Bob Fischer
@bobfischer.bsky.social
Writer and mumbler. Haunted Generation, Fortean Times, Electronic Sound, Doctor Who Magazine, Shindig, Mulgrave Audio, Wiffle Lever To Full, Scarred For Life and Summer Winos. Summat to do innit
Can we have a TV adaptation of the later Adrian Mole books please? Simon Bird and Eleanor Tomlinson.
January 23, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Can we have a TV adaptation of the later Adrian Mole books please? Simon Bird and Eleanor Tomlinson.
Delighted to be doing this, alongside the ace @bobbeagrie.bsky.social and Nev Clay. I'm doing a spoken word piece called 'Dreams Of Freeborough Hill' that references King Arthur, Comet Hale Bopp, Blaises nightclub, the goddess Freya and the 1997 Boro squad.
www.thewaitingroom.uk/event-detail...
www.thewaitingroom.uk/event-detail...
From Freebrough Hill to Cuddy's Cave with The Hand of Glory - Bob Beagrie, Bob Fischer and Nev Clay | The Waiting Room Vegetarian Restaurant
From Freebrough Hill to Cuddy's Cave... A triple bill!
Horror, Humour, and The Hand of Glory: Bobs Beagrie and Fischer followed by Nev Clay in concert.
www.thewaitingroom.uk
January 21, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Delighted to be doing this, alongside the ace @bobbeagrie.bsky.social and Nev Clay. I'm doing a spoken word piece called 'Dreams Of Freeborough Hill' that references King Arthur, Comet Hale Bopp, Blaises nightclub, the goddess Freya and the 1997 Boro squad.
www.thewaitingroom.uk/event-detail...
www.thewaitingroom.uk/event-detail...
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2 page spread on Rupert Hine's experimental score to The Shout in the new issue of Electronic Sound thanks to @bobfischer.bsky.social @electronicsound.bsky.social for the interview - we're down to the last few CDs and a final box of LPs now
buriedtreasure.bandcamp.com/album/the-sh...
buriedtreasure.bandcamp.com/album/the-sh...
January 16, 2026 at 2:11 PM
2 page spread on Rupert Hine's experimental score to The Shout in the new issue of Electronic Sound thanks to @bobfischer.bsky.social @electronicsound.bsky.social for the interview - we're down to the last few CDs and a final box of LPs now
buriedtreasure.bandcamp.com/album/the-sh...
buriedtreasure.bandcamp.com/album/the-sh...
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"It's utterly beautiful"
Many thanks to Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social for this ripsnorting review of Foster Neville's new album in @electronicsound.bsky.social
'Through Lands Of Ghosts' is a Bandcamp exclusive here:
subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/throug...
Many thanks to Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social for this ripsnorting review of Foster Neville's new album in @electronicsound.bsky.social
'Through Lands Of Ghosts' is a Bandcamp exclusive here:
subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/throug...
January 17, 2026 at 1:13 PM
"It's utterly beautiful"
Many thanks to Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social for this ripsnorting review of Foster Neville's new album in @electronicsound.bsky.social
'Through Lands Of Ghosts' is a Bandcamp exclusive here:
subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/throug...
Many thanks to Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social for this ripsnorting review of Foster Neville's new album in @electronicsound.bsky.social
'Through Lands Of Ghosts' is a Bandcamp exclusive here:
subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/throug...
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Less than four weeks to go till me and @bobfischer.bsky.social ride into Leeds @oldwoollen.bsky.social for our Folk Horror show! We can't wait to come back to one of our favourite venues - we won't be burning a Wicker Man though, it's a health and safety nightmare!
Tickets: bit.ly/483H8JA
Tickets: bit.ly/483H8JA
January 17, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Less than four weeks to go till me and @bobfischer.bsky.social ride into Leeds @oldwoollen.bsky.social for our Folk Horror show! We can't wait to come back to one of our favourite venues - we won't be burning a Wicker Man though, it's a health and safety nightmare!
Tickets: bit.ly/483H8JA
Tickets: bit.ly/483H8JA
Been thinking about my love of fantasy, and 1984 feels like a pivotal year: Fighting Fantasy, Robin of Sherwood, and (genuinely) an advert for Shell Grip where Tim Healy is chased through the woods by Herne the Hunter. I spent every ad break hoping to see it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1hM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1hM...
Shell Grip Advert 1984
YouTube video by gazmain5680
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January 14, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Been thinking about my love of fantasy, and 1984 feels like a pivotal year: Fighting Fantasy, Robin of Sherwood, and (genuinely) an advert for Shell Grip where Tim Healy is chased through the woods by Herne the Hunter. I spent every ad break hoping to see it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1hM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1hM...
Listening to this literally as we speak, it's a lovely thing.
Now up for pre-order
'Wulfrun' by The Balloonist. An homage to the 1960s, open air shopping parade in Wolverhampton, UK.
Covered over in the late 90s, the original was testament to the post-war futurism that drove architecture for a short while...
digital.waysideandwoodland.com/album/wulfrun
'Wulfrun' by The Balloonist. An homage to the 1960s, open air shopping parade in Wolverhampton, UK.
Covered over in the late 90s, the original was testament to the post-war futurism that drove architecture for a short while...
digital.waysideandwoodland.com/album/wulfrun
Wulfrun, by The Balloonist
5 track album
digital.waysideandwoodland.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Listening to this literally as we speak, it's a lovely thing.
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Office clear out!
Last 10 copies of the SKY 10" vinyl (with Look-In poster + TV Times postcard) £17 each + post
Last 10 copies of the SKY CD (+ TV Times postcard) £11 each + post
buriedtreasure.bandcamp.com/album/sky-2
Last 10 copies of the SKY 10" vinyl (with Look-In poster + TV Times postcard) £17 each + post
Last 10 copies of the SKY CD (+ TV Times postcard) £11 each + post
buriedtreasure.bandcamp.com/album/sky-2
January 14, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Office clear out!
Last 10 copies of the SKY 10" vinyl (with Look-In poster + TV Times postcard) £17 each + post
Last 10 copies of the SKY CD (+ TV Times postcard) £11 each + post
buriedtreasure.bandcamp.com/album/sky-2
Last 10 copies of the SKY 10" vinyl (with Look-In poster + TV Times postcard) £17 each + post
Last 10 copies of the SKY CD (+ TV Times postcard) £11 each + post
buriedtreasure.bandcamp.com/album/sky-2
"I'd like to thank the academy, and I accept this 1970s breakfast cereal on behalf of..."
January 14, 2026 at 12:16 PM
"I'd like to thank the academy, and I accept this 1970s breakfast cereal on behalf of..."
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@bobfischer.bsky.social oh Bob the Chimehours record is a real joy.
Thankyou for sharing that one in FT.
For everyone else it’s here:
Thankyou for sharing that one in FT.
For everyone else it’s here:
Underneath the Earth (CSR355CD/LP), by Chimehours
13 track album
coldspring.bandcamp.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:39 PM
@bobfischer.bsky.social oh Bob the Chimehours record is a real joy.
Thankyou for sharing that one in FT.
For everyone else it’s here:
Thankyou for sharing that one in FT.
For everyone else it’s here:
Come along! Pay what you like, and come and do a song or a reading or anything else you fancy. Or just bask in the weirdness...
At the back of the north wind, with @bobfischer.bsky.social Friday 13th February at Flowergate Hall!
January 11, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Come along! Pay what you like, and come and do a song or a reading or anything else you fancy. Or just bask in the weirdness...
Little nosegay of my @electronicsound.bsky.social reviews, fresh on the Haunted Generation website. Hello Beautify Junkyards, Ghostwriter @subexotic.bsky.social, @keithseatman.bsky.social, Dream Division, Katy J Pearson, @heronandcrane.bsky.social and more...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2026/01/09/e...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2026/01/09/e...
Electronic Sound – Reviews (Issue 117)
Imagine a stormy summer’s afternoon with clouds gathering outside the open window and a whiff of petrichor on the breeze…
hauntedgeneration.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Little nosegay of my @electronicsound.bsky.social reviews, fresh on the Haunted Generation website. Hello Beautify Junkyards, Ghostwriter @subexotic.bsky.social, @keithseatman.bsky.social, Dream Division, Katy J Pearson, @heronandcrane.bsky.social and more...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2026/01/09/e...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2026/01/09/e...
