Rob Chapman
@scribblerrob.bsky.social
My next novel will be called Drum. It will be set mostly in the 1980s world of alternative comedy. Available Jan 1st 2026. More details coming soon.
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Found poem that's shapes like a former Belgian colony. In Blue Anti-Noise.
Why yes it has been a quiet afternoon. Thanks for asking.
Why yes it has been a quiet afternoon. Thanks for asking.
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Found poem that's shapes like a former Belgian colony. In Blue Anti-Noise.
Why yes it has been a quiet afternoon. Thanks for asking.
Why yes it has been a quiet afternoon. Thanks for asking.
Love Will Tear Us Apart Again heard from two rooms away and approximately transcribed.
November 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Love Will Tear Us Apart Again heard from two rooms away and approximately transcribed.
Well, the cloudburst and the weather update just now from my niece in Manchester scuppered that.
Alice has a day off school due to staff training and wants us all to have a nice family day out at the Christmas Market in Manchester.
November 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Well, the cloudburst and the weather update just now from my niece in Manchester scuppered that.
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Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.
November 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.
Only just heard that Andrew Lauder died, whose unseen steering hand guided me towards so much good music in the 1970s not least of which a lot of the krautrock that saved me from the more risible and pompous end of Progressive rock. RIP
November 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Only just heard that Andrew Lauder died, whose unseen steering hand guided me towards so much good music in the 1970s not least of which a lot of the krautrock that saved me from the more risible and pompous end of Progressive rock. RIP
Alice has a day off school due to staff training and wants us all to have a nice family day out at the Christmas Market in Manchester.
November 28, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Alice has a day off school due to staff training and wants us all to have a nice family day out at the Christmas Market in Manchester.
Delightful 10 minute short on Talking Pics just now in case you missed it and have catch up. Railways Forever presented by John Betjeman commemorating the final weekend of steam on BR summer 1968, Liverpool to Carlisle.
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Delightful 10 minute short on Talking Pics just now in case you missed it and have catch up. Railways Forever presented by John Betjeman commemorating the final weekend of steam on BR summer 1968, Liverpool to Carlisle.
Lunchtime listening. Had to go the Japanese import route to reacquaint myself with this early 70s poetry and popscene favourite.
November 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Lunchtime listening. Had to go the Japanese import route to reacquaint myself with this early 70s poetry and popscene favourite.
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This morning's front page song at the Daily Reckless: www.dailyreckless.com/2025/11/27/s...
November 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
This morning's front page song at the Daily Reckless: www.dailyreckless.com/2025/11/27/s...
Max Roach COTW now playing Driva Man off Freedom Suite and in a shameless plug for a book that's not even out yet Freedom Suite gets mentioned in Drum. Twice.
November 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Max Roach COTW now playing Driva Man off Freedom Suite and in a shameless plug for a book that's not even out yet Freedom Suite gets mentioned in Drum. Twice.
Brynamman on the Swansea St Thomas line long long gone. Round that bend lay a land where the engines all went Perchecoof (other phonetics are available) and misty vales full of children waiting for daddy my daddy and miners rattling with silicosis and oh now look what you've done, you've spoiled it.
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Brynamman on the Swansea St Thomas line long long gone. Round that bend lay a land where the engines all went Perchecoof (other phonetics are available) and misty vales full of children waiting for daddy my daddy and miners rattling with silicosis and oh now look what you've done, you've spoiled it.
Woo-hoo! My author copy of Drum has arrived. Just need to check now for any last minute glaring typos and we're good to go. Out on January 1st 2026.
November 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Woo-hoo! My author copy of Drum has arrived. Just need to check now for any last minute glaring typos and we're good to go. Out on January 1st 2026.
Also, been in that Huddersfield today taking advantage of alumni status at the Uni to use their splendid library to save myself a few quid and indulge in a little light reading before Christmas. Derek and Edwin.
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Also, been in that Huddersfield today taking advantage of alumni status at the Uni to use their splendid library to save myself a few quid and indulge in a little light reading before Christmas. Derek and Edwin.
