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Jimmy Martin @jimmygila.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Living Colour, Cowboy Junkies, Ice-T, Strangeways Here We Come, some mad weekends round Cyndi's gaff

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.

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Jimmy Martin @jimmygila.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Happened upon The Towering Inferno as a 5 year old and spent the next three years terrified the house was gonna burn down. Subsequent viewings have proven some of this film to be pretty strong medicine for 7.30PM

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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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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is great stuff!

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gains @gains-skeets.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sure man. Argue with the pope on Twitter

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Island Life @islandlife4eva.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

BROKEN AUDIO OF LOST VOICES DEDPERATE TO UNBURDEN PAINFUL SECRETS It’s bandcamp Friday so plugging this again. Borderline Apostasy is a collaboration between me and award winning Liverpool writer Jeff Young. islandlife1.bandcamp.com/track/border... Give it a follow if you want to hear more

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Borderline Apostasy (featuring Jeff Young), by Island Life

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Jimmy Martin @jimmygila.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pretty devastating news this. My favourite Tyneside musician.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...

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Rocket Recordings @rocketrecordings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As announced earlier @bruiseblood.bsky.social has released a very special 'rework' of 'Outlier', the latest single by Ye Gods. Listen to this and a second 'rework' of 'Outlier' by Billy Fuller from Beak> here: cargo-independent.ffm.to/yegods_outli...

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Jimmy Martin @jimmygila.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The last two-part song here is one of the best band-on-TV clips of ‘em all. Everyone understatedly slaying it but unsung hero Keith York on drums in particular

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Jimmy Martin @jimmygila.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

About 90% my view below too FWIW

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Jimmy Martin @jimmygila.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Re-up for this eerie banger - FFO Ex-Easter Island Head, Jon Hassell, 21st c. Coil? Uncategorisable psychic intensity anyroad

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John Hirst @hipperpriest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@cafeotodalston.bsky.social @babayagashut.bsky.social two tickets going for La Tene this evening, free to a good home. Trains are knacked from west London so not going to make it

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Sam The Sham @thegreatbartoni.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Island Life - Borderline Apostasy (featuring Jeff Young) About a year ago I took a punt and messaged one of my favourite authors @wildtwin.bsky.social about collaborating on a tune I was working on. To my surprise and delight he agreed. Here’s the result. islandlife1.bandcamp.com/track/border...

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Borderline Apostasy (featuring Jeff Young), by Island Life

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Jimmy Martin @jimmygila.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Phenomenal record this, great news

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PerpetualNervousness @perpetualnerves.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It said as much on their business card (from January 1966).

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laney @saltmalk.in · 23/09/2026

every time I feel the need to make my art more palatable I channel my inner bjork

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got

Horse pin with an illustration of a horse and the following text:
"Give a man a horse he'll eat in a day, teach a man to horse. and make him drinks water."

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Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the best thing they could do is give a bunch of recently graduated film students a budget of like £50,000 and access to a single abandoned quarry for a month and they'd have a perfect series of Doctor Who.

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What a truly excellent series of acting choices this fifty seconds of television presents…

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Regular reminder that JG Ballard’s final novel, “Kingdom Come” (2006), is about a far-right English town which creates their own militarised breakaway state in a shopping mall, where they worship the gods of St George and consumerism. Old JG wrote it as tongue-in-cheek satire. At the time.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

That's gonna be an lol from me dawg.

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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In-Stability.

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Jimmy Martin @jimmygila.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Best: (gonna have to pick three)- The Electrician by The Walker Brothers in Bronson; Nice Mover by Gina X Performance recently in Love Lies Bleeding; the unlikely Sandstorm by Darude in Under The Skin Not to mention: Halleluwah in Morvern Callar, Atlantis in Goodfellas. Too many!

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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Happy birthday to our 18-yr-old-site theQuietus. Allowing myself 18 mins of proud reflection on everything Luke, I & crew past & present have achieved, before getting back on with it. There's a wicked more eaze give away; thanks to her & Bettina Thrill Jockey. Link in bio! @luketurner.bsky.social

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Quietus is 18!, as ever it feels absolutely nuts that I've been doing this job for such a long time, especially as given the media landscape / ad collapse / AI / mainstreamification of culture it has become harder each year. As ever, we rely on subscribers to survive thequietus.com/subscribers/

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Jimmy Martin @jimmygila.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Penda’s Fen, 10.15PM, BBC4 tonite. You know what to do!

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Jimmy Martin @jimmygila.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Everyone told me for years how amazing Jeremy Brett was in this role, but if anything when I finally watched it I realised they'd actually been understating the case

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Penda's Fen is on BBC Four on Wednesday and it's a remarkable, sui generis piece of work. I'm assuming it'll go on the iPlayer afterwards. Do try and watch it.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

That Silent Hill movie also has Malcolm McDowell in it and I watched a behind the scenes thing of him saying that he didn’t understand anything about what was going on but decided he was going to play it as Polonius from Hamlet or something and just went with that

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Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Japanese poster for RASPUTIN THE MAD MONK (1966) Directed by Don Sharp Starring Christopher Lee and Barbara Shelley

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've noticed more and more music album/tour press releases coming in that feel like they were written using AI. The weird thing is as soon as that mushy AI feel hits the brain I instantly tune out and stop reading... the labour-saving aspect of using AI is totally counter-productive.

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Apple can go fuck itself, I will continue to charge this old bastard twenty times a day before I buy a new iPhone

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Jimmy Martin @jimmygila.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Massive. Nobody was expecting this from Priest in 1990, but one of the most globally influential metal records of the last four decades, this bad boy.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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Kategod 🐉🧿🦑𓅛🪬 @kategodart.northsky.social · 26/08/2026

we have thousands of potential dolly partons and tim curries already walking amongst us. most of them are begging for rent money or getting crushed at a shitty job

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

a very low-key (but of course very effective) Tim Curry as Robert Graves in Jerzy Skolimowski's sui generis masterpiece THE SHOUT (1978). handsome devil.

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton traveled to Kerry, Ireland, in 1990 on vacation and hadn’t intended on signing in a pub while there—glad she did, and glad it was filmed youtube.com/shorts/mcCPs...

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Jimmy Martin @jimmygila.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Wish this video was 4 times as long

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

When your timeline is filled with queer folks and brown/Black people singing the praises of and loudly mourning a 1940s-Tennessee-born white Boomer lady, welp. She was pretty goddamn extraordinary, you can assume.

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

gays literally staggering around in shock outside the Prince Charles Cinema

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The “check engine” light on your dashboard @aklingus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, on top of being one of the best humans to ever walk this earth, was S-tier bonk yourself with a mallet "holy fucking shit" hot

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