Ian of Dorzet
@grittygroblet.bsky.social
Lazy. Likes vinyl records, 70s& 80s scifi, history, art, food, beer (and making up for it in the gym...) etc. etc. Dislikes the News, history is bad enough.
Hello weekend!
Felt the urge to listen to some #Blondie this evening, starting with their 4th album Eat To The Beat. I think this album cemented their transition from punk to pop but also showed they could master a whole range of music.
Released 1979 on Chrysalis
#NowPlaying
#MusicSky
#VinylSky
Felt the urge to listen to some #Blondie this evening, starting with their 4th album Eat To The Beat. I think this album cemented their transition from punk to pop but also showed they could master a whole range of music.
Released 1979 on Chrysalis
#NowPlaying
#MusicSky
#VinylSky
January 16, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Hello weekend!
Felt the urge to listen to some #Blondie this evening, starting with their 4th album Eat To The Beat. I think this album cemented their transition from punk to pop but also showed they could master a whole range of music.
Released 1979 on Chrysalis
#NowPlaying
#MusicSky
#VinylSky
Felt the urge to listen to some #Blondie this evening, starting with their 4th album Eat To The Beat. I think this album cemented their transition from punk to pop but also showed they could master a whole range of music.
Released 1979 on Chrysalis
#NowPlaying
#MusicSky
#VinylSky
For a soggy Sunday afternoon, I'm enjoying Hozier's self-titled 2014 album. His clear voice is lifting the spirits for sure. Take Me To Church? Not today, I'll just listen...
#NowPlaying
#VinylSky
#musicsky
#VinylCommunity
#Hozier
#NowPlaying
#VinylSky
#musicsky
#VinylCommunity
#Hozier
January 11, 2026 at 2:45 PM
For a soggy Sunday afternoon, I'm enjoying Hozier's self-titled 2014 album. His clear voice is lifting the spirits for sure. Take Me To Church? Not today, I'll just listen...
#NowPlaying
#VinylSky
#musicsky
#VinylCommunity
#Hozier
#NowPlaying
#VinylSky
#musicsky
#VinylCommunity
#Hozier
Sunday vibes from Fred Again and his Actual Life 3 album, which won best Electronic/Dance album at the 2022 Grammy awards. New to me, and my son assures me this is a good entry point to the genre...
#NowPlaying
#VinylSky
#musicsky
#electronica
#dance
#FredAgain
#NowPlaying
#VinylSky
#musicsky
#electronica
#dance
#FredAgain
January 11, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Sunday vibes from Fred Again and his Actual Life 3 album, which won best Electronic/Dance album at the 2022 Grammy awards. New to me, and my son assures me this is a good entry point to the genre...
#NowPlaying
#VinylSky
#musicsky
#electronica
#dance
#FredAgain
#NowPlaying
#VinylSky
#musicsky
#electronica
#dance
#FredAgain
Today's office dog is begging for food...
#dogsofbluesky
#dogsofbluesky
January 9, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Today's office dog is begging for food...
#dogsofbluesky
#dogsofbluesky
Happy to report that I successfully patronised my local auction house today, and managed to smuggle it all back without being discovered...
January 4, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Happy to report that I successfully patronised my local auction house today, and managed to smuggle it all back without being discovered...
Is it too early for a Christmas cocktail?
Bottoms up and merry Christmas! 🍸🎄
Bottoms up and merry Christmas! 🍸🎄
December 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Is it too early for a Christmas cocktail?
Bottoms up and merry Christmas! 🍸🎄
Bottoms up and merry Christmas! 🍸🎄
Two very different listens tonight... the mighty #BlackSabbath with their very last album 13 ❤️ (very special) and the sublime #EthelCain 2025 release Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You. I'm probably not Ms Cain's normal listening demographic but omg I love her work.
#vinylsky
#musicsky
#vinylsky
#musicsky
December 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Two very different listens tonight... the mighty #BlackSabbath with their very last album 13 ❤️ (very special) and the sublime #EthelCain 2025 release Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You. I'm probably not Ms Cain's normal listening demographic but omg I love her work.
#vinylsky
#musicsky
#vinylsky
#musicsky
St Ives #charity #scifi book finds... 1974 reprint of Arthur C Clarke's Childhood's End and a 1969 Angus McVicar novel Super Nova and the Rogue Satellite. Juvenile science fiction from a wide-ranging author.
