Yorkshire weirdies! Get down to the already wonderful Ryedale Folk Museum this summer, it's got a brilliant - and huge - exhibition about witchcraft and folk magic running until November. Genuine witch posts, crystal balls, corn dollies, the lot. Plus a one-eyed cat that stares you out.

NEW ISSUE OUT TODAY! We’ve selected 101 RECORDS OF 1981 for this month’s Electronic Sound cover story and we’re bundling the mag with a superb green vinyl seven-inch EP featuring post-punk heavyweights THE FALL, JAH WOBBLE and BLURT. Get your copy now at electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine

Counting with my fingers while looking at the seating plan, I think there are only 29 tickets left for Scarred for Life Folk Horror Special at Harrogate Theatre on Wed 24th April. Join us as we attempt to summon the spirits of the Ancient Ones to Harrogate...
harrogatetheatre.co.uk/events/scarred…

If anyone has a ticket for Eaglesfest II at The Waiting Room, there's a gentle afterparty for ticket holders on Sun 14th April, where I'll be talking about why, aged 11, I thought I'd found a time portal in a hedgerow in Yarm. A few of us are doing quirky talks... 5.30pm onwards.

Oh, I missed off The British Stereo Collective/Phil Heeks! He's in there as well.

The new Fortean Times has my regular The Haunted Generation column. Thoughts on The Night Monitor Tom McDowell Fenny Compton peter hackett #kitchencynics #greymalkin Letters From Mouse #alexcargill Woodford Halse Our head technician Ghost Box Concretism. Plus a bit of Hexham Heads action!

This is awful - I've worked with Ben on a few local events recently, and he's lovely. He and his family are currently on holiday in Greece, and their baby daughter has been suddenly and prematurely stillborn. Any help anyone can give would be amazing.
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Forty years ago today. Pity the fools that make a B.A. Baracus Easter egg.

Forty years ago today. It had been a few weeks since Ozzie and me finished writing our own Fighting Fantasy book, The Guardian Of Goblin Grotto, so it was high time we turned it into a ZX Spectrum game in lunchtime 'computer club'. Mrs Keasey tried her best to look interested.

Agnetha’s wears her “Remember You’re A Womble” badge that I gave her this week 50 years ago, for the band’s winning performance at Eurovision. 🎶🥳

Forty years today. 'Boring job'? 'Bunch of weeds'? Playing to the gallery here, which makes me suspect I wrote this entry in front of Doug. Doug's bike, bought for £15, was a classic 1970s Raleigh Chopper and if I still owned it in the same condition I could pay off my mortgage.

No Bagpussi will be sacrificed on my watch. Apart from that, as you were.

New on the The Haunted Generation site... the cloak-and-dagger rendezvous I had with the mysterious Craven Faults last summer. Can't really tell you who he is, or where we met. But I enjoyed discussing 'the rusty bits of metal you find attached to walls' with him. hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2024/04/08/cra…

Forty years ago today. A ZX81 program crashed and I 'played around with my bedroom but still ended up with it looking a mess'. Still, at least there was a repeat of Foggy's first episode of Last of the Summer Wine.

Forty years ago today. I'd had a week without access to Doctor Who materials, so made up for it with gusto. Another 'muck around', the third-ever episode of The Price Is Right, and a healthy dose of Big Enos and Little Enos before bedtime.

Forty years ago today. Back from Carlton Camp after what felt like years away from home. A week's worth of comics to catch up with, and everybody telling me how amazing the Lirpa Loof had been on That's Life.

THE ENDLESS ECHO by Pye Corner Audio, out today.
(LP slightly delayed order now but ships circa 12th April)
ghostbox.greedbag.com

#pyecorneraudio #ghostboxrecords #vinyl #cd #julianhouse #electronicmusic

Off The Beat #24 🎶
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Review of Stockton Calling 🙌
Highlights include: Maeve and The Trains, getdown services, Sarah Johnsone, The Chase, Jam Tub, Tina Sandwich, DEADLETTER, CVC, The Zutons and many more 🎶

Now up for pre-order, The Balloonist 'A Quiet Day'

digital.waysideandwoodland.com/album/a-quiet-…

Pop songs consistently “too commercial” for Submithub & indie snobs, an album covering my internationally displaced life & almost loves from Ephesus in Turkey to Memphis, Tennessee to Palmers Green, London and Middlesbrough, UK: jaymoussamann.bandcamp.com/album/jay-mous… #BandcampFriday