Bob Fischer
@bobfischer.bsky.social
Writer and mumbler. Fortean Times, Electronic Sound, Doctor Who Magazine, Shindig, Mulgrave Audio, Haunted Generation, Wiffle Lever To Full, Scarred For Life and Summer Winos. Summat to do innit
Leeds and West Yorkshire weirdies! We are bringing the @scarredforlife.bsky.social Folk Horror show to @oldwoollen.bsky.social in Farsley on Thu 12th Feb - one of our favourite venues, we had an absolute blast last time around. Join ussss.... oldwoollen.seetickets.com/event/scarre...
November 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Leeds and West Yorkshire weirdies! We are bringing the @scarredforlife.bsky.social Folk Horror show to @oldwoollen.bsky.social in Farsley on Thu 12th Feb - one of our favourite venues, we had an absolute blast last time around. Join ussss.... oldwoollen.seetickets.com/event/scarre...
Snow! It's snowing! I still get stupidly excited at the lightest flurry of flakes.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Snow! It's snowing! I still get stupidly excited at the lightest flurry of flakes.
Proud of this feature. I met Keeley Forsyth for coffee to talk about her brilliant album 'The Hollow', but we were both recently bereaved and ended up having quite a touching chat about grief. And Scott Walker. Written for @electronicsound.bsky.social... hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/11/18/k...
Keeley Forsyth and The Hollow
Keeley Forsyth’s third album The Hollow is a bleakly beautiful masterpiece, an affecting symphony of operatic vocals and windswept soundscapes. Its inspirations? Scott Walker, a remarkable Oldham g…
hauntedgeneration.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Proud of this feature. I met Keeley Forsyth for coffee to talk about her brilliant album 'The Hollow', but we were both recently bereaved and ended up having quite a touching chat about grief. And Scott Walker. Written for @electronicsound.bsky.social... hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/11/18/k...
I love writing about old telly for @shindigmagazine.bsky.social, and the new issue has my feature about 'Object Z', the obscure but ripping 1965 sci-fi serial now released on Blu-ray by the BFI. A pre-Grace Brothers Trevor Bannister going all square-jawed and heroic.
November 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I love writing about old telly for @shindigmagazine.bsky.social, and the new issue has my feature about 'Object Z', the obscure but ripping 1965 sci-fi serial now released on Blu-ray by the BFI. A pre-Grace Brothers Trevor Bannister going all square-jawed and heroic.
Found in an antiques shop on Saturday. It had a sticker underneath that said "Saucy 1970s ornament".
November 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Found in an antiques shop on Saturday. It had a sticker underneath that said "Saucy 1970s ornament".
More of my @electronicsound.bsky.social reviews on the Haunted Generation site... hello @blancmange.bsky.social @hifisean.bsky.social & David McAlmont, Ben Underwood, Orbury Common, Tymon Dogg, @rongeesin.bsky.social and the very funny Dimitri...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/11/14/e...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/11/14/e...
Electronic Sound – Reviews (Issue 114)
(First published in Issue 114 of Electronic Sound magazine, June 2024)
hauntedgeneration.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
More of my @electronicsound.bsky.social reviews on the Haunted Generation site... hello @blancmange.bsky.social @hifisean.bsky.social & David McAlmont, Ben Underwood, Orbury Common, Tymon Dogg, @rongeesin.bsky.social and the very funny Dimitri...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/11/14/e...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/11/14/e...
I had a very funny chat with the mighty @rideox4official.bsky.social for @electronicsound.bsky.social when their ace 2024 album Interplay came out, and I've just put it on the Haunted Generation site. Baked-bean flavour crisps all round...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/11/14/r...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/11/14/r...
Ride, Interplay and Cheesy Wotsits
“I love the word ‘widescreen’,” exclaims Mark Gardener. “Ennio Morricone is a god to me. And John Barry. And Antônio Pinto and Hans Zimmer. All the soundtrack boys!”
hauntedgeneration.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I had a very funny chat with the mighty @rideox4official.bsky.social for @electronicsound.bsky.social when their ace 2024 album Interplay came out, and I've just put it on the Haunted Generation site. Baked-bean flavour crisps all round...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/11/14/r...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/11/14/r...
Dropped @mulgraveaudio.bsky.social posters off at the lovely Who-Ray shop in Stockton this afternoon. Bit of a rainy day. But come and join us, Sandra Kerr, Aja Dodd and Ethan Warren on Sunday 7th December... we promise magical sparkles and possibly a dash of Advocaat.
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Dropped @mulgraveaudio.bsky.social posters off at the lovely Who-Ray shop in Stockton this afternoon. Bit of a rainy day. But come and join us, Sandra Kerr, Aja Dodd and Ethan Warren on Sunday 7th December... we promise magical sparkles and possibly a dash of Advocaat.
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I am very pleased to announce that Phil King/@junkshopper's 'Lush: A Far From Home Movie', is now on YouTube for all to see.