#booksky
#sciencefiction
#booksky
#sciencefiction
December 13, 2025 at 10:25 AM
St Ives #charity #scifi book finds... 1974 reprint of Arthur C Clarke's Childhood's End and a 1969 Angus McVicar novel Super Nova and the Rogue Satellite. Juvenile science fiction from a wide-ranging author.
#booksky
#sciencefiction
#booksky
#sciencefiction
A coincidence, currently reading this version... Great stories.
November 29, 2025 at 9:51 AM
A coincidence, currently reading this version... Great stories.
November 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Today's #SpaceRockSunday (well here anyway). Hawkwind and Doremi Fasol Latido. Their 3rd album, recorded, as so many iconic albums were, at Rockfield Studios and released in November 1972. It's still quite capable of whisking you away...
#Hawkwind
#Vinyl
#VinylSky #ClassicRock
#VinylCommunity
#Hawkwind
#Vinyl
#VinylSky #ClassicRock
#VinylCommunity
November 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Today's #SpaceRockSunday (well here anyway). Hawkwind and Doremi Fasol Latido. Their 3rd album, recorded, as so many iconic albums were, at Rockfield Studios and released in November 1972. It's still quite capable of whisking you away...
#Hawkwind
#Vinyl
#VinylSky #ClassicRock
#VinylCommunity
#Hawkwind
#Vinyl
#VinylSky #ClassicRock
#VinylCommunity
Well, it's Jim Steinman's birthday today, so...
#NowPlaying
#Meatloaf
#BatOutOfHell
#JimSteinman
#VinylSky
#VinylCommunity
#NowPlaying
#Meatloaf
#BatOutOfHell
#JimSteinman
#VinylSky
#VinylCommunity
November 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Well, it's Jim Steinman's birthday today, so...
#NowPlaying
#Meatloaf
#BatOutOfHell
#JimSteinman
#VinylSky
#VinylCommunity
#NowPlaying
#Meatloaf
#BatOutOfHell
#JimSteinman
#VinylSky
#VinylCommunity
And also this history of one of the lesser known wartime units of the RAF, 100 Group. This unit tried to counter the radar and communications of the very effective German defence, which was causing horrific casualties to the bomber units.
October 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
And also this history of one of the lesser known wartime units of the RAF, 100 Group. This unit tried to counter the radar and communications of the very effective German defence, which was causing horrific casualties to the bomber units.
Today's haul included, for the nerd (🤓 me), some aviation at a good price and for the more sensitive a beautifully illustrated 1st edition (1916) of the Water Babies and a faded but nevertheless lovely 1st edition of The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
#books
#vintagebooks
#classics
#booksky
#books
#vintagebooks
#classics
#booksky
October 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Today's haul included, for the nerd (🤓 me), some aviation at a good price and for the more sensitive a beautifully illustrated 1st edition (1916) of the Water Babies and a faded but nevertheless lovely 1st edition of The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
#books
#vintagebooks
#classics
#booksky
#books
#vintagebooks
#classics
#booksky
Today's #vintage #paperback finds: another Chris Foss-illustrated cover for AE van Vogt's Moonbeast (1975) and Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut. A very early 1972 copy.
October 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Today's #vintage #paperback finds: another Chris Foss-illustrated cover for AE van Vogt's Moonbeast (1975) and Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut. A very early 1972 copy.
*Public Service Announcement*
This deodorant will get the police called to you at Stuttgart Airport. Tbh I thought it was quite a nice deodorant and not worthy of police intervention.
This deodorant will get the police called to you at Stuttgart Airport. Tbh I thought it was quite a nice deodorant and not worthy of police intervention.
October 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
*Public Service Announcement*
This deodorant will get the police called to you at Stuttgart Airport. Tbh I thought it was quite a nice deodorant and not worthy of police intervention.
This deodorant will get the police called to you at Stuttgart Airport. Tbh I thought it was quite a nice deodorant and not worthy of police intervention.
Just home from the gym. Late night/long day, I guess, but if it wasn't for that place I'd be climbing the bloody walls.
Space and time to decompress as well as essential for fitness at my age.
