Bob Fischer

TWO DAYS TO GO till me and @bobfischer.bsky.social roll in to the Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton, with the Folk Horror show. It's a fun evening full of witchcraft, rural horror and ancient relics (don't worry, that bit's just me and Bob)! Tickets: bit.ly/3P5MT36

Fellow Teesside weirdies! We are bringing the all new @scarredforlife.bsky.social Christmas show to ARC in Stockton on Wed 16th December, it's only just gone onsale, and it's selling really quickly. Join Ste Brotherstone and me for a nostalgic festive ramble... arconline.co.uk/whats-on/sca...

A few days left to grab the current @forteantimes.bsky.social! My Haunted Generation column nods to @ghostboxrecords.bsky.social @grahamthorpe.bsky.social @claypipemusic.bsky.social @portlandvows.bsky.social @englishheretic.bsky.social @waysideandwoodlandrecordings.bandcamp.com @fjwords.bsky.social

@bobfischer.bsky.social described it as 'gently beguiling' in a recent @forteantimes.bsky.social review. I like that. 😊 @trevlad.bsky.social called it 'Regional, weathered ambient with old-road character and gentle English texture. Nostalgic and grounded.' I like that too.

This is a lovely album. I gave it a little write-up in my Haunted Generation column in the current @forteantimes.bsky.social...

Video game mashups: Donkey Pong.

THREE DAYS TO GO till me and @bobfischer.bsky.social come to Burton! Get your robes ready!

Roughly once a year I remember with incredulity that, within the 21st century, shopping centres had bowls of carnivorous fish and people would pay to put their bare feet in them and have the dead skin nibbled off while daytime shoppers stood around watching.

Here's me and @bobfischer.bsky.social on BBC Radio Derby yesterday afternoon, talking to the lovely Ian Skye about next week's Folk Horror show at the Brewhouse, Burton-on-Trent! Pop along if you fancy a fun evening about rural nightmares... Tickets: bit.ly/3P5MT36

BOINK! This means our only current Folk Horror show with tickets remianing is at The Brewhouse in Burton-on-Trent next Wednesday, 28th. Just saying...

What happened to pub quiz machines? Four blokes huddled around a bleeping cabinet, pints in hand, all shouting "D! D! It's D - MARTIN FUCKING PETERS!" then groaning in unison when the bloke on the buttons goes rogue and presses "C - BOBBY CHARLTON". It all seemed to vanish overnight in about 2009.

CHRISTMAS TOUR! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social have got December wrapped up - tickets now onsale for our brand-new festive show! It's a selection box of dark Yuletide pop culture, with Box of Delights, K-9 & Company, Christmas ghost stories, Blake's 7, EastEnders, and much more! bit.ly/4ibJ7PU

The Scarred For Life Christmas Special tour has a new date! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social will be at Bradford's National Science and Media Museum on 4 December, remembering the spooky, bleak pop culture of Christmas past! Warning: may contain Emmerdale. Tickets: bit.ly/3UvQji9

@bobfischer.bsky.social @electronicsound.bsky.social

Also featuring @bobfischer.bsky.social and @georgyjamieson.bsky.social on the Fireworks Code plus appearances from @stillanygood.bsky.social, @goonpod.bsky.social, @herring1967.bsky.social and @iammilliam.bsky.social. timworthington.org/2026/03/06/t...

Seven tickets left for this. Move swiftly, London weirdies...

[1970] Fleetwood Mac - The Green Manalishi. Pan's People dance at Stonehenge and lead the faithful around Portobello Road.

Yarm Fair is in town! We got stuck at the top of the big wheel last night. "Are there some more rides on the other side of the bridge?" asked my other half, pointing into the vague distance. Reader, they were the traffic lights outside the Cleveland Bay.

Many thanks to @bobfischer.bsky.social for the kind words about our new record, Migrations in this month’s @electronicsound.bsky.social You can pick up the album here: heronandcranemusic.bandcamp.com/album/migrat...

If computer programs were conscious, Jet Set Willy would have begged me for just a couple of hours off in 1985.

TWO WEEKS TODAY! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social will be at the Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton, with the Folk Horror show. It'll be a fun night with stone circles and ancient rituals galore! Tickets: bit.ly/3P5MT36

Sparing a little thought for my old childhood friend Doug Simpson, who would have been 54 today. Which means it's 43 years today since I first went to his house for his 11th birthday... God, where does it all go? I miss you, mate.

This is deeply odd, but me and @andrewtsmith.bsky.social were indeed an answer on The Chase yesterday.

Radio broadcast from Bonfire Hill - previews Switched On @bonfirehill.bsky.social @rebeccasubphotic.bsky.social @scholarspeak.bsky.social @tsr2.bsky.social @howlround.bsky.social @horrordwarf.bsky.social @citiesandmemory.bsky.social @everydaydust.bsky.social @beneyes.bsky.social

Really enjoyed chatting with the ace @mariauzor.bsky.social for the new issue of @electronicsound.bsky.social. About childhood out-of-body experiences, nuance-free social media debates, The Beatles, Nina Simone, Sink Ya Teeth... and her excellent new album 'Fantasyland'. Out now!

