Ali Catterall
@alicatterall.bsky.social
Hello!
Writer, filmmaker & actor - roughly in that order
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Cat lover
My co-directed debut 'Scala!!! Or the incredibly strange rise & fall of the world’s wildest cinema & how it influenced a mixed-up generation of weirdos & misfits' is now on BFI Player
Writer, filmmaker & actor - roughly in that order
ADHD
Cat lover
My co-directed debut 'Scala!!! Or the incredibly strange rise & fall of the world’s wildest cinema & how it influenced a mixed-up generation of weirdos & misfits' is now on BFI Player
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Ali Catterall
@alicatterall.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Laurie Anderson's O Superman. By Chas & Dave.
YouTube video by alicatterall
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One I made earlier. O Superman, by Chas and Dave.
Today's book review: the brilliant Ultra-Processed People, by Chris Van Tulleken.
November 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Today's book review: the brilliant Ultra-Processed People, by Chris Van Tulleken.
"We were always told comedians are often sad or depressed – but if you meet many male stand-ups in real life they are really angry"
@jnraeside.bsky.social in Metro about her brilliant debut novel, Don't Make Me Laugh, and the scene that inspired it.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/09/i...
@jnraeside.bsky.social in Metro about her brilliant debut novel, Don't Make Me Laugh, and the scene that inspired it.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/09/i...
'I wrote a book about toxic male comedians - they hate not being in control'
‘Stand-up comedy is probably the worst profession within showbusiness when it comes to male behaviour.'
metro.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"We were always told comedians are often sad or depressed – but if you meet many male stand-ups in real life they are really angry"
@jnraeside.bsky.social in Metro about her brilliant debut novel, Don't Make Me Laugh, and the scene that inspired it.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/09/i...
@jnraeside.bsky.social in Metro about her brilliant debut novel, Don't Make Me Laugh, and the scene that inspired it.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/09/i...
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Joe said Cat
Nick said Joe
So did Dave
What a blow
The pouches cast
The fire glowed green
Alan smirked
A nation screamed
Nick said Fuck
David sighed
Claudia winked
And Alan cried
Nick said Joe
So did Dave
What a blow
The pouches cast
The fire glowed green
Alan smirked
A nation screamed
Nick said Fuck
David sighed
Claudia winked
And Alan cried
November 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Joe said Cat
Nick said Joe
So did Dave
What a blow
The pouches cast
The fire glowed green
Alan smirked
A nation screamed
Nick said Fuck
David sighed
Claudia winked
And Alan cried
Nick said Joe
So did Dave
What a blow
The pouches cast
The fire glowed green
Alan smirked
A nation screamed
Nick said Fuck
David sighed
Claudia winked
And Alan cried
Good God, the White Album's magnificent, isn't it? A proto-punk, proto-grunge, proto-glam, proto-metal lo-fi ragged masterpiece. And in Martha My Dear, practically a history of 20th century Northern music, from English classical to musical hall and brass band. It routinely reduces me to tears.
November 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Good God, the White Album's magnificent, isn't it? A proto-punk, proto-grunge, proto-glam, proto-metal lo-fi ragged masterpiece. And in Martha My Dear, practically a history of 20th century Northern music, from English classical to musical hall and brass band. It routinely reduces me to tears.
Joe said Cat
Nick said Joe
So did Dave
What a blow
The pouches cast
The fire glowed green
Alan smirked
A nation screamed
Nick said Fuck
David sighed
Claudia winked
And Alan cried
Nick said Joe
So did Dave
What a blow
The pouches cast
The fire glowed green
Alan smirked
A nation screamed
Nick said Fuck
David sighed
Claudia winked
And Alan cried
November 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Joe said Cat
Nick said Joe
So did Dave
What a blow
The pouches cast
The fire glowed green
Alan smirked
A nation screamed
Nick said Fuck
David sighed
Claudia winked
And Alan cried
Nick said Joe
So did Dave
What a blow
The pouches cast
The fire glowed green
Alan smirked
A nation screamed
Nick said Fuck
David sighed
Claudia winked
And Alan cried
I *was* one of those kids in the public information film who grabbed the sparkler at the wrong end on Bonfire Night. Cremorne Gardens, 1975, aged five. And yes, it bloody hurt. But preferable to electrocution by telegraph pole, while the grim reaper loitered nearby like a rubber-necking bastard.
November 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I *was* one of those kids in the public information film who grabbed the sparkler at the wrong end on Bonfire Night. Cremorne Gardens, 1975, aged five. And yes, it bloody hurt. But preferable to electrocution by telegraph pole, while the grim reaper loitered nearby like a rubber-necking bastard.
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Barry Adamson's soundtrack for the @alicatterall.bsky.social co-directed Scala!!! is great. Every track conjures up the spirit of a time when Central London was far less gentrified and there was overlooked space in which to roam and be creative. mutebank.co.uk/collections/...
