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This was fun - I would normally snobbishly avoid JC - but I can now see she was a ‘grafter’ so to speak, and is invaluable in reflecting 70s and 80s for younger readers!

SCREAM LIKE A BABY – DAVID BOWIE’S CLASH WITH TYRANNY – Adam Steiner In the age of ICE abductions, very public assassinations and far-right marches in the UK, Scream Like A Baby returns with a vengeance as Bowie’s anthem against totalitarianism in all its forms. The so...

SCREAM LIKE A BABY

In the age of ICE abductions, very public assassinations and far-right marches in the UK, Scream Like A Baby returns with a vengeance as Bowie’s anthem against totalitarianism in all its forms.

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REPTILE: REZNOR, BEAUTY, AND SELF (COURTNEY) LOVE – Adam Steiner One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – I found her bitter – And I reviled herArthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell On Reptile, Trent Reznor reveals the ugliest side of his persona, wounded by broken relati...

"One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – I found her bitter – And I reviled her"
–Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell

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GHOSTEEN – NICK CAVE'S MASTERPIECE It’s a strange thing to look back to the release of Ghosteen on October 4th 2019 with anything other than stilted wonder. A beautiful, wounded record, it would come to suit the times, overshadowed by ...

Happy Birthday to Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen – still one of my favourite records for difficult but important reasons.

"In 2019 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds would return with their new album Ghosteen – an openhearted reckoning with grief, and life beyond it."

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YouTube video by Broken Ridge Records David Bowie - Heroes

10/14/77: Bowie, with Heroes
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Guess we need to hear this more than ever:

And the shame, was on the other side
Oh we can beat them, for ever and ever
Then we could be Heroes, just for one day
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GHOSTEEN – NICK CAVE'S MASTERPIECE It’s a strange thing to look back to the release of Ghosteen on October 4th 2019 with anything other than stilted wonder. A beautiful, wounded record, it would come to suit the times, overshadowed by ...

Happy Birthday to Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen – still one of my favourite records for difficult but important reasons.

"In 2019 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds would return with their new album Ghosteen – an openhearted reckoning with grief, and life beyond it."

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BIG MAN WITH A GUN– How Nine Inch Nails Took On Censorship and US Gun Culture – And Lost – Pt I – Adam Steiner On Big Man With A Gun Nine Inch Nails presented the negative side of guns in America — gross and grotesque, violent and vulgar — another painful reality which some of its citizens prefer not to see. A...

NIN, controversy and gun control

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I’m really sorry it happened - the mindlessness of motive has only served to fuel the far right across Europe - Charlie Kirk is no martyr - and no-one actually seeks to replicate his behaviour - only lament it

Cheers Frank! X

NINE INCH NAILS AND THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN VIOLENCE: BEFORE AND AFTER COLUMBINE [1994-1999-20??] – Adam Steiner Nine Inch Nails “Big Man With A Gun” portrays a negative character in order to question the media-saturation and gangsta-rap glamorization of gun violence and straight, white violent masculinity, high...

In a season of crime

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A Grave For a Dolphin A real-life David Bowie story. || Adam Steiner

A GRAVE FOR A DOLPHIN – A real-life David Bowie love story – how an African folk tale drawn from a rare, forgotten book helped inspire Bowie’s lyrics for "Heroes"

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#bowie

Electric Wizards | Reaktion Books It began with The Beatles’ ‘Helter Skelter’. It was distilled to its dark essence by Black Sabbath. And it has flourished into a vibrant modern underground, epitomized by Newcastle’s Pigs Pigs Pigs Pi...

Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present is four years old! 🎂 “a mind-riot,” according to the late, great Neil Kulkarni. Still in print! 📖 #booksky @reaktionbooks.bsky.social reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/electri...

Silhouettes And Shadows – David Bowie’s Scary Monsters – Adam Steiner Carlos Alomar remembers the death of John Lennon – David Bowie Convention 2024 Silhouettes & Shadows – the making of Scary Monsters BLOG – Kingdom Come: David Bowie does Television If heaven was ever ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY – SCARY MONSTERS (AND SUPER CREEPS) - released OTD in 1980!