'All The Young Droids' was one of my favourite releases last year, and I had a blast writing this. Hello also @ajaysaggar.bsky.social @rebfountain.bsky.social @bringyourownhammer.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social @woodfordhalse.bandcamp.com and more... hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2026/10/12/e...

TREMBLE UNDER THE TINSEL! The brand-new Scarred for Life Christmas Special live show is coming in December! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social will be breaking out the Warninks and remembering the creepier side of Christmas past. Spooky TV specials, bleak soap operas, and ghost stories galore! 1/2

There's a wonderful review of the TSCOOP Volume 1 in this month's @electronicsound.bsky.social thanks to @bobfischer.bsky.social Volume 2 will be out soon with a whole host of new artists 👀 tscoop.bandcamp.com #electronicmusic

When I was little, my dad used to sing this rhyme to me: "My aunt's name is Eloisa Shufflebottom She lives down in Burton-on-Trent And every time that she rides a bicycle She always gets the handlebars bent" I might sing it onstage at this show. I've never been to Burton before.

It's the middle of October. You can all stop strimming now. Please.

Three weeks to go, and only 17 tickets left for this...

Fresh on the Haunted Generation website... my @electronicsound.bsky.social chat with @themoonlandingz.bsky.social. Dean Honer, Adrian Flanagan and Lias Saoudi on pterodactyls in the garden, giant red triangles, Iggy Pop singing about bike accidents, etc... hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2026/10/08/t...

A mere month until the Switched On electronic weekender in Whitby... now a lovely fixture in my calendar every year. Great line-up, nice vibes. And I'm all about the vibes. I'm hosting again, but don't let that put you off.

With @bibilynch.bsky.social on Playbus, @regretteruane.bsky.social on Bric-A-Brac, @real-meaning.bsky.social on Press Gang, @iheartbigface.bsky.social on Ulysses 31 and @bobfischer.bsky.social on The Owl Service. timworthington.org/2025/01/06/t...

THREE WEEKS TODAY! The Scarred For Life Folk Horror show will be at Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social will be looking at The Wicker Man, Children of the Stones, Play for Today, K-9 and Company, and, ooh, loads more besides. Loads! Box office: bit.ly/3P5MT36

Anyone free on actual Halloween night? Come to Whitby! A full night of folklore and oddness, including my countdown of the Top 40 Best Witches Of All Time. Granny Weatherwax and Hazel McWitch are currently hovering around the Top 10, but Evil Edna is also looking strong...

I think this might be my go-to feelgood film for years to come. Pretty much my entire life as a Boro fan wrapped up in ear-to-ear grins. It was a wonderful day, and Jan-Aage Fjortoft is clearly an absolute gem of a man. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OToH...

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

Absolutely loved the Boro Legacy match yesterday. Can Mikkel Beck play for us next weekend as well?

MIDLANDS WEIRDIES, GATHER ROUND! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social are bringing the Scarred For Life Folk Horror show to the Brewhouse, Burton-on-Trent, on Wednesday 28th October! Tickets: bit.ly/3P5MT36

Grab a copy of the current @electronicsound.bsky.social while you can... I spent an afternoon with Belbury Poly! Jim Jupp and Chris Budd on 1980s fantasy, Carry On soundtracks, fretless bass, the future of @ghostboxrecords.bsky.social, and their ace new album Sorcery. Out now... (mag and album)

More of my @electronicsound.bsky.social reviews fresh on the Haunted Generation site... hello Quade, @syntheticvillains.bsky.social, @waysideandwoodlandrecordings.bandcamp.com, The RAH Band, @flcartographer.bsky.social and Louis Philippe & The Night Mail... hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2026/10/02/e...

Always loved the sheer oddness of That's Life. I interviewed Esther Rantzen a couple of years ago, along with pretty much everyone else involved in the 1984 Lirpa Loof hoax, and she was very funny - and clearly very proud of the mischief they'd all unleashed. hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2024/09/03/o...

All the Esther Rantzen talk has reminded me of the very first "That's Life!" from 1973, thankfully still on YouTube after being uploaded there a while back. BBC Four could show an early That's Life as a tribute; a fascinating historical time capsule in its own way www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NQh...

Most TV is just this now.

A huge thank you to everyone who came to our Scarred For Life Unplanned show at Burnley Library last night! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social had a great time listening to your scars and spooky stories. And it was lovely to meet the organisers, David and Holly from Northern Folklore Archive!

Fresh on the Haunted Generation site... my @electronicsound.bsky.social chat with Alan Gubby of @btlabel.bsky.social and Revbjelde. Includes Sky, The Shout, Kelvedon Hatch nuclear bunker, the lost village of Imber, The Delaware Road, green-faced mummers... hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2026/09/28/a...