Cafe Tabac, Bold St, Liverpool, 1987.

Photo © Mark McNulty, all rights reserved.

‘And you may ask yourself,
Well, how did that cream cracker get under the settee?’

As the World Snooker Championships reach their conclusion on Sheffield, it seems that three full decades have passed since my last shift on the Crucible ticket desk...

RIP Yoko, 1 April 2010 - 3 May 2024. Truly the most wild thing of all.

Oh yes, had forgotten about this place. I love how it sounds like less of a restaurant and more a kind of international research laboratory.

If you've ever put a serious shift in, or worked your bollocks off, or done a hard day's graft, you need to see The Legend of Ned Ludd at @liveveryplay. Don't ask anyone to explain what it's like. Just see it... and let it stealthily, cleverly, thrillingly rearrange your brain.

New blog & podcast up.
The incredible Sun Ra and his Arkestra, live in Sheffield, October 1983.
One of the greatest gigs I've ever seen.
Links: blog - mylifeinthemoshofghosts.com
podcast - pods.to/ex8mxwr.OTW
#sunra #arkestra #jazz #sheffield

Putting the finishing touches to the school science lab

How come 11 and 12 are numbered separately? What a fucking swizz.

The telling of this tale about the sadly beleaguered Father Ted Musical was one of the reasons I picked Graham Linehan's 'Tough Crowd' book as one of my best reads of 2023 - as featured here: northernsoul.me.uk/best-reads-202…

It really is time for @hattrickprod to #FreeFatherTed .

Smooth.

Few books have come so close to traversing the same time and place in which I grew up - Sheffield's leafier enclaves in the 70s and 80s - so its story feels familiar, but in other ways it's a different world: more painful, more uncertain, with a darker edge. Highly recommended!

I was nine when this match was played. For years afterwards - and despite living in Sheffield not Liverpool, and also not being ginger - people always wanted to know if David Fairclough was my dad.

the sub bass frequencies coming off andrew motion when he speaks (he makes peter hitchens sound like elmo) caused two bottles of woodford reserve to shatter last night in the boozer as he ordered his usual (two ciders and a glass of merlot)

How WipEout - the first rave-inspired video game - changed the gaming industry forever 🎮

Ft.
Nick Burcombe
Damon Fairclough
CoLD SToRAGE ™ ( Tim Wright )
ian anderson
Simo Cell

mixmag.net/feature/wipeou…

Back in the day, my only chance of featuring in Mixmag would have been in a 'Gurner of the Month'-type hit piece, so very chuffed to be included in Daniel Dylan Wray's article about the rave-and-clubbing influence on Wipeout, the classic PlayStation racer.
mixmag.net/feature/wipeou…

Ahhh the #HoleInTheRoad ! Booklet from 1981 - what a treat to unearth ! #Sheffield #1980s #architecture

This is why it’s the last thing Citizen Kane says.

My main objection to the onset of spring is that the thick layer of dust that coats everything in my house is now really fucking obvious.

Hey TheBlackDog, my favourite t-shirt is ten years old! And it still fits!