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Nick J. Brown
@northernmailman.bsky.social
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Writer of To Rise in the Dark (2024) and Hunter (2025)
“He speaks in your voice, Salfordian, and there’s a pie in his hand bought half-price from the Co-op.”
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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · Nov 18
30 years after a teenage band imploded, their late singer's daughter leads the surviving members on a booze-fuelled odyssey through Manchester in search of a secret they would rather remained buried…
Available in ebook and paperback.
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To Rise in the Dark by Nick J. Brown. A dead cult singer, a man with an uncertain future, and a daughter looking for the truth about the past… Available now in ebook or paperback from Amazon. Or DM to buy from me.
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Pope to be even more aggressive in second Ashes Test…
Pope clutching baseball bat
November 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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For the morning shift…
Fine Art by KNEECAP on an old iPhone in front of Manchester Art Gallery
November 29, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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It's Blake's birthday, here's a tribute to him by his greatest admirer

#FallFriday (belatedly)

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The Fall - WB (2000)
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November 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Shout!
#FallFriday

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Dead Beat Descendant (BBC Radio Session)
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
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November 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Happy Birthday William Blake. #FallFriday
Entrances Uncovered | Daily Reckless
The hidden worlds of UnLondon, UnManchester and UnNew York described by The Wu Tang Clan, The Fall and William Blake. Tracks: Entrances Uncovered Marks Of Woe Golgonooza This Hideous Replica Ooh! Rev ...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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When William Blake's birthday falls on #FallFriday, it can only be Jerusalem. It was the fault of government.
The Fall -- Jerusalem - (Live at King George's Hall, Blackburn 22nd September 2002)
YouTube video by Secret Records Limited
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November 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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An excerpt from To Rise in the Dark by Nick J. Brown 18 I find William Blake endlessly fascinating. And it's not just the art or the words, it's everything. The being derided by his so-called betters. The facing utter indifference and ploughing on regardless. The sedition, obviously. "I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's". That's pretty much the dream right there, you know. Pete Moran, 2006 We exit into the warm August afternoon to be hit by the curious disconnect daytime drinking brings. From leaving a pub's gloomy confines, hours seemingly passed, expectant of night to have fallen, only to find the sky outside light and bright, and time having barely moved. There's a detachment from the world as well. Those around us rush about as we float down the street on
November 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Yeah, Yeah, Industrial Estate. #FallFriday www.etsy.com/shop/8bitnorthxstitch
November 28, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Sounded sour and frustrated with the pressure of his own life. #Fallfriday
Terry Waite Sez (Remastered)
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
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November 28, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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My go to reply in December
Vic asked Phil Oakey a question, ‘Can I lay a deposit on it?’
November 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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The Fall - I Am Damo Suzuki #FallFriday
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November 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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The Fall - Latch Key Kid

Got my muso wig,
Can't do up my zip.
Sent out into the cold again,
I'm a latch key kid,
Cold again...

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#FallFriday
Latchkey Kid | The Fall | From The Basement
YouTube video by From The Basement
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November 28, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Tell of the birth,
Tell how war appeared on earth.
#FallFriday
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An Audible screenshot of THE BIG MIDWEEK LIFE INSIDE THE FALL By Steve Hanley and Olivia Piekarski
November 28, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Manchester Music cards parts 1 & 2 now on sale at www.etsy.com/shop/8bitnorthxstitch
November 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Jesus Christ annoyed, Easter, AD 33
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Introduce yourself with 5 acts you've seen

The Fall
Iggy & The Stooges
Bob Dylan
Happy Mondays
Mulligan and O’Hare
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Introduce yourself with 5 acts you've seen

Pixies
The Lovely Eggs
The Smiths
TOT
Edward Barton
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Introduce yourself with 5 acts you've seen

Belle & Sebastian
The Housemartins
James Taylor Quartet
James Brown
The Jam
November 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Jurassic Park (1993) dir: Steven Spielberg
November 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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James Joyce holding his head Photo by Berenice Abbott
November 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Tax Basement Jaxx then cover them in wax, fax the picture to Max who’s never knowingly lax.
a man in a white suit is standing in front of a sign that says " night "
ALT: a man in a white suit is standing in front of a sign that says " night "
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November 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Sex Pistols, Holidays in the Sun Tour 2007, M.E.N. Arena
#TicketStubWed
#MusicChallenge
Ticket for Sex Pistols, Holidays in the Sun Tour 2007, M.E.N. Arena
November 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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New book from @waltwriting.bsky.social
Sounds just my thing!
A copy of Power Chords by Rick Walton
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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The day has come! The superb tale of @stephenhanley6.bsky.social 19 years in The Fall. It’s the I Claudius of music and is now available in Audiobook form narrated by Stewart Lee! 💥

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‎The Big Midweek: Life Inside the Fall (Unabridged)
‎Biography · 2025
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November 26, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Tickets go on sale Friday 28th November At 10am.
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Yes, o yes
A 7-year-old boy's hand, carefully placing a ballet dancer in a diorama 'I Am Kurious Oranj' vinyl, above 'I Am Curious, Orange' diorama
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM