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Really excited to be doing this event in Sheffield on Sunday for the @otsfestival.bsky.social on Sunday offtheshelf.org.uk/events/tales...

Poster for Tales of the Suburbs event at University of Sheffield Off the Shelf festival on Sunday 11 Oct at 3pm in the university Drama Studio.

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Those two albums with Lynch and Badelamenti are pretty much all that goes through my head most days

I was and still am all about Julee, and loved that

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Looking at a lot of Pre-Raphaelite art in the gallery in Birmingham. Singing ‘You stopped us from killing each other (Burne-Jones Burne-Jones)…’

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No! But we’ve just been round the city museum and gallery

They’re very catholic with the definition

Enjoyed the Pen Museum in Birmingham…

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Masterclass: Telling true-life tales | Using interviews and archival sources | Arvon

If you're working on some writing using interviews and archives and need some inspiration, I'm doing an Arvon online masterclass on telling people’s stories. Tuesday October 20th, 19:00-21:00. May contain dad jokes. www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

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How do you turn human stories into compelling prose? How do you combine interviews into a larger narrative, or use archival sources to bring long-lost voices to life? What can these voices bring to yo...

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I dressed up as Mrs Drablow and scared the bejeezus out of everyone.

John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Woo! Thanks so much to everyone who came along. Can’t believe I got to be on stage at Birmingham Rep studio. There’s posh.

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Have been lapping-up @grindrod.bsky.social's excellent Monstrosities Mon Amour podcast, the stories behind the spaces/buildings are fascinating podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

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Monstrosities Mon Amour

Places & Travel Podcast · Monthly · Monstrosities Mon Amour celebrates places and things that have been unfairly dismissed. Host John Grindrod (author of Tales of the Suburbs and Concretopia) is your ...

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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh I quite understand! I’m like that too. See you for the paperback!

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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Off to Birmingham for a Tales of the Suburbs event at the book festival this evening. Very excited!

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Eve is also the name of her character in North By Northwest, so I think it was a genuine mistake

Masterclass: Telling true-life tales | Using interviews and archival sources | Arvon

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We could have talked about that all day

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I really should do a whole pod episode on Stevenage. In the meantime, I talk a lot about Claxton's incredible - and visionary - work in its design on the wonderful "Monstrosities Mon Amour" with @grindrod.bsky.social here johngrindrod.substack.com/p/monstrosit...

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Monstrosities Mon Amour: Stevenage with Gareth Edwards

#17. John Grindrod meets historian and podcaster Gareth Edwards for a trip to the dreamy cycle paths of Stevenage and the pleasures of a corned beef sandwich

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The hedgehogs are dancing, DANCING

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Heart warming. Also, hair dampening.

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New INVENTORY by Andy Miller, available now via our Patreon. This week - Claude Debussy, Images, Série I. www.patreon.com/backlisted

The LP sleeve of a selection of Debussy's piano music as played by Walter Gieseking, featuring an illustration by Aubrey Beardsley.

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Nice! Useful for parking your coaches

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Eva Marie Saint! So glorious and perfect in North by Northwest. Hard to think of anything that’s added more to the sum total of human happiness than that

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Oh that’s cool. Hope you had a good trip. If I’d known you were over I’d have bought you a coffee.

Couldn’t somebody have tried a bit harder to repress him?

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Really excited to be doing this event in Sheffield on Sunday for the @otsfestival.bsky.social on Sunday offtheshelf.org.uk/events/tales...

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