Nige Tassell
@nigetassell.bsky.social
Paperback writer.
Final Destination, Searching For Dexys Midnight Runners, Whatever Happened To The C86 Kids?, Field Of Dreams, The Bottom Corner, The Hard Yards, Boot Sale, Three Weeks Eight Seconds etc
#MDANT too, apparently.
Final Destination, Searching For Dexys Midnight Runners, Whatever Happened To The C86 Kids?, Field Of Dreams, The Bottom Corner, The Hard Yards, Boot Sale, Three Weeks Eight Seconds etc
#MDANT too, apparently.
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Absolutely stoked that I am in the very first panel of the @2000ad.bsky.social Annual 2026! Thanks @robwilliams71.bsky.social 🎄
December 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Absolutely stoked that I am in the very first panel of the @2000ad.bsky.social Annual 2026! Thanks @robwilliams71.bsky.social 🎄
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I was just at the gym watching a The Wire s2 episode, and came back to this awful news. Ransone was incredible in that season — so believable as the screw-up determined to live down to everyone's low opinion of him. And great in almost everything else I saw him do. RIP.
'The Wire' Star James Ransone Dead at 46 After Apparent Suicide
James Ransone -- an actor best known for his role in the hit show "The Wire" -- has died ... and the medical examiner is pointing to suicide as the cause.
www.tmz.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I was just at the gym watching a The Wire s2 episode, and came back to this awful news. Ransone was incredible in that season — so believable as the screw-up determined to live down to everyone's low opinion of him. And great in almost everything else I saw him do. RIP.
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The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN
Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.
www.cnn.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
It's all set up for the triumphant return of Adam & Joe...
December 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
It's all set up for the triumphant return of Adam & Joe...
Maybe Kate picks something from the time she came to WOMAD because her dad's band was playing.
Our Christmas castaway, Kate the Great is there for you on BBC Sounds now! Merry Christmas!
December 21, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Maybe Kate picks something from the time she came to WOMAD because her dad's band was playing.
Top of the world...
December 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Top of the world...
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Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking".
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking".
My favourite Nigel Blackwell joke.
Hadron Collider.
Who's there?
Knock knock.
Hadron Collider.
Who's there?
Knock knock.
December 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
My favourite Nigel Blackwell joke.
Hadron Collider.
Who's there?
Knock knock.
Hadron Collider.
Who's there?
Knock knock.
Wise words from Big Jim in my Dexys book.
"If I come to the crossroads, I don't have to make a choice. If the wind takes me left, I'll go left. If the wind takes me right, I'll go right. Or straight on. Or backwards. And if an alien spacecraft comes and zooms me up, I'll go upwards."
"If I come to the crossroads, I don't have to make a choice. If the wind takes me left, I'll go left. If the wind takes me right, I'll go right. Or straight on. Or backwards. And if an alien spacecraft comes and zooms me up, I'll go upwards."
December 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Wise words from Big Jim in my Dexys book.
"If I come to the crossroads, I don't have to make a choice. If the wind takes me left, I'll go left. If the wind takes me right, I'll go right. Or straight on. Or backwards. And if an alien spacecraft comes and zooms me up, I'll go upwards."
"If I come to the crossroads, I don't have to make a choice. If the wind takes me left, I'll go left. If the wind takes me right, I'll go right. Or straight on. Or backwards. And if an alien spacecraft comes and zooms me up, I'll go upwards."
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I tell you what, that Santa Claus has got real presence about him
December 18, 2024 at 5:32 PM
I tell you what, that Santa Claus has got real presence about him
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I read Nige Tassell's Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids this year and that led me to the excellent new album from Wolfhounds' David Lance Callahan. Down To The Marshes very likely to be in my #5albums24
December 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
I read Nige Tassell's Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids this year and that led me to the excellent new album from Wolfhounds' David Lance Callahan. Down To The Marshes very likely to be in my #5albums24
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A lovely picture of Ullapool.
That is all, carry on.
That is all, carry on.
December 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
A lovely picture of Ullapool.
That is all, carry on.
That is all, carry on.
This is fantastic news, Wolverhampton University School of Art and Design has been grade II listed, rather than knocked down as originally proposed.
#brutalist #brutalism #wolverhampton
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#brutalist #brutalism #wolverhampton
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wolverhampton School of Art granted Grade II-listed status
The brutalist-style building had been earmarked for demolition by the university.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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BRISTOL at Watershed 19-21 Dec.
