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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Lord Archer was my editor..." In December 2011, Jeffrey Archer chose my story as the winner of the inaugural Curtis Brown Creative 100-word story prize. I received my story back with his edit suggestions. I went round the following week saying "Oh hell!" to everything. Here it is, edits and all.
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
13yo asked to listen to The Beatles in the car today, after learning about them at school. His favourite from the Essentials playlist? Lady Madonna. Interesting with no “influencing” where the taste goes…
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Watching The Shawshank Redemption for the first time in a while. Cannot BELIEVE that the whole Brooks thing has happened, and there's new books for the library and it's not quite halfway through yet. Amazing how perception of a film squashes and stretches your memory.
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't." Pondering this line. I wonder if its stickiness is partly down to it being a simile with neither 'like' or 'as'. You could have 'unlike', but then you wouldn't get the essential 'don't' at the end. Is it an anti-simile?
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I'm a little older than you, but I still remember being excruciatingly embarrassed by Rod Stewart's 'Do You Think I'm Sexy', and I think I have a case for compensation re all my bedroom problems to this day.
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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Tenko
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
@lissakevans.bsky.social This was a holiday reread. I know this isn’t the funniest or most dramatic moment, but heavens above, this paragraph! You’re smashing it to the boundary over and over 😘👌
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I know you, I love you, I understood what you meant, but I have to tell you ‘longditude’ is not a word. I don’t want to leave you swinging in the wind like that. I mean, where does that ‘d’ even come from? No judgement, but just — 🤷‍♂️
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Using some Ronseal paint today, which, famously, “does what it says on the tin”, only I can’t help noting the tin is in fact plastic, so I don’t know where I stand, legally.
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Boasting encouraged! Wonderful to see Susie awarded a Dagger, and I think we all suspect she knows *exactly* what to do with it... 👀
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George Morley @georgeisediting.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Permit a retired person a moment's boasting. So very pleased that my lovely former author @susannahstapleton.bsky.social won the non-fiction dagger last night & I was there to see her do so! #ThatDarkSpring is a perfect summer read too. So off you go ...
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Played the 13yo something yesterday that he has now declared his new favourite podcast, and he hopes there’s more of it we can listen to.
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T'Other Simon @tothersimon.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
On a recent Adam Buxton podcast, he recommended a book called The Big Midweek, written by Steve Hanley - detailing his time as a member of The Fall. I'm about 2 hours from the end of the audiobook (read by Stewart Lee) and, honestly, I just don't want it to end.
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Heyyy! Bluesky has group chats now! *looks at number of people who have ever once interacted with a single solitary Bluesky post of mine* Never miiiind!
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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The Making of SPIDERLAND by Slint - feat. Brian McMahan, Britt Walford, David Pajo and Todd Brashear — Life of the Record
For the 35th anniversary of Slint’s landmark second album, Spiderland, we take a detailed look at how it was made. Brian McMahan and Britt Walford first connected over a shared love of punk rock, grow...
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Look at the balance of this sentence. Every word weighted so beautifully; a deft punch saved for the end, but the merest hint throughout of a bottle of wine in a sentence about the catastrophic absence of wine.
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
That’ll do. Pub?
A packet of Fox’s Viennese double chocolate biscuits, with the underwhelming promotional copy of “Really Chocolatey”
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Watching John Mulaney's bit "There's a HORSE LOOSE in the HOSPITAL", and my wife breezily said she'd once worked with someone who'd been called upon to deal with a horse being loose in a hospital. This was, to say the least, unexpected. Further reading: youtube.com/watch?v=JhkZMxgPxXU&themeRefresh=1
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There's a Horse In The Hospital | John Mulaney | Netflix Is A Joke
YouTube video by Netflix Is A Joke
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Absolutely loving ‘These Frightening Machines’ — congratulations, I hope it flies! (like those women)
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Lyric of the day: “They weren’t burning witches, it was women on those fires.” Katherine Priddy, ‘Matches’ youtu.be/3hw604WrlzI?...
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Katherine Priddy - Matches (Official Video)
YouTube video by Katherine Priddy
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
#AtoZofTunes Rose's Turn (Imelda Staunton) My first exposure to Gypsy was in the movie Airplane!, where the real Ethel Merman has to be restrained from singing 'Everything's Coming Up Roses'. Great joke, until you realise the real thing is madder. Staunton is incredible. youtu.be/0F28IYnEqKY?...
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Rose's Turn_Gypsy - Gypsy_2015 London Cast
YouTube video by PT MUSIC
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
#AtoZofTunes Rollecoaster Ride (Belle & Sebastian) I want to make a video for this song, with someone lip-syncing on a rollercoaster, completely sanguine while everyone around them is screaming, using hi-speed cameras for slow playback. Hit me up if you can make this happen. youtu.be/BTfzPxph5xY?...
