Dulwich Raider
@andrewgrumbridge.bsky.social
Inactivist. Chair Man at @deserterblog.bsky.social, co-owner @theshirkersrest.bsky.social, co-author of: https://shorturl.at/Ybs64
Music: https://andrewgrumbridge.bandcamp.com/, https://open.spotify.com/artist/5AzgBovMOmTNmSPaEpTvpx?si=csgYmOn0Q
Music: https://andrewgrumbridge.bandcamp.com/, https://open.spotify.com/artist/5AzgBovMOmTNmSPaEpTvpx?si=csgYmOn0Q
Pinned
The Courage of Women EP, by Andrew Grumbridge
4 track album
andrewgrumbridge.bandcamp.com
My new EP, The Courage of Women is out now.
Four tracks featuring my good self, Lockton, Chris Pressley, Meg Robinson and M. Eames.
This is the link to it on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/album/23g31o...
Four tracks featuring my good self, Lockton, Chris Pressley, Meg Robinson and M. Eames.
This is the link to it on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/album/23g31o...
If you like your podcasts frost-bitten, with pubs, pixies, potatoes and people dressed as plants, this one’s for you.
www.podfollow.com/deserter-pubcast
www.podfollow.com/deserter-pubcast
January 6, 2026 at 9:46 AM
If you like your podcasts frost-bitten, with pubs, pixies, potatoes and people dressed as plants, this one’s for you.
www.podfollow.com/deserter-pubcast
www.podfollow.com/deserter-pubcast
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!
January 1, 2026 at 1:30 PM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!
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Remembering Micky. God rest you, you lovely man.
Play Ja Ja Ding Dong!
#eurovision
#eurovision
December 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Remembering Micky. God rest you, you lovely man.
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Went up the hill and had a chat with Micky.
December 31, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Went up the hill and had a chat with Micky.
Part 1 of my story The Publican, as published in Londonist.
To the person asking if there was a map of the pubs Gavin visits in the story - it’s in this piece!
To the person asking if there was a map of the pubs Gavin visits in the story - it’s in this piece!
Here's a real treat for you: The Publican, a short story from the new book by Deserter featuring a south London pub crawl (part one here, part two to follow very shortly) 🍺
A Short Story From Deserter: The Publican - Part One
John Cheever meets a south London pub crawl.
londonist.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Part 1 of my story The Publican, as published in Londonist.
To the person asking if there was a map of the pubs Gavin visits in the story - it’s in this piece!
To the person asking if there was a map of the pubs Gavin visits in the story - it’s in this piece!
Good to be able to jailbreak our first-born from warehouse incarceration!
“The Good Beer Guide meets Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.”
’Tis the season to rejoice. Our first book, Today South London, Tomorrow South London is once again available.
Now in our shop, along with Shirk, Rest and Play and, of course, the new one, Deserter Stories.
👉 Deserter.store
’Tis the season to rejoice. Our first book, Today South London, Tomorrow South London is once again available.
Now in our shop, along with Shirk, Rest and Play and, of course, the new one, Deserter Stories.
👉 Deserter.store
December 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Good to be able to jailbreak our first-born from warehouse incarceration!
Take the stress out of NYE. No advance planning required. No tickets to get in to a pub. Just drop in, hang out and meet new friends over some fine ales and ciders.
Join us on NYE for a relaxed & convivial night welcoming in the new year. No tickets required!
We’ll have great beers on from Elusive Brewing, including the last cask of our Green Hopper, plus games & prizes - yes, Rosie’s NYE pub bingo is back.
See you at the Shirker’s for 2025’s curtain call.
We’ll have great beers on from Elusive Brewing, including the last cask of our Green Hopper, plus games & prizes - yes, Rosie’s NYE pub bingo is back.
See you at the Shirker’s for 2025’s curtain call.
December 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Take the stress out of NYE. No advance planning required. No tickets to get in to a pub. Just drop in, hang out and meet new friends over some fine ales and ciders.
Go easy on me, Shirkmates!
We’re doing our traditional Xmas Day opening.
Andy G opening for 12 noon, Doddsy along to take us thru to 3 (and a bit).
As ever, we’ll have some snacks to share and feel free to bring your own.
And if you’re feeling a bit skint, come anyway and we’ll sort you out. No purchase necessary.
Andy G opening for 12 noon, Doddsy along to take us thru to 3 (and a bit).
As ever, we’ll have some snacks to share and feel free to bring your own.
