Paul Abbott
@pablovich.bsky.social
Musician/writer/podcaster/idiot. Sitting in L'pool, arrived here via Boro/Scarborough/Stoke.
Good Grief (bass/vocals).
Big Beatles Sort Out Podcast, Hark! The 87th Precinct Podcast (Ed McBain). "Pro Good Things, Anti Bad Things".
Good Grief (bass/vocals).
Big Beatles Sort Out Podcast, Hark! The 87th Precinct Podcast (Ed McBain). "Pro Good Things, Anti Bad Things".
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Good Grief - Transparent Guitars
YouTube video by Good Grief
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My band, Good Grief, has got some gigs coming up soon, if bands that sound a bit like Superchunk, Husker Dü, Pavement, that sort of thing.
20th Feb: w/Boxfires @ Peer Hat, Manchester
15th Mar: w/Perennial @ Outpost, Liverpool
2nd May: w/Goo @ TBC, Liverpool
youtu.be/GnTzHWnzGXw?...
20th Feb: w/Boxfires @ Peer Hat, Manchester
15th Mar: w/Perennial @ Outpost, Liverpool
2nd May: w/Goo @ TBC, Liverpool
youtu.be/GnTzHWnzGXw?...
I love it when you find a link to the Beatles, even if it's one step removed. Our family friend, Ian, is here on the right of the picture, speaking to John who was by all accounts swearing so much Granada couldn't use the sound on the footage they took.
A few years ago an old family friend, sadly no longer with us, sent me this photo. He's on the very right, talking with Mr Lennon at 1 Div HQ & Signal Regiment in Verden-Aller, North Rhein, Westphalia.
He described it as "One of the most memorable occasions in my life."
@adamsleslie.bsky.social
He described it as "One of the most memorable occasions in my life."
@adamsleslie.bsky.social
January 23, 2026 at 4:03 PM
I love it when you find a link to the Beatles, even if it's one step removed. Our family friend, Ian, is here on the right of the picture, speaking to John who was by all accounts swearing so much Granada couldn't use the sound on the footage they took.
is my skeleteon wet
January 23, 2026 at 10:29 AM
is my skeleteon wet
My band, Good Grief, has got some gigs coming up soon, if bands that sound a bit like Superchunk, Husker Dü, Pavement, that sort of thing.
20th Feb: w/Boxfires @ Peer Hat, Manchester
15th Mar: w/Perennial @ Outpost, Liverpool
2nd May: w/Goo @ TBC, Liverpool
youtu.be/GnTzHWnzGXw?...
20th Feb: w/Boxfires @ Peer Hat, Manchester
15th Mar: w/Perennial @ Outpost, Liverpool
2nd May: w/Goo @ TBC, Liverpool
youtu.be/GnTzHWnzGXw?...
Good Grief - Transparent Guitars
YouTube video by Good Grief
youtu.be
January 23, 2026 at 9:31 AM
My band, Good Grief, has got some gigs coming up soon, if bands that sound a bit like Superchunk, Husker Dü, Pavement, that sort of thing.
20th Feb: w/Boxfires @ Peer Hat, Manchester
15th Mar: w/Perennial @ Outpost, Liverpool
2nd May: w/Goo @ TBC, Liverpool
youtu.be/GnTzHWnzGXw?...
20th Feb: w/Boxfires @ Peer Hat, Manchester
15th Mar: w/Perennial @ Outpost, Liverpool
2nd May: w/Goo @ TBC, Liverpool
youtu.be/GnTzHWnzGXw?...
Thought this (old) post would do Bluesky numbers, but it just goes to show you can never predict what will be a 'Hot Ladder' Moment.
Remember Windsor Davies and Donald Sinden as part of one of the most iconic duos ever? #neverthehutch #starskyandtwain
January 22, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Thought this (old) post would do Bluesky numbers, but it just goes to show you can never predict what will be a 'Hot Ladder' Moment.
Remember Windsor Davies and Donald Sinden as part of one of the most iconic duos ever? #neverthehutch #starskyandtwain
January 21, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Remember Windsor Davies and Donald Sinden as part of one of the most iconic duos ever? #neverthehutch #starskyandtwain
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Legendary child at the bus stop yesterday (finale)
January 20, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Legendary child at the bus stop yesterday (finale)
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Legendary child at the bus stop yesterday (part 1)
January 20, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Legendary child at the bus stop yesterday (part 1)
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The ‘AI Overview’ from a Google search on streaming a film in Oz. Might be a little while yet until we have to welcome the robot overlords. Or is that what they want us to think?
January 21, 2026 at 8:06 AM
The ‘AI Overview’ from a Google search on streaming a film in Oz. Might be a little while yet until we have to welcome the robot overlords. Or is that what they want us to think?
We’re very hip and up to the minute in this household. You can tell by the fact that L’s reading a book from 1947 and I’m reading one from 1948.
January 20, 2026 at 11:38 PM
We’re very hip and up to the minute in this household. You can tell by the fact that L’s reading a book from 1947 and I’m reading one from 1948.
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A new favourite Evan Hunter sentence... "equally nude alligator" sounds like one of our podcast episode titles.
January 20, 2026 at 2:10 PM
A new favourite Evan Hunter sentence... "equally nude alligator" sounds like one of our podcast episode titles.
Should you want a (pretty much) definitive list of the works of Ed McBain / Evan Hunter to guide your collecting endeavours then I've just republished this online flipbook collector's guide.
FFO: Crime Fiction, Pulp Stories, American novels, 87th Precinct, Hitchcock
FFO: Crime Fiction, Pulp Stories, American novels, 87th Precinct, Hitchcock
A couple of minor updates to the Evan Hunter / Ed McBain collectors guide (online flipbook).
(Because a short story only in UK version of a collection wasn't in my records!)