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Belle and Sebastian - The Rollercoaster Ride
YouTube video by Jeepster Recordings
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The Last Kings Of Hollywood, about Lucas, Scorsese, Spielberg, etc. brings home that what these innovators brought us — Jaws, Star Wars, etc — were the reconstructed remains of what they set out to do. This lends them a vitality that’s lost when new generations come along and intentionally mimic it.
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I wonder if needy companies still bother contacting Kevin Shields asking him for feedback.
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the album cover for my bloody valentine shows a blurry image of a person
ALT: the album cover for my bloody valentine shows a blurry image of a person
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Kurt Cobain, Ian Brown, Angelica Skyler and Yours Truly 🥳
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
My boy is not asking any of his pals (boys or girls) if they want to hang out in town today, just in case they get laughed at for being together on Valentine’s Day. And THAT, let me remind you, is the degree of self-policing of an early teen. I have advised him to Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway.
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Not watching The Riddle of the Sands on Talking Pictures TV? Good research for that redux episode…
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I’m against old-school tough love, but if he ever expresses scepticism about black and white films again, you should sharply slap his legs and tell him to man up. Black and white films are about FORM, not about wishy-washy atmosphere. Start him off with Psycho. 😉 I’ve never seen Mean Girls!
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I’m 90% reluctant to attempt to pass on cultural relics to the younger generation, but I indulged in showing my boy, 38 years to the day since my dad allowed me to stay up past midnight to watch it, 12 Angry Men. It went well!
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
It's rubbish that Kirsty MacColl has been gone a quarter of a century. But check out this joyous tune to brighten you up, where she affectionately says of her boyfriend "he's appalling, it's true". Give me that. #KirstyMacColl
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
This is sound thinking, but I have withheld a key piece of data: I think she quietly enjoys it.
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Thing is, she doesn’t even want chocolate sprinkles — she only says it to get the concept of ‘cappuccino’ to really hit home…
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I mean that would be pretty funny
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
We have this morning recorded the 11th instance since 2020 of my mum asking for a cappuccino and being served with a cup of tea. "I even said 'with chocolate sprinkles'!"
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Great work — thank you so much for this well-considered approach to a relaxed and expansive Suggs; who knew Liverpool was the key? Now, who fancies a crack at Adam Ant…
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I’ve been waiting for this level of insight from Madness for decades. For many complex reasons they get very self-conscious when reflecting in any chin-scratchy way about their tunes. But no one better than @sodajerker.bsky.social to tease out Suggs’s love of reading, history and chord inversions…
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Sodajerker @sodajerker.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
EPISODE 306 // Madness frontman Suggs talks about their new Hit Parade compilation, balancing joy and pathos in songwriting, and serendipitous creative moments. Platforms: linktr.ee/sodajerker Direct: www.sodajerker.com/episode-306-... Playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/3bT...
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Advent calendar torn open. All contents eaten. No we don’t have a dog.
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
“The bigger the mistake, the harder it is to see”: discuss.
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The shape, I'm sure you know, being based on 'Et'. I like a treble clef, but it's not wildly applicable to everyday communication.
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Reading Middlemarch for the first time. I am enjoying it. I like the very peceptive observations about internal motivations between Celia and Dorothea. What do any of you Middlemarch heads like about it? (This is not engagement bait, unless it’s of the doomed betrothal kind)
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Just laughed out loud at Terry Jones's summation of Monty Python: "We never really stopped being friends, but I'm not sure we ever *started* being friends..." (from Robert Ross's affectionate biography 'Seriously Silly: The Life of Terry Jones')
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Grand Designs opening and closing interview shots, an occasional project.
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
The bathroom’s free! Unlike the country under the Thatcherite junta…
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The Empress Ballroom gig movie was what made me get into a band — I ended up playing bass AND drums. Not at the same time. Gutting. His poor kids.
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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The Stone Roses - Waterfall (Live On The Other Side Of Midnight) 1989 1080p 60fps
YouTube video by Mucky Fingers
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
My first festival. Look at those bands. I didn’t even set foot in the comedy tent, which would today blow my head off.
Festival line-up poster for the 1991 Reading Festival
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I have read both Ben Elton’s and Nigel Planer’s memoirs back-to-back, and they both mention being inspired in the 1970s by the music of, among others, Nick Drake, and while not impossible, that is also the lie I would tell.
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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Guy Fawkes' signature before and after hearing Paul Shane's You've lost that loving feeling on Pebble Mill at One
A picture of Guy Fawkes' signature before and after being tortured after the Gunpowder Plot
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James Hannah. @jameshannah.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
#AtoZofTunes Roam (B52s) Putting this in to annoy B52s gatekeepers. I'm fortunate enough to bloody love this tune and album, as well as all the previous ones, all the way back to Planet Claire, and all the way forth to Keep This Party Going. Some of it's shite, but NOT MUCH. youtu.be/iNwC0sp-uA4?...
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The B-52's - Roam (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by RHINO
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