Rob Chapman
@scribblerrob.bsky.social
My next novel will be called Drum. It will be set mostly in the 1980s world of alternative comedy. Available Jan 1st 2026. More details coming soon.
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Charli xcx is a 'pop diva' apparently and John Cale is a 'rock icon'. And there will be more updates on the death of music journalism when we get them.
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Charli xcx is a 'pop diva' apparently and John Cale is a 'rock icon'. And there will be more updates on the death of music journalism when we get them.
I'm open to doing this workshop at any festival btw. I've done it at Liverpool & Huddersfield Lit festivals and Cerys Matthews Good Life Experience. It's never bombed. 'Get testimonials' Idler Tom Hodgkinson told me at Good Life. I never did. Trust me though. And trust my oblique strategies.
I'm doing my Stream of Conscious Mess experimental writing techniques workshop at Todmorden BookFest on Saturday 10am. Time to get the box files and folders out to see what materials I have. I would appear to be well prepared. A lifetime's accumulation of marginilia & miscellany. Do come.
November 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I'm open to doing this workshop at any festival btw. I've done it at Liverpool & Huddersfield Lit festivals and Cerys Matthews Good Life Experience. It's never bombed. 'Get testimonials' Idler Tom Hodgkinson told me at Good Life. I never did. Trust me though. And trust my oblique strategies.
I'm doing my Stream of Conscious Mess experimental writing techniques workshop at Todmorden BookFest on Saturday 10am. Time to get the box files and folders out to see what materials I have. I would appear to be well prepared. A lifetime's accumulation of marginilia & miscellany. Do come.
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I'm doing my Stream of Conscious Mess experimental writing techniques workshop at Todmorden BookFest on Saturday 10am. Time to get the box files and folders out to see what materials I have. I would appear to be well prepared. A lifetime's accumulation of marginilia & miscellany. Do come.
Well, that Charli xcx John Cale collaboration has just wiped everything else off the 2025 table. They should do an entire album.
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Well, that Charli xcx John Cale collaboration has just wiped everything else off the 2025 table. They should do an entire album.
A naive person makes a humanistic plea. Stop routinely referring to everyone as generation this or generation that. They're people, ok.
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
A naive person makes a humanistic plea. Stop routinely referring to everyone as generation this or generation that. They're people, ok.
Also born on this day. Hail the maestro.
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Ennio Morricone - Lizard in a Woman's Skin (Music & Images from the film)
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November 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Also born on this day. Hail the maestro.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0hi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0hi...
Nobody ever really mentions this but Northern Sky is one of John Cale's finest records. God imagine if they'd given him the master tapes of Pink Moon to play with. Think what Parasite or Things Behind The Sun would have sounded like all Marble Indexed up.
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Nobody ever really mentions this but Northern Sky is one of John Cale's finest records. God imagine if they'd given him the master tapes of Pink Moon to play with. Think what Parasite or Things Behind The Sun would have sounded like all Marble Indexed up.
It's only numbers you tell yourself. And for the longest time it is but I walked down the garden just now and thought in 9 years time I will be 80. 80! I just burst out laughing. Believe me it's no longer 'only numbers'.
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
It's only numbers you tell yourself. And for the longest time it is but I walked down the garden just now and thought in 9 years time I will be 80. 80! I just burst out laughing. Believe me it's no longer 'only numbers'.
Apropos events, C tells me she always had a lot of time for Greg Dyke. He was 'approachable and genuine'.
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Apropos events, C tells me she always had a lot of time for Greg Dyke. He was 'approachable and genuine'.
Watched some of those 1971 docs before the Apple tv free trial ended. A curiously mixed bag. C noticed different producers on different shows so that might explain it. Ep1 quite brilliant with some astounding footage I'd never seen before. Ep 2 utterly meh. Ep3 lurched from good to ho hum...>
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Watched some of those 1971 docs before the Apple tv free trial ended. A curiously mixed bag. C noticed different producers on different shows so that might explain it. Ep1 quite brilliant with some astounding footage I'd never seen before. Ep 2 utterly meh. Ep3 lurched from good to ho hum...>
Just tried to narrow down a search on Google without realising it had AI on and once again, when it comes to nuance AI has confirmed it is the thickest kid in the class.
November 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Just tried to narrow down a search on Google without realising it had AI on and once again, when it comes to nuance AI has confirmed it is the thickest kid in the class.
