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Michael Daly @michaeldaly64.bsky.social · 13h

1975, the German offices of Fontana Records. "Jurgen, can you sort out a cover for that Black Sabbath compilation? Don't spend too much time or money on it"

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 13h

#nowplaying Gloomy Reflections- Oath of the Paladins My favourite record of the past decade. Like Dio playing with 80’s Depeche Mode after a night of bedsit D&D. Bizarre; *brilliant* Came out on Crypt of the Wizard. They keep having to repress gloomyreflections.bandcamp.com/album/oath-o...

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 13h

Ha! Yeah it used to be quite bizarre. Quite nice now!

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 17h

I do find that many of my progressive and leftist friends are, in fact, kind of incapable of considering that my research on war doesn't mean I think it was fun

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 14h

My parents decamped to near Ipswich like all Londoners of a certain ilk.. the way I feel about Cambridge is you know they say 60% or whatever of person have an internal voice, for cities I think it's far less, but Cambridge is one of them. You hear its thoughts.

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 14h

Yeah, MES was a big Arthur Machen enthusiast. He talked about some of his favourite reading here: archive.org/details/esca...

archive.org

Escape Magazine (UK)

Escape magazine was a British comic strip magazine founded and edited by Paul Gravett and Peter Stanbury. Nineteen issues were published between 1983 and 1989.

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 14h

Indeed! Cheers for link - recent Substack may be of interest, btw: harrysword.substack.com/p/arthur-mac...

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Arthur Machen's London

The London Adventure or The Art of Wandering (1924)

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 14h

'...in a series of introductory essays Robert Lloyd Parry looks at how and why a small market town on the edge of the Fens has produced so many writers of the supernatural' - looks superb @johncoulthart.com - will order.

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 14h

'what really binds the tales collected together here is the town of Cambridge itself, with its libraries and chapels and echoing cloisters, its murky river and misty streets...

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 14h

Fantastic. I’m Cambridge born and bred... it's a v. atmospheric city. As MES said in Renegade re: M.R. James ‘I used to imagine him reading them out loud in a plummy accent in a college in winter, mist rising from the river, the only light coming from candles, and the only heat from a large fire...'

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 18h

Ha! That Burger King is still dodgy af tbf.

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The Savage Beast Podcast @savagebeastpodcast.bsky.social · 22h

That ghastly soft rock in full. The Itanglish lyric generator was going full steam for this one. @harrysword.bsky.social you're going to vibe with this abomination.

youtu.be

Al Festa - Living After Death (Zombie 4: After Death)

YouTube video by B-Movie Madness Radio

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 23h

#nowplaying Albert Ayler Trio- Spiritual Unity albertayler.bandcamp.com/album/spirit...

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

‘But that’s…’ ‘A shit Mr Bond! A big *steaming* shit!’

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not sure any other England player could pull off the full Frank Spencer but props to Wrighty for just about managing it.

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Margarine is literal poison. Makes me laugh that people used to think it was ‘healthier’ than butter 😂 never touched it since childhood. Rancid shite.

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

100% - they’ve got a good one in the co op at the moment. West Country with salt crystals on the special range (can never remember what the co op special range is actually called)

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dear writers, please do not use AI to write/help write your pitches, they arrive in my inbox absolutely honking of data centre, please please just have original ideas and work them up yourself else really, what is the fucking point of being a writer? Getting so many of these at the moment.

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 06/10/2026

The book has just been announced on the publisher's website which means I'll have to start writing something about it for the blog. I'll save posting art samples until then but for now here's the big R'lyeh panorama.

A panorama of R'lyeh, the sunken alien city from The Call of Cthulhu by HP Lovecraft. Here we see some of the place after an earthquake has raised it from the ocean floor, with unfortunate results for the sailors who discover it. Lots of weird weed-strewn architecture/statuary in a swampy, sunlit haze. Spot the sailors!

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Whoah! That’s incredible artwork- proper 70’s gatefold sleeve vibes love it

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#nowplaying Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force - Khadim Bandcamp link here: ndagga.bandcamp.com/album/khadim

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I read a lot of Jeffrey Archer's novels when I was a kid & found them quite exciting. Mind you, I loved that sort of thing – Hornblower, the first six Tom Clancy novels, Douglas Reeman etc etc. Were they a guilty pleasure? No, I was 12/13. But I like how Sinclair writes about it all here:

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You think I’m walking past Mutti *triple* concentrate tomato purée. Are you a maniac? You think I’m walking past that? #tripilo

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Come on. This is getting absurd. Peter Thiel looks more Doncaster by the day. Hard house promoter. 1999. Council hearing in Sheffield for the ‘night time economy’ - ‘…and id say to that have you actually heard of Tidy Trax? Because they operate like a serious business’

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Many things in the world are a bit more complicated than most people on BlueSky think.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Lovely article on Dial House, an absolutely beautiful place. When I went to interview Penny Rimbaud there for Out Of The Woods he told me amazing tall story, claiming to have knocked out the UK’s comms with the nuclear submarine fleet by flying a kite into the nearby Marconi military radio masts

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He's brilliant, isn't he? I've interviewed him a few times for tQ. He's a mad old ham , at heart.

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

His face is impossible. His manner. It's amazing isn't it? Like something from 1959. He's impossible. You can imagine him marvelling over 'pizza parlours'. He'd refuse to 'use the public bar'. Motoring through Kent. 1959.

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Imagine being in a hostage situation for eight years with Anton Du Beke. Cooking lentils in a pot. Middle East. One lightbulb. Having to keep him sane in case he decides to garrote you.

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#nowplaying The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent One of the absolute best. Bandcamp link here: thefallmusic.bandcamp.com/album/imperi...

thefallmusic.bandcamp.com

Imperial Wax Solvent, by The Fall

12 track album

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Bruce Gorrie @bsrg1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He's a quarter-zip jumper made flesh

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

James Martin once said to Brian Turner on ‘Saturday Morning’ - completely devoid of context- ‘I heard you were injected with lard’. I love James Martin. So brilliantly awful. *Sheer* TV.

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 04/10/2026

#nowplaying What's Drone Month in German? Drohnenmonat, it seems. And where did Klaus get his kosmische knitwear? That's an Unanswered Question.

An album release on two compact discs: Cyborg (1973) by Klaus Schulze.

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The Savage Beast Podcast @savagebeastpodcast.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"The weak or immature"

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

100% - it’s so good to be able to buy the digital. So much of my listening these days is headphones (kids etc) so massively pleased about it. All the studio albums are up!

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Fear not! Pretty much the entire discography is now - finally- on Bandcamp bsky.app/profile/harr...

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

‘More sackings, Elf! *More sackings*’

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Had a *proper* Blockbuster video half life, this one.

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The greatest song from the greatest Fall album. Total otherworldly brilliance and the sound of the band they’d always threatened and - finally- were. Listen four times in a row before you @ me. youtu.be/-sh7_QETK5k?...

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The Fall - Couples vs Jobless Mid 30s (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Cherry Red Records

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Fantastic! I’m a paid subscriber so look forward to reading

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