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
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 26/09/2026This is what happens when you get Wynton Marsalis on board as co-producer 010
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. 393845882
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 · 25/06/2026youtu.be/UZOhskMsqzI Prince says “guitar solo” before playing a guitar solo hereyoutu.beLoose!YouTube video by Prince - Topic 140
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 · 29/05/2026Saw them supporting Godspeed You! Black Emperor a couple of months ago which was a pleasant surprise as I didn’t realise they were Lankum adjacent until I heard Ian’s voice 010
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
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 28/05/2026Every time a marmite lover reads a story like this our resolve strengthens 1170
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
Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 07/04/2026Every time it happens I think some huge and terrible (or good, maybe?) news story has happened, and then I remember that no, it's just a website that barely fucking works and never really has 1270
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 · 29/01/2026I sometimes check a walkthrough when I get stuck in a game but Myst is one I don't get. You could theoretically "beat" it in about a minute since (iirc) everything you need to do is on the first island, it's just the order of switches and codes to use that you have to figure out with the rest. 110
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 · 21/01/2026(Nik Cohn’s Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom for anyone wondering) 000
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 · 18/01/2026On the other hand, he doesn’t mention “camel shit” on part 1, so who’s to say which is better or worse 010
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 · 17/01/2026This is like Are You That Somebody, a defining song of late 90s R&B, being done for the Dr Doolittle soundtrack 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 · 08/01/2026I love the book! I hadn’t actually heard any of the songs so far so it’s been nice to get acquainted with the early early stuff 020