Barry Adamson - SCALA!!! - CD | Pre-Orders | Mute Bank
Release Date: 16th January 2026Catalogue Number: CDIONIC20 CD - Eco card pack, also banned, but not vinyl Barry Adamson, original member of Magazine and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and a celebrated s...
mutebank.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Barry Adamson's soundtrack for the @alicatterall.bsky.social co-directed Scala!!! is great. Every track conjures up the spirit of a time when Central London was far less gentrified and there was overlooked space in which to roam and be creative. mutebank.co.uk/collections/...
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**SCALA!!! News**
Thrilled to announce the second single from Barry Adamson's fantastic forthcoming soundtrack for our movie SCALA!!! released by @muterecords.bsky.social, the world's coolest record label, 16 Jan.
This one's a tribute to the Scala's patron saint, John Waters.
youtu.be/TNBygReYcIo
Thrilled to announce the second single from Barry Adamson's fantastic forthcoming soundtrack for our movie SCALA!!! released by @muterecords.bsky.social, the world's coolest record label, 16 Jan.
This one's a tribute to the Scala's patron saint, John Waters.
youtu.be/TNBygReYcIo
Barry Adamson - Babs Johnson Is Divine [Official Audio]
YouTube video by Mute
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
**SCALA!!! News**
Thrilled to announce the second single from Barry Adamson's fantastic forthcoming soundtrack for our movie SCALA!!! released by @muterecords.bsky.social, the world's coolest record label, 16 Jan.
This one's a tribute to the Scala's patron saint, John Waters.
youtu.be/TNBygReYcIo
Thrilled to announce the second single from Barry Adamson's fantastic forthcoming soundtrack for our movie SCALA!!! released by @muterecords.bsky.social, the world's coolest record label, 16 Jan.
This one's a tribute to the Scala's patron saint, John Waters.
youtu.be/TNBygReYcIo
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And then episode 3 of Girlbands Forever lands, and introduces a group that bears as much relation to any of the others as Pulp did to Britpop. That is to say: a different class. Songwriting, talent and style so streets ahead of the rest, they may as well have come from Mars.
youtu.be/wqZMWzFPQHQ?...
youtu.be/wqZMWzFPQHQ?...
Sugababes – Overload (Official Video)
YouTube video by Sugababes
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
And then episode 3 of Girlbands Forever lands, and introduces a group that bears as much relation to any of the others as Pulp did to Britpop. That is to say: a different class. Songwriting, talent and style so streets ahead of the rest, they may as well have come from Mars.
youtu.be/wqZMWzFPQHQ?...
youtu.be/wqZMWzFPQHQ?...
And then episode 3 of Girlbands Forever lands, and introduces a group that bears as much relation to any of the others as Pulp did to Britpop. That is to say: a different class. Songwriting, talent and style so streets ahead of the rest, they may as well have come from Mars.
youtu.be/wqZMWzFPQHQ?...
youtu.be/wqZMWzFPQHQ?...
Sugababes – Overload (Official Video)
YouTube video by Sugababes
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
And then episode 3 of Girlbands Forever lands, and introduces a group that bears as much relation to any of the others as Pulp did to Britpop. That is to say: a different class. Songwriting, talent and style so streets ahead of the rest, they may as well have come from Mars.
youtu.be/wqZMWzFPQHQ?...
youtu.be/wqZMWzFPQHQ?...
**SCALA!!! News**
Thrilled to announce the second single from Barry Adamson's fantastic forthcoming soundtrack for our movie SCALA!!! released by @muterecords.bsky.social, the world's coolest record label, 16 Jan.
This one's a tribute to the Scala's patron saint, John Waters.
youtu.be/TNBygReYcIo
Thrilled to announce the second single from Barry Adamson's fantastic forthcoming soundtrack for our movie SCALA!!! released by @muterecords.bsky.social, the world's coolest record label, 16 Jan.
This one's a tribute to the Scala's patron saint, John Waters.
youtu.be/TNBygReYcIo
Barry Adamson - Babs Johnson Is Divine [Official Audio]
YouTube video by Mute
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
**SCALA!!! News**
Thrilled to announce the second single from Barry Adamson's fantastic forthcoming soundtrack for our movie SCALA!!! released by @muterecords.bsky.social, the world's coolest record label, 16 Jan.
This one's a tribute to the Scala's patron saint, John Waters.
youtu.be/TNBygReYcIo
Thrilled to announce the second single from Barry Adamson's fantastic forthcoming soundtrack for our movie SCALA!!! released by @muterecords.bsky.social, the world's coolest record label, 16 Jan.
This one's a tribute to the Scala's patron saint, John Waters.
youtu.be/TNBygReYcIo
Would the daft little fucking racists and far-right-curious like to shut the fuck up now? Also - I hope that auto-profiled, completely innocent black guy sues whoever he needs to, for as much as he fucking can.
November 2, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Would the daft little fucking racists and far-right-curious like to shut the fuck up now? Also - I hope that auto-profiled, completely innocent black guy sues whoever he needs to, for as much as he fucking can.
RIP the great Peter Watkins; alongside Alan Clarke, one of THE absolutely essential English directors. Yes, the War Game; yes, Punishment Park. But for me, it's Privilege - even more hideously pertinent in 2025 than the days the radical left sat around discussing Marcuse.
youtu.be/fpzOLvDIBPk?...
youtu.be/fpzOLvDIBPk?...
