@nicktriplow.bsky.social
Writer: THE LAST DAYS OF JOHNNY NUNN; NEVER WALK AWAY; GETTING CARTER: Ted Lewis & the Birth of Brit Noir @NoExitPress @bedsqpublishers. Contributor to Lincolnshire Folk Tales Reimagined anthology.
from Tit-Bits magazine (1892)
26.02.2026 07:42 — 👍 174 🔁 42 💬 2 📌 5
Headline reads: The Epstein Files "One rule for the rich, another for you."
Time to drop this line. It's clear there are NO rules for the rich.
16.02.2026 10:20 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I haven't been able to stop thinking about this since watching on Saturday night. A sort-of documentary on Don DeLillo, featuring him talking but not being interviewed, it is utterly hypnotizing. But the key thing for me was that this was broadcast on BBC1. BBC1! www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_dH...
16.02.2026 10:35 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1I’m old enough to remember him doing this on Wogan in June 1988, protesting against the government’s homophobia. The targets change, the speech stays relevant…
05.02.2026 14:31 — 👍 152 🔁 36 💬 5 📌 2
I can't stop listening to this wistful demo of Next Time Round, which Costello recorded in (I deduce) April '85. By the time the song appeared on Blood & Chocolate a year later, it had curdled into something nastier. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGWv...
03.02.2026 07:50 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0When I interviewed Steve Van Zandt a few years ago, he memorably said the only way to defeat Trump and his henchmen would be for “the tough good guys” to make a stand. I put it to you that Springsteen is doing that right now. 🫡
29.01.2026 07:21 — 👍 124 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 0
"The (Unforgettable) Meryl Streep"
...none of us had seen the text of her speech before, was that with her speech in defense of foreigners, journalists, the arts & human dignity, Meryl was going to electrify the ballroom at the Beverly Hilton, the entire country & the rest of the world...
In 2017
Nothing says Christmas more to a 56-year-old man than a book about crime writing by @nicktriplow.bsky.social & pairs of Deltic and Brian Clough socks from @sockcouncil.bsky.social
26.12.2025 14:03 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Sadly, none of the albums I reissued in 2025 made any Best Of lists. So I’ve made my own list: The Best Three Albums Reissued by Unspun Heroes in 2025 - Drink Ring Jesus by Stephen Simmons, The Tracksuit Trilogy by The Experimental Pop Band, and Living And Growing by The Felt Tips.
You’re welcome.
Cinema poster for David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai
UK quad poster for the 1967 Henry Hathaway version of Charles Portis's classic western novel True Grit
Poster for Laurel and Hardy's 1937 feature Way Out West
Day 5 of the BBC1 Christmas movies advent calendar gets us to 1974.
A scheduling trend emerges: a family-friendly afternoon movie, then something a little more adult in the evening. Plus a Laurel and Hardy!
12.25pm: Way Out West
4.05pm: True Grit
8.45pm: The Bridge on the River Kwai
Watching Jane Pollard & Iain Forsyth's forthcoming Marianne Faithfull doc, Broken English and I love that they choose this as the first track to represent early Marianne. It's such a perfect cover. Donovan is the observer but MP is completely inside the song. youtu.be/3fp0wo3qA1c?...
27.11.2025 11:35 — 👍 49 🔁 10 💬 4 📌 4
We're thrilled our final guest of 2025 will be @nicolaupson.bsky.social. Nicola will be talking about 'The Christmas Clue', 10th December (7pm). It's free to attend at @hulllibraries.bsky.social (Central) or via the online stream.
We'll bring the mince pies!🎄
Please reserve via the links below.
You need to see this…
Just so we’re all clear on the gravity and historical significance of what Trump has done to the East Wing of the People’s House.
An Orange Back Ground, with Bold White Writing, giving the books title and editor.
