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harrysword.bsky.social

@harrysword.bsky.social
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Writer. Guardian. The Quietus. Vice. Record Collector. Author of Monolithic Undertow. ‘A walking encyclopaedia of weird shit’ Vice

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amoeba @amoebadesign.bsky.social · 3h
Proud to announce that today the video I directed and made for @mogwai.scot featuring the legend that is Iggy Pop and the song UNDERGROUND, just got released by @rockactionrecords.scot Available on mogwai.scot and all streaming platforms NOW. www.youtube.com/watch?v=agOO...
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MOGWAI feat. IGGY POP - UNDERGROUND (official video)
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1 of 100 @weare1of100.bsky.social · 6h
🥳 Just heard our first release! ⚡️ Each release will be completely anonymous. Only 100 physical records. A month after launch the download file is totally free to share. No streaming. We do things differently. January 1st, I can’t wait 😎
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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Annnnnd there it is. Three old men in the pub shouting about The Sisters Of Mercy, existential struggle and the state of the world. We had a wonderful time, we hope you will too. Cheers @reversediorama.bsky.social, cheers @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social, cheers @briandavidstevens.bsky.social - CHEERS.
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No. 44b: David Keenan Part 2
Eternal return, boulder-shouldering and tough love in the pub.
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The Horror Kween 👑 @thehorrorkween.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This really picks up the second Lady Sylvia Marsh arrives with her sexy saxophone backing track. Strange, campy, naughty, & hilarious—everything you expect from Ken Russell. Young Hugh Grant & bagpipe-playing Peter Capaldi vs. a pagan snake cult is pure 80s B-movie bliss! #100DaysOfHorror #Horror 🎬
The Lair of the White Worm is a 1988 supernatural comedy horror film written, produced and directed by Ken Russell. The film stars Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg, and Peter Capaldi.
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I get tired of the endless talk of ‘passion’ with regards to food. It’s become very irritating. I miss the butcher being the butcher because he is the butcher.
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In no order: Withnail and I Sexy Beast The Wicker Man The Long Good Friday Kill List
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
‘….and DeKroker’s set up a meeting with him on Thursday! Isn’t it marvellous Lowe!’ ‘You *reckless bloody fool*’
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Really bonkers film. Absolutely brilliant.
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
100% - this is why I never use self checkout.
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No *you’re* listening to a very long podcast with Graham Bonnett of Rainbow.
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Link to the book is in the post below! Make @ortacpress.bsky.social happy and pre order some? But a weirdo book for your pals, or those you feel unsure about…
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 26/09/2026
David McKenna goes deep with hurdy-gurdy powered drone giants France and the La Nòvia collective which has, for over a decade, been responsible for breathing new life into French folk music The Strange World Of… France, La Nòvia & Friends - #ThePortal buff.ly/dXJvqdx
France – Do Den Haag Church (2014) CD-R cover. Spiderwebs and an impossibly stretched human head repeating ears, mouth and nose. All in black against a white background.
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Imagine Tom Jones doing ‘film star’ by Suede 🔥
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ICYMI - 2,500 word deep dive on the late Derek Raymond- one of the oddest, most idiosyncratic and brilliant writers.
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Munkle @unklemunkle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My brain has gifted me with the idea of Cilla Black doing 'Hands All Over' by Soundgarden. I might have overdone the coffee this morning.
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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can't stop thinking about this story, esp. the co-owner who left to enroll in clown school. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/22/m...
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A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose. - The Boston Globe
Last Ditch Bar in Greenfield wanted to build community. They got a firestorm instead.
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Dean @ordersson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
god how I wish I'd been able to bear witness to Claude Young tearing it the fuck up way back when
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Was it through a silent chess match outside a lower east side brownstone followed by chicken soup at ‘Janey Schultz’s apartment followed by kicking a sharp pebble up 4th Avenue followed by standing outside Central Park zoo in the rain?
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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I asked what's going on and the couple in it are the owner's PARENTS
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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We are having a pizza and distracted by this deranged art
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The Savage Beast Podcast @savagebeastpodcast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
TBT: As a recent documentary on the subject confirms, BBC 2's Moviedrome has a formative place in the hearts of UK cult film fans. In this episode we looked back at the show's legacy and discussed the wider issue of curation in the days of the algorithm. thesavagebeast.podbean.com/e/s112-movie...
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The problem with schnitzel is that around a 1/4 of the way through you’ll find it hard to remember a time when you *weren’t* eating schnitzel.
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
On cult London crime master Derek Raymond, and the madness and genius of his ‘black novels’ Enter the Factory… harrysword.substack.com/p/enter-the-...
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Rod Stewart’s speaking voice is *ludicrously* Rod Stewart. Every time I hear him talk it gets more Rod Stewart.
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One of my favourite films of all time. So metal. Sheer Dio. And the greatest poster of all time. Mad inbred monks etc Sean Connery etc
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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 24/09/2026
Another House on a different Borderland. Manchester's first SF bookshop, early 1970s. Prop: D. Britton, Esq.
A promotional shop leaflet, red paper with black print:

"37, PORT ST, MANCHESTER 1, HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND

We are carrying an increasing stock of imported Science Fiction, Occult, Comic's, Mysticism, Fantasy, U.F.O. Underground, Rock, and books of a generally bizarre nature. If your taste leans to the far out; Check us out." 