Feel free to share this link. #books #booksky heyzine.com/flip-book/cb...
(Because a short story only in UK version of a collection wasn't in my records!)
Feel free to share this link. #books #booksky heyzine.com/flip-book/cb...
Online Flipbook
Created with the Heyzine flipbook maker
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January 20, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Should you want a (pretty much) definitive list of the works of Ed McBain / Evan Hunter to guide your collecting endeavours then I've just republished this online flipbook collector's guide.
FFO: Crime Fiction, Pulp Stories, American novels, 87th Precinct, Hitchcock
FFO: Crime Fiction, Pulp Stories, American novels, 87th Precinct, Hitchcock
In the new Starfleet Academy there’s a joke about one of the characters not understanding that gazpacho soup is served cold. *Surely* a Red Dwarf reference?!
January 19, 2026 at 2:59 PM
In the new Starfleet Academy there’s a joke about one of the characters not understanding that gazpacho soup is served cold. *Surely* a Red Dwarf reference?!
Me, presenting a Doctor Who themed episode of Tim’s @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social podcast, with Tim choosing a selection of Who Curios a couple of years ago.
Hop in the TARDIS for a Doctor Who-themed chat about The Ultimate Adventure, The Ghosts Of N-Space, the BBC Pinocchio, The Sally Lockhart Mysteries, the State Of Decay 'Talking Book', that time a Dalek showed up on Schools' TV and much much more...
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Doctor Who And The Looks Unfamiliar: Tim Worthington – The Most ‘Wood’ Anything Could Possibly Be
Looks Unfamiliar with Tim Worthington talking to Paul Abbott about Pickwick Talking Books’ Doctor Who: State Of Decay, the BBC Pinocchio, Doctor Who: Variations On A Theme, The Paradise Of De…
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January 18, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Me, presenting a Doctor Who themed episode of Tim’s @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social podcast, with Tim choosing a selection of Who Curios a couple of years ago.
I’m having a marvellous weekend of cramping intestines and stomach pains. What a wonderful new experience and not at all a horrifying and upsetting thing.
January 18, 2026 at 9:28 AM
I’m having a marvellous weekend of cramping intestines and stomach pains. What a wonderful new experience and not at all a horrifying and upsetting thing.
Me, back on the McBain trail.
And we also have some more from #EdMcBain...
These four collections from the #NewEnglishLibrary were McBain edited collections of #crimefiction stories.
Each book has one McBain story, then a selection from the likes of Craig Rice, Ellery Queen, Fletcher Flora, Robert Bloch and more.
#booksky
These four collections from the #NewEnglishLibrary were McBain edited collections of #crimefiction stories.
Each book has one McBain story, then a selection from the likes of Craig Rice, Ellery Queen, Fletcher Flora, Robert Bloch and more.
#booksky
January 16, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Me, back on the McBain trail.
a generation of elderly puffins
January 16, 2026 at 10:10 AM
a generation of elderly puffins
Sorry I was late home from the pub, but Rhinestone Cowboy came on the jukebox and I had stay and talk about how brilliant Rhinestone Cowboy is for an hour.
January 15, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Sorry I was late home from the pub, but Rhinestone Cowboy came on the jukebox and I had stay and talk about how brilliant Rhinestone Cowboy is for an hour.
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My friend's Dad doesn't know who Cookie Monster is and referred to him as COLD ELMO.
January 15, 2026 at 6:55 PM
My friend's Dad doesn't know who Cookie Monster is and referred to him as COLD ELMO.
Let's have a still of Virginia O'Brien concluding her absolutely staggeringly bizarre singing performance in the Marx Brothers film The Big Store with this classic line.
January 14, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Let's have a still of Virginia O'Brien concluding her absolutely staggeringly bizarre singing performance in the Marx Brothers film The Big Store with this classic line.
First Bundobust of the year, fact/food fans.
January 13, 2026 at 5:39 PM
First Bundobust of the year, fact/food fans.
Are Fortitude Valley playing near you? Go and see them!
Hi! We are playing some shows this week 🤠
Here’s everything you need to know (I think)…
Here’s everything you need to know (I think)…
January 13, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Are Fortitude Valley playing near you? Go and see them!
In the old days, on the other social media place/hellhole, I used to regularly get messages asking me when I'm bringing Shameless back despite the fact that my bio/face/content was clearly that of ME not HIM.
First episode of ‘Shameless’ was broadcast on this day 2004 with a cast including including David Threlfall and Anne Marie Duff. The writer was Paul Abbott.
January 13, 2026 at 9:12 AM
In the old days, on the other social media place/hellhole, I used to regularly get messages asking me when I'm bringing Shameless back despite the fact that my bio/face/content was clearly that of ME not HIM.
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Paul Abbott joins me for a chat about Disneytime Rotadraw, Fun And Games With The Andrex Puppy, Breaking All The Rules, Tomorrow’s World on Magic Eye, Kirky The HD Hunter, Frog Dreaming, Waddingtons’ The Vampire Game and more...
timworthington.org/2024/07/20/l...
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Looks Unfamiliar: Paul Abbott – Don’t Make A Puppy A Stage Manager
Looks Unfamiliar with Paul Abbott talking to Tim Worthington about Disneytime Rotadraw, What Shall We Do Now?: Fun And Games With The Andrex Puppy, Breaking All The Rules, Frog Dreaming, Tomorrow&#…
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January 13, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Paul Abbott joins me for a chat about Disneytime Rotadraw, Fun And Games With The Andrex Puppy, Breaking All The Rules, Tomorrow’s World on Magic Eye, Kirky The HD Hunter, Frog Dreaming, Waddingtons’ The Vampire Game and more...
timworthington.org/2024/07/20/l...
timworthington.org/2024/07/20/l...