#over60fitness
#gymsky
#fitnesssky
#armandcoreday
Space and time to decompress as well as essential for fitness at my age.
#over60fitness
#gymsky
#fitnesssky
#armandcoreday
September 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Just home from the gym. Late night/long day, I guess, but if it wasn't for that place I'd be climbing the bloody walls.
Space and time to decompress as well as essential for fitness at my age.
#over60fitness
#gymsky
#fitnesssky
#armandcoreday
Space and time to decompress as well as essential for fitness at my age.
#over60fitness
#gymsky
#fitnesssky
#armandcoreday
Time for a boogie? It's #StatusQuoSunday here...
Hello! - Released September 1973 on Vertigo
#Vinyl
#VinylSky
#VinylCommunity
#MusicSky
#StatusQuo
#Boogie
Hello! - Released September 1973 on Vertigo
#Vinyl
#VinylSky
#VinylCommunity
#MusicSky
#StatusQuo
#Boogie
September 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Time for a boogie? It's #StatusQuoSunday here...
Hello! - Released September 1973 on Vertigo
#Vinyl
#VinylSky
#VinylCommunity
#MusicSky
#StatusQuo
#Boogie
Hello! - Released September 1973 on Vertigo
#Vinyl
#VinylSky
#VinylCommunity
#MusicSky
#StatusQuo
#Boogie
Yesterday's happy charity shop find was this lovely boxset of James Herbert novels. His books always gave me a scare! I read The Spear and The Fog in my teens but not the others...
#horror
#JamesHerbert
#horror
#JamesHerbert
September 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Yesterday's happy charity shop find was this lovely boxset of James Herbert novels. His books always gave me a scare! I read The Spear and The Fog in my teens but not the others...
#horror
#JamesHerbert
#horror
#JamesHerbert
A late good morning! #NowPlaying Amorphis - Silent Waters. Finnish progressive metal, their 8th studio album released in 2007. Another record not played in too long a time, i need more of this.
#VinylSky
#Vinyl
#VinylCommunity
#Metal
#MetalSky
#ProgressiveMetal
#Amorphis
#VinylSky
#Vinyl
#VinylCommunity
#Metal
#MetalSky
#ProgressiveMetal
#Amorphis
September 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
A late good morning! #NowPlaying Amorphis - Silent Waters. Finnish progressive metal, their 8th studio album released in 2007. Another record not played in too long a time, i need more of this.
#VinylSky
#Vinyl
#VinylCommunity
#Metal
#MetalSky
#ProgressiveMetal
#Amorphis
#VinylSky
#Vinyl
#VinylCommunity
#Metal
#MetalSky
#ProgressiveMetal
#Amorphis
Today's 2 #sci-fi charity shop finds, Zelazny's four novellas in Four for Tomorrow from 1967 and a lovely copy of Smith's The Galaxy Primes of 1975. Another #ChrisFoss cover there...
#sciencefiction
#60ssciencefiction
#70ssciencefiction
#sciencefiction
#60ssciencefiction
#70ssciencefiction
September 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Today's 2 #sci-fi charity shop finds, Zelazny's four novellas in Four for Tomorrow from 1967 and a lovely copy of Smith's The Galaxy Primes of 1975. Another #ChrisFoss cover there...
#sciencefiction
#60ssciencefiction
#70ssciencefiction
#sciencefiction
#60ssciencefiction
#70ssciencefiction
September 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Next up - a record with possibly the oddest* cover that I own... Riot's Narita. No idea on the inspiration other than Narita airport in Japan obviously. Original 1979 release on Capitol, it's great American rock.
*daftest
#VinylSky
#VinylCommunity
#NowPlaying
#MetalSky
#Riot
#Narita
*daftest
#VinylSky
#VinylCommunity
#NowPlaying
#MetalSky
#Riot
#Narita
September 6, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Next up - a record with possibly the oddest* cover that I own... Riot's Narita. No idea on the inspiration other than Narita airport in Japan obviously. Original 1979 release on Capitol, it's great American rock.
*daftest
#VinylSky
#VinylCommunity
#NowPlaying
#MetalSky
#Riot
#Narita
*daftest
#VinylSky
#VinylCommunity
#NowPlaying
#MetalSky
#Riot
#Narita