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It seems to defeat the point of having a social platform. If I want to receive broadcast media with no right of reply I'll watch the TV. Sadly one of my favourite posters often does this (Brummy constitutional lawyer!)
November 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
It seems to defeat the point of having a social platform. If I want to receive broadcast media with no right of reply I'll watch the TV. Sadly one of my favourite posters often does this (Brummy constitutional lawyer!)
Just love it when a drive by famouser reposts you with a pithy quip but you can't respond to them. Yeah we all love that Chris.
November 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Just love it when a drive by famouser reposts you with a pithy quip but you can't respond to them. Yeah we all love that Chris.
I took out a guest special offer subscription to the NYRB for C for her birthday. We both miss that kind of longform writing. It's great having access to their archive again. There's a really good recent piece by Matthew Aucoin on the future of criticism. I might quote a passage or two in a bit.
November 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I took out a guest special offer subscription to the NYRB for C for her birthday. We both miss that kind of longform writing. It's great having access to their archive again. There's a really good recent piece by Matthew Aucoin on the future of criticism. I might quote a passage or two in a bit.
Remember I asked on here a while back, which shops buy classical cds off you? The answer is nobody. Nobody does. I shall lug them up to London next time I visit and take them to Record & Tape in Notting Hill for a pittance. It will be just like old times.
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Remember I asked on here a while back, which shops buy classical cds off you? The answer is nobody. Nobody does. I shall lug them up to London next time I visit and take them to Record & Tape in Notting Hill for a pittance. It will be just like old times.
From the other place. April 2024. "Had an amazing multi layered dream about Nick Drake during the course of which I was compiling a new doc and unearthed previously unseen footage of him heading up an anti school bullying campaign sponsored by ty phoo tea in the early 1960s."
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
From the other place. April 2024. "Had an amazing multi layered dream about Nick Drake during the course of which I was compiling a new doc and unearthed previously unseen footage of him heading up an anti school bullying campaign sponsored by ty phoo tea in the early 1960s."
No, but you're on to something. The Beatles phenomenal development at their peak is totally skewed by the two 'half albums' of MMT and YS. There's an epic bridging album in there between Pepper and The White album that makes a mockery of all the contrived narratives about 'development'.
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
No, but you're on to something. The Beatles phenomenal development at their peak is totally skewed by the two 'half albums' of MMT and YS. There's an epic bridging album in there between Pepper and The White album that makes a mockery of all the contrived narratives about 'development'.
While C was cooking I rewatched that Songs of Nick Drake from the other night. Apart from the OOTTF instrumental and every moment Green Gartside stepped up to the mic I thought it was unmitigated cack. God spare us any more of this spineless reverence.
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
While C was cooking I rewatched that Songs of Nick Drake from the other night. Apart from the OOTTF instrumental and every moment Green Gartside stepped up to the mic I thought it was unmitigated cack. God spare us any more of this spineless reverence.
Little lad in Aldi just now, must have been 9/10 given it the 'oh dear dear dear' every time an Asian woman went past, much to the approval of his chortling mum. Hadn't heard that in years. Proof positive that racists aren't born they're made, usually by thick as pig shit 'adults'.
November 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Little lad in Aldi just now, must have been 9/10 given it the 'oh dear dear dear' every time an Asian woman went past, much to the approval of his chortling mum. Hadn't heard that in years. Proof positive that racists aren't born they're made, usually by thick as pig shit 'adults'.
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Rewatching Shane Meadows’ Made Of Stone for a thing. It’s more love letter than documentary and works within those parameters but, man, that 2012 Heaton Park version of Fool’s Gold is utterly astonishing.
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The Stone Roses, Fools Gold Live at Heaton Park. Made of Stone DVD.
YouTube video by Jamie Hosey
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November 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Rewatching Shane Meadows’ Made Of Stone for a thing. It’s more love letter than documentary and works within those parameters but, man, that 2012 Heaton Park version of Fool’s Gold is utterly astonishing.
youtu.be/jRswxxT3HQ8?...
youtu.be/jRswxxT3HQ8?...