Ben Graham
@bleeding-cheek.bsky.social
Writer & arts journalist in East Sussex. Shindig! The Quietus. Author of A Gathering Of Promises, Scatological Alchemy, Amorphous Albion, Pink Floyd Are Fogbound in Paris, etc. Discordian poet. www.bleedingcheek.wordpress.com https://ko-fi.com/bengraham23
If you think you're making a sequel then you've got another thing coming.
John Carpenter says he's working on a sequel to 'The Thing'
"We'll see"
"We'll see"
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
If you think you're making a sequel then you've got another thing coming.
Just watched The Butthole Surfers: The Whole Truth And Nothing Butt. A great documentary on an amazing band that really captures their disturbing, hilarious, chaotic psychedelic punk spirit and is unexpectedly moving as well. Catch it if you can!
October 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Just watched The Butthole Surfers: The Whole Truth And Nothing Butt. A great documentary on an amazing band that really captures their disturbing, hilarious, chaotic psychedelic punk spirit and is unexpectedly moving as well. Catch it if you can!
Apart from everything else wrong with Musk's post, T*mmy R*bins*n isn't a "hard man", he's a soft Gollum constantly whimpering about his precious that he thinks was unfairly taken from him.
October 29, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Apart from everything else wrong with Musk's post, T*mmy R*bins*n isn't a "hard man", he's a soft Gollum constantly whimpering about his precious that he thinks was unfairly taken from him.
25 years ago today I was at Motorhead's 25th anniversary show in London. Is 2000 really as long ago as 1975 was from then?
October 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
25 years ago today I was at Motorhead's 25th anniversary show in London. Is 2000 really as long ago as 1975 was from then?
Reposted by Ben Graham
1. mortal
2. lethal
3. venomous
4. virulent
5. baneful
6. murderous
7. fatal
Seven deadly synonyms.
2. lethal
3. venomous
4. virulent
5. baneful
6. murderous
7. fatal
Seven deadly synonyms.
October 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
1. mortal
2. lethal
3. venomous
4. virulent
5. baneful
6. murderous
7. fatal
Seven deadly synonyms.
2. lethal
3. venomous
4. virulent
5. baneful
6. murderous
7. fatal
Seven deadly synonyms.
Happy 68th birthday Julian Cope! The first part of my epic celebration / exploration of his transformation from psychedelic pop star to shamanic archdrude at the turn of the 90s, and what it meant to me, is in issue 4.1 of Undefined Boundary zine temporalboundary.bigcartel.com/product/unde...
Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion Volume 4/Issue 1 PREORDER
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October 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Happy 68th birthday Julian Cope! The first part of my epic celebration / exploration of his transformation from psychedelic pop star to shamanic archdrude at the turn of the 90s, and what it meant to me, is in issue 4.1 of Undefined Boundary zine temporalboundary.bigcartel.com/product/unde...
It's parkin season in Morrisons!
October 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
It's parkin season in Morrisons!
The sad passing of the great Danny Thompson made me remember being at Way To Blue, the Nick Drake tribute concert at Brighton Dome in 2010, with Danny leading the house band and singers including Robyn Hitchcock, Vashti Bunyan & Green Gartside interpreting Nick's songs. Such an incredible night.
September 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The sad passing of the great Danny Thompson made me remember being at Way To Blue, the Nick Drake tribute concert at Brighton Dome in 2010, with Danny leading the house band and singers including Robyn Hitchcock, Vashti Bunyan & Green Gartside interpreting Nick's songs. Such an incredible night.
I'm a voracious reader of fiction, but I'm not actually interested in plots. I like characters, setting, atmosphere, ideas- the feel of a book. My favourite novels are those where hardly anything happens, or plenty happens but it's more of a collage than a linear journey.
September 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I'm a voracious reader of fiction, but I'm not actually interested in plots. I like characters, setting, atmosphere, ideas- the feel of a book. My favourite novels are those where hardly anything happens, or plenty happens but it's more of a collage than a linear journey.
2. Farage (far-rayj): state of splenetic, pointless and performative anger over something that has no actual impact on your life, e.g. "He went into a right farage, shouting something about trans immigrants in keighley, then threw his dinner on the floor and stormed out of the caff"
September 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
2. Farage (far-rayj): state of splenetic, pointless and performative anger over something that has no actual impact on your life, e.g. "He went into a right farage, shouting something about trans immigrants in keighley, then threw his dinner on the floor and stormed out of the caff"
1. Farage (fu-ridge): to rummage around in a nation's psychic undergrowth, looking for fears and prejudices to cultivate and exploit. e.g. "with enough faraging, even the most liberal democracy can be made to vote itself into a fascist state"
September 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
1. Farage (fu-ridge): to rummage around in a nation's psychic undergrowth, looking for fears and prejudices to cultivate and exploit. e.g. "with enough faraging, even the most liberal democracy can be made to vote itself into a fascist state"
Declare yourself a magician. Can't recommend it enough.