Beneath this is an illustration of some kind of sword and sorcery conflict involving a flying horse, a dragon and a man with a spear.
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In this photograph 1960’s John Steinbeck has intense ‘massively wealthy disruptive AI start up founder who moved to Borneo to live in a massive tent surrounded by land mines from which he transmits a weekly podcast warning about government overreach/quantum aliens’ energy.
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Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 24/09/2026
If you're a fan of incredibly rare weird fiction, why not try some titles from Mislaid Books? Titles available so far: AT THE CHANGE OF THE MOON THE DEVIL'S CAULDRON LYCANTHIA Links to order below:
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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A 1970s poster: Milton Keynes is a great place to put down roots. The main image is of a mother, father and two children standing awkwardly in the garden of a red brick new build house. It's somewhere between nostalgic, melancholy and spooky.
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#nowplaying R.L Burnside - A Bothered Mind Final remixed album from one of the realist, nastiest blues artists of all time. Released posthumously by Fat Possum in 2019. ‘I’m R.L Burnside…and I do what I want’ Bandcamp link here: rlburnside.bandcamp.com/album/a-both...
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I love all the Faust - in whatever iteration - that has surfaced over the past few years. It's great stuff and the equal of anything they did in the 1970's. This is exciting: daily.bandcamp.com/features/fau...
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Faust Reunite Without Reuniting
The krautrock pioneers return with four new albums that pull their singular sound in four very different directions.
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Ortac Press @ortacpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Spiders and Flies 🕷️🪰 By Richard Foster A dream journey through the Dutch underground music scene of the 2000s-2010s. Foster resurrects a lost world – one preserved in mouldy gig flyers – until now. 3/3/27 More at tinyurl.com/478v3v8. @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social @turnarounduk.bsky.social
A post announcing Spiders and Flies, a new book by Richard Foster. Includes the cover and short description with links to read more on the Ortac Press site.

Where do you find the music that doesn’t fit? 

Spiders and Flies is a dream journey through the Dutch underground music scene of the noughties and twenty-tens. Drawing in letter and spirit from the medieval dream poem, Piers Plowman, some unreliable half memories, and a stack of 400 year-old photocopies, Richard Foster resurrects a lost world of drug-fuelled music tourists, disappeared squats and free festivals. A world preserved in mouldy gig flyers, until now.

Published March 2027
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Harry’s posts are supremely annoying in that I want to read all these books he’s writing about.
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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
popular in unexpected places :)
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Do you need 2,500 words on an Autumn night, exploring the bizarre and frightening world of cult London crime master Derek Raymond? You most certainly do. Paid subscribers post - plenty more deep dives coming that I assure you will not find anywhere else, delivered to your beautiful inbox xx
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
On cult London crime master Derek Raymond, and the madness and genius of his ‘black novels’ Enter the Factory… harrysword.substack.com/p/enter-the-...
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Something quite staggeringly Tap/Saxondale/Coverdale about the phrase ‘they need to start carrying the mint jelly’ - ultimate *ultimate* transatlantic energy from Fleetwood here.
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#nowplaying The Fall - Fall Heads Roll Great drum sound on this one. Kinda rootsy, acid fried country vibe to some of the tracks. A good one. Bandcamp link here: thefallmusic.bandcamp.com/album/fall-h...
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Charlotte Church bellowing inanity about Ed Sheeran over a ‘Dead Kennedy cover’ is almost as bad as Ed Sheeran. Sheer unadulterated 100% proof Bluesky though.
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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh, Viz.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A family in Canada are trying to get the coroner to investigate the MAiD death of their Oma. They say she was not competent to consent to the lethal injection. This was an 83 year old vulnerable senior living in a care home. This is what disabled advocates warn you about:
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MAID journey of a Belleville woman and a family’s outrage
A Loyalist Township woman is raising concerns following the medically assisted death of her grandmother at a B...
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s a definite no from me, this. Absolutely rotten thing to do, imo.
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Rob Tyers @thexclaim6.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
One of my favourite activities is trying to guess the year a pub quiz game was made
FAMOUS FATTIES
Cyril Smith
Bernard Manning
Frank Cannon
Darts Players
Eddie Large
Les Dawson
Oliver Hardy
Geoff Capes
Big Daddy
Sumu Wrestlers
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honey i am a guy & i shrunk the kids @snowrespecter.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
my mate just told me he never locks the back door when he's out cos it's cheaper to replace the telly than the door if someone breaks in and this delicious logic is going to keep me awake all night
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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
fix your sunday up
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Phylyps Trak
YouTube video by Basic Channel - Topic
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#nowplaying - I love all Fall records in the same way as I love all Motörhead records but, with The Fall, I tend to prefer the later stuff (I know I’m in a minority) as it sounds like the band they’d always threatened. But of the 1980’s records this is certainly a favourite, perhaps the favourite.
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James McKenzie @jamesmckz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yeah this still sounds like one of the best albums ever made. Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst (1996)
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
👏👏👏
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