And if you’re feeling a bit skint, come anyway and we’ll sort you out. No purchase necessary.
December 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Go easy on me, Shirkmates!
On stage with Meatraffle at Dash the Henge last night. Kinda. Living the dream!
Thanks to everyone who came along. Now to retire again.
Thanks to everyone who came along. Now to retire again.
December 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
On stage with Meatraffle at Dash the Henge last night. Kinda. Living the dream!
Thanks to everyone who came along. Now to retire again.
Thanks to everyone who came along. Now to retire again.
What goes around comes around.
Supermarket handed £17m tax bill over rotisserie chicken bags
Supermarket handed £17m tax bill over rotisserie chicken bags
Supermarket handed £17m tax bill over rotisserie chicken bags
www.independent.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
What goes around comes around.
One of the three wise men having mid-life crisis.
December 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
One of the three wise men having mid-life crisis.
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Hello Camberwell!
Looking forward to a hometown gig on Friday. Come down if you can - it’s free and there’s beer.
Looking forward to a hometown gig on Friday. Come down if you can - it’s free and there’s beer.
Our Deserter Stories World Tour (of South London) reaches its finale this Friday. Join us at Camberwell’s brilliant Dash the Henge for a last night of books, beer and bonhomie.
All welcome, free entry. We’ll be chatting about the new book and doing a couple of readings before getting right on it.
All welcome, free entry. We’ll be chatting about the new book and doing a couple of readings before getting right on it.
December 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Hello Camberwell!
Looking forward to a hometown gig on Friday. Come down if you can - it’s free and there’s beer.
Looking forward to a hometown gig on Friday. Come down if you can - it’s free and there’s beer.
I’ll be opening up the Shirker’s again on Christmas Day, before going home to cook lunch tipsy.
Always such a lovely, festive pub-family vibe, with people bringing food to share and pausing for a couple of hours in the madness.
One of my favourite pub days.
Always such a lovely, festive pub-family vibe, with people bringing food to share and pausing for a couple of hours in the madness.
One of my favourite pub days.
December 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I’ll be opening up the Shirker’s again on Christmas Day, before going home to cook lunch tipsy.
Always such a lovely, festive pub-family vibe, with people bringing food to share and pausing for a couple of hours in the madness.
One of my favourite pub days.
Always such a lovely, festive pub-family vibe, with people bringing food to share and pausing for a couple of hours in the madness.
One of my favourite pub days.
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What Paul Doyle did should be triggering a national conversation about car use in the same way that Dunblaine did for gun ownership
December 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
What Paul Doyle did should be triggering a national conversation about car use in the same way that Dunblaine did for gun ownership
Hello Camberwell!
Looking forward to a hometown gig on Friday. Come down if you can - it’s free and there’s beer.
Looking forward to a hometown gig on Friday. Come down if you can - it’s free and there’s beer.
Our Deserter Stories World Tour (of South London) reaches its finale this Friday. Join us at Camberwell’s brilliant Dash the Henge for a last night of books, beer and bonhomie.
All welcome, free entry. We’ll be chatting about the new book and doing a couple of readings before getting right on it.
All welcome, free entry. We’ll be chatting about the new book and doing a couple of readings before getting right on it.
December 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Hello Camberwell!
Looking forward to a hometown gig on Friday. Come down if you can - it’s free and there’s beer.
Looking forward to a hometown gig on Friday. Come down if you can - it’s free and there’s beer.
New favourite account.
As usual, I’ve waited until the very last day of the month to post my linocut ‘November Rain’. Still, better late than never…
#YeOldeCheshireCheese
#YeOldeCheshireCheese
December 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
New favourite account.
Tonight at 7pm (UK time)
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📖🎤🍷
Would you talk to these men online?
Meet the authors of Deserter Stories for a chat, a reading and a drink.
This Weds, 10th Dec, 7pm. Free, obviously.
Sign up here: luma.com/n5jmckv2 and bring a bottle!
Meet the authors of Deserter Stories for a chat, a reading and a drink.
This Weds, 10th Dec, 7pm. Free, obviously.
Sign up here: luma.com/n5jmckv2 and bring a bottle!
December 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Tonight at 7pm (UK time)
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#London 📚✒️🎤🍺
Come and join us at @booksellercrow.bsky.social in Crystal Palace on Thurs 11 Dec with the team from @deserterblog.bsky.social, to launch and celebrate both our new books. I will be interviewed about my #IntoTheGroove book by @clairywoowoo.bsky.social. It will be fun. Please come!