Further GAME dates added - don’t miss out - tickets available now in Bio / Watershed.co.uk .
Further GAME dates added - don’t miss out - tickets available now in Bio / Watershed.co.uk .
December 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
BRISTOL at Watershed 19-21 Dec.
Further GAME dates added - don’t miss out - tickets available now in Bio / Watershed.co.uk .
Further GAME dates added - don’t miss out - tickets available now in Bio / Watershed.co.uk .
Tell your local cinema they should be screening this tense and claustrophobic gem from Geoff/Mark/Rob/John etc.
Message from Geoff Barrow & the Invada Films / GAME Team : Thanks for supporting GAME and catching a Screening / Q&A this year.
If you would like to see GAME in a cinema near you - contact them to request a screening.
#gamefilm2025 #invadafilms
If you would like to see GAME in a cinema near you - contact them to request a screening.
#gamefilm2025 #invadafilms
December 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Tell your local cinema they should be screening this tense and claustrophobic gem from Geoff/Mark/Rob/John etc.
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It is now theoretically possible to be the Man Who Shopped for a Liberty Valance.
December 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
It is now theoretically possible to be the Man Who Shopped for a Liberty Valance.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Lovely to hear my pal Mark from @rnrbook-club.bsky.social on 6 Music tonight, picking out the best music books of the year. Deserved shout-outs for both Debsey and Justin Currie's titles for @newmodernbooks.bsky.social. Both among the very best I've had the pleasure of working on this year.
December 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Lovely to hear my pal Mark from @rnrbook-club.bsky.social on 6 Music tonight, picking out the best music books of the year. Deserved shout-outs for both Debsey and Justin Currie's titles for @newmodernbooks.bsky.social. Both among the very best I've had the pleasure of working on this year.
All I want for my birthday is a HMHB wallchart.
(And I got one)
(And I got one)
December 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
All I want for my birthday is a HMHB wallchart.
(And I got one)
(And I got one)
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This tome is a kind of magic.
With the best travel writing available, @nigetassell.bsky.social treats you to real, breath-taking, Vegas residency oohs-and-aahs magic that will leave you tearful and laughing and amazed.
So jump on board for the read of your life.
#booksky
#highlyrecommended
With the best travel writing available, @nigetassell.bsky.social treats you to real, breath-taking, Vegas residency oohs-and-aahs magic that will leave you tearful and laughing and amazed.
So jump on board for the read of your life.
#booksky
#highlyrecommended
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This tome is a kind of magic.
With the best travel writing available, @nigetassell.bsky.social treats you to real, breath-taking, Vegas residency oohs-and-aahs magic that will leave you tearful and laughing and amazed.
So jump on board for the read of your life.
#booksky
#highlyrecommended
With the best travel writing available, @nigetassell.bsky.social treats you to real, breath-taking, Vegas residency oohs-and-aahs magic that will leave you tearful and laughing and amazed.
So jump on board for the read of your life.
#booksky
#highlyrecommended
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Cathal Coughlan. Born OTD in 1960, Glounthaune, Co. Cork, Ireland. Died 18/5/2022, Royal Marsden Hospital, London
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaSi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaSi...
The Fatima Mansions-Only Losers Take The Bus
YouTube video by ThatchersBaby
www.youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Cathal Coughlan. Born OTD in 1960, Glounthaune, Co. Cork, Ireland. Died 18/5/2022, Royal Marsden Hospital, London
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaSi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaSi...
Cheeky birthday snooker.
December 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Cheeky birthday snooker.
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Farewell to the great Joe Ely, a pioneer of progressive country with the Flatlanders who sowed the seeds of Americana by touring with such rockers as the Clash in the early 1980s. variety.com/2025/music/o...
Joe Ely, Texas Country-Rock Hero Who Grew His Fan Base Touring With the Clash, Dies at 78
Joe Ely, the Lubbock-bred singer-songwriter who grew his country fan base into a broader one with big cosigns from the Clash and others, died at 78.
variety.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Farewell to the great Joe Ely, a pioneer of progressive country with the Flatlanders who sowed the seeds of Americana by touring with such rockers as the Clash in the early 1980s. variety.com/2025/music/o...
Looking forward to winter properly kicking in and being able to take pics like this.
December 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Looking forward to winter properly kicking in and being able to take pics like this.
He's not stopping.
December 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
He's not stopping.