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All digital patterns are 50% off at www.etsy.com/shop/8bitnorthxtitch if you fancy a bit of needle pulling thread action (one for Sound of Music fans).

Nothing says Christmas like vulgarity. Royle Family and Fanny Cradock cards at www.etsy.com/shop/8bitnorthxstitch

Giant Purple People Eater spotted in town.

Annie are you ok? So, Annie are you ok? Are you ok, Annie?

Nothing says Christmas like vulgarity. Royle Family and Fanny Cradock cards at www.etsy.com/shop/8bitnorthxstitch

3 weeks today we’ll be ready for our 1st Sunday events at #Louder2026! Ian Trowell talking Sex Pistols + an exhibition & Daryl Easlea on record collecting! Which will you go to? Peruse & choose for ALL weekend tickets here: linktr.ee/louderthanwords 13-15 Nov, Manchester ❤️

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Seeing Dexy’s tomorrow. Can hardly contain myself! Cards available at www.etsy.com/shop/8bitnorthxstitch

This review captures perfectly the complete joy of the Futures & Pasts weekend.

Hilary, I thank the lord that you still don't live next to me, Hilary. #fallfriday m.youtube.com/watch?v=5vmd...

Never seen The Devils but will rectify that soon. I feel compelled to read the book first. Does anyone else do that?

Alexei Sayle's Stuff (20th October 1988). "Well, we apologise for the absence of Alexei Sayle in this week's edition of Alexei Sayle's Stuff. We're attempting to right the problem, but in the meantime the programme will continue in Leslie Crowther only".

Marcel Elsener's review of the Futures and Pasts Festival in Swiss music magazine, Loop. (Text version if easier to read on devices.)

Lord, give me the optimism of the person who thinks they’re going to get a cross-stitch piece for £3.20 that would take around 8 hours to hand stitch.

I would have a modicum of empathy for him if the tiers were called Hooch, Bacardi Breezer, Mad Dog 20/20.

The only fan club I ever joined was Mud and if Amol even dreams he’s in that sort of company he better wake up and apologise.

Marcel Elsener's review of the Futures and Pasts Festival in Swiss music magazine, Loop.

This review captures perfectly the complete joy of the Futures & Pasts weekend.

HAPPY 50th TO BIG BEAT! Sparks’ sixth studio album BIG BEAT was released in October 1976 on Columbia Records in the US and on Island Records in the UK. Read more: www.instagram.com/p/DertI6XmhX...

Just leaving this here…Slade, East 17, Royle Family, John & Yoko, Wham!, The Spice Girls and The Smiths Xmas cards all available at www.etsy.com/shop/8bitnorthxstitch

Lads, I’ve found my Halloween costume… thetoystimeforgot.com/product/blan...

Happy 92nd birthday to the fantastic ALAN GARNER!

Just leaving this here…Slade, East 17, Royle Family, John & Yoko, Wham!, The Spice Girls and The Smiths Xmas cards all available at www.etsy.com/shop/8bitnorthxstitch

THE TOMORROW PEOPLE: THE DIRTIEST BUSINESS (1977) Mike falls in love with a young Russian telepath, but the KGB have other plans for her... blimey, what an ending there!

I never feel like garbage when I'm with you

HAPPY 45TH BIRTHDAY DARE

The star would complain of the smell in his room. On visiting him this was found to be true. An odor resembling hot-dogs permeated the whole bedroom. #fallfriday m.youtube.com/watch?v=P-eB...

ONE MONTH today we’ll be setting up for the start of #Louder2026 - the UK’s biggest #MusicLitFest! 13-15 Nov @innsideuk #Manchester! Conversations, Panel Discussions, Live Performances, Books, Music & more! All tickets & info: linktr.ee/louderthanwords You coming? 👍❤️

The Face of Horror review – a future cult classic delights with playful spin on Hammer horror

The Great God Pan & The White People by Arthur Machen a new edition with illustrations by Flora McLachlan, Afterword by Henry Wessells just announced by Suntup Press suntup.press/the-great-go...

Lads, he’s not someone from a council estate who’s won Britain’s Got Talent

…and Sparks.

New @helleborezine.bsky.social day always a good day

(Greater) Manchester music cards available at www.etsy.com/shop/8bitnorthxstitch With more to come soon…

(Greater) Manchester music cards available at www.etsy.com/shop/8bitnorthxstitch With more to come soon…

When Blessed was rehearsing Peter Pan in Manchester, my mate had to deliver a big rubber crocodile to the company. He was told to deliver the prop to the room. When he walked in, Blessed roared, ‘here comes the fucking crocodile!’ grabbed it, and wrestled it to the floor. What a legend.

I’m knuckling down to create lots of new designs. I have my own ideas, but give me a shout if there’s something you want to see. Dr. Who, some Folk Horror, Grace Jones, Goths and British comedy in decades are on the cards (or will be…)

This is the spring without end, This is the summer of malcontent, This is the winter of your mind. #fallfriday m.youtube.com/watch?v=P0-m...

#FallFriday No selling carpets fo me today. Off to hospital to look at my insides. Need a nurse. Maybe not Una! 🙂 "In the land of finance retail Slippy floor In hospital Talk taken On the land I'm ninety-five percent more inside..." youtu.be/h-3OoNtTBhY?...

Yesterday’s visit to Kingbee got me thinking- should I start an independent record shop set of designs? It could join Piccadilly Records…

Or even: Emu Orville Nookie Spit

My current ear worm is multi-layered-Something by The Beatles, which morphs into All The Young Dudes, which finishes as I Can Drive by Shakespears Sister. Because they all have that same bloody ascending chord progression.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO RUSSELL! 🥳

Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.

And Crossroads. It’s calling me and I don’t know why. Could be my most unpopular design yet. Why not?

I’m knuckling down to create lots of new designs. I have my own ideas, but give me a shout if there’s something you want to see. Dr. Who, some Folk Horror, Grace Jones, Goths and British comedy in decades are on the cards (or will be…)

Ian Curtis? Les Dawson? Gracie Fields? Only GranadaTV would make a show like this… www.cultmanchester.co.uk/post/cult-th...

Me and my mate Naz were at Glastonbury when they used to have a cinema field. The Wicker Man was showing. About 3/4 of way through they film the projector broke. Most people left but we fell asleep. They fixed the projector as the sun was rising which perfectly matched the final shot of the film.