Stuart Douglas
@stuartdouglas.com
www.stuartdouglas.com
www.obversebooks.co.uk
www.blackarchive.co.uk
Author, editor, publisher, football, music.
www.obversebooks.co.uk
www.blackarchive.co.uk
Author, editor, publisher, football, music.
Christmas record listening part 1
January 2, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Christmas record listening part 1
December 29, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Reform Ltd. Liars to a man.
December 17, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Reform Ltd. Liars to a man.
Listening to this today - a stunning record in every respect.
'The transparent vinyl is embedded with fragments of coal, which we collected in big chunks from the beach at Blackhall Colliery before smashing and mixing into the press.'
Read about it here: www.threadsintheground.com/projects/anc...
'The transparent vinyl is embedded with fragments of coal, which we collected in big chunks from the beach at Blackhall Colliery before smashing and mixing into the press.'
Read about it here: www.threadsintheground.com/projects/anc...
December 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Listening to this today - a stunning record in every respect.
'The transparent vinyl is embedded with fragments of coal, which we collected in big chunks from the beach at Blackhall Colliery before smashing and mixing into the press.'
Read about it here: www.threadsintheground.com/projects/anc...
'The transparent vinyl is embedded with fragments of coal, which we collected in big chunks from the beach at Blackhall Colliery before smashing and mixing into the press.'
Read about it here: www.threadsintheground.com/projects/anc...
Recent record listening.
December 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Recent record listening.
Anyone else got one of these letters in the post - from the US, claiming that a $1.5 billion deal has been struck to pay authors for the use of their books in training AI? Seems implausible that anyone is going to pay me 3 grand a book but it's America - they're weird over there just now...
December 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Anyone else got one of these letters in the post - from the US, claiming that a $1.5 billion deal has been struck to pay authors for the use of their books in training AI? Seems implausible that anyone is going to pay me 3 grand a book but it's America - they're weird over there just now...
Few things more frustrating than seeing the announcement of a UK Tour by a band you want to see - and then you realise that they mean 'English Tour, and it's a six hour round trip to the nearest city they're playing in.
December 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Few things more frustrating than seeing the announcement of a UK Tour by a band you want to see - and then you realise that they mean 'English Tour, and it's a six hour round trip to the nearest city they're playing in.
Today's listening - all #5debutalbums7074
December 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Today's listening - all #5debutalbums7074
Hesgeth is a drunken idiot, no doubt about that - but wouldn't the lettering on his medals also be reversed in that case? The the text saying 'EXPEDITIONARY SERVICE' one looks the right way round to me?
NB I have no idea how medals are supposed to look, and could care less generally.
NB I have no idea how medals are supposed to look, and could care less generally.
November 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Hesgeth is a drunken idiot, no doubt about that - but wouldn't the lettering on his medals also be reversed in that case? The the text saying 'EXPEDITIONARY SERVICE' one looks the right way round to me?
NB I have no idea how medals are supposed to look, and could care less generally.
NB I have no idea how medals are supposed to look, and could care less generally.
Some good coverage of the campaign to get the BBC to reverse their decision to limit access to the Written Archive at Caversham.
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Some good coverage of the campaign to get the BBC to reverse their decision to limit access to the Written Archive at Caversham.
Weekend listening - mostly vinyl, all great, some brilliant.
Not all of these bands are from Luton and the Medway - but quite a few are.
Not all of these bands are from Luton and the Medway - but quite a few are.
November 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Weekend listening - mostly vinyl, all great, some brilliant.
Not all of these bands are from Luton and the Medway - but quite a few are.
Not all of these bands are from Luton and the Medway - but quite a few are.
This was very much not as nice as I recall from my childhood, when it was a real treat for special occasions. For a start, it contains no minced beef - no meat at all really - or onion, just a strange, faintly meat flavoured slime.
November 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This was very much not as nice as I recall from my childhood, when it was a real treat for special occasions. For a start, it contains no minced beef - no meat at all really - or onion, just a strange, faintly meat flavoured slime.
You will only need one guess.
November 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
You will only need one guess.
Twitter and ChatGBT both down?
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Twitter and ChatGBT both down?
Recent records listened to...
November 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Recent records listened to...
You think people move there *by mistake*?
November 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
You think people move there *by mistake*?
Records have been played, including the new ones from Rose Io and Johnny Trunk.
All pretty decent, some obviously great - and I may have acquired an unexpected taste for Italian thrash metal.
All pretty decent, some obviously great - and I may have acquired an unexpected taste for Italian thrash metal.
October 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Records have been played, including the new ones from Rose Io and Johnny Trunk.
All pretty decent, some obviously great - and I may have acquired an unexpected taste for Italian thrash metal.
All pretty decent, some obviously great - and I may have acquired an unexpected taste for Italian thrash metal.
Always a good day that starts with a new record from Ron Geesin and Johnny Trunk!
October 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Always a good day that starts with a new record from Ron Geesin and Johnny Trunk!
Every time I see pics of these two together, I am freshly astonished that the country which, for almost my entire life, was the most important and powerful in the world, is now controlled by actual idiots.
October 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Every time I see pics of these two together, I am freshly astonished that the country which, for almost my entire life, was the most important and powerful in the world, is now controlled by actual idiots.