James Collingwood
@jamescollingwood.bsky.social
Doodler. Co-writing a book on Steven Wells.
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New at REAL GONE: Dinosaur Jr. - The Black Session: Live In Paris 1993 (full review)
This excellent set is finally released on CD this week!
www.realgonerocks.com/2025/11/dino...
#MusicSky
This excellent set is finally released on CD this week!
www.realgonerocks.com/2025/11/dino...
#MusicSky
DINOSAUR JR – The Black Session: Live In Paris 1993 | Real Gone
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November 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
New at REAL GONE: Dinosaur Jr. - The Black Session: Live In Paris 1993 (full review)
This excellent set is finally released on CD this week!
www.realgonerocks.com/2025/11/dino...
#MusicSky
This excellent set is finally released on CD this week!
www.realgonerocks.com/2025/11/dino...
#MusicSky
The troll has been at it again with his wiki edits apparently.
November 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The troll has been at it again with his wiki edits apparently.
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NEW! #FirstLastAnything Ep 32: We are back each Sunday, till Christmas, and my guest today - versatile and fascinating music writer and musician Joanna Wyld (@joannawyld.bsky.social) - talks about bellringing, Queen, liner notes, Molly Drake and much more. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/09/f...
FLA 32: Joanna Wyld (09/11/2025)
Of all the guests I’ve had on First Last Anything so far, Kent-born Joanna Wyld might have worn the most musical hats. Writer, musician, composer, librettist, teacher and administrator, she’s playe…
firstlastanything.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
NEW! #FirstLastAnything Ep 32: We are back each Sunday, till Christmas, and my guest today - versatile and fascinating music writer and musician Joanna Wyld (@joannawyld.bsky.social) - talks about bellringing, Queen, liner notes, Molly Drake and much more. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/09/f...
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Once again I'm gobsmacked at the number of people calling for the abolition of the BBC who have John Peel, Hitchhikers, Doctor Who, Alan Partridge or Blackadder avatars. I'm not even sure how they can have sufficient intelligence to remember that their feet go on the ground.
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Once again I'm gobsmacked at the number of people calling for the abolition of the BBC who have John Peel, Hitchhikers, Doctor Who, Alan Partridge or Blackadder avatars. I'm not even sure how they can have sufficient intelligence to remember that their feet go on the ground.
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'A bruised but brilliant story'.
A terrific review of Our Secrets Are The Same @godisinthetvzine.bsky.social
www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/11/10/b...
A terrific review of Our Secrets Are The Same @godisinthetvzine.bsky.social
www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/11/10/b...
BOOK REVIEW: Our Secrets Are The Same (Jim Kerr & Charlie Burchill, With Graeme Thomson) - God Is In The TV
There’s a line in Our Secrets Are The Same that hits harder than any chorus Simple Minds ever wrote: ‘We never set out to be famous. We set out to get out.’
www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
'A bruised but brilliant story'.
A terrific review of Our Secrets Are The Same @godisinthetvzine.bsky.social
www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/11/10/b...
A terrific review of Our Secrets Are The Same @godisinthetvzine.bsky.social
www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/11/10/b...
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If you think some of the performances at Anfield have been bad this season, just wait until The Foo Fighters turn up
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
If you think some of the performances at Anfield have been bad this season, just wait until The Foo Fighters turn up
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1984 was an absolutely fantastic year for TV..📺
We've a new episode arriving on Wednesday, with @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social kw looking at shows from November 1984, including...
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
1984 was an absolutely fantastic year for TV..📺
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Scalphunter, my solo game of Cold War espionage is now live on DriveThruRpg - free or pay what you want.
Indulge your inner LeCarré, Deighton or McLean
legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5443...
#rpg #ttrpg #solo #solorpg #espionage #spy #lecarre #sandbaggers
Indulge your inner LeCarré, Deighton or McLean
legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5443...
#rpg #ttrpg #solo #solorpg #espionage #spy #lecarre #sandbaggers
Scalphunter - Finn Cullen Games | DriveThruRPG.com
Scalphunter is a narrative-focused Solo game that puts you into the weary shoes of an intelligence operative within a s
legacy.drivethrurpg.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Scalphunter, my solo game of Cold War espionage is now live on DriveThruRpg - free or pay what you want.
Indulge your inner LeCarré, Deighton or McLean
legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5443...
#rpg #ttrpg #solo #solorpg #espionage #spy #lecarre #sandbaggers
Indulge your inner LeCarré, Deighton or McLean
legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5443...
#rpg #ttrpg #solo #solorpg #espionage #spy #lecarre #sandbaggers
Writing tip for the troll. If you don't like someone because they're associated with a site you used to contribute to,but fell out with , don't criticise their book for no reason or try to sabotage another contributors book with lies.
November 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Writing tip for the troll. If you don't like someone because they're associated with a site you used to contribute to,but fell out with , don't criticise their book for no reason or try to sabotage another contributors book with lies.
Martyn Goodacre told me ex NME photographers have a whatsapp group.blimey i bet that's fun. (A lot of the snappers i spoke to for the book have the best stories)
November 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Martyn Goodacre told me ex NME photographers have a whatsapp group.blimey i bet that's fun. (A lot of the snappers i spoke to for the book have the best stories)
My sister sees him at football and on European trips at the airport coming back from Liverpool European Cup matches. Hopefully talking to Peter Hooton next week about Swells. Can't wait.
November 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
My sister sees him at football and on European trips at the airport coming back from Liverpool European Cup matches. Hopefully talking to Peter Hooton next week about Swells. Can't wait.
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When i was a little boy I bounced around between two homes. One full of snooker on the telly noise, sharing a bed with coats on-top to keep warm, mince & tatties every night, and the other, empty, full of echoes and me with a room on my own on the top floor.