I’m turning 40 at the weekend, I’m already interested in WW2, have several hobbies and a mid life crisis gym membership. Yesterday I started home brewing mead. Is there anything else I need to complete the ‘40 something man’ set?
August 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Declare yourself a magician. Can't recommend it enough.
Guys, you're meant to hang the fascists from the lamp posts, not just their flags.
August 23, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Guys, you're meant to hang the fascists from the lamp posts, not just their flags.
New blog post! bengraham23.substack.com/p/c86-and-al...
C86 and all that
The Urban Spaceman, Volume Two, issue Eleven, August 2025
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August 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM
New blog post! bengraham23.substack.com/p/c86-and-al...
So thanks to Bexhill Record Fair I now seem to own John Peel's vinyl DJ-only promo LP of the indie-defining NME C86 cassette, presumably the same copy he played almost every track from on his Radio 1 show when I was 15 and listening in while doing my school homework. What a magical talisman!
August 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
So thanks to Bexhill Record Fair I now seem to own John Peel's vinyl DJ-only promo LP of the indie-defining NME C86 cassette, presumably the same copy he played almost every track from on his Radio 1 show when I was 15 and listening in while doing my school homework. What a magical talisman!
This includes the first part of a long article by me on Julian Cope's 1989-1991 transformation from psychedelic pop star to visionary archdrude, incorporating how I failed my history A-level.
The new issue of Undefined Boundary is available now for preorder. temporalboundary.bigcartel.com/product/unde...
August 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
This includes the first part of a long article by me on Julian Cope's 1989-1991 transformation from psychedelic pop star to visionary archdrude, incorporating how I failed my history A-level.
Little-known music journalist superstition: it's considered bad luck to mention the second-to-last track on any album in a review.
August 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Little-known music journalist superstition: it's considered bad luck to mention the second-to-last track on any album in a review.
Watching Matt Smith-era Doctor Who in the height of summer and it feels like every other episode is a Christmas special set in Victorian London where an evil figgy pudding is plotting to take over the world.
July 28, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Watching Matt Smith-era Doctor Who in the height of summer and it feels like every other episode is a Christmas special set in Victorian London where an evil figgy pudding is plotting to take over the world.
"The Clash were correct," Professor Tolkien told Smash Hits "In saying that, despite their deep love of music, there was no Elvish 'Beatles' or 'The Rolling Stones'. Now hobbits, on the other hand, had a great many pop groups playing the length and breadth of The Shire, such as... (snip!)
July 12, 2025 at 9:21 AM
"The Clash were correct," Professor Tolkien told Smash Hits "In saying that, despite their deep love of music, there was no Elvish 'Beatles' or 'The Rolling Stones'. Now hobbits, on the other hand, had a great many pop groups playing the length and breadth of The Shire, such as... (snip!)
While in the legends slot on Sunday evening, Thomas Hardy bought on special guests Rudyard Kipling, Christina Rosetti and Ezra Pound, bringing the festival to a swinging finale.
June 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
While in the legends slot on Sunday evening, Thomas Hardy bought on special guests Rudyard Kipling, Christina Rosetti and Ezra Pound, bringing the festival to a swinging finale.
However, Mark Twain pleased the crowds with a greatest hits set on the main stage on Saturday night, and Virgina Woolf proved equally popular on the Bloomsbury Stage. Mystery act "Dubious Peacock" turned out to be a surprise return from 90s artist Aubrey Beardsley.
June 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
However, Mark Twain pleased the crowds with a greatest hits set on the main stage on Saturday night, and Virgina Woolf proved equally popular on the Bloomsbury Stage. Mystery act "Dubious Peacock" turned out to be a surprise return from 90s artist Aubrey Beardsley.
Apparently the 1925 Glastonbury Literary Festival was dogged by controversy when Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin said that controversial sets by James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis should never have been broadcast on the wireless.
June 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Apparently the 1925 Glastonbury Literary Festival was dogged by controversy when Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin said that controversial sets by James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis should never have been broadcast on the wireless.
I love it when online music journalists spend half the gig review telling you how they got to the venue and what the beer was like, then the other half discussing what make of guitars the band was using.
June 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I love it when online music journalists spend half the gig review telling you how they got to the venue and what the beer was like, then the other half discussing what make of guitars the band was using.
That Russian-language paperback on the Tavistock Institute is still on the charity bookshelf in Sainsburys.
June 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
That Russian-language paperback on the Tavistock Institute is still on the charity bookshelf in Sainsburys.
Sly Stone and Brian Wilson created some of the most joyful, transcendent, innovative pop music ever. It was a long time ago, and they lived to be old, but the songs still sound as fresh and alive as ever. Losing both on consecutive days feels like someone turning the lights out on a generation.
June 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Sly Stone and Brian Wilson created some of the most joyful, transcendent, innovative pop music ever. It was a long time ago, and they lived to be old, but the songs still sound as fresh and alive as ever. Losing both on consecutive days feels like someone turning the lights out on a generation.