Second Niche Question: is the edition of 'Take Two' from 23rd May 1984 on any of the Doctor Who DVDs or Blu-Rays? John Nathan-Turner answering questions in ther studio.
January 9, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Second Niche Question: is the edition of 'Take Two' from 23rd May 1984 on any of the Doctor Who DVDs or Blu-Rays? John Nathan-Turner answering questions in ther studio.
Very niche request: my 1984 diary records that I watched "The Two Ronnies with Dr Who in" at 8.10pm on 21st May 1984. But BBC Genome lists an episode of Panorama in that slot. Anyone know why Panorama was pulled, and which episode of The Two Ronnies might have replaced it? @davidbrunt.bsky.social?
January 9, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Very niche request: my 1984 diary records that I watched "The Two Ronnies with Dr Who in" at 8.10pm on 21st May 1984. But BBC Genome lists an episode of Panorama in that slot. Anyone know why Panorama was pulled, and which episode of The Two Ronnies might have replaced it? @davidbrunt.bsky.social?
I must have seen this video dozens of times over the last 35 years but I've only just realised that Chesney Hawkes spurns Lucy Alexander from Homes Under The Hammer and gets off with Saffron from Republica instead.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvMs...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvMs...
Chesney Hawkes - The One and Only (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Chrysalis Records
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January 8, 2026 at 3:36 PM
I must have seen this video dozens of times over the last 35 years but I've only just realised that Chesney Hawkes spurns Lucy Alexander from Homes Under The Hammer and gets off with Saffron from Republica instead.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvMs...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvMs...
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It was supposedly George's Gretsch Country Gentleman guitar that got smashed, but this article says otherwise:
www.guitarplayer.com/news/the-mys...
www.guitarplayer.com/news/the-mys...
"The guitar and its case were smashed to bits. We never even bothered to pick it up." Was George Harrison's 1963 Country Gentleman really destroyed in a Beatles road mishap? The evidence says no
The discovery of Paul McCartney's stolen Höfner bass this past year offers new clues to the Gretsch guitar's fate
www.guitarplayer.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:48 PM
It was supposedly George's Gretsch Country Gentleman guitar that got smashed, but this article says otherwise:
www.guitarplayer.com/news/the-mys...
www.guitarplayer.com/news/the-mys...
Discovered via the Mal Evans book... in 1965, when the Beatles were undoubtedly the biggest band in the world, they were still touring the UK crammed into an Austin Princess driven by Alf Bicknell. George's guitar fell off the roof rack near Berwick-upon-Tweed and got crushed by a lorry.
January 7, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Discovered via the Mal Evans book... in 1965, when the Beatles were undoubtedly the biggest band in the world, they were still touring the UK crammed into an Austin Princess driven by Alf Bicknell. George's guitar fell off the roof rack near Berwick-upon-Tweed and got crushed by a lorry.
Weirdy Whitby on Friday 13th February, anyone? This has been a lovely regular evening for the last year or so, and it's a delight to be back. 'The Black Heart Of Whorlton Castle' is a terrifying tale that my teacher Mr Hirst relayed to us on a school trip in 1984. I have pictures. And a song...
January 7, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Weirdy Whitby on Friday 13th February, anyone? This has been a lovely regular evening for the last year or so, and it's a delight to be back. 'The Black Heart Of Whorlton Castle' is a terrifying tale that my teacher Mr Hirst relayed to us on a school trip in 1984. I have pictures. And a song...
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We're thrilled to introduce Irreparable Parables, the new LP by @andrewwasylyk.bsky.social, out 6th March. Pre-orders for the Dinked Edition are open now; ffm.bio/andrewwasylyk Hear the full album at our Bandcamp listening party on 14th Jan—early-bird pre-orders available during the event.
January 7, 2026 at 12:22 PM
We're thrilled to introduce Irreparable Parables, the new LP by @andrewwasylyk.bsky.social, out 6th March. Pre-orders for the Dinked Edition are open now; ffm.bio/andrewwasylyk Hear the full album at our Bandcamp listening party on 14th Jan—early-bird pre-orders available during the event.
