Correct your maps: Newcastle is Mitteleuropa
LORT BURN SPECIALS: 3 happened and it was great
keep yr eyes peeled for LORT BURN SPECIALS: 4
@lortburnspecials.bsky.social
Newcastle's occasional night of books, politics and culture at @alphabettitheatre.bsky.social digging countercultural modernism from its grave and watching it punch a police horse in the face outside St James' Park
Correct your maps: Newcastle is Mitteleuropa
LORT BURN SPECIALS: 3 happened and it was great
keep yr eyes peeled for LORT BURN SPECIALS: 4
LORT BURN WELCOMES YOU
12.10.2025 22:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is one week today. Tickets have been quickly going without us really pushing it.
If you want to come, don't hesitate!
Tickets here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/alphabetti-t...
This is only 10 days away.
Get your tickets here: www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk/lortburnspec...
Lort Burn Specials understands that man knoweth no greater love than his passion for graphic design
06.10.2025 17:44 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 2LORT BURN SPECIALS NUMBER 3 APPROACHES
19.09.2025 00:41 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0LORT BURN SPECIALS: 3
Featuring OWEN HATHERLEY, ANDREW HANKINSON, KATE LISTON and music from BEN LOWES-SMITH
SATURDAY 18 OCTOBER 7PM
@alphabettitheatre.bsky.social
MAKE NEWCASTLE MITTELEUROPA AGAIN
WE'RE COMING
19.09.2025 18:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0LORT BURN SPECIALS NUMBER 3 APPROACHES
19.09.2025 00:41 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0At the recent @lortburnspecials.bsky.social sessions, when asked about Railway 200, @garethdennis.uk emphasised the importance of telling the true story of the railways. Thinking about this re Newcastle, the important story our city fails to tell is that of Robert Stephenson.
15.07.2025 08:01 β π 14 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0this was great, more cultural events with very good content but also an explicit call to hang out, please
09.07.2025 09:03 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0The Salt Path (post-credits scene):
*Moth & Raynor Winn enter their home to find Hannah Ingram-Moore & Johann Hari waiting for them*
Hari: "I'm putting together a team."
Good reports from members about this.
@garethdennis.uk began by reading from his book about βgadgetbahnβ (i.e. a technological solution to a transport problem that wonβt work but will block investment in stuff like trains & cycling that do work) - itβs a very useful piece of transport jargon.
Had an absolutely class time at this. Hopefully there'll be many more to come.
06.07.2025 15:10 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0This was a great evening, funny, engaging, with lots of tales of trains and other modes of transport, and just the right amount politics.
05.07.2025 10:20 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0CHOO CHOO
05.07.2025 13:19 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you for coming!
05.07.2025 10:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Great night at Alphabetti Theatre, with a hilarious Metro story by @jaketrelease.bsky.social & talk+Q&A with @garethdennis.uk
Takeaway thought: The Northumberland Lineβs seen 5x the no. of journeys originally anticipated.
Imagine if itβd had 5x the budget.
Double track? Electrified? Nicer stations?
What a night!
Thanks to all who came down and made it so special.
And thanks to @garethdennis.uk, Jake Trelease, Lyndsey Ayre and Yara Rodrigues Fowler!
Thank you for being there!
05.07.2025 08:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This was dead good. More of this please!
04.07.2025 21:59 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0Thank you for coming!
05.07.2025 08:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0this is the kind of hard-hitting, forensic questioning you just don't get from the BBC these days
but you can still get it at LORT BURN SPECIALS
www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk/lortburnspec...
If you're very well behaved and also maybe buy one of the Lort Burners a pint you may even be able to get hold of one of our fantastic LORT BURN SPECIALS posters, modelled here by our lovely assistant Peter
04.07.2025 12:53 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0This is today!
There are a few tickets left.
Don't bother getting a ticket on the door, it's a logistical faff and you will regret it!
We have @garethdennis.bsky.social talking trains, plus three more authors and live music!
ποΈ www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk/lortburnspec...
If you're very well behaved and also maybe buy one of the Lort Burners a pint you may even be able to get hold of one of our fantastic LORT BURN SPECIALS posters, modelled here by our lovely assistant Peter
04.07.2025 12:53 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Finishing my notes for tonight where I'll be asking @garethdennis.bsky.social very important questions about trains.
04.07.2025 08:51 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 4 π 2This is today!
There are a few tickets left.
Don't bother getting a ticket on the door, it's a logistical faff and you will regret it!
We have @garethdennis.bsky.social talking trains, plus three more authors and live music!
ποΈ www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk/lortburnspec...
TOMORROW NEWCASTLE WILL BE TRAINS AGAIN
Lort Burn Specials
Alphabetti Theatre
7pm
@garethdennis.uk in conversation
Readings from @yararf.bsky.social, Lyndsey Ayre, @jaketrelease.bsky.social
Music from Lucy Valentine
www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk/lortburnspec...
The next edition of the semi-regular culture night I put on with @alexniven.bsky.social and @pdkmitchell.bsky.social is only two days away and tickets are flying out.
I'll be asking @garethdennis.uk all about trains!