To find out more about Bowie's year of 1980, check out my book Silhouettes And Shadows – including John Lennon, The Elephant Man and New York as Bowie's future home!

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Librarians’ autumn picks 2025 Five librarians from across the UK pick their most-anticipated autumn reads.

Best of luck to @andrewgallix.bsky.social, launching his mind-bending satirical thriller Loren Ipsum this evening. One of the unsung heroes of the UK lit scene as i alluded to in @thebookseller.com this month.

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Ah very cool! I’m not here much so slow replies. How are your projects going?

L I V I N G W I T H B U I L D I N G S – IX

–SCREENING EVENT–

Short films exploring the history (and future) of cities and urban spaces.

7.30pm – WEDS 17/9/2025 – PVC – Coventry

PVC - 6 Priory Row, Coventry, CV1 5EX, UK

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#peoplepoetryplace
#livingwithbuildings
#disappearhere

Hello mate - yes - I remember you. What a gig - truly unforgettable, I'm glad NIN toured it fully. We were lucky to get UK gigs first!

The Directors Label by PALM was a short lived DVD collection of the very best film/music directors and curated their best most well known works alongside lesser seen curios. Inspiring and very much recommended.

The internet Archive has the seven volumes here for free:
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WRECKERS OF CIVILISATION: JUST STOP OIL AND THE PERFORMANCE OF PROTEST Viewed as a general nuisance, (self-)righteous eco-warriors, and even urban terrorists, Just Stop Oil exist in a difficult space between public art and revolutionary protest.

WHERE PAINT MEETS PROTEST – JUST STOP OIL were accused of attacking art and culture - but never proscribed as a terrorist organisation - so why have the same extreme measures been applied to Palestine Action? CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE ≠ TERRORISM

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INTERVIEW — CHUCK HAMMER – David Bowie Discovers The Sounds Of The Future – Adam Steiner I speak to Chuck Hammer about his work on David Bowie's Scary Monsters And Super Creeps album and his pioneering use of the guitar-synth.

OTD - 1/8/1980 - ASHES TO ASHES was released!

Here is a lookback to my interview with guitar-synth hero Chuck Hammer, who made the track his own with a unique sound that helped Bowie point us towards the future of pop music!

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#ashestoashes #bowie #chuckhammer

Grace is completely right! That's why the left needs Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn's new political party to give people some hope that things can get better.

Benidorm's greatest patriots A Glorious Twelfth • On the Costa del Ulster • Pass the Buckfast

Rumour has it that Tommy Robinson has fled to Spain after reading @roisinlanigan.bsky.social's dispatch from Benidorm.

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ROCK AND ROLL SUICIDE – NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS BATTLE WITH THE BLUES – PART I – Adam Steiner From his earliest days with The Birthday Party, Nick Cave has turned traditional blues music on its head to realise an alternative sound that goes beyond genre

Happy Birthday TUPELO!

A look back at the song, the singer and the Bad Seeds battle with the blues

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#tupelo #nickcave

Eno-ism! I love his naked openness to music that comes across as naïveté but is really just passion trying out new things!

MASSIVE @versobooks.bsky.social sale klaxon, again.

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Pardon Zach while he burns.

WRECKERS OF CIVILISATION: JUST STOP OIL AND THE PERFORMANCE OF PROTEST Viewed as a general nuisance, (self-)righteous eco-warriors, and even urban terrorists, Just Stop Oil exist in a difficult space between public art and revolutionary protest.

WHERE PAINT MEETS PROTEST – JUST STOP OIL were accused of attacking art and culture - but never proscribed as a terrorist organisation - so why have the same extreme measures been applied to Palestine Action? CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE ≠ TERRORISM

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120 copies of Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear, in three tall columns, with one copy propped up in front of them.

You may recall that I was caught up in the collapse of publishers Unbound.

I now have the rights to my book Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? And I have a lot of them to get rid of.

So if you felt like buying one I might see my office floor again before 2027.

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