I very much enjoyed appearing with Phil last year at various events, at home abroad, discussing the film with him and the audience.
www.youtube.com/watchv=ow3jE...
I very much enjoyed appearing with Phil last year at various events, at home abroad, discussing the film with him and the audience.
www.youtube.com/watchv=ow3jE...
Lush: A Far from Home Movie
YouTube video by 4AD
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I am very pleased to announce that Phil King/@junkshopper's 'Lush: A Far From Home Movie', is now on YouTube for all to see.
I very much enjoyed appearing with Phil last year at various events, at home abroad, discussing the film with him and the audience.
www.youtube.com/watchv=ow3jE...
I very much enjoyed appearing with Phil last year at various events, at home abroad, discussing the film with him and the audience.
www.youtube.com/watchv=ow3jE...
As you can probably imagine, I've written quite a bit for this...
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW! This month’s Electronic Sound explores the strange and unsettling world of COLD WAR ELECTRONICA and we have a superb 35-track double CD to accompany the mag. Tension! Anxiety! Paranoia! Doom! Gloom! It’s all here! Get your copy at electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine
November 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
As you can probably imagine, I've written quite a bit for this...
This feels like one of those nasty, rainy old days when school dinner was "stew".
November 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This feels like one of those nasty, rainy old days when school dinner was "stew".
More @fightingfantasy.bsky.social fresh on the Haunted Generation website... my @forteantimes.bsky.social review of Ian Livingstone and Jonathan Green's beautiful anthology of artwork:
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/11/13/m...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/11/13/m...
Magic Realms: The Art Of Fighting Fantasy
It’s the tongue you notice first. Spiky, lolling, somehow inherently malevolent, it protrudes between the Shape Changer’s jagged teeth as he picks his way across a sun-dappled forest glade. Painted…
hauntedgeneration.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
More @fightingfantasy.bsky.social fresh on the Haunted Generation website... my @forteantimes.bsky.social review of Ian Livingstone and Jonathan Green's beautiful anthology of artwork:
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/11/13/m...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/11/13/m...
Catching up adding bits and bobs to The Haunted Generation website. For lovers of @fightingfantasy.bsky.social, here's my @forteantimes.bsky.social review of Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson's rather wonderful 'Dice Men' book...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/11/12/d...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/11/12/d...
Dice Men: The Origin Story of Games Workshop
Imagine a parallel universe where every British High Street boasts its own Quasigamic Expedition shop, stuffed to the rafters with copies of chart-topping gamebook The Magic Quest.
hauntedgeneration.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Catching up adding bits and bobs to The Haunted Generation website. For lovers of @fightingfantasy.bsky.social, here's my @forteantimes.bsky.social review of Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson's rather wonderful 'Dice Men' book...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/11/12/d...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/11/12/d...
We're having a little @mulgraveaudio.bsky.social bash to launch 'Patchwuff'! Folk legend and Bagpuss star Sandra Kerr will be playing live, Ethan Warren (Simon Perkins) and Aja Dodd (Fellfoul) are coming too, and it's all free to attend at the Who-Ray shop in Stockton, 2pm on Sun 7th Dec. Join us!
November 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
We're having a little @mulgraveaudio.bsky.social bash to launch 'Patchwuff'! Folk legend and Bagpuss star Sandra Kerr will be playing live, Ethan Warren (Simon Perkins) and Aja Dodd (Fellfoul) are coming too, and it's all free to attend at the Who-Ray shop in Stockton, 2pm on Sun 7th Dec. Join us!
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The Scarred For Life Folk Horror show is coming to Leeds @oldwoollen.bsky.social on Thursday 12 February 2026! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social will don our goat masks to talk about witchcraft, stone circles, and suburban sex orgies (calm down at the back)!
Tickets: bit.ly/483H8JA
Tickets: bit.ly/483H8JA
November 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The Scarred For Life Folk Horror show is coming to Leeds @oldwoollen.bsky.social on Thursday 12 February 2026! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social will don our goat masks to talk about witchcraft, stone circles, and suburban sex orgies (calm down at the back)!
Tickets: bit.ly/483H8JA
Tickets: bit.ly/483H8JA
Howay! Ever wondered what happened to the cast of brilliant 1970s ITV drama The Paper Lads? We managed to reunite them for first time in 50 years! I LOVED doing this... a full hour with JG (Tony Neilson), Baz (Gavin Kitchen), Ian (Andrew Edwards) & Gog (Peter Younger)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rip...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rip...
THE PAPER LADS REUNION – The Making of the 1970s ITV Children's Series
YouTube video by Mulgrave Audio
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Howay! Ever wondered what happened to the cast of brilliant 1970s ITV drama The Paper Lads? We managed to reunite them for first time in 50 years! I LOVED doing this... a full hour with JG (Tony Neilson), Baz (Gavin Kitchen), Ian (Andrew Edwards) & Gog (Peter Younger)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rip...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rip...
