Justin Hopper
@oldweirdalbion.bsky.social
Writer. Uncanny Landscapes podcast. Belbury Poly - The Path. Obsolete Spells. Chanctonbury Rings. The Old Weird Albion. https://linktr.ee/oldweirdalbion
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perhaps we as a society have simply transcended the need to be good at things
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January 31, 2026 at 12:11 AM
perhaps we as a society have simply transcended the need to be good at things
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now playing on THE PERIPHERY on NOISEBOX RADIO:
Justin Hopper & Sharron Kraus with the Belbury Poly – The Thinnest Place (Ghost Box Records)
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Justin Hopper & Sharron Kraus with the Belbury Poly – The Thinnest Place (Ghost Box Records)
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@ghostboxrecords.bsky.social
January 25, 2026 at 5:53 PM
now playing on THE PERIPHERY on NOISEBOX RADIO:
Justin Hopper & Sharron Kraus with the Belbury Poly – The Thinnest Place (Ghost Box Records)
justinhopper.bandcamp.com || sharronkraus.bandcamp.com
@oldweirdalbion.bsky.social || @evergreensister.bsky.social l
@ghostboxrecords.bsky.social
Justin Hopper & Sharron Kraus with the Belbury Poly – The Thinnest Place (Ghost Box Records)
justinhopper.bandcamp.com || sharronkraus.bandcamp.com
@oldweirdalbion.bsky.social || @evergreensister.bsky.social l
@ghostboxrecords.bsky.social
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Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA
January 25, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA
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Today's alternative biography-through-press-clippings is the folk-horror move, Witchfinder General.
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The Making of Witchfinder General - In Local Press Clippings: Part One
The Making of Witchfinder General - In Local Press Clippings: Part One
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January 24, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Today's alternative biography-through-press-clippings is the folk-horror move, Witchfinder General.
grantmcphee.substack.com/p/the-making...
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Lots of people pointing out that penguins don’t live in Greenland. But I’m taken by the fact that DJT and the penguin have identical footprints?!
January 24, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Lots of people pointing out that penguins don’t live in Greenland. But I’m taken by the fact that DJT and the penguin have identical footprints?!
Ugh. Gutted to hear Martin Carthy may not perform again. 35 years I've been seeing him, not as regularly as perhaps I should've. How strange to think it finished. What a treasure he is and has given us all.
January 23, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Ugh. Gutted to hear Martin Carthy may not perform again. 35 years I've been seeing him, not as regularly as perhaps I should've. How strange to think it finished. What a treasure he is and has given us all.
Lots of screenings of We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher coming up, including a few London shows, Yeovil, Coventry, tours all over Scotland and Italy, NYC, Australia & a special Lisbon screening at which I'll perform with Jõao from Beautify Junkyards! www.closeandremote.net/portfolio/we...
We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher
We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher Screening Dates OCTOBER 2025 UCA Canterbury, Canterbury – 29 October 2025 Good Shepherd Cinema, Leytonstone, London – 30 October 2025 University o…
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January 23, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Lots of screenings of We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher coming up, including a few London shows, Yeovil, Coventry, tours all over Scotland and Italy, NYC, Australia & a special Lisbon screening at which I'll perform with Jõao from Beautify Junkyards! www.closeandremote.net/portfolio/we...
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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
Why am I listening to this delusional geriatric fascist scumbag talk? Nothing he says is true. I mean, literally nothing.
January 21, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Why am I listening to this delusional geriatric fascist scumbag talk? Nothing he says is true. I mean, literally nothing.
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I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 1:57 AM
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
I feel like it's worth pointing out many times that Nigel Farage believes Donald J. Trump should have a veto over UK political decisions.
January 20, 2026 at 8:02 AM
I feel like it's worth pointing out many times that Nigel Farage believes Donald J. Trump should have a veto over UK political decisions.
Took my 10yo and his mates to the comics and cards shops tonight. All the high school kids are out. Shirts seen on teenagers include: Cramps, The Fall and Siouxsie. ❤️
January 16, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Took my 10yo and his mates to the comics and cards shops tonight. All the high school kids are out. Shirts seen on teenagers include: Cramps, The Fall and Siouxsie. ❤️
Trump may not have won the nobel peace prize but i bet he could throw a kettle over a pub. that's the real quiz.
January 16, 2026 at 10:54 AM
Trump may not have won the nobel peace prize but i bet he could throw a kettle over a pub. that's the real quiz.
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Constable Country is one of England’s most cherished landscapes — immortalised in the paintings of John Constable.
But what if those paintings were forgeries?
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But what if those paintings were forgeries?
@oldweirdalbion.bsky.social:
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January 15, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Constable Country is one of England’s most cherished landscapes — immortalised in the paintings of John Constable.
But what if those paintings were forgeries?
@oldweirdalbion.bsky.social:
dispatch-media.com/the-great-en...
But what if those paintings were forgeries?
@oldweirdalbion.bsky.social:
dispatch-media.com/the-great-en...
