Andrew Crowther
@andrewcrowther.bsky.social
Unprofessional writer, author of "Down to Earth" published by Stairwell Books and also "Stupid Stories for Tough Times" published by Renard Press, Secretary of the W S Gilbert Society, brunch liberal, and twit
Bradford, Yorkshire
Bradford, Yorkshire
Just one more, just at the cusp of getting bored with it
November 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Just one more, just at the cusp of getting bored with it
November 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Am I doing this right?
November 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Am I doing this right?
Saltaire this morning
November 9, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Saltaire this morning
Wagner's Siegfried Idyll coming up on R3 soon
November 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Wagner's Siegfried Idyll coming up on R3 soon
Latest update in the saga of ordering the new Capriccio recording of Weill's "Love Life": you don't want to know
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Latest update in the saga of ordering the new Capriccio recording of Weill's "Love Life": you don't want to know
He’s just seen me trying to be funny
November 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
He’s just seen me trying to be funny
Morning, Tom! Great to hear the "Yeomen of the Guard" overture, and I can advise that a *good* production of the opera can blow your socks off.... PS, is it possible to advise whoever does the BBC website that it's "Yeomen", not "Yeoman"?
November 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Morning, Tom! Great to hear the "Yeomen of the Guard" overture, and I can advise that a *good* production of the opera can blow your socks off.... PS, is it possible to advise whoever does the BBC website that it's "Yeomen", not "Yeoman"?
Getting a little bit concerned about my ordered copy of the new @operanorth.co.uk recording of Weill’s “Love Life”. It’s allegedly in the post but is taking a dashed long time arriving; most sites (e.g. Naxos) are stating this brand new CD set is “out of stock“!
www.naxosdirect.co.uk/items/kurt-w...
www.naxosdirect.co.uk/items/kurt-w...
October 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Getting a little bit concerned about my ordered copy of the new @operanorth.co.uk recording of Weill’s “Love Life”. It’s allegedly in the post but is taking a dashed long time arriving; most sites (e.g. Naxos) are stating this brand new CD set is “out of stock“!
www.naxosdirect.co.uk/items/kurt-w...
www.naxosdirect.co.uk/items/kurt-w...
The canal near Saltaire is swarming with swans this year: I think we saw about 10 this morning
October 26, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The canal near Saltaire is swarming with swans this year: I think we saw about 10 this morning
My reading at the moment. Some overlap with pieces in the Dekker collections I've already read, but some interesting rarities and an excellent introduction. Unlike the editions I've previously read, this modernises spelling and punctuation - easier to read, but there's a loss of immediacy and charm.
October 23, 2025 at 8:57 AM
My reading at the moment. Some overlap with pieces in the Dekker collections I've already read, but some interesting rarities and an excellent introduction. Unlike the editions I've previously read, this modernises spelling and punctuation - easier to read, but there's a loss of immediacy and charm.
Wait, @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social is leaving Sound of Cinema??
October 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Wait, @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social is leaving Sound of Cinema??
With the unexpected news that we apparently now have two moons, this cartoon by W S Gilbert is suddenly topical:
October 21, 2025 at 8:40 AM
With the unexpected news that we apparently now have two moons, this cartoon by W S Gilbert is suddenly topical:
I don't disagree but, as a fan of P G Wodehouse, what's a chap to do?
October 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I don't disagree but, as a fan of P G Wodehouse, what's a chap to do?
Oo, I know this one! This was a note I wrote for a new edition of Gilbert’s “Bab Ballads” a couple of years ago:
October 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Oo, I know this one! This was a note I wrote for a new edition of Gilbert’s “Bab Ballads” a couple of years ago:
Just noticed this very nice new mural on the outside of the Broadway centre in Bradford, elegantly touching on the city’s past associations with the wool industry
October 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Just noticed this very nice new mural on the outside of the Broadway centre in Bradford, elegantly touching on the city’s past associations with the wool industry
Is that... a Castle of Otranto reference?
October 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Is that... a Castle of Otranto reference?
I don't like to judge* but is someone at the BBC all fingers and thumbs this morning?
*liar
*liar
October 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I don't like to judge* but is someone at the BBC all fingers and thumbs this morning?
*liar
*liar
I don’t know why this strange “argument“ has appeared in the past few days; there is, of course, no contradiction between the two statements.
October 5, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I don’t know why this strange “argument“ has appeared in the past few days; there is, of course, no contradiction between the two statements.
A book I have very much enjoyed this week: "And So Do I" by Bradford writer Malachi Whitaker, a sort of chronicle of 2 years in the late 1930s, first published in 1939 & newly republished. Irreverent, humorous, often startlingly honest, with an undercurrent of existential bewilderment and searching.
October 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A book I have very much enjoyed this week: "And So Do I" by Bradford writer Malachi Whitaker, a sort of chronicle of 2 years in the late 1930s, first published in 1939 & newly republished. Irreverent, humorous, often startlingly honest, with an undercurrent of existential bewilderment and searching.
This week, I've been reading this book, described on the cover by Dorothy Parker as "wildly funny", by Edmund Wilson as "a miniature comic epic", and by the publishers as "intelligent and hilarious". It's good, but in my opinion not at all funny; in fact the exact opposite, grim & joyless & tragic.
October 4, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This week, I've been reading this book, described on the cover by Dorothy Parker as "wildly funny", by Edmund Wilson as "a miniature comic epic", and by the publishers as "intelligent and hilarious". It's good, but in my opinion not at all funny; in fact the exact opposite, grim & joyless & tragic.
Periodic update of the company my book “Stupid Stories for Tough Times“ keeps in @waterstones.bsky.social Bradford: today, with Alan Bennett and George Orwell
October 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Periodic update of the company my book “Stupid Stories for Tough Times“ keeps in @waterstones.bsky.social Bradford: today, with Alan Bennett and George Orwell