December 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
#London 📚✒️🎤🍺
Join me and @vincerai.bsky.social nattering about our new book, doing a reading and having a tot of something.
Would you talk to these men online?
Meet the authors of Deserter Stories for a chat, a reading and a drink.
This Weds, 10th Dec, 7pm. Free, obviously.
Sign up here: luma.com/n5jmckv2 and bring a bottle!
Meet the authors of Deserter Stories for a chat, a reading and a drink.
This Weds, 10th Dec, 7pm. Free, obviously.
Sign up here: luma.com/n5jmckv2 and bring a bottle!
December 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Join me and @vincerai.bsky.social nattering about our new book, doing a reading and having a tot of something.
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NEW PUBCAST: Carousing in Catford & Lewisham
Feat. dementia, dossers and Doritos, plus the Desert Island Crisps of an actual professional pub snack buyer.
Out now wherever you get your podcasts, or right here on our website, with dates of upcoming live appearances.
deserter.co.uk/2025/12/pubc...
Feat. dementia, dossers and Doritos, plus the Desert Island Crisps of an actual professional pub snack buyer.
Out now wherever you get your podcasts, or right here on our website, with dates of upcoming live appearances.
deserter.co.uk/2025/12/pubc...
Pubcast: Catford and The ‘Sham – Deserter
Dementia, disaster, dossers and Deserter Island Crispsps…
deserter.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
NEW PUBCAST: Carousing in Catford & Lewisham
Feat. dementia, dossers and Doritos, plus the Desert Island Crisps of an actual professional pub snack buyer.
Out now wherever you get your podcasts, or right here on our website, with dates of upcoming live appearances.
deserter.co.uk/2025/12/pubc...
Feat. dementia, dossers and Doritos, plus the Desert Island Crisps of an actual professional pub snack buyer.
Out now wherever you get your podcasts, or right here on our website, with dates of upcoming live appearances.
deserter.co.uk/2025/12/pubc...
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Coming Thursday, 11th Dec - we're live at The Bookseller Crow in Crystal Palace in a double bill of book, music and slacking fun, with drinks.
And we'll be raising a glass to dear, departed Jonathan Main.
7.30pm. Book your spot below.
booksellercrow.co.uk/event/desert...
And we'll be raising a glass to dear, departed Jonathan Main.
7.30pm. Book your spot below.
booksellercrow.co.uk/event/desert...
Event: Deserter Duo 'Deserter Stories' & Justin Lewis 'Into The Groove' - The Bookseller Crow
Head to your local for a night of two halves on 11th December when we welcome the return of the Deserter duo, plus the author Justin Lewis.
booksellercrow.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Coming Thursday, 11th Dec - we're live at The Bookseller Crow in Crystal Palace in a double bill of book, music and slacking fun, with drinks.
And we'll be raising a glass to dear, departed Jonathan Main.
7.30pm. Book your spot below.
booksellercrow.co.uk/event/desert...
And we'll be raising a glass to dear, departed Jonathan Main.
7.30pm. Book your spot below.
booksellercrow.co.uk/event/desert...
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Save our Swan!
A rallying call from SE7.
A rallying call from SE7.
Every time a pub closes down, God kills a kitten.
Save Our Swan – Deserter
Community bids to save local.
deserter.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Save our Swan!
A rallying call from SE7.
A rallying call from SE7.
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We’re doing an online book event to talk about our new collection of short stories, Deserter Stories.
Weds, December 10th, 7pm.
Register here to join us: luma.com/n5jmckv2
Bring a bottle.
The book is available to buy here: deserter.store
Weds, December 10th, 7pm.
Register here to join us: luma.com/n5jmckv2
Bring a bottle.
The book is available to buy here: deserter.store
Deserter Stories: Meet the Authors · Luma
Hear Andrew Grumbridge and Vincent Raison talk about the inspirations behind their collection of short stories, before reading an excerpt each. It'll be…
luma.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
We’re doing an online book event to talk about our new collection of short stories, Deserter Stories.
Weds, December 10th, 7pm.
Register here to join us: luma.com/n5jmckv2
Bring a bottle.
The book is available to buy here: deserter.store
Weds, December 10th, 7pm.
Register here to join us: luma.com/n5jmckv2
Bring a bottle.
The book is available to buy here: deserter.store