Best British Short Stories 2025, edited by Nicholas Royle, reviewed by Paul Anthony Knowles and Sam Cassells
www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13063
@saltpublishing.com
If you're wondering why so many of my generation ended up with the eyes and ears and minds that we did it's because we could watch stuff like this on schools programme. This is simply astounding.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gED...
Oh, bloody hell. These poets who inspired me and made language and poetry accessible and filled it with meaning and soul. Fuck.
30.09.2025 15:44 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Unfortunately, Neil Broadfoot can no longer join us this Wednesday evening. However, our @nickquantrill.bsky.social and @nicktriplow.bsky.social will present 'Three Book Wednesday'. We hope you can still join us for what will be a lively evening of book chat at @hulllibraries.bsky.social 📚
15.09.2025 10:21 — 👍 0 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
A poster advertising Russel doing an event on 13th August 2025 at Hull central library at 7pm, which also be streamed online. Free tickets via eventbrite and www.hullnoir.com
More #authorevents posting, as later in the month (the 13th tae be exact) I'll be in Hull (You could say I'll be going to Hull and Back...) talking all things THE FRIDAY GIRL @hullnoir.bsky.social & trying not make any puns that could ruin my noirish reputation*
*this is almost guaranteed to happen
The new Hal Hartley trailer has dropped!
youtu.be/VNw6Su_TeDA?...
This is perfect.
07.07.2025 08:05 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
B&w portrait of Astrid Kirchherr and Stuart Sutcliffe behind a 19th Century iron door grille in Hamburg.
The same door today
Jürgen Vollmer's extrordinarily portenteous portrait of Astrid Kirchherr and Stuart Sutcliffe, taken in early 1962 about three months before Sutcliffe's death. He would have been 85 today.
In Hamburg last year a friend took me walking around Beatles-related places including the door.
We're thrilled to be working with @hulllibraries.bsky.social to present a special screening of 'Brighton Rock', 5th July (7pm).
Our guide for the evening will be Cathi Unsworth. She'll be in conversation with @nicktriplow.bsky.social before we show the film.
Tickets £5 (link in the comments) 🎬👇
One of these days I'll make the Hull pilgrimage I've wanted to since reading Getting Carter by @nicktriplow.bsky.social - til then, there's always the livestream of the @hullnoir.bsky.social @hulllibraries.bsky.social crime fiction sessions hosted by Nick T & @nickquantrill.bsky.social
#BookSky 📚💙
Bowker's going to nail Crawford... unless Crawford can nail Bowker first!
🚓 Z CARS (1977) 🚓 7pm featuring #RayLonnen #DouglasFielding #BrianGrellis #NormanRossington 'Rip Off' #TPTVsubtitles
New piece: been working on this for the best part of a year. But really it's trying to draw on everything I've seen and thought about since I first started reporting on far right politics in the late 2000s. Online now and in tomorrow's LRB.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
From the day I first played it out 35 years ago to the last DJ gig I did a few weeks ago, this tune’s guaranteed to hit the spot. Goes brilliantly with Kris Ife’s “Hush”, Alan Hawkshsw’s “Studio 69”, “She Lives In A Big House” by Offspring and Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger’s “Indian Rope Man”.
14.05.2025 16:34 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Excellent book. Dury, Wilko, it was all there.
12.05.2025 21:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"However significant Johnny Rotten has been, it’s worth remembering that he nicked much of his shtick from the greatest of all the pub rockers."
Today we shall also be remembering Ian Dury, born 12 May 1942, the greatest artist to emerge from the pub-rock scene of the 1970s.
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Good morning.
Lottie walked.
Shirt ironed and shoes polished.
Off to The British Book Awards tonight at The Grosvenor Hotel in London.
Time for a proper brew.
#Nibbies
@thebookseller.com
The metaphor of a country whose fresh and coastal water is choked with pollutants and excrement by a privatised industry that is apparently financially incontinent eludes everyone in Labour HQ.
12.05.2025 18:08 — 👍 20 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