I recommend checking out Sister Irene O'Connor's album, by the way. Recorded DIY-style in 1973 and produced by fellow Australian nun Sister Marimil Lobregat, it's been just been reissued for the first time in decades. Sounds weirdly like Yoko Ono in places.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtV5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtV5...
January 7, 2026 at 11:36 AM
I recommend checking out Sister Irene O'Connor's album, by the way. Recorded DIY-style in 1973 and produced by fellow Australian nun Sister Marimil Lobregat, it's been just been reissued for the first time in decades. Sounds weirdly like Yoko Ono in places.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtV5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtV5...
My latest Haunted Generation column is in the new
@forteantimes.bsky.social ... Issue 466. Thoughts on work by @simonavery.bsky.social, Chimehours, @btlabel.bsky.social, Sister Irene O'Connor, Drew Mulholland, Maps,
@oldweirdalbion.bsky.social and more... out now!
@forteantimes.bsky.social ... Issue 466. Thoughts on work by @simonavery.bsky.social, Chimehours, @btlabel.bsky.social, Sister Irene O'Connor, Drew Mulholland, Maps,
@oldweirdalbion.bsky.social and more... out now!
January 7, 2026 at 10:49 AM
My latest Haunted Generation column is in the new
@forteantimes.bsky.social ... Issue 466. Thoughts on work by @simonavery.bsky.social, Chimehours, @btlabel.bsky.social, Sister Irene O'Connor, Drew Mulholland, Maps,
@oldweirdalbion.bsky.social and more... out now!
@forteantimes.bsky.social ... Issue 466. Thoughts on work by @simonavery.bsky.social, Chimehours, @btlabel.bsky.social, Sister Irene O'Connor, Drew Mulholland, Maps,
@oldweirdalbion.bsky.social and more... out now!
Fresh on the Haunted Generation website - a long and fascinating chat I had with the great @thomasdolby.bsky.social for @electronicsound.bsky.social. Includes The Flat Earth, muppets, Robyn Hitchcock soundchecks and his old Morris Minor being in Star Wars...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2026/01/05/t...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2026/01/05/t...
Thomas Dolby and The Flat Earth
“I love having a canvas to paint on,” says Thomas Dolby. “With lots of influences from books I’ve read, films I’ve seen, stories I’ve heard, bits of history that I know. I can then hurl them all on…
hauntedgeneration.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Fresh on the Haunted Generation website - a long and fascinating chat I had with the great @thomasdolby.bsky.social for @electronicsound.bsky.social. Includes The Flat Earth, muppets, Robyn Hitchcock soundchecks and his old Morris Minor being in Star Wars...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2026/01/05/t...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2026/01/05/t...
Grab yourself a copy of the current @electronicsound.bsky.social... I had a great chat with the legendary Alan Parsons about his reissued 1977 @alanparsonsproject.bsky.social album 'I Robot' and also caught up with the great @emmaandersonmusic.bsky.social about @4ad.com's reissue of Lush's 'Gala'!
January 5, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Grab yourself a copy of the current @electronicsound.bsky.social... I had a great chat with the legendary Alan Parsons about his reissued 1977 @alanparsonsproject.bsky.social album 'I Robot' and also caught up with the great @emmaandersonmusic.bsky.social about @4ad.com's reissue of Lush's 'Gala'!
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We're very proud of Aja Dodd, who has gone straight from Mulgrave Audio to BBC Radio 4! Kudos to director @soundliness.com, who heard Aja in our play 'Fellfoul' and cast her in 'The Truth About Phyllis Twigg', a charming and illuminating new play about the birth of radio drama. It's here...
Drama on 4 - The Truth about Phyllis Twigg - BBC Sounds
A light-hearted Christmas drama about giving credit where credit’s due.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 1:51 PM
We're very proud of Aja Dodd, who has gone straight from Mulgrave Audio to BBC Radio 4! Kudos to director @soundliness.com, who heard Aja in our play 'Fellfoul' and cast her in 'The Truth About Phyllis Twigg', a charming and illuminating new play about the birth of radio drama. It's here...
That weird feeling of picking up on e-mail conversations from just before Christmas but they feel like they happened six months ago.
January 5, 2026 at 11:30 AM
That weird feeling of picking up on e-mail conversations from just before Christmas but they feel like they happened six months ago.