I am sure they all grew up just fine... except maybe the kid at the back with no eyes. :O

The important question in 1986 was: Will Fighting Fantasy create a generation of sword-wielding maniacs?

McKenzie Crook and Toby Jones need to reunite for a TV adaptation of this...

It's 1992, and the Crawley and District Observer has just found out about TOPY/Psychic TV...

This is the final event of a two-day Spatial Audio Gathering, with talks and concerts on Monday and Tuesday. Registration is free for students and staff, £20 for visitors. spatialaudiogathering.github.io/index.html

NSIDE/OUT: TREVOR WISHART Composing Space The composer will discuss the various uses of audio-spatialisation in works from “Red Bird” to “The Garden of Earthly Delights”

Free guest lecture by Trevor Wishart - a legend of electroacoustic music - at Leeds Beckett on Tuesday. All welcome - just reserve a place here!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nsideout-t...

Ken Dodd definitely to blame.

(Liverpool Echo, Feb 12 1982)

"The other day I saw and heard a bird singing on the branch of a tree, & suddenly realised that the tree was the shape of the bird’s song, they were one."

It's the birthday of Cecil Collins: here's an unpublished piece I wrote about his work & creative imagination!
www.academia.edu/29779727/Sin...

Ynys y Cedairn, by Tristan Rhys Williams 9 track album

"These pieces embody the mythic and physical landscape of Anglesey, where sound and memory intertwine, creating a space where past and present exist in a perpetual state of haunting continuity." tristanrhyswilliams.bandcamp.com/album/ynys-y...

"If we're going to make a dark ambient band, we're going to need some eeeeevul names... how about 'Stupid' and 'Betwixt'?"

Zines on the Web #8 - Scans from the AFU collection on Archive org: archive.org/details/ufon...
Not just UFO newsletters: there's also the occasional weird underground gem in there, such as Dharma Combat.

Edgewise Volume 1 - Issue 1 — Photophrenic A5 magazine, 72 pages, perfect binding. This inaugural issue of Edgewise serves as an establishment of the founding remit of this publication - to give a voice to the practiced, a platform to those w...

Last few copies remaining of a new, and very interesting looking, occult zine from Daniel Yates: www.photophrenic.com/bookstore/p/...

Playing in Norwich on Saturday w/ Dawn Terry + Monasunne. Tix: thehollowaynorwich.com/events/HmizL...

Some pretty great tomes, there! Lloyd Alexander (v much enjoyed reading w/ my youngest recently), and Tanith Lee: her Death's Master was a total revelation to me last year!

LIVAKT#564 : Rodney Orpheus | The Cassandra Complex YouTube video by Tormentor Radio Show

The full 3 hours of music and interview of The Cassandra Complex on French radio is now up on YouTube - and yes, the interview is in English, my French is definitely not good enough to do an interview in :-)

youtu.be/hf4NdQfSj7E?...

Last night I started to think ‘What if composing was (even) more like dungeon crawling?’ So - I wrote a system called the CRYPT OF THE MUSES to explore this idea.
I also had another thought: can I make a music video in Bitsy? For better or worse, this is the fruit of those thoughts.

Oops, this should have been #8! 😅

Zines on the web #8: The Luminist Archives holds a great range of occult periodicals from the 1800s to the 2000s.
www.luminist.org/archives/OC/

Zines on the web #7: The Luminist Archives holds a great range of occult periodicals from the 1800s to the 2000s.
www.luminist.org/archives/OC/

Second part of the Alaura O’Dell / Mistress Mix / Paula P-Orridge interview. From Psychic TV to Sacred Journeys for Women, with lots of good stuff in between. Including the benevolence of Kim Cascone and a brief mention of Nema! bureauoflostculture.podbean.com/e/in-out-of-...

Nice game of Talisman 2nd edition last night (complete with all expansions including Dragpns and the White Dwarf material). I think I found my new favourite card...

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

FANTASTIC FOOD - MELIN MELYN (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Melin Melyn

Ouch - the last 90 seconds = when a seemingly innocuous song hits you with an emotional punch at 7:30 in the morning. 😪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7WO...

Writing a small game based on a ritual undertaken last year at a cottage on Ynys Môn...

Rules to Break, by Teenage Cenobite 7 track album

Very much enjoying this lo-fi synth-punk/industrial/no-wave album this morning. RIYL Blank Dogs, MAL, Decayes etc.
teenagecenobite.bandcamp.com/album/rules-...

In the 80s a group called Servants of Satan operated from this house. I have to say, I'm quite jealous.

Dr Phil Legard on Instagram: "Magazine Monday #18 - Demon Star #3 (ca. 1991-2) Not every zine is a goldmine of forgotten lore. Sometimes they can be almost bereft of content. Sometimes they can lead ... 38 likes, 1 comments - phil_legard on February 2, 2026: "Magazine Monday #18 - Demon Star #3 (ca. 1991-2) Not every zine is a goldmine of forgotten lore. Sometimes they can be almost bereft of conten...

First Magazine Monday of 2026. Something from the bottom of the barrel here - back to the cream next week!

Delinquent Elementals: A Pagan News Anthology A Pagan News Anthology Edited by Phil Hine & Rodney Orpheus £25 / £45 Available as a mass market paperback with flaps & a limited edition hardback with a bookplate signed by the editors. ISBN: 9781...

For those into the zines... worth noting that Strange Attractor has Delinquent Elementals in their winter sale. It collects together the best of Phil Hine and Rodney Orpheus' Pagan News - lots of good stuff in there!

strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/delinque...

Enjoy these vintage images of Leeds' Sorcerer's Apprentice shop, from the Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, 18th April 1989.

I'm stumped, too.