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My latest Haunted Generation column is in the new
@forteantimes.bsky.social ... Issue 466. Thoughts on work by @simonavery.bsky.social, Chimehours, @btlabel.bsky.social, Sister Irene O'Connor, Drew Mulholland, Maps,
@oldweirdalbion.bsky.social and more... out now!
@forteantimes.bsky.social ... Issue 466. Thoughts on work by @simonavery.bsky.social, Chimehours, @btlabel.bsky.social, Sister Irene O'Connor, Drew Mulholland, Maps,
@oldweirdalbion.bsky.social and more... out now!
January 7, 2026 at 10:49 AM
My latest Haunted Generation column is in the new
@forteantimes.bsky.social ... Issue 466. Thoughts on work by @simonavery.bsky.social, Chimehours, @btlabel.bsky.social, Sister Irene O'Connor, Drew Mulholland, Maps,
@oldweirdalbion.bsky.social and more... out now!
@forteantimes.bsky.social ... Issue 466. Thoughts on work by @simonavery.bsky.social, Chimehours, @btlabel.bsky.social, Sister Irene O'Connor, Drew Mulholland, Maps,
@oldweirdalbion.bsky.social and more... out now!
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Thank you to everyone who has supported, shared, bought records, or simply taken the time to listen to the music I’ve released this year. Plenty planned for next year!
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Thank you to everyone who has supported, shared, bought records, or simply taken the time to listen to the music I’ve released this year. Plenty planned for next year!
Are Gen X’ers from outside the US aware that Ayn Rand was required reading in many 1980s American high schools? I often feel like this is an undervalued dot on the current radical-capitalist history.
December 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Are Gen X’ers from outside the US aware that Ayn Rand was required reading in many 1980s American high schools? I often feel like this is an undervalued dot on the current radical-capitalist history.
London tomorrow, 2nd Dec. - Dr Hope Wolf and I in conversation for me new book, talking around ghosts, modernist art, psychogeography, Bohemians in London 1912, Arthur Machen, Ione de Forest, Aleister Crowley, Nina Hamnett, Spencer Gore, the New River and lots more. www.tinyurl.com/DTLYLondon
Dead The Long Year book launch: Justin Hopper and Hope Wolf in conversation.
Tuesday 2nd December 6.30-9pm Justin Hopper (The Old Weird Albion; Ghost Box Records) and Hope Wolf (Sussex Modernism) in conversation to mark the launch of Hopper's book Dead The Long Year, a histo...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
London tomorrow, 2nd Dec. - Dr Hope Wolf and I in conversation for me new book, talking around ghosts, modernist art, psychogeography, Bohemians in London 1912, Arthur Machen, Ione de Forest, Aleister Crowley, Nina Hamnett, Spencer Gore, the New River and lots more. www.tinyurl.com/DTLYLondon
Massive thank-you to the guy in this cafe who just quoted Ice Cube's verse from Straight Outta Compton in his magnificently posh accent. made my day.
November 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Massive thank-you to the guy in this cafe who just quoted Ice Cube's verse from Straight Outta Compton in his magnificently posh accent. made my day.
London: A week from today, book event thingy with me and Dr Hope Wolf talking ghosts, psychogeography, modernist art, Edwardian London hipsters, the Cave of the Golden Calf, magick, poetry, people trapped in ice (I should think), quicksand, more... tinyurl.com/DTLYLondon for info/tix!
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
London: A week from today, book event thingy with me and Dr Hope Wolf talking ghosts, psychogeography, modernist art, Edwardian London hipsters, the Cave of the Golden Calf, magick, poetry, people trapped in ice (I should think), quicksand, more... tinyurl.com/DTLYLondon for info/tix!
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Client assessing if a freelancer is well enough to work or not.
Oil on wood.
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Oil on wood.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Client assessing if a freelancer is well enough to work or not.
Oil on wood.
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Oil on wood.
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Great evening last night discussing all things Hauntological that tied in with the book launch of Listening to Landscape: Hauntology and the Echoes of Albion.
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November 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Great evening last night discussing all things Hauntological that tied in with the book launch of Listening to Landscape: Hauntology and the Echoes of Albion.
@ghostboxrecords.bsky.social @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social #hauntologymusic #hauntology #hauntología #hauntological #landscape #soundscape
@ghostboxrecords.bsky.social @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social #hauntologymusic #hauntology #hauntología #hauntological #landscape #soundscape
Dead The Long Year is published today in the US and the UK by Far West Books! Short enough to read in an afternoon and have time to email and ask me 'why?' - check it out if you like art, magick, Bohemian London in 1912, self-mockery, authors with imposter syndrome and plenty more!
November 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Dead The Long Year is published today in the US and the UK by Far West Books! Short enough to read in an afternoon and have time to email and ask me 'why?' - check it out if you like art, magick, Bohemian London in 1912, self-mockery, authors with imposter syndrome and plenty more!