Perfect bliss on a damp November afternoon.

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