PRIVILEGE trailer
YouTube video by Richelle Charkot
youtu.be
November 1, 2025 at 12:51 AM
RIP the great Peter Watkins; alongside Alan Clarke, one of THE absolutely essential English directors. Yes, the War Game; yes, Punishment Park. But for me, it's Privilege - even more hideously pertinent in 2025 than the days the radical left sat around discussing Marcuse.
youtu.be/fpzOLvDIBPk?...
youtu.be/fpzOLvDIBPk?...
Odd one this, but if I died tomorrow, I'd think like to come back as a cat that Joe Marler loved to cuddle.
October 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Odd one this, but if I died tomorrow, I'd think like to come back as a cat that Joe Marler loved to cuddle.
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Swear to God, it feels like Celebrity Traitors is the only thing holding the UK together right now.
October 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Swear to God, it feels like Celebrity Traitors is the only thing holding the UK together right now.
Swear to God, it feels like Celebrity Traitors is the only thing holding the UK together right now.
October 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Swear to God, it feels like Celebrity Traitors is the only thing holding the UK together right now.
Thursday's cover: Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat.
October 23, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Thursday's cover: Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat.
Tuesday brings my impression of Nick Cave performing George Harrison's Here Comes the Sun.
October 21, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Tuesday brings my impression of Nick Cave performing George Harrison's Here Comes the Sun.
The last few hours of Richard M Jack's utterly definitive Nick Drake biography (audio version), the numbing, day-by-day minutae of suicidal depression, are proving almost unbearable to listen to. Perhaps, one can be *too* definitive. But, on we plough. He deserves that.
youtu.be/obOWSCmzEAY?...
youtu.be/obOWSCmzEAY?...
Nick Drake - Place To Be
YouTube video by William Santos
youtu.be
October 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The last few hours of Richard M Jack's utterly definitive Nick Drake biography (audio version), the numbing, day-by-day minutae of suicidal depression, are proving almost unbearable to listen to. Perhaps, one can be *too* definitive. But, on we plough. He deserves that.
youtu.be/obOWSCmzEAY?...
youtu.be/obOWSCmzEAY?...
"Adamson has worked with some of the film industry’s most intriguing mavericks including Derek Jarman (The Last of England, 1987), David Lynch (The Lost Highway, 1997), Oliver Stone (Natural Born Killers, 1994) and Danny Boyle (The Beach, 2000)."
And us 😊
imprintent.org/barry-adamso...
And us 😊
imprintent.org/barry-adamso...
BARRY ADAMSON ANNOUNCES DETAILS OF HIS ORIGINAL SCORE FOR SCALA!!!
Barry Adamson has announced details of his original score for SCALA!!! – the anarchic, uproarious and ultimately heart-breaking documentary about London’s notorious rep cinema. The 22-track album is s...
imprintent.org
October 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"Adamson has worked with some of the film industry’s most intriguing mavericks including Derek Jarman (The Last of England, 1987), David Lynch (The Lost Highway, 1997), Oliver Stone (Natural Born Killers, 1994) and Danny Boyle (The Beach, 2000)."
And us 😊
imprintent.org/barry-adamso...
And us 😊
imprintent.org/barry-adamso...
Coming 16 January 2026...
October 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Coming 16 January 2026...
Finally deleted Threads. The utter lack of engagement was making my RSD throb like a bastard. The greatest trick the Silicon Bros ever pulled was convincing us social media is the whole world, not just a part of it, and that to be passed over is to be irrelevant. More to life than likes and clicks.
October 17, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Finally deleted Threads. The utter lack of engagement was making my RSD throb like a bastard. The greatest trick the Silicon Bros ever pulled was convincing us social media is the whole world, not just a part of it, and that to be passed over is to be irrelevant. More to life than likes and clicks.
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**SCALA!!! NEWS**
I'm DELIGHTED if not a trifle mindblown to announce the first single from the great Barry Adamson's amazing soundtrack for our debut movie SCALA!!! is released today by Mute, the coolest record label in the galaxy. The whole OST is out in January. Blimey.
youtu.be/6TTcZrTSx10?...
I'm DELIGHTED if not a trifle mindblown to announce the first single from the great Barry Adamson's amazing soundtrack for our debut movie SCALA!!! is released today by Mute, the coolest record label in the galaxy. The whole OST is out in January. Blimey.
youtu.be/6TTcZrTSx10?...
October 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
**SCALA!!! NEWS**
I'm DELIGHTED if not a trifle mindblown to announce the first single from the great Barry Adamson's amazing soundtrack for our debut movie SCALA!!! is released today by Mute, the coolest record label in the galaxy. The whole OST is out in January. Blimey.
youtu.be/6TTcZrTSx10?...
I'm DELIGHTED if not a trifle mindblown to announce the first single from the great Barry Adamson's amazing soundtrack for our debut movie SCALA!!! is released today by Mute, the coolest record label in the galaxy. The whole OST is out in January. Blimey.
youtu.be/6TTcZrTSx10?...
