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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 7d

#NHSHeroes 👇👇👇👇👇👇

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 8d

Wes Streeting says "little or no support" for striking docs. Let's prove this cunt wrong. Repost if you wanna show solidarity with essential workers fighting for their rights after years of underfunding and real terms pay cuts. Who's with me?

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Government will not 'be held to ransom' by doctors strike, says Wes Streeting

The health secretary is refusing to make concessions on pay after the BMA announced a further walkout.

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Archillect @archillect.bsky.to · 9d

"a 'STOP WARS' text painted in large white letters on a black brick wall with visible peeling paint and worn-out texture" *) Alt text generated by AI

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Adam Steiner @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social · 9d

@philiphoare.bsky.social FASHION – David Bowie’s Anthem To The Dancefloor Of Doomed Youth

Happy Birthday to Fashion – a Bowie banger that marks the sharp divide between trend following and totalitarianism

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FASHION – David Bowie’s Anthem To The Dancefloor Of Doomed Youth – Adam Steiner

Fashion plays with the extremes of political trends which by 1980 would enter a new radical phase with the arrival of Margaret Thatcher's right-wing Conservative government. ICH BIN EIN LONDONER David...

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Adam Steiner @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social · 14d

This was fun - I would normally snobbishly avoid JC - but I can now see she was a ‘grafter’ so to speak, and is invaluable in reflecting 70s and 80s for younger readers!

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Adam Steiner @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social · 15d

SCREAM LIKE A BABY

In the age of ICE abductions, very public assassinations and far-right marches in the UK, Scream Like A Baby returns with a vengeance as Bowie’s anthem against totalitarianism in all its forms.

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SCREAM LIKE A BABY – DAVID BOWIE’S CLASH WITH TYRANNY – Adam Steiner

In the age of ICE abductions, very public assassinations and far-right marches in the UK, Scream Like A Baby returns with a vengeance as Bowie’s anthem against totalitarianism in all its forms. The so...

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Adam Steiner @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social · 15d

"One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – I found her bitter – And I reviled her"
–Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell

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REPTILE: REZNOR, BEAUTY, AND SELF (COURTNEY) LOVE – Adam Steiner

One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – I found her bitter – And I reviled herArthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell On Reptile, Trent Reznor reveals the ugliest side of his persona, wounded by broken relati...

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Adam Steiner @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social · 29d

Happy Birthday to Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen – still one of my favourite records for difficult but important reasons.

"In 2019 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds would return with their new album Ghosteen – an openhearted reckoning with grief, and life beyond it."

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GHOSTEEN – NICK CAVE'S MASTERPIECE

It’s a strange thing to look back to the release of Ghosteen on October 4th 2019 with anything other than stilted wonder. A beautiful, wounded record, it would come to suit the times, overshadowed by ...

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 20d

10/14/77: Bowie, with Heroes
More via @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social: www.popmatters.com/david-bowie-...

Guess we need to hear this more than ever:

And the shame, was on the other side
Oh we can beat them, for ever and ever
Then we could be Heroes, just for one day
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David Bowie - Heroes

YouTube video by Broken Ridge Records

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Adam Steiner @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social · 29d

Happy Birthday to Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen – still one of my favourite records for difficult but important reasons.

"In 2019 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds would return with their new album Ghosteen – an openhearted reckoning with grief, and life beyond it."

adamsteiner.uk/2025/10/05/f...

GHOSTEEN – NICK CAVE'S MASTERPIECE

It’s a strange thing to look back to the release of Ghosteen on October 4th 2019 with anything other than stilted wonder. A beautiful, wounded record, it would come to suit the times, overshadowed by ...

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Adam Steiner @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social · Sep 20

NIN, controversy and gun control

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BIG MAN WITH A GUN– How Nine Inch Nails Took On Censorship and US Gun Culture – And Lost – Pt I – Adam Steiner

On Big Man With A Gun Nine Inch Nails presented the negative side of guns in America — gross and grotesque, violent and vulgar — another painful reality which some of its citizens prefer not to see. A...

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Adam Steiner @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social · Sep 17

I’m really sorry it happened - the mindlessness of motive has only served to fuel the far right across Europe - Charlie Kirk is no martyr - and no-one actually seeks to replicate his behaviour - only lament it

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Adam Steiner @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social · Sep 15

Cheers Frank! X

Adam Steiner @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social · Sep 14

In a season of crime

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NINE INCH NAILS AND THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN VIOLENCE: BEFORE AND AFTER COLUMBINE [1994-1999-20??] – Adam Steiner

Nine Inch Nails “Big Man With A Gun” portrays a negative character in order to question the media-saturation and gangsta-rap glamorization of gun violence and straight, white violent masculinity, high...

