Alan Barnes
@senrabnala.bsky.social
Post boom, second doom. Stealing cake to eat the moon. Writes and edits - Doctor Who, Hammer horror, Sherlock Holmes, Judge Dredd (etc). Available for hire.
I tell you what really pisses me off. I BUY NEW CDS ALL THE TIME, because they're BETTER. I use Spotify for running and for background noise in the office, because it's more convenient. Hundreds of thousands of people do exactly the same. We pay the artist AND use Spotify. It's not one or the other.
Yes, Spotify isn't great, but it's still better than HOLIER THAN THOU TYPES WHO JUST LOVE SCOLDING. I mean FFS
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I tell you what really pisses me off. I BUY NEW CDS ALL THE TIME, because they're BETTER. I use Spotify for running and for background noise in the office, because it's more convenient. Hundreds of thousands of people do exactly the same. We pay the artist AND use Spotify. It's not one or the other.
Yes, Spotify isn't great, but it's still better than HOLIER THAN THOU TYPES WHO JUST LOVE SCOLDING. I mean FFS
December 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Yes, Spotify isn't great, but it's still better than HOLIER THAN THOU TYPES WHO JUST LOVE SCOLDING. I mean FFS
Reposted by Alan Barnes
30 YEARS AGO TODAY: the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party is opened by Reeves & Mortimer covering Hawkwind's Silver Machine. No explanation, no lyrical changes unless a cameo by the riff from Day Tripper counts, never released, and they weren't hosting it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGeb...
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer - Silver Machine (Smash Hits Poll Winners Party 1995)
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
30 YEARS AGO TODAY: the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party is opened by Reeves & Mortimer covering Hawkwind's Silver Machine. No explanation, no lyrical changes unless a cameo by the riff from Day Tripper counts, never released, and they weren't hosting it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGeb...
Barry Letts was Cherry-Garrard. But was he there when Johnny Mills was lighting his farts? We need to know.
Happy 77th anniversary of the release of Scott of the Antarctic, whose filming in the Swiss Alps caused frostbite among the crew. Thankfully, Sir John Mills was on hand to... er, set light to his farts
November 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Barry Letts was Cherry-Garrard. But was he there when Johnny Mills was lighting his farts? We need to know.
For the first time I literally decades, I find myself outside Central Hall Westminster on a Saturday morning. But it's not the middle 80s and there is no comic mart, alas 😢
November 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
For the first time I literally decades, I find myself outside Central Hall Westminster on a Saturday morning. But it's not the middle 80s and there is no comic mart, alas 😢
So that's decided. Turns out Excalibur is the reason I've been looking for to buy a 4K player. Now I come to think of it, it was the reason I bought my first DVD player, too.
Arrow's Feb slate includes EXCALIBUR and WESTWORLD in 4K! @thedigitalbits.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
So that's decided. Turns out Excalibur is the reason I've been looking for to buy a 4K player. Now I come to think of it, it was the reason I bought my first DVD player, too.
Buy magazines. Or bye, magazines.
Who Will Tell Your Story? On the Disappearing Music Press open.substack.com/pub/theancho...
Who Will Tell Your Story? On the Disappearing Music Press open.substack.com/pub/theancho...
Who Will Tell Your Story? On the Disappearing Music Press
The Silent Crisis: Why We Need to Save Music Journalism
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Buy magazines. Or bye, magazines.
Who Will Tell Your Story? On the Disappearing Music Press open.substack.com/pub/theancho...
Who Will Tell Your Story? On the Disappearing Music Press open.substack.com/pub/theancho...
Reposted by Alan Barnes
Oh, hello! Looks like this has been officially announced at last!
Coming February 2026, Roger Langridge is back with an all-new Muppet comic book!
Coming Soon: Roger Langridge’s Muppet Noir - ToughPigs
Roger Langridge is back with a new crime-filled Muppet comic!
www.toughpigs.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Oh, hello! Looks like this has been officially announced at last!
Reposted by Alan Barnes
After it was mentioned in the episode I had to share this - a highlight of my 2000 AD collection - prog 232 with Bubbly gum still attached and with greasy stain.
November 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
After it was mentioned in the episode I had to share this - a highlight of my 2000 AD collection - prog 232 with Bubbly gum still attached and with greasy stain.
"James Bond? But you're dead!"
<looks to camera>
"Something happened to the other fella."
<looks to camera>
"Something happened to the other fella."
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"James Bond? But you're dead!"
<looks to camera>
"Something happened to the other fella."
<looks to camera>
"Something happened to the other fella."
Buy magazines.
Many editors and writers have brought their love for Star Wars to the pages of Star Wars Insider magazine in its various incarnations, and deserve much thanks for their amazing work – but, sadly, in this instance,…
https://downthetubes.net/star-wars-insider-comes-to-and-end-but-to-go-out-blazing/
https://downthetubes.net/star-wars-insider-comes-to-and-end-but-to-go-out-blazing/
November 11, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Buy magazines.
