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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In fact, it’s a soundtrack with some spoken word.

Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Soho Theatre currently have it billed as comedy, but it absolutely isn’t. There are no jokes. It’s spoken word with a soundtrack.

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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For any Terry Finch fans out there, I’m performing a work in progress show November 16th at the Soho Theatre, London. I’ll be playing live music and reading from Terry’s crime stories. It will be bleak. sohotheatre.com/events/matth...

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Matthew Holness: Work in Progress – Soho Theatre

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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Finch fans - I’m performing a work-in-progress show at the Soho Theatre in November. Live music with readings. sohotheatre.com/events/matth...

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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Seems to be a German set, I think, but would love this as well.

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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Finch fans - I’m performing a work-in-progress show at the Soho Theatre in November. Live music with readings. sohotheatre.com/events/matth...

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

‘Great Inventions, 1961’ Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope Artist: Robert Ayton

Illustration from the endpapers of the revised edition of the book showing a detailed illustration of the dish set against a striking dark pink ground

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Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · 24/05/2026

A late addition to #BleakWeek on 23rd June – Don't miss the eerie, unsettling 2018 horror classic, POSSUM, featuring a Post-Film Q&A from Director Matthew Holness (Garth Marenghi). Tickets are now on sale to everyone! 🎟️ buff.ly/cqxXGjE

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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

It was definitely in there. I think it had only just come out so went into the overall mix of influences!

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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

They killed my 67 streak with another one of ‘those’. Puzzle bros are probably high-fiving as I type this, the twats.

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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I’ve written about the majestic return of Rivals

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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Final ‘Garth Marenghi’s This Bursted Earth’ show tonight at the Glasgow Pavilion. Garth will be signing afterwards, alongside illustrator Alisdair Wood.

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Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

MONSTER CAPITAL LAUNCH! 🎉📚 📅 May 6 at 7pm 📌 The Black-E, L1 5EW 🎫 writingonthewall.org.uk/myevents/com... Join us as part of @wowfest.bsky.social for readings & discussion w/ Ra Page, Kiare Ladner, Ian Carrington @fatroland.bsky.social & @saraheschofield.bsky.social.

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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Thanks! Glad you ‘enjoyed’ it, pilgrim.

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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Wow, I had no idea they’d put out ‘A Fistful of Dynamite’ as well. I’ll need to hunt that one down for my own collection!

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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Think the Joe Millard ones are as follows: For a Few Dollars More (1965) The Good, the Bad, the Ugly (1967) A Coffin Full of Dollars (1972) A Dollar to Die for (1977) The Devil’s Dollar Sign (1973) The Million Dollar Bloodhunt (1974) Blood for a Dirty Dollar (1974)

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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Did you ever have the standalones as well, Mark? ‘Blood for a Dirty Dollar’, ‘Million Dollar Bloodhunt’ etc? They’re definitely worth rounding out the collection with if you can find them.

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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I’ve written a story for this new Comma collection, out today.

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Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

MONSTER CAPITAL - OUT NOW! 📚🥳 📕 commapress.co.uk/books/monste... In the spirit of Mark Fisher, we invited writers to explore capitalism through the lens of the gothic & surreal: TV shows built on misery, lab-grown meat with a mind of its own, housing developments spread like a virus & much more...

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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I’m guessing she’s meant to be ‘seeing for miles’ but I’m not even sure the designer bot would have made that connection.

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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The most recent Who release was fekkin abysmal as well.

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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Wow. Had no idea he’d written that!

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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

@dempster2000.bsky.social now has a website full of her amazing writing. Read all the funny stuff in one place! Peruse her potted history! Hire her brain!

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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I wrote about terrible new “neo-western” series The Madison

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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Not sure it did, maybe because the Hank Janson books drew heavily on US gangster crime fic and wouldn’t have made much of an impact? Could be wrong, but my impression was it was mainly a postwar UK thing. Dennis Potter was a Hank Janson devotee and the books informed ‘The Singing Detective’ as well.

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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Absolutely. I once tried to pitch a tv drama about the rise and fall of Stephen Frances and Hank Janson. Sadly no takers, which stunned me as the story’s got absolutely everything in it you could want.

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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Steve Holland wrote this great biography of Frances. Well worth seeking out.

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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Steve Holland wrote this great biography of Frances. Well worth seeking out.

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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

He also wrote this superb early ‘True Crime’ gangster biog. I suspect he was also significant inspiration for the Michael Caine character in Mike Hodges’ film ‘Pulp’.

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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Hmm, looks like they’re all down… it’s on YouTube, though.

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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

You’ll get yours in a minute…

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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The weightless CGI animals are a good start…

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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Feels like ‘The Happening’…

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