Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 28/09/2026Did anyone even get an Elton John ticket? I was on there a second after 9am and all that was left were disabled+companion ones, which are now also gone! Didn’t think I’d get a ticket but still. 000
Reposted by Ben MackenziePeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026My latest newsletter is a friendly bit of political advice for Democrats.stringinamaze.netDon't Surrender On Trans RightsMany Democrats are running scared on trans issues. They shouldn't be. 393844881
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 20/09/2026If I was Prime Minister I’d rename the House of Lords to the House of Funkadelic. 031
Reposted by Ben MackenzieBilly Domineau 🇵🇸 @billydomineau.bsky.social · 11/09/20269/11 is a great day to reread my viral Seinfeld spec and to remember I’m one of the most talented TV writers available to write for your show. I have $225k in student loans and my family is about to pay OOP for my dad’s post-stroke rehab, so you’d better believe I’m gonna give you my best!avclub.comRead This: A darkly comedic Seinfeld spec script set days after 9/11Read This: A darkly comedic Seinfeld spec script set days after 9/11 7250121
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 11/09/2026One of my favourite pieces of writing regarding 9/11 comes from @bowiesongs.bsky.social and his piece on David Bowie’s cover of America, performed at the Concert for New York City, and which I think about a lot but especially today. bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/a...bowiesongs.wordpress.comAmericaAmerica (Simon and Garfunkel, 1968). America (1-2-3, live, the Marquee Club, 1967). America (Bowie, the Concert for New York City, 2001). America (Bowie, Robin Hood Benefit, 2002). Those towers wer… 031
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 08/09/2026youtu.be/iHm7uIC84YM More rock frontmen should be 1) dressed nicely 2) on absolutely ludicrous amounts of stimulants 3) about 5 seconds from killingyoutu.beDr.Feelgood 【She Does It Right】YouTube video by wa e 020
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 31/07/2026Playing my latest charity shop find. Not what I’d usually expect to have found in Huntingdon but I had to get it! 140
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 13/07/2026Early digital recording was the least sexy era of music. George Michael’s I Want Your Sex just sounds like toy keyboard demo tunes 010
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 15/06/2026Sitting in the choir seats at the Albert Hall, so close enough to pick up Internet Will Happen, which I’m really, really hoping is Elvis Costello and his band’s backstage WiFi hotspot with the worst pun name on Accidents Will Happen imaginable 110
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 04/06/2026£20 to sit this close to Bill Bruford tonight is what I call a fantastic deal 020
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 28/05/2026Two listens into the new Boards of Canada and it’s very, very good. Not as industrial or bleak as some of the early impressions suggested but it definitely feels like it’s stepping back into the same thematic vein of Geogaddi while using a new sound palette 010
Reposted by Ben MackenzieDavid Wynne @davidwynne.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check. 146043560
Reposted by Ben MackenzieUniversity of Hertfordshire UCU @uhertfordshireucu.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Petition to save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire: c.org/9JLppW5tMSc.orgSign the PetitionSave the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire 094107
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 18/04/2026Running into the streets tonight, proclaiming that our long international nightmare of a 20-ish year, almost unbroken run of poor-to-middling Madonna singles is finally over 000
Reposted by Ben MackenzieThe Onion @theonion.com · 15/04/2026Poor Sleep Linked To Gong theonion.com/poor-sleep-linked-to-g… 6584891541
Reposted by Ben MackenzieEize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 09/04/2026"The Scottish island of Summerisle, home of the best fruit in Britain. The first thing you notice? No churches. The farmers here practice a fascinating form of pre-Christian worship…and I just learned I'll be playing the lead role in their annual May Day festival. First stop: my costume fitting." 3943301165
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 08/04/2026I for one am glad we’re not all going to die in horrific nuclear hellfire before we find out what this Boards of Canada stuff is about 030
Reposted by Ben Mackenzievineyille @vineyille.bsky.social · 12/02/2026More songs should start like Monkey Gone to Heaven. "There was a guy." Ok I'm listening, what's this guy up to 331269265
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 15/02/2026They famously did - during this period in the mid 1990s Elton and Luciano could frequently be seen eating out of a bucket, running around a big field and defecating in full view of passing motorists and pedestrians 020
Reposted by Ben Mackenziecleo @cleoseni.com · 14/02/202669 pieces inspired by love songs // @themagfields.bsky.social 24619
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 29/01/2026Sitting at my grandparents house watching daytime TV. A quiz show hosted by Clive Anderson has just come on and my first thought was “Wow, he’s aged well” before I realised that for some reason they’re showing a 20 year old episode of whatever this is 000
Reposted by Ben MackenzieNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Did Maine Elect the Wrong Collins? Rockstar Phil would at least admit that there must be some misunderstanding in Minnesota. 2246726
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 21/01/2026Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. “But almost best of all was Sweet Little Sixteen.” 110
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 21/01/2026Think my comment on Rate Your Music calling Diamond Dogs “Bowie’s gayest album” got deleted. Obviously they don’t realise that’s a huge compliment 020
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 20/01/2026Not sure how I’ve heard Let’s Dance so many times and yet only upon this listen has the line “Let’s dance, for fear your grace will fall” brought the image of David carefully dancing with an Archbishop to mind 000
