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Nick Setchfield

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Editor at large SFX magazine. Author: The War in the Dark and The Spider Dance, out now from Titan Books. This is not the voice of the Mysterons. nicksetchfield.com

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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A treat to hear Charlie Higson talk about his new James Bond novel King Zero at Topping & Co in Bath tonight.
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The audiences are about a tour behind me, but then they always are. I'd get worried if they turned up in outfits I'd never seen before. I'd think I was a tour behind." David Bowie, 1976.
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This Chrissie Hynde/Pretenders compilation on BBC 2 is just banger after kohl-eyed banger. Fabulous stuff.
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What a fabulous conversation. I can attest that my mate Chris genuinely had a Betty Blue poster on his uni room wall in 1987…
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A burning question we posed on the cover of @sfxmagazine.bsky.social 30 years ago this month (if you're still waiting for the answer, faithful reader, it was "Yes, just about...").
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I remember this reply vividly - first I’d heard of this mysterious new thing called Star Wars and it was enough to put me in a state of high anticipation…
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Probably not too many backgrounds to erase…
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Always loved his work on The Invaders. The pages seemed so weird and alive.
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’ve just realised that’s two fantastic ‘80s songs Robert De Niro gets a namecheck in…
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Simple Minds being astonishingly good on Radio 2 In The Park. Forever amused by the fact they mentioned Nastassja Kinski in Up on the Catwalk because they wanted to meet Nastassja Kinski and thought it might help.
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I had a fascinating chat with @filmisfabulous.bsky.social about recovering lost film and television - check it out in the latest issue of @sfxmagazine.bsky.social
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I had a fascinating chat with @filmisfabulous.bsky.social about recovering lost film and television - check it out in the latest issue of @sfxmagazine.bsky.social
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I always remember Elton demonstrating this on Bruce Forsyth’s Big Night, no less - spontaneously crafting a melody to fit some random words (taken from an instruction manual, I think…). It seemed like genuine magic.
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is spot on, Paul. It's all profoundly dispiriting. The end of Borders was bad enough. Now that feels like the opening shot in an ongoing war that we appear to be losing...
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The apocalypse is upon TG Jones in Bath (or WH Smith, as it was before the body snatchers got it). #buymagazines
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“That record should have been called David Bowie is Alive and Well and Living Only in Theory…”
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I was always convinced this was meant to be Debbie Harry and Bryan Ferry...
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
In brightest day, in blackest night... I'm talking to Lanterns showrunner Chris Mundy about his intriguing new take on Green Lantern in the latest @sfxmagazine.bsky.social
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
BBC Three was just the beginning…
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Ha, I'll take that!
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Camouflage might need a little work...
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I did boggle at the price given there’s a chunk missing from the cover!
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Highlight of today's Bath Book Fair. Sadly just a little beyond my wallet but what a glorious cover...
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Shout out to the guy in the Odeon who chose to open a bag of crisps during the siren song in The Odyssey. Your idiocy is truly worthy of legend.
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Is there truly any part of Doctor Who history too mundane to be recorded? If you've ever wondered what the press snacks looked like during SFX's location visit to The Zygon Invasion, well, I don't believe you. But here they are, nevertheless.
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Certainly not Bath… total gullageddon.
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Today’s narrowboat cat sighting…
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Currently experiencing thunder and lightning so overwrought it feels like stock footage spliced into a '70s TV horror.
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I raise you the local fire station being demolished, complete with the sweet summer chorus of reversing trucks. Ah, England!
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Up, up and away! I’m talking to star Milly Alcock and director Craig Gillespie about bringing Supergirl back to the big screen. Find their flight plan in the latest issue of @sfxmagazine.bsky.social
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Up, up and away! I’m talking to star Milly Alcock and director Craig Gillespie about bringing Supergirl back to the big screen. Find their flight plan in the latest issue of @sfxmagazine.bsky.social
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I’ve always been in awe of that title, long before I knew what the words referred to. So immaculately mysterious, somehow managing to be hugely evocative while firmly guarding the book’s secrets. Part of me regrets discovering the actual meaning as the possibilities were so tantalising…
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
So sad to hear of the passing of Anthony Head. Always so supportive of the magazine and, living in Bath, a frequent visitor to the @sfxmagazine.bsky.social office and photo studio. Fabulous actor and a charming, approachable man who wore his fame lightly.
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Mr Spielberg and co at last night's Disclosure Day premiere in London. What a thrill to be in that room.
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
There's an unsettling sense of life to the legs on the table and the stool...
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Early, bruising rejection by the film industry...
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Interesting… I remember people saying “Kinky!” with that exact same cadence even in the ‘80s. Now I’m wondering if it was a ghost trace of this ad…
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I interviewed Jeff Wayne at his home once. He showed me his original copy of the novel, complete with all the sentences he had underlined to use on the album! What an amazing treasure to have in my hands.
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Watch the skies! I’m talking to screenwriter David Koepp about Spielberg’s new UFO thriller Disclosure Day in the latest issue of SFX. Get it before the authorities do…
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Thank you, that's much appreciated.
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Watch the skies! I’m talking to screenwriter David Koepp about Spielberg’s new UFO thriller Disclosure Day in the latest issue of SFX. Get it before the authorities do…
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
A treat to hear @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social talk about A Hard Day's Night and all matters Fab today. A thoroughly fascinating, entertaining Q&A as part of the Bath Literature Festival. Her BFI book on the movie comes highly recommended by this Beatlemaniac.
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Wonder if the photo-bombers in the background ever realised they ended up in the title sequence...
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Taste The Iconic Employment Hub of Dracula...
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
What a treat to see this beauty back on the big screen last night - first time for me since 1978...
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Seem to recall Nationwide doing a pearl-clutching report on the fact that kids could access this!
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Ha, amazing! I was so worried it was a gag… Looking forward to it!
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Great piece, Bob. Please tell me you genuinely are researching the Humphreys… I want to read that!
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Nick Setchfield @nicksetchfield.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Spider-Noir brilliantly reimagines Spider-Man as a 1930s private eye with Nic Cage spinning the webs. I walk the mean, sticky streets with showrunner Oren Uziel in the latest issue of @sfxmagazine.bsky.social
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