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Adam Steiner @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social · Sep 14

A GRAVE FOR A DOLPHIN – A real-life David Bowie love story – how an African folk tale drawn from a rare, forgotten book helped inspire Bowie’s lyrics for "Heroes"

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A Grave For a Dolphin

A real-life David Bowie story. || Adam Steiner

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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · Sep 13

Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present is four years old! 🎂 “a mind-riot,” according to the late, great Neil Kulkarni. Still in print! 📖 #booksky @reaktionbooks.bsky.social reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/electri...

Electric Wizards | Reaktion Books

It began with The Beatles’ ‘Helter Skelter’. It was distilled to its dark essence by Black Sabbath. And it has flourished into a vibrant modern underground, epitomized by Newcastle’s Pigs Pigs Pigs Pi...

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Adam Steiner @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social · Sep 12

HAPPY BIRTHDAY – SCARY MONSTERS (AND SUPER CREEPS) - released OTD in 1980!

To find out more about Bowie's year of 1980, check out my book Silhouettes And Shadows – including John Lennon, The Elephant Man and New York as Bowie's future home!

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Silhouettes And Shadows – David Bowie’s Scary Monsters – Adam Steiner

Carlos Alomar remembers the death of John Lennon – David Bowie Convention 2024 Silhouettes & Shadows – the making of Scary Monsters BLOG – Kingdom Come: David Bowie does Television If heaven was ever ...

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · Sep 11

Best of luck to @andrewgallix.bsky.social, launching his mind-bending satirical thriller Loren Ipsum this evening. One of the unsung heroes of the UK lit scene as i alluded to in @thebookseller.com this month.

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Librarians’ autumn picks 2025

Five librarians from across the UK pick their most-anticipated autumn reads.

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Adam Steiner @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ah very cool! I’m not here much so slow replies. How are your projects going?

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Adam Steiner @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social · Sep 3

L I V I N G W I T H B U I L D I N G S – IX

–SCREENING EVENT–

Short films exploring the history (and future) of cities and urban spaces.

7.30pm – WEDS 17/9/2025 – PVC – Coventry

PVC - 6 Priory Row, Coventry, CV1 5EX, UK

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#livingwithbuildings
#disappearhere

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Adam Steiner @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hello mate - yes - I remember you. What a gig - truly unforgettable, I'm glad NIN toured it fully. We were lucky to get UK gigs first!

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Gary Erskine @garyerskine.bsky.social · Aug 21

The Directors Label by PALM was a short lived DVD collection of the very best film/music directors and curated their best most well known works alongside lesser seen curios. Inspiring and very much recommended.

The internet Archive has the seven volumes here for free:
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · Aug 16

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Adam Steiner @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social · Jul 8

WHERE PAINT MEETS PROTEST – JUST STOP OIL were accused of attacking art and culture - but never proscribed as a terrorist organisation - so why have the same extreme measures been applied to Palestine Action? CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE ≠ TERRORISM

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WRECKERS OF CIVILISATION: JUST STOP OIL AND THE PERFORMANCE OF PROTEST

Viewed as a general nuisance, (self-)righteous eco-warriors, and even urban terrorists, Just Stop Oil exist in a difficult space between public art and revolutionary protest.

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Adam Steiner @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social · Aug 1

OTD - 1/8/1980 - ASHES TO ASHES was released!

Here is a lookback to my interview with guitar-synth hero Chuck Hammer, who made the track his own with a unique sound that helped Bowie point us towards the future of pop music!

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#ashestoashes #bowie #chuckhammer

INTERVIEW — CHUCK HAMMER – David Bowie Discovers The Sounds Of The Future – Adam Steiner

I speak to Chuck Hammer about his work on David Bowie's Scary Monsters And Super Creeps album and his pioneering use of the guitar-synth.

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Gary Spence @limerenceguy.bsky.social · Jul 30

Grace is completely right! That's why the left needs Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn's new political party to give people some hope that things can get better.

Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · Jul 30

"The right wins when people believe that a hero is coming to save them.

If the left is going to win, we have to provide an alternative: one that empowers people through collective struggle, rather than the false promises of powerful men."
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No One is Coming to Save Us

Building collective power in the age of individualism.

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