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 19/01/2026Have finally gotten to the 2018 re-do of Never Let Me Down, which takes a pretty dismal 80s Bowie album and turns it into an honestly pretty great 90s Bowie album. It sounds like it should have come out in the late 90s when Hours did. I guess that I'm just a sucker for Reeves Gabrels guitar squeals? 030
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 18/01/2026Giving Bowie's Hours a relisten - it's just not very good, is it? Outside was an incredible burst of creativity, Earthling was slightly patchy but with huge highlights, then Hours comes and gives us about 40 minutes of dull adult contemporary with The Dreamers put on the end to give it a little edge 000
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 17/01/2026Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) is a lot like Low or Heroes conceptually, but instead of the second side being instrumental/experimental the second side's concept on Scary Monsters is "being good and yet still somehow unsatisfying" 010
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 17/01/2026Going to be tweeting a lot of my odd Bowie opinions in the next few days I feel so buckle up for that. 020
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 17/01/2026Why did Harry Maslin listen to Station to Station, which he produced spot on in 1976, and think "I could do better in 2010" and then he just kinda removed the vocal effects from Bowie's voice and made it uncomfortably dry sounding. People rag on Visconti's 2017 Lodger (which I like) but ignore this? 010
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 16/01/2026Too much Bowie stuff now takes the attitude that nothing he did between about 1980 and 2010 is worthy of much discussion. I don’t have a solution to this, I just wanted to vent. 030
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 12/01/2026Absolutely horrible to hear the news about Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin (ex-Black Midi). Never got to see them live while he was in the band but from live recordings the dual-guitar attack was absolutely fierce. Rest in peace. www.instagram.com/p/DTaf9tJiAoL/ 073
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 11/01/2026Remembering the time I was so bored working a retail job I spent about 4 hours thinking about the Mr Show Pallies sketch youtu.be/Svr6Zl2QgX8youtu.beMr. Show - PalliesYouTube video by Laser Time 000
Reposted by Ben MackenziePhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 09/01/2026what fresh hell is this on the streets of brooklyn? 3852529333
Reposted by Ben MackenzieDom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 10/01/2026A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand 43883231016444
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 09/01/2026Listened to new Morrissey single out of morbid curiosity - sounds like a bad Brosnan-era Bond theme 25 years too late 010
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 04/01/2026Watching the David Bowie: The Final Act documentary that was on Channel 4 last night which, despite its title, spends 20 minutes giving us a perfunctory overview of the bits of his career everyone already knows about. This is the only time I’ve ever genuinely wished for Tin Machine to come on again. 000
Reposted by Ben MackenzieGenesis & Solo News @genesisnews.bsky.social · 02/01/2026PETER GABRIEL: The new album "o\i " will come in 2026 and the first track "Been Undone" is out on 3 January. Details: t.ly/IV9tf @itspetergabriel.bsky.socialt.lyPeter Gabriel: First "o\i"-Song "Been Undone" out on 3 January - Genesis News Com [it]On January 3, Peter Gabriel will release the first song from his new album oi – it's called Been Undone. 0149
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 31/12/2025It's the end of the year and I decided to wait for my top 5s: GIGS OF THE YEAR: 5) Father John Misty, Royal Albert Hall 15/04 4) Stratford Rise, The Windmill 31/07 3) Neil Young/Cat Stevens/Van Morrison, Hyde Park 11/07 2) Radiohead, The O2 22/11 1) Swans, Electric Brixton 10/11 100
Reposted by Ben MackenzieNANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller March 22,1958 18870125
Reposted by Ben MackenzieLonepilgrim @lonepilgrim.bsky.social · 13/12/2025Saw ‘The Doors’ where an ‘over stimulated’ audience member attempted a loud dialogue with the characters. He was removed just as Jim Morrison was arrested onscreen. “They got me too Jim!” He cried “They got me too!” 111825
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 27/11/2025I love Beatles music videos where Ringo has nothing to do because they couldn’t be bothered to drag a drum kit in so he’s wandering aimlessly/holding an umbrella/riding an exercise bike 010
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 25/11/2025My Bloody Valentine at Wembley tonight is the first show I’ve ever gone to where they were basically forcing earplugs into your hand on the door. Literally people standing at every entrance with a sack of foam earplugs giving them to you. 010
Reposted by Ben MackenzieNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 24/11/2025New York Democrats can do better than Zohran Mamdani. by Eric Adams, Bill de Blasio, Andrew Cuomo, Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, David Paterson, Eliot Spitzer, and Anthony Weiner 2054356
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 21/11/2025@themountaingoats.bsky.social are always one of the best shows you can possibly see. Third time for me. Can’t wait for next year! 010
Reposted by Ben MackenzieMollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 10/11/2025A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule 621490352
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 11/11/2025Saw Swans the last two nights - their gigs really break your perception of time. What felt like 10-15 minutes of noise during one of the songs was, looking at a bootleg recording this morning, closer to 5. Meanwhile a seemingly 8-minute rendition of A Little God In My Hands was actually double that 000
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 10/11/2025The experience of sitting in a cab, watching the metre slowly go up until you decide you’ve had enough is quite a lot like youtu.be/7xlNc5inymoyoutu.beMonty Python - BlackmailYouTube video by Kenny Teeology 000