This weekend in Whitby! Brilliant line-up, and I'm hosting in a stripy blazer.
November 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This weekend in Whitby! Brilliant line-up, and I'm hosting in a stripy blazer.
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Hey! Big Brown Window presence at this ace electronic music weekender in Whitby!
DJ’ing from Tom (The Soulless Party)
And music from our very own @12hrfoundation.bsky.social
Get up there for a weekend of fun and entertainment hosted by the evergreen @bobfischer.bsky.social
DJ’ing from Tom (The Soulless Party)
And music from our very own @12hrfoundation.bsky.social
Get up there for a weekend of fun and entertainment hosted by the evergreen @bobfischer.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Hey! Big Brown Window presence at this ace electronic music weekender in Whitby!
DJ’ing from Tom (The Soulless Party)
And music from our very own @12hrfoundation.bsky.social
Get up there for a weekend of fun and entertainment hosted by the evergreen @bobfischer.bsky.social
DJ’ing from Tom (The Soulless Party)
And music from our very own @12hrfoundation.bsky.social
Get up there for a weekend of fun and entertainment hosted by the evergreen @bobfischer.bsky.social
Tonight! In Whitby! Come and join us for a genial night of Halloween fun. I've got theories to share about 'It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown'.
Anyone free on actual Halloween night? Come to Whitby, I'll guide you gently through memories of 1970s/80s Halloweens ("The sky is blue, the grass is green") and there'll be music, dressing up, sweets etc. I might even do the "Witches of Halloween" song from 'Words and Pictures'. A fiver. A FIVER!
October 31, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Tonight! In Whitby! Come and join us for a genial night of Halloween fun. I've got theories to share about 'It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown'.
Just googled "Boro fixtures" and tomorrow's away tie at Watford oddly came up accompanied by a 0-0 scoreline. I'll take it now.
October 31, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Just googled "Boro fixtures" and tomorrow's away tie at Watford oddly came up accompanied by a 0-0 scoreline. I'll take it now.
Happy to reminded of the time when I spent several weeks hosting the BBC Radio Tees Afternoon Show with a butternut squash as my sidekick.
@bobfischer.bsky.social I remember the outpouring of grief from the weirdly Twittery Lot when Squashie went in the bin. (I found a photo on the Facebooks!) @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Happy to reminded of the time when I spent several weeks hosting the BBC Radio Tees Afternoon Show with a butternut squash as my sidekick.
Great night at Dukes, as always. If the story about the baby that turns into a telephone doesn't actually exist, can somebody please write it...
A huge thank you to all the lovely Scarred folk who came to last night's Ghost Story Special at Lancaster with me and @bobfischer.bsky.social. You were an amazing crowd, full of great stories (the Cronenbergian telephone/baby was an all-timer!)
October 31, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Great night at Dukes, as always. If the story about the baby that turns into a telephone doesn't actually exist, can somebody please write it...
Tonight! Come and confess to Ste and me that you were traumatised by the pantomime horse from Rentaghost...
Our Ghost Story Special at Dukes Theatre, Lancaster, is tomorrow evening! What's your favourite childhood ghost? Have you ever had a spooky experience? Who'd win in a fight, Willo the Wisp or Timothy Claypole?
Share your stories tomorrow with me and @bobfischer.bsky.social!
Tickets: bit.ly/3HK5duQ
Share your stories tomorrow with me and @bobfischer.bsky.social!
Tickets: bit.ly/3HK5duQ
October 29, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Tonight! Come and confess to Ste and me that you were traumatised by the pantomime horse from Rentaghost...
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NEW! Bob Fischer (@bobfischer.bsky.social) and Georgy Jamieson (@georgyjamieson.bsky.social) are back for a chat about how we used to 'do' Halloween and Bonfire Night. Don't pick up that dropped sparkler!!
timworthington.org/2025/10/28/t...
timworthington.org/2025/10/28/t...
The Looks Unfamiliar Bonfire Night Spooky Display Spectacular: Bob Fischer And Georgy Jamieson – Hashtag Wotsit Slurry
In a special summer edition, Tim, Bob Fischer and Georgy Jamieson are all crowding into a sweltering local radio studio ready to take your calls and chat about some of the seaside tat and summer ho…
timworthington.org
October 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
NEW! Bob Fischer (@bobfischer.bsky.social) and Georgy Jamieson (@georgyjamieson.bsky.social) are back for a chat about how we used to 'do' Halloween and Bonfire Night. Don't pick up that dropped sparkler!!
timworthington.org/2025/10/28/t...
timworthington.org/2025/10/28/t...
Genuinely me on my morning walk today. "Police said the missing man was ill-equipped for the conditions, and warned other walkers..." etc
October 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Genuinely me on my morning walk today. "Police said the missing man was ill-equipped for the conditions, and warned other walkers..." etc