Tom Murphy

47 years ago #otd 11th August 1978 the debut release by the Fall was released, 'Bingo-Master's Break-Out!' a 3-song EP. The beginnings of something so creative and unique. Thank you for all that amazing music Mark E Smith and the Fall.

RIP - I’m sure he was also the original voice of Croydon Tramlink; it certainly sounded like him

I’ve a feeling he was also the original voice of the Croydon Tramlink - it certainly sounded like him

The lucky socks have only gone and done it again… 😁🦅 #cpfc

One pisspot carried on chanting Eagles and a number of people shouted at him to shut up

I’m busy hoovering up @janegibbensmurphy.bsky.social 🦅

It’s clearly a very serious business

Exciting! We’ve just packed off our contribution to a project being put together by someone whose work we’ve admired for years. A quick sausage butty and then next stop Wembley!

#FunAndGames

🎵Wembley again! Olé! Olé!🎵

We're off to the Community Shield - so it's time to dig out this picture of us with (the original) Pete the Eagle way-back-when at Selhurst Park.

And don't forget! My #CPFC #zine is yours for £5 at bit.ly/gladalloverzine - £1 of which goes to St Christopher's hospice

A small weatherbeaten gravestone bearing just the word SCUM

Thinking about poor old SCUM in the pet cemetery in Hyde Park

YouTube video by Bellboy Studio HAUNTED PAPER | Jeff Young | Dorothy

A film about my 'Haunted Paper' exhibition at Dorothy, Jamaica Street Liverpool. The film was made by Matt Bell at Bellboy Studio and the music is by Joe McKechnie. The exhibition is on until September 19th, Monday - Friday, 9pm to 5pm.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CARO...

Happy Saturday!

Remember, you can get BOTH our little books of Dad's weird and wonderful #London street photography for just a tenner at bit.ly/thingsdadsaw - and all profits go to St Christopher’s hospice…

One of my faves, from the waiting room at Grove Park station, near Bromley

Gracie, an extraordinarily beautiful black cat, is looking intensely at what’s going on out of shot

Gracie is particularly captivated by the whole process of putting on shoes

Ooh, I had no idea - congrats, Kat!

Countdown to Caption: Seven Days to Go! Not long to go!

Caption: Rebirth takes place next weekend (Saturday August 16th and Sunday 17th 2025) at Seacourt Hall, in Oxford – and the final guest programme is now locked and primed!

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Kelly Springfield by Albert Gleizes, 1919 #artbots #guggenheim
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137664

To mark #InternationalCatDay, here's a poem from our old mate Cosmo Chancer (as featured in Penge Pieces: bit.ly/cosmoxyoko)... 🐱

Pretty much the same: I look at my followers and think that maybe 1 in 40 has any overlap with anything I’m ever likely to post about. Mostly American randos fishing for a follow-back, I assume. I never did ‘numbers’ on TW, but engagement is absolutely minimal on here

Mark E Smith Music Teacher dishes out some essential life lessons. There's three new episodes of our tribute to the genius behind The Fall in Ugly Mug 8, our comix-art anthology.
houseofharley.net/uglymug8
#comics #comix #undergroundcomics #music #MarkESmith #TheFall #FallFriday #UglyMug

Inside a hollow library book, a secret library When a Victoria librarian pulled a book off the shelf at the central branch this summer, a mystery began

This is a crazy story... Someone hollowed a large book, filled it with zines, put it on the shelves of a public library, and got the word around that there was a "trading zine library" on said shelves. As of 2021, this covert project had survived for over 7 years! #DIYzine #zinelibrary

*Looks up train and coach fares to Liverpool*

(Do go and see this exhibition if you can. Everything Jeff does is thought-provoking, truly original and beautiful. ❤️)

USETHISONE

The autonomous cleaning robot that menaces passengers at London’s Charing Cross station. It now has a sticker saying that it’s called ‘John’ and an illustration of a crazed robot face

They’ve decided that the cleaning bot at Charing Cross needs a name and a face to be more relatable

someone should write a book about editing titled “Editing Book_final_FINAL v2.1”

Take care!

Four used copies of different editions of Finnegans Wake stack on top of each other.

Do you have a used/battered copy of Finnegans Wake that you will not use ever again? At the James Joyce Centre we are happy to collect these copies to help an artist build a sculpture made of them.

Contact info@jamesjoyce.ie if you would like to donate your copy.

Sacred & Profane: Haunted Paper
On the eve of a new exhibition, showcasing the notebooks and collages of prize-winning author @wildtwin.bsky.social, @doublenegativem.bsky.social considers memory, nostalgia, and the writer’s creative process…

www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sacr...

At last! The wise words of the people of #Penge are collected in Cosmo Chancer's Penge Proverbs.

Buy the #zine for just £3 at bit.ly/pengeproverbs

THE FINISHING LINE (1977): John Krish's legendary PIF, shown in schools (once on telly) and banned for 21 years. A young boy daydreams about an ultraviolent school sports day in which teams of kids enact all manner of dangerous games on train tracks...