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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Badges. They’re all here. Including Drighlington (BD11) and Ilkley (LS29, despite being in Bradford). leedsnomad.com/product/leed...

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Glad to hear Leeds Other Paper's role in covering the local music scene being acknowledged in this audio trail.

Cover of flyer/map for the Alternative Music in Leeds audio trail by Leeds Nomad - image of a City Square statue holding a microphone in the air.

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Tony Harcup @writerlytone.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Looking forward to following this Alternative Music in Leeds audio trail over the coming days, put together by @silverdraws.bsky.social as part of the @leedscivictrust.bsky.social Heritage Open Days. Apparently I'm on it somewhere, but don't let that put you off...

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Btw, the goth lead guitar sounds stunning. Just needs a bit of Doktor Avalanche. Also very happy with the house piano. Not sure they go together all that well.

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Up early with my band Motorway City* recording the soundtrack to the Alt Music of Leeds audio trail. *just me really (so far). Motorway City exists to make music for Leeds Nomad projects, because (quite rightly), I can’t use music from other artists, such as those featured in the trail.

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Eight audio interviews complete in nine days. First evening off since last Friday. Amazing recorded chats with people involved in Leeds music, telling their stories. Lots of editing to start doing from Monday for 20. Four more interviews in the diary with a few more still to hopefully confirm.

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly was the very best of everything.

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Me pretending to be Tim in Utah Saints (left). Such a wonderful, recorded chat with Jez, soon to be part of the upcoming Alternative Music in Leeds audio trail.

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Another audio interview done for the trail. What a lovely chat.

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Another great audio interview done.

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Lots of excellent interviews going on for the Leeds Alt Music audio trail. I mean, actually blown away by them. As with all my trails, it needs a soundtrack (or five, six, seven? One for every music genre?).

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Just a month to go. 👉 Bookmark LeedsNomad.com/AltMusicLeeds

Statue with gothic necklaces and a smiley face spray painted on her.

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What a lovely chat. CUD've talked all night. Just one of the audio stories recorded for the Alternative Music of Leeds audio trail coming next month as part of Heritage Open Days, generously supported by @leedscivictrust.bsky.social.

Zine called Rich and Strange with a beer next to it.

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Details on this year’s free alt music in Leeds audio trail will come next week. The artwork for the free maps, posters, etc, feature a punk/rave/goth-ed up version of one of our famous Leeds statues. However, she needed more spiky bits. Thought I’d try them on in Whitelock’s.

Wearing different spiky leather wristbands.

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Francy 🦇🐍™️ @necrofrancer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Saw a man in a Choose Goth t-shirt yesterday

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Happy International Owl Awareness Day. Are you aware of owls?

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My copy of this has just arrived, an enjoyable compilation of vintage motorway-themed library music, with Leeds's 'Motorway City' logo on the cover. @leedscivictrust.bsky.social @silverdraws.bsky.social #leeds #M1 @rockingbob.bsky.social

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

What? Not another Instagram account, Mark? leedsmotorwaycity now exists.

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Choose Leeds tees are now with the retailer and tags have just arrived. I’m pretty excited for a Wednesday evening.

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

My friend is currently nearing the end of a 50-mile run in the Lakes, while I managed an equally impressive 12-mile trudge around the city centre.

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

John Squire has been doing art again.

Large wheelie bin with a sign on it saying (Stone Roses cardboard).

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

In other news, I’m getting near to the end of the first run of my first product, the Leeds Goth enamel pin badge. Now a museum piece, only 500 classic badges (left) will ever exist. The new one (right) is smaller (and more elegant) with a raised, polished enamel face. I need to update my shop.

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

On Monday, I popped in to Northern Guitars for a long overdue official opening of the legendary Joseph’s Well venue sign I rescued in 2024. Huge thanks to Alex Sobel MP for doing the honours, and to Rick, Dave and Danny of Northern Guitars for arranging. I like to think we look like a band.

L-r: Dave, me, Alex and Rick in front of the sign.

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This first though. Eastenders needs a reboot, too.

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

They’ve brought back Bergerac. Eldorado will follow soon, mark my words.

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Blimey, these have turned out nice. And I don’t mean my lovely blue filing cabinets.

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Banging on about Leeds Goth stuff (haven’t stopped), the viral Burger King menu post, Alan Bennett the spinosaurus and Zombles.

Merry Christmas image showing Alan Bennett the dinosaur.

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The stickers have arrived. Stickers.

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alqleeds.bsky.social @alqleeds.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Gutted that I can’t wear hi-vis. Never went to U2, Springsteen or Simpleminds. But was there at the Rolling Stones, Madonna, Jacko and even Genesis (who I was not a fan of). Its taking linger to set up and take down. A month of disruption. And the park has been closed off two week prior. Let’s see

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

As Roundhay Park gets ready for the return of large crowds next weekend, here’s a reminder of U2’s two huge concerts held there in the 90s. The has band played the city eight times, starting with Brannigans in 1980, followed by an appearance at the second Futurama festival at the Queen’s Hall.

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

There should be a carbohydration break. #worldcup

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

What on earth happened to U2? No, I don’t mean the well-documented, extremely patchy last 20-25 years or so. More the last few months and how the two recent EPs are bloody good.

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Also, there’s something in the pipeline that will neatly mark three years exploring and championing Leeds’ goth heritage. My goth journey won’t end, of course, but this will feel like a fitting end to the first phase.

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

This was last year’s Heritage Open Days event. The Bridges of Leeds audio trail is still live and will continue to be here: leedsnomad.com/bridgesofleeds This year’s HODs event follows the same format. It’ll be another city centre audio trail, this time focused on alternative music in Leeds.

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Bridges of Leeds - Leeds Nomad

A self-guided city centre audio trail with puzzles to solve. Find the codes to unlock the stories of our city’s waterways Have you ever noticed that we’re surrounded by words, letters and numbers? The...

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I see @countbinface.bsky.social has already discarded his mask. Better luck next time. Mind you, it is a bit warm for a mask today.

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Was invited onto Radio Leeds earlier to talk about a plastic carrier bag.

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Sad to report the end of the Old Morrisons Carrier Bag of Woodhouse Moor. Drift off on a gentle breeze, sweet little bag. You will be missed. Here are a few old pics.

Woodhouse Moor Old Morrisons Carrier Bag badge.

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

It’s been a funny old day so far.

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Rachael Unsworth @leedstours.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

This time next week I’ll already have done a v early walking tour on the theme of ‘TIME’: Pace & pulse, continuity & change, minutes & millennia, geology & fashion, founding & dissolution, speeding up & slowing down, starting & finishing, memory & imagination. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/time-in-le...

The clock on the east side of the Civic Hall photographed at 06:15, midsummer 2022. The sunlight catching the gold leaf shines onto the Portland stone and creates an extra glow.
The clocks on each side of the 1933 building were supplied not by Potts of Leeds, who were no longer as dominant as they had been for some decades up to 1905. These clocks were made by Synchronome, established in 1895 by Frank Hope-Jones to make electric clocks.

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

New badgez leedsnomad.com/product/leed...

Two badges on backing cards in teal and white, each reversed in colour. They both say Leedz Needz Tramz

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Mark Robot Silver @silverdraws.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Thought I heard someone say "Harrogate is like New York." It was actually "Harrogate is, like, near York."

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