Reposted by Alan Barnes
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Poor @mikecollins99.bsky.social - I nearly broke him with this one, I think...
Field Trip - the latest Doctor Who Magazine strip from @senrabnala.bsky.social and @mikecollins99.bsky.social has been an absolute cracker. With quality gags on every page! Smashing stuff! KKLAK! #DoctorWho
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Poor @mikecollins99.bsky.social - I nearly broke him with this one, I think...
Just been watching a Cathy Gale Avengers, written by John Lucarotti, with Henry "Haisman and" Lincoln made up as an Arab sheikh and... oh dear.
October 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Just been watching a Cathy Gale Avengers, written by John Lucarotti, with Henry "Haisman and" Lincoln made up as an Arab sheikh and... oh dear.
Reposted by Alan Barnes
We’ve teamed up with @arrowvideo.bsky.social to give away three sets of:
– In the Mouth of Madness by Sutter Cane (hardcover)
– Arrow’s new UK 4K bluray
To enter, it's maddeningly simple… like and share this post by 26 Oct, 5pm GMT.
The winners will be chosen at random and contacted directly.
– In the Mouth of Madness by Sutter Cane (hardcover)
– Arrow’s new UK 4K bluray
To enter, it's maddeningly simple… like and share this post by 26 Oct, 5pm GMT.
The winners will be chosen at random and contacted directly.
October 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
We’ve teamed up with @arrowvideo.bsky.social to give away three sets of:
– In the Mouth of Madness by Sutter Cane (hardcover)
– Arrow’s new UK 4K bluray
To enter, it's maddeningly simple… like and share this post by 26 Oct, 5pm GMT.
The winners will be chosen at random and contacted directly.
– In the Mouth of Madness by Sutter Cane (hardcover)
– Arrow’s new UK 4K bluray
To enter, it's maddeningly simple… like and share this post by 26 Oct, 5pm GMT.
The winners will be chosen at random and contacted directly.
Reposted by Alan Barnes
Enjoyed listening to The Iron Legion from @bigfinish.bsky.social adapted by @senrabnala.bsky.social. Thought the added elements worked really well (particularly enjoyed Doug and Viv) and Tom Baker seemed to be having a good time.
tardis.guide/story/doctor...
tardis.guide/story/doctor...
Doctor Who and the Iron Legion · The Comic Strip Adaptations Volume 1 • Episode 1
1979 AD! Led by the terrible General Ironicus, the mighty Iron Legion - robot veterans of the Eternal War - have come, seen and conquered the English village of Stockbridge! Caught up in the mayhem, t...
tardis.guide
October 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Enjoyed listening to The Iron Legion from @bigfinish.bsky.social adapted by @senrabnala.bsky.social. Thought the added elements worked really well (particularly enjoyed Doug and Viv) and Tom Baker seemed to be having a good time.
tardis.guide/story/doctor...
tardis.guide/story/doctor...
I'm afraid I've been writing things again.
HAI! 🥋🖐️💥 It's Venusian karate time as Sarah Jane Smith and Liz Shaw meet in Doctor Who: The Imposters. Click https://bgfn.sh/sjsliz to read all about next year's Third Doctor Adventures audio drama.
October 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I'm afraid I've been writing things again.
Anyway, Rosalie Craig as Doctor Who.
October 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Anyway, Rosalie Craig as Doctor Who.
So I went for my usual weekend 12k round Oxford this morning. Listening to a podcast about Aleister Crowley, the Great Beast himself. You know, just because. Coming out of Uni Parks, there's a humpback bridge you can't run up or down, so I pause there. And I swear, I swear this is how far I'd run:
October 18, 2025 at 8:34 AM
So I went for my usual weekend 12k round Oxford this morning. Listening to a podcast about Aleister Crowley, the Great Beast himself. You know, just because. Coming out of Uni Parks, there's a humpback bridge you can't run up or down, so I pause there. And I swear, I swear this is how far I'd run:
Reposted by Alan Barnes
Excited that my new book got into this Waterstones promotion. 25% off til midnight tonight. www.waterstones.com/book/new-you...
October 17, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Excited that my new book got into this Waterstones promotion. 25% off til midnight tonight. www.waterstones.com/book/new-you...
Reposted by Alan Barnes
Dance off! Dainty vs Gaga!
October 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Dance off! Dainty vs Gaga!
Stranger Things. People keep telling me it's absolutely my sort of thing and I'd love it, which automatically trips my contrary switch.
Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
October 6, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Stranger Things. People keep telling me it's absolutely my sort of thing and I'd love it, which automatically trips my contrary switch.
Eight word horror story.
October 3, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Eight word horror story.
Hand Held in Black and White is, in many ways, the record that determined the course of pop music for the following four years. It is AMAZING. #totp
October 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Hand Held in Black and White is, in many ways, the record that determined the course of pop music for the following four years. It is AMAZING. #totp