On this day in Wyrd Britain history...
1998 - Boards of Canada released their debut album, 'Music Has The Right To Children'.
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And this weekend, they seemingly returned with their first new music in 13 years.
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#boardsofcanada
Louise, not Louis. Bloody autocorrect
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to actor Ray Brooks (1939) - The 'voice' of 'Mr Benn' - musician Del Dettmar (1947) - synthesizer player in #Hawkwind - and actress Louis Jameson (1951) - 'Leela' companion to the Fourth Doctor.
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #raybrooks #deldettmar #louisjameson
Released 10 years ago today, 'The Phantasmagoria', by the British Space Group, a collection of radiophonic miniatures made in homage to the occult detective shows of my youth.
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Thank you @wyrdbritain.bsky.social for reviewing Possessed! @johnnymains.co.uk 👀
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My pleasure. Bravo for finding and publishing such an interestingly eerie lost novel.
Wyrd Britain reviews 'The Hill in the Dark Grove' by Liam Higginson from Picador Books.
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#LiamHigginson #thehillinthedarkgrove #folkhorror
On this day in Wyrd Britain history...
1980 - Iron Maiden released their self-titled debut album.
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#ironmaiden
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to W.F. Harvey (1885), Gerry Anderson (1929), Kenneth Cope (1931), Terrance Dicks (1935), comics artist Dave Gibbons (1949) and the Twelfth Doctor, Peter Capaldi (1958).
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #wfharvey #gerryanderson #terracedicks #petercapaldi
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to animator, puppeteer, writer, and voice actor Oliver Postgate (1925), co-creator with Peter Firmin of Bagpuss, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Pogles' Wood.
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #oliverpostgate #bagpuss #theclangers #ivortheengine
Author Alex Older tells us about his '3 Wyrd Things'.
Three oddly, wonderfully, weirdly British things that have been an influence on him and his work: a book, a movie, and a song.
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#alexolder #3wyrdthings #wyrdbritain
On this day in Wyrd Britain history...
1960 - 'Circus of Horrors' is released by AIP.
1991 - Massive Attack released their debut album, 'Blue Lines'.
2005 - Coil released '...And the Ambulance Died in His Arms', a recording of their performance at All Tommorrow's Parties on the 4/4/03.
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to authors Hope Mirrlees (1887) and James Herbert (1943).
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On this day in Wyrd Britain history...
1985 - Strawberry Switchblade released their sole studio album.
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On this day in Wyrd Britain history...
1958 - The BBC Radiophonic Workshop opened it"s doors, looped its first tape loop, oscillated its first oscillator, and twanged its first ruler.
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#bbcradiophonicworkshop
On what would have been his birthday here's a short film from 1962 on the brilliant - and Spacey- Bruce Lacey.
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#brucelacey #kenrussell
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to novelist John Fowles (1926), artist Bruce Lacey (1927), and musician Paul Ferguson (1958) of Killing Joke & Murder Inc.
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #johnfowles #brucelacey #paulferguson #killingjoke
On this day in Wyrd Britain history...
1979 - Magazine released their second album, 'Secondhand Daylight'.
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1993 - Miranda Sex Garden released their second album, 'Suspiria'.
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One of my absolute favourite films. My old label 'Quiet World' was - mostly - named after it.
"If you don't come out, I'll shoot the kid!"
On this day in Wyrd Britain history...
1982 - #IronMaiden released their third album, 'The Number of the Beast', which continued their fondness for wyrd culture, this time taking inspiration from The Prisoner and Village - and Children - of the Damned.
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Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to artist Edward Burra (1905) and to author Mary Gentle (1956).
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #edwardburra #marygentle
On this day in Wyrd Britain history...
1974 - Director Peter Walker's sexploitation prison movie, 'House of Whipcord' is released.
#houseofwhipcord #peterwalker
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923), author of the wonderful 'Three Miles Up', and to comics artist Brian Bolland (1951), 'Judge Dredd', 'Batman: The Killing Joke', 'The Actress & The Bishop'.
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #elizabethjanehoward #brianbolland
What do you get when you mix an exceedingly hirsute author, a goth bassist, and the jazz butcher?
Sinister Ducks, that's what.
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Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to the 2nd Doctor, Patrick Troughton (1920) and to producer, writer, costume designer, and the voice of Lady Penelope, Sylvia Anderson (1927).
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #patricktroughton #doctorwho #sylviaanderson #ladypenelope
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to designer, artist, and author William Morris (1834) and to comics artist Glenn Fabry (1961).
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #williammorris #glennfabry
We're playing with dolls in this week's Wyrd Britain Supernatural Sunday, Devil Doll
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Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to actress Mary Tamm (1950), the first Romana, companion to the Fourth Doctor.
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Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to Patrick McGoohan (1928).
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #patrickmcgoohan #theprisoner
NEWS: A Year in the Country publish 'Ghost Signals: The Shadowlands of British Analogue Television 1968-1995'.
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#ayearinthecountry