With #rsd2025 fast approaching, a look back at a piece I wrote on Ramases, Sheffield's very own musical pharaoh with thanks again to @steelcitysnapper.bsky.social for his amazing pix. Apparently a film is in the works - its some story!
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We’re bringing back The Moorland Notebook – part guide, part protest, part poetic reflection – with new art, new walks, and a renewed call for access.
We’re crowdfunding now. Help us reach the summit:
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#RightToRoam #UKRambling
The next runner to finish Loop 1 came in at 11:59:02.
laz: Are you ok?
Runner: I’m Barkley ok.
#BM100
Very much enjoyed the Martin Parr documentary. A snap happy septugenarian with a walking frame and laser focus. From the mill towns of west Yorkshire to the resorts of the Wirral, he captures Britain in all its unusualness
My latest newsletter is the tale of two social enterprises in #Sheffield, facing different futures on #IWD2025. Green shoots, city of culture dreams, creative futures.
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Great artwork by Rob Lee at Burton Street Foundation. Great day volunteering for Sheffield's best centre for folks with extra learning and development needs.
Finally got my new prints of @andycropperart.bsky.social and #nickcave up .
Mugger's Bridge is an infamous crossing across which graced many an urban run photo.
The NC is from the Wild God tour where he untapped an emotional valve which hasn't run dry and scared my blood to brilliance.
Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine
The rear cover of Bill Fay’s debut LP, signed by Bill to me. It reads “Thanks for feeling for the music Andrew, Very best, Bill. x
#RIP Bill Fay. A kind and gentle soul and a great spiritual songwriter. It was a true pleasure to meet him and interview him for @mojomagazine.bsky.social in 2012.
Lergy may have curtailed weekend plans but has allowed me to catch 26.2 Miles To Life, astonishing story of inmates battling their demons and their watches on laps of the San Quentin prison yard. Watch it on I Player.
Fantastic to speak with Kinder Elder and campaigner Terry Howard for my latest newsletter on wayside crosses, ancient burial routes and keeping walking weird. Follow his progress at @peakrillpress.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lookingu...
Loved seeing the #timburton exhibition @designmuseum.bsky.social ... already planning a return trip with the illustration-mad youth.
Reunited with an old school mate - sort of. Loving the new #mattberry record, a great gumbo of film and TV soundtracks, clattering drums and clever words. Good lad.
Thrilled to speak to Vicky Bridges for my Looking Up Sheffield newsletter on her recent Spine triumph: of hallucinations, heartbreak and heroism (and some dotwatching too). Thanks to @adam0407.bsky.social for giving the piece some additional backbone.
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The last of the English matadors. Fascinating story @manchestermill.bsky.social about octogenarian Salford bullfighter Frank Evans, whatever your views on the pursuit. manchestermill.co.uk/the-salford-...
kyle_maclachlan Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn't recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to. Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I'd ever met. David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, l've lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We'd talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh. His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he's gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.
This is a beautiful tribute.
Looking up in #Sheffield and in Upperthorpe has never been so good. You might just spot a new #peachzz.
When zero per centers are as good as the Nillis, alcohol free may be the future for this writer. Just need an AF old fashioned now.
Loved reading old school mate Matt Berry's record influences in @thequietus.com. There must have been something in the home counties musical zeitgeist in the 80s as the Simon & Garfunkel tape was the only one we had as well!
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New ‘Winter Reading’ episode up now. Books by Jeffrey Renard Allen, John Bowen, Mark Bowles, Rob Cohen, Tim Robey, Sally Rooney, Bobby Short, Zadie Smith, Adelle Stripe, Moon Unit Zappa, with @iammilliam.bsky.social @johnmitchinson.bsky.social @birchos.bsky.social. 📚
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Excellent debut piece from my friend @lozman.bsky.social as Looking Up Sheffield. open.substack.com/pub/lookingu...
#Sheffield people! Folkloric friends! I've launched a Looking Up Sheffield newsletter into the maelstrom. First feature is with the excellent David Clarke... on Robin Hood, haunted bypasses and the legends that lurk beneath the city.
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An attempt at a @petemckee.bsky.social inspired Snowmuriel up at the Common.
Fantastic goal to mark the new year.
Walking off the Christmas around beautiful Broomhead, with additional rule of thirds
This year's Nichemas includes @grindrod.bsky.social new podcast about Corby Bus Station's unheralded beauty and Ffa Coffi Pawb, an illuminating doco - entirely in Welsh apart from odd words like Husker Du - tracing the history of Welsh music from Datblygu to SFA. Look at young Gruff!
Welcome to the first episode of my geeky new podcast, Monstrosities Mon Amour, where a guest and I explore somewhere they love, somewhere more commonly dismissed… johngrindrod.substack.com/p/new-podcas...
The art of the mix tape. Can't say I disagree with any of these from the new @petemckee.bsky.social memoirs exhib, A Boy With A Leg Called Brian
Great evening watching Tokyo Godfathers, a fantastic wintry anime, at Kelham Film Club.