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As every Remembrance Sunday, a thought for my grandfather, lieutenant Henri Auclair, a Verdun veteran who fought in the trenches throughout all of WWI, died in 1999, aged 103, and taught us about the insanity of war and the necessity to embrace the European ideal.
November 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
As every Remembrance Sunday, a thought for my grandfather, lieutenant Henri Auclair, a Verdun veteran who fought in the trenches throughout all of WWI, died in 1999, aged 103, and taught us about the insanity of war and the necessity to embrace the European ideal.
I like that Sarah Ditum review of the new Patti Smith book. Does the strengths and flaws really well. The poetic spirit yes but also the PS who inspired Wayne/Jayne County to sing Horse Shit Horse Shit at CBGBs and made sure she was in every photo with Burroughs at NYC events.
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I like that Sarah Ditum review of the new Patti Smith book. Does the strengths and flaws really well. The poetic spirit yes but also the PS who inspired Wayne/Jayne County to sing Horse Shit Horse Shit at CBGBs and made sure she was in every photo with Burroughs at NYC events.
Radio played this. I cribbed the chorus for the v first song I ever wrote called Over The Ocean. I was 9. I mention it in AIWIOOH. Came out in 64 my pop year zero plus one and absolutely encapsulates my tastes at that age. I would have slow twisted to this with gusto>
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For You
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November 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Radio played this. I cribbed the chorus for the v first song I ever wrote called Over The Ocean. I was 9. I mention it in AIWIOOH. Came out in 64 my pop year zero plus one and absolutely encapsulates my tastes at that age. I would have slow twisted to this with gusto>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q33v...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q33v...
My local town football team. It was mostly away games the following season. "some corner of a foreign field"
November 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
My local town football team. It was mostly away games the following season. "some corner of a foreign field"
A happy 88th birthday to Roger McGough on this remembrance sunday.
November 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
A happy 88th birthday to Roger McGough on this remembrance sunday.
CONTAINS SPOILER. The ending to that last Alan Partridge was beautiful. Just climb onto the roof of your electricity substation and throw all the accumulated balls off it. Quite right.
November 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
CONTAINS SPOILER. The ending to that last Alan Partridge was beautiful. Just climb onto the roof of your electricity substation and throw all the accumulated balls off it. Quite right.
If you see this, post with the symbol of something you illegally downloaded off Mediafire or PirateBay during the golden age. #thoughtnot
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
If you see this, post with the symbol of something you illegally downloaded off Mediafire or PirateBay during the golden age. #thoughtnot
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How's Guy Fawkes week going where you are? Getting pretty sick of it tbh
November 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
How's Guy Fawkes week going where you are? Getting pretty sick of it tbh
Where's your fucking poppy?
November 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Where's your fucking poppy?
Huge sympathies with the monthly mag editors though. It was a close call between Kay Starr and Anne Shelton again. Wire Magazine plumping for Tommy Dorsey, that really threw me.
November 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Huge sympathies with the monthly mag editors though. It was a close call between Kay Starr and Anne Shelton again. Wire Magazine plumping for Tommy Dorsey, that really threw me.
I was in the newsagents buying my paper and noticed a mag on the shelves called Soft Rock. Steely Dan on the cover. Steely Dan are soft rock now are they? I knew the pr people and market segmenters won the cultural battle long ago but ffs. As Bill Hicks said, 'anyone here work in advertising?...
November 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I was in the newsagents buying my paper and noticed a mag on the shelves called Soft Rock. Steely Dan on the cover. Steely Dan are soft rock now are they? I knew the pr people and market segmenters won the cultural battle long ago but ffs. As Bill Hicks said, 'anyone here work in advertising?...
Kritics will tell you that this ex-punk was bored out of his mind 50 yrs ago and couldn't wait for punk to happen.
In other news, released this month in 1975. Another Green World - Brian Eno. Helen of Troy - John Cale. Horses - Patti Smith. Zuma - Neil Young.
In other news, released this month in 1975. Another Green World - Brian Eno. Helen of Troy - John Cale. Horses - Patti Smith. Zuma - Neil Young.
November 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Kritics will tell you that this ex-punk was bored out of his mind 50 yrs ago and couldn't wait for punk to happen.
In other news, released this month in 1975. Another Green World - Brian Eno. Helen of Troy - John Cale. Horses - Patti Smith. Zuma - Neil Young.
In other news, released this month in 1975. Another Green World - Brian Eno. Helen of Troy - John Cale. Horses - Patti Smith. Zuma - Neil Young.