You can guess where a kid felt safer.
You can guess where a kid felt safer.
November 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
When i was a little boy I bounced around between two homes. One full of snooker on the telly noise, sharing a bed with coats on-top to keep warm, mince & tatties every night, and the other, empty, full of echoes and me with a room on my own on the top floor.
You can guess where a kid felt safer.
You can guess where a kid felt safer.
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I interviewed a Smith! About the band's rapid ascent (their hairdresser's sister was their audience in Feb 83; they sold out the Hacienda, and then some, in Nov), Sinead, Suede, his favourite Smiths cover, and the last time he saw Morrissey – in the last decade. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
The Smiths’ Mike Joyce: ‘I’m not on Morrissey’s Christmas card list’
The former bandmate of Morrissey and Johnny Marr has released his own memoir, ‘The Drums’, about the group’s giddy five-year lifespan. He speaks with Jude Rogers about the good times they had and thei...
www.independent.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I interviewed a Smith! About the band's rapid ascent (their hairdresser's sister was their audience in Feb 83; they sold out the Hacienda, and then some, in Nov), Sinead, Suede, his favourite Smiths cover, and the last time he saw Morrissey – in the last decade. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
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I have recorded a podcast on Harry Crews & his masterpiece A Childhood: The Biography of a Place for the Library of Lazy Thinking…
lazythinking.substack.com/p/adelle-str...
lazythinking.substack.com/p/adelle-str...
Adelle Stripe on A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
Author Adelle Stripe talks to Glenn Fisher about her pick for the library, the 1978 memoir A Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews
lazythinking.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I have recorded a podcast on Harry Crews & his masterpiece A Childhood: The Biography of a Place for the Library of Lazy Thinking…
lazythinking.substack.com/p/adelle-str...
lazythinking.substack.com/p/adelle-str...
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"Paul was the only Beatle who seemed to own a radio or keep up with the charts". @quantick.bsky.social on #PaulMcCartney's *other* band and the new WINGS compilation > bit.ly/4nERyUC
November 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"Paul was the only Beatle who seemed to own a radio or keep up with the charts". @quantick.bsky.social on #PaulMcCartney's *other* band and the new WINGS compilation > bit.ly/4nERyUC
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I'm also here with @petepaphides.bsky.social and Peter Hooton: www.waterstones.com/events/water...
November 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I'm also here with @petepaphides.bsky.social and Peter Hooton: www.waterstones.com/events/water...
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Bernard bought Beryl biscuits
But because biscuits broke
Beryl became barmy!
Began bellowing!
Began barking!
Became bed-bound!
Blimey!
Bernard
Bothered by Beryl’s bonkers behaviour
Brought Beryl baked beans
Beautiful!
Beryl became better.
But because biscuits broke
Beryl became barmy!
Began bellowing!
Began barking!
Became bed-bound!
Blimey!
Bernard
Bothered by Beryl’s bonkers behaviour
Brought Beryl baked beans
Beautiful!
Beryl became better.
November 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Bernard bought Beryl biscuits
But because biscuits broke
Beryl became barmy!
Began bellowing!
Began barking!
Became bed-bound!
Blimey!
Bernard
Bothered by Beryl’s bonkers behaviour
Brought Beryl baked beans
Beautiful!
Beryl became better.
But because biscuits broke
Beryl became barmy!
Began bellowing!
Began barking!
Became bed-bound!
Blimey!
Bernard
Bothered by Beryl’s bonkers behaviour
Brought Beryl baked beans
Beautiful!
Beryl became better.
Does anyone know any funny Jean-Luc Godard films?
November 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Does anyone know any funny Jean-Luc Godard films?
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Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer.
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Edge of Darkness - Series 1: 1. Compassionate Leave
Thriller set in a world of obsessive state security. Ronald Craven is haunted by the murder of his daughter and begins his own investigation into her death.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer.
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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The kinds of ideas I get for pitches:
i. A documentary on the life of Alan Bennett, written and narrated by Werner Herzog. ii. A documentary on the life of Werner Herzog, written and narrated by Alan Bennett.
No wonder I never hear from my agent.
i. A documentary on the life of Alan Bennett, written and narrated by Werner Herzog. ii. A documentary on the life of Werner Herzog, written and narrated by Alan Bennett.
No wonder I never hear from my agent.
November 2, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The kinds of ideas I get for pitches:
i. A documentary on the life of Alan Bennett, written and narrated by Werner Herzog. ii. A documentary on the life of Werner Herzog, written and narrated by Alan Bennett.
No wonder I never hear from my agent.
i. A documentary on the life of Alan Bennett, written and narrated by Werner Herzog. ii. A documentary on the life of Werner Herzog, written and narrated by Alan Bennett.
No wonder I never hear from my agent.
Apart from on Rocks Backpages there's not a lot on Dele. There's a brilliant Tim Jonze obit on the Guardian website.Been rebuying a lot of old NMEs and he was a major writer across many years.
October 31, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Apart from on Rocks Backpages there's not a lot on Dele. There's a brilliant Tim Jonze obit on the Guardian website.Been rebuying a lot of old NMEs and he was a major writer across many years.
Dele Fadele youtu.be/APbxBMPNyF0?...
TAKENtv @ 1234 festival...interviews... Dele Fadele
YouTube video by takentakentaken2007
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October 31, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Dele Fadele youtu.be/APbxBMPNyF0?...
With doing this book on Swells one name that comes up as someone all NME writers across the board also love. Dele Fadele. Major major music journalist.
October 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
With doing this book on Swells one name that comes up as someone all NME writers across the board also love. Dele Fadele. Major major music journalist.
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🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween...
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
October 31, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween...
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
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October 31, 2025 at 8:10 AM